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I’ve bought a few high-risk, high-maintenance UK shares this year, and now I’d like to balance them with a brace of solid FTSE 100 dividend shares. The type that won’t cost me too much time or trouble. Nice and easy no-brainer buys.
I’m not looking for ultra-high yields, but a solid and sustainable rate of income that should rise over time. A bit of share price growth growth wouldn’t go amiss. I’m hoping to rustle up £2,000 to invest in January. If I do, I’ll consider splitting it between these two.
Accounting software specialist Sage Group (LSE: SGE) fits the bill nicely. I’d always seen it as a growth stock, but data from AJ Bell shows it’s an unsung dividend hero too.
Sage Group has a very wise dividend policy
Over the last decade, the board has increased the dividend at an impressive rate 5.7% a year, according to AJ Bell. Let’s see what the chart…
