About Ken Fisher: Bestselling Author, Forbes Columnist, Fisher Investments CEO

Ken Fisher is perhaps best known for his Forbes "Portfolio Strategy" column, where a 25-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 Group*, the research firm whose "Guru Grades" rates the accuracy of publicly available expert forecasts of the US stock market.

Ken Fisher has written six books, including three New York Times bestsellers, 2009's How to Smell a Rat, 2008's The Ten Roads to Riches and 2006's The Only Three Questions that Count. 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 2/3 of global GDP.**

Ken Fisher has been published, interviewed and/or been written about in numerous major American, British, and German finance and business periodicals. He writes a weekly column for Handelsblatt, Germany's leading daily. 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.

Ken Fisher is the founder and CEO of Fisher Investments, one of the largest 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 Wealth Management, offers its services to investors in the UK. Fisher Investments’ joint venture partner, Gruener Fisher Investments GmbH, serves investors in Germany.

Ken 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.

* Ranking as of 5/1/2010 and can be found at http://www.cxoadvisory.com/gurus/. Fisher Investments has no affiliation with CXO Advisory Group. Market calls represent Ken Fisher’s public descriptions of the overall market and don't represent the performance of Fisher Investments.

** Based on countries’ official languages and GDP reported by the IMF, as of 12/31/2009.