Bolloré: The French Buffett

Want an alternative way to invest Warren Buffett style in a smaller company that has the potential to rapidly grow over the next decades?

Consider French billionaire fund manager Vincent Bolloré's company called Bollore Investissement Ordinary Shares (OTCPK:BOIVF).

Bolloré has compounded 16.8% per year for investors compared with 10.6% for Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway over the last two decades.

He is a combination of value investor and activist. "An activist investor is an individual or group that purchases large numbers of a public company's shares and/or tries to obtain seats on the company's board with the goal of effecting a major change in the company."(https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/activist-investor.asp) This combines the wonderful qualities that Buffett found to work over time with a process that may push companies to move in the right direction at a faster pace.

The company is currently valued around $15 billion market cap. Therefore, if Bolloré continues to be successful he will have no trouble providing 10 times investors returns over the next decade or so. If you do not believe me experiment with different growth rates on compound interest calculators to see for yourself the power of long term stock ownership.

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