January 14th, 2021
Via Business Insider, a look at how billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya is modeling his firm on Warren Buffett’s company: Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya wants to build his Social Capital firm into a tech-focused successor to Warren Buffett’s $400 billion conglomerate. “My ambition is to be our generation’s Berkshire Hathaway,” the Virgin Galactic chairman said in […]
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November 3rd, 2019
Via Wall Street Journal, a detailed look at Jim Simons, an investment pioneer who looked to math and computers as ways to eliminate the emotional ups and downs of investing: Jim Simons sat in a storefront office in a dreary Long Island strip mall. He was next to a women’s clothing boutique, two doors from […]
Read more »October 19th, 2019
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at a quant fund’s effort to crack the ‘value’ code: In a small basement office near Portman Square in London, wedged between the Grazing Goat pub and the Red Sun Chinese restaurant, a handful of eggheads are attempting to code a robotic Warren Buffett. The small team at start-up Havelock […]
Read more »Munger on Lu
May 11th, 2019
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, a wide-ranging interview with Charlie Munger who takes the opportunity to highlight the investing acumen of Li Lu [of Himalaya Capital Management LLC in Seattle] who has been a successful investor using Graham’s training to look for deeper values: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.B 0.22% Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, 95, spoke to Wall Street Journal […]
Read more »April 20th, 2018
Via MarketWatch, a look at the man called by many the Warren Buffett of Norway: Kristian Siem is considered by many to be the Warren Buffett of Norway. Since 1987 Siem has compounded his money at a rate of about 30% annualized, increasing his worth from about $5 million in 1987 to around $2 billion […]
Read more »The Buffetts of China
May 6th, 2017
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how China’s wild-east stockmarkets are more suited to cowboys than to Oracles from Omaha: AS THE second-richest person in the world, and with a half-century record of investing success, Warren Buffett is a household name worldwide. But in China, he is something more: a celebrity. In March a special edition […]
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