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In this keynote address at the 2024 Value Investing Conference, Jason Zweig, tenured investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal, discussed the continued relevance of Benjamin Graham’s principles of value investing, 75 years after the publication of Graham’s classic “The Intelligent Investor”.
Here are some of the key points from Jason’s talk:
Overall, Jason emphasizes that the core principles of value investing taught by Graham remain highly relevant today, even as the investment landscape has changed dramatically.
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