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Second only to his investment performance is the way Warren Buffett has not ripped off his shareholders and investors over time.
If you’re going to try to beat the market, you’re better off learning from a wrinkly old guy with an incredible record than a 30-something on CNBC.
Buffett is a great stock picker and an investing genius. But few people know that Buffett’s original investing partnerships are the real secret to his wealth.
Warren Buffett doesn’t have to champion index funds, but because the maths favours them for almost all managers, he does. Don’t bet against him.
As one of the world’s very best stock pickers, Warren Buffett knows exactly how hard it is to beat the market…
Warren Buffett has given us his most explicit investment advice yet: Buy shares for the long-term and do it in an index fund.
An ongoing study of the Nobel prize winning / billionaire stock pickers who suggest the best way forward is to use index funds.
What we can learn from the passive portfolio that Warren Buffet will bequeath his wife.
If index funds are good enough for Warren Buffett’s wife, then surely they’re good enough for you.
Click through for a super infographic showing how Warren Buffett’s wisdom can work for you, in simple cartoon form.
Warren Buffett’s grandfather had more common sense about cash than many investment bankers of today. Here’s some great wisdom he passed down the family.
Are you a better investor than Warren Buffett? I’m not even a better writer than Buffett, so let’s hear some wisdom from the great man himself.
Funny how one of the world’s richest men understands how young first-time buyers have been impoverished by crazily high house prices.
Phil Carret is another famous and successful investor who reached a grand old age. Here’s a video of the great man, plus a youthful Peter Lynch.
If even Warren Buffett can admit he sometimes doesn’t understand a complicated investment, then surely we should, too.
Most of the benefits of investing are obvious. Many would say they amount to zero – or rather all the zeros you hope to see at the end of your bank balance! More thoughtful souls ask what successful investing could translate into, whether it be the sports cars and fancy holidays you imagine as a [...]
This series has previously looked at the general principle of investing during a crisis, as well as how you might react to particular headline news events. But crisis investing is also relevant to particular company stocks. Companies are hit by media headlines proclaiming ‘crisis’ all the time, whether it’s a crisis in the boardroom, a [...]
I spent a few hours this morning reading Warren Buffett’s new 2008 letter to shareholders. Maybe I should be worried the direction my life is taking, but Buffett’s annual letter has become a highlight of the year for me. It’s hard to write about investing in an engaging way (as Monevator subscribers will doubtless confirm) [...]
I have just finished the The Snowball, the first biography Warren Buffett has cooperated with. It’s full of surprises, such as how Buffett had three leading ladies for two decades, and how his 1960s home was an accidental outpost of the counterculture. But I’m more interested in how Buffett made his money. And while there’s [...]
Am I the only investor sick of hearing financial industry insiders bleating that the US Federal Reserve must do more to ease their pain? Am I the only stock market investor who would like to see the world’s major indices fall hard to purge and punish the companies – and policies – that set the [...]
Rather than whimpering, if you’re well positioned you should be whooping with joy that you’ve got an unlooked for chance to buy the same shares you were buying last month for 10%, 20%, or even 50% less than you expected to pay.