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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.

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Motley Fool Co-Founder David Gardner Helps Set Investors Up for Long-Term Success

The Motley Fool

Dave, at the age of 28, was savvy enough that he had a CPA, so he was an accountant, but he had very little experience with the stock market. What would you say to that person who is just now getting excited about investing in the stock market with maybe 100 or an extra 200 bucks a month? I got one from Goldman Sachs.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

But I covered derivatives at first, and then I cover mutual funds. I worked for a (inaudible) called Fund Action and did that for a little while, and then went — I met a guy named Duff Ferguson at AllianceBernstein. They’d be the biggest active mutual fund to shop times over. RITHOLTZ: It’s …. He was the P.R.

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"Rule Breaker Investing" Essays From Yesterday, Vol. 6

The Motley Fool

That's when our stocks really go bananas. For us to tack on 12% points of outperformance in this market has been particularly sweet, even if 2007 so often felt bittersweet. Fellow Fools, the stock market is a roller coaster, full of swoops and dives. Remember, stock market equals roller coaster.

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Keep your clients far away from ESG investing – it’s a rip-off!

Sara Grillo

It’s more an indication of what your CEO tweets about than the actual virtue or vice of the company’s behavior. This lack of fairness, transparency, objectivity and the ideology the enshrines the offering up of stock market competitiveness as a sacrificial cow of wokeness is yet another reason why ESG sucks. Impact investing.

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Transcript: Tony Kim, Blackrock Active Technology

The Big Picture

In addition to being a portfolio manager and running a number of mutual funds and ETFs, he is just a world-class technology investor who understands the sector like few other people do. 00:17:14 And, and that, that gets expressed in an active fund and ETF or a mutual fund or whatever.