Henderson High Income (HHI) has recently announced that Henderson Diversified Income will be merged into it, subject to shareholder approval, which would add advantages of scale to HHI in the coming months. HHI’s manager David Smith believes that for the new HHI shareholders the timing of this merger may be fortuitous, as he feels that a number of key risks facing the UK equity market are reducing: it is likely to avoid a material recession, inflationary pressures have diminished, and political ....
