Over the long run management is nearly everything. The biggest winners have come from the most competitive industries. (Thread)
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Present and future value are somewhat like circumstances versus decisions. When a famous entertainer goes bankrupt is anyone unduly surprised? Those same people, however, don't seem to think this happens within their portfolio.
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I could never reconcile Buffett's commentary on excellent businesses with all of the crap businesses that populate BRK's wholly owned portfolio. Their actual strategy seemed to involve buying well-managed companies in mediocre industries. Their stock portfolio is different.
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Some businesses are really, really hard to ruin.
$CBOE owns the rights to the Vix. On that sleeve of their business execution is basically irrelevant because the entire business is just maximizing the economic rent.2 replies 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread
Interesting assertion. Doesn't maximizing economic rent in a sense equate to execution? an example - the NYSE was bloated and ran on old technology (not maximizing rent), so ICE bought it, removed management, and realized huge synergies in the following years.
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