by Fisher Investments UK | Jul 1, 2024 | UK
In our experience, nobody likes losing – but just how powerful is the desire to avoid the feeling? Late psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky explored this question in 1979, and their Nobel-prizewinning research found that humans feel the pain of loss far...
by Fisher Investments UK | Jun 5, 2024 | UK
How do you feel about the market and economy? Investors’ collective answers to this question form sentiment – a key market driver, in our view. Our research suggests sentiment tends to move cyclically in relation to equities. In Fisher Investments UK’s review,...
by Fisher Investments UK | May 2, 2024 | UK
In Fisher Investments UK’s experience, people are very often more comfortable investing in what is familiar to them. And, we regularly find investors think companies local to them – those they frequent and know best – are those familiar names, whilst seeing names from...
by Fisher Investments UK | Apr 1, 2024 | UK
Despite clean energy hype the last few years, the industry’s equities haven’t fared well.[i] The reason, in Fisher Investments UK’s review: clean energy profits didn’t live up to their initial promise – hype didn’t match reality. We think this shows the importance of...
by Fisher Investments UK | Mar 4, 2024 | UK
From Russia’s war in Ukraine to renewed violence in the Middle East – not to mention worries of more – recent regional conflicts are unquestionably tragic, and our hearts go out to all involved. Whilst it might seem callous to think about these tragedies from an...
by Fisher Investments UK | Feb 2, 2024 | UK
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...