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PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... pulls our firm down," the former investment banker asserts. "It's important to stay grounded. There's a reason Warren Buffett never left Omaha. Markets are incredibly humbling. If you start believing in your own hype, you're going to get caught out." ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... will increase to US$15.3 trillion ($20.4 trillion) by the end of the decade. At the same time, investment magnate Warren Buffett has warned that institutions increasing allocations to alternatives is a "fool's game" due to high headline fees and the ...

Insync with beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... been quite substantial. "The management team at AB Inbev are a lot of the same people who are now working with Warren Buffett," Kotecha said. "They deliver uprating margins in whatever they're doing and it's always above the industry average. They have ...

Shares stronger at noon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... Financial stocks were giving the market a boost, with Insurance Australia Group leaping up on the news that billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is buying a $500 million stake in it. IAG was up 20 cents, or 3.6 per cent, to $5.77, and Suncorp ...

Buffett insurer partners with IAG

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
Warren Buffett-chaired Berkshire Hathaway has entered a strategic partnership with Insurance Australia Group (IAG). The partnership consists of a ten-year 20% quota share agreement, with Berkshire acquiring roughly 90 million IAG shares (for a total ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... performance of those funds was really good." In those early days Moore modelled his investment philosophy on star manager Warren Buffett - who was far less well known back then - and he's stuck to the same principles ever since. Moore likes to keep his ...

Don't overlook culture and discipline: MFS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... when it comes to placing importance on company culture. Investment guru and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett said at the company's recent AGM in Omaha, "Culture is everything at Berkshire." "Culture has to come from the top. It has ...

Buffett insurer gains Australia licence

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
Warren Buffett-owned global speciality insurer Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has received its licence to provide insurance to the Australian market. BHSI will commence Australia operations immediately in its Sydney office and has appointed ...

Buffett moves in on Australian insurers

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
Warren Buffett-owned global speciality insurer Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) Australia and New Zealand has poached key senior executives from AIG and other insurers. BHSI doesn't yet have an Australian operating licence but AIG has already ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... positioning ourselves for the longer term," said Ginni Rometty, IBM's chairman, president and chief executive. Warren Buffett's huge investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, the largest shareholder in IBM, took collateral damage, falling 1.0 percent. Microsoft ...