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Bestselling author, Forbes columnist and Fisher Investments CEO Ken Fisher was born on November 29, 1950 in San Francisco, California. Ken Fisher is the third and youngest son of Philip A. Fisher, renowned investor and author of the classic investing book, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits,
which remains relevant and in print to this day. Ken Fisher is the only industry professional his father ever professionally trained,
having worked for his father in the early 1970s. He founded his own firm, Fisher Investments, as a sole proprietorship in 1979 (which was later incorporated in 1986 and reorganized into a limited liability company in 2005.) Ken Fisher currently ranks among America's top stock market forecasters* (see CXO Advisory Group forecasting ranking information below). Ken Fisher is also on Investment Advisor magazine's prestigious IA-30-30 list of the industry's 30 most influential people over the last 30 years. He lives in Woodside, CA atop Kings Mountain overlooking the Pacific Coast's Half Moon Bay with his wife Sherrilyn where Fisher Investments is headquartered.
Ken Fisher - Fisher Investments CEO
Ken Fisher is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Fisher Investments,
a multi-billion dollar independent money management firm serving institutional investors and individual investors globally. Fisher Investments' wholly-owned subsidiary Fisher Wealth Management markets Fisher Investments' services to investors in the UK. Fisher Investments also has a joint-venture affiliate, Grüner Fisher Investments GmbH, which serves investors in Germany. Click here for Fisher Investments' company profile on Hoovers.
Ken Fisher - Investment Columnist
While operating as CEO of Fisher Investments, Ken Fisher has also written the monthly "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes
for the last 25+ years, which makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in the magazine's history. He also currently writes a monthly column for Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading daily. From 2000-2006, Ken Fisher wrote a monthly column for Bloomberg Money magazine, a former personal finance magazine for European investors.
Ken Fisher - Investment Author
Ken Fisher has authored six books, among them the 2006 bestseller, The Only Three Questions that Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't, as well as numerous other articles and scholarly research papers, including research in the emerging field of behavioral finance. His sixth book,
How to Smell a Rat, is now available from John Wiley & Sons. In 2006, Wiley & Sons and Fisher Investments teamed up to form Fisher Investments Press. Fisher Investments Press has published several investment education books, among them the Fisher Investments On sector guides written by the Fisher Investments Research Team under the guidance of Ken Fisher and research director Andrew Teufel. The 10 Roads to Riches was the first title to be released by the Fisher Investments Press publishing imprint in 2008.
Ken Fisher - Market Forecaster
CXO Advisory Group, an independent 3rd party, assesses the accuracy of publicly available forecasts regarding the future direction of the US stock market.* See why Ken Fisher is a top-ranked forecaster among his peers: Ken Fisher's forecasting history
* 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.
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