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...I tread carefully in not specifying which woman is bereaved: the film deals its cards sharply enough that you don’t want to spoil its surprises....
...I don’t know where I got that notion from, but I had it.”...
...Investors and analysts don’t believe the company will make any immediate changes, given that succession plans have largely been laid out and that Munger’s $2bn-plus stake was not large enough to affect control...
...And then Berkshire Hathaway. (Laughter) Katie Martin(Laughter) Berkshire Hathaway just gets in because it’s Berkshire Hathaway. Toby NangleI know. It’s in the rule book....
...I tell this to my assistants all the time, you don’t know how you are going to connect with someone,” she says. “And be nice....
...Don Hankey, a Los Angeles-based subprime auto loan billionaire, has said two of his biggest early-career mistakes were to only do business with honest people and to trust his gut to pick those people out...
...I’m joined now by the FT’s Eric Platt, who covers Berkshire Hathaway. Hi, Eric. Eric Platt Hey. Persis Love So tell me a little bit about this energy and utility business from Berkshire Hathaway....
...Charlie Munger, who has died aged 99, was instrumental in helping Warren Buffett turn Berkshire Hathaway into an investment powerhouse....
...But you do not get like, gentlemanly chaps wondering, well, I don’t think . . . Robert Armstrong Yeah, I don’t know, not even. But you don’t . . . Jo Ellison I mean, look at HTSI....
...The stockpile of assets, called “strategic holdings”, has been created by Nuttall and Bae to replicate the success Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has had in compounding its assets, profits and market...
...“We don’t really understand why you would need to introduce an additional criteria of ‘investability’,” said Andy Manning, principal economic regulation specialist at Citizens Advice....
...That could be a few months off: On top of labour market resilience, Don Rissmiller of Strategas notes that inflation often travels in waves....
...I don’t get it, Rob. Make it stop. Robert ArmstrongI’m long something. I am long Berkshire Hathaway....
...The Berkshire Hathaway chair had risked his reputation trying to save Salomon Brothers, a scandal-plagued investment bank few wanted to do business with....
...But I don’t think Berkshire has got this one wrong, even if the rally driven by the sudden jump in mortgage rates is petering out....
...What is more, a fifth of stocks in the S&P 500 did not pay out a dime last year either — some never do, including Facebook, Berkshire Hathaway and Amazon....
...Berkshire and the S&P 500 If your entire equity portfolio had to be in either the S&P 500 or Berkshire Hathaway, which would be the better choice?...
...Listen, don’t ask me, I don’t know. I don’t know. Robert ArmstrongYeah. Should we turn to Apple? Ethan WuLet’s turn to Apple. Robert ArmstrongOK....
...Or, if you decide you don’t, go find something else. But please don’t think you can spend the next five years moaning.”...
...“You don’t know what happened to the stickiness of deposits at all . . . and that changes everything,” he told shareholders gathered in Omaha for the company’s annual meeting....
...“It’s the dollar losing utility as an asset to store trade surpluses,” says John Hathaway, managing partner of Sprott Inc, a Canadian asset manager specialising in metals....
...Shakespeare has decamped to London, where scenes with Will Kemp (Wight again, excellent) and Richard Burbage (Will Brown) don’t entirely escape the larky tone of TV’s Upstart Crow as they badger William...
...She could take Lalah Hathaway’s depth, and Sarah Vaughan’s vibrato, and gospel, too. “It could all be part of who I am.”...
...The retirees don’t have a vote, but they do have a voice. They are among the firm’s largest creditors and their unfunded retirement benefits are being paid out of the partnership’s cash flows....
...Don’t miss this excellent obituary by my colleague Eric Platt of the man whom Buffett referred to as his “abominable no-man”....
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