Warren Buffett stepping aside as Berkshire Hathaway chairman
Warren Buffett is stepping aside as Berkshire Hathaway chairman, he announced in a letter to shareholders Friday.
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Warren Buffett is stepping aside as Berkshire Hathaway chairman, he announced in a letter to shareholders Friday.
Warren Buffett is stepping down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman effective immediately. The 96-year-old billionaire's son, Howard, will become Berkshire's new chairman.
The company's first-quarter profit more than doubled as the value of its investments grew and most of its businesses improved.
Abel, 63, takes the helm of Berkshire Hathaway after a six-decade run by Buffett.
In an eight-page letter published Monday, Warren Buffett said he'll donate 2.7 million of his shares to four family foundations.
Berkshire Hathaway's earnings can swing wildly from quarter to quarter because it has to record the current value of its massive investment portfolio.
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The billionaire pledged in 2006 to give away most of his wealth to philanthropy. Buffett said the shares of Berkshire Hathaway will be delivered on Monday.
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Warren Buffett announced Saturday he would step down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of the year.
Warren Buffett said he will recommend to Berkshire Hathaway's board that Greg Abel should become CEO at the end of the year.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett announced that he intends to step down as CEO of the empire he built at the end of 2025. He tapped Vice Chair Greg Abel as his successor. Jo Ling Kent reports.
Berkshire said in its earnings report Saturday that it sold off roughly another 100 million Apple shares in the third quarter after halving its massive investment in the iPhone maker last quarter.
Buffett once called the company's stake in the iPhone maker a pillar of Berkshire's business that he intended to hold indefinitely.
Warren Buffett referred to close friend Charlie Munger as the "the architect of Berkshire Hathaway."
Warren Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway could not have been built without Munger's "inspiration" and "wisdom."
Buffett has given away billions of dollars in Berkshire Hathaway stock since 2006 as part of his pledge to donate 99% of his wealth in his lifetime.
The billionaire investor broke with his practice of staying out of local politics to urge his hometown to abandon the project because, he says, it's too expensive and not as flexible as buses.
A new ProPublica analysis of tax data on multibillionaires comes to the conclusion that the richest 25 people in the U.S. have a "true tax rate" of almost nothing.
"It's been nothing but good," the Berkshire Hathaway CEO said of the annual charity lunch, which he says will be his last.
The billionaire said he has been an "inactive" trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation "for years."
ProPublica analyzed a "vast trove" of IRS tax data on Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet and other billionaires.
Greg Abel, a former hockey player, built Berkshire's energy unit into the largest producer of wind power in America.
The iPhone maker now makes up 40% of Buffett's $280 billion investment portfolio.
Warren Buffett had touted joint venture as as a way to help contain soaring health care costs for workers.