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Outstanding Investment, Top stocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
How would you like to make a pile of money on a proven investing system that out-buffets Buffett? Seriously. I'm talking about the great investor Warren Buffett and his now famous investment holding company Berkshire Hathaway. You probably know the story already. Mr. Buffett bought a small textile company in 1965 and turned it into one of the largest investment holding companies in the world. In 1965,...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Threats of another round of rating downgrades put billionaire Warren Buffett ahead of vulture investor Wilbur Ross in the match of the bond insurers. In Buffett's corner is Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp., the newcomer to the bond insurance...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Cam Hui submits: Years ago I was asked what kept us from being Warren Buffett. My reply was "how Buffett picks stocks is fairly well-known. The problem is the inability of managers to tolerate excessive tracking error." This was quant-speak for "portfolio managers spend too much time building benchmark hugging portfolios for business reasons." There has been much written about how Warren Buffett picks...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
George Spritzer submits: Today is shaping up to be a down market, and it may be a good day to start scaling into Leucadia National Corp . (LUK). Leucadia is an eclectic investment company that is somewhat similar to Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), which I posted on a few weeks ago. LUK was founded in 1854. It engages in manufacturing, telecommunications, property management and services, gaming entertainment,...
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ProfessorBainbridge.com ® (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Warren Buffett’s annual letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway are legendary in the investment community. They “distill in plain words all the basic principles of sound business practices,” as Professor Lawrence Cunningham notes in the introduction to the new edition of his anthology of Buffett’s essays: This new edition has extensive additional content that... [continued on site]
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
PacifiCorp, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Corporation that owns the Klamath River dams, sent a letter withdrawing its water quality permit application to the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento Friday.
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Personal Finance Advice (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
By S. Shugars I’m a big fan of index funds because, quite frankly, I don’t know much about investing and I would rather spend my time doing other things than learning how to invest in individual companies. Warren Buffett agrees with me on this as his response to a question at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder [...]
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Kiplinger’s, the famous American finance magazine, is out with some investment advice in two unrelated articles reflecting the individual opinions of their writers. As loosely paraphrased: Think about buying the stock of Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway stock. But if you’re value conscious like the Oracle of Omaha, then stay away from the $300 [...]
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lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
FRENCH insurer has sold its stake in London-based aviation underwriter Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers to Berkshire Hathaway and Munich Re.
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New Home Communities Blog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Clayton Homes has been in business since 1966 and is one of the largest new homes builders in the country. We build award-winning homes with premium features and every modern convenience. Acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2003, Clayton has grown to provide housing in 49 states. With 39 home building facilities, more than 450 company [...]
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Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Credit crunch drags on regional bank; Berkshire Hathaway large investor. 15 Jul 2008 4:15 AM
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Market Movers (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Jason Zweig has a new column at the WSJ, called "The Intelligent Investor": Could things possibly get worse? I don't know, but I am an optimist -- so I certainly hope things do get worse. Nothing else should satisfy an intelligent investor. This May, at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Warren Buffett boiled down what it means to be an intelligent investor into two startling sentences: "If a...
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Business Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
On Thursday, Dow Chemical Co. announced that it will buy rival Rohm and Haas Co. for $18.8 billion. Financing for the acquisition includes an equity investment by Berkshire Hathaway and the Kuwait Investment Authority in the form of convertible preferred...
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Edward Printer | 02/15/2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Warren Buffet's investment group Berkshire Hathaway bought more than 132 million shares of food company Kraft, according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Comission Thursday.
