Economics at Large
Lessons from Another Proxy Season
As the designated proxy analyst this spring, I had the recent pleasure of pouring over nearly 100 proxies – between both companies we do and
Austin Farris
June 20, 2023
As the designated proxy analyst this spring, I had the recent pleasure of pouring over nearly 100 proxies – between both companies we do and
Click the image to download a PDF version. We return after a slightly longer than usual gap between writings as…we were busy. Yes, it is
Clipped from a recent and almost always good The Diff/Bryne Hobart blog: First, there are some traits good investors need that are fairly stable over
When poor governance and shareholder idiocy happens and we do or say nothing, isn’t that lying down in front of a misattribution of Sir Edmund
This “may” be a version of me admitting in 2023 that cat videos exist and are very cute, but since it is a long essay
You can run your PA as you see fit. We would suggest this is your second largest position as is ours. This recent presentation does
Yes, that is the Principal at the far end as the moderator for an investment panel at the Markel Annual Meeting (Yes – please come
There is a relatively new top 5 Position. What is the value of the privately held portfolio? We paid for zero. The future remains uncertain
Verdad Research puts forth these boxes. It sums up to old school CFA stuff: you tend to get paid well in statistically cheap and you
This is from an X shareholder in CNX Resources we mentioned in a previous blog. “I was recently reading or listening to something – I
Get sucked into this “crazy” mentality which works for every industry but oil and gas. Own assets near the largest “users” of natural gas in
WB is running around Japan meeting his “Big 5” Japanese investments and raising nearly free capital to fund it, which is another neat way of