The last twelve months have been exceptionally busy here at Fighting Financials. Having successfully obtained our full FCA authorisation in August 2024, we have both grown our - small but fantastically driven - team and onboarded several top-tier institutional clients.

Above all, we’ve been steeped in twelve months of intensive fundamental analysis and continuing to navigate a range of shifting public markets environments. Thank you Donald!…

…It’s probably both true and also a little glib to say that starting a business is not easy. At the same time, we’re both inspired and humbled by the degree of trust and early responsibility our clients have placed in us to shape their investment decision-making, both as it pertains to global financials as well as broader market indices. As Q425 draws closer, we’ll approach the investment landscape with renewed intensity and passion.

When you start a business, you often hear a lot about how you’ve got to “stay in front of the client”, “build an online presence” and constantly be out there “telling your story”. One of the big lessons for us in our first year of carrying out regulated investment activity and becoming a trusted advisor has been, on the contrary: stay focused on the product, seek to deliver exceptional value and - unless you’ve got something interesting to say - try to stay pretty quiet.

As our first twelve months draws to a close and we look to redouble our efforts in the twelve months ahead, "staying pretty quiet” will become more and more our default position.

As the five-time NBA Championship winner and ultimate competitor, Michael Jordan, reflected in a now infamous 2008 Nike commercial, building anything of value is ultimately much more about fire - the passion and principles that drive genuine action - than flash: how often you post on social media and/or the ubiquity of your brand.

As we continue to cultivate our own small embers of investment ability - dare we say, skill - we trust in markets, the media and our ever-vociferous political classes to continue providing all of the flash!

See you soon :)

Your Fighting Financials Team

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