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Remembering Charlie Munger, alter ego extraordinaire, who helped Warren Buffett earn billions in sleep

Remembering Charlie Munger, alter ego extraordinaire, who helped Warren Buffett earn billions in sleep
Reuters

vice chairman, Berkshire Hathaway

Synopsis

Charlie Munger was a complex thinker, while Warren Buffett is a simple thinker. Buffett is a deal maker. Munger was a wall that Buffett had to face for every decision he took. Without Munger, Buffett would have eventually achieved the status of the greatest investor, but chances are he would have missed out on opportunities like Apple.

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When Rajeev Thakkar, CIO and director of PPFAS mutual fund first visited Omaha in 2009 to attend the annual Berkshire Hathaway meet he thought it would be a one-time affair. Since Thakkar had read so much about Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger and was influenced by their style of investing it just made sense to him to actually get a real feel of seeing two of the biggest investors live in action. He was not disappointed. It was a closed-door
( Originally published on Dec 04, 2023 )

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