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巴菲特斥巨资投资数字银行

巴菲特斥巨资投资数字银行

Tristan Bove 2022-02-23
沃伦·巴菲特的公司已经购买了Nubank 10亿美元的股份。

难道加密货币并非“老鼠药”?

这句话曾经是沃伦·巴菲特的名言,作为知名的投资者,巴菲特因其先于市场预知行情的能力而被誉为“奥马哈圣贤”(sage of Omaha)。如今,他的资金动向却未能与其言行保持一致。

具体来说,他的公司伯克希尔-哈撒韦(Berkshire Hathaway)斥资10亿美元,入股一家专注于加密货币的数字银行。

上周,伯克希尔-哈撒韦在向美国证券交易委员会(SEC)提交的报备文件中公开了其在加密货币领域的投资。该文件显示,巴菲特的公司已经购买了Nubank 10亿美元的股份。这是一家位于巴西的数字银行,而且其规模在拉美业界位列第一。

Nubank是一家所谓的新型银行,它的经营并不受传统银行系统规定的约束。与大多数银行不一样的是,Nubank对加密货币持欢迎态度,甚至提供比特币交易所交易基金(Bitcoin ETF)等产品。

过去,伯克希尔的这位董事长兼首席执行官曾经不客气地将加密货币称之为“老鼠药”以及一种“完全没有独特价值”的低产出资产。

巴菲特的长期合作伙伴、伯克希尔-哈撒韦的副董事长查理·芒格也经常毫不掩饰地发表其对加密货币的强烈看法。芒格最近称,他希望加密货币“从未出现过”,而且他甚至还指出,他不希望任何加密货币交易员与其家族联姻。

芒格尤为讨厌比特币这一交易最为频繁的加密货币,并将其称之为“恶心的东西,而且与文明利益相违背。”芒格曾经支持中国禁止交易比特币的禁令,并呼吁美国采取类似的措施。

他曾经表示:“中国人做出了正确的决定,也就是直接禁止加密货币交易。”

不过,即便伯克希尔-哈撒韦的所有者们对加密货币以及加密货币市场不屑一顾,但其最近对Nubank的投资并非是该公司第一次涉足这一市场。

2021年夏天,也就是Nubank在2021年12月上市前的数个月,伯克希尔已经购买了其5亿美元的股份。当时,Nubank宣布,这笔投资是这家金融科技银行收到的最大一笔投资。

在2021年加大对加密货币领域投资的同时,伯克希尔也放弃了其他一些更为传统的金融资产。在公布了10亿美元Nubank投资的同一份SEC报备文件中,伯克希尔称其出售了自己持有的30亿美元Visa和万事达卡(Mastercard)股份。

尽管巴菲特和芒格个人并不喜欢加密货币,但这两位投资界的超级明星可能在Nubank这类数字金融服务提供商那里看到了别样的机遇。

即将涌现的拉美数字银行将迎来激烈的竞争,该地区很大一部分人口未能获得足够的传统银行和金融系统服务,因此对当前金融系统基本上并不满意,而这一大规模的潜在消费市场正是Nubank这类公司的目标。

Nubank的联合创始人克里斯蒂娜·琼奎在2021年6月向《财富》杂志透露:“[拉美]地区存在着众多的机会。考虑到庞大的人口、糟糕的客户体验以及高居不下的费用等综合因素,这些机会可谓是无与伦比。从全世界来看,就金融公司所能获得的绝佳机会而言,没有哪个地方比拉美更好。”(财富中文网)

译者:冯丰

审校:夏林

难道加密货币并非“老鼠药”?

这句话曾经是沃伦·巴菲特的名言,作为知名的投资者,巴菲特因其先于市场预知行情的能力而被誉为“奥马哈圣贤”(sage of Omaha)。如今,他的资金动向却未能与其言行保持一致。

具体来说,他的公司伯克希尔-哈撒韦(Berkshire Hathaway)斥资10亿美元,入股一家专注于加密货币的数字银行。

上周,伯克希尔-哈撒韦在向美国证券交易委员会(SEC)提交的报备文件中公开了其在加密货币领域的投资。该文件显示,巴菲特的公司已经购买了Nubank 10亿美元的股份。这是一家位于巴西的数字银行,而且其规模在拉美业界位列第一。

Nubank是一家所谓的新型银行,它的经营并不受传统银行系统规定的约束。与大多数银行不一样的是,Nubank对加密货币持欢迎态度,甚至提供比特币交易所交易基金(Bitcoin ETF)等产品。

过去,伯克希尔的这位董事长兼首席执行官曾经不客气地将加密货币称之为“老鼠药”以及一种“完全没有独特价值”的低产出资产。

巴菲特的长期合作伙伴、伯克希尔-哈撒韦的副董事长查理·芒格也经常毫不掩饰地发表其对加密货币的强烈看法。芒格最近称,他希望加密货币“从未出现过”,而且他甚至还指出,他不希望任何加密货币交易员与其家族联姻。

芒格尤为讨厌比特币这一交易最为频繁的加密货币,并将其称之为“恶心的东西,而且与文明利益相违背。”芒格曾经支持中国禁止交易比特币的禁令,并呼吁美国采取类似的措施。

他曾经表示:“中国人做出了正确的决定,也就是直接禁止加密货币交易。”

不过,即便伯克希尔-哈撒韦的所有者们对加密货币以及加密货币市场不屑一顾,但其最近对Nubank的投资并非是该公司第一次涉足这一市场。

2021年夏天,也就是Nubank在2021年12月上市前的数个月,伯克希尔已经购买了其5亿美元的股份。当时,Nubank宣布,这笔投资是这家金融科技银行收到的最大一笔投资。

在2021年加大对加密货币领域投资的同时,伯克希尔也放弃了其他一些更为传统的金融资产。在公布了10亿美元Nubank投资的同一份SEC报备文件中,伯克希尔称其出售了自己持有的30亿美元Visa和万事达卡(Mastercard)股份。

尽管巴菲特和芒格个人并不喜欢加密货币,但这两位投资界的超级明星可能在Nubank这类数字金融服务提供商那里看到了别样的机遇。

即将涌现的拉美数字银行将迎来激烈的竞争,该地区很大一部分人口未能获得足够的传统银行和金融系统服务,因此对当前金融系统基本上并不满意,而这一大规模的潜在消费市场正是Nubank这类公司的目标。

Nubank的联合创始人克里斯蒂娜·琼奎在2021年6月向《财富》杂志透露:“[拉美]地区存在着众多的机会。考虑到庞大的人口、糟糕的客户体验以及高居不下的费用等综合因素,这些机会可谓是无与伦比。从全世界来看,就金融公司所能获得的绝佳机会而言,没有哪个地方比拉美更好。”(财富中文网)

译者:冯丰

审校:夏林

Maybe cryptocurrency isn’t “rat poison” after all?

Those were once the words of Warren Buffett, the famous investor called the “sage of Omaha” for knowing things before the rest of the market. Now his money is saying otherwise.

Specifically, his company Berkshire Hathaway has bought $1 billion worth of stock in a digital bank that focuses on crypto.

Berkshire Hathaway made its crypto investment public with a SEC filing earlier last week. It revealed that Buffett’s company had purchased $1 billion in shares of Nubank, a digital bank based in Brazil, and the largest of its kind in Latin America.

Nubank is a so-called neobank, a type of bank that operates outside of the rules of the traditional banking system. Unlike most banks, Nubank welcomes cryptocurrency and even offers products such as Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Berkshire’s chairman and CEO has not refrained in the past from calling cryptocurrency “rat poison” and an unproductive asset that “has no unique value at all.”

Charlie Munger, Buffett’s longtime partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has also hardly been one to shy away from voicing his strong opinions on cryptocurrency. Munger recently stated that he wished cryptocurrency had “never been invented,” and he has even indicated that he would not want any crypto trader marrying into his family.

Munger has a particular distaste for Bitcoin, the most popularly traded cryptocurrency, once calling it “disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization.” Munger has supported China’s decision to ban Bitcoin trading in the country and has called on the U.S. to take similar measures.

“The Chinese made the correct decision, which is just to simply ban them,” he once said.

But even though its owners have expressed their personal disdain for cryptocurrencies and the crypto market, Berkshire Hathaway’s latest investment in Nubank is not the first time the conglomerate has dabbled in this market.

Berkshire already bought a $500 million stake in Nubank last summer, months before the company went public in December 2021. At the time, Nubank announced that this had been the largest single investment the fintech bank had ever received.

As Berkshire was upping its investments into the crypto sphere last year, the company also dropped some of its other, more traditional financial assets. In the same SEC filing that showed the $1 billion investment in Nubank, Berkshire revealed that it had dropped over $3 billion in its shares of Visa and Mastercard.

While Buffett and Munger may have a personal distaste for cryptocurrency, the superstar investment pair may be seeing an entirely different kind of opportunity in digital financial service providers like Nubank.

There is huge competition among up-and-coming digital banks in Latin America, where a large portion of the population feels underserved by the traditional banking and financial system. Companies like Nubank are looking to tap into a massive potential consumer market of people largely dissatisfied with the existing system.

“There is so much opportunity in the [Latin America] region. The combination of a great population, horrible customer experiences, and very high fees, it is unmatched,” Nubank cofounder Cristina Junqueira told Fortune last June. “Worldwide there is no place that is better suited in terms of having a great opportunity for fintech companies to tackle.”

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