"The dividend growth history of the EFT's LIC's I'm looking at. Dave (Strong Money Australia) does one of the better jobs of this that I've seen, in his LIC reviews: https://www.strongmoneyaustralia.com/lic-review-afic/ That's his for AFI. I think it's great because it contains both the number - average of 4.18% since 1993 - but also shows the graph of this. Straight away I can see that they smooth dividends, so if it's important to me to have an income that DOESN'T drop when the market does, I'll add them to my shortlist."