Irving Kahn

Who is Irving Kahn?

Irving Kahn is an American value investor and money manager and the oldest living active investment professional. He was an early disciple of Benjamin Graham, the creator of the value investing methodology. Kahn began his career in 1928 and continues to work to this day at the age of 108. He is currently Chairman of Kahn Brothers Group, Inc., the privately owned investment advisory and broker-dealer firm that he founded with his sons, Thomas and Alan, in 1978. Although Kahn still performs an active role at the company, Thomas, who is the firm's president, runs the business and is responsible for the firm's investment decisions.

Kahn Brothers Group's principals manage a little over $950 million in funds for the clients of its subsidiaries and affiliated businesses. The company's primary investment advisory business has approximately $645 million in assets under management as of the first quarter of calendar year 2013.

Kahn is currently the oldest active money manager on Wall Street. He made his first trade—a short sale of a copper mining company—in the summer of 1929, months before the infamous market crash in October of that year. In addition, he, his sisters, and his brother were, collectively, the world's oldest living quartet of siblings. Kahn himself is 108. His sister, Helen {nicknamed "Happy" }, died seven weeks before her 110th birthday. The youngest sibling, Peter, is 103. Kahn's other sister, Lee, died at the age of 101.