{"id":352,"date":"2011-12-02T14:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T22:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/?p=352"},"modified":"2017-09-27T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T22:00:25","slug":"buffett-or-buffet-an-extra-t-does-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Buffett or Buffet &#8211; an extra &#8216;t&#8217; does matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Buffet or Buffett which one would you choose to invest with? Does an additional T in your name matter?*<\/h2>\n<p>A firm that bears no relationship to Berkshire Hathaway filed offering with the SEC last month.<\/p>\n<div>Warren Buffet is getting into the high-risk business of Regulation D private placements. This is Warren Buffet, with one T, not Warren E. Buffett.<\/div>\n<p>The Buffet that&#8217;s short one &#8216;t&#8217; is the moniker of a new private placement connected to a stockbroker and investment adviser based in Boca Raton, Fla., named Peter Bruno.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Bruno&#8217;s website, he is chief executive of Wall Street Money Management Group Inc., a registered investment advisory firm. According to filings with the SEC, the firm has $17.1 million in assets under management and 122 client accounts. At the end of September, Berkshire Hathaway reported assets of $385.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem clear that the Buffet name is being used to cash in on the Buffett record and confuse consumers. Could there be any other explanation?<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Original article by Bruce Kelly, <\/strong>December 2, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Edi Alvarez, CFP<sup>\u00ae<br \/>\n<\/sup>BS, BEd, MS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/\"><strong>www.aikapa.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffet or Buffett which one would you choose to invest with? Does an additional T in your name matter?* A firm that bears no relationship to Berkshire Hathaway filed offering with the SEC last month. Warren Buffet is getting into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/?p=352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,33],"tags":[121,51,122,114],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing","category-violations-warnings","tag-buffett","tag-investing-2","tag-private-placement","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikapa.com\/Financial_Bites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}