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Guy Spier

Guy Spier

Author of The Education of a Value Investor
Manager of the Aquamarine Fund

Minimalist, long-term, noise-free. Uses environment, checklists and habits to beat his own psychology, holding a handful of understandable compounders for the long run.

Oxford and Harvard MBA who founded the Aquamarine Fund in 1997, modeled on Buffett. He and Pabrai won the 2007 Buffett charity lunch; he later wrote the bestselling memoir The Education of a Value Investor. He moved the fund to Zurich to escape market noise.

Disclosure

Aquamarine files a 13F (≈45-day lag). Highly concentrated, very low turnover — Berkshire (A+B) alone is ≈half the book; a textbook case of words matching trades.

Holdings & weights

Q2 2026 · 13F (as of 30 Jun 2026)

Weights are by market value, from real 13F / daily disclosure. This is a snapshot and will change — see live: Live 13F weights & activity on dataroma

Berkshire Hathaway CL BBRK.B
33.89%

With the A shares, ≈half the book — a direct expression of his Buffett conviction.

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Berkshire Hathaway CL ABRK.A
15.59%
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American ExpressAXP
15.26%

A core financial holding he shares with Buffett.

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Mastercard Inc.MA
14.26%

A long-held payment-network compounder.

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Moody's Corp.MCO
8.49%
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Daily Journal Corp.DJCO
4.8%

The company Munger chaired for years — a nod to his hero.

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