Ken Fisher

Kenneth Lawrence Fisher is an American 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. 

• Fisher is executive chairman and co-chief investment officer of Fisher Investments, which he founded in 1979 with $250.
• The firm ended 2018 with $94 billion in assets under management.
• The author of 11 books, 6 of which are national best sellers, he now writes for USA Today, the Financial Times and several other publications.
• In the summer of 1964, a 13-year-old Fisher earned $1.20 an hour picking fruit, sawing and fertilizing in his native San Mateo County, California.
• Fisher dropped out of high school “because it was a waste of time” and headed to community college where he could “take better classes.”