Last year was a good one for dividend investors. Global dividends rose to a new record in 2018, with a strong fourth quarter for dividend payments, according to the latest Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index. Total dividends jumped 9.3 percent to $1.37 trillion. This is the best performance since 2015 and exceeds the long-term trend of 5 percent to 7 percent.
Some sectors showed even more growth than that. Banking dividends, the largest dividend-paying sector, jumped 13.6 percent. Oil company distributions surged 15.4 percent.
Meanwhile, according to the index, the telecom sector stood out as the weakest, with payouts flat or down in half the countries. That's striking considering that only one in 25 U.S. companies cut its payout.
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