Just Read – Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of Nike By Phil Knight

The first book of the year. At the beginning of the year, i decided i would read at least 12 physical books. This is apart from the ones i might read on Kindle or some other e-reader. Since i spend most of my time on gadgets, i think i might need to tweak that target…

IAEA Opens New Low Enriched Uranium Bank in Kazakhstan

A new facility, or bank, opened that will deliver low enriched uranium (LEU) to an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) facility in Kazakhstan. “This is a historic achievement for the IAEA and the government of Kazakhstan, and I am grateful for the hard work and perseverance needed to make this Bank a reality,” Nuclear Threat…

Berkshire Hathaway shares jump after Warren Buffett loosens policy on stock buybacks

Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Tuesday eliminated a restriction on its ability to buy back its own stock, a change that could help billionaire Chairman Warren Buffett deploy more of the conglomerate’s cash. The new policy approved by Berkshire’s board lets Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger authorize buybacks when both believe the repurchase price is…

Takeaways From The Berkshire Hathaway weekend

Warren Buffett chaired Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting over the weekend, and 40,000-plus faithful shareholders gathered in Omaha, Nebraska, to hear the Oracle’s pronouncements. Buffett, 87, and his vice chair and sidekick of six decades, Charlie Munger, 94, followed up Saturday’s daylong meeting with an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box with host Becky Quick Monday morning…

The Mental Habit That Helped Warren Buffett Become a Billionaire

Warren Buffett tends to bill himself as an ordinary guy who just happened to make a ton of money by being thoughtful, patient, and frugal. He’s also very smart, and puts a lot of time and effort into thoroughly understanding the market and his investments. But there’s one other quality Buffett has that the rest…

Warren Buffett on Tax Reforms, Markets & Investments

Well, valuations make sense with interest rates where they are. I mean, in the end you measure laying out money for an asset in relation to what you are going to get back, and the number one yard stick is U.S. governments. When you get 2.30 on the ten-year, I think stocks will do considerably…

Did Warren Buffett Kill Value Investing?

From 1957-1969, Warren Buffett’s partnership returned 2800%, or 29.5% a year*. Over the same time, the S&P 500 rose 153%, or 7.4% a year. Warren Buffett has been crushing the market for seven decades, but his early success went largely unnoticed. His name didn’t appear anywhere noteworthy until Adam Smith’s Supermoney, which wasn’t written until…

How To Reduce Risk in Stock Markets

Leverage – Debt increases risk. The easiest way to reduce your risk is to not have leverage, especially margin leverage, in your portfolio. Margin leverage is one of the few ways that you can be correct in your investment analysis, and ultimately in the result, but still lose money. It’s not worth it. The second…

Tilson Funds Research Report – Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire Hathaway: A Safe, High Quality, Growing Company With 30% Upside Over the Next Year Who will replace Buffett? When Buffett is no longer running Berkshire, his job will be split into two parts: one CEO, who has not been named, and a small number of CIOs (Chief Investment Officers). A CEO successor (and two…

Bill Gates Letter to Warren Buffett

Our 2017 annual letter is addressed to our dear friend Warren Buffett, who in 2006 donated the bulk of his fortune to our foundation to fight disease and reduce inequity. A few months ago, Warren asked us to reflect on what impact his gift has had on the world. It’s a story about the stunning…

Warren Buffett’s Letters to the Shareholders – Berkshire Hathaway 2017

Berkshire’s gain in net worth during 2016 was $27.5 billion, which increased the per-share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 10.7%. Over the last 52 years (that is, since present management took over), per-share book value has grown from $19 to $172,108, a rate of 19% compounded annually.* During…

Why We Think We’re Better Investors Than We Are

From their earliest days, the loosely confederated research efforts that came to be known as behavioral economics spawned a large quantity of studies centered on securities investment. This was not because the field’s pioneers were especially interested in stocks and bonds, nor was the early research commonly underwritten by financial services firms. Rather, the hive…