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Sprott Inc T.SII

Alternate Symbol(s):  SII

Sprott Inc. is a Canada-based company, which is engaged in precious metal and energy transition investments. The Company’s investment strategies include exchange-listed products, managed equities and private strategies. The Company operates through four segments: Exchange listed products, Managed equities, Private strategies and Corporate. Exchange listed products segment provides management services to the Company's closed-end physical trusts and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Managed equities segment provides management services for the Company's alternative investment strategies managed in-house and on a sub-advisory basis. Private strategies segment provides lending and streaming activities through limited partnership vehicles. Corporate segment provides capital, balance sheet management and enterprise shared services to the Company's subsidiaries. Its subsidiaries include Sprott Asset Management LP, Sprott U.S. Holdings Inc., Sprott Resource Lending Corp. and others.


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Post by Ronbromleygrosson Aug 15, 2020 10:23am
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Warren Buffet invests $560m in Barrick Gold

Warren Buffet invests $560m in Barrick Gold

Warren Buffett cuts JPMorgan, Wells Fargo stakes, bets on Barrick Gold

Warren Buffett slashed his stakes in JPMorgan and Wells Fargo last quarter, a regulatory filing revealed on Friday.

The billionaire investor's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate also took a $560 million position in miner Barrick Gold.

Buffett trimmed several other holdings including BNY Mellon, PNC Financial, US Bancorp, and SiriusXM.

The portfolio update settled speculation about the almost $13 billion in net stock sales that Berkshire reported last quarter.

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Warren Buffett cut his JPMorgan and Wells Fargo stakes and invested in Barrick Gold last quarter, according to a regulatory filing on Friday.

The famed investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO slashed his company's JPMorgan stake by more than 60% to about 22 million shares, and its Wells Fargo position by more than 25% to about 238 million shares.

The sales meant the two holdings - which ranked among Berkshire's 10 largest positions at the end of the first quarter - shrunk in value to about $2.1 billion and $6 billion respectively as of June 30.

Buffett and his team also bought about 21 million shares of Barrick Gold, a gold-and-copper miner. The position was valued at about $560 million at the end of the second quarter.

The investment is a surprise given Buffett has repeatedly criticized gold as an inferior investment to businesses, farms, and other productive assets. The precious metal is "neither of much use nor procreative," he said in his 2011 shareholder letter.

Betting less on banks

Berkshire took a knife to several of its financial holdings last quarter. It dumped the rest of its Goldman Sachs stake, after cutting it by more than 80% in the first quarter. It also sold shares of BNY Mellon, PNC Financial, US Bancorp, Visa, and Mastercard.

Moreover, Berkshire lowered its SiriusXM stake and exited its position in Burger King-owner Restaurant Brands. It also dumped its common shares of Occidental Petroleum, although it continues to hold preferred stock in the cash-strapped oil producer.

Buffett's company only bolstered a handful of positions such as Kroger, Suncor Energy, and Store Capital.

Overall, Berkshire's stock portfolio grew in value by 15% to about $202 billion last quarter. Apple, its biggest holding, was a key driver as its value soared by more than 40% to about $89 billion in the three-month period.

The filing shed light on Berkshire's $13 billion in net stock sales last quarter, as outlined in its earnings last week. Its dumping of the "big four" airline stocks in April accounted for almost half of that amount, while the remainder reflected its sale of several, mostly financial, holdings.

Berkshire's earnings had fueled speculation this week about what Buffett sold. Investor Chris Bloomstran predicted he ditched JPMorgan, while finance professor David Kass anticipated a Wells Fargo exit.

Buffett's extensive pruning of his portfolio strikes a contrast to his aggressive spending in recent weeks. Berkshire struck a $10 billion deal to acquire most of Dominion Energy's natural-gas assets in early July, plowed more than $2 billion into Bank of America stock in the three weeks to August 4, and appears to have repurchased more than $2 billion of its stock in July.

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