by John Huber | Sep 19, 2013 | How to Improve Results, Investment Philosophy, Portfolio Management, Superinvestors, Think Differently, Walter Schloss, Warren Buffett
I was having a conversation about Munger’s philosophy vs Schloss’ philosophy and had a few thoughts (and below I’ll compare their performance results against Buffett’s)… I often like to look at long term past performance of investors (10...
by John Huber | Sep 5, 2013 | General Thoughts, Investment Philosophy, Investment Quotes, Superinvestors
I received this comment on one of my recent posts. The George Soros question got me thinking about how interesting the different philosophies are. Soros had an incredible career, but is it possible to replicate his general strategy? Here is the basic comment from the...
by John Huber | May 15, 2013 | Ben Graham, Case Studies, Investment Philosophy, Superinvestors, Warren Buffett
Geico is a company that is owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. It’s an incredibly interesting company to study. I recently read an outstanding presentation on the company by David Rolfe of Wedgewood Partners. This post is my take… a short...
by John Huber | May 14, 2013 | Investment Ideas & Company Research, Investment Philosophy, Shareholder Letters & Reports, Superinvestors
A couple weeks back I wrote a quick post on Tom Gayner, who is an outstanding investor and head of Markel (MKL), one of my favorite companies in America. Markel is a well run insurance company that has been compounding shareholder equity consistently at about 16% per...
by John Huber | Apr 15, 2013 | Investment Quotes, Warren Buffett
Gold and silver prices are crashing this morning and I was reading some news on my Twitter feed I noticed someone link to a post at Ivanhoff.com called Warren Buffett on Gold. Ivanhoff had a nice summary from Buffett’s 2011 Berkshire Shareholder Letter that...
