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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. All the big brokerage firms have large compliance departments, and they should. annualized compared with 6.9% He cited Berkshire’s shoe businesses as an example. company.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. All the big brokerage firms have large compliance departments, and they should. annualized compared with 6.9% Index Fund Investing Versus Berkshire (or Active Management). company.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

Conviction, so we look at, you know, whether or not a specific theme is something that we have a high degree of conviction that will be a trend, that will definitely have an impact in the economy over the next two or three decades. I mean, I always say it depends on the economies or the scale of the business that you are considering.

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Transcript: David Layton

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: And when you look at the economy for the past decade, or at least as judged by the public markets, Europe seems to have been a little sleepy the past decade. How much is the prospective market size, as well as how robust local economy is? In fact, you had suggested public markets decoupled from the real economy.

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