Financial History Issue 114 (Summer 2015) | Page 10

THE TICKER  MUSEUM NEWS

Museum and NYSSA to Host Symposium in Honor
of Berkshire Hathaway’s 50th Anniversary
When Warren Buffett took control
of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in 1965, it
was a small textile company. Through a
combination of value investing, exceptional management and savvy acquisitions, Buffett has transformed the firm
into one of the most profitable, successful and highly-emulated corporations in
American history.
On Wednesday, November 11, the
Museum of American Finance and the
New York Society of Security Analysts

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(NYSSA) will co-present a full-day symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of Berkshire Hathaway. The event
will be held at the Museum and will feature three panels of prestigious speakers,
as well as two keynote addresses.
Featured participants include some of
the nation’s most prominent value investors and Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, such as Seth Klarman, Bill Ackman
and Tom Gayner. Byron Trott, best known
for his role as Buffett’s investment banker,

John C. Bogle incorporates the Vanguard
Group of Investment Cos. to administer
the Vanguard family of mutual funds.

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will open the program with the morning keynote address. Renowned scholar
and author Lawrence Cunningham, who
has been the editor and publisher of The
Essays of Warren Buffett since 1996, will
deliver the afternoon keynote to close the
program.
Members of the Museum and NYSSA
will receive discounted admission to
the conference. For more information,
including a full list of participants, please
visit www.moaf.org/events. 

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The New York Stock Exchange
ends the practice of a half-day of
trading on Saturday mornings.