About Ken Fisher, Self-made Billionaire, Bestselling Author, Fisher Investments CEO

Ken Fisher is a self-made billionaire and ranks among America's wealthiest individuals.

He is perhaps best known for his Forbes "Portfolio Strategy" column, where a 25-year tenure of high profile market calls makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in the magazine’s history. Since 2000, his Forbes market forecasts 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 on the stock market.

Ken has written six books, including three New York Times bestsellers, 2006's The Only Three Questions That Count, 2008's The Ten Roads to Riches, and 2009's How to Smell a Rat. 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 Make the Market, both re-released by John Wiley & Sons in 2007. 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.

Ken Fisher is also the founder, chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, a money management firm serving large corporate and public pension plans, as well as endowments, foundations, and affluent individuals across the US, UK and Canada. Fisher Investments is also a joint venture partner of Gruener Fisher Investments GmbH, which 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.

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* Ranking as of 1/1/2010 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 9/30/2009.

 
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