David Abrams Talks Investing At The Height Of The Financial Crisis

Before a WSJ profile brought him to popular attention, almost no one outside the hedge fund world had heard of David Abrams, the Baupost Group alum who has built an $8 billion hedge fund essentially on his own and has been in the top three percent of hedge fund managers since 2009. But that doesn’t mean his work hadn’t been recognized by peers. When the sixth edition of Graham and Dodd’s value investing classic Security Analysis was published at the height of the financial crisis, David Abrams was asked to contribute to the new edition alongside investing greats Warren Buffett,…