Ken Fisher's Investment Background

Fisher Investments CEO

Ken Fisher is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Fisher Investments, a multi-billion dollar, multi-product money management firm serving large corporate and public pension plans, in addition to endowments, foundations and thousands of high net-worth individuals. Fisher Investments prides itself on proactive client service, competitive fees, and a dynamic investment approach, among other things. In 2008, BusinessWeek named Fisher Investments a top career destination. Learn about career opportunities with Fisher Investments.

Financial Columnist

Ken Fisher is best known for his prestigious "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes magazine, where his 25-year tenure of high-profile market calls makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in Forbes' history. From 2000-2006, he wrote a monthly column for Bloomberg Money magazine, a former personal finance magazine for European investors. Ken Fisher currently writes a monthly column for Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading daily.

Bestselling Author

Ken Fisher has written six books including four bestsellers:

Bestseller, Super Stocks: The Book That's Changing the Way Investors Think (1984)
The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives: Illustrated Lessons from Financial Cycles and Trends (1987; Re-released from Wiley under the Fisher Investment Series in 2007)
100 Minds That Made the Market (1991; Re-released from Wiley under the Fisher Investment Series in 2007) (First published by Pacific Publishing Group in 1991)
New York Times Bestseller, The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don’t (2006)
New York Times Bestseller, The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There And How You Can Too! (2008)
New York Times Bestseller, How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud (2009)

Other Contributions

Ken Fisher has been published, interviewed and/or been written about in numerous major American, British, and German finance and business periodicals. Ken Fisher's theoretical work in the 1970s led to the development of a tool known as the Price-to-Sales Ratio, which is now part of core financial curriculum. His recent research, which focuses on the emerging field of behavioralism, has appeared in many professional and scholarly journals such as the Journal of Portfolio Management and Financial Analysts Journal.