Charles de Vaulx is a French-born asset manager (i.e., one who practices asset management), noted for his value investing in the spirit of Graham and Dodd.
Robert Goldfarb serves as President and CEO of Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb, the value investing firm founded in 1970 by William J. Ruane and Rick Cunniff.
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on value investing, an investment approach Graham began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd.
Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets (Wiley, 2007) is a book written by Vitaliy Katsenelson, and describes a strategy for sideways stock market.
Some well-known value investors such as John Neff have questioned whether there is a such thing as a "contrarian", seeing it as essentially synonymous with value investing.
During this period he began a close working relationship with John Templeton and developed his proprietary method of value investing based on identifying the analytical tools appropriate to country, region or industry group.