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Benjamin Graham
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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
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Key facts
- Born
- Benjamin Grossbaum , ( 1894-05-09 ) May 9, 1894, London, England, UK
- Died
- September 21, 1976 (1976-09-21) (aged 82), Aix-en-Provence , France
- Education
- Columbia University ( BA )
- Institutions
- Columbia University , University of California, Los Angeles
- Notable ideas
- Security Analysis (1934), The Intelligent Investor (1949), Benjamin Graham formula
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Benjamin
- Family name
- Graham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Aix-en-Provence
- Occupation
- investor
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Notable work
- The Intelligent Investor
- Field of work
- economics
- Image
- Benjamin Graham (1894-1976) in 1950.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1894-05-09
- date of death
- 1976-09-21
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- Warren Buffett
- name in native language
- Benjamin Graham
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- Benjamin Graham
- birth name
- Benjamin Grossbaum
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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