Hi K,
Selling in dex puts is not the same as owning ETF's.....Selling index puts is moderate risk options play.
I Stand by my initial statement that there are no ETF's in BRKA or BRK B
Here is the most recent list of BRK A holdings. Compliments of dataroma.com
The value if these holdings is $105 billion. So a billion dollar play represents a less than 1% risk.
I think the lesson here is that if you have more than sufficient funds to work with....you can lay off some cash on minor side bets that could pay off nicely.
Holdings Activity Buys Sells History
| Stock | % of portfolio | Shares | Recent activity | Reported Price* | | hist | WFC - Wells Fargo | 21.79 | 463,458,123 | | $49.74 | | hist | KO - Coca Cola Co. | 14.62 | 400,000,000 | | $38.66 | | hist | AXP - American Express | 12.90 | 151,610,700 | | $90.03 | | hist | IBM - International Bus. Machines | 12.44 | 68,355,084 | Add 0.34% | $192.49 | | hist | WMT - Wal-Mart Stores | 4.19 | 58,052,412 | Add 17.32% | $76.43 | | hist | PG - Procter & Gamble | 4.02 | 52,793,078 | | $80.60 | | hist | XOM - Exxon Mobil Corp. | 3.80 | 41,129,643 | | $97.68 | | hist | USB - U.S. Bancorp | 3.24 | 80,026,697 | Add 0.89% | $42.86 | | hist | DTV - DIRECTV Group Inc. | 2.49 | 34,514,700 | Reduce 5.48% | $76.42 | | hist | DVA - DaVita HealthCare Partners | 2.45 | 37,621,152 | Add 3.18% | $68.85 | | hist | GS - Goldman Sachs Group | 1.96 | 12,631,531 | | $163.85 | | hist | MCO - Moody's Corp. | 1.85 | 24,669,778 | | $79.32 | | hist | GHC - Graham Holdings Co. | 1.15 | 1,727,765 | | $703.75 | | hist | USG - USG Corp. | 1.08 | 34,890,174 | | $32.72 | | hist | GM - General Motors | 0.98 | 30,000,000 | Reduce 25.00% | $34.42 | | hist | BK - Bank of New York | 0.82 | 24,652,836 | | $35.29 | | hist | CBI - Chicago Bridge & Iron Company | 0.79 | 9,550,755 | | $87.15 | | hist | COP - ConocoPhillips | 0.74 | 11,079,958 | | $70.35 | | hist | PSX - Phillips 66 | 0.71 | 9,741,303 | Reduce 64.14% | $77.06 | | hist | LMCA - Liberty Media Capital | 0.66 | 5,300,000 | | $130.73 | | hist | NOV - National Oilwell Varco Inc. | 0.65 | 8,880,000 | | $77.87 | | hist | MTB - M&T Bank Corp. | 0.62 | 5,382,040 | | $121.30 | | hist | VIA.B - Viacom Inc. | 0.61 | 7,607,200 | | $84.99 | | hist | VRSN - Verisign Inc. | 0.60 | 11,685,654 | Add 6.61% | $53.91 | | hist | VZ - Verizon Communications | 0.50 | 11,022,743 | Buy | $47.57 | | hist | PCP - Precision Castparts | 0.47 | 1,977,336 | | $252.76 | | hist | COST - Costco Co. | 0.46 | 4,333,363 | | $111.68 | | hist | SU - Suncor Energy Inc. | 0.43 | 13,000,000 | | $34.96 | | hist | WBC - WABCO Holdings Inc. | 0.41 | 4,076,325 | | $105.56 | | hist | DE - Deere & Co. | 0.34 | 3,978,767 | | $90.80 | | hist | V - Visa Inc. | 0.32 | 1,555,459 | | $215.86 | | hist | TMK - Torchmark Corp. | 0.32 | 4,235,818 | | $78.70 | | hist | LBTYA - Liberty Global Inc. | 0.29 | 7,346,968 | Add 149.19% | $41.60 | | hist | MA - Mastercard Inc. | 0.29 | 4,050,000 | | $74.70 | | hist | LBTYK - Liberty Global Inc. C | 0.28 | 7,346,968 | Buy | $40.71 | | hist | GE - General Electric | 0.26 | 10,585,502 | | $25.89 | | hist | SNY - Sanofi Aventis | 0.19 | 3,905,875 | | $52.28 | | hist | VRSK - Verisk Analytics Inc. | 0.09 | 1,563,434 | | $59.96 | | hist | MEG - Media General | 0.08 | 4,646,220 | | $18.37 | | hist | STRZA - Starz | 0.06 | 1,919,541 | Reduce 57.74% | $32.28 | | hist | JNJ - Johnson & Johnson | 0.03 | 327,100 | | $98.23 | | hist | MDLZ - Mondelez International | 0.02 | 578,000 | | $34.55 | | hist | UPS - United Parcel Service | 0.01 | 59,400 | | $97.37 | | hist | KRFT - Kraft Foods Group | 0.01 | 192,666 | | $56.10 | | hist | LEE - Lee Enterprises | 0.00 | 88,863 | | $4.47
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