Ken Fisher is a regular contributor to several publications, including Germany’s Focus Money, Denmark’s leading business newspaper, Børsen, the Netherland’s largest newspaper, De Telegraaf, Switzerland’s leading business paper, Handelszeitung, Spain’s largest business website and newspaper, elEconomista, Italy’s third largest newspaper and number one business paper, Il Sole 24 Ore, France’s L’Opinion, Belgium’s La Libre, Austria’s Trend, Caixin—often referred to as the Bloomberg of China, the Hong Kong Economic Journal, Taiwan’s Business Weekly, and South Korea’s largest business paper, Chosun Ilbo.
Ken is perhaps best known for his "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes magazine, which ran from 1984 through 2016, making him the longest continuously running columnist in Forbes’ history. You can navigate the full history of Ken Fisher’s market calls through his writings in Forbes via the Ken Fisher interactive timeline.
Not all past forecasts were, nor future forecasts will be, as accurate as those presented here. Forecasts are Ken Fisher's personal forecasts of the overall market as published in Forbes and do not represent the performance of Fisher Investments. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Investing in securities involves the risk of loss.
By Ken Fisher, Real Clear Markets, Monday, October 12, 2020
Straight ahead of us, just weeks, this young bull market gets a boost from almost entirely unexpected quarters: America’s election. Sound crazy? Before having me committed, let me explain.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, LinkedIn, Monday, October 5, 2020
As the 2020 presidential election nears, there is plenty of concern about how markets will behave.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, Real Clear Markets, Friday, September 25, 2020
Tech is tanking, so bye-bye bull market—that’s logic many pundits peddled ever since the FANGs and big name Tech stocks started September’s swoon. They claim Tech fueled the market’s post-March rise--so what kills Tech, kills this young bull market, too. It sounds compelling. But it’s wrong. This global rebound—and Tech’s leadership in it—is far more durable than most fathom. Here’s why.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, LinkedIn, Tuesday, September 15, 2020
How the market reacts to presidential elections boils down to confirmation bias, uncertainty and the market’s natural job of pre-pricing. Let me explain.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, Real Clear Markets, Thursday, September 3, 2020
Depending on who you ask, value stocks are set to soar….or dead as a doornail. Value’s tub-thumpers say growth stocks’ decade-plus dominance can’t endure—particularly with value’s penchant for zooming early in bull markets. Disbelievers argue Big Tech’s supremacy alongside private equity and indexing’s rise seal value’s casket. Wrong and wrong. Value isn’t dead. But the 2020 bear market’s peculiarities make a nearterm comeback unlikely. Here’s why.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, Real Clear Markets, Tuesday, August 25, 2020
The dollar knows! So say the many pundits now calling the dollar’s recent slide a canary in the coalmine for America’s economy and stocks. That’s really stupid.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, LinkedIn, Friday, August 21, 2020
The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Tuesday, just five months after falling into bear market territory due to the government-imposed economic lockdowns put in place to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, Real Clear Markets, Thursday, July 30, 2020
Republicans believe Joe Biden winning will whack stocks. Democrats presume re-electing Donald Trump is double trouble. A clear secret: they’re both wrong.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, LinkedIn, Wednesday, July 29, 2020
The global stock surge since March’s bottom confounds investors and pundits who envision the market as disconnected from reality. No, it is they that are disconnected—from how the market actually works.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, Real Clear Markets, Friday, July 10, 2020
How can you gain an investing edge? That timeless question has confounded investors almost forever. Many fixate on data, thinking quick data access mines magical statistical relationships. “Quantitative” fund managers run vast sums on this premise. It isn’t just them: Belief in data’s dominance abounds.
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