Ken Fisher was born November 29, 1950 in San Francisco, California. Fisher is best known for his prestigious Portfolio Strategy column in Forbes magazine, where his twenty-five-year tenure of high-profile calls makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in Forbes 90-plus-year history. Ken is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, an independent global money management firm. He is on Investment Advisor magazine's prestigious IA-25 list of the industry's most influential people; is the award-winning author of numerous scholarly articles; and has published books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Only Three Questions That Count, The Ten Roads to Riches and Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently - all of which are published by Wiley. Fisher has been published, interviewed, and/or appeared in most major American, British, and German finance or business periodicals. He has a weekly column in Focus Money, Germany's leading weekly finance magazine.