How to Invest Like a Billionaire

Do you want to be a billionaire? If so, maybe you should invest in the companies that made the billionaires so rich.

Forbes Magazine has just come out with its latest billionaires list. Seven out of the top ten billionaires have founded and/or are the head of companies that are publicly traded, providing investors with a selection of stocks to invest in.

The following is a list of the billionaires and their stocks.

Rank	Name	Net Worth	Company	Symbol
#1	Jeff Bezos	$112 B	Amazon	AMZN
#2	Bill Gates	$90 B	Microsoft	MSFT
#3	Warren Buffett	$84 B	Berkshire Hathaway	BRKA
#4	Bernard Arnault	$72 B	LVMH	LVMH
#5	Mark Zuckerberg	$71 B	Facebook	FB
#7	Carlos Slim Helu	$67.1 B	América Móvil	AMX
#10	Larry Ellison	$58.5 B	Oracle	ORCL

How to Invest Like a Billionaire

Have you ever wondered how the richest people in the world became so rich? In many cases, it is due to one stock, often for a company they founded. If the stock made them rich, why not you?

On March 21 of this year, Forbes Magazine came out with the 2015 Billionaires Edition, which contains a list of the richest people on the planet.

Although, many of these billionaires may own stocks in several companies, there is usually only one company that put them on the billionaire map. The following is a list of the richest people and the stock that made them rich.

Bill Gates

1. Bill Gates, Microsoft (MSFT)

2. Amancio Ortega, Inditex (ITX.MC)

3. Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA)

4. Carlos Slim Helu, América Móvil (AMX) (AMOV)

5. Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com (AMZN)

6. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook (FB)

Warren Buffett

7. Larry Ellison, Oracle (ORCL)

8. Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P. (private)

9. and 10. Charles & David Koch, Koch Industries (private)

11. Liliane Bettencourt, L'Oreal (LRLCY)

12. and 13. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google (GOOG) (GOOGL)

14. Bernard Arnault, LVMH (LVMUY) (LVMHF)

If you like interesting stock lists like this, make sure to check out many of the free lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.


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Exclusive Interview with Ken Fisher, Billionaire Money Manager, about the Stock Market

The following fascinating interview was provided by Kenneth L. Fisher, head of the money management firm Fisher Investments, long time columnist for Forbes Magazine, billionaire, and author of numerous books. His latest book is Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently, which I highly recommend.

Ken Fisher

You may have seen him on TV commercials, or you may have spotted his magazine ads. If you are a reader of Forbes, you would definitely find his column. Fisher is on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans and Forbes world billionaires list. According to Investment Advisor magazine, he is one of the 30 most influential people in the investment advisory business over the last 30 years. Fisher is considered to be the largest wealth manager in the United States.

We cover a lot in this interview, including:

• Whether or not we are still in a bull market
• What it means to be a true contrarian
• What the professional forecasters are predicting for the stock market this year (and why they are probably wrong)
• Using the Leading Economics Index to predict the next few months
• The concept of "not in the next 30 months"
• Positive and negative "Elephants in the Room"
• Concerns about the future consequences of punishing good banks for bailing out bad banks
• Annuities, terrorism, climate change, debt, and much, much more.

Books by Ken Fisher

Here are some other books by Ken Fisher, which are worth checking out:

The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't
(A great companion to the Beat the Crowd book.)

The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
(This is actually my favorite book of his, maybe because it is so different from all the other finance books. It basically tells you ten ways, with all the steps, to get really rich, including "marrying a billionaire." Lot's of insight and lots of humor.)

Markets Never Forget (But People Do): How Your Memory Is Costing You Money and Why This Time Isn't Different

The Little Book of Market Myths: How to Profit by Avoiding the Investing Mistakes Everyone Else Makes

Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit from It-Seeing Through Wall Street's Money-Killing Myths

How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud
(If you want to avoid getting ripped off, you really need to read this book.)

Other Books that Ken Fisher Recommends

In Chapter 8 of his Beat the Crowd book, he recommends several books for additional reading. Here are many of those books:

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge

Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen: The Unintended Consequences of Government Spending

How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy

Business Cycles

How to Lie with Statistics

A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960

Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed America

The Interview

You will certainly enjoy all this great information that Ken Fisher provides.

To stream the interview, click:

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All opinions are those of Ken Fisher, and do not represent the opinions of Stockerblog.com or the interviewer. Neither Stockerblog nor the interviewer nor the interviewee are rendering tax, legal, or investment advice in this interview.

The Stocks of the Billionaires

Bill Gates

A couple months ago, Forbes Magazinecame out with its billionaires issue. There were over 1,800 billionaires listed in the magazine. The self-made millionaires know what they are doing, especially in the area of investing. And you can invest right along side of them, since you can own stocks in the companies that made them rich or the stocks they currently own.

Warren Buffett

Here are some of the top billionaires and their stocks.

Bill Gates: Microsoft (MSFT)

Carlos Slim Helu: América Móvil (AMX) (AMOV)

Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA)

Larry Ellison: Oracle (ORCL)

Bernard Arnault: LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMUY)

Jeff Bezos: Amazon (AMZN)

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook (FB)

Sheldon Adelson: Las Vegas Sands (LVS)

Larry Page: Google (GOOG)

Sergey Brin: Google (GOOG)

Carl Icahn: Icahn Enterprises (IEP)

Jack Ma: Alibaba (BABA)

Steve Ballmer: Microsoft (MSFT)

Phil Knight: Nike (NIKE)

Charles Ergen: Dish Network (DISH)

Trivia: What Billionaire Investor Appeared on a Soap Opera?

Stock Market Trivia is a new feature at Stockerblog.com. The question for today is:


What Billionaire Investor Appeared on a Soap Opera?


Hint #1:




The Soap Opera is All My Children


Hint number 2: 


This billionaire appeared not once but twice in this TV series


Hint number 3: 


He plays himself in this show


Hint number 4: 


He also played the part of James Madison in an animated TV series called "Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776"


Give up?


The answer is:


Who else but Warren Buffett. He appeared in the All My Children Episode 9869 on May 8, 2008 and Episode 9870 on May 9, 2008. In addition, he appeared in five documentaries. And of course, he appeared in the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. 

If you like investment trivia, more stock market trivia and Wall Street trivia can be found in the book: 

 Stock Market Trivia

Have You Seen the Billionaires Holiday Gift List?

BillionairesLife.com has just released its annual Billionaire Holiday Gift List. Items include million dollar cars, a town, an island, a $120,000,000 painting, a million dollar parking space, and much, much more.

Expensive Stuff for Billionaires

Have a few extra bucks? Check these out. Maybe some of these would make great gifts.

$315 Nike Sneakers

Two Pound Truffle Sold for $300,000

$1,000,000 for One Penny

$264,000 for a Gun

The $2.5 Million Bra

A Cocktail for $8,824