Matt Levine, Columnist

You Can Invest Just Like Warren Buffett, If You're a Quant Hedge Fund

If you were good at math and had access to cheap leverage, you could build a robot Warren Buffett, though it probably couldn't play the ukulele.

December 2, 2013 at 7:32 PM UTC

By Matt Levine

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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The Internet has paid a lot of attention today to this National Bureau of Economic Research working paper called "Buffett's Alpha,"1 whose principal conclusions are:

1. You could build a robot that replicates Warren Buffett's stock-picking performance.