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...Berkshire Hathaway: lucky or good? Berkshire Hathaway released its second-quarter report over the weekend, and there wasn’t loads of news in it....
...But even if you are lucky enough to have a long investing lifetime, your returns could depart from that, by a lot. Taking average returns and projecting them forward is dangerous....
...Vynokur admits he got lucky with the timing. “Of course, nobody has a crystal ball, and nobody really picks these things perfectly,” said Vynokur....
...If you’re lucky, a footnote might explain how much of the money is actually owed to financial institutions, rather than suppliers....
...But David realises he is one of the “lucky ones”: his health insurance covered the $18,000 cost of his three-week stint at Williamsville....
Student bet his whole $27mn on one volatile stock and sold his stake just weeks later
...But for investors, the biggest problem is that most of the top multistrats are closed to new investors, and even if you’re lucky enough to be in one, you’re charged dearly for the privilege....
...Perhaps AbbVie struck lucky with Humira and the industry should not be judged by one company with net revenues of $58bn last year....
...There is one lucky group that walked away from the deal richer, however....
...If we’re lucky, this new wave of talent will break through, and this time the revolution will be televised. Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend...
...It’s potentially good news for a lucky few creators of abbreviated dance routines, skits, pranks, stunts, performative charity acts and DIY hacks....
...Others were less lucky....
...(To précis, heavily: lucky pennies are manufactured, overseen by suited pigs. The effect is less Orwellian than it sounds.)...
...Was Freeman on to something, or had he gotten extremely lucky in exiting amid a meme stock surge?...
...He is lucky. Boardrooms can often be a minefield of ego, ambition and internal wrangling — conditions ideal for sycophancy and power games, not for the building of trust....
...With Comerica and News Corp, by contrast, we were just lucky. High beta shorts, a down year, the end. Finally, a massive blunder: shorting an energy stock. We thought oil prices would roll over....
...She finds a lucky penny, promptly loses it, and then begins a quest to find another one with the assistance of a black cat who speaks with a Scottish accent....
...He sold $20,000 of shares and paid his college tuition fees: “I got lucky as heck,” Zettler says. Yet the risk was worth it, he adds....
...Young is a happy-go-lucky kind of guy (his words, not mine). He really does love farming, though, and wants more people to get a taste for it. Or at least to understand it better....
...I had it lucky: our cultural reckoning with nuclear war was still largely fiction, we weren’t being taught how to survive a nuclear attack, as my mother’s generation was, by hiding behind a mattress or crouching...
...He doesn’t bite: “If we got lucky,” he says. Certainly the past 20 years bear out the idea that there are structural reasons Berkshire cannot outperform....
...And I may not even get a court date until the end of this year if we’re lucky”....
...“I feel very lucky there’s a way for us to be able to afford to buy in the area we like so much,” says the florist, who works in Chelsea....
...Allan Gray more than tripled its stake in London-listed British American Tobacco last year and is the Lucky Strike maker’s fifth-largest shareholder with a 3 per cent stake....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 20 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
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