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Links - 01/23/2024

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Jan 24, 2024
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“For years, when someone asked me what my biggest fear was as an investor in managing my portfolio, my answer was that it was buying too soon on the way down from often very overvalued levels. I knew a market collapse was possible. And sometimes, I imagined that I was back in 1930 after the market had peaked the year before, and then dropped 30%. Surely, there would’ve been some tempting bargains then. And just as surely, you’d have been crushed by the market’s subsequent plunge over the next three years — down to below 20% of 1929 levels. A fall from 70 to 20, and from 100 to 20, would feel almost exactly the same by the time you hit 20. Sometimes being too early becomes indistinguishable from being wrong.” —Seth Klarman (October 2008 at the 18th Annual Graham & Dodd Breakfast)


How the Haslam family will remember the Pilot era as Berkshire Hathaway takes ownership [H/T Linc] (LINK)

Mohnish Pabrai’s Q&A at Oxford University - Oxford Alpha Fund on November 21, 2023 (video) (LINK)

Oaktree’s Howard Marks: Fed funds rate will average near 3% over the next ten years (video) (LINK)

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