Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Trust plc announced that the first interim dividend for the year ending September 30, 2021 of 5.2 pence per Ordinary Share will be payable on March 26, 2021 to Shareholders on the register on March 5, 2021. The company also announced the board's intention is that the second and third interim dividends will also each be 5.2 pence per Ordinary Share, payable in June and September 2021 respectively, and that the fourth interim dividend, which will be paid in December 2021, will be at least 5.1 pence per Ordinary Share. The Board expects that the aggregate dividend payment will exceed the forecast earnings in the current year and will, therefore, involve funding from the Company's revenue reserve, which currently amounts to 12.9 pence per Ordinary Share. The ex-dividend date is June 3, 2021, September 2, 2021 and December 9, 2021, record date is June 4, 2021, September 3, 2021 and December 10, 2021 and payment date is June 25, 2021, September 24, 2021 and December 31, 2021 for the second quarter, third quarter and fourth quarter respectively.