Seth Klarman’s 3 Method for valuing a business

Valuation can be abit bitchy especially now. In this article, 3 kinds of valuation techniques are summarized. Use any of these valuation technique now and you would have realise majority of the stocks u are prospecting is undervalued.
We should be careful here, since earnings are most likely going to be worst in the future. […]


Buffett sees opportunities in subprime business

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NEW YORK, June 25 (Reuters) - Warren Buffett, chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, sees some opportunities for investing in the subprime mortgage business, he told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.
Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway had already made some subprime investments through its Clayton Homes manufactured housing unit.
“We have bought some subprime paper […]


Buffett’s big bet

The celebrated investor wagers a tidy sum that even carefully chosen hedge funds won’t return more than the market over time.
By Carol J. Loomis, senior editor at large

(Fortune Magazine) — Will a collection of hedge funds, carefully selected by experts, return more to investors over the next 10 years than the S&P 500?
That question is […]


Buffett Says Credit Crisis Ebbs for Wall Street Firms

Warren Buffett Wank fest time. Shortly after he gave an interview at CNBC on the Mars-Wrigley deal he hops onto Bloomberg. This time: Worst is over, but not for you consumers
Warren Buffett, chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said the global credit crunch has eased for bankers, and the Federal Reserve probably averted more […]


Warren Buffett Finances Mars-Wrigley Deal

Watchers in this bear run in the stock market might have noticed that Warren Buffett have been snapping up some deals along the way.Whats interesting is that the closest that he gets to investing in anything financial was going into the reinsuring of municipal bonds.
Perhaps he isn’t as smart as our Singapore GIC and […]


The conviction of Warren Buffett in USG,Kraft and Wells Fargo

by George Frost, CFA
Thanks to Buffett, it’s simple, very simple, for us to identify great companies with great managements selling at undervalued (i.e., inefficient) prices.
Just check-out Warren Buffett’s holdings/buys on www.gurufocus.com, memorize Buffett’s 2007 letter to shareholders www.berkshirehathaway.com (paying particular attention to cost basis info. on page 15), and then look-up Buffett’s companies in Value […]


Warren Buffett interviews by CNNMoney

With Wall Street in chaos, Fortune naturally went to Omaha looking for wisdom. Warren Buffett talks about the economy, the credit crisis, Bear Stearns, and more.

By Nicholas Varchaver,
(Fortune Magazine) — If Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, scheduled for May 3 this year, is known as the Woodstock of Capitalism, then perhaps this is the equivalent of […]


Warren Buffett: Low Cost Funds win out

Many people have argued about whether it is right to pay large fees for supposed outperformance. I think buffett sums it up best in simple logic:
Everyone expects to be above average. And those helpers - bless their hearts - will certainly encourage their clients in this belief. But, […]


Buffett moving his chess piece on the monolines

Drizzt:

Many would have asked the question of why haven’t Buffett through Berkshire Hathaway buy a stake or any sizable chunk now that the financials are in abit of a disaster. Buffett attributes the lack of activity in this area to a lack of understanding in the size and complexity of the problems.
However, this week, we […]