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From left to right: Jeffery Silk, Kenneth Fisher, Andrew Teufel
Investment Policy Committee
The Investment Policy Committee's (IPC) role is to develop
Fisher Investments' strategy for the firm's products based on Fisher Investments'
philosophy,
process, research and current trading conditions. The IPC collaboratively makes all strategic and tactical investment decisions affecting the firm's portfolios. While the IPC functions as a team, each member takes on a distinct role in day-to-day
portfolio management responsibilities, thus leveraging individual expertise.
Kenneth Fisher (Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer) is responsible
for broad, macroeconomic analysis of Fisher Investments' strategy overall.
Jeffery Silk (Vice Chairman) and Andrew Teufel (Co-President and Director of
Research) oversee Fisher Investments' in-house
research
efforts, portfolio engineering & implementation and the firm's technological research resources.
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Kenneth L. Fisher
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Investment Officer
Kenneth Fisher is best known for his prestigious "Portfolio Strategy" column in
Forbes magazine, where his 24-year tenure of high-profile market calls makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in Forbes' history. Kenneth is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
of Fisher Investments, a $40+ billion* multi-product money management firm serving
large corporate and public pension plans, in addition to endowments, foundations
and high net-worth individuals. He has written four major finance books including
the 1984 best seller Super Stocks, published by Dow Jones-Irwin. His most recent book,
New York Times Best Seller The Only Three Questions That Count, was released in Dec 2006.
Ken has also been published, interviewed and/or been written about in numerous major American, British, and German finance and business periodicals.
He writes a weekly column for Handelsblatt, Germany's leading daily. Kenneth's theoretical
work in the 1970s led to the development of a tool known as the Price to Sales
Ratio, which is now part of core financial curriculum. His recent research,
which focuses on the emerging field of behavioralism, has appeared in many professional
and scholarly journals such as the
Journal of Portfolio Management
and
Financial Analysts Journal.
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Jeffery L. Silk
Vice Chairman
As one of the early employees of Fisher Investments, Jeffery
has been with the firm since 1983. In his 20+ year tenure, he has worked in virtually
every aspect of the firm. Jeffery is currently Vice Chairman, a shareholder
and member of the firm's Investment Policy Committee. Prior to his current responsibilities,
Jeffery was President and Chief Operating Officer. He has also served as the
firm's Director of Trading and Operations, where he was instrumental in developing
Fisher Investments' portfolio management, research and trading technology. He
has written numerous articles and lectured before institutional investors on
the use of technology in the investment process. Prior to working at Fisher
Investments, Jeffery worked for First Republic Capital Corporation as an analyst
and developer of investment databases. Jeff received a degree in finance from
the University of San Francisco.
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Andrew S. Teufel
Co-President
Director of Research
During his tenure at Fisher Investments, Andrew has contributed
to the development of numerous proprietary capital markets technologies enabling
the firm to innovate and add value through dynamic portfolio management. Andrew
is responsible for the supervision of, and participation in, the qualitative
independent equity research process at Fisher Investments. He has been an employee
of Fisher Investments since 1995 and is a member of the Investment Policy Committee.
Prior to joining Fisher Investments he worked at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
as a Corporate Financial Analyst in its Global Technology Group. Andrew received
a degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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*As of September, 2008
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