“Acquisition of Milton Corporation… introduced more capital, in Milton's case, $3.5 bn of capital that we were able to deploy into whatever we thought was the best risk-adjusted returns.”

The Rules of Investing · Soul Patts has 20% in cash. Todd Barlow says everything else has to earn its place

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Acquire companies (Milton Corp, Brickworks) to inject large amounts of capital ($3.5 bn from Milton) that can be redeployed into higher-risk-adjusted assets

$3.5 bn

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