Michael Bucher
Michael Bucher @MichaelBucher

Performance
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8.02%2026
2026
18.10%2025
2025
11.07%2024
2024
24.36%2023
2023
-11.61%2022
2022
40.49%2021
2021
98.65%2020
2020
98.7%0%-98.7%
Michael Bucher
Safra Catz ran Oracle for a decade and most people outside the Valley still can't spell her name. She came from investment banking. No founder mythology, no keynote presence, no product to demo. Larry Ellison hired her in 1999 and used her like a scalpel: cut costs, close deals, hit the number.... Show More
Michael Bucher
The market taught an expectations lesson this week. Tuesday closed at records. Then Thursday, the FT reported OpenAI's annualized revenue approaching $50 billion, not the roughly $70 billion reported a week earlier. Growth above 70% year over year. Oracle still fell 5.5%, Broadcom 4.4%, Micron 4.8%,... Show More
Michael Bucher
Thirty years running Duquesne. Not one losing year. No supercomputer. No army of PhDs. A guy who treated losses like a smoke alarm — loud, fast, zero embarrassment. Wrong position? Gone the same day. Ego never got a desk. His favorite lesson from George Soros: it's not whether you're right... Show More
Michael Bucher
Grace Groner bought three shares of Abbott stock in 1935. Cost: $180. She was a secretary at the company. She never sold. Dividends reinvested, splits compounding, decade after decade. When she died in 2010, that position was worth around $7 million. It all went to her old college. No fund. No deck.... Show More
Michael Bucher
Barbara Corcoran didn't wait to feel ready. In 1973, she borrowed $1,000 and started a real estate brokerage from a desk in someone else's office. Straight D's in school. Twenty jobs by twenty-three. The brokerage became one of New York's biggest. She sold it in 2001, then spent nearly... Show More
Michael Bucher
One announcement on a Monday. By Tuesday's close, $FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) had lost a quarter of its value. September 29: Fair Isaac fell 26.5% to $617.87, its worst day since 1989. The trigger wasn't earnings. FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would adopt a... Show More
Michael Bucher
Adena Friedman started at Nasdaq in 1993 as an intern working on market operations. She stayed nearly two decades, learned the plumbing of the market, then left in 2011 to be CFO of the Carlyle Group. In 2014 she came back. By 2017 she ran the whole place. First woman to run a major American stock exchange. The... Show More
Michael Bucher
The glass you're reading this through might have come off her production line. Zhou Qunfei left school at 16 and took a job polishing watch glass in Shenzhen. She asked questions until she knew every step. In 2003 she founded Lens Technology. When Motorola needed glass for the Razr that wouldn't... Show More
Michael Bucher
In 1988, a small group huddled in a New York office to sketch out a risk-management firm. One of them was Sue Wagner, the only woman in the room. She was never the name on the door. She built the plumbing instead. Operations, then strategy, then vice chairman. Decades of work nobody writes headlines... Show More
Michael Bucher
At five, she was put on a train to escape the Nazis. Alone. Dame Stephanie Shirley arrived in England on a Kindertransport, no parents. In 1962 she founded a software company with six pounds of capital. Nobody replied to a woman, so she signed her letters "Steve". The orders came. Her programmers... Show More

About Michael Bucher
Switzerland
Strategy: Income

Even my mother-in-law copies me. Ø ~20% p.a. since 2020.
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