1963 Ben Graham Speech on How to Think About Investing

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Sep 08, 2011
The world is a much different place than when Ben Graham took his statistical approach to buying a diversified portfolio of cheap companies. But that has not changed how relevant Graham’s core ideas are for all of us.


This was on the Jason Zweig website:


“Here is the original typewritten text of a speech Benjamin Graham gave in San Francisco one week before John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In this brilliant presentation, Graham explores how an investor should go about determining whether the market is overvalued, how to tell what asset allocation is right for you, and how to pick stocks wisely. This speech is a rare opportunity to see the workings of Graham's mind in the raw.”


The link to the speech is below in its original typewritten format. It reminds me of the original Buffett partnership letters that float around the Internet: http://www.jasonzweig.com/documents/BG_speech_SF1963.pdf