Ken Fisher
Forbes Columnist • Best-selling Author • Fisher Investments CEO
Ken is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments, a $47+ billion* money management firm serving large corporate and public pension plans, as well as endowments, foundations and high-net worth individuals across the US, UK and Canada.
Perhaps best known for his prestigious Forbe's Portfolio Strategy column, Ken’s 24-year tenure of high profile market calls makes him the fourth longest running columnist in Forbes history. Since the mid-1990s his Forbes annual market forecasts have been among the most accurate. As measured by third-party CXO Advisory Group, the research firm’s "Guru Grades" rates the accuracy of publicly available expert forecasts on the stock market. Ken is currently ranked the second most accurate over recent years.**
He has written four major finance books including the New York Times Bestseller, 2006’s The Only Three Questions That Count. In 1984 his Super Stocks was that year’s best-selling stock market book. Others include 1987's The Wall Street Waltz, just re-released by John Wiley & Sons, and 1993’s 100 Minds That Made the Market. Upcoming, The 10 Roads to Riches, will be published by Wiley by year-end 2008.
Ken has been published, interviewed and/or been written about in numerous major American, British and German finance or business periodicals. He has a weekly column in 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, his credits span a multitude of professional and scholarly journals as well as his firm’s output—-and in both traditional and behavioral finance.
Ken's hobbies include the history of Kings Mountain, California and 19th century redwood lumbering history. He resides in Woodside, California with his wife, Sherrilyn. They have three adult sons. Ken is currently ranked #271 on the 2007 Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.
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