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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting ajackson Wed, 08/01/2018 - 09:30 The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is an opportunity for shareholders and analysts to pose questions to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. Berkshire’s book value growth is after tax, while the S&P Index return is pretax.
2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting. Wed, 08/01/2018 - 09:30. Berkshire’s book value growth is after tax, while the S&P Index return is pretax. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man.
The Other 95% achen Mon, 04/16/2018 - 13:23 The traditional goal for a nonprofit’s investment portfolio was to earn a 5% return or so that could be used to fund the nonprofit’s programs. The concept of ethical screening in portfolios is not new—religious institutions have screened their portfolios for years.
Mon, 04/16/2018 - 13:23. The concept of ethical screening in portfolios is not new—religious institutions have screened their portfolios for years. In short, jeopardizing investment rules may impose a tax on a private foundation for any investment that might jeopardize the carrying out of its tax-exempt purposes.
You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency. And I think when you’ve gone through the financial crisis in 2008, when I was working with Morgan Stanley, or even laid it on, you know, December of 2018– RITHOLTZ: The fourth quarter was down 20 percent. I was already an investor in ETFs at that point in time.
Abel and Jain, the designated successors to Buffett, were each paid $18 million in 2018. The highest paid members of Berkshire’s board of directors—those serving on the audit committee and get an extra $4,000 stipend—earned just $7,300 in 2018, compared to $300,000 or more per year at most large public companies. billion in 2018.
Abel and Jain, the designated successors to Buffett, were each paid $18 million in 2018. The highest paid members of Berkshire’s board of directors—those serving on the audit committee and get an extra $4,000 stipend—earned just $7,300 in 2018, compared to $300,000 or more per year at most large public companies. billion in 2018.
rates were going up in 2018 we did debate raising our WACC hurdle when the Federal Reserve (FED) funds rate was at 2.5% That assumes I pay no taxes which is very hard. And that assumes you pay no taxes on your dividends which is kind of illegal. The last time U.S. and appeared to be going higher. We are nowhere near 2.5%
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Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. In the utility business, the regulatory structure of the industry will pass a cut in corporate tax rates through to the customers, so Berkshire won’t get to keep it.
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Wright: Yes, So yes, is the quick answer, the more convoluted answer would be that we should control internally… We’re a fraternity of ethics and competency testing that should be different from the SEC. Salaske: Right, now.
Get ready for a ride as we examine it from all angles: regulatory, ethically, intellectually, etc. If we are comparing them to the Utopian idea of what a fraternity of ethics and competence testing should be, then we should find a way to implement it because daydreaming about what it ought to be is less useful.
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