where can i find stocks or funds that mirror berkshire hathaway or find out what their current holdings?

Answer 1

You can try http://www.stockpickr.com
If you can't get all holdings, you can track buys and sells...

Answer 2

There are no funds that mirror Berkshire Hathaway since a large percentage of Berkshire's holdings are in private companies such as Geico. However there are several funds which devote a large percentage of their assets to Berkshire, one that comes to mind is the Fairholme fund (FAIRX) which has about 16% of the fund in Berkshire. There are also several other publicly traded investment conglomerates that have a similar strategy as Berkshire such as Allegheny (Y) and Leucadia National (LUK) and White Mountain Insurance (WTM). If you want to know the holdings of any fund they have to report them quarterly in a filing with the SEC called the N-Q that is available for all funds on the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.

Answer 3

You won't actually be able to invest in stocks or funds that would mirror Berkshire Hathaway because many, if not most, of the subsidiaries are privately held assets. You can see a number of the subsidiary companies at the Berkshire Hathaway homepage: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html. While investing in Berkshire Hathaway class A stock is often too expensive for most investors (going price for one share is over $100K), the class B shares are much more affordable -- around $3,625. See http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=brk-b for more information about the class B shares.

Answer 4

Why not just invest in Berkshire Hathaway?

You cannot get real-time holdings for a fund. You can get quaretly holdings filed on EDGAR (www.sec.gov) on form N-Q or you can find the top 10 holdings on a site like morningstar monthly or a fund's semiannual report (Form N-CSR)

Youcannot get Berkshire Hathaways holdings at all as it is not a registered investment company (because many of its holdings are subsidiaries)