Many upbeat about equities: Survey

[Musicwhiz]

Income generation......
Sign of our times......

You are right in a sense - there is always a hot theme or "flavour of the day", once it was the dot.coms (some now call them the dot.bombs), then it was the S-Chips (who are now known as "ass-chips").

So yes, the current talk of the town is "income, dividends, yield investing, REITs, business trusts" and what-nots.

It is also common knowledge that when you invest in something which everyone else is keenly interested in, you're unlikely to get much margin of safety (though you would get a sense of warm comfort in being with the crowd).