The Berkshire-Hathaway Annual Chairman's Letter is out. Highlights include:
- Buffett tying his five-decade record for due diligence: he bought Coca-Cola fifty years after buying six-packs of Coke and selling them individually, and now he's purchased Marmon fifty years after a bizarre tax-arbitrage deal that involved exchanging stock certificates for cocoa bean futures.
- More derivatives trading: Buffett sold 15-20 year puts on stock indices, and has made money betting on the Brazilian Real over the US Dollar.
- All successors are selected. I wonder what the CEO market would say about that.