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Irving Kahn: The 108-year-old investment manager
Profiles The world's oldest investment manager fondly recalls making his first trade in the feverish summer or 1929.
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Chart of the week: The rising cost of Berkshire Hathaway shares
Charts The price of shares in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has passed the $2,000 mark. The shares could have been bought for under $10 in the early 1960s.
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Warren Buffett is buying Exxon – but should you follow his lead?
Features Warren Buffett, one of the world’s most successful investors, has bought $3.45bn worth of shares in oil giant Exxon Mobil. Should you follow his lead? Ed Bowsher investigates.
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Bill Gross: Are ‘great’ investors really great? Or just lucky?
Features Styled 'the Bond King', Bill Gross has been lauded as one of the greatest investors of all time. But by his own admission, he may have just been lucky. James McKeigue reports.
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The three main investment styles: income, value, and growth
Beginners' Guides Investing can seem complicated, but, in fact, it all boils down to three simple approaches. Phil Oakley explains what they are and how you can use them to build your portfolio.
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Seth Klarman - the world’s greatest living value investor
Tutorials Value investing - the art of buying something worth a pound for 50 pence - works. Phil Oakley looks at what you can learn from its greatest practitioner - Seth Klarman.
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How do you know when to sell shares?
Tutorials If you are looking to buy shares, there's no shortage of advice around. But what's less clear is when to sell. Getting that right is vital. Tim Bennett gives three tips on how to tell when it's time to sell.
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Why gold really is your best defence
Features Gold is still scorned by many investors. But they're missing the point of owning gold. With inflation rising and government debts out of control, it's not something you should be without, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
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Should you follow the crowd when investing?
Tutorials Warren Buffett famously said that going against the herd was the best way to make money on the stockmarket. But is following the crowd necessarily such a bad thing? Tim Bennett investigates.
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