The son of Philip A. Fisher, Ken Fisher is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments, and widely known for his 25-year tenure at Forbes magazine, writing the Portfolio Strategy column. He is currently the fourth-longest-running columnist in Forbes 90+ year history. His company, Fisher Investments, is a multi-billion dollar money management firm serving high net worth individuals, as well as institutional investors including large corporate and public pension plans, endowments and foundations.
As of 2010, Ken Fisher has written seven books on investing and wealth accumulation, including best sellers The Only Three Questions that Count, The Ten Roads to Riches, and How to Smell a Rat. His 1984 book Super Stocks was the best selling investment book that year. His latest book, released in 2010, is Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit From It - Seeing Through Wall Street's Money-Killing Myths.
Ken Fisher's firm formed a partnership with John Wiley & Sons in 2007 to produce a series of investing books for a wide audience under the Fisher Investments Press publishing imprint. In addition, Ken Fisher's firm produces a daily financial news and commentary website called MarketMinder.
Ken Fisher has been published and/or interviewed in many major American finance or business periodical. His early 1970s theoretical work pioneered a tool known as the Price Sales Ratio, now a core part of the financial curriculum. In the 1980s his firm helped create a school of equity style management called domestic small cap value equity, now a major national category for institutional and retail investors. The firm has since branched its research and management in a wide array of style-based categories.
Ken Fisher's most recent research focuses on the emerging field of behavioralism, where he has worked with Dr. Meir Statman of Santa Clara University. Their award-winning research has appeared in professional and scholarly journals.
Ken's additional interests include the history of Kings Mountain, California and 19th century redwood lumbering history, and he has founded the Redwood Chair at his alma mater, Humboldt State California. He resides in Woodside, California with his wife, Sherrilyn. They have three adult sons.