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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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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,...
Fisher Investments UK’s Year-End Financial Checklist
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....
Fisher Investments UK on Today’s Allegedly Expensive Equities
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...
The Trouble with Recency Bias, According to Fisher Investments 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....
Why Investing in Passive Products Doesn’t Make You a Passive Investor
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...
Why Fisher Investments UK Thinks Eurozone Deflation Isn’t Nearby—or Dangerous
As COVID restrictions knocked consumer spending globally, we saw many commentators in financial media worrying deflation—broadly falling prices across the economy—could extend and deepen the eurozone’s economic downturn. In our view, though, a prolonged stretch of...
How to Gauge a Company’s Size—and Why It Matters
Globally, more than 8,700 equities are listed on exchanges.i Finding ways to categorise and assess them is a key first step for any equity investor, in our view. One such way: considering company size. In our research of historical market returns, we have found...
Low Rates and Dividend Cuts: Solving the COVID Retirement Income Conundrum
COVID-19, the associated lockdowns and the government-directed attempts to ease the negative impact on economies have had a huge effect on many aspects of our lives. One, which may be easy for some to overlook, is on financial planning. This is perhaps most true of...
Expect Persistent Pessimism When the Next Bull Market Starts
Whenever this bear market (a prolonged, fundamentally driven broad equity market decline of at least -20%) ends—and it may have by the time you read this—we expect few to believe it. Even after data later—potentially much later—start to reflect improving economic...
Will High and Rising Unemployment Derail an Equity Market Recovery?
The economic disruptions tied to the world’s well-intended coronavirus response have wreaked havoc on jobs. Millions filed for unemployment benefits in America, Spain and Italy in March and early April.i One million Canadians lost their jobs at around the same time,...
Is ‘Home Country Bias’ Ramping Up Your Equity Risk?
The decade-long global bull market ended suddenly and dramatically in February, as the shutdown of businesses in reaction to COVID-19’s spread caused massive economic disruptions across the globe. The declines have been swift and jarring, which likely has many equity...
Fisher Investments UK’s Perspective on Sovereign Credit Rating Downgrades
As several countries announce giant packages of tax relief and increased public spending to cushion their economies from the impact of COVID-19 containment efforts, most financial news commentary we have seen presumes these governments will pay for these efforts by...
To See Through Big Numbers, Just Do Small Math
Whenever there is news coverage of events with a financial impact, we see big numbers. The Australian wildfires are estimated to have caused A$4.4 billion in damages so far.i Germany’s budget surplus hit €13.5 billion in 2019.ii Italy has to sell €50 billion worth of...
What Causes Inflation?
What Causes Inflation? With eurozone inflation below the ECB’s target of just under 2%, explanations—and policy solutions—abound amongst financial publications we review regularly. To help you understand the situation, here is a guide to what inflation is and what...
How to Benchmark Your Portfolio
What is the best way to measure your portfolio’s performance? Comparing starting and later portfolio values over a select period of time? Or how your performance squares with someone else’s, like your neighbour’s? Whilst these approaches may seem logical, we think...
Why a Shrinking Workforce Doesn’t Assure Stagnation
Much of the academic literature we have reviewed posits demographics determine long-term economic growth. Rising populations mean more demand for just about everything: food, housing, clothing, energy, medical care, services—you name it. It also means a rising...
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 pondered throughout financial news outlets in recent months, especially as eurozone manufacturing readings…
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 try to assess what her appointment will mean for the ECB’s...
China’s Economic Outlook: What Does It Mean for Europe?
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Evidence for Growth in Seven Charts
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Overlooked Positive Trade Developments
The Economy Isn’t the Market
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Productivity Doesn’t Drive the Economy or Markets
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Eurozone Sentiment Underrates Reality
How Compound Growth Works
Don’t Fret QE’s End
What Moves Markets Most May Surprise You
Familiarity Doesn’t Reduce Risk
Gold Doesn’t Shine as an Investment for Long-Term Investors
Parsing Media’s Market Metaphors
Why Reinvestment Risk Matters for Fixed Interest Investors
Asset Allocation for the Long Run
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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.