Benjamin Graham
Also known as Benjamin Grossbaum
American economist and investor (1894-1976)
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- Born
- 1894
- Died
- 1976
- Works
- 49
Top works
- Security Analysis
- The Intelligent Investor
- Storage and Stability; a Modern Ever-Normal Granary
- The interpretation of financial statements
- Testify
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
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Benjamin Graham (/ɡræm/; né Grossbaum; May 9, 1894 – September 21, 1976) was an English-American financial analyst, economist, accountant, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the discipline's founding texts: Security Analysis (1934) with David Dodd, and The Intelligent Investor (1949). His investment philosophy stressed independent thinking, emotional detachment, and careful security analysis, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing the price of a stock from the value of its underlying business.
After graduating from Columbia University at age 20, Graham started his career on Wall Street, eventually founding Graham–Newman Corp., a successful mutual fund. He also taught investing for many years at Columbia Business School, where one of his students was Warren Buffett. Graham later taught at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.