How To Invest When You Are Not An Expert
March 11, 2014 2 Comments
In 1986, Warren Buffett bought a 400-acre farm in Nebraska, and in 1993, he invested in a retail property near the New York University campus. The deals came after farming and real estate bubbles had burst, and in both cases, he knew very little about the day-to-day operations of what he was buying. But Buffett saw the potential. And while he may not have known about farming or building management, he knew people who did.
Buffett’s son ,Howard,who is a farmer, gave him a rough idea of the costs and returns. A fellow investor in the New York building was a seasoned buyer of real estate who could help to manage it.
Years later the farm is worth five times what he paid for it, and the building now throws off annual distributions that exceed 35% of the initial equity investment. “You don’t need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns,” Buffett writes. “But if you aren’t, you must recognise your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well.”
Here’s how he explains his mind set: “With my two small investments, I thought only of what the properties would produce and cared not at all about their daily valuations.”
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