Forbes’ Kenneth Fisher says his top stock to buy in 2013 is pharma giant Pfizer. “It has near endless top-notch brand names, and a stream of new products will capture growth from an aging developed-world demographic plus new emerging middle classes overseas — all wrapped in a classically cheap stock,” Fisher says for the 2013 […]
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Fisher: Obama Isn’t A “Market Killer”
November 15, 2012 
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Worried that President Obama’s re-election will be bad news for stocks? Top strategist Kenneth Fisher says that idea is hogwash. “Nonsense,” Fisher writes in discussing the Obama re-election fears in a column for Interactive Investor. “There is scant clear evidence either party is materially better for shares in the long-term. But there is a lot […]
Read moreFisher: Don’t Let the Election Scare You Out of the Market
November 9, 2012 0 Comments
While the market has stumbled following Tuesday’s elections, top strategist Kenneth Fisher says investors shouldn’t get their market outlooks tied up with election results. “Don’t believe too much in your political ideology relative to how the economy and markets will do,” Fisher writes in his latest Forbes column. “Most folks make that mistake. Those whose side […]
Read moreWhere Ken Fisher Is Finding Value
October 3, 2012 1 Comment
Forbes’ Kenneth Fisher says not to fall in love with small-cap growth stocks at this stage of the bull market. In his latest column, Fisher says small-cap cyclicals “get all the attention early in every economic expansion because year-over-year earnings comparisons look great coming off a depressed base.” But, he adds, “as the expansions run, […]
Read moreFisher: Bull Only Halfway Done
September 26, 2012 1 Comment
While some are questioning whether the bull market is nearing its end, top strategist Kenneth Fisher says the bull is only halfway done. “People are optimistic about their own lives, but they’re skeptical about everything else,” Fisher tells CNBC. ”Therefore, we’re going to move from that skepticism, eventually, to some form of optimism, or lack of […]
Read moreFisher: Think Big
September 7, 2012 0 Comments
Top strategist Kenneth Fisher says that the bull market has more room to run, and that investors should be looking to larger stocks as the bull run matures. “In the second half of nearly every bull market you need only own bigger-than-average stocks to beat the market,” Fisher writes in his latest Forbes column. “By […]
Read moreThe Fisher Strategy: Capitalizing on “The Glitch”
August 17, 2012 0 Comments
Every other issue of The Validea Hot List newsletter examines in detail one of John Reese’s computerized Guru Strategies. This latest issue looks at the Kenneth Fisher-inspired strategy, which has averaged annual returns of 11.7% since its July 2003 inception vs. 3.9% for the S&P 500. Below is an excerpt from the newsletter, along with several top-scoring […]
Read moreFisher: Don’t Just Buy What You Know
August 10, 2012 0 Comments
In his latest Forbes column, Kenneth Fisher says that investors should not, as Peter Lynch once advised, “buy what you know”. Lynch said that investors could get a leg up on Wall Street by paying attention to what products they liked; if a company made a product they thought was a good one, they could […]
Read moreFisher: Look to Large-Cap Growth
July 30, 2012 1 Comment
Top investor Kenneth Fisher says that the bull market has a ways to go — and that large-cap growth stocks will be the place to be during the rest of the bull run. In a column for Interactive Investor, Fisher notes that in the early stages of bull markets, small-cap value picks usually lead the […]
Read moreFisher Sees 2012 Ending with Strong Gains
July 20, 2012 0 Comments
In a preview of his firm’s third-quarter outlook, Kenneth Fisher and Fisher Investments’ Investment Policy Committee say they expect stock returns for the full 2012 year to be “strongly positive”, led by large-cap growth stocks. “Most investors remain hyper-focused on a few rehashed macroeconomic issues while largely ignoring overall positive fundamentals,” Fisher and his colleagues […]
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