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Ethical Banking
I attended yesterday a conference by Joan Melé at EOI Business School. It caught my interest by its title “Dinero y conciencia: ¿A quién sirve mi dinero?” (Money and conscience, who benefits from my...
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Resist the bias to act
Some days ago I tweeted about the swings of Mr. Market lately. The consideration of the stock market as Mr. Market is a metaphor that we owe it to Benjamin Graham. Since a picture is worth a thousand...
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My experience at BRK2011
Berkshire Hathaway was a small textile company in Rhode Island. As many other textile companies it was struggling due to cheap labour competition elsewhere. Warren Buffett had already invested in the...
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Active investment fund managers
In a previous post I showed the evolution of stock price for EADS and the target price calculated by an investment bank along 34 months. I already stated the misguided recommendations that they...
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Why do I prefer Coke
Some weeks ago I read an article about why do we prefer Coke over Pepsi by the blogger Farnamstreet (1). It mentioned a marketing initiative by Pepsi some years ago, “The Pepsi Challenge”, in which...
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My 2012 reading list
At the beginning of the year I set as a personal objective to read at least 15 books. This will be a low number for some of you and a high one for others. To me it looked challenging but achievable…...
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The Titanic: a project management disaster
The Titanic (public domain image, taken from Wikimedia, by F. Stuart). Few days ago, I attended a conference on an example of a project management disaster: the Titanic, the British ship which sank in...
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Transcript of 2014 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Q&A with Warren Buffett and...
Last Saturday, May 3rd, Berkshire Hathaway held in Omaha its annual shareholder meeting, attended by over 30,000 shareholders. The most expected part of that weekend is the Q&A session of the...
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Warren Buffett’s 2014 letter to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway
Every last Saturday of February, a must read for the weekend comes out: Warren Buffett’s letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway [PDF, 499KB]. This year, it is the 50th anniversary since...
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Warren Buffett’s 2015 letter to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway and...
Every last Saturday of February, a must read for the weekend comes out: Warren Buffett’s letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway [PDF, 2.4 MB]. Me at BRK 2011 annual shareholders meeting. This...
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