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Satyam Scam – The Story of India’s Biggest Corporate Fraud!

Trade Brains

A Case Study on ‘Satyam Scam’ Accounting Scandal: When the 2008 recession hit the world, India was not only going through a financial crisis but also an ethical crisis. Mr Raju used his personal computer to create a number of bank statements in order to inflate the balance sheet with cash that simply did not exist.

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Socially Responsible Investing: Is It Also More Profitable?

Mr. Money Mustache

Since the Dawn of Mustachianism in 2011, the same question has come up over and over again: “MMM, I see your point that index fund investing is the best option. The omission of Berkshire Hathaway was a bit of a shocker, as it is run with solid ethical principles by Warren Buffett, one of the worlds most generous philanthropists.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

But no, it was a, it was a scary time and it was, you know, there were, there were like a number of layoffs, you know, there were a couple rounds of layoffs in, you know, within my first two years at Goldman and I didn’t get laid off and I was like, oh, okay, I’m probably safe for a while. Like that solves like a number of issues.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. annualized compared with 6.9%

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. annualized compared with 6.9%

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

Really, what I would think is getting to my natural home and that happened in 2011. ! So, you wrote the prior book a decade ago, 2011 the “Expected Returns.” We’ve come from the lows but we are still like, let’s say, 60 to 40, two percent real yield is roughly the number as opposed to the four plus long run.

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Transcript: David Rubenstein, The Carlyle Group

The Big Picture

So you’ve written a number of really interesting books based on conversations with various leaders, the highest calling. And then talk about from presidents directly that I’ve interviewed, and I have a number of interviews in there with presidents of the United States that I did the, the interviews myself.