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Get to Know Fisher Investments UK and the Services It Can Offer to Investors

Investing is a complicated business and can be fraught with risks—even for those with years of experience. It’s no surprise that investors often seek professional guidance. But knowing whose investment advice to trust can be a daunting endeavour.

At Fisher Investments UK, it is our opinion that many investment advisors fall short of meeting investors’ expectations. Consequently, our organization strives to connect investors with portfolio management services that are tailored specifically to their needs and supported by a world-class client service team.

Established in 2000, Fisher Investments UK extends the services of it’s parent company, Fisher Investments, to UK investors. Founded in 1979 by investment guru Ken Fisher, Fisher Investments is a US-based investment adviser serving both individual and institutional investors. As of June 2018, Fisher Investments and its subsidiaries manage over $100 billion in assets for more than 45,000 private clients worldwide.

Fisher Investments offers a client-first approach, providing a tailored portfolio strategy designed to meet each investor’s individual objectives. Clients receive highly attentive service—working directly with investment counsellors who take time to understand each client’s personal situations and needs. These counsellors stay in regular contact with all clients, keeping them informed about their portfolios and movements in the wider financial markets.

Fisher Investments and Fisher Investments UK also offer clients many types of educational resources, including webinars, seminars, research reports, market commentary and more. Through these materials the Fisher organization aims to help clients better understand the reasoning behind the portfolio strategy, so they can become more comfortable with the Fisher philosophy and approach.

Fisher Investments UK extends some of its educational resources to Citywire and several other financial publications throughout Europe and beyond. To learn more about Fisher Investments UK and the services of Fisher Investments or to access our free investing guides, visit us at https://www.fisherinvestments.com/en-gb.

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Fisher Investments UK Doesn’t Overrate Singular Events’ Economic Impact

Headlines tend to sensationalise the financial impact of one-off events, such as a global pop concert or a natural disaster. Fisher Investments UK analyses the temporary effects investors may anticipate.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews Why Demographics Don’t Doom Markets

As the world’s population changes, what does that mean for an economy? Population trends ebb and flow in every country, however, demographics may not be the market driver investors think it is.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews Equity Bubbles

What is an equity bubble? How can investors navigate discussions around them? Fisher Investments UK reviews how investors can gauge sentiment against reality to determine whether a bubble is forming.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews How Investors Can Fall Prey to Myopic Loss Aversion

Fisher Investments UK reviews how myopic loss aversion, feeling the pain of loss far more than the satisfaction of winning, can hinder long-term financial goals by tempting investors to exit the market amidst negative volatility.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews the Sentiment Cycle

Investor sentiment is just one of several market drivers Fisher Investments UK reviews when determining the phase of a market cycle. Sentiment evolves alongside equity market cycles to form four stages: Pessimism, Scepticism, Optimism and Euphoria.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews the Risks of Home-Country Bias

Fisher Investments UK reviews how diversifying globally, rather than solely in one’s country, can mitigate portfolio risk. We recommend expanding investor’s opportunity set by resisting the urge to invest domestically.

Reality Versus Hype: Fisher Investments UK Reviews Clean Energy

Despite the attempts to promote clean energy efforts, equities show the profit reality over recent years. Fisher Investments UK reviews the reasons why expectations have fallen short.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews Why Regional Conflicts Rarely Wreck Equities

Regional conflicts, though devasting, generally do not negatively impact markets long-term. Fisher Investments UK reviews various market history examples to demonstrate.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews Why Equities and GDP Don’t Move in Lockstep

Governments use gross domestic product (GDP) to measure economic activity and output, which matters to equities. But in Fisher Investments UK’s reviews of the economy and markets, we find they don’t always move in sync. With commentators we follow warning weak...

Fisher Investments UK Reviews Greece’s Classification Odyssey

Over a decade ago, Greece’s sovereign debt crisis cost the nation its developed-market status. Today, the country is vying for reclassification, Fisher Investments UK reviews.

Fisher Investments UK reviews dividends as an investment strategy

Dividend-income often attracts investors. Fisher Investments UK reviews this investment strategy, cautioning investors against making larger portfolio decisions based on dividends.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews How to Spot and Avoid Financial Scams

Fisher Investments UK reviews different kinds of financial fraud worldwide and provides guidance on how to avoid common pitfalls. We think that knowing more about criminals’ common tactics can help investors avoid them.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews the Bounce Effect and How Investors Can Use it

The Bounce Effect – what falls furthest in a bear market generally bounces the highest during the subsequent bull market’s initial recovery – is a phenomenon investors can use to help decide how to position their portfolio when participating in a new bull market.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews Market History as a Useful Tool for Investors

“History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes”. Fisher Investments UK reviews market history as a tool for informing portfolio decisions. History looks to the past as a guide for what can happen now, allowing investors to focus on probabilities, not possibilities.

Fisher Investments UK Reviews Manufacturing’s Contribution to the Modern Economy

Fisher Investments UK doesn’t discount manufacturing or its role in the global economy; however, we believe that investors benefit from scaling manufacturing and services’ respective influence on economic output

Fisher Investments UK on Artificial Intelligence

Fisher investments UK saw Information Technology equities amongst the worst performers in 2022, buzz-word tech trends – such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) – took a back seat in investor’s minds as they focused on tragic geo-political conflicts, higher interest rates...

Fisher Investments UK Reviews Selling at Breakeven

Fisher Investments UK knows that negative volatility can sometimes spur investors to make portfolio decisions they might not want to otherwise. Perhaps this is why, after enduring bear markets (prolonged, fundamentally driven broad equity market declines of -20% or...

Fisher Investments UK Reviews Non-Financial Alternative Assets

Based on financial publications Fisher Investments UK reviews, non-financial alternative assets such as art, whisky, wine and collectibles receive much hype for their supposed investment potential – particularly compared to publicly traded securities, like equities...

Fisher Investments UK’s Review of Market Recoveries: They Don’t Move in Straight Lines

Equities endured a tough 2022, as a litany of concerns, including high oil prices, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, rising interest rates and elevated inflation plagued investors.i Based on Fisher Investments UK’s review of financial commentary, these factors drove fear...

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China’s Economic Outlook: What Does It Mean for Europe?

Will a weakening Chinese economy hurt European exporters and drive a new continental recession? Fisher Investments UK has seen this question…

What Is With Negative Yielding Debt?

Increasingly, many developed world countries’ fixed-interest securities’ yields have gone sub-zero. German government debt yields are currently negative out to 17 years.

A Primer on Yield Curves: What They Are and How They Affect You

The yield curve charts a country’s interest rates across all loan maturities—from short-term rates set by the central bank to long-term government…

Spring Showers Bring May Myths

Spring has sprung! And with the warmer temperatures, sunnier days and budding flowers we expect another yearly regularity to hit soon: financial media’s warnings you should exit equities before the…

Evidence for Growth in Seven Charts

Is a global recession lurking behind 2018’s volatility? Our survey of financial media publications suggests many believe so, seeing slowdowns in some economic data as evidence.

Eurozone Growth Chugging Along

In our survey of media publications, we have seen some commentators argue Q3’s slower eurozone growth presages recession, but we think this conclusion is premature.

Overlooked Positive Trade Developments

Amid the many negative trade headlines we have seen recently in our survey of media publications, it is perhaps easy to overlook positive trade developments.

The Economy Isn’t the Market

When the economy booms, the equity market zooms, right? This may seem like a logical presumption, and in our review of financial media, we have occasionally seen commentary claiming fast-growing economies…

A Different Perspective on Political Risk

Alongside investor sentiment and economic fundamentals, our research suggests politics is one of equity markets’ three broad drivers. Hence, we think understanding what political risk is

An Investing Lesson From Amazon’s Recent Milestone

A few weeks ago, online retailer Amazon became the second publicly traded firm to have a market capitalisation (or US dollar value of all shares) of $1 trillion.

Productivity Doesn’t Drive the Economy or Markets

Economists consider productivity—the economy’s output per each hour worked—a key ingredient in rising living standards. In our regular survey of news media, many—including at the Bank of England…

Rule, Britannia?

When deciding where to invest, one of the critical questions we think investors face is whether to own international shares. “Buy what you know” is a mantra we hear often, and many investors know their home country best.

What Does New Leadership Mean for the ECB?

Mario Draghi steps down as ECB President at October’s end, and outgoing IMF head Christine Lagarde is set to take his place. Since EU leaders nominated her over the summer, we have seen many financial pundits…

Why We Think Getting on With Brexit Should Help Britain’s Economy

Over two months after UK and EU leaders delayed Brexit, things are looking a bit grim, in our view. UK politics seem in chaos to us.

Eurozone Sentiment Underrates Reality

In our view, markets move most on the gap between reality and folks’ emotions or expectations about reality—sentiment, broadly. Today, we think quantitative and qualitative measures of sentiment suggest …

How Compound Growth Works

Legend has it Albert Einstein called compound growth the eighth wonder of the world—“the most powerful force in the universe.” However, you don’t need to be a genius to understand how compounding works.

Don’t Fret QE’s End

With eurozone GDP (gross domestic product, a government-produced estimate of national economic output) growth slowing in Q3, our survey of financial media publications turned up many worries the…

What Moves Markets Most May Surprise You

In our regular review of financial media, we often find headlines speculating over what will affect equity prices. Many treat the relationship between news and market movement as clear cut.

Familiarity Doesn’t Reduce Risk

In our experience, many investors globally tend to carry huge holdings in companies they are familiar with. Sometimes it is a local company they see on the nightly news.

Gold Doesn’t Shine as an Investment for Long-Term Investors

In our daily review of financial media, we often see articles touting investments that allegedly will fare well when equity markets tumble.

Parsing Media’s Market Metaphors

Markets. Financial media often talk of them as if they are people. Sometimes markets fear things. Other times, they cheer. Pundits also claim they can ignore and underestimate risks.

Why Reinvestment Risk Matters for Fixed Interest Investors

In our regular survey of financial articles, we often see commentary describing equities as risky and fixed interest as “safe”—a trend we find disheartening.

Asset Allocation for the Long Run

A great body of scholarly research suggests asset allocation—the proportions of equities, fixed interest, cash and other securities in an investment portfolio—is a large determinant of an investor’s long-term returns.

For Equities, UK Politics Are a Tug of War

The tensions within PM Theresa May’s cabinet seemingly hit fresh highs in early June, with Brexit Secretary David Davis’s near-resignation and Boris Johnson’s leaked criticism of May’s Brexit leadership.

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What is Fisher Investments UK’s investment approach?

We offer the portfolio management services of Fisher Investments (our parent organisation based in the USA) which utilises decades of capital markets research to take a dynamic investment approach based on its forward-looking views of the market. Visit our website to find out more about this investment approach and philosophy.

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What are Fisher Investments UK’s fees?

Fisher Investments UK charges a fee for our initial recommendation. Fisher Investments then offers a straightforward, transparent fee structure for portfolio management services based on the value of the assets managed for you.

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What are Fisher Investments UK’s contact details?

To learn more about how we can help you to achieve your investment goals visit the Fisher Investments UK website where you will find details on how to contact a local representative.

Rule, Britannia?

When deciding where to invest, one of the critical questions we think investors face is whether to own international shares.

“Buy what you know” is a mantra we hear often, and many investors know their home country best. Yet in our view, investing in your home country alone may not be the best approach—even in a country as deep and strong as the UK.

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Past performance neither guarantees nor reliably indicates future performance. The value of investments and the income from them will fluctuate with world equity markets and international currency exchange rates.

Fisher Investments Europe Limited, trading as Fisher Investments UK, is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA Number 191609) and is registered in England (Company Number 3850593). Fisher Investments Europe Limited has its registered office at: 2nd Floor, 6-10 Whitfield Street, London, W1T 2RE, United Kingdom.

Investment management services are provided by Fisher Investments UK’s parent company, Fisher Asset Management, LLC, trading as Fisher Investments, which is established in the US and regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Investing in equity markets involves the risk of loss and there is no guarantee that all or any invested capital will be repaid.