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Investor Mohnish Pabrai pays homage to his favorite guru Warren Buffett in more ways than one.

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A: They certainly are for most of us. With a 401 , your employer plunks the portion of your salary that you specify into the account.

Fairfax Financial chairman and CEO Prem Watsa. While the shares of many companies mauled during the financial crisis are showing some zip, they remain dream stocks for deep value investors because they are still bargain-priced. Investment greats who've selectively been taking positions in some of these unloved companies include Canada's Mr.

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, joined Dairy Queen in kicking off the summer season by serving the first-ever Dairy Queen S'mores Blizzard Treat to DQ fan Paula Talamo.

One of the benefits of attending the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders' meeting is learning from the great value investors and Buffettologists who also make the yearly trek to Omaha.

The gargantuan stimulus Japan is pumping into its economy will have to be even larger to achieve the desired results, said Hayman Capital founder Kyle Bass .

Investment gurus, pundits, and especially the media watch Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, like a hawk in the hopes of learning his strategies and perhaps achieving a similar stature.

The ties that bind Employees of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario are about to go a little more casual.

John DeGoey is vice-president and associate portfolio manager at Burgeonvest Bick Securities.

The federal government is threatening "retaliatory measures" against the United States in a dispute over meat-labelling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider discriminatory.

Q: What do Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, and Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone have in common? A: All of them joined Jamie Dimon in battle as the JPMorgan Chase CEO fought to keep his job as the bank's board chairman.

After spending last weekend at the Heartland Coalfield Alliance's retreat in the Illinois coal basin region, I'm more inspired than ever.

Billionaire Guru Prem Watsa is the founder of Fairfax Financial holdings. He emigrated from the land of gurus, India, with $8 in his pocket, only to earn the reputation of "Canada's Warren Buffett ." Watsa's investing skill and work ethic are both contagiously inspiring.

On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that the Fed could start tapering its quantitative easing program during one of its next few FOMC meetings depending on economic data.

In a blow to the new Italian government, Fiat Industrial, one of the country's biggest companies, plans to move its tax residency to Britain.

At least one person is likely to buy Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock sometime soon.

Mouser Electronics announced the 40th company anniversary milestone of Glenn Smith, Mouser's President and Chief Executive Officer.

Do you think if you had met Warren Buffett when he was 32 that you would have recognized that he would one day become the richest man in the world through his stock picking ability? Would you have mortgaged your house to give him every penny you could scrap together so that he could compound it at an incredible rate? The old Buffett Partnership ... (more)

Analysts' ratings : There were 23 buys, 18 holds and 1 sell, according to Bloomberg data.