Archive for April, 2012

Buffett Partnership Letters: 1959 & 1960

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April 28, 2012

This post is a continuation in a series on portfolio management and the Buffett Partnership Letters. Please refer to the initial post in this series for more details. Benchmark “My continual objective in managing partnership funds is to achieve a long-term performance record superior to that of the Industrial Average…Unless we do achieve this superior performance there is […]

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Lessons from Jim Leitner – Part 3 of 3

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April 25, 2012

Here is Part 3 on the wonderfully insightful interview in Steve Drobny’s book The Invisible Hands with Jim Leitner, who runs Falcon Investment Management, and was previously a member of Yale Endowment’s Investment Committee. Leitner is an investor who has spent considerable time contemplating the science and art of investing, making money opportunistically across all asset classes, unconstrained, […]

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Lessons from Jim Leitner – Part 2 of 3

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April 22, 2012

Here is Part 2 on the wonderfully insightful interview in Steve Drobny’s book The Invisible Hands with Jim Leitner, who runs Falcon Investment Management, and was previously a member of Yale Endowment’s Investment Committee. Leitner is an investor who has spent considerable time contemplating the science and art of investing, making money opportunistically across all asset classes, unconstrained, […]

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Lessons from Jim Leitner – Part 1 of 3

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April 21, 2012

In Steve Drobny’s book The Invisible Hands, there’s a wonderfully insightful interview with Jim Leitner, who heads up Falcon Investment Management, and was previously a member of Yale Endowment’s Investment Committee. Leitner is an investor who has spent considerable time contemplating the science and art of investing, making money opportunistically across all asset classes, unconstrained, focused […]

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Rules of the Game

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April 16, 2012

A recent discussion led me to remember a WSJ article I read a few months ago on Bill Miller’s incredible trackrecord of beating the S&P 500 for 15 consecutive years. The author of the article pointed out the following: “Mr. Miller’s long spell of winning years was to some degree a quirk of calendars. Over […]

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Poetic Inspiration from EIC

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April 11, 2012

Many thanks to Jim Barksdale, the thoughtful Founder of Equity Investment Corporation in Atlanta, for sharing this Robert Frost poem with PM Jar. That’s right, Jim has effectively applied poetry to investing – bravo! A Drumlin Woodchuck – Robert Frost My own strategic retreat Is where two rocks almost meet, And still more secure and snug, […]

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Buffett Partnership Letters: 1958 Part 2

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April 5, 2012

This post is a continuation in a series on portfolio management and the Buffett Partnership Letters. Please refer to the initial post in this series for more details. Selectivity, Hurdle Rate, Risk “The higher level of the market, the fewer the undervalued securities and I am finding some difficulty in securing an adequate number of attractive investments. I […]

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