Good to see the caution re U.S. MLPs - often overlooked in G&M articles about U.S. dividend paying companies (although, to be strictly correct, MLP's do not pay dividends but rather distributions of business income - and that is what leads to the tax issues).

On the other hand one always has to be careful/cognizant the implications of the screens used. Companies with a payout ratio of >80% of earnings were screened out. This immediately screens out U.S. REITs and BDCs (business development corporations)  which must pay out at least 90% of their earnings, so no companies with 8%+ dividend yields appear on the list.

For those not familiar with BDCs I would suggest looking at MAIN as an example (see investor presentation, bearing in mind of course that these documents are basically sales pitches). Another couple of names are ARCC, NMFC and TCAP. (I've owned all of them for years - they are not for those looking for significant stock price appreciation but rather for a robust yield.