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09 Oct 2023 Nelson Peltz increases Disney stake, reignites potential proxy battle - Portfolio

Trian has increased its stake to roughly 30 million shares, valued at more than $2.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The firm plans to push for multiple board seats, they added.
06 Oct 2023 Oaktree's Howard Mark on Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein - Portfolio

"If you're a person who has to be right all the time, you shouldn't be in investing."


05 Oct 2023 Berkshire reduces HP stake by 3 million shares - Portfolio

Berkshire now owns 9.9% of HP, just below the 10% reporting threshold.
03 Oct 2023 Warren Buffett-backed BYD is just over 3,000 cars away from overtaking Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of EV cars - Portfolio

BYD's backers, like Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, are happy with the company's booming success. "I have never helped do anything at Berkshire that was as good as BYD," Charlie Munger, Buffett's longtime business partner, said in February. "BYD is so much ahead of Tesla in China," he added.
02 Oct 2023 @ChrisBloomstran - Portfolio


01 Oct 2023 ‘Dumb Money’ Exposes the Baffling Allure of Bad Investment Advice

“ Retail investors have a well-established track record of destroying their own wealth. Studies have shown that individual traders somehow have the opposite of skill — they manage to do worse than they would by picking stocks at random.”
29 Sep 2023 Billionaire investor Bill Ackman channeled Warren Buffett when he bet big on Alphabet this spring - Portfolio

"I've been a kind of Warren Buffett devotee, he's been my unofficial mentor for many years.“
28 Sep 2023 Jensen Investment Management: Now May Be the Time To Look At Quality Mid-Cap Stocks - Portfolio

"In 2023, the fortunes of the S&P 500 have become heavily influenced by the performance of a relatively small number of large, predominantly technology-focused companies: Apple, Alphabet Inc., Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Nvidia and Tesla. Together these seven companies (eight stocks, incorporating both Alphabet share classes) comprise more than 30% of the index weight as of July 31, 2023, despite representing roughly 1.5% of the total number of companies in the index."