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Topic: Warren Buffett Real Estate Investor: Valuation, Opportunity, Partnerships, Investment Horizon, and Future
Description: Warren Buffett started real estate investing very early in life. At the age of 11, his first stock purchase was Cities Service, a gas station chain, now known as Citgo. At 14, he bought 40 acres of Nebraska farm land. This was before he learned the three most valuable lessons about investing taught to him by his college professor that he has applied to his investments for over six decades. Without these important principles, Buffett would not have built America’s 5th largest company.
Buffett’s real estate experience and holdings are vast. His investment vehicle and conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, owns ...more
the second largest independent residential real estate brokerage firm in the USA. Berkshire owns the largest factory built home manufacturer, the largest single location home furnishings store, a one of a kind commercial mortgage company, and the largest commercial property and casualty insurer. Although long associated with Coca Cola and American Express, his largest common stock investment is the leading home mortgage lender in the USA.
Warren is optimistic about the future of the USA economy, real estate, commercial lending and home building with our best yet to come.
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Description: Warren Buffett readily admits that Berkshire Hathaway (now America's 6th largest company) would not have existed without the influence and guidance of his late first wife, Susan. She also helped shape his charitable and political beliefs steering him away from his boyhood and his father's deeply held governmental philosophies. His long time editor, his bridge partner, and even his closest adviser are female. Several women entrepreneurs and professional managers have sold their businesses to him. His conglomerate has two women directors and his family foundation has a majority ...more
female board. And one of his largest public investments of $11 billion has a woman President and CEO. Warren is optimistic about the future of the USA economy, primarily because of the impact women will make as their full potential is unleashed.
Robert Miles in discussion with Warren Buffett during the 2011 UNO-EMBA Genius Course.
Workshop Outline:
- A comprehensive analysis of Warren Buffett's portfolio moves including a huge investment in a technology company
- Precious metals or equities – Understand the world's greatest financier's powerful explanation
- Get an inside view of Warren Buffett's office
- What mistakes has this legendary investor made and most importantly, how the average investor can profit from them
- What are Buffett's economic moats and how to increase and sustain a fortress around your investments?
- Understand how and where the two new Berkshire investment managers are investing billions
- A quick and easy method to value Buffett's company
- Simple investment tools and methods used for over six decades by the Oracle of Omaha
- The latest comments from Buffett's annual letter to shareholders including CEO and CIO succession and share buybacks
- Highlights from lunch with the world's most famous investor
Synopsis:
A multimedia presentation by a distinguished lecturer who has created and taught the world's first Executive MBA program on the life and investment genius of Warren Buffett. Learn the fascinating tale of a man who has created wealth not by starting a business, not through inheritance, or inventing a new process, nor by manufacturing a unique product or even capturing a patent, but rather by starting with a small portfolio and building it into one of the world's largest fortunes.
Description: The first of 12 in-depth sessions on the extraordinary life of a financial, management, business and charitable legend is a brief introduction to the course now available to Executive MBA students and lifelong learners from around the world. Most, if not all, titans in business and philanthropy amassed their wealth through the timely development of a product or service or the old fashioned way: inheritance. Buffett stands alone by not having developed a unique business but rather by investing in businesses through the stock market or acquiring wholly owned businesses. As a result, his enterprise, Berkshire Hathaway, prospered into one of the world’s largest and most profitable such entities.
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Synopsis
An introductory look into the principles and practical methods used by the world’s greatest investor, CEO, chairman, director, philanthropist and educator. This presentation explains why all investors should study Warren Buffett: What unique gifts of birth, well-developed character traits and habits have enabled him to become one of the world’s most successful investor and most admired chief executive?
- Learn how Buffett began with $100 and turned it into a multi-billion dollar fortune without ever taking an enormous salary or issuing management stock options
- Gain insights into his unique and uncommon management style
- Understand how Buffett created a world class board of directors
- Explore fascinating aspects of his life, character, reputation and ethics
- Review Buffett’s mistakes and recognize that even the wisest are not free of errors
- Learn how his vast fortune is thoughtfully distributed to those less fortunate
- Hear from a course graduate who pitched an investment idea to Warren Buffett as part of the final examination
A simple yet effective business valuation method using very simple math skills, which was taught to him by his graduate school professor, will be revealed. Also shown is how this technique has been successfully used in his five decade long history of acquisitions, which built and sustain Berkshire Hathaway as one of the largest and most profitable global enterprises.
While this is a graduate level university course designed exclusively for Executive MBA students and UNO graduates, lifelong learners of all ages may enjoy this introductory session.
Outline
- Better understand the unique characteristics of a business genius
- Carefully select your character traits and heroes
- Learn simple business valuation methods used by Warren Buffett
- Realize the important difference between the price of a stock and the value of the business
- Become a more informed investor and allocator of capital
- Be a better manager of people by developing the right corporate culture
- Sharpen your oral and written communication skills
- Examine Berkshire’s corporate governance and the role of its board of directors
- Understand the unique challenges of business continuation and CEO succession
- Explore mistakes made by Warren Buffett and learn how to avoid the same ones
- Determine how to give back to the world intelligently
- Uncover and recommend a business or stock that would fit into the Berkshire family of businesses
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Proven and documented principles used by the world’s most successful investor are examined in-depth. Learn how to apply these easy methods no matter what your age or experience. Understand what to know before you make an investment, how to determine if you are on the right track, and where to find valuable investment ideas.
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Synopsis: Surprisingly simple and easy to understand strategies used for over six decades by the world’s most successful investor.
Outline:- 3 important principles taught by Warren Buffett’s college professor
- The critical difference between price and value
- What is value investing?
- Investing versus speculating
- Difference between quantitative and qualitative investing
- A stock valuation formula that doesn’t require advanced mathematics
- Bid on an actual business purchased by Warren Buffett
- Make money in declining markets
- Proven investment strategies that work if you are 19 or 80 year old
- 5 must have things in every Warren Buffett investment
- Sharpen your skills by learning this game and by practicing these activities every day
Carefully analyze each stock in Warren Buffett’s corporate and pension fund portfolio and understand why they were selected. Understand a simple valuation method used by Warren Buffett to apply to your investments. Workshop will include an actual stock purchased along with a careful explanation of its valuation. How you can construct a world class portfolio without the benefit of a calculator or computer.
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Synopsis: This presentation is more than theory, mystery or magic to portfolio management, instead proven principles and techniques to impact your personal finances for a lifetime.
Outline:- The importance of a concentrated and focused portfolio
- Why equities over other forms of investment
- The stock Buffett liked best at age 21, 46, and 66
- What every USA money manager with $100 million under management must do
- How to find Warren Buffett’s portfolio and his quarterly changes
- Investment tools used by the world’s greatest investor
- What Warren Buffett is investing in now
- Stocks you can purchase cheaper than Warren Buffett
- 10 lessons from Berkshire Hathaway’s pension portfolio
A short economic briefing with the same data that the world’s foremost financier shared with the President of the United States. Berkshire Hathaway’s ever expanding group of wholly owned companies provides a leading economic indicator of the country’s gross domestic product, employment, retail sales, housing, mortgage, and consumer debt. Learn how the most current information can help you with your investments.
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Synopsis: A short and current state of the United States economy and how it may relate to your overall investment strategy.
Outline:- Where to find the most relevant economic data
- How to interpret the latest economic news
- Why Warren Buffett would do nothing
different if the Federal Reserve Chairman whispered the
direction of interest rates in his ear - Understand why value investor ignore the macroeconomic indicators
- Be a business analyst instead of a market analyst
Using gifts of memory, math and interpersonal skills, Buffett has become the world's foremost financier. Taking a small textile company and building it into one of the world's foremost conglomerates is an extraordinary tale of genius combined with character...read more!
During a economic crisis, the global markets turn to theworld's greatest investor for comfort and guidance. ...read more on this presentation
Bob Miles's Speaking Topics are engaging, informative and inspirational
for a variety of corporate venues. Large or small audience
groups will benefit from his affidable, congenial delivery of topic
material on Management, Investment, Finances, Leadership and more....
topics that are not only understandable to most business-oriented
audiences, but also insightful information for their business and
personal enrichment.
Bob Miles's presentations are appropriate for many business venues,
including: Annual meetings, conventions, Speaking and
Book Signing programs, corporate meetings, International meetings,
Boardroom Keynote, Investment groups/clubs, or more individualized
one-on-one interactions with specialized groups.
Robert
P. Miles presenting at the 2011 Value Investor Conference,
Univ. of Nebraska - Omaha, College of Business
(Photo by: Michael O'Brien)
Credit courses, seminar keynote, seminar lecturer, graduation guest speaker, seminar guest lecturer, undergraduate level lecturer, graduate level lecturer, business college keynote and individualized class presentations are a few Educational venues.
"Your presentation was wonderful. Even those of us who know something about Warren Buffett, enjoyed the stories you related." — Laurie Cronin, Charles Schwab
"It's amazing how your presentation struck different chords with each of us. With me it was the simplicity of single decision events — Buffett owning just one house, buying a business forever." — Tom Ulanski, Financial Analyst Society
"Everyone enjoyed your presentation - they are now all reading
your book."
— Gloria Landry, Kroger
"Everyone who reads it comes away singing its praises. I'm mentioning it in the annual report." — Warren Buffett , on The Warren Buffett CEO
"Everyone knows Warren is the greatest investor of our time… [Robert Miles] for the first time captures his genius as a manager." — Jack Welch, retired CEO, GE
"Australian audiences are totally captivated by Robert Miles' explanation of the investing principles of Warren Buffett. . .convinced that these simple methods work anywhere in the world." — Peter Spann, Founder and CEO, Freeman Fox, Australia's foremost wealth educator
"Masterful presenter Robert Miles teaches that indeed it is possible to create a fortune without compromising your principles." — Norman Rentrop, Founder and Chairman, Rentrop Publishing, Bonn, Germany
"Robert Miles paints a picture of capitalism at its finest. Creating wealth by building an enterprise, unleashing the capital inside the business by selling to Berkshire, preserving the unique management culture and values, and passing the wealth on for the benefit of others. A beautiful and masterful showcase of the circle of wealth." — Bill Child, Chairman, R.C. Willey Home Furnishings, Salt Lake City, Utah
