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Warren Buffett on Saturday lamented his inability to find big companies to buy and said his goal is to make "one or more huge acquisitions" of non-insurance businesses to bolster results at his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. That compares with $6.3 billion, or $2.55 per B share, a year ago.

Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, left, and See's Candies CEO Brad Kinstler, May 3, 2014, at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder's Meeting, in Omaha, Neb. As CNBC notes, "he said the investment deputies didn't tell him and won't if they sell it".

"That's enormously complicated. It's not going to be easy", he said Monday.

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The tax gain Berkshire reported was mostly related to adjustments in the paper value of its deferred taxes and unrealized capital gains on stocks.

Buffett explained that float comes with risk bearing responsibilities, saying, "The downside of float is that it comes with risk, sometimes oceans of risk".

It did a number of smaller deals in 2017, for example spending $US2.7 billion on a group of smaller deals, or what Berkshire said were "bolt ons" to existing businesses.

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"It is a bad mistake for investors with long-term horizons - among them pension funds, college endowments and savings-minded individuals - to measure "risk" in their portfolio's ratio of bonds to stocks", Mr Buffett warns. He says that "often, high-grade bonds in an investment portfolio increase its risk".

That led to Buffett's charity getting more than double the promised $1 million, and bolstered his urging of investors to stick with stocks even though they can be riskier in the short-term.

Buffett's last major purchase was the $32.1 billion acquisition of aircraft parts maker Precision Castparts, and he said he was still looking to launch more takeovers.

Still, Berkshire Hathaway has owned and invested in businesses with questionable practices in the past. During the 10 year bet, the hedge fund managers involved nearly certainly made tens of thousands of buy and sell decisions.

Fourthly, Mr Buffett reminds investors not to used borrowed money to buy shares, mainly because this will leave them with an "unsettled mind" in a crash that will prevent them from picking up bargains. Most undoubtedly thought hard about them ... Annual EPS Growth of past 5 years is 7.90%.

The letter included "more than a subtle warning that prices, on many fronts, are high", said David Rolfe, the chief investment officer at Wedgewood Partners, a money manager that oversees $4.5 billion, including Berkshire shares.

Buffett is quick to point out that, "In any upcoming day, week or even year, stocks will be riskier-far riskier-than short-term US bonds", but that over a long-term horizon, common stock investments are the safer choice.

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