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Ask A Foolish Question – What Is The Rule Of 100?

03 December 2012
In this week’s episode:

Sonia Rehill delves into her mailbag for another batch of your investing questions for David Kuo to answer. Among the many questions this week are the Rule of 100, alternatives to buying gilts, how to find historical P/E ratios, the difference between Berkshire Hathaway A and B shares, short-term investing, a question about financial repression from an expat in Dubai and lots more. A transcript of this podcast is also available.

 

If there is a question about investing that you would like answered, please email Sonia at foolishquestions@fool.co.uk. If you would like to listen to previous episodes of Ask A Foolish Question, you can find them here.

 

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David Kuo and Sonia Rehill
David Kuo and Sonia Rehill

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BHAfool1 03 Dec 2012 , 7:26pm

In segment starting 05:40, David's statement about Berkshire Hathaway B class shares (06:57) stated the old, not the current voting rights. The Wikipedia article on Berkshire Hathaway gives both the pre-split and post-split B share rights, relative to the A share correctly, as does the BerkshireHathaway.com website. Since Jan 2010's 50 for 1 split, the economic rights are 1/1,500th of the A share's, and the voting rights are 1/10,000th of the A share's.

[Disclosure: owner of BRKb since 2003]

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