Background
The Oracle of Omaha is well-known for his long-standing track record of beating the market. Over the past 20 years, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) was up roughly 350% while the S&P 500 delivered a total return of 211%.
Source: Yahoo Finance; data as of 6/6/2019.
However, in recent years, shareholders have been seeing a rather lackluster picture, with the share price of Berkshire hovering around the major equity index - not that bad but not exciting either.
Warren Buffett himself has admitted several times that if managing a much smaller