The widely acknowledged father of value investing was an American academic, investor and author, Ben Graham, and the widely acknowledged founding text of the discipline is the book he published with David Dodd in 1934: Security Analysis.  Famously, Warren Buffett was a student of Graham at Columbia University in the 1940s and has turned his value investing prowess into one of the greatest fortunes ever. In addition to being a legendary investor, Buffett is also a prolific writer. Arguably, one of his most significant pieces was published in the Columbia business school magazine in the Autumn of 1984: “The Super-Investors…