Benjamin Graham

Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) was a British-born American investor, economist and teacher widely regarded as the father of value investing. After graduating from Columbia at 20 he went to work on Wall Street, later ran the investment fund Graham-Newman Corp., and taught at Columbia Business School for nearly three decades, where Warren Buffett was among his students. He helped establish security analysis as a profession, work that led to the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.