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☆ 30 essential tips for living a longer, happier, more successful life with no regrets
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-31 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The anti-aging market is littered with innovative products and procedures that promise consumers a healthier, happier, longer life. But prolonging your life isn't only about physical fitness: a near 90-year-long study from Harvard University found that those who live happier, longer lives have good relationships. If you want to live longer and feel more fulfilled you probably don't need lasers or freezers. 30 essential tips for living a longer, happier, more successful life1. If you can't drive, don't live somewhere where the doctor is a 30-minute car ride away.

Persons: superagers, dieticians, Warren, Buffets, Valter Longo, David Watson, Warren Buffet, Neil Paulvin, Danielle Miura, Mark La Spisa, García, Francesc Miralles, Charlie, Munger, Warren Buffett, it's, Thema Bryant Organizations: Harvard University, Italy —, Cancer Laboratory, IFOM, of Oncology, University of Notre Dame, GameStop Locations: New York City, Blue, Okinawa, Japan, Sardinia, Italy

☆ A new ETF uses AI to emulate Warren Buffett's investment style
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Investment startup Intelligent Alpha is working on launching the Intelligent Omaha ETF , with the ticker AIWB, that relies on AI to emulate the Berkshire Hathaway CEO's investment philosophy and create a portfolio of 25-30 stocks that it thinks Buffett might buy. It remains to be seen how deeply AI could understand Buffett's unique investing style that has evolved significantly over seven decades. All about AI Intelligent Alpha has been testing its Buffett strategy for six months and the portfolio AI puts together would overlap Berkshire's by anywhere between 30 to 60%. "The vision for Intelligent Alpha is to build the AI-powered BlackRock," Clinton said. "There are two big pillars, serving retail investors [through Registered Investment Advisors], and then there's serving institutional investors."

Persons: Warren Buffett, Buffett, Claude —, he's, Doug Clinton, Charlie Munger's, Clinton, Stanley Druckenmiller, David Tepper Organizations: Alpha, Berkshire Hathaway, Intelligent Alpha, Apple, Livermore, Nvidia, Advisors Locations: Omaha

☆ A top-1% fund manager warns Warren Buffett is behaving like he did before the dot-com crash — and says the S&P 500 could see dismal returns for a decade
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He's also outperformed the S&P 500 over that time by returning 14% per year on average versus the index's 13.8% annualized gains. Between July and September 1999, Buffett shared his outlook for the market in a series of talks that were summarized by Fortune's Carol Loomis in November of that year. AdvertisementSince then, however, investors have enjoyed 15 years of ultra-low interest rates and growing corporate profits — a fact that has Smead worried. "The only problem is it's a curse on long-term S&P 500 performance," Smead said of the 15-year run. Related storiesBaked into Smead's outlook is an against-consensus view that inflation is set to surge again as the Fed cuts interest rates.

Persons: —, Bill Smead, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Smead, Munger, He's, Buffett, Fortune's Carol Loomis Organizations: Service, Business, Morningstar, Apple, Bank of America

☆ 11 stocks that investing legends like Warren Buffett, Seth Klarman, and David Einhorn are betting more than 20% of their portfolios on
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Some top investors prefer high portfolio concentration levels. While diversification protects against risks, concentration is a high-risk, high-reward proposition. Apple and Occidental Petroleum are among the stocks that some investors have at least 20% of their portfolios in. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementSome of the best investors in the world find success through what others may view as a risky strategy: high portfolio concentration levels.

Persons: —, Charlie Munger Organizations: Apple, Occidental Petroleum, Service, Business

☆ An opportunity may be emerging in this beaten-down potato stock. Using options to capitalize
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Michael Khouw | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Lamb Weston was the worst-performing stock in the S & P 500 on Wednesday on the back of disappointing quarterly results. The Idaho-based supplier of frozen potato, sweet potato, appetizer and vegetable products to restaurants said fully diluted earnings per share fell more than 70% from the year-earlier period. Consequently, the stock price fell over 28% on Wednesday. At ~ 1.2x price to sales, Lamb Weston is the cheapest it has been in the past ten years. Some of that increase is justifiable; the company demonstrated considerably higher operating volatility than they or investors expected, and the debt-to-equity increase as a function of the stock price decline is also a contributor.

Persons: Lamb Weston, they're, Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger Organizations: Berkshire, CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL Locations: Idaho

☆ What we know about Usha Vance's politics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewUsha Vance's classmates at Yale Law School didn't know much about her politics. Less obvious, however, is Usha Vance's political orientation and relationship to the newfound national spotlight. In 2022, two colleagues at the firm described Usha Vance as liberal or moderate to The Times. When JD Vance was himself running for Senate, Usha Vance appeared in his very first campaign ad, sitting in front of a bookshelf and talking about their three children. AdvertisementWhile Usha Vance's political orientations and interest in life as a national figure remain foggy, her devotion to her husband has seemed strong since her days at Yale Law School.

Persons: —, Usha Vance's, Yale Law School didn't, Marvin Lim, Usha, Elliot Forhan, Usha Chilukuri, JD Vance, Lim, Usha Vance, Vikram Rao, Gabriel Winant, Vance's spokespeople, Vance, SCOTUS Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Munger, Olson, Blake Masters, Vance hasn't Organizations: Service, Yale Law School, Democrat, Business, New York Times, Times, Yale, Cambridge, The Times, Tolles, GOP, American, Newsmax, Fox & Friends, JD, Republican, Convention Locations: Georgia, Ohio, San Diego, Arizona

Vance as his running mate and a possible successor to lead the “Make America Great Again” movement. The 39-year-old served in Iraq and later went to Yale Law School, where he met his wife, Usha Vance. (She resigned from her role as a trial lawyer at Munger Tolles & Olson after Vance joined the ticket.) Vance rose to national prominence after publishing the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” He worked at Mithril Capital Management, a venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, and Steve Case’s Revolution. Vance is close to the libertarian wing of the tech industry.

Persons: Donald Trump, Vance, He’s, ”, he’s, Usha Vance, Olson, Peter Thiel, Steve Case’s, Thiel, Eric Schmidt, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks Organizations: Trump, Yale Law School, Mithril Capital Management, Ohio Senate, Republican National Convention Locations: Iraq, Munger, Silicon, Ohio

☆ Who is Usha Vance, the wife of Trump’s running mate?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Arit John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

His wife, Usha, has been by his side through it all. As the Ohio delegation chanted her husband’s name on the Republican convention floor in Milwaukee, Usha Vance stood beside the first-term senator and applauded as he was nominated by voice vote to be Donald Trump’s running mate. Now, with JD Vance as Trump’s vice presidential nominee, the couple has embarked on a journey even bigger than the 2022 Senate campaign in Ohio. If his 2022 Senate campaign is any indication, Usha Vance may play an understated but key role in helping introduce him to the public. In his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” JD Vance described her as his “Yale spirit guide,” helping him navigate life at the elite university where they met.

Persons: CNN — JD Vance, Usha, Usha Vance, Donald Trump’s, Weeks, wasn’t, ”, “, JD Vance, MAGA, he’s, Newsmax, ” JD Vance, – Usha Vance’s, Usha Chilukuri, – Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, Olson, –, “ Usha Organizations: CNN, Republican, Fox News, Trump, Senate, Yale University, Yale, University of Cambridge, Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, Tolles Locations: Ohio, Milwaukee, Yale, Kentucky, San Diego, Munger, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, clerkships

☆ Melinda French Gates shares the best lesson she got from Charlie Munger: ‘What a thing to aspire to’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Charlie Munger wasn't just an acclaimed investor, one of the masterminds behind Berkshire Hathaway's decades of financial success. He also gave great life advice, according to billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates. French Gates, 59, shared her favorite lesson of Munger's during a recent commencement speech at Stanford University. "As a society, we aren't always set up to feel responsibility for the person who's next to us or the person who's on the other side of a divide or a debate," French Gates added. Similarly, French Gates urged her audience to make "strong, reciprocal bonds with other people, even if they disagree on issues big or small."

Persons: Charlie Munger wasn't, Melinda French Gates, French Gates, Charlie, Gates, Munger, Berkshire Hathaway — Warren Buffett's, Lisa Skeete Tatum, Landit, Skeete Tatum Organizations: Stanford University, Berkshire, CNBC Locations: Berkshire, French

☆ Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway raked in billions from BYD, the China EV maker Munger called a 'damn miracle'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Sixteen years ago, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway unveiled a $230 million investment in Chinese electric vehicle startup BYD , sparking questions about the conglomerate's unusual foray into early-stage technology. Lately, Berkshire has been selling down the position, ringing the register after earning billions of dollars during its hyper-growth phase. Berkshire trimmed its BYD stake to 5.99% as of June 19 from 7% just a few days earlier , according to a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing . It has since become the top car brand in China, as well as a major producer of EV batteries. "From a standing start at zero and with very little capital, he rapidly was able to create the best-selling single model in China," Munger said.

Persons: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger, —, Munger, Wang Chuanfu, he's, Buffett, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, BYD, Tesla, Li Lu Organizations: Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Oracle, EV, Elon, Seattle, Capital, Berkshire Locations: China, Berkshire, Munger, Omaha, Shenzhen, Hong Kong

☆ Warren Buffett gives away another $5.3 billion, says his children will manage his estate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. Warren Buffett on Friday made his biggest annual donation to date, giving $5.3 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares to five charities. After Friday's donations, Buffett owns 207,963 Berkshire A shares and 2,586 B shares, worth about $130 billion. He told the Journal that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will no longer receive donations after his death. Buffett resigned as a trustee at the Gates Foundation in June 2021 in the midst of Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Melinda Gates, Susan Thompson Buffett, Howard, Susan, Peter Buffett, Buffett, haven't, we've, Charlie Munger, Greg Abel Organizations: Berkshire, Berkshire Class, Melinda Gates Foundation, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, Oracle, Wall Street Journal, Gates Foundation Locations: Omaha , Nebraska, Omaha, Berkshire, Douglas

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Boeing's 'moment of reckoning'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Abid Ali | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Immigrants, jobs and inflationImmigration has helped the U.S. job market sustain a strong run in recent months without reigniting inflation, economists and analysts say. This dynamic — a hot job market and cooling inflation — is in part the result of increased inflows of immigrants. The conglomerate sold 1.3 million shares for $39.8 million, reducing its holding to 6.9%. [PRO] S&P 500 to hit 6,000Evercore ISI predicts the stock market will soar to unprecedented heights, setting a new year-end target for the S&P 500 at a record 6,000.

Persons: Neel Kashkari, CNBC's Rebecca Picciotto, Ryan Cohen, Keith Gill, Matthew Bartolini, Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger, Tesla Organizations: CNBC, Microsoft, Apple, Nasdaq, Dow Jones, Minneapolis Federal, GameStop, Fund, Nvidia, SPDR Locations: U.S, SPDR Americas, Berkshire, BYD

☆ Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumps BYD shares following rise in trade tension over Chinese EVs
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Hong Kong CNN —Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has further cut its large stake in BYD, which vies with Tesla as the world’s largest electric car (EV) maker, as global trade tensions escalate over Chinese EVs. The sale was valued at 310.5 million Hong Kong dollars ($40 million). BYD shares had closed at a record high in June of that year. In 2008, Berkshire spent $230 million in buying BYD shares at an average of HK$8 ($1.02) apiece. Berkshire still holds 75.7 million Hong Kong-listed shares of BYD, which were worth about 17.6 billion Hong Kong dollars ($2.3 billion) by Tuesday.

Persons: Hong Kong CNN — Warren, Berkshire Hathaway, Tesla, Buffett, Daniel Acker, Biden, Wang Chuanfu, Elon Musk’s Tesla, didn’t, Charlie Munger, Munger “, ” Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Hong Kong, Berkshire, Bloomberg, Getty, European Union, European Commission, EU, EV, HK, CNN Locations: China, Hong Kong, BYD, European, Europe, Beijing, United States, Shenzhen, Berkshire

☆ Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway trims its stake in Chinese EV maker BYD to 6.9%
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 4, 2024. Berkshire Hathaway, an early investor in BYD thanks to the late Charlie Munger, continued to trim its massive stake in China's biggest electric vehicle maker. Warren Buffett's conglomerate has sold an additional 1.3 million Hong Kong-listed shares of BYD for $39.8 million, according to a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The conglomerate first bought about 225 million shares of Shenzhen-based BYD in 2008 for about $230 million. The bet turned out to be extremely lucrative as the EV market saw explosive growth in China and elsewhere.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's Organizations: Berkshire, Hong Kong Stock Exchange Locations: Omaha , Nebraska, Hong Kong, BYD, Shenzhen, China

☆ Warren Buffett thinks everyone should hear this advice for living a successful life without regrets
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Warren Buffett walks the floor and meets with Berkshire Hathaway shareholders ahead of their annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024. People don't call Warren Buffett the Oracle of Omaha for nothing. Whenever Buffett takes questions, he's nearly always asked more generally about the secrets to a better life. Buffett added that living in modern-day America gave anyone the best chance in world history at accomplishing the things they dream about. At this year's meeting, Buffett fielded a question about what he'd do if he had one more day with right-hand man Munger.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, It's, you've, it's, Buffett, he's, Charlie Munger, Charlie, Munger Organizations: Berkshire Hathaway, Oracle Locations: Omaha , Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, Berkshire, America

☆ Warren Buffett is worried about potential for 'huge losses' in booming, but still tiny insurance market
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Kevin Williams | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Cyber insurance has become "a very fashionable product," Jain said at the annual meeting. Shokrai says categorizing how to attribute an event is the topic of much debate between insurance companies. "That is a big debate between insurance companies; it is an important distinction that needs clarity," Shokrai said. "I will tell you that most people want to be in anything that's fashionable when they write insurance. "Probably Warren Buffet would have called cybersecurity insurance an opportunity when he was younger," he said.

Persons: Buffett, Glombicki, Gerald Glombicki, Fitch, Berkshire Hathaway, Chubb, Jain, it's, Warren Buffett, Ajit Jain, Michael Chertoff —, Mark Friedlander, Friedlander, " Friedlander, Monica Shokrai, Warren Buffet, Shokrai, isn't, Josephine Wolff, Steve Griffin, they'll, They're, Charlie, Munger, Griffin, Warren Organizations: Industry, AIG, Berkshire Hathaway's, Berkshire, Homeland Security, Insurance, Google, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, L3 Networks Locations: Fitch Rating's, Berkshire, Omaha, California, . Berkshire

☆ Warren Buffett breaks down how to repeat his success and return 50% a year
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Warren Buffett's best return — on a percentage basis — was scored when he was starting out with little money seven decades ago. The Oracle of Omaha once vowed that he could easily produce a 50% annual return if he was only managing $1 million. "If I was running $1 million today, or $10 million for that matter, I'd be fully invested. At an early age, Buffett developed an extraordinary knack for picking cheap stocks, oftentimes troubled companies at deep discounts. You can't just be in love with the money, you've really got to just find it," he said.

Persons: Warren Buffett's, —, I've, Dow, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett, poring, Benjamin Graham, outsized, Charlie, Charlie Munger, you've Organizations: Berkshire, Moody's, Columbia University, BNSF Railway Locations: Omaha, Coast, Munger

☆ TikTok Is About to Become Even More Powerful Thanks to Millennials
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Emilie Friedlander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

"I have friends that say that TikTok Shop has ruined the app," Casey Lewis, a trends researcher, said. "It can be good — especially as TikTok moves to TikTok Shop — if they're able to capitalize on this shift and sell products more effectively to older users." Just because something is going viral on TikTok doesn't necessarily mean Gen Z is behind it. The same could be said of Gen Z, which would explain the generations' shared fascination with a time before smartphones and round-the-clock news. The Gen Z users I spoke with didn't seem particularly concerned about an influx of olds.

Persons: Keara Sullivan, Zers, Rushmore, Sullivan, Ryan Broderick, Adam Bumas, Broderick, TikTok, —, Cory Doctorow, it's, Kevin Munger, Doctorow, Casey Lewis, Lewis hasn't, Gen Zers, Jonathan Gelfond, Taylor Lorenz, Lorenz, Munger, Gen Z, Lewis, Stanley, Alpha, Zers —, Gen Alpha, hasn't, millennials, Jason Parham, Leslie Horn Petersen, she's, Gen, didn't, I've, Emilie Friedlander Organizations: New, Pew Research Center, Facebook, Senate, Microsoft, Penn State, Little League, Business, QVC, UC Santa Barbara, The Washington Post, YouTube Locations: New York, tfym, millennials, Brooklyn, Philadelphia

☆ The church of Warren Buffett: Why thousands of investors flock to Omaha to be near the investing genius
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Warren Buffett walks the floor ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2024. A shopping extravaganzaFor many shareholders, the annual meeting is less about buy-and-hold investing and more about, well, buying. Judith Lieber clutches were among the items on sale at Borsheim's in Omaha, Nebraska. The CHI Health Center before the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 4, 2024. Warren Buffett poses with Martin, the Geico gecko, ahead of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder's Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3rd, 2024.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett, Charlie Munger, I've, I'd, Borsheim's, Judith Lieber, Ryan Ermey, Diane Cunningham Redden, —, Clayton, Brooks, Sarah Min, who'd, She'd, they'd, James Eddins, Greg Abel, Carol Loomis, David A, Charlie, Guy Spier, Spier, Charlie Munger's, Doerthe Obert, Martin Organizations: Berkshire, Berkshire —, Oracle, CNBC, Nebraska Furniture Mart, IWC, CHI, Buffett, Squishmallows, Berkshire Hathaway, CHI Health, Apple, Harlem Globetrotters, Grogen, Aquamarine Fund, Grogan Locations: Omaha , Nebraska, Berkshire, England, Woodstock, Omaha, Geico, Nebraska, Borsheim's, China, Australia, Cincinnati , Ohio, Diane Cunningham Redden Cincinnati , Ohio, Columbus , Nebraska, Fairhope , Alabama, Zurich

☆ A Google executive shares the 5 things to avoid doing for a successful career
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Daniel Rizea | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

His reply was surprising, if not simple: Think of the things you will do that will make you fail and just avoid doing them. Thinking back to Charlie's advice, I came up with five things you should avoid doing in order to have a successful and meaningful career. Avoid pushing for a promotion when you're not ready yetGetting a promotion when you're not quite ready may negatively impact yourself and your career trajectory. A good way to see if you're ready is to think about how you would feel if you were promoted tomorrow. AdvertisementThe main problem is that most of us avoid doing those 20 hours for years, pushing the things we want in life even further away.

Persons: —, Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's, we've, Josh Kaufman, I've, they've, you'll, Daniel Rizea Organizations: Service, Business, Google

☆ ‘Frankly stupid’: Fund manager weighs in on reignited meme stock frenzy as GameStop soars
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Vicky Mckeever | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Fund manager Cole Smead has described the meme stock craze as "frankly stupid," as day traders once again pile into GameStop and AMC . The jump was seemingly prompted by a post on social media platform X by "Roaring Kitty," who in 2021 encouraged an army of day traders to pile into GameStop. In premarket trading on Tuesday, shares in GameStop and AMC were up 47% and 51% respectively at 6 a.m. E.T. Quoting "the late, great Charlie Munger," Smead said the day traders were "just taking in rat poison." Munger, who passed away last year, was the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and famously described cryptocurrency as "rat poison."

Persons: Cole Smead, You've, Roaring, Kitty, Keith Gill, E.T, Charlie Munger, Smead, Munger, Berkshire Hathaway, Yun Li, Fred Imbert Organizations: GameStop, AMC, Smead Capital Management, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Berkshire

☆ Bronze bust honoring the late Charlie Munger wowed crowd in Omaha at Berkshire meeting
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

OMAHA, Neb. — A 24-inch tall, bronze bust sculpture of the late Charlie Munger became a conversation piece for guests who lodged at the Omaha Marriott last weekend for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. "I got back to the lobby and the hotel staff was like 'Doerthe came down twice to look for you,'" Yu Shu, the 39-year-old artist behind the sculpture, told CNBC in an interview. "Then they called Doerthe and she came down. I gave her a hug, and I told her 'nice to see you again' and she's like 'we've never met before.'"

Persons: Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett, — Munger's, Wendy, Doerthe Obert, Yu Shu, we've Organizations: Omaha Marriott, Berkshire Hathaway, CNBC Locations: OMAHA, Neb, Omaha, Berkshire

☆ Warren Buffett said he could make a 50% return on $1 million and predicted higher taxes. Here are 14 Q&A nuggets.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewWarren Buffett let slip a slew of intriguing facts and anecdotes during Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting on Saturday. But the Berkshire CEO also warned of higher taxes, teased a potential Canadian investment, and revealed a $500 million gift of Berkshire stock. Cash hoardBerkshire's mountain of cash and Treasury hit a record $189 billion last quarter, and it's likely to swell to more than $200 billion this quarter, Buffett said. Taxing timesThe government will probably raise taxes in the coming years in a bid to balance its budget, Buffett said. Pocket changeBuffett claimed that if he had only $1 million to invest instead of nearly $200 billion, he could earn a 50% annual return.

Persons: —, Warren Buffett, Buffett, he'd, Costco Buffett, Charlie Munger, Charlie, Talia Lakritz, he's, Todd Combs, Ted Weschler, Greg Abel, Greg, Munger, Abel, haven't, Ruth Gottesman, Sandy Gottesman, Brent N, Clarke, Garry Kasparov, Kasparov, B Organizations: Service, Paramount, Business, Treasury, Costco, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Getty, Berkshire, Nebraska Furniture Locations: Berkshire, Russian, Omaha, Costco . Berkshire, Wisconsin, Canada, Nebraska

☆ JPMorgan says the late Charlie Munger would love this wonderful bank trading at a fair price
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

JPMorgan said this regional bank is so appealing that it would have attracted attention from the late Charlie Munger. "When we think of the late, great Charlie Munger and his mantra to 'buy wonderful businesses at fair prices,' the bank that fits this bill in our view is Cullen Frost," the firm's bank analyst Steven Alexopoulos said in a note. However, JPMorgan said the bank's "strong organic growth story" remained fully intact. JPMorgan said investors are now able to buy the shares at 13.1 times forward earnings, compared to a 16X historical average. The bank maintained its overweight rating and has a 12-month price target of $140 per share, which would translate into 32% upside from Tuesday's close of $105.62.

Persons: Charlie Munger, Cullen Frost, Steven Alexopoulos, Munger, Buffett, Cullen, Frost, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: JPMorgan, Berkshire Hathaway's, CFR, Frost Bankers Locations: San Antonio , Texas

☆ Warren Buffett warned on AI scams, a fiscal disaster, and losing friends. Here are 15 top quotes from Berkshire's bash.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Warren Buffett discussed AI fraud, fiscal woes, and bad bets at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting. Buffett hailed his late business partner, Charlie Munger, and offered a raft of life advice. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The 93-year-old CEO ruled out retirement at 65 for his successor, paid tribute to his late business partner, Charlie Munger, and offered advice about role models, quality relationships, and giving back. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Warren Buffett, Greg Abel, Buffett, Charlie Munger, — Organizations: Berkshire Hathaway's, Service, Paramount, Business Locations: Berkshire

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