Profiling The World’s Great Value Investors: What Does It Take To Achieve Enduring Success?

There are many great value investors. From the legendary like Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Irving Kahn, Seth Klarman, Henry Singleton and Julian Robertson to the less known but still important figures like Wally Weitz, Charles Brandes and Walter Schloss. All of these investors have managed to outperform the market year after year, using a value orientated strategy.

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But what does it take to achieve such success as an investor? A book, published earlier this year, titled The Great Minds of Investing by William Green and photographer Michael O’Brien, profiled several of the world's greatest investors, including Jean-Marie Eveillard, Francis Chou, Bill Miller and Mohnish Pabrai to try and find an answer to this question.

The author found that these investors shared several key traits. These included the...