No matter how much you know you can still keep learning (and must to keep ahead in an analytics-intense business). Through the years, we have built an A-list of investors past and present who we really respect and who we aim to learn from in honing our skills. Here are some of them.
- Benjamin Graham, “father of value investing”
- Phil Fisher, author of “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits”
- Warren Buffett, most famous disciple of Ben Graham
- Prem Watsa, unofficial Canadian follower of the Warren Buffett way
- Jeff Gundlach, macroeconomic aficionado
- Jim Grant, author of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer
- Jeremy Grantham, GMO
- Mason Hawkins, Southeast Asset
- Seth Klarman, Baupost
- Bill Nygren, Oakmark
- Martin Whitman, formerly of Third Avenue
- Ray Dalio, Bridgewater
- Leon Cooperman, Omega
- Carl Icahn, Icahn Enterprises
- John Paulson, Paulson and Co.
- Daniel Loeb, Third Point