Benjamin Graham is a legendary investor who pioneered the idea of deep value investing. Graham is someone who walked the talk by putting his ideas into practice with his successful Graham-Newman Company from 1936 to 1958. His ideas have withstood the test of time and lived on in his famous disciple, Warren Buffett.

Graham’s relevance in 2016

Let’s pause for a while and consider how this would relate to you in 2016 — 80 years after he put his idea of value investing into practice. Humans have the same basic desire for financial security whether they are in the age of the industrial revolution or the digital revolution today. The key difference today is the speed of information flow while the basic emotional bias remains. We are living in a slower growth environment where China’s growth is slowing down to 6.6% and the U.S. is facing uncertainty over ......