Ken Fisher is a money manager, Forbes columnist, and is one of the Forbes 400 richest Americans. He is also author of several books, including his two latest, a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470285362?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=0470285362"The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!) (Fisher Investments Press)/aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=0470285362" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" / and a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047052653X?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=047052653X"How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud (Fisher Investments Press)/aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=047052653X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /br /br /Ken Fisher Interview Part 4br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Stockerblog/span: I wanted to talk just a bit about con men versus con women. Do you see more women becoming con artists in the future or do you think it will primarily be men?br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"Fisher/span: The history, as I mentioned in the book a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047052653X?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=047052653X"How to Smell a Rat/aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=047052653X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; ...

Marc Faber, editor of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, recently did a wide-ranging interview with Aaron Task and Henry Blodget of Yahoo Finance - Tech Ticker. The video clips are must-see footage for any serious investor.

Part 1: Bullish today, Marc Faber is “highly confident” the future will be very bleak.

Part 2: Buy stocks because US dollars will be “worthless,” says Faber.

Part 3: Faber: Emerging market economies will challenge and surpass the west.

Part 4: Faber: Ken Fisher is wrong! America already has way too much debt.

Source: Aaron Task and Henry Blodget, Yahoo Finance - Tech Ticker (here, here, here and here), September 22, 2009.

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I found this a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20603037amp;sid=a2uzw71az3O0"interesting story /aabout emerging market specialist Mark Mobius. I've copied a couple of quotes here:br /br /blockquotepMark Mobius said global stocks will drop as much as 30 percent following their recovery from last year’s rout as companies take advantage of the rebound to sell more shares.br //pp“When you have these rapid increases, almost without correction, you will definitely have a correction at some point, so we can expect a lot of volatility,” Mobius, the executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management Ltd. said in an interview in Kuala Lumpur today. “Increases of 70 percent will be followed by decreases of 20 to 30 percent.”br /br /The biggest risk for global stocks is the increase in initial share sales and bond issues, Mobius said today. Investors will be “selling to take up new stocks, that will impact the prices,” he said. Mobius, who oversees about $25 billion, ...

I've read Ken Fisher's columns and books for awhile. He's taken a lot of heat for being way too bullish and was wrong in 2008. But very few people truly put themselves out there and own up to it when they're wrong. I see it every time I watch financial television, the bring on somebody who has be terribly wrong, and they won't own up to it. Instead their touting their next theme, blah, blah, blah. Fisher has owned up to the fact he was wrong, and continues on. br /br /In his a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0713/obama-india-stocks-solar-portfolio-strategy.html"recent Forbes column/a, a paragraph jumped out at me regarding information overload in today's age:br /br /blockquoteIn the early days I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked. We ...

The Stock Market Rally: How Long Can This Last?

by Alexander Green, Oxford Club Investment Director

That’s the question on investors’ minds right now: Does this stock market rally have legs?

Let’s set aside the obvious answer - no one knows - for a moment and consider what many investors simply refuse to believe: That we’ve seen the market lows.

Why are so many skeptical on this count? Because virtually everything they see and hear tells them the economy is going to get much worse in the months ahead.

And they’re right. It will.

The economy is losing 600,000 jobs a month. The banking system remains dysfunctional. Real estate is mired in quicksand. Retail spending is anemic - and still falling. And consumer confidence is at record lows.

It doesn’t take Isaac Newton to see that the economy will get worse. If there were a direct correlation between the economy and the short-term direction of the

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If you want to get really, really rich, then you need to get the advice of an expert, someone who is already a billionaire, and someone who works with the very wealthy on a day-to-day basis. That person is Ken Fisher, Forbes columnist, head of the money management firm Fisher Investments, and #271 on the 2007 Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. Fisher is also the author of several investment books including the iNew York Times/i bestseller a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470292679?ie=UTF8tag=antiquestocka-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=9325creativeASIN=0470292679"The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't /aimg src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=antiquestocka-20l=as2o=1a=0470292679" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /, published by Fisher Investments Press and Wiley.br /br /Fortunately for you, Fisher has written about ten different ways of becoming very wealthy, not a millionaire, but a multimillionaire or even a billionaire. He has put together a thorough analysis and description of these opportunities in a book ...

Yep, you heard it right. Economic bad news is coming in from all fronts right now, with job cuts being announced daily, as well as poor data. Since the market drop in October, the economy has pretty much frozen in a lot of areas. It will take some time to thaw, but stocks likely will be the first thing to move higher. Why? To quote Ken Fisher, "The stock market is a discounter of widely known information." br /br /I always look at it this way: The stock market is pricing in the state of the economy around six months from now. Right now there is no sign of stabilization in the economy, so the market is still quite volatile. But while the economy might take a little while to recover, the stock market will make is quickest move as soon ...

Today’s post comes from a guest blog, New Rules of Investing:

Institutional investors have powerful tools at their disposal to screen through reams of data.  Part of the institutional investment process entails screening through thousands of securities looking for a needle in a haystack — stocks that fit certain investment criteria.  From thousands of stocks, analysts can filter through a couple of hundred that fit these so called screens.  With a couple of hundred stocks in hand, analysts set out to do the hard work analyzing these companies, comparing them to one another, speaking to management and whatever else hedge fund and mutual fund analysts do when looking at prospective investments.

If I’m a value investor, I’m probably going to use some metrics that focus on Return on Capital (RoC) or Return on Equity (RoE) and Earnings Yield (E/P).  Growth investors might

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Ken Fisher, an investment guru, has BOMBED big time with his latest picks in Forbes Magazine.

Check out his picks at:

http://trackthepros.com/stocks/category/26

      

Ken Fisher, an investment guru, has BOMBED big time with his latest picks in Forbes Magazine.

Check out his picks at:

http://trackthepros.com/stocks/category/26