Investor Ken Fisher loses $600 million contract after making sexist comments at summit

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Investor Ken Fisher loses $600 million contract after making sexist comments at summit
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Fisher was initially defiant amid the backlash in an interview with Bloomberg, in which he said he had 'given a lot of talks, a lot of times, in a lot of places and said stuff like this and never gotten that type of response.'

, in which he said that attendees had mischaracterized his comments, and that he had "given a lot of talks, a lot of times, in a lot of places and said stuff like this and never gotten that type of response."

"Some of the words and phrases I used during a recent conference to make certain points were clearly wrong and I shouldn't have made them," he said. "I realize this kind of language has no place in our company or industry. I sincerely apologize.": "Money, sex, those are the two most private things for most people," so when trying to win new clients you need to be careful.

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