Sunday 1 March 2015

Berkshire Hathaway: 50 years of Value Investing

Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate managed by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, published its much anticipated 2014 year report. It is the 50th since Buffett took control of the company. A true monument of value investing.

At the end of the day, the only thing that counts is the long term returns, and they are extremely impressive:




Berkshire Hathaway always uses "marked to market" for listed securities despite their limitations, Maybulk and Noble might want to take note:




It is the hallmark of the great manager to admit mistakes, Buffett does not try to hide the mistake he made regarding Tesco, about which I wrote here and here.





The last three sentences are a proof of the amazing stock picking abilities of Buffett and Munger.

Reviews about the year report can be found at Fortune, Forbes and The New York Times.

No comments:

Post a Comment