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Berkshire Hathaway: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

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However, Berkshire has spent nearly $80 billion buying back its own stock since 2018, an act that has increased shareholder wealth while it artificially depressed accounting book value. Berkshire shares are still a buy, but it's more important than ever to maintain a long-term investment horizon.

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See Why Young Women Have One Big Advantage in Investing

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Women don't panic about stock market news There's always bad news in the world, and sometimes too much news-reading can cause people to make short-sighted investment decisions -- like selling stocks too soon. And taking more risk over long investment horizons gives women more options."

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AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall on Shadow Banks and Investing More in Canada

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trillion, up from $700 billion in 2018 Concentration risk looms, with potential wealth destruction surpassing $1 trillion if risky ventures default pic.twitter.com/jBI33FSh1m — Game of Trades (@GameofTrades_) January 24, 2024 And just today I read this: The Bank of England is examining the potential for systemic risk in the $1.6

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World’s Top Pension Funds See the Largest Assets Decline in 20 Years

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11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The world’s largest 300 pension funds saw their assets decline for the first time since 2018, according to this year’s Global Top 300 Pensions Funds conducted by WTW’s Thinking Ahead Institute.

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Best Caisse Scenario?

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That caused us political grief, but it was the right decision to make, and the Caisse decided,” says Carlos Leitão, who was Quebec’s finance minister from 2014 to 2018 and now serves on the Bank of Canada’s board of directors. “I I think 20 years ago, the decision would have been made differently. One is the intense scrutiny on the Caisse.

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A Conversation With John Graham on CPP Investments Fiscal 2023 Results

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Our original investment was made in 2018. About CPP Investments Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments™) is a professional investment management organization that manages the Fund in the best interest of the more than 21 million contributors and beneficiaries of the Canada Pension Plan.

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BlackRock (BLK) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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I think back to 2016 and 2018 when uncertainty and cautious sentiment impacted investment behaviors among institutional and individuals, many clients de-risked and moved to cash. 2016, 2018, '22, '23, we generated positive organic base fee growth. BlackRock stayed connected with our clients. As I said, deficits matter.

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