Value investors, who seemed poised to take control during the initial market crash from the pandemic, have been steamrolled by rising markets. That followed years of underperformance, as the long-running bull market following the financial crisis yielded double-digit growth across the board. At a two-day virtual conference the New York chapter of the CFA Institute hosted this week — named after Ben Graham, the father of value investors — speakers touched on their picks in the quickly changing markets. They also implored listeners to stick with philosophy.