- Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal Portfolio has just four positions.
- The positions were untouched this quarter.
- The portfolio value decreased from $174M to $161M this quarter.
Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal portfolio value decreased
from $174M to $161M this quarter. Since their first 13F filing in Q4 2013,
there have only been three changes to the holdings: POSCO was reduced
significantly in Q4 2014 (dropped this quarter), and a large position was
initiated in Alibaba Group Holdings in Q4 2020. After accounting for those
changes, the portfolio has remained remarkably steady over the last ten years. To
know more about Charlie Munger, check out the book Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and
Wisdom of Charles T. Munger.
Regarding the origins of this portfolio in 2009, Charlie
Munger said the following during Daily Journal’s (DJCO) 2018 AGM Q&A: “In
addition to Daily Journal's businesses, we have a great bundle of securities
and want to dispel again that this is not some minor version of Berkshire. We
have a bundle, because we bought them at a time when we preferred to own them
to holding cash and had a lot of extra liquidity on hand that came to us by
accident. The chances of more gains like what we have done in the last four or
five years is zero. Oh, well we will have a big gain next quarter, because of a
deferred tax reduction from the Trump tax code change, so we will look like a
genius for one more quarter, I suppose.” The cost-basis of the positions
acquired at the time was $63.4M.
The spreadsheet below shows Charlie Munger's Daily Journal 13F
stock holdings as of Q1 2023. Please visit our previous updates to get an
idea on how the portfolio has progressed:
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