Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
~ Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett: Bonds and portfolio risk
It is a terrible mistake for investors with long-term horizons – among them, pension funds, college endowments and savings-minded individuals – to measure their investment ‘risk’ by their portfolio’s ratio of bonds to stocks. Often, high-grade bonds in an investment portfolio increase its risk.
~ Warren Buffett, letter to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway – February 24, 2018
Warren Buffett on tax reform
Part 2 of Judy Woodruff’s wide-ranging PBS interview with Warren Buffett:
- GOP health care reform
- tax reform
- the root of happiness
America should stand for more than just wealth, says Warren Buffett
Judy Woodruff from PBS with Warren Buffett in a wide-ranging interview:
- Why you should invest in America
- Why health care in the US is sick and needs fixing
- Why America should stand for more than just wealth
Buffett on Wells Fargo: “It was a terrible mistake. They incentivized bad behavior. Incentives work. But they work in either direction.”
Is the market overpriced? Episode II
Using Warren Buffett’s favorite broad market valuation metric of market capitalisation over GDP*, we can see valuations are on the high side, near to levels from early 2006, but nowhere near the alarming bubble of two years later. The Dotcom bubble (not shown) was even more severe.
*I have used GNP (or GNI as some call it) as this more accurately includes offshore income.
Australian investors will be relieved to find the ASX, at 100, reflects fair value. Even if we ignore the 2007 property/resources bubble.
