David Fingold, vice president and senior portfolio manager at Dynamic Funds and lead manager of the five-star rated Dynamic Global Dividend Fund has achieved impressive category-beating returns during both short and long periods in a surprising fashion.
Although he manages a “dividend fund,” he usually steers clear of traditional dividend-paying stocks such as utilities, telecommunications and Real Estate Investment Trusts, which he says are vulnerable to declining share prices in periods of rising interest rates. When interest rates are rising, the consistent dividends paid by these companies become relatively less attractive to competing investments such as bonds.