Tag Archives: Warren Buffett
Gains with a negative performance?
I wrote some months ago a post in the blog where I showed how you lose money with swings in the market of the same percentage (e.g. -10% followed by +10% or vice versa). In another post I explained how … Continue reading
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The Unwritten Laws of Finance & Investment
I believe I have already mentioned at some point in the blog the ritual I have almost every time I get into an airport of going to one of the book shops to check whether I can find something to … Continue reading
Risk
Few days ago I wrote a post about what was supposedly my risk profile as an investor. I mentioned in that post that the mainstream perception of risk is quite different to the one I had. Which is the perception … Continue reading
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My experience at BRK2011
Berkshire Hathaway was a small textile company in Rhode Island. As many other textile companies it was struggling due to cheap labour competition elsewhere. Warren Buffett had already invested in the company before realising that it was headed for the … Continue reading
Filed under Investing, Travelling
Woodstock for Capitalists
Right now, while this is being published and if everything is going as planned, Luca and I are in Omaha, Nebraska. By now we should be already registered to attend tomorrow the annual shareholders meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, company famous … Continue reading
Snowball (Compound interest)
I wanted to share with you in this post a speech I gave last Saturday at Rosemasters club contest. I was not contesting but a speech was needed for the evaluation contest, so I volunteered. Why do I share this … Continue reading
Filed under Investing, Toastmasters
Resist the bias to act
Some days ago I tweeted about the swings of Mr. Market lately. The consideration of the stock market as Mr. Market is a metaphor that we owe it to Benjamin Graham. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I … Continue reading
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The Snowball, Warren Buffett bio (book review)
Last Christmas, my brother gave me “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life“, by Alice Schroeder. He completely hit on the spot, though I only started reading it during last August holidays (Luca also started reading it to … Continue reading
Starting up an airline?
Some days ago I came across a post in the blog of Randy Tinseth, VP Marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, where he explains the concept of StartupBoeing and invites entrepreneurs to take up the opportunity. StartupBoeing is a website which … Continue reading
Filed under Aerospace & Defence, Investing, Marketing
Value investor: Joel Greenblatt
Last week, I watched an online interview by Steve Forbes to Joel Greenblatt, a value investor, author of the book: “The Little Book That Beats the Market”. I read this book about two or three years ago and I remember … Continue reading
