Enhanced activity by William during this last quarter! One of his investments, Valeant, have received a lot of bad publicity as well as being trashed by the Berkshire boys for conducting and using a business plan without any sense of moral. Are the old boys correct? I tend to think so.
One new holding arrived this time:
Nomad - a frozen food company that are currently head quartered on the British Virgin Islands and we all know why a company is sitting there...
For the previous report please visit Pershing Square: William Ackman Q4 2015.
Conclusion: William kept adding into Valeant with their highly questionable business model as well as did he enter into a new holding, Nomad, sitting on the British Virgin Islands... I would not follow in his footsteps.
Source: SEC
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"Are the old boys correct? I tend to think so."
I think so to. It's definitely one of the most interesting investment cases in the last time.
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valuetradeblog
Yeah, all the figures looked excellent, the businessmodel looked excellent on paper... And yet... It went like this.
Investments like this one scares me. I mean even several famous investors fell into this one so if they with all their info and knowledge end up there... How can I then do better?
Index ETFs gets more and more attractive.
Fredrik von Oberhausen
It scares me to. Like you mentioned even Sequoia was invested ... with 20% of their capital (when I am remembering right)
Charlie Munger was right about this one. I think he said something about pattern recognition when dealing with people.
Buffett also weights management-quality in his decisions high. I have the feeling that they bought pcp mosty because of the Manager.
I for example like the management of Investor AB a lot. Like Sequoia i don't know if the numbers they present me are 100% right ... but I have a good feeling about them. They are no showoffs , have a long Track record and have skin in the game.
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