Back in the late 1990’s, Warren Buffett demonstrated his market genius by snubbing the must-own stocks of the dot-com era. For a short while, his corporation (Berkshire Hathaway, along with the “Baby-Berkshire” BRK.B shares seen in today’s chart) underperformed the broad S&P 500 index—mainly at the tail end of the technology bubble in 1998-99. Read More
Why you can’t invest like Warren Buffett
On October 24th, 2012, CNBC interviewed Warren Buffett. Often, after a media event such as this, many sources begin to tout the long-termed investment philosophy of Mr. Buffett. Predictably, the buy & hold crowd were enthused after hearing from their favorite market maven espouse the virtues of long termed investing. I would like to address Read More