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Warren Buffett on Currencies
2008-05-09 07:11:00 Warren Buffett said that the Canadian dollar is likely to outperfom the U.S. dollar in coming years. He himself had bought a couple of billion dollars worth of Canadian currency some time ago. However, he regreted that he didn’t buy more and kept them longer. He also continues to hold the Brazilian real. It appears the ... More About: Warren Buffett , Warren , Currencies
Warren Buffett Buys Wrigley
2008-04-29 19:00:00 Warren Buffett once again shows his preference for investing in easy to understand businesses when he teams up with candy maker Mars to buy Wm Wrigley Jr, the world’s largest chewing gum meaker for US$23 billion. The recently announced deal meant that Berkshire Hathaway will have a minority stake in Wrigley. The purchase price of US$80 ... More About: Warren Buffett , Warren
Buffett Hosts University of Pennsylvania?s Wharton School Students
2008-04-19 11:15:00 In early April, Warren Buffett invited 150 students from the University of Pennsylvania ’s Wharton School to his premise. Fortune Magazine was also invited to sit in with the chance for an interview. The following were covered in the session: Why the efficient market theory is misguided. Why it is very difficult to regulate people. His thoughts about the ... More About: Students
More on Omaha Visit by NUS Students
2008-04-11 16:31:00 With reference to my earlier post on the Warren Buffett by NUS students, I got lucky and managed to find a report of their visit. Here are some key extracts from the students about Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett is a big believer in value investing - buying shares that are trading at a lower price than ... More About: Students , Visit , Omaha
Warren Buffetts Shares with University of Missouri Students
2008-04-06 03:55:00 A few days ago, Warren Buffett took part in a question-and-answer session with business college students during the ?Emerging Issues and Trends in Real Estate? forum and educational conference at the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri . The session was conducted over a video conference. These are some points from Warren Buffett: Develop your ... More About: Students , Shares
Berkshire Annual Letters 2001
2008-03-13 12:09:00 It has been a while since I last sumarised the annual letters that Warren Buffett writes to his shareholders. I was halfway through the 2001 letter, and will attempt to round it up here. In that year, Warren Buffett had lukewarm feelings about stocks for the rest of the decade. He felt that the market had ... More About: Letters , Value Investing , Annual , Berkshire
Warren Buffett on CNBC Squawk Box
2008-03-05 11:27:00 A few days ago, Warren Buffett had a live appearance and interview session on CNBC Squawk Box with Becky Quick. The session was pretty long and a part of it was for Warren to answer a series of email questions from CNBC’s readers. I’m producing a summary of some points from the interview. Some of ...
Warren Buffett?s Letter to Shareholders for 2007
2008-03-03 04:47:00 Warren Buffett has just released his latest annual letter to his Berkshire shareholders a few days ago. While I haven’t read through the entire thing yet, a quick scan shows Warren critisising pension funds for their over-optimistic projections of their returns. And get this, Warren Buffett thinks that the 8% assumed by the funds is not ... More About: Warren Buffett , Shareholders , Warren , Letter
Playing Bridge is More Interesting than a Naked Woman
2008-02-22 04:33:00 Warren Buffett is addicted to Bridge . He has this to say: You know, if I’m playing bridge and a naked woman walks by, I don’t ever see her. You have to look at all the facts. You have to draw inferences from what you’ve seen, what you’ve heard. You have to discard improper theories about what the ... More About: Interesting , Woman
National Lifelong Income Scheme
2008-02-15 05:26:00 This post is specially for my Singapore readers (or anyone with vested interest with CPF monies in Singapore). A few days ago, our government has released details of the new annuity scheme for us. They have nicely called it The National Lifelong Income Scheme. The scheme is flexible with different payout dates available. If you are rushing ...
Warren Buffet in Canada
2008-02-13 17:55:00 Last week, Warren Buffet t answered questions for almost 90 minutes during his appearance in Toronto to promote Business Wire’s expansion into Canada . He covered quite a bit on ground on credit, currency and the economy. Warren Buffet t also revealed that he made “several hundred million dollars” owning the Canadian dollar, then sold, and now wishes he ...
Warren Buffett to Bail Out Bond Insurers
2008-02-11 17:55:00 Warren Buffett mentioned in an interview with CNBC this morning that he has a plan to help the troubled bond insurance situation, but so far it’s not getting a very warm reception. Warren Buffett had offered to reinsure $800 billion in municipal bonds now insured by Ambac, MBIA and FGIC, effectively giving them a AAA credit ... More About: Bond , Warren Buffett , Warren , Interview
More Subprime Woes
2008-02-02 07:54:00 After missing a deadline to raise capital, the world’s fourth-largest bond insurer, Financial Guaranty Insurance Co., had its AAA credit rating cut to AA at Fitch Ratings. The insurance unit’s top rating was placed under review by Fitch, Moody’s and S&P in December after downgrades of securities backed by subprime mortgages. Fitch gave the company until ... More About: Subprime
George Soros on the Current Market Crisis
2008-01-25 09:45:00 I just read an article by George Soros which was published in the Financial Times. Inside this article, George Soros talks about how the current crisis is the culmination of a credit expansion super-boom that has taken place over the past 60 years. Some points from his article include: End of an era of credit expansion with ... More About: Market , Current , Crisis
Warren Ups Stakes in Burlington
2008-01-18 10:11:00 This week, Warren Buffett paid close to $74 million for about a million shares in Burlington Northern Santa Fe. This pushes Berkshire’s stakes to nearly 18 percent. The buying of Burlington shares has been picking up speed of late. Last week, another 750,000 shares were bought. There was a purchase made almost every day of that ... More About: Stakes
Asia Trader and Investor Convention
2008-01-12 18:20:00 Some of you might be interested in this event. Besides the Singapore event, it will also be held in Malaysia, Vietnam and India. Asia Trader & Investor Convention (ATIC @Singapore 2008). Date : 1 - 2 March 2008 Time : 9am to 6pm Venue : Suntec Singapore, Hall ...
Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Insures Bonds
2008-01-10 04:15:00 Berkshire Hathaway Assurance, Warren Buffett’s newly setup bond insurance firm, has insured bonds for the first time on Tuesday. It was reported by Reuters that Goldman Sachs bought insurance for their $10 million worth of bonds from New York City. Both Raymond Orlando and Mike Duvally, the spokesman of New York City office of management and Goldman ... More About: Berkshire Hathaway , Bonds , Berkshire
Why do Most Investors Lose Money?
2007-12-19 07:45:00 There are many reasons why an investor or a trader can lose money. One main reason is being too fixated on the price of his stocks. When Warren Buffett buys shares, he treats it as a purchase of a business (either whole or part of). The market price is simply a quote that he can use to ... More About: Money , Investors
Christmas Video Gift
2007-12-18 05:26:00 A Christmas video from me to you. This is a beautiful dance. Don’t cry when you watch this. Related PostsMerry Christmas and Happy New Year!I would like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and offer m...Warren Buffett MBA Talk at University of Florida (Transcripts)About 2 months ago, I made a post that contained an one hour vide...Warren Buffett CEO: Kevin Clayton with Robert MilesFirst a Dream, a book by Jim Clayton, influenced Warren Buffett t... More About: Video , Gift
Becky Quick Interview With Warren Buffett on Squawk on the Street
2007-12-14 07:19:00 A few days ago, Warren Buffett was in San Francisco doing a fund raising campaign for Hillary Clinton. While he was there, he was interviewed by CNBC’s Becky Quick on Squawk on the Street . These are some of the points covered during the interview: What the Fed rate decision means to him His views on the economy The reason ... More About: Interview
Fed Rate Cuts to an Investor
2007-12-12 06:52:00 The Fed had just cut rates by 25 basis points. This is the headline I see from Yahoo news. “Stock Falls After Fed Cuts Rate “ This is another headline I see from the previous month: “Stocks Rise on Fed Cut” If you are a long term investor, should you even be concerned with whether the Fed is cutting or ... More About: News , Investor
Warren Buffett buys $2B worth of TXU bonds
2007-12-06 05:48:00 Last week, Warren Buffett put $2 billion of Berkshire Hathaway’s cash to work by buying high-yield bonds issued by Dallas-based power producer TXU Corp. Berkshire(NYSE:BRK) bought into two bond issues by TXU. One was a $1.1 billion purchase of 10.25% bonds at 95 cents on the dollar to give Buffett an effective yield of 11.2%. Berkshire ... More About: Bonds , Worth
Warren Buffett?s Video Tour of Berkshire Hathaway Headquarters
2007-12-03 07:21:00 CNBC’s Becky Quick recently traveled to Omaha, Nebraska to shoot additional material for her one-hour special focusing on Warren Buffett ’s whirlwind tour of Asia. While Becky was there, Warren Buffett gave her a tour of the Berkshire Hathaway offices. He talked about some of the mementos he’s collected and their personal significance to him, and to ... More About: Video , Interview
A Few of Warren Buffett Ground Rules For Investors
2007-11-22 04:51:00 Berkshire Annual Letter 2001 (Part 1) When Warren Buffett first setup his investment partnership on May, 1956, he gave his other founding partners a short paper called “The Ground Rules “. One of the ground rules stated that their performance would be measured relative to the general market performance, rather than on an absolute level. A consistent out-performance of ...
Becky Quick on Her Road Trip With Warren Buffett
2007-11-12 14:57:00 Some people paid hundreds of thousands of dollars just to have lunch with Warren Buffett . Becky Quick of CNBC is one lucky lady. Recently, she had the good fortune to accompany Warren Buffett on a week long trip to China and South Korea. CNBC managing editor Tyler Mathisen had a short interview with Becky Quick to ... More About: Interview
Do Not Believe Everything Your Read About Warren Buffett
2007-11-09 05:47:00 Berkshire Annual Letter 2000 (Part 4) In the annual letter to his shareholders in year 2001, Warren Buffett reminded us again not to believe everything we read in the press about Berkshire. Reports with incorrect information can be very dangerous when circulated by highly regarded media. Even Wall Street Journal reported incorrectly in the 29th Dec 2000 issue ... More About: Read , Fett
Warren Buffett Interview With Tom Brokaw
2007-11-02 07:21:00 Warren Buffett continues to speak out against the unfair tax treatment for high networth individuals. In an interview with Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News Monday night, he calls for higher taxes on very wealthy Americans. In this interview, Warren Buffett and Tom also covers: Threats to the U.S. economy - The seriousness of the housing crisis. A ... More About: Warren Buffett , Warren , Interview
James Skinner on Lessons He Learnt From Moving a Billion Dollars
2007-10-27 10:08:00 James Skinner is the first speaker after lunch. I have listened to him before and really liked his presentation. Just like the previous session, he did not disappoint this time round. He shared some radical ideas about investing. Here are the points he covered in this session. You can become a successful investor if you can ... More About: Moving , Dollars , James , Lessons
Dr Clemen Chiang on 10 Most Profitable Investing Ideas For the Next One Yea
2007-10-27 06:59:00 The next speaker after Dr Rolf was Dr Clemen Chia ng, founder and CEO of Freely Pte Ltd and Freely Business School. He’s a very prominent trainer of options trading in Singapore. He provides 10 investment ideas that we can think about in the near future and the timeline for realization: i-trend (Jan 08) Mobility (Jan 08) Lifestyle (Feb ... More About: Ideas , Investing , Profitable
Dr Dolf de Roos on Bubbleproofing Your Real Estate Investments
More articles from this author:2007-10-27 04:51:00 The first speaker of the day was Dr Dolf de Ross, chairman of Property Ventures Limited. Here are some of the points he bought up. Readers are leaders. He who does not read has no advantage over he who don’t know how to read. When you invest in property, you have to consider the global market. The ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Real , Investments 1, 2, 3 |
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