Irving Kahn

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occupation = Financial analyst

Irving Kahn (born December 19, 1905) 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 age|1905|12|18.

Biographical Information

Educated at the City College of New York, Kahn served as the second teaching assistant to Benjamin Graham at the Columbia Business School. At the time, other notable students and/or teaching assistants to Graham included future Berkshire Hathaway chairman, Warren Buffett, and future value investors William J. Ruane, Walter J. Schloss and Charles Brandes, among others. Graham had such an enormous influence on 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 and was among the first round of applicants to take the CFA exam. Further, he was a founding member of the New York Society of Security Analysts (http://www.nyssa.org) and the Financial Analysts' Journal. Kahn was also a former director of the Hugo Stinnes Co., Grand Union Stores, Kings County Lighting, West Chemical, and Willcox & Gibbs. He is currently the president of the New York City Job and Career Center and trustee emeritus of the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women (http://www.jfew.org).

In a magazine article in 2002 he was quoted as saying: "I'm at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock," adding that his research still pushes him to work evenings and weekends.

The Other Kahn

This Irving Kahn is not the same Irving Kahn who was notorious for his criminal involvement in a case before the Supreme Court of the United States involving search and seizure in 1974. For information on this case involving the other Irving Kahn, please refer to see [http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0415_0143_ZD.html United States v. Kahn] from the Supreme Court Collection via Cornell University Law School.

External links

* [http://www.nyse.com/events/1135856419010.html New York Stock Exchange profile, Dec. 30, 2005]
* [http://www.gurufocus.com/ListGuru.php?GuruName=Irving+Kahn Gurufocus.com profile]