Benjamin Graham, Building a Profession : Classic Writings of the Father of Security Analysis

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

Jason Zweig writes the “Intelligent Investor”column for The Wall Street Journal. He has beena senior writer at Money, mutualfunds editor at Forbes, and guest columnist atTime and CNN.com. Zweig is the editorof the 2003 revised edition of BenjaminGraham’s book The Intelligent Investor and theauthor of Your Money and Your Brain (2007).
Rodney N. Sullivan , CFA, head of publicationsfor CFA Institute, serves as editor of theFinancial Analysts Journal and several otherleading publications. He was director of researchfor Trigon Healthcare, Inc. (nowAnthem Healthcare, Inc.) and a senior portfolioanalyst for Aris Corporation.