Andrew Kilpatrick

A thorough update and expansion of the biography of the world's greatest investor, chock full of fascinating facts, compelling stories and almost 300 rare photos. The new edition includes a complete update on Buffett's latest investments, including his purchase of Executive Jet and General Re. The key is that despite some recent difficulties, Buffett remains one of the most important investors of the 20th century. His record of success, which can be traced back more than three decades, is the longest of just about any other investor in history.

The Story of Warren Buffett

Of Permanent Value

The Wit and Wisdom of Warren Buffett

After the Berlin Wall tells the inside story of an international financial institution, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), created in the aftermath of communism to help the countries of central and eastern Europe transition towards open market-oriented democratic economies. The first volume of a history in two parts, After the Berlin Wall charts the EBRD’s life from a fledgling high-risk start-up investing in former socialist countries from 1991 to become an established member of the international financial community, which (as of April 2020) operates in almost 40 countries across three continents. This volume describes the multilateral negotiations that created this cosmopolitan institution with a ‘European character’ and the emergence of the EBRD’s unique business model: a focus on the private sector and a mission to deliver development impact with sustainable financial returns. The author recounts the challenges that ‘transition’ countries faced in moving from a defunct to a functioning economic system and maps the EBRD’s response to critical events, from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, to the safe confinement of the Chernobyl disaster site, the debt default in Russia and the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008.

A History of the EBRD, Volume 1

After the Berlin Wall

Of Permanent Value 2010

A portrait of a man with a talent for making money the old-fashioned way shows how practicing the values of quality, decency, and simplicity helped him to build the Berkshire Hathaway investment company into a multi-billion-dollar empire.

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