Horizon.my

One of our readers was asking the other day if I could profile the difference in investment approach between Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch. So here are some of the things I’ve managed to come up with:
Portfolio Size
1. Warren Buffett is a “Focused Investor” investing only in companies which he considers outstanding. His portfolio consists [...]

In my previous post I described the story of Anne Scheiber, an unsung hero in the investment world. Scheiber owned a portfolio of stocks worth US$22 million when she died.
Notably she made lots of money by investing and holding on to a pharmaceutical stock called Schering Plough. From what I read, she has never sold [...]

Stock market investment has been a passion of mine since as far back as I can remember. On this blog I’ve tried to share some ideas which are my own, but many ideas I got from some of great books below:
The Warren Buffett Way (by Robert Hagstrom)
“Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are [...]

Taking a look at Berkshire Hathaway’s 2007 Annual Report, we see in page 2 that Warren Buffett has managed to grow Berkshire’s Book Value Per Share by an annual compound rate of 21.1% from 1964 to 2007.
Doesn’t sound too impressive to you? Well think twice…
21.1% per annum compound means that if you had invested just [...]

On 16 October 2008, the New York Times published an op-ed letter contributed by Warren Buffett. The message of the letter was clear–Buffett is a buyer of US stocks.
In the letter, Buffett offers a few words of wisdom which has made him perhaps the greatest investor of all time.
“A simple rule dictates my buying: Be [...]