by Fisher Investments UK | May 7, 2021 | UK
On 24 December 2020, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen agreed on a post-Brexit trade deal, ending a saga that triggered widespread concern from investors for over four years. Whilst the Brexit deal helps investor...
by Fisher Investments UK | Mar 12, 2021 | UK
Emotions and tensions are running high in the wake of America’s recent elections. Yet, stocks have pushed forward, reacting in their typical cold, emotionless, forward-looking fashion. Why? Because stock markets focus not on any particular political race’s outcome,...
by Fisher Investments UK | Feb 5, 2021 | UK
If ever there were something to cheer about, we suspect 2020’s end tops the list for many people. In addition to being cause to celebrate, we think it is also a good time to conduct an investment portfolio checkup—something investors benefit from doing periodically....
by Fisher Investments UK | Dec 21, 2020 | UK
Global markets have recovered considerably since their year-to-date lowpoint in late March, and as we write, they are a little bit above their pre-COVID lockdown highs.i Yet the MSCI World Index’s price-to-earnings ratio—which attempts to measure whether share prices...
by Fisher Investments UK | Nov 23, 2020 | UK
In Fisher Investments UK’s experience, investors often think what just happened will continue happening. Behavioural finance—a school of thought in investing that studies the relationship between human behaviour, feelings and money—has a term for this: recency bias....
by Fisher Investments UK | Oct 5, 2020 | UK
So-called passive investing products like exchange-traded funds (ETFs)—which track particular segments of the equity market or the market as a whole—have gained popularity in Europe recently. We have seen much financial commentary describing this as a rise in passive...
