Ken Fisher is best known for his prestigious Portfolio Strategy column in Forbes, where his 27-year plus tenure of high-profile calls makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in Forbes' 90+ year history.

Kenneth Fisher's stock market forecasts are among the most accurate as measured by independent 3rd party CXO Advisory Group.¹ The research firm's "Guru Grades" assesses the accuracy of publicly available forecasts of 50 experts regarding the future direction of the overall U.S. stock market.

Ken Fisher is the chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments, an independent money management firm serving large corporate and public pension plans, as well as endowments, foundations, and high net worth individuals. He founded Fisher Investments as a sole proprietorship in 1979. The firm was later incorporated in 1986 and then reorganized as Fisher Asset Management, LLC (doing business as Fisher Investments) in 2005.

Kenneth Fisher has written eight books, including four New York Times bestsellers: 2006's The Only Three Questions That Count, 2008's The Ten Roads to Riches, 2009's How to Smell a Rat, and 2010's Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit From It. His most recent book is Markets Never Forget, published by Wiley in November 2011. 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 Made the Market, both re-released by John Wiley & Sons in 2007. In addition to English, Kenneth Fisher’s books have been translated into Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, and Thai, reaching of 3/4 of global GDP.²

He has also been published, interviewed and/or been written about in numerous major American, British, and German finance and business periodicals. He also writes a weekly for Germany's Focus Money magazine, and monthly for the UK's Interactive Investor website.  Ken's early theoretical work in the 1970s popularized a tool known as the Price to Sales Ratio, which is now part of core financial curriculum. His recent research focuses on the emerging field of behavioralism and has appeared in many professional and scholarly journals such as the Journal of Portfolio Management and Financial Analysts Journal. In 2010, Ken was named one of the industry's 30 most influential people over the previous 30 years on Investment Advisor magazine's prestigious IA-30-30 list.

Ken Fisher is the third and youngest son of Philip A. Fisher, legendary investor and author of classic investing book, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, which remains in print to this day. Phil Fisher is credited with influencing a wide array of later successful and famed investors both through his teachings and writings. Phil Fisher had his own investment management practice in San Francisco where Ken worked for him in the early 1970s before starting his own firm. Ken is the only industry professional his father ever trained.

Kenneth Fisher's hobbies include the history of Kings Mountain, California (at the northern end of the Santa Cruz Mountains in the redwoods) and 19th century redwood lumbering history as well as lumbering history in general and everything about trees. Ken endowed the Ken Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology at Humboldt State University in order to support the study of coastal redwood ecology. It is the world’s first endowed chair devoted to a single tree species. Ken and his wife Sherrilyn have also endowed The Ken and Sherrilyn Fisher Journalism Center in the San Mateo Library.