Charles Munger

Among the 21 billionaires who died this past year: Italy’s longest-serving post war prime minister, the singer-turned-businessman who brought us Margaritaville and investor Warren Buffett’s right-hand man.

Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger passed away this week in Santa Barbara, California. For five decades, Munger was Warren Buffett’s righthand man and north star—a likeminded soul who commanded and received respect and admiration from the Oracle of Omaha as his trusted consigliere and mentor in the discipline of producing wealth through stock-market investing.

Berkshire Hathaway’s longtime vice chairman, Charles Munger, passed away yesterday at age 99. This Forbes cover story from 1996, reveals just how transformational he was for Warren Buffett.

The apparel manufacturer trades with a price/earnings ratio of just 10 and at 1.75 book value.

Many people have made money investing in the airline industry. Warren Buffett is not among them.

The summit reportedly attracted over 16,000 attendees last year. The thousands of investors planning to head to Omaha in May join the over 27 million people whose plans have been changed by COVID-19 cancellations or postponements, as of the Forbes tracker’s most recent count.

“Chinese companies are stronger than ours,” Munger said in an annual address.

Getting a stake in the Chinese consumer led economy is bound to be a considerably important development in the investment management world in the coming years. The safest way to play the future is to invest in an ETF that concentrates its investment goals on the domestic market.

As part of its annual assessment of charitable donations in the U.S., The Chronicle of Philanthropy has released is list of the 50 Americans who gave away the most money on 2016.

Charles Munger has made a career of avoiding common errors in judgment. The longtime vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway long ago assembled a checklist of 25 tendencies that lead to what he called "psychology-based dysfunction." In other words, they are predictable traps that cause professionals to make bad decisions. Mr. Munger collected these misjudgments in a [...]

Why a 91 year old billionaire and partner of Warren Buffett's is perplexed by the current economic environment.

In the pursuit of more, American health care has too often missed the mark on better. And to become better, health care must change its culture, its financial structure and how we educate our nation’s medical students.

Billionaire philanthropist and Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charles Munger gives a university record $65 million to U.C. Santa Barbara

That's the essential beauty of Omaha in early May. Ordinary Americans come to hear the guardians of their nestegg, to find out their savings are safe and growing still at 20% a year. Imagine knowing that Warren Buffett and Charles Munger are looking after your money. There's never been such an opportunity in American finance-- and when they are no longer able to offer this service, it will be a tragedy. For their like are hard to find, to duplicate.

Remember, Todd Combs became heir apparent to Warren Buffett after a lunch with Charles Munger.