Rank #229
Ken Fisher
Net worth $13.2B
Money management · United States
- Born
- Nov 29, 1950
- Age
- 75
- Source
- Money management
- Residence
- Dallas, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Humboldt State University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Ken Fisher is executive chairman and co-chief investment officer of Fisher Investments, which he founded in 1979 with $250.
- The firm currently has more than $332 billion in assets under management.
- In January 2025, Fisher sold a minority stake in Fisher Investments at a $12.75 billion valuation to buyout firm Advent and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
- In the summer of 1964, a 13-year-old Fisher earned $1.20 an hour picking fruit, sawing and fertilizing in his native San Mateo County, California.
- Fisher dropped out of high school "because it was a waste of time" and headed to college where he could "take better classes."
- Fisher wrote an investing column in Forbes magazine for more than 32 years, penning his last one in late 2016.
- Considered an expert on 19th century logging, Fisher has documented more than 35 abandoned logging camps in the northern Santa Cruz Mountains.