I sold out in September, planning to spend the proceeds on other bargains but i never thought BRK would be on offer itself! I've been quite surprised by the severity of the drop in price....so i bought back in today! I think it's bombproof and currently undervalued. With a 10yr + timeframe this should work out well....
Berk is a massive bloated mutual fund sloth animal that can't get out of it's own way. It suffers from being too large and lacks being nimble. But that's what generates the nice fees and expenses for the mutual fund industry and Buffy. At best it will outperform the S&P by a few percentage points. It will under perform in bear markets. The mutual fund industry constantly pitches buy and hold to prevent redemption's so that it can maintain those fees and expenses. Buy and hold is dead as evidenced by the markets the last 10 years.
In addition to BRK being concentrated in financials (especially insurance), here is another piece of news that can explain the weakness in the stock price: http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/t...ett-s-huge-derivatives-bet-proves-costly.aspx
buffett has been picking crappy stocks since 2000. Missed out on apple, google ,rimm, matercard and many others.