Charlie Munger’s Friend Li Lu Reflects on His Passing a Year Later

It’s been more than a year since Charlie Munger passed away on Nov. 28, 2023, and the tributes continued to roll in a year later. Li Lu, who managers the Munger’s family assets and founded Himalaya Capital, reflected on his mentor’s life and career, saying it was Munger who “made it possible for value investing to be practiced globally.”

Reflecting on Munger’s life and death

In an exclusive interview with Zhenghe Island on Nov. 28, 2024, his first exclusive interview with Chinese media in four years, Li noted that the first anniversary of Munger’s passing fell on Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.

He added that his first long-term communication with Munger also occurred on Thanksgiving Day in 2002, when...