Posted on 02/26/2015 3:08:11 PM PST by Borges
Irving Kahn, feted as the world's oldest professional investor, has died aged 109. Just six months ago he told the Telegraph, in one of his last interviews, how he doubled his money by side-stepping the 1929 Wall Street crash. Co-founder and chairman of Kahn Brothers Group Inc, Mr Kahn was a disciple and colleague of Benjamin Graham, Columbia Business School professor and arguably the most influential investment expert of the 20th Century. His death was announced today in a paid notice in the New York Times. Mr Kahn continued to work three days a week, taking a short taxi ride from his flat in Manhattan to the offices of the Kahn Brothers.
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Rest in Peace. So he did well in the crash of ‘29.
He saw a lot. RIP.
RIP
I started watching another one of the vids there, something about Star Trek sex. Very funny.
Shalom, Irving.
You lived a meaningful life.
Mazel Tov.
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