Investors need to pay more attention to the dividends

Financial data for 2016 is on the way and Joe Gill says it’s time we pauid more attention to our investments and dividends.

Results season is upon us and, over the next number of weeks, a long list of companies will release their financial data for calendar year 2016.

While stock market investors tend to permanently look forward rather than back, there is one crucial element in these sets of results that has to be examined by any serious long-term investor, and that is dividends.