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24/7 Wall St.: Once Again, Buffett Is The World Greatest Investor
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Once Again, Buffett Is The World Greatest Investor
24/7 Wall St. —
TV Bloomberg does a poll of its terminal subscribers from time to time. The most recent was done among 1,452 people from October 23 to October 27. The question and answer that will probably get the most media attention is “who is the best assessor of financial markets?” Warren Buffett took a quarter of the votes followed by fixed income investor Bill Gross of PIMCO who received 16% of the votes cast. No one will find it surprising that George Soros and Ben Bernanke was also high on the list. Buffett’s reputation is going through a renaissance. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A), the company he runs and which holds many of his investments, had ...
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Buffett Beats Gross in Global Poll as Investor With Most Wisdom (Bloomberg)
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Buffett's star shines brightest among world's financial gurus, poll shows
BloggingStocks —
Filed under: Forecasts, Products and services, Competitive strategy, General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), ConocoPhillips (COP), Goldman Sachs Group (GS) The housing bubble and subsequent "Great Recession" have tarnished the stars of a good many of the world's financial wizards, such as the former heads at Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch. But one respected image remains -- perhaps unsurprisingly -- on top: Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A).
That's according to a recent quarterly poll of investors, traders, and analysts who ...

