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Prediction: Buying Berkshire Hathaway Today Will Set You Up for Life

The Motley Fool

And ironically, your highest-odds/best-payoff approach isn't trying to beat the market at all, but instead just aiming to match its performance by buying and holding simple index funds. Nearly half of all Berkshire Hathaway's current value is made up of solid-but-small companies you can't directly invest in.

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Berkshire Hathaway's Beating the Market, But Its Biggest Holdings Aren't. What Gives?

The Motley Fool

The dividends Berkshire's collected from the stocks it's holding still don't come close to fully explaining why the fund is doing so well when the stocks it's holding aren't. The next biggest three -- Coca-Cola, Chevron (NYSE: CVX) , and Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) -- make up another 16% of the fund's picks. 3-Year Chg.