Fisher Investments, the $44 billion money management firm headed by Ken Fisher, has expanded into Germany by buying half of fund management firm Thomas Gruner Vermogensmanagement GmbH for an undisclosed price, the company said on Monday.
Ken Fisher, CEO of Fisher Investments, told CNBC’s “Morning Call” that private equity is in the middle of a “perfect storm” and there will be more IPOs
The longer this goes on, the more CFOs and CEOs learn to do what private equity firms are trying to teach them, which is to borrow long-term money at approximately 6%, which would cost something like 3.6% after taxes.
Fisher reckons House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should continue to spend her time travelling. Because ‘‘She can get more done outside the Beltway than inside it.’’
Ken Fisher has more than an intellectual curiosity about smaller advisory firms: He’s also interested in buying them, and says he is currently in discussions with a number of advisory firms, with AUM of $200 million to $500 million, “building the pipeline” this year on deals. So what are the kinds of firms he’s interested in?
What do three Yanks held hostage by Iran, global warming, and Paris Hilton have in common? They're in the news - and anything materially macabre for stocks is not.
The Fed minutes damped speculation, based on comments earlier in the week by regional bank presidents, that the Fed would cut interest rates next quarter. Richard Fisher, head of the Fed's Dallas bank, said the economy is growing ``forcefully.'' William Poole, president of the St. Louis Fed, said the central bank's stance on rates is ``about right.'
Ken Fisher is one of the USA ’s best-known investment commentators, having written his Portfolio Strategy column in Forbes magazine for more than 22 years. He also runs his own investment firm, Fisher Investments, putting his expertise into practice on behalf of a range of private and institutional investors.
So what do we do with this information? Some prominent (and successful) investors -- Ken Fisher is one -- insist that one's portfolio should always track the sector diversification of its benchmark index, unless one has a specific reason for over- or underweighting.
If you're British, should you ponder poli-tics across the pond? Of course. The world is more correlated than you know - at half the world's market cap, the US has a powerful pull.
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