Irving Kahn

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Irving Kahn is an American value investor and, with over 77 years experience in the investment business, one of the oldest financial analysts on Wall Street. Chairman of Kahn Brothers & Co., Inc. -- the firm he started in 1978 with his two sons Thomas and Alan -- he still performs an active role at the company at the age of 101.

Educated at the City College of New York, Kahn served as the second teaching assistant to Benjamin Graham at the Columbia Business School after Leo Stern. At the time, other notable students and/or teaching assistants to Graham included future Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett and future value investors William J. Ruane, Walter J. Schloss and Charles Brandes, among others. Graham had such an enormous influence his students that both Kahn and Buffett named their sons after him. Kahn named his third son, born in 1942, Thomas Graham, and Buffett, his second son, born in 1954, Howard Graham.

Kahn is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a founding member of the New York Society of Security Analysts (http://www.nyssa.org) along with Graham. He was a founder of the Financial Analysts' Journal and a former director of Grand Union Stores, Kings County Lighting, West Chemical and Wilcox & Gibbs. He is currently the president of the New York City Job and Career Center and trustee of the Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women (http://www.jfew.org).

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