by John Huber | Mar 26, 2015 | Investment Philosophy, Shareholder Letters & Reports, Superinvestors, Warren Buffett
Last weekend I spent a couple hours reading through Buffett’s old partnership letters (again). I was looking for something specific that I remembered him talking about, but then as I was flipping through them trying to find this comment, I just decided to read them...
by John Huber | Aug 28, 2014 | Case Studies, Investment Ideas & Company Research, Investment Philosophy, Investment Quotes, Shareholder Letters & Reports, Think Differently
“Google has a huge new moat. In fact, I’ve probably never seen such a wide moat.” – Charlie Munger, 2009 Google celebrated the 10 year anniversary of its IPO last week. Google is a company that I’ve never owned (unfortunately), but really admire. There are a few...
by John Huber | Mar 10, 2014 | Investment Philosophy, Shareholder Letters & Reports, Superinvestors, Warren Buffett
“Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike”. – Ben Graham, The Intelligent Investor This is the time of year that I always look forward to for a variety of reasons. Spring is near in my area of the United States, college basketball...
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...