Thursday, 20 December 2018 11:45

A Great Haven for Stormy Markets

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Are you looking for places to ride out the current storm in markets? It is a tough time to be doing so, as even traditional bastions of safety—utilities, healthcare, and consumer staples—have been deeply wounded lately. Here is one you probably haven’t thought of—Berkshire Hathaway’s stock. The captain of the Berkshire ship, Warren Buffett has long been a master of profiting in down markets, and with the company’s $100 bn in cash, the combination looks appealing. One CIO put it this way, saying “As a long-term Berkshire holder, this is the kind of environment that you hope for given all the cash … I love the risk-reward, embedded safety, and diversity of the earnings flows”.


FINSUM: Berkshire is not the kind of stock that is going to get hammered in down markets, and it would seem to have a lot of upside in such environments. Seems like a potentially good buy.

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