Mohnish Pabrai

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Mohnish Pabrai (born June 12, 1964 in Bombay ) is an American entrepreneur , fund manager , author and philanthropist of Indian origin .

Life

Mohnish Pabrai began his career at Tellabs in 1986 in the high-speed data transmission space. In 1991, he founded his IT consulting firm TransTech, Inc. with seed capital of $ 100,000. He sold the company to Kurt Salmon in 2000 for US $ 20 million. In 1999 he founded Pabrai Investment Funds, an investment partnership modeled on Warren Buffett .

While the S&P 500 index rose 43% from the fund's inception in 2000 to September 2013, Pabrai returned 517% after transaction costs for its investors. Due to his exceptionally good investment results, his portfolio is tracked on the websites GuruFocus .com, InsiderMonkey .com and SeekingAlpha .com, where portfolios are reconstructed from reportable data from international star investors with a time lag.

He first became known to the general public in 2008 when he and his friend Guy Spier bought a charity dinner with Warren Buffett for $ 650,100.

He is the author of the book " The Dhandho Investor: The Low - Risk Value Method to High Returns ", which was also published in a German edition.

Dakshana Foundation

In 2005, Pabrai and his wife Harina Kapoor founded the Dakshana Foundation, which is dedicated to educating socially disadvantaged people in India. Every year, 2% of Mohnish Pabrai's and his wife's assets go to the foundation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Phil DeMuth: How Mohnish Pabrai Crushed The Market By 1100% Since 2000. In: Forbes . September 23, 2013, accessed June 19, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Mohnish Pabrai's portfolio. In: GuruFocus . March 31, 2015, accessed June 19, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Mohnish Pabrai: Stock Holdings. In: Insider Monkey . May 13, 2015, accessed June 19, 2015 .
  4. ↑ John Vincent: Tracking Mohnish Pabrai's Portfolio - Q1 2015 Update. In: Seeking Alpha . May 13, 2015, accessed June 19, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Morgan Housel: Financial Crisis Lessons From a Great Investor. In: Motley Fool . December 14, 2012, accessed June 21, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Alex Crippen: Lunch With Warren Buffett "Worth Every Penny" at $ 650,100. In: CNBC . June 25, 2008. Retrieved June 19, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Guy Spier: My $ 650,100 Lunch with Warren Buffett. In: Time . June 30, 2008, accessed June 21, 2015 .
  8. ^ Matt Phillips, Warren Buffett Watch: Lunch Auction Winner Identified. In: Wall Street Journal . July 8, 2009, accessed June 21, 2015 .
  9. ↑ "The Dhandho investor" in the catalog of the German National Library
  10. ↑ The Dakshana Foundation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 3, 2011 ; Retrieved June 19, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dakshana.org
personal data
SURNAME Pabrai, Mohnish
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur, fund manager, author, and philanthropist of Indian descent
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay