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

The Motley Fool

Even newcomers to the stock market understand that investing is ultimately a matter of trade-offs. 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. That's outperform the S&P 500.

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

The Motley Fool

If it's not coming from Berkshire's biggest stock positions, where's all of this value coming from? It's an often-forgotten detail about Berkshire Hathaway, but it's not a mutual fund. It's a conglomerate that just so happens to use much of its idle cash to hold stocks of publicly traded companies.