1. Irving Kahn was an American investor and philanthropist.
12 Facts About Irving Kahn
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Irving Kahn was an early disciple of Benjamin Graham, who popularized the value investing methodology.
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Irving Kahn was the oldest active money manager on Wall Street.
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Irving Kahn was born on December 19,1905, in New York City to Mamie and Saul Henry Irving Kahn.
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Irving Kahn attended the City College of New York and went on to serve as the second teaching assistant to Benjamin Graham at Columbia Business School.
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Irving Kahn named his third son, born in 1942, Thomas Graham, and Buffett, his first son, born in 1954, Howard Graham.
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Irving Kahn was a Chartered Financial Analyst and among the first round of applicants to take the CFA exam.
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Irving Kahn was a founding member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the Financial Analysts' Journal.
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Irving Kahn was the president of the New York City Job and Career Center and was a trustee emeritus of the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women.
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Irving Kahn outlived his son Donald, who died suddenly on January 16,2015, at the age of 79.
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Donald's widow is Phyllis Irving Kahn, who was a long-time former legislator in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
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Irving Kahn's death was reported through a brief obituary in The New York Times on February 26,2015.