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Charles Brandes was born on 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an American businessman. Discover Charles Brandes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Occupation Businessman, investor, philanthropist
Age 81 years old
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Born 1943, 1943
Birthday 1943
Birthplace Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nationality United States

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Who Is Charles Brandes's Wife?

His wife is Linda King Formo (1986-2004) Tanya Johnson (2006-2018)

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Charles Brandes Net Worth

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Charles H. Brandes is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist.

He is a disciple of the Benjamin Graham school of value investing.

1965

In 1965, he graduated from Bucknell University with a bachelor's degree in economics.

He did graduate studies at San Diego State University.

Brandes is a CFA charterholder.

Brandes met Ben Graham in San Diego while he was training to be a stockbroker.

He was able to learn firsthand the techniques Graham used to determine undervalued investment securities.

1974

Brandes Investment Partners, which was started in 1974, currently has over $28.9 billion under management (down from over $111 billion in 2007) and is based in San Diego, California.

1986

Researching 1,000 companies between 1986 and 2002 whose price had fallen 60% over a twelve-month period, the study found that within three years of the decline 13% of the companies went bankrupt, but despite this that the portfolio as a whole gained in value by 18% over three years.

2003

Brandes published a well-received book on his investment strategies in 2003 titled Value Investing Today.

The Tanya and Charles Brandes Foundation funded a scholarship program at San Diego Jewish Academy's Maimonides Upper School.

Brandes has been married four times:

2007

In the Forbes 400 Richest Americans publication for 2007, Brandes ranked 165.

As of 2007, Brandes' U.S. Value Equity fund has beaten the S&P 500 index for the past 5, 10 and 15 years.

According to the book Investment Leadership, Brandes' Global equity fund had an average return of 19.21% over the prior 20 years.

Brandes Investments strictly follows Graham and Dodd principles as outlined in the books Security Analysis and The Intelligent Investor.

Also recently, the firm made investments in the troubled mortgage and financial sectors, paying bargain prices for investments in Countrywide Financial, Washington Mutual, Wachovia.

and Bank of America.

Brandes is among the largest institutional shareholder of Royal Bank of Scotland and General Motors.

Thomson Financial's well-regarded Nelson's World's Best Money Managers rankings consistently lists Brandes Investment Partners among the Top 10 International Equity Fund Managers in the world.

Brandes' adherence to Graham and Dodd principles has extended to investment research.

He commissioned a study to investigate the "Falling Knives" strategy, the investment axiom that catching falling knives (a stock whose price has been dropping precipitously) is like catching falling money (likely to lead to losses).

2018

According to Forbes, Brandes was worth over $1 billion as of January 2018.

Brandes grew up in Pittsburgh.

Announced departure from the firm effect February 26, 2018.