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What can I do for you? Can I help you connect with other people, manage a portion of your investments, discuss ideas, or just provide an objective opinion? You can email me at budlabitan@aol.com (mailto:budlabitan@aol.com). Together, we can structure win-win situations for ourselves and for others.

With integrity and patience, we can also earn superior profits by carefully evaluating facts and continuously exercising discipline. I have been a steelworker, student, medical doctor, county board of health member, medical director, and a software developer. In 2003, I earned my MBA, and started a career in intrinsic value investing. This was formalized as an Private Equity LLC in 2004. Labitan Partners is a small private investment firm in Northwest Indiana. I specialized in the study of Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, and Charles Munger. And, I try to exercise discipline in each purchase decision.

An abridged version of my book: "The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger" (http://seekingalpha.com/article/69566-the-four-filters-of-warren-buffett-and-charlie-munger/) is available at SeekingAlpha.com.

More information about me is available at www.frips.com (http://www.frips.com/).

Bud Labitan's Company

Four Filters of Buffett and Munger audiobook
"The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger".
This book examines each of the basic steps Buffett and Munger use in "framing and making" an investment decision. It is a focused look into an amazing invention within "Behavioral Finance."

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Bud Labitan's Book

The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger "The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger" examines each of the basic steps they perform in "framing and making" an investment decision. This book is a focused look into this amazing invention within "Behavioral Finance." The genius of Buffett and Munger's parsimonious four filters process was to "capture all the important stakeholders" in a "multi-variable" equation or formula. Imagine...Products, Enduring Customers, Managers, and Margin-of-Safety... all in one mixed "qual + quant" formula. Other important ideas are embedded in each chapter. The book can be used as a supplemental textbook in a Valuation or Decision Sciences course.
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Snapshot
  • Company executive
  • Trading frequency: Infrequent
Interests:
  • Stocks - long