Fisher Investments CEO Ken Fisher



Ken Fisher has been in the investment business for over three decades. He was professionally trained by his father, Phil Fisher, and worked for his firm, Fisher & Co. in the early seventies. Ken Fisher later went on to found Fisher Investments in 1979 as a sole proprietorship. The firm was later incorporated in 1986 and then reorganized as Fisher Asset Management, LLC (doing business as Fisher Investments) in 2005. The Fisher Investments Private Client Group was created in 1995 to provide institutional quality service directly to financially successful individuals. Fisher Investments also serves institutional investors. For more information, please visit the following websites:

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Books by Ken Fisher and Fisher Investments Press

In November 2007, Fisher Investments and John Wiley & Sons announced the creation of Fisher Investments Press, based on the success of The Only Three Questions that Count. The new publishing imprint leverages Wiley’s proven distribution network and draws on the expertise of Fisher Investments and bestselling author Ken Fisher to provide investing education for a wide audience.

Ken’s first book under the new Fisher Investments Press brand was The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (and How You Can Too!), released on Oct. 20, 2008. It reached Dow Jones and New York Times bestseller status in just a few short weeks.

In 2009, Fisher Investments Press released How to Smell a Rat, Ken Fisher's sixth book and third New York Times bestseller.

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>>   Visit the Ten Roads to Riches official website
>>   Visit the How to Smell a Rat official website
>>   Click here for additional books published by Ken Fisher and his father, Phil Fisher

Ken Fisher’s Forbes Portfolio Strategy columns

Ken Fisher has been enlightening millions through the pages of Forbes for over 25 years. In fact, he's the fourth-longest-running columnist in Forbes ninety-plus year history, where columnists only last as long as their advice is engaging and makes sense.

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>>   Click here to access the Portfolio Strategy column archive dating back to 1997

Fisher Investments Stock Market Outlook

Each quarter, under the direction of Ken Fisher and the other members of the Investments Policy Committee, Fisher Investments publishes its Stock Market Outlook, which details the firm’s view on the current investing climate and a thorough analysis of underlying factors.

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Fisher Investments MarketMinder

Ken Fisher’s firm, Fisher Investments, also publishes a daily website called MarketMinder.com, with news and views on what moves the market. Each day, Fisher Investments research staff sifts through the financial media and brings you important news investors should pay attention to, and also highlights stories they believe are driven by hype and false information. Fisher Investments also provides commentary on important topics, providing unique perspective of key issues affecting the capital markets and economy.

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Resources from Fisher Investments

Data on economic indicators is free and published by government agencies. It can be easily accessed at some of the following locations:

  • The Federal Reserve: Interest rates, money supply, flow of funds (FederalReserve.gov)


  • Bureau of Economic Analysis: GDP, Current Account Balance (BEA.gov)


  • National Bureau of Economic Research: Official business cycles (NBER.org)


  • Bureau of Labor Statistics: CPI, consumer spending, productivity, employment (BLS.gov)


  • US Census Bureau: New home sales, housing starts, homeownership, household income, poverty, trade data: manufacturing, retail, inventories, etc. (Census.gov)


  • Office of Management and Budget: US Budget data (Whitehouse.gov/omb)


  • US Treasury (Treas.gov)


  • Department of Commerce (Commerce.gov)


  • The Conference Board (Conference-Board.gov)


  • Congressional Budget Office (CBO.gov)


Note: Government data takes longer to aggregate and finalize, much longer than market data. Data for a period can take a month to a quarter to become available. You can usually find a release calendar on the website. Even after preliminary figures have been issued, they may be revised a year later. This should not come as a shock if your historical data needs to be restated.
For these reasons we may commonly dismiss such data to have any weight in interpreting market action, particularly in hindsight. The market generally leads the economy by 6-12 months.