Irving Kahn

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Irving Kahn (born December 19, 1905 in Manhattan , New York City , † February 24, 2015 there ) was an American financial analyst . He was the oldest active wealth manager in the world and was one of the earliest students of Benjamin Graham , the inventor of the value investing method. Until his death he was chairman of the Kahn Brothers Group, Inc.

Life

Kahn's parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. He attended school in the Bronx . He could not finish his education at the City College of New York because he was needed in the family business. Kahn began his career in 1928 as Benjamin Graham's second assistant at Columbia Business School . In the summer of 1929, a few months before Black Thursday , he made his first short sale . Kahn married Ruth Perl in 1931.

Graham had such a huge impact on Irving Kahn's life that Kahn named his third son, born in 1942, Thomas Graham. In 1978 he founded with his two sons Alan and Thomas the Kahn Brothers Group, Inc. In the prior SEC on November 9, 2011, the value of all amounts funds associated with the company, to more than 950 million dollars. His son Thomas is currently the company's president. Kahn was also president of the New York "Job and Career Center" for a long time. He also supported the "Jewish Foundation for Education of Women". In 2011 his sister Helen died shortly before her 110th birthday; in 2005, his other sister Lee had died at the age of 101. His younger brother Peter died in 2014 at the age of 103.

Kahn was still professionally active at over a hundred years. He lived on the Upper East Side in Manhattan .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jesse Green: What Can the DNA of Ashkenazi Jews Tell Us About Living Longer? . New York . November 6, 2011. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  2. ^ Obituary , in: Financial Times , March 7, 2015, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Kahn, Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American financial analyst
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2015
Place of death New York City