We’d also like to thank Joseph Hall for turning every graph and table in this book from an idea into a reality. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Michael Hanson and Lara Hoffmans, without whose guidance, patience, and editing contributions this book would not have been completed. We’d like to thank Dina Ezzat for her hard work, and thoroughness in editing and assistance with citations and sources. Evelyn Chea also deserves thanks for her eye for detail and editing contribution. Without Leila Amiri we would have been utterly lost in our attempts to implement graphics and images. Marc Haberman, Molly Lienesch, and Fabrizio Ornani were also instrumental in the creation of Fisher Investments Press, which created the infrastructure behind this book. Of course this book would also not be possible without our data vendors, so we owe a big thank you to Thomson Datastream, Thomson Reuters, Global Financial Data, and Standard & Poor’s. We’d also like to thank our team at Wiley for their support and guidance throughout this project, especially David Pugh and Kelly O’Connor.

Brad Pyles would also like to specifically thank Theodore Gilliland for assisting with his full-time research responsibilities while he was working on this book. Most importantly, however, he would like to thank his wife Tina for her never-ending patience, tolerance, love, and support, as this book could not have been completed without it.