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Berkshire Hathaway's Beating the Market, But Its Biggest Holdings Aren't. What Gives?

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If it's not coming from Berkshire's biggest stock positions, where's all of this value coming from? It's a conglomerate that just so happens to use much of its idle cash to hold stocks of publicly traded companies. None of these are companies you can directly invest in on your own.

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This Warren Buffett Dividend Stock Boasts a Sizzling 9.9% Yield and Has Trounced the Market Over the Last 3 Years

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Instead, Ares Capital is one of the stocks owned by New England Asset Management (NEAM). You might not have heard of NEAM, but it's been a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since the giant conglomerate acquired General Re in 1998. Ares Capital ranks as the largest publicly traded business development company (BDC).