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2000年股东大会 · Mohnish Pabrai在2000年股东大会上的提问

28 段 · 2 位说话人 · 原片 2:26
M1
M10:00

早上好,Buffett 先生,也早上好,Munger 先生。

Good morning, Mr. Buffett, and good morning, Mr. Munger.

我叫 Mohnish Pabrai,来自 Illinois 州的 Long Grove。

My name is Mohnish Pabrai, and I'm from Long Grove, Illinois.

我做你——Buffett 先生——的学生和追随者已经有一段时间了,尤其也很受 Munger 先生的影响。

I have been a student and disciple of yourself, Mr. Buffett, for some time, and especially Mr. Munger.

而且我在经营自己公司的方式上,也非常认真地采纳了你们关于 capital allocation 的理论。

And I have adopted quite intensely your theories on capital allocation in the manner in which I run my business.

谢谢。

Thank you.

还有我的投资组合也是,到目前为止,结果让我很满意。

As well as my portfolio, and quite pleased with the results so far.

我的问题跟你在上世纪五十年代最早的那些 Buffett partnerships 有关。

My question has to do with the original 1950s Buffett partnerships.

关于这些 partnership 的规则,还有 partnership 的收费方式,不同写你的书里有一些互相矛盾的信息。

There is some conflicting data in the various books about you pertaining to the rules of the partnership and the fees of the partnership.

我想弄明白的是,我记得有些书里提到,本金好像是有保障的,我想是一年保底百分之六,然后你拿四分之一,合伙人拿四分之三。

What I wanted to understand is, I think some of the books allude to the principal being guaranteed, I think 6% a year being guaranteed, and then you took a fourth and the partners got three-fourths.

有些地方说是百分之四,有些地方又说根本没有任何保证。

In some cases they talk about 4%, in some cases they say there was no guarantee.

所以我很希望你能澄清一下这个问题。

I would just appreciate a clarification on that.
M2
M21:07

好,我们简短说一下,因为我不确定这个话题大家普遍会有多大兴趣,不过当时没有——从来没有任何保证。

Okay, we'll make it short because I'm not sure how much general interest there is to that, but there was no— there was never any guarantee.

唯一的保证是,我自己一分钱也拿不到。

There was a guarantee that I wouldn't get a penny myself.

没有现在 hedge funds 通常那种百分之一管理费之类的安排。

There was no— none of this 1% fee and all that sort of thing that hedge funds now normally have.

所以——不过当时有——而且过了很短一段时间以后,我就告诉大家,基本上我会把我所有的资本都放进去。

So the— but there was— and, and I, after a short period of time, I told people I'd have all my capital in it, basically.

所以可以说,有一个保证,就是我会和大家站在一起——命运一致,共同进退。

So there was a guarantee I would follow— have a common, a common destiny.

但从来没有任何形式的本金保证。

There was never any guarantee of principal of any sort.

最开始这件事其实是偶然开始的,所以在一九六二年一月一日把它们合并成 Buffett Partnership 之前,一共有十一个不同的 partnership。

Originally, the thing started by accident, so that there were 11 different partnerships before they all got put together on January 1st, 1962, into Buffett Partnership.

所以这十一个不同的 partnership,安排也各不相同——有一些差别,主要是根据 limited partners 的偏好来定的。

So with the 11 different partnerships, they had different— some different arrangements based on the preferences of the limited partners.

我给他们提供了三种或者四种不同选择的方案,不同家庭选了不同的方案。

I offered them an option of 3 or 4 different choices, and different families made different choices.

等到我们把它们合在一起的时候,就定成了百分之六的优先收益,超过这个部分的利润我拿四分之一,同时所有不足的部分都要结转。

When we put them together, we settled on the 6% preferential with a quarter of the profits over that with a carryforward of all deficiencies.

没有任何人从中得到任何保证。

Nobody was guaranteed anything on them.

Charlie 的 partnership 要好得多。

Charlie had a much better partnership.

我没记错的话,他那个是第三种,对吧,Charlie?

His was the third, as I remember, wasn't it, Charlie?
M1
M12:18

对,不过我们的规模更小,而且是在 stock exchange 里做 specialist 席位业务。

Yes, but we were smaller and operating specialist posts on the stock exchange.

对,情况不一样。

Yeah, facts were different.
M2
M22:24

对。

Yeah.
M1
M12:25

好,我们继续看第 8 个。

Okay, let's go to 8.