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Kenneth Lawrence Fisher (born November 29, 1950) is an American investment analyst and the founder, chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, a money management firm with offices in Woodside, California, San Mateo, California, and Camas, Washington. Fisher writes a monthly column in ''Forbes'' magazine, contributes to other financial and news magazines, has written eleven books, and has written research papers in the field of behavioral finance. He is on the 2014 ''Forbes 400'' list of richest Americans and ''Forbes'' list of world billionaires, and as of 2014 is worth $2.7 billion.〔 In 2010, he was named to ''Investment Advisor'' magazine's "30 for 30" list of the 30 most influential people in the investment advisory business over the last 30 years. , Fisher’s firm manages $68 billion〔 and has been called the largest wealth manager in the United States. ==Life and work== Kenneth Fisher was born in San Francisco, California, the third and youngest son of Dorothy (née Whyte), from Arkansas, and Philip A. Fisher, an investor and author of three books, most notably ''Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits''. Fisher was raised in San Mateo, California. He went to Humboldt State University to study forestry, but graduated with a degree in economics in 1972.〔"Shaking it Up," but Vernon Felton, ''Humboldt Stater'', Fall, 2006.〕 Citing contributions to the finance world and the ongoing study of redwood ecology, Humboldt State recognized Fisher with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007. In 2015, Fisher was appointed to the Board of Advisors of The Forbes School of Business at Ashford University. Over the past few decades, Fisher has helped Fisher Investments become one of the largest independent money managers in the world. He started his firm in 1979 with just $250 and it has steadily grown into one of the premier money management firms in the world by using time-tested investment principles to grow his business and his fortune. According to an interview with Inc. Magazine, Fisher believes the pursuit of passion, not the pursuit of money, creates wealth. In 2007, Fisher and Thomas Grüner founded Grüner Fisher Investments in Germany. In 2009, Fisher received the inaugural Tiburon CEO Summit award for Challenging Conventional Wisdom. Charles Schwab received the inaugural award for Maintaining a Focus on Consumer Needs. Fisher also has a Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for published research. In 2010, ''Forbes'' published an accounting of Fisher’s stock pick performance, as made in his columns, over the previous 14 years. According to the magazine's measurements, his stock picks beat the S&P 500 overall on average, and have beaten the S&P in 11 years out of 14. In 2011, Fisher was ranked as one of the top 25 most influential figures in the financial industry by ''Investment Advisor Magazine''. Fisher has three adult sons, Nathan, Jesse and Clayton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kenneth Fisher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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