How One Man Created a Profession--and Entirely Transformed the
World of Investing
"The small list of investment books that must grace the library
of any serious investor--not to gather dust, but to be opened over
and over again--just grew by one. This wonderful compilation of the
wit and wisdom of Benjamin Graham is the new addition. Savor it.
Learn from it. Treasure it."
John C. Bogle, founder and former Chief Executive, The Vanguard
Group
"If youth is measured by creativity and excitement about new
ideas and a thirst for learning, then Ben Graham-in his early
80s-was the youngest guy in the room when two-dozen stellar
investment managers met for three days to explain the inner
workings of investment management."
Charles D. Ellis, CFA, Bestselling Author of "Winning the Loser's
Game"
"These writings, spanning over 30 years, help us understand even
better the remarkable achievement of this visionary man and his
lasting influence on the finance profession."
Burton Malkiel, Princeton University, Bestselling Author of A
Random Walk Down Wall Street
"Investing involves the intelligent triangulation between
fundamentals, psychology, and prices. Benjamin Graham, Building a
Profession . . . illustrates how this investment legend never
stopped thinking about this multi-dimensional challenge."
Seth Klarman, The Baupost Group
"Serious professionals in the investment business will delight
in pouring over this and checking their own thoughts against those
of the master."
Jeffrey J. Diermeier, CFA, Diermeier Family Foundation, and former
CFA Institute president and CEO
"This is a must-read for anyone interested in the history and
development of our profession and the importance of critical
investment thinking."
Gary P. Brinson, CFA, GP Brinson Investments
"Some investors ('the happy few') know that Ben Graham's
writings on financial analysis give them a leg up. So they will
want to read this book, and other investors should."
Jean-Marie Eveillard, First Eagle Funds
"The CFA Institute and Jason Zweig have performed an invaluable
service to our profession in collecting these writings] in one
volume."
William H. Miller, CFA, Legg Mason Funds Management
About the Book:
When Benjamin Graham began working on Wall Street in 1914, the
center of American finance resembled a lawless frontier. The
concept of regulatory laws was in its infancy, the SEC wouldn't see
the light of day for 20 years, and many firms hid assets and
earnings from nosy outsiders.
And security analysts didn't exist as we know them. They were
called "diagnosticians," and they didn't do much analyzing. These
investors prided themselves on going with the "feel" of the market,
and most of them rarely looked at a financial statement.
Appalled by the lack of research and quantification, Benjamin
Graham set out to change all this--and ended up creating the
discipline of modern security analysis.
A collection of rare writings by and interviews with one of
financial history's most brilliant visionaries, "Benjamin Graham,
Building a Profession" presents Graham's evolution of ideas on
security analysis spanning five decades. Articles include: "Should
Security Analysts Have a Professional Rating? The Affirmative
Case"
"Financial Analysts Journal" (1945) "Toward a Science of Security
Analysis"
"Financial Analysts Journal" (1952) "Inflated Treasuries and
Deflated Stockholders: Are Corporations Milking Their
Owners?"
"Forbes" (1932) "The Future of Financial Analysis"
"Financial Analysts Journal" (1963) "Controlling versus Outside
Stockholders"
"Virginia Law Weekly" (1953)
These pages reveal the revolutionary ideas of a man who didn't
so much find his calling as he created it from scratch--and opened
the door for entire generations of investors.
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