Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without the help, guidance, and support of many. To begin, we would like to thank Ken Fisher for providing us the resources and opportunity to write this book. We are also grateful to Jeff Silk for sharing his perspective and providing his guidance throughout the book-writing process.
Our great colleagues, editors, and designers proved vital in this process and deserve our sincerest praise for their hard work as well. In particular, Michael Hanson and Lara Hoffmans were instrumental in seeing this book through to completion. Their early guidance in the book’s formation helped shaped the content and layout while their editing, advice, and support ultimately got us through to the finish line.
Fellow Industrials’ analyst Patrick Hejlik made meaningful contributions to the book’s content and was a great resource in the development of the book’s ideas as well. We are thankful for his creativity and expertise. We applaud the hard work and help of Evelyn Chea and Dina Ezzat for their impressive attention to detail. We would also like to thank Scott Botterman for his great job creating the book’s graphics and effectively presenting our ideas from mere concepts.
Of course Scott’s ability to make such great graphics would only be possible with the help of our data vendors, to whom we owe a big thank you. We are grateful to Thomson Datastream, Thomson Reuters, Global Financial Data, and Standard & Poor’s for allowing us to use their ...