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Book Review of Benjamin Graham Ki Biography by Sameer Gudhate


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Benjamin Graham Ki Biography by Pushkar Kumar is a biography of the renowned investor and economist Benjamin Graham. He is widely known as the "father of value investing". The book narrates his quests, starting from his birth in England to his journey to Wall Street, America. He faced all hardships after his father’s death and yet kept solid against the tides of catastrophe. After graduating from Columbia University at age 20, he started his career on Wall Street, eventually founding the Graham-Newman Partnership. After employing his former student Warren Buffett, he took up teaching positions at his alma mater, and later at UCLA Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. are work in managerial economics and investing has led to a modern wave of value investing within mutual funds, hedge funds, diversified holding companies, and other investment vehicles. Throughout his career, Graham had many notable disciples who went on to receive substantial success in the world of investment, including Irving Kahn and Warren Buffett, the latter going on to describe him as the second most influential person in his life after his father.

This book is a lot of positivity and realism of course and portrayed quite well how things turned out the way described by Benjamin Graham. The language and writing style of the author makes the book reader-friendly. stressed investor psychology, minimal debt, buy-and-hold investing, and fundamental analysis, The book also stresses concentrated diversification, buying within the margin of safety, activist investing, and contrarian mindsets.

This book is a motivation to many, particularly for the ones who are interested in learning more about the financial field.

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