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'''Kenneth Lawrence Fisher''' (born November 29, 1950) is an American [[billionaire]] investment analyst and the founder and chairman of [[Fisher Investments]], a fee-only [[financial adviser]]. Fisher's ''[[Forbes]]'' "Portfolio Strategy" column ran from 1984 to 2017, making him the longest continuously-running columnist in the magazine's history.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenfisher/2016/09/14/my-best-advice-32-years-in-the-making/|title=My Best Advice - 32 Years in the Making|last=Fisher|first=Ken|date=September 14, 2016|website=forbes.com|publisher=Forbes|access-date=}}</ref> Fisher has authored eleven books on investing, and research papers in the field of [[behavioral finance]]. He is on the ''[[Forbes 400]]'' list of richest Americans<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/12/#version:static|title=The Richest People in America List - Forbes|date=21 November 2014|publisher=Forbes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141121235527/http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/list/6/|archivedate=21 November 2014|url-status=|accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref> and as of 2020 is worth $4.3 billion.<ref name="Forbes profile: Ken Fisher"/> In 2010, he was named to ''Investment Advisor'' magazine's "30 for 30" list of the 30 most influential people in the [[investment advisory]] business over the last 30 years.<ref>{{cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title =Thirty for Thirty | newspaper =Think Advisor | location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =1 May 2000 | url = http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2010/05/01/thirty-for-thirty | accessdate =20 January 2014 }}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, Fisher's firm manages $100 billion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fisherinvestments.com/about/company-info/aum|title=Company information|last=|first=|date=September 30, 2016|website=fisherinvestments.com|publisher=|access-date=November 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Green|first=James|title=Doing it Right|url=http://www.advisorone.com/2007/06/01/doing-it-right|publisher=Advisorone|accessdate=30 November 2011}}</ref>
'''Kenneth Lawrence Fisher''' (born November 29, 1950) is an American [[billionaire]] investment analyst and the founder and chairman of [[Fisher Investments]], a fee-only [[financial adviser]]. Fisher's ''[[Forbes]]'' "Portfolio Strategy" column ran from 1984 to 2017, making him the longest continuously-running columnist in the magazine's history.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenfisher/2016/09/14/my-best-advice-32-years-in-the-making/|title=My Best Advice - 32 Years in the Making|last=Fisher|first=Ken|date=September 14, 2016|website=forbes.com|publisher=Forbes|access-date=}}</ref> Fisher has eleven books on investing, and research papers in the field of [[behavioral finance]]. He is on the ''[[Forbes 400]]'' list of richest Americans<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/12/#version:static|title=The Richest People in America List - Forbes|date=21 November 2014|publisher=Forbes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141121235527/http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/list/6/|archivedate=21 November 2014|url-status=|accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref> and as of 2020 is worth $4.3 billion.<ref name="Forbes profile: Ken Fisher"/> In 2010, he was named to ''Investment Advisor'' magazine's "30 for 30" list of the 30 most influential people in the [[investment advisory]] business over the last 30 years.<ref>{{cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title =Thirty for Thirty | newspaper =Think Advisor | location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =1 May 2000 | url = http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2010/05/01/thirty-for-thirty | accessdate =20 January 2014 }}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, Fisher's firm manages $100 billion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fisherinvestments.com/about/company-info/aum|title=Company information|last=|first=|date=September 30, 2016|website=fisherinvestments.com|publisher=|access-date=November 16, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Green|first=James|title=Doing it Right|url=http://www.advisorone.com/2007/06/01/doing-it-right|publisher=Advisorone|accessdate=30 November 2011}}</ref>


==Life and work==
==Life and work==
Kenneth Fisher was born in San Francisco, California, the third and youngest son of Dorothy (née Whyte), from [[Arkansas]], and influential stock investor [[Philip Arthur Fisher|Philip A. Fisher]]. Fisher was raised in [[San Mateo, California]]. He went to [[Humboldt State University]] to study forestry, but graduated with a degree in economics in 1972.<ref>"Shaking it Up," but Vernon Felton, ''Humboldt Stater'', Fall, 2006.</ref> Humboldt State recognized Fisher with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://now.humboldt.edu/news/distinguished-alumni-hailed-honored/|title=Distinguished Alumni Hailed, Honored|last=|first=|date=|publisher=|location=|pages=|language=|coauthors=|newspaper=Humboldt State University|accessdate=30 April 2007}}</ref> In 2015, Fisher was appointed to the board of advisors of the Forbes School of Business at [[Ashford University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ashford.edu/about/media-room/press-releases/forbes-school-of-business-at-ashford-university-appoints-eight-members-to-its-board-of-advisors|title=Forbes School of Business at Ashford University Appoints Eight Members to Its Board of Advisors|last=|first=|date=|website=Forbes School of Business|accessdate=2015-08-28}}</ref>
Kenneth Fisher was born in San Francisco, California, the third and youngest son influential stock investor [[Philip Arthur Fisher|Philip A. Fisher]]. Fisher was in [[San Mateo, California]]. He went to [[Humboldt State University]] to study forestry graduated with a degree in economics in 1972.<ref>"Shaking it Up," but Vernon Felton, ''Humboldt Stater'', Fall, 2006.</ref> Humboldt State recognized Fisher with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://now.humboldt.edu/news/distinguished-alumni-hailed-honored/|title=Distinguished Alumni Hailed, Honored|last=|first=|date=|publisher=|location=|pages=|language=|coauthors=|newspaper=Humboldt State University|accessdate=30 April 2007}}</ref> In 2015, Fisher was appointed to the board of advisors of the Forbes School of Business at [[Ashford University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ashford.edu/about/media-room/press-releases/forbes-school-of-business-at-ashford-university-appoints-eight-members-to-its-board-of-advisors|title=Forbes School of Business at Ashford University Appoints Eight Members to Its Board of Advisors|last=|first=|date=|website=Forbes School of Business|accessdate=2015-08-28}}</ref>


Over the past few decades, Fisher has helped Fisher Investments become one of the largest independent money managers in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|title = The P&I/Towers Watson World 500: World's largest money managers|url = http://www.pionline.com/article/20141110/INTERACTIVE/141109944/the-pampitowers-watson-world-500-worlds-largest-money-managers|accessdate = 2015-08-05|date = 2014-11-10}}</ref> He started his firm in 1979 with $250 and it has grown to over $100 billion in assets under management.<ref>{{Cite web|title = 3 Things to Learn from Ken Fisher's Net Worth -- The Motley Fool|url = http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/06/19/3-things-to-learn-from-ken-fishers-net-worth.aspx|accessdate = 2015-08-05|first = Matthew|last = Frankel|website = Fool.com|date = 2015-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://riabiz.com/a/2019/2/14/ken-fisher-hits-a-milestone-of-100-billion-of-aum-and-1-billion-of-revenues-but-faces-a-new-challenge-how-to-grow-a-mature-firm-with-competitors-yapping-at-your-heels|title=Ken Fisher hits a milestone of $100 billion of AUM and $1 billion of revenues but faces a new challenge: How to grow a mature firm with competitors yapping at his heels|work=RIABiz|access-date=2019-06-30}}</ref>
Over the past few decades, Fisher has helped Fisher Investments become one of the largest independent money managers in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|title = The P&I/Towers Watson World 500: World's largest money managers|url = http://www.pionline.com/article/20141110/INTERACTIVE/141109944/the-pampitowers-watson-world-500-worlds-largest-money-managers|accessdate = 2015-08-05|date = 2014-11-10}}</ref> He started his firm in 1979 with $250 and it has grown to over $100 billion in assets under management.<ref>{{Cite web|title = 3 Things to Learn from Ken Fisher's Net Worth -- The Motley Fool|url = http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/06/19/3-things-to-learn-from-ken-fishers-net-worth.aspx|accessdate = 2015-08-05|first = Matthew|last = Frankel|website = Fool.com|date = 2015-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://riabiz.com/a/2019/2/14/ken-fisher-hits-a-milestone-of-100-billion-of-aum-and-1-billion-of-revenues-but-faces-a-new-challenge-how-to-grow-a-mature-firm-with-competitors-yapping-at-your-heels|title=Ken Fisher hits a milestone of $100 billion of AUM and $1 billion of revenues but faces a new challenge: How to grow a mature firm with competitors yapping at his heels|work=RIABiz|access-date=2019-06-30}}</ref>


In 2007, Fisher and Thomas Grüner founded Grüner Fisher Investments in Germany.<ref>{{cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title =OTS: Gruner Fisher Investments / Gruner Fisher Investments verhalten| newspaper =Finanzen | location = | pages = | language =German | publisher = | date =5 August 2013 | url =http://www.finanzen.net/nachricht/aktien/OTS-Gruener-Fisher-Investments-Gruener-Fisher-Investments-verhalten-2585199 | accessdate =20 January 2014 }}</ref> In 2009, Fisher received the inaugural Tiburon CEO Summit award for Challenging Conventional Wisdom. Fisher also has a Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for his research on market forecasting, which he published in 2000 with Meir Statman of Santa Clara University.<ref>{{cite book | last =Anderson | first =Aaron | authorlink = | title =The Making of a Market Guru: Forbes Presents 25 Years of Ken Fisher | publisher =John Wiley & Sons | series = | volume = | edition = | date =2010 | location = | pages = | language = | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=CxDcqP72SxMC&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=Bernstein+Fabozzi+Jacobs+Levy+Award+ken+fisher&source=bl&ots=2pJWSEdknp&sig=6MJHXtb_dPelcv2-S5qxqbkwzNQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ed7dUqCiJIjMsQTP4oDABA&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Bernstein%20Fabozzi%20Jacobs%20Levy%20Award%20ken%20fisher&f=false | doi = | id = | isbn =9780470285428 | mr = | zbl = | jfm = }}</ref>
In 2007, Fisher and Thomas Grüner founded Grüner Fisher Investments in Germany.<ref>{{cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title =OTS: Gruner Fisher Investments / Gruner Fisher Investments verhalten| newspaper =Finanzen | location = | pages = | language =German | publisher = | date =5 August 2013 | url =http://www.finanzen.net/nachricht/aktien/OTS-Gruener-Fisher-Investments-Gruener-Fisher-Investments-verhalten-2585199 | accessdate =20 January 2014 }}</ref>

In 2011, Fisher was ranked as one of the top 25 most influential figures in the financial industry by ''Investment Advisor Magazine''.<ref>{{cite news | last =McBride | first =Kathleen | coauthors = | title =Ken Fisher, Fisher Investments: The Extended 2011 IA 25 Profile| newspaper =Think Advisor | location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =4 May 2011 | url =http://www.advisorone.com/2011/05/04/ken-fisher-fisher-investments-the-extended-2011-ia | accessdate =20 January 2014 }}</ref>

Fisher has three adult sons, Nathan, Jesse and Clayton.<ref>{{cite book | last =Fisher | first =Kenneth L. | authorlink = | title =The Wall Street Waltz | publisher =John Wiley & Sons | series = | volume = | edition = | date =2008 | location = | pages = | language = | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=ChC3Y0rn7zMC&pg=PR13&lpg=PR13&dq=%22kenneth+l.+fisher%22++sherrilyn++sons&source=bl&ots=au9yrqfbBS&sig=GpkkcoN925-hG7GxR8miH4OOoUw&hl=en&ei=ctExTaKjAo_egQe5yK2RCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false | doi = | id = | isbn =9780470267967 | mr = | zbl = | jfm = }}</ref> Nathan Fisher is the senior executive vice president of Fisher Investments 401(k) Solutions.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Iacurci |first1=Greg |title=Fisher Investments growing fast in 401(k) market |url=http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20180403/FREE/180409983/fisher-investments-growing-fast-in-401-k-market |accessdate=2 September 2018 |publisher=Crain Communications |date=3 April 2018}}</ref>


==Investment research and philosophy==
==Investment research and philosophy==
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According to ''The Guru Investor'' by [[John P. Reese]] and Jack M. Forehand, in the late 1990s, Fisher defined his investment philosophy after studying the stock returns and [[Price–earnings ratio|P/E Ratios]] between January 1976 and June 1995 of six investment categories: big-cap value, midcap value, small-cap value, big-cap growth, midcap growth, and small-cap growth.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies|last1=Reese|first1=John P.|last2=Forehand|first2=Jack M.|date=2009}}</ref>
According to ''The Guru Investor'' by [[John P. Reese]] and Jack M. Forehand, in the late 1990s, Fisher defined his investment philosophy after studying the stock returns and [[Price–earnings ratio|P/E Ratios]] between January 1976 and June 1995 of six investment categories: big-cap value, midcap value, small-cap value, big-cap growth, midcap growth, and small-cap growth.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies|last1=Reese|first1=John P.|last2=Forehand|first2=Jack M.|date=2009}}</ref>

[[Value investing|Small-cap value]] was not defined as an investing category until the late 1980s. Fisher Investments was among the institutional money managers offering small-cap value investing to clients in the late 1980s.<ref>{{cite news | last =Munk | first =Chelyl Winokur | coauthors = | title =The Heretic | newspaper =Wealth Management | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =1 November 2006 | url =http://wealthmanagement.com/money-managers/heretic | accessdate =20 January 2014 }}</ref>


==Books and other authorship==
==Books and other authorship==
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Fisher has authored eleven investing books: ''Super Stocks'' (1984), ''The Wall Street Waltz'' (1987), ''100 Minds that Made the Market'' (1993), ''The Only Three Questions That Count'' (2006), ''The Ten Roads to Riches'' (2008), ''How To Smell A Rat'' (2009), ''Debunkery'' (2010), ''Markets Never Forget'' (2011), ''Plan Your Prosperity'' (2012), ''The Little Book of Market Myths'' (2013), and ''Beat The Crowd'' (2015). ''The Only Three Questions That Still Count,'' ''The Ten Roads to Riches'', ''How to Smell a Rat'', and ''Debunkery'' were all [[The New York Times Best Seller list|New York Times bestsellers]].{{cn|date=October 2019}}
Fisher has authored eleven investing books: ''Super Stocks'' (1984), ''The Wall Street Waltz'' (1987), ''100 Minds that Made the Market'' (1993), ''The Only Three Questions That Count'' (2006), ''The Ten Roads to Riches'' (2008), ''How To Smell A Rat'' (2009), ''Debunkery'' (2010), ''Markets Never Forget'' (2011), ''Plan Your Prosperity'' (2012), ''The Little Book of Market Myths'' (2013), and ''Beat The Crowd'' (2015). ''The Only Three Questions That Still Count,'' ''The Ten Roads to Riches'', ''How to Smell a Rat'', and ''Debunkery'' were all [[The New York Times Best Seller list|New York Times bestsellers]].{{cn|date=October 2019}}


In 2015, Fisher released ''Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = Beat the Crowd {{!}} By Ken Fisher|url = http://www.beat-the-crowd.com/|website = beat-the-crowd.com|accessdate = 2015-08-05}}</ref> In an interview with CNN Money, Fisher discusses how media hype around major economic events have already been priced into stock markets globally, and why investors are better served worrying about factors the market is ignoring.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Billionaire investor Ken Fisher's advice|url = http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/22/investing/billionaire-ken-fisher-beat-the-crowd/index.html|website = CNNMoney|accessdate = 2015-08-05|first = Patrick|last = Gillespie|date = 2015-04-22}}</ref> Fisher released the Second Edition of ''The Only Three Questions That Count'' in April 2012, and the Second Edition of ''The Ten Roads to Riches'' in April 2017.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}
In 2015, Fisher released ''Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = Beat the Crowd {{!}} By Ken Fisher|url = http://www.beat-the-crowd.com/|website = beat-the-crowd.com|accessdate = 2015-08-05}}</ref> In an interview with CNN Money, Fisher media hype around major economic events already been priced into stock markets globally, and investors are better served worrying about factors the market is ignoring.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Billionaire investor Ken Fisher's advice|url = http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/22/investing/billionaire-ken-fisher-beat-the-crowd/index.html|website = CNNMoney|accessdate = 2015-08-05|first = Patrick|last = Gillespie|date = 2015-04-22}}</ref> Fisher released the Second Edition of ''The Only Three Questions That Count'' in April 2012, and the Second Edition of ''The Ten Roads to Riches'' in April 2017.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}


==Fisher Investments==
==Fisher Investments==


Fisher is founder and chairman of Fisher Investments, an independent [[Money management|money management firm]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/jun/21/fisher-heralds-the-singularity/|title=Fisher Investments CEO heralds the singularity|last=Corvin|first=Aaron|date=21 June 2012|publisher=|newspaper=The Columbian|location=|pages=|language=|coauthors=|accessdate=20 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite video|people=Margaret Brennan & Ken Fisher|title=Fisher Investments Ken Fisher Interview Expert|medium=Television|publisher=Bloomberg Television|location=|date=7 September 2010|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/video/62716522-fisher-investments-ken-fisher-interview-excerpt.html}}</ref> He founded the firm in 1979, incorporated in 1986,<ref>{{cite web | title = Fisher Investments - CrunchBase | publisher = AOL Inc. | url = https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fisher-investments | accessdate = 2 March 2015}}</ref> then served as CEO until July 2016, when he was succeeded by long-time Fisher Investments employee Damian Ornani. Fisher remains active as the firm's executive chairman and co-chief investment officer.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20160322/FREE/160329987/fisher-investments-names-damian-ornani-ceo-as-ken-fisher|title=Fisher Investments names Damian Ornani CEO as Ken Fisher relinquishes role|last=|first=|date=March 22, 2016|website=|publisher=Investment News|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>
Fisher is founder and chairman of Fisher Investments, [[Money management|money management firm]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/jun/21/fisher-heralds-the-singularity/|title=Fisher Investments CEO heralds the singularity|last=Corvin|first=Aaron|date=21 June 2012|publisher=|newspaper=The Columbian|location=|pages=|language=|coauthors=|accessdate=20 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite video|people=Margaret Brennan & Ken Fisher|title=Fisher Investments Ken Fisher Interview Expert|medium=Television|publisher=Bloomberg Television|location=|date=7 September 2010|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/video/62716522-fisher-investments-ken-fisher-interview-excerpt.html}}</ref> He founded the firm in 1979, incorporated in 1986,<ref>{{cite web | title = Fisher Investments - CrunchBase | publisher = AOL Inc. | url = https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fisher-investments | accessdate = 2 March 2015}}</ref> then served as CEO until July 2016, when he was succeeded by long-time Fisher Investments employee Damian Ornani. Fisher remains as the firm's executive chairman and co-chief investment officer.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20160322/FREE/160329987/fisher-investments-names-damian-ornani-ceo-as-ken-fisher|title=Fisher Investments names Damian Ornani CEO as Ken Fisher relinquishes role|last=|first=|date=March 22, 2016|website=|publisher=Investment News|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>

==Interests ==
Fisher's ongoing study of [[Coast redwood|redwood]] ecology, particularly the emerging field of study of redwood canopies, grew from his childhood in San Mateo, California, near ancient redwood logging camps.<ref name="almanacnews.com">{{cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title =Ken Fisher: a passion for local history | newspaper =The Almanac | location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =29 October 2003 | url =http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2003/2003_10_29.fishb.html | accessdate =23 February 2014 }}</ref> Fisher's personal library contains more than 3000 volumes of regional logging history.<ref name="newswise.com">{{cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title =Ken Fisher Chair to Take Redwood Ecology to New Heights | newspaper =Newswise| location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =3 February 2006 | url =http://www.newswise.com/articles/ken-fisher-chair-to-take-redwood-ecology-to-new-heights | accessdate =23 February 2014 }}</ref>

In 2006, Fisher gave $3.5&nbsp;million to endow the Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology at Humboldt State.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.calstate.edu/impact/campus/humboldt.html|title=Humboldt State University|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=CalState.edu|accessdate=7 March 2016}}</ref> The gift supports redwood ecology research in perpetuity and provides support for graduate students, laboratories, and field equipment; the research has focused particularly on canopy studies.<ref name="humboldt.edu">{{cite web|title=The Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology |publisher=Humboldt State University |url=http://www.humboldt.edu/redwoods/chair/ |accessdate=23 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106163333/http://www.humboldt.edu/redwoods/chair/ |archivedate= 6 November 2013 }}</ref> Fisher's goal in creating the chair was to transform our understanding of trees and forests.<ref name="humboldt.edu"/>

In 2012, Fisher and his wife gave $7.5 million to [[Johns Hopkins University]] to fund the new Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases. After much deliberation, Fishers donation was approved. <ref>{{cite news |title=Ken and Sherrilyn Fisher - Wall Street Donors Guide |url=https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/wall-street-donors/ken-and-sherrilyn-fisher |accessdate=22 March 2019 |publisher=[[Inside Philanthropy]]}}</ref>


==Controversy==
==Controversy==

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Kenneth Fisher
File:Ken Fisher.jpg
Fisher c. 2014
Born
Kenneth Lawrence Fisher

(1950-11-29) November 29, 1950 (age 73)[1]
San Francisco, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHumboldt State University
Occupation(s)Founder and chairman of Fisher Investments
SpouseMarried
Children3
RelativesPhilip A. Fisher (father)
Websitewww.fisherinvestments.com

Kenneth Lawrence Fisher (born November 29, 1950) is an American billionaire investment analyst and the founder and chairman of Fisher Investments, a fee-only financial adviser. Fisher's Forbes "Portfolio Strategy" column ran from 1984 to 2017, making him the longest continuously-running columnist in the magazine's history.[3] Fisher has published eleven books on investing, and research papers in the field of behavioral finance. He is on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans[4] and as of 2020 is worth $4.3 billion.[2] In 2010, he was named to Investment Advisor magazine's "30 for 30" list of the 30 most influential people in the investment advisory business over the last 30 years.[5] As of 2018, Fisher's firm manages $100 billion.[6][7]

Life and work

Kenneth Fisher was born in San Francisco, California, the third and youngest son influential stock investor Philip A. Fisher. Fisher was reared in San Mateo, California. He went to Humboldt State University to study forestry and graduated with a degree in economics in 1972.[8] Humboldt State recognized Fisher with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007.[9] In 2015, Fisher was appointed to the board of advisors of the Forbes School of Business at Ashford University.[10]

Over the past few decades, Fisher has helped Fisher Investments become one of the largest independent money managers in the world.[11] He started his firm in 1979 with $250 and it has grown to over $100 billion in assets under management.[12][13]

In 2007, Fisher and Thomas Grüner founded Grüner Fisher Investments in Germany.[14]

Investment research and philosophy

Fisher's theoretical work identifying and testing the price-to-sales ratio (PSR) is detailed in his 1984 Dow Jones book, Super Stocks. James O'Shaughnessy credits Fisher with being the first to define and use the PSR as a forecasting tool.[15] In Fisher's 2006 book, The Only Three Questions That Count, he states that the PSR is widely used and known, and no longer as useful as an indicator for undervalued stocks.[16] However, the PSR is still frequently included as required curriculum for the Chartered Financial Analyst exam and has allowed Fisher to avoid significant portions of several bear markets over his career.[17]

According to The Guru Investor by John P. Reese and Jack M. Forehand, in the late 1990s, Fisher defined his investment philosophy after studying the stock returns and P/E Ratios between January 1976 and June 1995 of six investment categories: big-cap value, midcap value, small-cap value, big-cap growth, midcap growth, and small-cap growth.[18]

Books and other authorship

Fisher has authored eleven investing books: Super Stocks (1984), The Wall Street Waltz (1987), 100 Minds that Made the Market (1993), The Only Three Questions That Count (2006), The Ten Roads to Riches (2008), How To Smell A Rat (2009), Debunkery (2010), Markets Never Forget (2011), Plan Your Prosperity (2012), The Little Book of Market Myths (2013), and Beat The Crowd (2015). The Only Three Questions That Still Count, The Ten Roads to Riches, How to Smell a Rat, and Debunkery were all New York Times bestsellers.[citation needed]

In 2015, Fisher released Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently.[19] In an interview with CNN Money, Fisher contends that media hype around major economic events has already been priced into stock markets globally, and that investors are better served worrying about factors the market is ignoring.[20] Fisher released the Second Edition of The Only Three Questions That Count in April 2012, and the Second Edition of The Ten Roads to Riches in April 2017.[citation needed]

Fisher Investments

Fisher is founder and chairman of Fisher Investments, a money management firm.[21][22] He founded the firm in 1979, incorporated in 1986,[23] then served as CEO until July 2016, when he was succeeded by long-time Fisher Investments employee Damian Ornani. Fisher remains as the firm's executive chairman and co-chief investment officer.[24]

Controversy

In October 2019 Fisher came under criticism for crude sexual references he made during a fireside chat at a conference sponsored by Tiburon Security Advisors.[25][26] Fisher in his defense said his comments were misinterpreted and that he used references to genitalia and women to show how the art of wooing clients is similar to seduction.[27] On October 11, it was announced that in response to Fisher's sexually explicit and inappropriate comments, the state of Michigan has withdrawn its pension fund of $600 million dollars from Fisher Investments.[28] On October 16, 2019, the city of Boston pulled their $248 million in pension fund money from Fisher Investments and terminated their relationship due to Fisher's off-color comments.[29]

Other repercussions followed. Fidelity announced it was reviewing the $500 million in assets that it has Fisher’s organization manage, and Philadelphia's board of pensions terminated its relationship with Fisher. Within weeks of the incident Fisher Investments lost more than $2.7 billion as several institutional clients, including government pensions, severed their relationship with the firm. [30] The firm Fisher founded is taking action as well. Fisher Investments Chief Executive Damian Ornani wrote a memo to employees stating: “Ken’s comments were wrong.” He said the firm is taking steps to address diversity and inclusion within the organization itself.[31] Reporting from Bloomberg L.P. contended that this behavior was commonplace at Fisher Investments and that Fisher himself had made derogatory remarks a number of times before.[32]

Works

  • Super Stocks by Kenneth L. Fisher. McGraw-Hill. 1990.

References

  1. ^ "The World's Billionaires: #764 Ken Fisher". Forbes.
  2. ^ a b "Forbes profile: Ken Fisher". forbes.com. Forbes. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  3. ^ Fisher, Ken (September 14, 2016). "My Best Advice - 32 Years in the Making". forbes.com. Forbes.
  4. ^ "The Richest People in America List - Forbes". Forbes. 21 November 2014. Archived from the original on 21 November 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  5. ^ "Thirty for Thirty". Think Advisor. 1 May 2000. Retrieved 20 January 2014. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  6. ^ "Company information". fisherinvestments.com. September 30, 2016. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
  7. ^ Green, James. "Doing it Right". Advisorone. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
  8. ^ "Shaking it Up," but Vernon Felton, Humboldt Stater, Fall, 2006.
  9. ^ "Distinguished Alumni Hailed, Honored". Humboldt State University. Retrieved 30 April 2007. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  10. ^ "Forbes School of Business at Ashford University Appoints Eight Members to Its Board of Advisors". Forbes School of Business. Retrieved 2015-08-28.
  11. ^ "The P&I/Towers Watson World 500: World's largest money managers". 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2015-08-05.
  12. ^ Frankel, Matthew (2015-06-19). "3 Things to Learn from Ken Fisher's Net Worth -- The Motley Fool". Fool.com. Retrieved 2015-08-05.
  13. ^ "Ken Fisher hits a milestone of $100 billion of AUM and $1 billion of revenues but faces a new challenge: How to grow a mature firm with competitors yapping at his heels". RIABiz. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  14. ^ "OTS: Gruner Fisher Investments / Gruner Fisher Investments verhalten". Finanzen (in German). 5 August 2013. Retrieved 20 January 2014. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  15. ^ O'Shaughnessy, James (2005). What Works On Wallstreet. McGraw Hill Professional. ISBN 9780071452250.
  16. ^ Fisher, Kenneth L. (2012). The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-470-07499-X.
  17. ^ http://www.cfapubs.org/ CFA Institute publications website
  18. ^ Reese, John P.; Forehand, Jack M. (2009). The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies.
  19. ^ "Beat the Crowd | By Ken Fisher". beat-the-crowd.com. Retrieved 2015-08-05.
  20. ^ Gillespie, Patrick (2015-04-22). "Billionaire investor Ken Fisher's advice". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2015-08-05.
  21. ^ Corvin, Aaron (21 June 2012). "Fisher Investments CEO heralds the singularity". The Columbian. Retrieved 20 January 2014. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  22. ^ Margaret Brennan & Ken Fisher (7 September 2010). Fisher Investments Ken Fisher Interview Expert (Television). Bloomberg Television.
  23. ^ "Fisher Investments - CrunchBase". AOL Inc. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  24. ^ "Fisher Investments names Damian Ornani CEO as Ken Fisher relinquishes role". Investment News. March 22, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
  25. ^ Forbes, "Billionaire Ken Fisher Blasted Online After Offensive Comments At Closed-Door Fireside Chat", 9 Oct 2019 [1]
  26. ^ Huffington Post, "CEO Calls Out Billionaire Ken Fisher’s Remarks About Jeffrey Epstein, Genitalia" Oct 9, 2019 [2]
  27. ^ Los Angeles Times, "Billionaire Ken Fisher’s sexual comments offend at conference" Oct 9, 2019 [3]
  28. ^ Washington Post, "Investment Firm whose Chairman made crude comments at summit loses $600 million in assets," 11 October 2019 [4]
  29. ^ Leung, Shirley (2019-10-16). "City pulls $248m in pension money from firm after CEO's off-color comments on women". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  30. ^ CBS, "Goldman Sachs is latest firm to pull money from Fisher Investments, total is now $2.7 billion," Oct, 24, 2019 [5]
  31. ^ CNBC "Fidelity criticizes money manager Ken Fisher, who loses Philadelphia as a client", October 16, 2019 [6] Accessed October 17, 2019
  32. ^ Willmer, Sabrina. "Inside Ken Fisher's Private Kingdom, Where Hardball Culture Reels in Billions". www.bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. Retrieved 21 October 2019.

Further reading

  • "Never Enough Fisher", by Anthony W. Haddad and Jonathan Bernard. Equities. September 2007.
  • "Uber-Fisher", by Anthony W. Haddad and Jonathan Bernard. Equities. May 2008.

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