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In the early 1990s, Wall Street was recovering from a giant treasury bond scandal at Solomon Brothers. John Meriwether, a former Solomon trader, set out to create one of the largest and most exclusive hedge funds the world had ever…
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* Updated for Summer 2020 Most people probably wouldn’t consider Bill Gates a value investor. After all, Microsoft was basically the poster child for the tech boom of the 1990s – a boom that Warren Buffett famously did not participate in…
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*Last updated on 23 February 2020 Greetings investors, and welcome to the Q4 2019 list of hedge fund letters and reports! Learn from the top investors on Wall Street, gain insights into the economy and financial markets, and know what to…
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An understanding of today’s commodities and modern trading will provide new opportunities for investment. When you have a grasp on hard commodities like gold, copper and iron, as well as soft commodities like cows, horses and crude oil, you can…
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The following is a guest post from a Vintage Value Investing reader: Hello VVI, Longtime reader, first-time contributor. Last year my colleague George and I set off to understand the key lessons, thought processes and events of Berkshire Hathaway through…
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I recently finished reading Good Stocks Cheap by Kenneth Jeffrey Marshall. Kenneth Jeffrey Marshall is a very smart guy who has an MBA from Harvard Business School and teaches value investing at Stanford University and the Stockholm School of Economics. He…
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One of Warren Buffett’s favorite investment books of all time is Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher. Buffett has credited this book as a great influence on his investing style. Philip A. Fisher (as well as Buffett’s business partner and…
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Warren Buffett released his 2016 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter this morning. In the letter, Buffett covers many topics – from America’s future economic prospects, to accounting policies. Hidden in the letter, however, Buffett also briefly discusses the best book he…
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I recently finished reading Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Greenwald, Kahn, Sonkin, and van Biema. For reference, co-author Bruce Greenwald is a professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business (the best business school in the world for value investing and the alma…
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The following is the official list of books recommended by Berkshire Hathaway at the 2015 Shareholder’s Meeting. The list contains some old classics as well as newly published titles, all of which should be very informative and entertaining reads for…
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