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...A new version of this is being built in China, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Cheng Leng and Hudson Lockett report....
...Warren Buffett’s bet on the sleepy world of Japanese general trading companies was well-timed. Other investors shouldn’t copy him, the FT’s Lex writes....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway yesterday unveiled an $814mn investment in three US housebuilders....
...DD’s Kaye Wiggins dug deep into these structures in November....
...As a bipartisan group of US lawmakers including Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren demand answers from Silvergate, further investigation will probably ensue....
...Buffett reunites with a long-lost friend Warren Buffett has two rules: don’t lose, and don’t forget the first rule....
...Investors are this year selling their stakes in private equity and venture capital funds at the fastest pace ever, DD’s Kaye Wiggins reports....
...The power of twelve Earlier this year, Charlie Munger, the famously irascible billionaire vice-chair of Berkshire Hathaway, turned his ire towards a phenomenon his partner Warren Buffett has frequently...
...That is the backdrop against which months of turmoil at one of the world’s most controversial cyber companies has played out, as DD’s Kaye Wiggins and Ortenca Aliaj and the FT’s Mehul Srivastava and Demetri...
...Breaking up Berkshire Warren Buffett can’t run his sprawling conglomerate forever....
...(DD’s Kaye Wiggins wrote a deep-dive on the subject here.)...
...Now DD’s Kaye Wiggins has pulled some data to get a sense of just how frothy the market has become. Let’s begin with Europe....
...Elizabeth Warren’s so-called Stop Wall Street Looting bill, which would have ended what it called the “carried interest loophole”, stalled after it was introduced in the Senate last year....
...He is ranked alongside investing titans such as Warren Buffett, and is widely credited with reshaping how institutional investors allocate their cash....
...Already, Ms Warren has sounded a note of alarm....
...(Though, while KKR has BT on its radar, there are no concrete plans — get the full picture with this story from DD’s Kaye Wiggins and James Fontanella-Khan and the FT’s Nic Fildes.)...
...DD’s Kaye Wiggins and Rob Smith break down the deal here....
...Buyout groups have spent much of the past year in the crosshairs of Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren, who has accused them of “looting” and proposed to rein them in....
...When Jay-Z met up with Warren Buffett at Omaha’s Hollywood Diner 11 years ago, the two sipped on strawberry milkshakes and talked business with Steve Forbes....
...His speech comes at a time when the private equity industry is increasingly under fire, particularly in the US where it has drawn criticism from unions and Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren...
...Dig into the detail with DD’s Kaye Wiggins and Mark Vandevelde here....
...Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic presidential hopeful, published a “Stop Wall Street Looting” bill that accused the industry of loading companies with debt and causing workers, customers and communities to...
...Brookfield Asset Management, the Canadian asset manager and one of the world’s largest real estate investors, is also interested. 3G Capital, which alongside Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway owns Kraft...
...Read the story by DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Philip Georgiadis here. Cascade, which manages Bill Gates’ fortune, is Signature’s largest shareholder, with a 19 per cent stake....
...Latest look at Buffett and Berkshire It was a tough quarter for Warren Buffett, even as a rebound in the stock market helped to push Berkshire Hathaway to a mammoth $26.3bn profit....
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