As the quality of the people Rainwater backed improved, so did his returns. "By 1980," Rowe writes in his 1989 profile of the private equity manager, "the Basses and Rainwater had made the progression from being rich to enormously rich."
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Rupert is a committed value investor and regularly writes and invests following the principles set out by Benjamin Graham. He is the editor and co-owner of Hidden Value Stocks, a quarterly investment newsletter aimed at institutional investors. Rupert owns shares in Berkshire Hathaway.
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