Investor Hall of Fame

The Investor Hall of Fame is a section devoted to best of great investors. Read about them and their investment style. Learn from them and you to can become a world famous investor.

Benjamin Graham Benjamin Graham (May 8, 1894 – September 21, 1976) was an influential economist and professional investor who is today often called the "Father of Value Investing" and the "Dean of Wall Street."

Warren Buffett Buffett's philosophy on business investing is a modification of the value investing approach of his mentor Benjamin Graham. He is known for being conservative when speculation is rampant in the market and being aggressive when others are fearing for their capital.

Peter Lynch Lynch coined some of the best known mantras of modern individual investing strategies. His most famous investment principle is simply, "Invest in what you know," popularizing the economic concept of "local knowledge".

Sir John Templeton Templeton became a billionaire by pioneering the use of globally diversified mutual funds. He established the Templeton Growth, Ltd. (investment fund) in 1954. In 2006, he was listed in a 7-way tie for 129th place on the Sunday Times Rich List.

George Soros Soros is famously known for "breaking the Bank of England" on Black Wednesday in 1992. Soros' writings focus heavily on the concept of reflexivity, where the biases of individuals are seen as entering into market transactions, potentially changing the fundamentals of the economy. Soros argued that such transitions in the fundamentals of the economy are typically marked by disequilibrium rather than equilibrium in the economy, and that the conventional economic theory of the market (the 'efficient market hypothesis') does not apply in these situations.

T Rowe Price Mr. Price is best known for developing the growth stock style of investing. Although he was trained as a chemist, he had a passion for investing. Mr. Price believed that investors could earn superior returns by investing in well-managed companies in fertile fields whose earnings and dividends could be expected to grow faster than inflation and the overall economy.

Kenneth L Fisher Founder-manager of Fisher Investments, a California-based investment advisory firm. Medium-term (2-5 year) value investor in various sectors from technology to tobacco.

Jim Slater In 1990, he published his main work, The Zulu Principle. This popularised the use of a financial ratio, known as the PEG, or Price:Earnings Growth Ratio. He has since devised a monthly publication called Company REFS (Really Essential Financial Statistics), which helps investors to apply his system by listing PEGs and other key ratios and information on all UK companies.

John Neff Hard-core value investment, based on buying good companies with moderate growth and high dividends while out of favour, and selling once they rise to fair value.

Jack Bogle In simple terms, Jack Bogle's investing philosophy advocates capturing market returns by investing in broad-based index mutual funds that are characterized as no-load, low-cost, low-turnover and passively managed.

Jesse Livermore Jesse Livermore had no formal education or stock trading experience. He was a self-made man who learned from his winners as well as his losers. It was these successes and failures that helped cement trading ideas that can still be found throughout the market today.

William O'Neil O'Neil blends a mixture of quantitative and qualitative strategies in his performance-oriented investing approach. In brief, his investment style is to seek out only those growth stocks that have the greatest potential for swift price rises from the moment they are purchased.