Category: Anecdotes
31 posts categorized as "Anecdotes"
Berkshire Season Begins
March 3, 2020
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Letter I’m delighted to say that the (very) unofficial start of spring was this weekend. Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder letter was released, and that starts the countdown to the annual shareholder meeting in early May. Since 1965, many of Buffett’s quips, quirks, advice and insights have come from these letters. While…
Touchstones
December 14, 2018
Content provided by Robyn Murray, Freelance Writer Dustin Dorhout’s father left him with a special gift. A stack of letters to serve as lifelong reminders of the values he held dear — integrity, hard work, discipline — and about the kind of person he wanted his son to grow up to be. It’s a poor…
Building a House
December 7, 2018
Content provided by Robyn Murray, Freelance Writer Aleck Liu first started thinking about investing when he was eight years old. His dad was building a house in the family’s backyard, and Liu liked the idea that his father had built something tangible. Something that would be there in the future — generating income or, if…
Tough Minded
December 5, 2018
Content provided by Robyn Murray, Freelance Writer Shana Sissel has survived not one, but two terrorist attacks. On September 11, 2001, Sissel was on the 64th floor of World Trade Center Tower 2. On April 15, 2013, she was three blocks away from the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Her frightening experiences, along with…
The Builder
November 19, 2018
Content provided by Robyn Murray, Freelance Writer The first thing to know about Chad Boyer is that he likes to build. It’s a trait that stretches back through a line of brick layers and concrete masons to his great grandfather. “I worked from the time I was probably 10 years old,” Boyer said. “I’ve always…
Our Worst Performing Household
October 25, 2018
Content provided by Grant Engelbart, CFA, CAIA, Director of Research & Senior Portfolio Manager I normally would never single out individual investor performance, but in this case I believe it’s necessary. Earlier this year, on the same day, two accounts in the same household were invested in two different CLS strategies with a 100 Risk…
The Right Path
October 9, 2018
Content provided by Robyn Murray, Freelance Writer Colin Maloy always figured he’d be a dentist. His dad’s a dentist. His grandfather was a dentist. But when he finally got to dentistry school and sat down in class, he realized he hated biology. “It was the most painful thing in the world,” he recalled. “I did…
Sir John Templeton: The Humble Approach
July 10, 2018
Content Provided by Rusty Vanneman, CFA, CMT – Chief Investment Officer One of the most important days in my development as an investment manager occurred in the spring of 1987. It was during my undergraduate days at Babson College. It was Founder’s Day, which is Babson’s oldest tradition, a day established to recognize the school’s…
Market Horror Picture Show
July 14, 2015
By Kostya Etus, CLS Associate Portfolio Manager I love watching movies. It is one of my favorite things to do in my spare time. I really enjoy all types of movies, and I will give almost any film a chance except for one genre: horror. I find horror films typically do not have well-developed plots,…
Emerging Market Divergence
July 8, 2015
Content provided by Sierra Morris-Fuchs, CLS Investment Research Analyst Emerging markets have shown favorable valuations and stronger global growth prospects recently, which have presented intriguing opportunities. But lumping these markets together as a single country or region can be quite deceiving. Instead, the emerging markets should be analyzed individually because their characteristics vary widely —…