Dividend trend shows strength of S'pore companies

A LOT of conversations out there nowadays are about how terrible the stock market is - followed by, say, "I'll buy Keppel Corp (which has fallen some 50 per cent from its April high) and leave it for my children". Others moan how they must "cut off their fingers", which is a Cantonese saying translating roughly to "never venture into stocks or mahjong" - which kind of indicates how investment is perceived by some.

That kind of talk is more likely to come from the older generation. But you would have t…