Fisher Investments UK - opinions?

seafarer

Does anybody have any comments, experiences, reviews, thoughts, or advice and opinions, regarding the company Fisher Investments UK based in Canary Wharf London? I would be very grateful for any information.

dunstonh

Restricted in-house offering.    

The general rule of thumb is to either use an IFA or to DIY.  Not use restricted offerings.

masonic

I particularly like their "simple, transparent fee structure" in which they pride themselves on having transparent initial funding and ongoing management fees. So transparent in fact, that they are not visible on their fees page at all.

JohnWinder

I've never heard of anyone with an interest in some business planting a 'have a look at this business' post to a discussion forum.

george4064

Wouldn’t touch them with a bargepole.

Albermarle

JohnWinder said:

I've never heard of anyone with an interest in some business planting a 'have a look at this business' post to a discussion forum.

On the other hand, Fisher Investments are not exactly unknown, especially as their adverts pop up very regularly on many different websites.

UncleK

Expensive and as people have said, limited to their funds. And once you have contacted them, they won't leave you alone. If you insist on dealing with them, use contact details that you can easily get rid of later on.

seafarer

JohnWinder said:

I've never heard of anyone with an interest in some business planting a 'have a look at this business' post to a discussion forum.

I can assure you, I am not planting this for any marketing reason or hidden agenda. I am asking a genuine question, because Fisher Investments UK have been frequently calling me with assertive selling techniques.

seafarer

seafarer said:

Does anybody have any comments, experiences, reviews, thoughts, or advice and opinions, regarding the company Fisher Investments UK based in Canary Wharf London? I would be very grateful for any information.

Thank you to everybody who replied and provided their thoughts. This has been helpful in assisting me to decide that I will not be engaging with Fisher Investments UK and I will continue to manage my own portfolio.

dunstonh

seafarer said:

JohnWinder said:

I've never heard of anyone with an interest in some business planting a 'have a look at this business' post to a discussion forum.

I can assure you, I am not planting this for any marketing reason or hidden agenda. I am asking a genuine question, because Fisher Investments UK have been frequently calling me with assertive selling techniques.

Most regulated financial services companies do not cold call.   Indeed, there is currently consideration to banning it.   It is already banned for pensions.

Any firm giving you sales pressure should be a red flag.

matstand

Hi 

I dont have any experience in investing, and frankly I dont think that I want to get involved in picking stocks. but i do want to optimise my pension. 

I have spent some time with Fisher investments and they sound credible. They can demonstrate clearly that had I put my pension funds with them over the last decade, that after fees I would have acheived much better returns than the 6.1% that i actually realised from my tracker funds. 

My funds are currently invested in a variety of trackers,  If not fisher, then what sort of organsation should i go to find someone to safely manage my pension funds and acheive a better than my standard pension growth rate?

my pension funds are currently around £400k and i want them to grow considerably over the next 8 years. If that makes any difference