The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2024

From this perspective, it's not unlike a mutual fund. A stake in Berkshire Hathaway is in many ways a means of letting Buffett manage your money for you based on his proven, value-minded approach to picking stocks. It's not a stock in the traditional sense. Even that comparison somehow doesn't do it justice.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2025

That was his 6% stake at the time and he tells the story on the Mailbag on Rule Breaker Investing a couple weeks ago of what happened. He said he always felt comfortable because it was diversified, it was a huge stake in Microsoft. Microsoft was just a 6% stake back in the day. One of those stocks was Microsoft.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2024

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. billion as of the end of last year) comes from its privately held businesses. Ordinary investors can't make such deals.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

The entire modern institutional asset economy, the options market, the securities market, the money manager system, the institutional mutual funds, the institutional ETFs, they're all going to be centered around bitcoin as the digital property going forward.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I want to move our investing discussion briefly, there Rand, because conscious capitalism is central to the philosophy at stake, and you have been on the board. Or since you have an incredible window into your clients, now I know a lot of them are private companies where it would be a special investment, do you ever invest in your clients?

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

Shannon Rebolledo staked out the parking lot as JBS left and PSSI came in. No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. I used to invest in top global hedge funds back in the day and I trusted nobody. How can this happen? Where did oversight fail?

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