Ken Fisher
Ken Fisher is the founder of Fisher Investments, an independent fee-only money management firm serving both institutional and high net worth individuals across the US, UK, and Canada.
Ken Fisher is the author of eleven books, which include four New York Times bestsellers: 2010's Debunkery, 2009's How to Smell a Rat, 2008's The Ten Roads to Riches, and 2006's The Only Three Questions That Count. In 1984, his Super Stocks was that year's best-selling stock market book. Others include 1987's The Wall Street Waltz and 1993's 100 Minds That Made the Market, both re-released in 2007 by John Wiley & Sons. Some of these books have been translated into German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Romanian, and Thai.
Additionally, his prestigious Forbes "Portfolio Strategy" column ran from 1984 to 2017, making Ken the longest continuously running columnist in the magazine’s history. Ken has also been published and/or featured in many finance and business periodicals in the US, UK, and Germany. He was recently named by Investment Advisor magazine as one of the industry's 30 most influential people over the last 30 years in its IA-30-30 list.
Aaron Anderson
Aaron Anderson has been with Fisher Investments since 2005 and is a member of the IPC. Aaron the Sr. Vice President of Research and oversees global macroeconomic and capital markets research at the firm. He has been a guest lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written two books, including Own the World: How Smart Investors Create Global Portfolios. He has also served as a Capital Markets Research Analyst, Innovation Manager, and contributing editor of MarketMinder.com. Prior to joining Fisher Investments, Aaron worked at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown as an Assistant Vice President. He holds BS degrees in Geophysics from the University of California and Applied Economics from the University of San Francisco.
Michael Hanson
Michael J. Hanson is an experienced research analyst, author, and lecturer. He is currently a Research Group Manager at Fisher Investments, where he's worked since 2002. Prior to joining Fisher Investments, he worked at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. as a Corporate Finance Analyst in its Global Technology Group. Michael is the author of five books, including 20/20 Money in 2009 from Fisher Investments Press/Wiley Publishing. He speaks regularly around the country on a variety of topics ranging from economics to psychology and has been a lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught topics in investment management over the past three years. He completed his undergraduate degree in Economics at Claremont McKenna College, holds a doctorate degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute in the field of Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Psychology.
Philip Fisher
Philip Fisher was born in San Francisco in 1907 and, after dropping out of the newly established Stanford Graduate investment program, began his career in 1928 as a securities analyst for the Anglo-London Bank in San Francisco. After four years, Philip Fisher founded Fisher & Co., an investment counseling firm he managed until retirement at age 91 in 1999.
Philip Fisher is considered one of the first "investment philosophers" to focus almost exclusively on qualitative and growth factors. He was first to contribute an analytical framework to evaluate a growth stock and its growth potential rather than relying on price trends and absolute value. Not surprisingly, he is regarded to this day as one of the early seminal thinkers in the evolution of growth stock investing.
Philip Fisher is the author of three books, including New York Times best-selling Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Conservative Investors Sleep Well, and Developing an Investment Philosophy.
Philip Fisher passed away at the age of 96 in March 2004, in San Mateo, California.