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    • Benjamin Graham

      Benjamin Graham is known as the ‘father of modern security analysis’. His seminal book Security Analysis, co-authored with David Dodd in 1934, is still regarded as one of the most important texts on investing ever written....
    • Philip A Fisher

      Philip Fisher also began his career as a securities analyst—then a new profession—in the late 1920s. He too published an important book on company analysis entitled Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits in 1958. Like Graham, ...
    • Peter Lynch

      Peter Lynch is perhaps the highest profile fund manager of all time. Between 1977 and 1990 he ran Fidelity’s flagship Magellan Fund in the United States, outperforming the market index by an average of 13% a year (his total return...
    • Sir John Templeton

      Sir John Templeton began his investing career in 1937, eventually launching a managed fund called the ‘Growth Fund’ in 1954. The Growth Fund became the best performing managed fund in the United States over the subsequent...
    • William D Gann

      William D Gann remains a legend in trading circles, although sorting out the folklore from the reality is no easy task. Gann, born in 1878, reputedly made $50m trading shares and commodities over the course of his career, although verifying this...
    • George Soros

      George Soros is perhaps the world’s most famous trader and speculator. Investors in his flagship ‘hedge fund’, the Quantum Fund, enjoyed returns of 32% per year from its inception in 1969 to 2001. Like many hedge funds...
    • Warren Buffett

      Last but by no means least is Warren Buffett. Buffett is chairman of United States investment company Berkshire Hathaway, which he gained control of in 1965. His investment return of more than 20% a year since then has made him one of the...

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    • About Us

      New2Shares is owned and managed by The Intelligent Investor. We spend most of our time researching companies, but we also take pride in our ability to educate investors. More.

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1 Why Invest
2 How to Invest
3 What to Buy
4 How to Buy It
5 What Comes Next