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Phil Carret: The King Of Buy And Hold

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Rupert Hargreaves
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There are many influential figures in the world value investing. Everyone knows figures like Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Walter Schloss, Seth Klarman etc..But there are many other lesser-known figures out there that helped shape value investing, and the investment universe as we know it today. Phil Carret is one such figure.

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Introducing Phil Carret

Phil Carret started one of the world’s first mutual funds and his investment career spanned a seven decades, a period encompassing dozens of cycles of bull and bear markets. He died at the end of May 1998 aged 101.

Phil Carret was a well-known value investor. For over 55 years he managed the Pioneer Fund, a mutual fund he founded in 1928. Unfortunately, 1928 turned...

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Sign up now and get our in-depth FREE e-books on famous investors like Klarman, Dalio, Schloss, Munger Rupert is a committed value investor and regularly writes and invests following the principles set out by Benjamin Graham. He is the editor and co-owner of Hidden Value Stocks, a quarterly investment newsletter aimed at institutional investors. Rupert owns shares in Berkshire Hathaway. Rupert holds qualifications from the Chartered Institute For Securities & Investment and the CFA Society of the UK. Rupert covers everything value investing for Hedge Fund Alpha