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Cash-rich investors ‘cherry-pick’ the best assets in equity and debt
Private placements are as much a feature of ... Perhaps the most notable of these was the ... Most recently, Goldman Sachs has been involved in ... However, Goldman Sachs wrested control of the deal ... Goldman, which had an existing relationship with the ... While this is one way of placing shares...
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The Buffett paradox
Warren Buffett threw cold water last week on ... Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Kraft's largest shareholder, with a ... Yet Berkshire is issuing $10bn (€6.9bn) in shares ... This could be a factor keeping Berkshire stock ... Based on earnings and book value, Berkshire fans...
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In year of investing dangerously, Buffett looked 'into the abyss'
Warren Buffett believes his best deals during the ... Buffett slammed the door on one opportunity after ... In a series of interviews with The Wall ... "I bought my first stock in 1942, and ... On March 28, 2008, Buffett, Berkshire's chairman, took ... That night, in his offices in Omaha, Buffett...
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Berkshire Hathaway trims Moody's stake
Berkshire Hathaway has slashed its stake in Moody's ... Warren Buffett's conglomerate still controls 35.4 million shares...
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Global M&A steams past $300bn on Buffett railway deal
November was the best month for mergers and ... Global M&A volume reached $305bn (€202.4bn) in November ... This compares to a monthly average for the ... Several of the year’s largest deals have taken ... Market conditions are ripe for an increase in ... In Europe, the total was $106.5bn, the highest...
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Hedge funds short the Sage of Omaha
Short sellers have focused their attention on Warren ... Berkshire Hathaway announced a $36bn (€24bn) deal to ... Ratings agencies Standard & Poor's and Fitch responded ... In the three days between November 3 and ... Despite the increase, the number of shares on ... In the six days since the deal was...
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Buffett reveals Lehman approach to insure assets
Warren Buffett on Tuesday revealed he was approached ... Speaking at a conference sponsored by Fortune magazine,...
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Berkshire Hathaway sells 794,388 Moody's shares
For the second time in as many months, ... Buffett's latest reduction of 794,388 shares came in ... Buffett sold the shares at prices ranging from ... Buffett cut his Moody's stake by 8 million ... Buffett has weathered criticism in the past year ... Moody's has been walloped in part by the...
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The 14 People Who Gave Away at Least $1 Billion
Charity is down, and so are the fortunes ... But Forbes has come up with yet another ... Interestingly, of the world’s 793 billionaires, by Forbes’ ... “I’m surprised there aren’t more,” said Herbert Sandler, ... Here are the people Forbes calls “the most ... 1 Bill Gates, $28 billion donated....
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Buffett foresees damage to dollar from US budget deficit
The purchasing power of the greenback could be ... Buffett wrote that the “gusher of federal money”...
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Berkshire logs profit as markets pick up
Berkshire Hathaway's earnings picked up sharply in the ... The Omaha, Nebraska, conglomerate run by Warren Buffett ... Berkshire, like many companies with big financial operations, ... Separately, Buffett recently expressed interest in buying Citigroup's ... Buffett approached Citigroup after receiving a personal appeal...
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Santulli Leaves NetJets; Sokol Will Take Helm
Richard Santulli, chairman and chief executive of NetJets ... Berkshire Chairman Warren Buffett, in a move sure ... Mr. Sokol, chairman of Berkshire utility MidAmerican Energy ... Messrs. Buffett and Sokol couldn't be reached for ... NetJets had become popular with Wall Street and...
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Buffett cuts Moody’s stake with hint of further sale
Berkshire Hathaway has reduced its long-standing holding in ... After divesting over eight million shares since Monday...
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Buffett donates $1.5bn Berkshire shares to charities
Warren Buffett on Wednesday donated nearly $1.5bn (€1.1bn) ... The billionaire investor gifted 428,688 Berkshire Class B...
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Chinese fund manager pays $2.1m for Buffett lunch
Chinese investment fund manager Zhao Danyang has paid ... Every year, the Omaha investor auctions off one...
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Buffett adviser secures $2bn for fledgling investment firm
Byron Trott, a regular financial adviser to Warren ... It is believed that BDT Capital Partners, the ... The start-up, in which Berkshire controls a “modest...
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Bidding war begins for Buffett lunch
The annual online bidding war for lunch with ... The best offer for three courses with the ... All proceeds will go to the Glide Foundation, ... The winning bidder will have the opportunity to ... The highest bidder at present is the mysteriously ... Shares in Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's reinsurance giant, fell...
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How traders killed value investing
Long before the June 1 negotiating deadline, it ... Last month, shares rose a few pennies during ... Market analysts seem baffled, but trading in GM ... The old notion that profitable companies with good ... Today, a hedge fund investing billions using a ... It wasn't always this way. Before the machines...
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Comment: Nothing is more certain than uncertainty
Geoffrey Berg, the author of a new book ... Deflationists say the purchase of bonds by central ... They say fear of higher inflation will continue ... Inflationists think that quantitative easing will lead to ... They go on to argue that the authorities ... Jerry Haworth, co-founder of hedge fund manager 36...
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Wary investors threaten active managers’ recovery
Active asset managers sound much happier than they ... There are at least two reasons for active ... Second, investors have returned. European retail investors pumped ... The figures are particularly encouraging since they exclude ... The mood has improved so much that several...
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