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...Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, Ben Cohen once told me he will give most of his tens of millions to charity and leave just $1 million to his daughter, a nice cushion but not enough to live well on without working. Other rich folks, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, have similar plans to spare their heirs what wealth advisers call "affluenza," an affliction that was fleetingly pandemic during the dotcom daze. Wealth doctors have lost a few patients since then. But even as stocks have slumped, home prices have swelled. Household net worth is down only slightly from...
There may be good reasons to load up your 401(k) with company shares. After all, stock-picking gurus Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch have always counseled to buy what you know. You probably know more about your outfit's prospects than those of any other company--whether it's developing hot new products, for instance. It's one stock with which you might have an edge...
...Given all the overlap one wonders if they’re not pandering to billionaire vanity—and a look at the top of the list is a pretty interesting commentary on the state of the economy. Predictably, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the preternaturally genius investor Warren Buffett occupied the top spots. What is most striking, however, is that five of the ten richest people in the world have the same last name: Walton. They are the widow and four children of the late Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, who if alive today would be the richest...
...have sympathy for all shareholders of Enron who lost so much in the company's collapse. A point to consider for future investing: Warren Buffett, unquestionably a savvy investor, follows a simple rule of never investing in a business he doesn't understand. My guess is that only a small percentage of Enron investors understood the energy-trading business the company was in. How many losses could have been avoided if these investors had just adhered to Buffett's easy-to-follow rule. DANIEL MCADAM Poultney...
...WARREN BUFFETT has turned value investing into an art form, piling up the world's second largest individual fortune and persuading millions to mimic the low-tech, buy-and-hold style of stock picking he practices at BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY. When a financial firm needs a bailout, the "Oracle of Omaha" usually gets a call. His investment rescued bond-trading powerhouse Salomon Brothers in the early '90s. Buffett, 71, is now active in efforts to get federal backing for insurers exposed to losses in future terror attacks...