Dividend-paying stocks are often seen as a safe haven, while investing in foreign stocks is seen as a bit risky. But investors these days are able to combine those two strategies into one. A study from Henderson Global Investors shows that global dividends increased by 12 percent in the second quarter over the year-earlier period.
European companies paid out $153.4 billion in dividends last quarter, as compared with $98.5 billion for North American companies. European stocks averaged a 3.3 percent dividend yield at that point, as opposed to 2.0 percent in the U.S.
And those numbers have been growing recently. Worldwide dividends were $780 billion in 2010, but they have topped $1 trillion in 2012 and 2013.
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