Warren Buffett

Buffett's Big Bet On Big Blue Shows Signs Of Life

... of 2016, IBM has repurchased $46.8 billion in stock. But other investors have disagreed. Even with the recent revival, IBM stock has underperformed over a longer time frame and analysts still cite among their concerns: declining revenue, questions over commercializing Watson, and Amazon's and Microsoft's lead in cloud. And some see buybacks and dividends in a different light - as financial engineering that has served investors better than IBM's own clients and business. To that point, Buffett has made about $1.7 billion in dividends though his holdings while IBM has recorded 18 straight quarters of declining revenue. Also keep in mind that Buffett may be close to breaking even on his investment, but if you've been holding the stock for, say, 7 years — since the Dow crossed 10,000 — IBM has been one of the biggest tech underperformers, returning less than half the S&P 500 in that time. Buffett, though, is Buffett. He's in it for the long game and he's sticking with Big Blue. And there are signs that analysts are starting to up their expectations for IBM. Earlier this week, Morgan Stanley raised its price target on the stock to $187 ...

Warren Buffett, Bill Gates And Jack Ma Are Betting Big On This Sector

... The push? Their stakeholders – including consumers who are demanding more sustainable business practices, but also investors who are beginning to recognize the risks that climate change poses within their portfolios. There is strong support for renewable energy at the state level, too. California and New York are leading 17 other states with aggressive renewable energy targets (requiring that up to 50 percent of energy come from renewables by 2030). At the federal level, tax credits for wind and solar were extended just 12 months ago, with significant Republican support. Perhaps most importantly, the increasingly attractive economics of wind and solar energy means that they now compete head to head with coal and natural gas sourced electricity. Indeed, well over 50 percent of new electricity generation capacity globally now comes from new wind and solar projects. So where can investors find growth. Investors everywhere wonder where they can find long term opportunities to grow their nest eggs in a low growth world. Based on many macroeconomic trends, sustainable investments may be one of the best places to find strong growth. Based ...

Is Warren Buffett Wrong About Bitcoin

... on the current bullish outlook of this technology and, as per recent reports, some are making huge investments in the market. Blockchain is a new software technology that allows businesses to work together with trust and transparency. The network allows all parties involved access to an encrypted digital record of transactions that cannot be changed. The technology can be applied in a variety of industries, especially in the financial sector. As of 2016, the blockchain market was valued at $210 million, but is projected to grow to more than $2 billion within the next five years. Some of the biggest concerns facing bitcoin are issues regarding the security of transactions and its ability to deal with cases of money laundering. If more industries like the banking sector continue to use the same technology used by bitcoin however, this might work out to be a vote of approval for using bitcoin as a currency. Nonetheless, this still does not answer Buffett's question on bitcoin. His keynote view was the fact that ...

Buffett Like You've Seen Him Before

... Buffett’s discontented childhood, his overachieving in school, his rejection from Harvard business school, and the modest beginnings of his investment career. Readers of Alice Schroder’s Buffett biography “ The Snowball ” will remember the anecdote about the time Buffett picked up a high school date in a hearse. We learn that the halls of Berkshire Hathaway’s modest Omaha headquarters are decorated with old New York Times covers from days when the markets crashed. “Just as a reminder that anything can happen in this world,” Buffett says. Buffett tells us that he doesn’t have a mind which relates to the physical universe very well, instead preferring to think, write, and speak in the abstractions of business and numbers. “Sometimes, there aren’t any good answers with human problems,” Buffett says. “There’s almost always a good answer with money.”. As a family man, Buffett was far from perfect, and “Becoming Warren Buffett” doesn’t go particularly easy on him. When Warren and Susie’s three kids — Susie, Howard, and Peter — were young, the Buffetts ate dinner together. But as Susie says, “Physical proximity to Warren doesn’t always mean he’s ...

Here's Why Warren Buffett Should Be Unpatriotic And Dump Coca-cola

... soda alternatives, as well as the negative effects of a strong dollar. Consumers are increasingly deciding that things go better without Coca-Cola. U. S. per-capita consumption of carbonated soft drinks has dropped to its lowest level since 1986. Meanwhile, the global bottled-water-products market is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 8.4% between 2015 and 2022, according to Brisk Insights. The fastest growth is in the sparkling/mineral water/seltzer segment. Sales of full-calorie soda in the U. S. have plummeted by more than 25% over the past 20 years. "Big soda" companies such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co  ( PEP ) have jumped into the bottled- and healthy water segments, in an attempt to co-opt the trend, but it is a case of too little, too late. Pepsi Co is a holding in Jim Cramer's Action Alerts PLUS Charitable Trust Portfolio. See how Cramer rates the stock here. Want to be alerted before Cramer buys or sells PEP? Learn more now. What's more, the soda giants are still dragged down by their substantial legacy business in conventional sodas. Even diet soda sales have declined and, besides, consumers aren't showing much ...

Warren Buffett’s Best Advice For 2017

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Investor Warren Buffett's Life Is Chronicled In Hbo Movie

... since 1965. That life is now the subject of "Becoming Warren Buffett," which is being previewed for journalists this week ahead of its Jan. 30 airing on Time Warner's HBO. Directed by Peter Kunhardt, whose film subjects have included President Richard Nixon and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, the documentary was largely narrated by Buffett and contains interviews with people close to him, including his sisters, three children, Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, and philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates. It also provides a fresh overview of the "Oracle of Omaha," the subject of a best-selling 2008 biography for which he also extensively cooperated but reportedly had mixed feelings. Longtime fans will not learn much new. And Buffett remained reticent on some matters, including his last conversation with his father, and his first wife Susan's decision in 1977 to move out. But he fondly recalled lesser-known stories, including overcoming his fear of public speaking by attending a Dale Carnegie course, and picking up a high school date in a hearse he owned half of. "Not the smoothest thing," he recalled. The Buffetts ...

Spain's Warren Buffett' Francisco Parames Returns To Open Unexpected New Fund

... Valor. They have since left that firm to work for him at Cobas. Parames plans to employ the same value philosophy in the new fund that guided him over past years. But, he said, he will shift from cheap to high-quality companies. "When you're young you want to achieve a quick, high return and you think you can get it with cheap companies, so you avoid quality companies that are more expensive," he told Citywireselector in October. "Over time you realize these cheap companies are cheap because they are regular businesses and things can go wrong. You've fallen into a value trap.". Quality companies with good returns on capital and high barriers to entry have better five-year prospects, he said, an opinion he shares with Warren Buffett ( Trades , Portfolio ). If held to date, the Parames' top positions at the time of his departure would have netted ...

Meet The World’s 8 Richest Men Who Own As Much As Poorest 50

... set at $2,840 m (£2,352 m), according to Forbes. Part of his charity donations come from his Berkshire Hathaway stock, of which about five per cent is given to charity each summer, including to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to Bloomberg. He also started the Giving Pledge with Mr Gates , which encourages the world’s wealthiest people to donate the majority of their money to charity. Carlos Slim Helu. Carlos Slim Helu owes his $50 billion (£41 billion) fortune to a major ownership in America Movil, a telecommunications multinational worth $42 billion. Forbes reports the Carlos Slim Foundation has donated a total of $4,000 m (£3,314 m). The foundation focuses on improving people’s access to education, sports and culture, in addition to investing in a number of causes such as the Carso Health Institute, which was created to help fund health-related projects and research in Latin America. Last year he created a free online education app, Apprende, which ...

Warren Buffett Looks For These 3 Traits In People When He Hires Them

... already smart enough to succeed). But the person “who you would want 10% of” isn’t necessarily the person who gets the highest grades. In fact, Buffett has made this point several times. “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.”. “If you are in the investment business and have an IQ of 150, sell 30 points to someone else.”. Having energy is also an obvious choice. (Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean you have to be someone who is jumping up and down all day – Buffett clarifies that by energy he means someone who takes initiative). Clearly, you can’t succeed if you’re lazy. You have to take initiative, you have to be entrepreneurial, and you have to make things happen – either for yourself or your company. Integrity is the missing piece of the puzzle. If you want to become someone who Warren Buffett would hire, this is the most important quality that you should develop. Think about it. Would you want to work with someone who is intelligent and driven, but who doesn’t have integrity? Of course not! In fact, that is probably the absolute last person you would want to work with ...