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Warren Buffett isn't nervous about a stock market bubble. The legendary investor thinks anyone betting against America is "out of their mind."
Buffett, a reliable optimist about the future of the U.S., predicted on Tuesday night that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will be "over 1 million" in 100 years. That would be roughly 45 times the Dow's current level of nearly 22,400, which is already a record high.
"Being short America has been a loser's game. I predict to you it will continue to be a loser's game," the Berkshire Hathaway chairman said. Buffett was speaking at a New York event commemorating the 100th anniversary of Forbes magazine. His comments were previously reported by Reuters.
Buffett, whose fortune Forbes pegs at $78 billion, realizes he won't be around to see if his Dow prediction comes true. The 87-year-old billionaire said he gets "excited" just when people talk about him making it to 100.
So is Buffett's Dow 1 million call just crazy talk? Maybe not.
Investors need to remember that Warren Buffett gets it wrong and changes his mind
Warren Buffett is considered by many to be one of the greatest if not the greatest investor in history. Consider that shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A, NYSE:BRK.B) sold at their IPO in the 1960s for $19, which predated Buffett’s involvement. BRK.A recently changed hands for $245,000, an astounding return of more than 129,000%. That’s a track record that many of the hedge fund tycoons who swear admiration for the Oracle of Omaha couldn’t come close to matching if the flow of funds data is to be believed.
The octogenarian billionaire, though, isn’t perfect. Were you to meet him, I would imagine that Buffett would be the first to admit that he is mortal.
He has made many mistakes during his storied career. Sometimes, he has failed to understand macroeconomic trends and other times he has been stuck with a management team that failed to deliver the performance that he expected.
Warren Buffett also changes his mind.
Buffett has made a huge push into airlines in recent years after showing disdain for the sector for decades. Also, Buffett has also gotten over his aversion to technology and now owns 133,000 shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). He also has recently unloaded his most of stake in Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT), deciding correctly that traditional retailers are going to be screwed over the long run by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN).
In some cases, such as The Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO), Buffett seems to be oblivious to the growing consumer unease about the health issues associated with consuming carbonated beverages. The Cherry Coke-loving investor has been associated with KO for decades and now owns more than 9% of the Atlanta-based company.
When Buffett first bought Coca-Cola in 1988, it traded for $2.50 per share adjusted for stock splits. KO now trades for about $43.53. That’s obviously a win for Buffett’s value investing approach. KO, though, hasn’t been much of a plus lately since KO stock has underperformed the broader market for the last 5 years.
Below are examples of investments that didn’t go Buffett’s way. They are in no particular order.
Warren Buffett made the buy-and-hold strategy famous in investing. And while some investors in today's fast-moving markets believe the technique is outdated and no longer useful, the data tells another story. The investment company run by Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B), still acquires stocks using a long-term philosophy to buy and hold stocks.
There's no indication that the strategy has stopped working: Berkshire's stock price has soared 131 percent in the last 10 years, doubling the 65 percent return of the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
It's not easy, but if you follow the following nine steps you can buy and hold stocks, too.
One Idiot – An IDFC Foundation Initiative to educate the youth of India to be financially independent. Directed by Amol Gupte, One Idiot is an initiative by the IDFC Foundation.
This Short movie will definitely blow your mind, your way of looking at “Money” and “Wealth”. It teaches how One can become Wealthier with some simple rules !! It’s simply awesome!
If you buy things that you don’t need, one day you will have to sell things that you do need,” Bhargav Krishna, the protagonist of the movie One Idiot, quotes Warren Buffet, when explaining money management to his teenager neighbors in the society he lives.
Directed by Amol Gupte of Stanley ka Dabba fame, One Idiot is an initiative by the IDFC Foundation to educate the youth of India to be financially independent. The movie was launched on 23 November in Mithibai College, Mumbai. By next week, the movie will also be shown in JJ College of Arts, Mumbai. Eventually, the foundation aims to cover 25-30 colleges across the country.
Krishna, who is cast in his real name on the screen, equates independence with “dignity” and “security” and exhorts teenagers to start investing early.
Uncle Bugs and the “idiot”, as he is called by society kids, Krishna portrays the quintessential miser, who haggles with the vegetable vendor for every rupee and has been wearing the same rubber slippers for over three years now. Though a laughing stock for the society’s teenagers and other residents, he is a favourite with one of the young ones, Chota, played by Naman Jain, who was seen earlier in Chillar Party. Chota not only relishes Uncle Bugs’ lavish lunch every Sunday, but also takes a lesson or two on how to save and make one’s money grow.
And that’s where we get to peep into the other part of Krishna’s life. The little one gives it away when he tells his elder brother Prashant that he would be able to pay for his and his girlfriend’s expensive tickets to a show as he had accumulated about Rs62,000 by investing the lump sums he got from relatives and friends and saving from his pocket money through systematic investment plans. Stumped, Prashant asks him how and Chota relates to him the financial knowledge he has acquired from Uncle Bugs and reveals his real worth, Rs100 crore, and that’s how the story spreads. So Uncle Bugs has a surplus to send his wife and son for an art appreciation course and indulge in his interests—music and cooking. All because he started saving systematically ever since he was a teenager himself and planned his finances all through.
This comes as a contrast to Prashant and Chota’s parents, played by Raymon Singh and Rahul Singh, seen struggling between credit card bills, monthly instalments and expensive aspirations, earlier in the film.
The movie is strewn with real-time interviews from teenagers which clearly showcase the unawareness and unwillingness of the youth to save and invest.
The movie gives the right basic financial messages: start saving early, do systematic investing in mutual funds, buy insurance only when you need it and don’t bundle it with investment, have an asset allocation between equity and debt and so on. Watch it now at https://youtu.be/qrjc5aLe7oI
Over the past 10 years, the stock market has experienced one of its most severe declines in history followed by a robust rally, which is still going on. During this time, some company stocks have thrived while others have struggled to stay afloat.
अमेरिकीको वॉरेन बफेटको नाम नसुन्ने शेयर लगानीकर्ता संसारमा कमै होलान् । कुनै यस्तो कारोबार पत्रिका, अखबार , टीभी च्यानल छैन जसमा उनी बारे चर्चा नभएको होस् । बिल गेट र कार्लोस स्लिमपछि वॉरेन संसारको तेस्रो सबैभन्दा ठुलो उचाईमा पुगेका व्यक्तिको रुपमा लिइन्छ । वॉरेन बफेट आज संसारको सबैभन्दा धनी मानिन्छन् । यहा हामी वॉरेन बफेट धनपति हुनुको कारण बारे चर्चा गरिरहेका छैनौं । अथाह सम्पतिको मालिक भएपनि उनको जीवन शैलीको कुरा गर्दैछौ ।
The nondescript office that sits at the end of a long, narrow hallway at Berkshire Hathaway’s Omaha, Nebraska headquarters is understated, to say the least. Neither its size nor its level of decor gives any hint as to its occupant’s identity.
It would be perfectly reasonable to assume it was the domain of a mid-level executive in a generic corporation, yet this is no ordinary office, it is the office of Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor and sometimes richest man in the world.
Preston Pysh is the #1 selling Amazon author of two books on Warren Buffett. In lesson 3, explore the importance of a Balance Sheet and learn current assets and liabilities as income streams and obligations, respectively; a company will receive or pay during the next 12 months. Also learn the equity of a business as equal to the total assets minus the total liabilities. After determining a company's equity, you can use that important number to determine the margin of safety that's associated with buying a business.
Preston Pysh is the #1 selling Amazon author of two books on Warren Buffett.
In this lesson, students learn what value investing is. The three course objectives are: 1) The difference between value trading and value investing 2) The difference between an asset and a liability 3) Who created and uses value investing.
Source: Preston Pysh
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