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Family Holdings #9 - Navigating a nervous market with a long-term focus
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Family Holdings #6 - The divergent lessons in capital allocation from Google and Markel
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Family Holdings #44 - Alphabet's 'Small' Investments Become Large
Further: Brown & Brown and Markel with figures; Scottish Mortgage on AI and Brookfield focuses on the renaissance of nuclear energy.
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Family Holdings #35 - Exceptional leadership and MBB's strength in energy & cybersecurity
This week's topics: The quality of management is a crucial but difficult-to-measure factor for long-term value creation, which can be assessed through indirect signals such as communication and capital allocation. The openness of Ryan Rockafellow (TerraVest) and the no-nonsense approach of Tom Gayner (Markel) are considered prime examples.
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Family Holdings #32 - Major acquisitions, insider purchases and AI investments
This week's topics: Alphabet's potential investment in the crucial AI infrastructure company Vast Data is a direct example of their broader 'moonshot' strategy, aimed at financing the fundamental building blocks of future technology. Prosus reallocates capital by selling its stake in competitor Meituan to