About Ken Fisher, Fisher Investments Founder & CEO

Ken Fisher oversees all aspects of our multi-billion dollar global investment firm, Fisher Investments. His "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes magazine has appeared monthly for 27+ years - making Ken Fisher the fourth-longest-running columnist in the magazine's 90-year history. He has also written eight books, including four New York Times bestsellers: 2010's Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit From It, 2009's How to Smell a Rat, 2008's The 10 Roads to Riches, and 2006's The Only Three Questions that Count, as well as numerous articles and research papers. Ken Fisher is a leading market forecaster among his peers as measured by independent 3rd party CXO Advisory Group.¹ The research firm's "Guru Grades" assesses the accuracy of publicly available U.S. stock market forecasts by prominent market commentators. 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, renowned investor and author of the classic investing book, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, which remains in print and relevant to this day. Phil Fisher had his own investment management practice in San Francisco. He is credited with influencing a wide array of later successful professionals and prominent investors, both through his teachings and his writings. Ken is the only industry professional his father ever professionally trained.

Ken now lives in Woodside, California on top of Kings Mountain with his wife Sherrilyn. They have three adult sons.

Ken Fisher currently ranks among America's wealthiest on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.