Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders

Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders

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One excerpt per week from a top shareholder letter (Berkshire / Bridgewater / Pershing / Howard Marks memos)

Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders
Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders06/13/2026, 02:03:26 PM

Gross 2024 — "Total Return is dead"

In May 2024, Bill Gross — co-founder of PIMCO and inventor of the "total return" bond strategy — declared that same strategy dead. The article traces the precise math that made total return brilliant in 1981 (15% yields, 6–7 year durations) and destroyed it by 2020 (0.52% yields, 20+ year durations), frames his Sisyphus metaphor, unpacks his accusation that bond fund managers are selling rather than advising, and explains his own pivot to MLP pipeline companies and regional banks.

Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders
Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders06/11/2026, 08:28:54 PM

Buffett 2023 — "Charlie was the architect"

Buffett's 2023 annual letter, the first written after Charlie Munger's death, centers on one thesis: Munger was the architect of Berkshire Hathaway. The article surfaces the verbatim 1965 instruction to abandon everything learned from Ben Graham — the single most consequential sentence Berkshire ever received — traces its sixty-year compounding consequence, and quotes the tribute's emotional core. Record $37.4 billion in operating earnings is covered in three sentences, framed as the contractor's report.

Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders
Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders06/11/2026, 02:58:47 PM

Buffett 2022 — "The weeds wither away as the flowers bloom"

Today's excerpt surfaces the core philosophical disclosure in Buffett's 2022 annual letter: that 58 years of satisfactory results at Berkshire trace to roughly a dozen genuinely good decisions — about one every five years — and the "secret sauce" is letting the flowers compound long enough that the weeds stop mattering. The article works through Berkshire's Coca-Cola and American Express stakes (each bought for $1.3 billion in 1994, worth $25 billion and $22 billion respectively by 2022, now generating a combined $1 billion in annual dividends) to make the arithmetic of this thesis concrete. A second section covers Buffett's tribute to Charlie Munger — curating Munger's aphorisms on leverage, patience, rationality, and inversion — with the retrospective weight that 2022 was Munger's last full year as vice chairman before his death in November 2023.

Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders
Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders06/10/2026, 08:36:04 PM

Buffett 2021 — "Bull markets breed bloviated bull"

Today's excerpt surfaces the most quotable passage in Buffett's 2021 annual letter: the warning that "bull markets breed bloviated bull." The article unpacks what Buffett means by "old-fashioned earnings" — using BNSF's $6 billion record as the anchor — explains why the incentive to inflate reported figures intensifies precisely when stock prices are rising, and derives three practical tests investors can apply to any earnings release to distinguish economic reality from accounting construction.

Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders
Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders06/09/2026, 08:29:28 PM

Buffett 2020 — The math of repurchases "grinds away slowly, but can be powerful over time"

Buffett's 2020 letter contains an apparent paradox: Berkshire sold Apple shares in 2020, yet ended the year owning a larger percentage of Apple than before the sale. This piece unpacks the dual-buyback flywheel — Apple's own repurchase program shrinking the share count, and Berkshire's $24.7 billion buyback (the largest in the company's history, five times the 2019 level) compounding the effect — that caused Berkshire shareholders to indirectly own 10% more of Apple's assets and future earnings by year-end 2020 than in July 2018, without committing a single additional dollar.

Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders
Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders06/07/2026, 08:34:38 PM

Buffett 2018 — "We are gloriously lucky to have that force at our back"

Warren Buffett's 2018 letter opens by declaring the year's official GAAP earnings figure ($4 billion) a distortion — then delivers something more durable: a five-grove valuation framework to replace the retiring book-value yardstick, the clearest accounting of how insurance float creates structural funding advantage, and a two-page essay tracing $114.75 invested in 1942 to $606,811 by 2019 as evidence that the most powerful force in American investing has always been the economy itself.

Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders
Shareholder Letters From Top Leaders06/05/2026, 08:30:39 PM

Buffett 2016 — Washtubs, not teaspoons

From Warren Buffett's 2016 Berkshire Hathaway letter: the ten-year bet's penultimate scorecard (S&P 500 at 85.4% vs. the average hedge fund-of-funds at 22%), a tribute to Jack Bogle and the psychology that keeps the wealthy paying for underperformance, the "washtubs not teaspoons" crisis doctrine backed by $91.6B in float, and the colonoscopy line on share issuance — distilled from the Dexter Shoe and General Re mistakes.