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 There has often been a lot of debate on whether Benjamin Graham’s strategy, developed over 50 years ago, still holds good. A couple of years ago, some Indian companies that made the cut were identified. In his book “The Intelligent Investor“, Graham found that one strategy that worked well was to buy companies that are sold at below its [...]

As a tumultous year ends, Morningstar has decided to stick their neck out when naming Warren Buffett as CEO of the year – 2008. While it is difficult to disagree with this choice, the year gone by has been an extremely challenging one for financial markets worldwide, and probably been the closest that people have actually come close [...]

If there was a clear signal or a call to action in these troubled times facing the financial world, that call just came from Warren Buffett. In an article that appeared in the New York Times, titled "Buy American. I Am.", Buffett has once again outlined why equity is the best bet over the long [...]

Finally, that day had to come. After bidding for, and winning the opportunity to break bread with Warren Buffett, Mohnish Pabrai and Guy Spier got to actually do so after a year, or as Pabrai put it, three hundred and sixty two days, twenty hours and forty five minutes later. He has described the events in the latest issue of [...]

Finally, the authorized biography of Warren Buffett, the billionaire Oracle of Omaha, is all set to hit bookstores on 29-Sep-08. There are of course, numerous books on Buffett, but the difference with this one is that it is the first book written with his consent and cooperation. All of 976 pages long and published by Bantam Dell, the book [...]

John Templeton, the renowned investor and philanthropist has passed away due to pneumonia. He was 95. In a celebrated career, he became one of the world’s richest men, gave up his American citizenship in the ’60s, moved to the Bahamas, and was knighted by the Queen of England.

The winning bid on this year’s eBay auction for a lunch with Warren Buffett is $2,110,100, which is more than triple of last year’s bid. It opened on June 22 at $25,000 and closed on Friday. The winning bidder is Zhao Danyang, general manager of Pure Heart China Growth Investment Fund. He, along with seven friends or family members can eat with [...]