Buffet-Trailing Sequoia Fund Reopens to Wonder of Investors

While Warren Buffet continues to buy up and broker M&A deals, making financial news headlines left and right, a fund that mimics his preternatural talent for picking winning stocks, bonds and private equity opportunities—and run by Buffet’s former stockbroker Bill Ruane—has reopened.

 

Only trouble with the $3.8 billion Sequoia Fund, Inc., closed since 1982 and slated to reopen tomorrow, May 1, 2008, writes nationally syndicated columnist Chuck Jaffe, while it may be revered as a “mysterious vessel with legendary powers” — it might actually be “more fantasy than reality.”


With a portfolio basket of only 25 stocks, half of which are in Buffet’s
Berkshire Hathaway, the fund doesn’t seem to have a mind of its own. Plus, Jaffe points out, other Buffet-miming funds have performed far better.

 

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