Irving Kahn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Irving Kahn

American value investor and money manager

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1905

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 24-Feb-2015

Profession: economist, investor, financial adviser, stockbroker

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Irving Kahn (December 19, 1905 – February 24, 2015) was an American investor and philanthropist.
He was the oldest living active investor.
He was an early disciple of Benjamin Graham who popularized the value investing methodology.
Kahn began his career in 1928 and continued to work until his death.
He was chairman of Kahn Brothers Group, Inc., the privately owned investment advisory and broker-dealer firm that he founded with his sons, Thomas and Alan, in 1978. Kahn was the oldest active money manager on Wall Street.
He made his first trade—a short sale of a copper mining company—in the summer of 1929, months before the famous market crash in October of the same year.