Walter Schloss, one of Warren Buffett’s Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville, has died at 95.
Says Bloomberg:
From 1955 to 2002, by Schloss’s estimate, his investments returned 16 percent annually on average after fees, compared with 10 percent for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
His firm, Walter J. Schloss Associates, became a partnership, Walter & Edwin Schloss Associates, when his son joined him in 1973.
“He was a true fundamentalist,” Edwin Schloss, now retired, said today in an interview. “He did his fundamental analysis and was very concerned that he was buying something at a discount. Margin of safety was always essential.”
Buffett, another Graham disciple, called Schloss a “superinvestor” in a 1984 speech at Columbia Business School.
He again saluted Schloss as “one of the good guys of Wall Street” in his 2006 letter to shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
“Following a strategy that involved no real risk — defined as permanent loss of capital — Walter produced results over his 47 partnership years that dramatically surpassed those of the S&P 500,” wrote Buffett, whose stewardship of Berkshire
Hathaway (BRK) has made him one of the world’s richest men and most emulated investors. “It’s particularly noteworthy that he built this record by investing in about 1,000 securities, mostly of a lackluster type. A few big winners did not account for his success.”
For more on Schloss and his outstanding record, see Walter Schloss, superinvestor.
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