Warren Buffett, CFA

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Do you think Warren Buffett would struggle with the CFA at all or could he pass with minimal studying?
 
Fail. He just got lucky many times but not actually a good investor.
 
I think he would pass struggling with minimal studying.
The best quantitative measure of success as an investor is positive alpha or high absolute returns and the best measure of being a good investor is success. Buffett has had postive alpha and high absolute returns.
 
warren buffet is not an investor. he is(was) the bill gates of insurance, who got in at exactly the time the industry was going through a massive transformation.
all insurance companies must put the capital somewhere, and buffett chose value stocks. or more specifically took them private. - private equity
so 2 lucky rolls of the dice. nothing more.
 
To claim that Warren Buffett only had a background in insurance which led him to having the capital to make investments is wrong (a search of his wikipedia page sufficiently disproves this by providing a brief summary of his business career) and further, doesn’t prove that he’s a bad investor. There’s plenty of people out there with billions of capital to run but make poor investments. He chose the right value stocks and he also made a fortune buying private companies and having them IPO. Just buying value stocks and taking companies public doesn’t guarantee a positve return (and more importantly, postive alpha). If that’s not good investing, I don’t know what is. Berkshire has outperformed the general market over 500% since it went public.
dwheats comment infers that those that pass the CFA program are good investors. That’s simply not true and goes against CFAI ethics (again, assuming that good investor means produces better returns than normal).
I don’t know why all the hate for Warren Buffett. Maybe he gets too much respect, but I would also fathom that 99.99999% of the people on this forum would trade their career for his in a heartbeat.
 
CubsFanCPA wrote:
dwheats comment infers that those that pass the CFA program are good investors. That’s simply not true and goes against CFAI ethics (again, assuming that good investor means produces better returns than normal).
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#passesL1&L2butdoesn’tknowwhatsaracasmis
 
dwheats wrote:
CubsFanCPA wrote:
dwheats comment infers that those that pass the CFA program are good investors. That’s simply not true and goes against CFAI ethics (again, assuming that good investor means produces better returns than normal).
Click to expand...
#passesL1&L2butdoesn’tknowwhatsaracasmis
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#CannotPutApostrophesInHashtags
 
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