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Edgar Wachenheim III (born 1937) is an American investor and CEO and chairman of Greenhaven Associates. He founded that investment company, a former branch of Central National-Gottesman, in 1987 and has worked there since as CEO. Greenhaven Associates had reported assets under management worth $6.7 billion in June 2020. Wachenheim also wrote a book about his career and investing methods called Common Stocks and Common Sense, that was published in 2016. His investment strategies can be described as contrarian and value-oriented with a long-term time horizon.