Benjamin Graham
Investor, economist and professor
Benjamin Graham was a British-born American investor and professor, widely called the father of value investing. He wrote Security Analysis with David Dodd.
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American Born 1894 in London, United Kingdom Died 1976
About Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham finished his studies at Columbia University at 20 and went on to start his career on Wall Street. He later founded a mutual fund, Graham–Newman Corp. He taught investing at Columbia Business School for many years, and Warren Buffett was one of his students. He later also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, in its Anderson School of Management. Security Analysis, first published in 1934, was written with David Dodd and is counted among the founding texts of value investing. Graham also wrote The Intelligent Investor (1949), and he was a driving force behind the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.