Now the RIO dividend heads for the knackers…

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From the AFR:

Tim Schroeders, fund manager at Rio investor Pengana Capital, said while keeping the policy could provide Rio with a “point of differentiation” among the major miners, “in 12 months or sooner it could change.

“It would have to be a subject of major discussion at board level,” he said. “Presumably BHP will address the situation in the next few weeks, then Rio would be the only guys out there doing it on their own, and they are not going to get rewarded for it.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.