Benjamin Graham, Building a Profession: The Early Writings of the Father of Security Analysis - Hardcover

by Jason Zweig (Author)

Learn and profit from the early writings of a financial genius

Benjamin Graham is widely known as the father of Value Investing, and mentor to Warren Buffett. But Graham made another critically important contribution by advocating that securities analysts should meet minimum requirements of knowledge, and be held to high standards of ethical conduct--in short, that the profession should be treated as seriously as other fields of study, like accounting, medicine or law.

Benjamin Graham and the Birth of the Professional Financial Analyst showcases Graham's important contribution to remaking investment analysis as a profession. This fascinating collection spanning 30 years offers us valuable perspectives on investing and financial markets--many as vital in the present day as they were in Graham's own tumultuous mid-twentieth century--and reveals the evolution of Graham's passionate belief in the creation of a financial profession and a science of financial analysis.

Features:

• Updates and commentary by Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal's "Intelligent Investor"
• Rare articles from The Financial Analysts Journal
• Created with the cooperation of the CFA Institute

Author Biography

Jason Zweig writes the "Intelligent Investor" column for The Wall Street Journal. He has been a senior writer at Money, mutual funds editor at Forbes, and guest columnist at Time and CNN.com. Zweig is the editor of the 2003 revised edition of Benjamin Graham's book The Intelligent Investor and the author of Your Money and Your Brain (2007).
Rodney N. Sullivan, CFA, head of publications for CFA Institute, serves as editor of the Financial Analysts Journal and several other leading publications. He was director of research for Trigon Healthcare, Inc. (now Anthem Healthcare, Inc.) and a senior portfolio analyst for Aris Corporation.