Through my favorite comic strip, Li"l Abner, I got a chance during my youth to see the benefits of delayed taxes, though I missed the lesson at the time. Making his readers feel superior, Li"l Abner bungled happily, but moronically, through life in Dogpatch. At one point he became infatuated with a New York temptress, Appassionatta Van Climax, but despaired of marrying her because he had only a single silver dollar and she was interested solely in millionaires. Dejected, Abner took his problem to Old Man Mose, the font of all knowledge in Dogpatch. Said the sage: Double your money 20 times and Appassionatta will be yours (1, 2, 4, 8 . . . . 1,048,576).
经由我个人最喜爱的漫画短片,Li"l Abner,我有机会可以体会到延迟支付所得税的好处,虽然当时我没有好好地利用那次机会,为了让他的读者觉得自己很优越,Li"l Abner一直快乐地维持单身,直到他为纽约一位女演员Appassionatta深深地着迷,但由于她只对百万富翁有兴趣,因此一贫如洗的Abner可以说是一点希望都没有,在遭到拒绝之后,Abner跑去智能老人Mose那里请他指点迷津,结果这位圣贤对Abner说,很简单你只要能够将身上仅有的一块钱,复制20次,Appassionatta自然就会投入到你的怀抱(1,2,4,8,….,1,048,576)。
My last memory of the strip is Abner entering a roadhouse, dropping his dollar into a slot machine, and hitting a jackpot that spilled money all over the floor. Meticulously following Mose"s advice, Abner picked up two dollars and went off to find his next double. Whereupon I dumped Abner and began reading Ben Graham.
我记得这段漫画的最后一段是Abner跑到一家旅馆,将他仅有的一块钱投入吃角子老虎中,结果竟然中了七星,一时之间奖金掉满地,没想到他老兄一丝不苟遵照Mose老人的旨意,只捡起了其中的两块钱之后,就出发去寻找下一次复制的机会,看到这里我便舍弃了Abner,并开始研读葛拉汉的理论。
Mose clearly was overrated as a guru: Besides failing to anticipate Abner"s slavish obedience to instructions, he also forgot about taxes. Had Abner been subject, say, to the 35% federal tax rate that Berkshire pays, and had he managed one double annually, he would after 20 years only have accumulated $22,370. Indeed, had he kept on both getting his annual doubles and paying a 35% tax on each, he would have needed 7 1/2 years more to reach the $1 million required to win Appassionatta.
Mose很显然地不配当他人的精神导师,除了低估Abner对于他的指示过于盲从的程度,他也忘了考虑到可能的税负,假设今天Abner也像Berkshire一样必须负担高达35%的联邦所得税的话,而且他每年只能成功地复制一次的话,就算连续20年都如他所愿,他也只能累积到22,370元,当然若是他能持之以恒地保持这样的记录的话,他则还须多等上七年半,才能累积到所需的100万以赢得Appassionatta的芳心。
But what if Abner had instead put his dollar in a single investment and held it until it doubled the same 27 1/2 times? In that case, he would have realized about $200 million pre-tax or, after paying a $70 million tax in the final year, about $130 million after-tax. For that, Appassionatta would have crawled to Dogpatch. Of course, with 27 1/2 years having passed, how Appassionatta would have looked to a fellow sitting on $130 million is another question.
然而要是Abner只将资金放在单一不变的投资之上,同时连续27年半都能保持每年倍数成长的记录的话,这样到最后,他在税前可以累积高达二亿美元的获利,或是在扣除7,000万美元的所得税之后,得到税后1亿3,000万美元的利益,届时可能会换做是Appassionatta爬着来求他了,当然等到27年后,一个坐拥1亿多美元的富翁会怎么看待年华老去的Appassionatta,则又是另外一回事了。
What this little tale tells us is that tax-paying investors will realize a far, far greater sum from a single investment that compounds internally at a given rate than from a succession of investments compounding at the same rate. But I suspect many Berkshire shareholders figured that out long ago.
这宗小故事告诉我们必须负担税负的投资人从每年固定以一个比率成长的单一投资上,可以获得比每年更换投资对象所得的多的多,即便是两者成长的幅度一样也是如此,不过我怀疑许多Berkshire的股东老早就已经知道这个道理了。
Insurance Operations保险事业营运
At this point in the report we"ve customarily provided you with a table showing the annual "combined ratio" of the insurance industry for the preceding decade. This ratio compares total insurance costs (losses incurred plus expenses) to revenue from premiums. For many years, the ratio has been above 100, a level indicating an underwriting loss. That is, the industry has taken in less money each year from its policyholders than it has had to pay for operating expenses and for loss events that occurred during the year.
接下来到这里我们通常会准备一张表来说明保险业过去十多年来的综合比率,综合比率代表保险的总成本(理赔损失加上费用)占保费收入的比例,多年以来,比率在100以下代表有承保的损失,也就是说,保险业者当年度从客户那里收到的保费,不足以支应必须支付给保户的理赔款以及营运所需的费用开支。
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