About Ken Fisher: Bestselling Author, Forbes Columnist, Fisher Investments CEO |
Kenneth Fisher is perhaps best known for his Forbes "Portfolio Strategy" column, where an over 27 year tenure of engaging market commentary makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in the magazine's history. Since 2000, his Forbes market calls have been among the most accurate as measured by third-party CXO Advisory Group1, the research firm whose "Guru Grades" rates the accuracy of publicly available expert forecasts of the US stock market.
Ken Fisher has written eight books, including four New York Times bestsellers, 2010's Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit From It, 2009's How to Smell a Rat, 2008's The Ten Roads to Riches and 2006's The Only Three Questions that Count. His most recent book is Markets Never Forget, published by Wiley in November 2011. In 1984, his Super Stocks was that year's bestselling stock market book. Others include 1987's The Wall Street Waltz and 1993's 100 Minds that Made the Market–both recently re-released by John Wiley & Sons. In addition to English, Ken's books have been translated into Chinese, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, and Thai, reaching of 3/4 of global GDP.2
Kenneth Fisher has been published, interviewed and/or been written about in numerous major American, British, and German finance and business periodicals. He also contributes monthly to the UK's Interactive Investor website and weekly to Germany's Focus Money magazine. His early 1970s theoretical work pioneered a tool known as the Price-to-Sales ratio, now a core part of financial curriculum. A prize-winning researcher, Ken's credits span a multitude of professional and scholarly journals-in both traditional and behavioral finance. In 2010, Ken was named one of the industry's 30 most influential people over the previous 30 years on Investment Advisor magazine's prestigious IA-30-30 list (Investment Advisor, Thirty for Thirty, 5/1/2010). In 2011, Ken was also named to Investment Advisor's IA25 list of influential people in the investment community (Ken Fisher, Fisher Investments: The Extended 2011 IA25 Profile).
Ken Fisher is the founder and CEO of Fisher Investments one of the largest independent registered investment advisory firms with tens of thousands of private clients and billions under management. Fisher Investments' clients also include Fortune 500 corporations, foundations and endowments, religious organizations, sovereign wealth funds, governments and more. Fisher Investments' wholly-owned subsidiary, Fisher Investments UK offers its services to investors in the UK. Fisher Investments' joint venture partner, Gruener Fisher Investments GmbH serves investors in Germany.
Kenneth Fisher's hobbies include the history of Kings Mountain, California, and 19th century redwood lumbering and anything about redwoods. He resides in Woodside, California, with his wife Sherrilyn. They have three adult sons.
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1 http://www.cxoadvisory.com/gurus. As of 1/3/2012. Fisher Investments has no affiliation with CXO Advisory Group. Ken Fisher’s market forecasts in Forbes represent his personal forecasts of the overall market and are not an indication of the performance of Fisher Investments. Not all forecasts may be as accurate as those in the past. Investing in securities involves the risk of loss. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investments in foreign securities involves additional risks such as losses related to other currencies and securities markets.
2 Based on countries' official languages and GDP reported by the IMF, as of 12/15/2011.
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Other Books by Kenneth Fisher |  | by Ken Fisher with Lara Hoffmans November 2011, Hardcover
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 | by Ken Fisher with Lara Hoffmans September 2010, Hardcover
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 | by Ken Fisher with Lara Hoffmans October 2008, Hardcover
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 | by Ken Fisher, with Jennifer Chou, Lara Hoffmans, Foreword by Jim Cramer December 2006, Hardcover
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 | by Ken Fisher Re-released from Wiley under the Fisher Investment Series, August 2007 (First published by Pacific Publishing Group in 1991)
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 | by Ken Fisher Re-released from Wiley under the Fisher Investment Series, November 2007 (First published by Contemporary Books, 1987)
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 | by Ken Fisher McGraw Hill, 2007 (First published by Dow Jones-Irwin, 1984)
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