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New M&A expert in town, hires BT chief

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... former BT chief executive Ian Martin as vice chairman, Asia Pacific. Berkshire Capital - not associated with Berkshire Hathaway - is a boutique investment bank that specialises in providing advice on M&A activities in the wealth and investment sectors. ...

Too clever by half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... because - wait for it - " Warren Buffett defended Goldman Sachs Group Inc." Goldman according to Buffet. At Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting last Saturday, Warren strongly defended Goldman Sachs, saying he doesn't believe Goldman acted improperly ...

Risk-free no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... corporates are deemed better able to pay their debt than the US government! Bloomberg reports that bonds offered by Berkshire Hathaway, Proctor and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson and Lowe's yield less than US Treasuries of similar maturity. According to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... afternoon, though, as energy and industrial stocks spiked, driven higher by rising commodity prices. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced Tuesday it is paying $US100 a share for Burlington Northern Santa Fe in a deal valuing the railroad at $US34 billion ...

I have been dead wrong: Buffett

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... such as Warren Buffett admits to making a "major mistake"- but last Saturday, he did. In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett acknowledged he made a "major mistake of commission" when he bought a large amount of ConocoPhillips ...

Market wrap - midday

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... a volume of 16,219 contracts. CommSec market analyst Juliette Saly said news that US tycoon Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway had agreed to buy $US5 billion ($A5.93 billion) of stock in Goldman Sachs had prompted the positive opening. "The market is ...

Magellan Global mirrors Berkshire strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... suggested the fund's investment approach was very similar to the value style used by Warren Buffet, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. The long-term investment portfolio holds between 25-50 stocks and is managed by former joint head of global banking at ...

JPMorgan serves up investment legends

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
... Target Redemption Strategic Asset Securities fund offers capital protected access to Warren Buffett's famed Berkshire Hathaway, Jim Rogers' Diapason Rogers Commodity Index Fund and Mark Mobius' Templeton Asian Growth Fund. The fund follows Series 1 ...

Zenith rates local NY fund replica 'Highly Recommended'

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... The fund is an unhedged US dollar denominated trust with shares in large cap companies like Amex, Citigroup, Berkshire Hathaway, Kraft, AIG, Microsoft and Harley Davidson. The original fund is one of the largest and most successful US retail share funds ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... for railroads, but for the economy, too. Shares of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp jumped after Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc said it acquired a 10.9 per cent stake in the company to become its largest shareholder. The Dow Jones industrial average ...