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5 Principles for Value Investing

WARREN Buffett is the world’s most successful value investor. Very few people have ever managed to achieve his level of investment success.  The interesting thing about that fact is that there are only a few simple principles that you need to know if you want to be a successful value investor. Stick to your Circle […]

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Warren Buffett

WARREN Buffett is an American investor born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska. Buffett is often referred to as the “Oracle of Omaha” and is the world’s most successful stock market investor. Buffett is the largest shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.  He has an estimated net worth of around $US45 billion.  In 2010, Forbes ranked […]

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Warren Buffett on hard work

WARREN Buffett‘s 2006 letter to shareholders makes for very interesting reading. One of the sentiments that Buffett expresses in the very first page of his letter is one of gratitude to the managers who have run his companies over the last 42 (now 44) years. Buffett indicates that he and Charlie Munger, Berkshire’s vice chairman, […]

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Warren Buffett on long term value investing

BACK IN 1998, Warren Buffett gave an inspirational talk to a group of MBA students at the University of Florida, College of Business. In the speech, Buffett gives his perspective on investing, in which he outlines the need to understand the underlying economics of the businesses that you invest in, and the need to stick […]