Best Swiss Shares 2019

2019 was a record year on the Swiss Stock Market in many respects. Records were broken & re-broken. The SMI reached an historical new high in 2019. The SMI overall rose by 27 percent. SMI dividends cumulatively increased by over 30 percent. Likewise the SPI had a splendid year, increasing by 32 percent.

It would be an understatement to say that 2019, (despite geopolitical uncertainties and initial economic worries) was an excellent year for investors, mostly. The SMI growth range from Sika (+47 percent) to Swatch (-6 percent).

The top performers in the broad SPI market were Lastminute (+165 percent) and the Geneva-based investment company Perrot Duval (+152.8 percent). On the downside, unlucky investors lost up 70 percent on Blackstone and the biotech companies Obseva and Relief Therapeutics.

The Swiss Stock market performed excellently also on an International comparison, According to Bloomberg, the SMI index ranks 17th out of a total of 94 markets in its annual performance.
Swiss investment experts are extremely optimistic in their outlooks for 2020