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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

However, there is an important nuance in that more players have exited than the limited number who entered over time due to high barriers to entry and exit. Typically the number of IPOs, share buybacks from company management teams, the number and size of M&A deals increase as prices go up, but all typically drop off when prices fall.

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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. A questioner wondered if Berkshire’s Fruit of the Loom business had seen any effect from consumers’ shift to buying online rather than from traditional retailers.

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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. A questioner wondered if Berkshire’s Fruit of the Loom business had seen any effect from consumers’ shift to buying online rather than from traditional retailers.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S. And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly.

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett praised Abel and Jain for their accomplishments and their knowledge of the businesses and work ethic, and invited questions for them as well. Buffett places a very high value on this float but won’t give a number. Omaha is a nice weekend getaway with a number of attractions in addition to the annual meeting events.

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett praised Abel and Jain for their accomplishments and their knowledge of the businesses and work ethic, and invited questions for them as well. Buffett places a very high value on this float but won’t give a number. Omaha is a nice weekend getaway with a number of attractions in addition to the annual meeting events.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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