How can I find out companies EX-Div Date?

Question

How can I find out all of the dividend dates that shares need to be held on to get the dividend, this is for all of or most UK compaies.

Answer 1

Most brokers will provide basic information like this as part of your share dealing 'package' - typically it's available as part of the 'details' on an individual company share.

Same data is available on most financial web sites - for example, Yahoo Finance :-) (see link below)