Job Curtis, manager of City of London investment trust, tells us how he dipped into the revenue reserves to enable the trust to increase its dividend payment for the 54th consecutive year. He reassures investors that he still has around four years’ worth of reserves should the challenges continue, but that he believes we could be through the worst and that UK dividends could already be starting to recover.

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