About
Welcome to the UK Dividend Stocks website.
My name is John Kingham, I'm the founder and editor of The UK Dividend Stocks Newsletter and author of The Defensive Value Investor.
The mission of this website and the newsletter is to empower sensible investors so they can grow their income and wealth using a step-by-step approach to investing in quality dividend stocks.
Although my professional background is in insurance software, not investing, I have been managing my family's investments for decades and I have been working full-time as an investment analyst and writer since 2011.
Before 2011, I had worked as an insurance software analyst for more than a decade, while spending most of my spare time researching companies and writing about investing on the UK Value Investor website.
I enjoyed analysing and writing about stocks more than I enjoyed analysing software, and I also enjoyed sharing my investment research with other investors through blog posts and magazine articles. Eventually, I decided that analysing and writing about investments was what I wanted to do full-time, and my solution was to launch a monthly investment newsletter for dividend-focused investors.
It took a few years for the newsletter to become financially self-sustaining, but eventually it was and The UK Dividend Stocks Newsletter has now been in continuous publication for more than a decade.
Outside of the newsletter, I passed the Investment Management Certificate in 2012 and in 2016 I had a book (The Defensive Value Investor) published by Harriman House. I've also written numerous articles for magazines, primarily Master Investor and The Property Chronicle, and many hundreds of blog posts on this website and elsewhere.
If you'd like to get in touch, please do so via the Contact Page.
Good luck with your investment journey,
John Kingham
This website provides information, education and tools for investors. It does not provide financial advice or recommendations to buy or sell any specific investment. If you're not sure if an investment is right for you, you should speak to a regulated financial adviser. Please read the disclaimer for more details.