FREE issue of Value Investor Insight, featuring Security Analysis
December 9, 2008
Jim Grant’s op-ed in the Financial Times referencing Security Analysis
December 9, 2008
Little logic to bond world amid current risk phobias
December, 5 2008
By Jim Grant
“In their magnum opus Security Analysis Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd advise that “bonds should be bought on their ability to withstand depression”. They wrote that in 1934. So far is that rule from being honoured by today’s financiers that not a few bonds—and boxcars full of mortgages – could hardly withstand prosperity. Two urgent questions present themselves.”
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Jim Grant’s Interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”
December 3, 2008
Jim Grant was interview today on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”, where he discusses Security Analysis and Ben Graham’s investing philosophy.
U.S. News & World Report interviews Bruce Greenwald on value investing
November 13, 2008
Bruce Greenwald on Value Investing
American Express, WellPoint top the noted professor’s list.
By Kirk Shinkle, November 7, 2008
Bruce Greenwald, who holds the Robert Heilbrunn Professorship of Finance and Asset Management at Columbia Business School, is coeditor of the forthcoming sixth edition of the value investing classic Graham and Dodd’s Security Analysis (McGraw Hill).
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Watch Jim Grant’s Lecture at the Museum of American Finance
November 3, 2008
Jim Grant, founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, spoke at the Museum of American Finance on October 15, 2008 to celebrate the 75th anniversary edition of Security Analysis.
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Value Investor Insight - Channeling Graham and Dodd: A Conversation with Seth Klarman
October 29, 2008
From Value Investor Insight & SeekingAlpha.com
Early in the process of defining how to update Graham and Dodd’s Security Analysis, the acknowledged “bible of value investing,” lead editor Seth Klarman and his assembled team abandoned any notion of editing the text of 1940’s second edition. “It would have taken a decade to rewrite, with absolutely no assurance we could have improved upon it anyway,” he says.
In the September 30 edition of Value Investor Insight, Klarman described this process. Key excerpts follow:
“The Value Investor’s Bible” - Jim Grant in the WSJ
October 19, 2008
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, OCTOBER 18, 2008
The Confidence Game
There used to be too much of it. Now there’s not enough. James Grant argues that the real lack of confidence is in Washington, with the administration losing faith in capitalism.
by James Grant
“In investment markets, confidence and coherence tend to restore themselves. The hardy souls who lead the way back derive their confidence not from the Treasury Secretary but from the pages of “Security Analysis,” by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd, the value investor’s bible.”
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“The Investor’s Bible” - the Calgary Herald
October 15, 2008
Investors’ bible shows righteous the way
By Charles Frank, Calgary Herald
“Like a lot of shell-shocked Canadians, I’ve spent the last few days reading the bible, trying to make sense of what has been happening on North American and world stock markets and looking for guidance about what to do when the dust finally clears on this, The Mother of All Financial Meltdowns.
For the record, we’re not talking about the Holy Bible… the bible I’m talking about is the sixth edition of Security Analysis…”
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Seth Klarman and Security Analysis - featured in the Financial Times
October 15, 2008
October 10 2008
There’s logic behind my guilty secret
By David Stevenson
“Time for a guilty secret: I started buying shares this week. My colleague Merryn Somerset Webb might think that the markets are still going to hell in a handcart and I don’t disagree with her on a macro level – I think we’ll be testing 4000 for the FTSE, bank rescue or not!”
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Benjamin Graham and Security Analysis featured on Yahoo! Finance
October 15, 2008
October 8, 2008
Funds That Avoid Disaster
By John Coumarianos
“…it’s striking that Benjamin Graham, author of Security Analysis and Warren Buffett’s teacher, advocated an investment approach, employable by both professional investors and regular folks, that effectively would have sidestepped the past two disasters.”