Acknowledgments

A number of colleagues and friends deserve tremendous praise and thanks for helping make this book a reality. We would like to extend our immense gratitude to Ken Fisher for providing the opportunity to write this book. Jeff Silk deserves our thanks for constantly challenging us to improve and presenting new and insightful questions as fast as we can answer them. Our colleagues at Fisher Investments also deserve enormous thanks for continually sharing their wealth of knowledge, insights and analysis. Without these people, the very concept of this book would never have been possible.

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Lara Hoffmans, Michael Hanson and Aaron Anderson, without whose guidance, patience and editing contributions this book would not have been completed. A big thanks is also due to William Glaser and Andrew Teufel—aside from making this book a possibility, both are core architects of much of the thought process herein. Amanda Williams helped make the book shorter—and clearer—with some heavy-lifting content editing and eagle-eyed copy-editing. Leila Amiri designed the terrific looking cover. A special thanks to Michael Kelly, Richard Bueche, Akash Patel, Charles Thies and Brian Kepp for contributing content, putting up with endless questions and offering their insightful opinions. We’d also like to thank Alex Nelson and the rest of Roger Bohl’s team of research associates for their help tracking down and formatting elusive data. Marc Haberman, Molly Lienesch and Fabrizio Ornani were also instrumental in the creation of Fisher Investments Press, which created the infrastructure behind this book. We’d also like to thank our team at Wiley for their support and guidance throughout this project, especially Laura Walsh.

Jarred Kriz would also like to specifically thank his wife, Dawn, for her love, understanding, patience and encouragement.