Benjamin Graham

Benjamin Graham (born Benjamin Grossbaum) (London, May 8, 1894 – September 21, 1976) was an investor, author, and professor. He was known as The Dean of Wall Street. Graham is considered the father of Value Investing, an investment strategy he began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and whose term he later refined throughout the editions of his famous book Security Analysis, co-written with David Dodd. Additionally, he is also recognized as the father of shareholder activism. Among Graham's disciples are Charles Brandes, Tom Knapp, Warren Buffett, William J. Ruane, Buffett acknowledges that Graham provided him with a solid intellectual framework for investing and describes him as the person who has most influenced his life after his father. In fact, Graham had such an influence on his students that two of them, Buffett and Kahn, named their sons, Howard Graham Buffett and Thomas Graham Kahn, in his honor.

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