iBall interviews Ken Fisher
February 15th, 2008Ken Fisher is a second generation wealth manager and investor who is the founder, chairman and CEO of Fisher Investments.
He is quite good at it too. Personally worth around $1.3bn - which puts him half way up the Forbes 400 - he has around $46bn under management.
An established author and commentator with a great deal to say - he has written for Forbes for almost a quarter of a century - iBall was delighted to get a rare invitation to meet him. And we weren’t disappointed.
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6 Responses to “iBall interviews Ken Fisher”
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recep ivedik Says:
February 17th, 2008 at 4:27 pmspecial thanx.
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john Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 9:09 pmneed more interviews with savvy investors. well done
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Duncan Edwards Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 10:11 amInteresting, so much negativity about elsewhere. So is he saying buy megacaps and emerging markets for next leg of bull market?
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investor remorse Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 5:05 amWhat a crock. This guy has lost so much money for people both here in the UK and the UK, it’s not funny. He doesn’t buy bonds, he doesn’t go into cash, he just stays 100% invested in equity, whether or not his clients lose their shirt. He likes older clients with high net worth, and requires them to cash in their long term held investments, thereby incurring capital gains taxes for his clients, then buys at the high, only to see these investments crash and burn right at the time when elderly people are getting ready to retire. As we all know the megacaps and emerging markets and basically every stock has been trashed. Ken put his clients into all the bank stocks in early 2007…and we all know what happened to them. He says in his book “The Only Three Questions That Count”, that “you need to know something other people don’t know”, but the truth was he really didn’t know anything. He was a raging bull for the past three years, promoting stock in his Forbes column…..now he’s having to eat crow and all his investors are lining up at soup kitchens. And for what it’s worth he no longer has $46billion under management. Last we heard, it was $21b, and he was laying off staff. Ah well, the rich keep getting richer and their clients keep getting poorer, that the way of the world with “Investment Advisors”.
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investor remorse Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 5:12 amThanks for leaving the February, 2008 essay by Ken Fisher on your website…this gem was at the end of his dissertation. Yes Ken, AIG it was “definitely a good one for 2008″!!!!!!
Giant America-based insurer AIG is lower than it was one, three, five or even eight years ago - back when it sold for 40 times earnings. Now it is just 8 times earnings and 1.2 times annual revenue. But with an exceptionally strong presence in insurance and broader finance and slow but steady growth, this should be a good one for 2008.
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sam sunset Says:
November 30th, 2008 at 8:51 pmIf anyone is interested in, or making headway with, a class action suit, please advise. samsunset@gmail.com
Heavens! A crunch has become chaos and carnage and the market only seems to go one way –meltdown. Perhaps, it is not the best time in the world to be cheerfully giving investment ideas, given it’s so difficult to pick anything out of all of this mess. Just look at our portfolio.
