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...Warren Buffett has warned Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that his sprawling $905bn conglomerate has virtually “no possibility of eye-popping performance” in the years ahead, laying bare the challenges that...
...Christopher Rossbach, chief investment officer of longtime Berkshire shareholder J Stern & Co, said investors would have to wait to see whether the executives who have worked side-by-side with the two men...
...The challenges confronting Buffett’s successors The passing of Berkshire Hathaway’s acerbic vice-chair Charlie Munger in November turned investors’ attention towards the company’s prospects without Warren...
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway surged to a record high this week, helping increase its valuation this year by more than $100bn — the equivalent of Ford and Halliburton combined....
...Pilot, which also operates the Flying J brand, sells fuel, food and merchandise to truckers and provides showers among other services....
...Mandy Madden Kelley, entrepreneur I would never part with my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...Previewed at GP & J Baker’s Rue du Mail showroom, the collection’s eye-catcher is Front Row, a patchwork-like print originally envisaged as a decor for Kemp’s trendy Tribeca outpost the Warren Street Hotel...
...But at this year’s annual meeting in Omaha shareholders got their best view yet of the man whom Warren Buffett regards as the answer to the succession question: 60-year-old Greg Abel....
...“There are tremendous opportunities for Berkshire’s businesses to work together,” said Chris Rossbach, chief investment officer at fund manager J Stern & Co....
...For the first time the figure includes the results of truck stop business Pilot Flying J, which Berkshire took majority control of in January....
...“[Warren] Buffett says it’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who has been swimming naked,” he said....
...At Berkshire’s annual general meeting in Omaha on Saturday, Munger’s partner Warren Buffett noted it was the lenders who often ended up with unwanted property....
...Two years later he founded J Rothschild Assurance Group — now St James’s Place, the UK’s largest wealth manager — with Sir Mark Weinberg....
...Warren Buffett offered a full-throated defence of share buybacks in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday, saying stock purchases by Berkshire and the dozens of publicly traded...
...Through aggressive deals, Emanuel has transformed his talent empire Endeavor, which began above a Beverly Hills hamburger restaurant in 1995, into an industry heavyweight that boasts clients such as Oprah...
...“Berkshire has a strong retail shareholder base and they are much more loyal and willing to hold the stock,” said Christopher Rossbach, chief investment officer of J Stern & Co, a longtime shareholder....
...But the real progenitor of the wheeze is Warren Buffett, the world’s most famous investor. Brookfield did implicit homage to the Sage of Omaha this week....
...“If Warren thinks the deal is OK, the deal is OK,” Buffett said of the board’s thinking, as he held court on Saturday at a meeting that reminded shareholders that Berkshire remains very much the Warren show...
...Meanwhile, the world hasn’t yet heard from Warren Buffett, the investor who played the single biggest hand during the 2008 tumult....
...An object I would never part with is my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...Heinz ended up selling itself in 2013 to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital for $28bn, generating a big profit for Peltz as well as Heinz’s management and shareholders....
...In 1998, Warren Buffett lamented the lack of good investment opportunities for Berkshire Hathaway. He was waiting for what he called his fat pitch, a home-run deal....
...Job moves JPMorgan Chase has named J&J former chief executive Alex Gorsky as director to its board....
...But she also quotes from Edmund Burke’s speech for the impeachment of Warren Hastings, Britain’s first governor-general of Bengal, India....
...But I want to go back to like the old days of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with Lisa Vanderpump. But, yeah, I’d love to see real people living real lives....
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