[senthil_rajasek]

Here is a fantastic farewell message that Seth Klarman wrote on Buffett's retirement for The Atlantic,

How Buffett did it?

https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://www.thea...

[chistev]

That link isn't loading up for me.

[senthil_rajasek]

Try this one.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251231204056/https://www.theat...

[abirch]

Buffett's Alpha: http://docs.lhpedersen.com/BuffettsAlpha.pdf

tldr; he was leveraged with good stocks

[lifeisstillgood]

“””Whether it’s socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down”””. Buffet, BH annual report 2008

[agobineau]

this is a very interesting read, thank you for posting

you may consider a simple example for yourself:

Portfolio $100,000.00 $60k into US Tbills, (3, 5, 10y) $40k into SP500 cash $40k into Sp500 on margin

$140k exposure For the portfolio to be wiped out, you would need to have a 50% drawdown in the sp500 which hasn't happened in 90 years, and that assumes in a crash your tbill face value wont soar due to rate cuts