PRZOOM - /newswire/ - Central, Hong Kong, 2015/04/27 - Sustainable stocks that have a long track records of increasing their dividends often hold up better than their peers during turbulent markets.

Evanson Asset Management’s Jonathan Hewitt has a long-standing belief that dividend growth is paramount to the long-term success of positional stock holdings. Mr. Hewitt’s view on dividend growth has since become part of investment policy at Hong Kong based Evanson Asset Management as the firm continues to place long-term sustainability as its primary responsibility to its client base.

Mr. Hewitt say’s that he is convinced that dividend growth is the key to riding out bad markets and to thriving in the long term, which has clearly been demonstrated as a result of the fallout caused by the catastrophic events in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis.

“Since the 2008 financial crisis we have analyzed companies that were better equipped to deal with market stress. Our findings indicated that dividend paying stocks were less exposed to the negative conditions and were able to recover their losses at a much faster rate”.

“If we consider the relative history for dividend growth stocks, we can clearly see that their performance is generally superior to their peers. Since the beginning of 1999 the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index has more than doubled the return of the broader market at a staggering rate of 314%”, continued Mr. Hewitt.

But as with every great deal comes a price point to match, which applies to the attractiveness of dividend paying stocks that typically, come with a premium price. However Mr. Hewitt believes that any such premium is worth paying for the “long-term security and steady cash flows that are critical to balance returns under turbulent conditions thereby forming a key component to the underlying risk strategy of any diversified portfolio”.

What is certain at Evanson Asset Management is that their responsibility towards client wellbeing is mirrored by the dividend paying stocks whose management is committed to shareholder satisfaction even in the worst of times.

Agency / Source: Evanson Asset Management

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