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   Warren Buffett

   Buffett explained that in 1958, Sanborn sold at $45 per share when the value of the Sanborn investment portfolio was $65 per share. ... From a NY Times article: "I don't believe in dynastic wealth," [Warren Buffett] said, calling those who grow up in wealthy circumstances "members of the lucky sperm club."
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   Benjamin Graham

   Modern Portfolio Theory posits that it is generally impossible for any individual to outwit the market, and is widely taught in American and British business schools. ... Warren Buffett said that Graham excelled most at the last.
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   The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville

   Buffett then proceeds to present nine successful investment funds. ... Pension funds, bound to more conservative portfolio mix, showed 5% and 8% lead.
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   History of private equity and venture capital

   Warren Buffett, who is typically described as a stock market investor rather than a private equity investor, employed many of the same techniques in the creation on his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate as Posner's DWG Corporation and in later years by more traditional private equity investors. ... Private equity and venture capital investors • Private equity firms • Venture capital firms • Portfolio companies
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   Efficient-market hypothesis

   Among the skeptics is Warren Buffett who has argued that the EMH is not correct, on one occasion wryly saying "I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were always efficient" and on another saying "The professors who taught Efficient Market Theory said that someone throwing darts at the stock tables could select stock portfolio having prospects just as good as one selected by the brightest, most hard-working securities analyst. ... Whether that information turns out to have been correct is not something required by EMH.
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   Efficient market hypothesis

   Among the skeptics is Warren Buffett who has argued that the EMH is not correct, on one occasion wryly saying "I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were always efficient" and on another saying "The professors who taught Efficient Market Theory said that someone throwing darts at the stock tables could select stock portfolio having prospects just as good as one selected by the brightest, most hard-working securities analyst. ... Whether that information turns out to have been correct is not something required by EMH.
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   Stock market

   This is a quote from the preface to a published biography about the long-term value-oriented stock investor Warren Buffett. ... Efficient market hypothesis · Fundamental analysis · Technical analysis · Modern portfolio theory · Post-modern portfolio theory · Mosaic theory
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   The Intelligent Investor

   Preface to the Fourth Edition, by Warren E. Buffett ... Portfolio Policy for the Enterprising Investor: Negative Approach
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   Charlie Munger

   A single stock can make up 50% of the value of the entire portfolio. ... Buffett has often publicly stated that he regards Munger as his partner.
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    Countrywide Financial

    Between 1982 and 2003, Countrywide delivered investors a 23,000% return, exceeding the returns of Washington Mutual, Wal-Mart, and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. ... ↑ Countrywide's Many 'Friends' Conde Nast Portfolio, June 12, 2008

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Warren Buffett,
• Benjamin Graham,
• The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville,
• History of private equity and venture capital,
• Efficient-market hypothesis,
• Efficient market hypothesis,
• Stock market,
• The Intelligent Investor,
• Charlie Munger,
• Countrywide Financial