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...Christopher Rossbach, chief investment officer of longtime Berkshire shareholder J Stern & Co, said investors would have to wait to see whether the executives who have worked side-by-side with the two men...
...The challenges confronting Buffett’s successors The passing of Berkshire Hathaway’s acerbic vice-chair Charlie Munger in November turned investors’ attention towards the company’s prospects without Warren...
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway surged to a record high this week, helping increase its valuation this year by more than $100bn — the equivalent of Ford and Halliburton combined....
...Pilot, which also operates the Flying J brand, sells fuel, food and merchandise to truckers and provides showers among other services....
...Previewed at GP & J Baker’s Rue du Mail showroom, the collection’s eye-catcher is Front Row, a patchwork-like print originally envisaged as a decor for Kemp’s trendy Tribeca outpost the Warren Street Hotel...
...“There are tremendous opportunities for Berkshire’s businesses to work together,” said Chris Rossbach, chief investment officer at fund manager J Stern & Co....
...For the first time the figure includes the results of truck stop business Pilot Flying J, which Berkshire took majority control of in January....
...Two years later he founded J Rothschild Assurance Group — now St James’s Place, the UK’s largest wealth manager — with Sir Mark Weinberg....
...Warren Buffett offered a full-throated defence of share buybacks in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday, saying stock purchases by Berkshire and the dozens of publicly traded...
...“Berkshire has a strong retail shareholder base and they are much more loyal and willing to hold the stock,” said Christopher Rossbach, chief investment officer of J Stern & Co, a longtime shareholder....
...But the real progenitor of the wheeze is Warren Buffett, the world’s most famous investor. Brookfield did implicit homage to the Sage of Omaha this week....
...Since its creation, the foundation has spent $79.2bn, which Gates noted had been funded in large part by $35.7bn of gifts from Warren Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway....
...The “step change” in spending will be overseen by an expanded board, with Suzman and three outside trustees joining Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates seven months after Warren Buffett, the billionaire...
...“If Warren thinks the deal is OK, the deal is OK,” Buffett said of the board’s thinking, as he held court on Saturday at a meeting that reminded shareholders that Berkshire remains very much the Warren show...
...Meanwhile, the world hasn’t yet heard from Warren Buffett, the investor who played the single biggest hand during the 2008 tumult....
...Buffett resigned from the board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private philanthropic organisation, last year after Gates and his wife Melinda French Gates announced they were...
...Similarly, Marcus and his wife, Billi, were among the first signatories to the Giving Pledge, set up by Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, under which billionaires promise to donate at...
...Heinz ended up selling itself in 2013 to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital for $28bn, generating a big profit for Peltz as well as Heinz’s management and shareholders....
...The high-profile announcement, by the former couple who founded the Giving Pledge with Warren Buffett, is designed to galvanise similar action from other philanthropists and the private sector, according...
...Warren Buffett is leaving the board of the Gates Foundation, casting further uncertainty over the world’s largest private philanthropic organisation after its co-chairs, Bill and Melinda Gates, announced...
...In 1998, Warren Buffett lamented the lack of good investment opportunities for Berkshire Hathaway. He was waiting for what he called his fat pitch, a home-run deal....
...Job moves JPMorgan Chase has named J&J former chief executive Alex Gorsky as director to its board....
...But she also quotes from Edmund Burke’s speech for the impeachment of Warren Hastings, Britain’s first governor-general of Bengal, India....
...The foundation’s future endowment will depend on the size of continued contributions from their separate fortunes, as well as the extent of further gifts from their longstanding friend and fellow trustee Warren...
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