The Making of a Market Guru: Forbes Presents 25 Years of Ken Fisher

ISBN-13: 9780470285428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 504 str.

Aaron Anderson

Opis

Ken Fisher is founder and CEO of Fisher Investments, an independent money management firm managing over $35 billion (as of Dec. 31/09) for individuals and institutions. And, Fisher has written the monthly "Portfolio Strategy" column for Forbes magazine for the last twenty-five years--since 1984--making him, so far, the fourth longest-running columnist in the magazine's history. During this time, he's seen everything from the stock market crash of 1987 and the great bull markets of the 1980s and 1990s to the Tech bubble of 2000 and the global market meltdown of 2008. Now, with The Making of a Market Guru, you'll gain an insightful look at Fisher's prolific career over the years and discover the high-profile market calls he's made so far in these monthly columns. At times engaging and timely, at others revealing and informative, this book is a sweeping look at a recent and eventful slice of stock market history. You'll read about what's changed, but you'll be more amazed by what hasn't. And you'll see investing wisdom that still applies, now and for the foreseeable future, from a quarter-century of Fisher's concise and witty market wisdom. Preceding Fisher's columns for each year are a few pages of commentary--putting them in historic context, pointing out areas that are still salient, and others where Fisher's perspective has changed over the years--highlighting key points that deserve extra attention. Chapter by chapter, this book offers practical investment advice from a leading market voice, while:

• Looking at Fisher's market analysis over the years and providing an industry insider's view of major, and not-so-major, market events
• Examining how Fisher called three of the last four bear markets
• Showing that what many commonly think impacts markets doesn't--and some very surprising things that do impact markets that few are aware of.
• And much more

The more things change, the more they stay the same--at least when it comes to investing. And seeing history through the eyes of a market guru can help improve your overall investment endeavors today. If you take the time to read this unique, historic compilation, you'll be taking your first steps to understanding how to become your own market guru.

Spis treści

Introduction.

1984 A Not So Orwellian Year.

1985 A 30% Yawner.

1986 Global–dy Gook.

1987 Crash!

1988 Ear to the Ground.

1989 The End Is Nigh.

1990 A Sneaky Bear Market.

1991 Unbelievable Bull.

1992 Times, They Were a Changin′.

1993 A Taxing Year.

1994 The Calm Before the Storm.

1995 List After Bullish List.

1996 The Nifty Nineties.

1997 Rational Exuberance.

1998 Rubles, Corrections, and More Bull.

1999 IPOs, Y2K, Nasdaq, Oh My!

2000 Tech Bubbles Over.

2001 Bear Market!

2002 Triple Bottom Blues.

2003 Buy on the Cannons.

2004 If.

2005 Giving It Time.

2006 Celebrity Market Indicators.

2007 Another Broken Record.

2008 The Unbubble.

2009 25 Years and Counting.

Notes.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Index.

O autorze

AARON ANDERSON is a Capital Markets Research Analyst who holds BS degrees in geophysics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and applied economics from the University of San Francisco. His first book, Own the World, was published in 2009 by John Wiley & Sons. He writes a regular column for MarketMinder.com titled "The Global View." Aaron, his wife, Kim, and daughter, Olivia, reside in Danville, California.

Blurb

Praise for Ken Fisher

These endorsements are not in reference to this book, but otherbooks by Mr. Fisher as well as praise for Mr. Fisher himself.

"Ken Fisher has produced the first worthwhilenew investment ideas I′ve seen in years."
James W. Michaels, Editor, Forbes, 1957 1999; Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award recipient; known as the "dean" of American business journalism; and Ken′s mentor and first editor at Forbes (from the 1984 endorsement of Ken Fisher′s first book, Super Stocks)

"The reason for Ken′s longevity is not only hisexcellent record of individual stock recommendations but alsohis insightful general observations and his creation ofprinciples for investors to follow."
Steve Forbes, Editor–in–chief, Forbes, President and CEO, Forbes Inc. (from "King Fisher," Forbes, August 3, 2009, commemorating Ken′s 25th year with Forbes)

"Much of Fisher′s success is due to his career–longpractice of challenging the conventional wisdom of investing."
Mary Scott, Research magazine (from "Befriending Your Brain," Research magazine, February 2007)