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jaxsc300man | What is a better investment BRK.B or GOLD? |
i have $9000 and i am not sure what to buy. i am 23 and i am thinking of holding on to this for quite a few years. eather buy 2 shares of BRK.B or buy $9000 worth of soild gold and hold onto it. please if you dont know what BRK.B is then please dont answer |
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jose s
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gold is better |
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westwindsraider
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By all means go with BRK.B. #1, Gold isn't an investment, it's more of a hedge against financial disaster. BRK.B has weathered every storm imagineable and has beaten GOLD hands down day in and day out. If BRK.B is your only other option in your own mind and if you already own a home, have finished school, have an emergancy fund set up, etc, all the prudent things to do with money befreo really getting into investing for the long-term then perhaps you should consider putting the BRK.B into a Roth IRA. The growth will be considerable and totally tax free coming out if you leave it there for the right amount of time. Gold will most lilely hit $600 again before $2,000 and BRK.B will have tripled or much, much more befrore gold does much. BRK.B is very liquid and gold isn't. |
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Sir Percival Blakeney Baronet
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Warren Buffet's insurance company has been set back lately and though it constantly goes up, it rises at at a slow rate. I'd try gold anyday over Hathaway. Inflation is high now and gold is valuable. |
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gosh137
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BRK.B is a very diversified portfolio of very good profitable companies and good bonds. It is also run by one of the best managers around. Gold is at or near its high point and is not the least bit diversified by itself. |
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bizzbagg
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BRK.A just kidding BRK.B |
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Paul M
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You cannot go wrong with BRK.B. You have the opportunity to own a business run by the best investor of all time. Gold is a hedge, and will correct when the dollar stabilizes. Berkshire will always grow larger because of (1) free cash flow, (2) no dividend distribution policy and (3) Buffett.
No mutual funds. The fees are too high. With $9k, maybe you should buy 1 share of BRK.B, and with the remainder buy something that has a high yielding dividend like 10-12%. This way you will also be getting cash back as well.
A lot of people think that Buffett is just an amazing stock trader. This is true, but Berkshire's core is a very large portfolio of wholly owned subsidiary companies, that produce dividends that Buffett then reinvests into stocks. With this strategy, you really can't go wrong. A high yielding bond or stock would produce income for you to then reinvest.
Fees would be exactly the same for most brokers if you buy 100 shares or 1 share.
Disclosure: Long BRK.B |
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Beau.Gus
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Gold is a hobby or a hedge, not an investment!
BRK-B might be a very sound investment, but it might also be extremely expensive in terms of commission to buy only two shares. Or it might be impossible! Someone has to be selling 2 shares for you to be able to buy 2 shares, and BRK-B typically trades in much larger lots.
Given only two options, BRK.B is clearly the more intelligent choice, but you would earn a far better return in the long run by investing in an aggressive growth mutual fund since you are so young.
$9000 invested in such a fund today will earn you an average annual return of 10-12%, so when you are 63 it will have grown to between $407,000 and $847,000.
If you add about $2 a day to it, you'll end up with at least a million and a half.
BRK-B is probably too 'conservative' for someone in their 20's, since it only has an annualized long-term return of 12.2%, and you can afford to take greater risk when you are so far from retirement! |
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mason pearson
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I give the BRK.B the thumbs up. I would never bet against Buffett.... Gold is a hedge. I can remember the last real gold binge... when it did go down, it took years for it to regain even close to it's highs. |
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