The legendary investor was on a trip to the Japanese capital last month, and the titans of the country’s giant energy and raw-materials conglomerates were there to make their pitches.
The Mumbai-born Indian-American had earlier made headlines for paying $650,100 (Rs 5.32 crore) in 2007 for a seat at a charity lunch with Charlie Munger's longtime business partner and legendary investor Warren Buffett.
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The Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO interviewed from Tokyo where he was visiting to show support for the five trading houses he recently invested in.
In an interview with the newspaper, Buffett also said he would visit Japanese trading houses and Tungaloy Corp offices during his stay in Japan this time.
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Buffett credits Berkshire’s success to not just smart investing but a lot to luck. For instance, Berkshire invested in insurance firm National Indemnity in 1967, the first step towards Berkshire’s well tested insurance bets, was a stroke of luck according to Buffett.
Buffett said that Berkshire has been able to pick businesses that have been lasting value creators. He highlighted Berkshire’s purchase of Coca Cola in 1994 at the cost of $1.3 billion which now has grown to a value of $25 billion excluding yearly dividends.
The conglomerate posted $6.7 billion in operating earnings in the fourth quarter, a 14% decline from a year earlier, it said
Buffett said Berkshire’s remarkable record of doubling the returns of the S&P 500 over the last 58 years with him at the helm is the result of only “about a dozen truly good decisions – that would be about one every five years.”