Warren Buffett is facing the expiration of equity-index put options that the Berkshire Hathaway CEO initiated between 2004 and 2008 “to bet that stock prices would rise in the long…
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The Future of Berkshire Without Buffett
Barron’s recently invited readers to submit letters they might write to Warren Buffett. One, which they published in June (by writer Andrew Bary), suggested that Berkshire shareholders might derive some…
Everyone Makes Mistakes, Including Warren Buffett
In last month’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Jason Zweig recently wrote, “If I had to write one sentence that is true always and everywhere, it would be this: Smart investors…
Dimon and Buffett: Short-Termism is Hurting Economy
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett joined forces to pen a recent Wall Street Journal article that warns against short-termism. “Every generation of Americans has the…
Bidder Wins Lunch with Warren Buffett for $3.3 million
The annual charity auction for lunch with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett raised $3.3 million from an anonymous bidder, up from $2.6 million last year. This according to a recent…
Buffett's Proposed $3 Billion Uber Deal Crumbled
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett reportedly proposed investing $3 billion in Uber Technologies earlier this year, but disagreements over terms took the deal off the table. This according to a…
Oracle of Oxford is In the Red
A recent Bloomberg article reports that British “master” stock-picker and Buffett disciple Neil Woodford, whose flagship fund had outperformed his peers in 2015, is now “in the red and his…
Lessons on Warren Buffett's Success from the Berkshire Annual Meeting
The Omaha World-Herald recently published an excerpt from “The Warren Buffett Shareholder: Stories From Inside the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting,” an account by Georgetown University Finance Professor Prem Jain of…
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Highlights
The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting took place this past weekend in Omaha, Nebraska. Here are some of the biggest takeaways (according to articles from The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Yahoo Finance…
Housel on the Strength of Compounding on a Small Base
In a recent article for the Collaborative Fund, Morgan Housel addresses the topic of compounding through several interesting anecdotes about ice ages and Warren Buffett, among others. A hundred years…