Three Questions Warren Buffett Won’t Answer At The 2022 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting

Three Questions Warren Buffett Won’t Answer At The 2022 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting

My first Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting was in 2002. I was travelling to Omaha with the Fidelity team of 20+ investors. The new analysts had an important job – get up super early to get a spot in line. That way the Portfolio Managers and Senior Analysts could sleep in, and still get a spot upfront. I thought I was ready. I was not.

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Warren Buffett’s Big Investing Mistake

Warren Buffett’s Big Investing Mistake

Warren Buffett is the world’s most successful investor. Yet, even the best make mistakes, as any good investor knows. Analyzing Warren Buffett’s mistakes in depth can make you a better investor. In the just-released 2020 Berkshire Hathaway annual letter, Buffett briefly tells us about a recent, big, mistake: Precision Castparts (“PCC”). Let’s dive in and see what we can learn.

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What You Can Learn From How Warren Buffett’s Investment Process Evolved

What You Can Learn From How Warren Buffett’s Investment Process Evolved

When I was at a group dinner with Warren Buffett 16 years ago, I asked him: what do you look for when you evaluate a stock? He answered: First he decides whether he can roughly estimate the business’s key economic characteristics 5–10 years out. If he can’t then he eliminates it from consideration right then and there.

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Why You Would Not Have Invested With Warren Buffett

Why You Would Not Have Invested With Warren Buffett

Before becoming Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett built an amazing track record compounding capital in a small partnership in the 1950s and 1960s. Chances are you would not have invested with him: his partnership did not appear conventional and he did not invest conventionally.

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