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- From: coop@sybase.com (John Cooper)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: IDEA
- Message-ID: <28361@sybase.sybase.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:01:29 GMT
- References: <1426500336@igc.apc.org>
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- In article <1426500336@igc.apc.org> mcaldon@igc.apc.org (McAldon International Inc.) writes:
- >
- >Lots of folks are complaining, with good reason, about the need to
- >pay annual capital-gains taxes on mutual-fund distributions in taxable
- >accounts. How about using Berkshire-Hathaway (BRK-NYSE) in lieu of
- >a fund? Your manager will be the renowned Warren Buffet; the stock
- >keeps hitting new highs and never makes any distributions. Only
- >inconvenience is it will cost about $12,000 a pop.
-
-
- Do BRK shares trade easily in odd lots -- specifically, is it worthwhile to
- buy a single share? Since commissions tend to be tied to dollar volume rather
- than number of shares, the only prohibition to buying one share of BRK would
- seem to be finding a buyer later on.
-
- (Our news server is very slow -- my apologies if this has already been answered
- publicly before my post).
-
- Thanks,
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