Buffett’s $350 bln parting gift is double-edged
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
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| 0:39.8 | Warren Buffett on Saturday said he will step down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of the year. |
| 0:46.7 | During the company's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, 94-year-old Buffett said it was time for vice chairman, Greg Abel, to take over the reins. |
| 0:58.4 | It caps a remarkable 60-year run where Buffett transformed Berkshire from a failing textile company |
| 1:05.1 | into a trillion-dollar conglomerate. |
| 1:10.7 | Warren Buffett has passed from the realm of mere Wundekind Investing Titan. conglomerate. |
| 1:13.3 | Warren Buffett has passed from the realm of mere vundekind investing titans to become a totem for aspiring financiers across the world. |
| 1:19.1 | At once a buy-and-hold operator, a stock picker with a track record like no other, |
| 1:23.0 | and a scout for generational talent. |
| 1:24.6 | His six decades at the helm of sprawling conglomerate Berkshire |
| 1:28.3 | Hathaway was so successful across so many domains that it's perhaps simplest to sum it all up |
| 1:33.6 | in one eye-popping number. 5,502,284%. That's the overall gain in Berkshire shares between |
| 1:42.9 | 1965 and 2024, a record that, against all conventional wisdom, trounces the wider market. |
| 1:50.2 | As at age 94, he now finally steps back, Berkshire's next CEO, Greg Abel, inherits leadership of a $1 trillion company facing one big question, what it will do with |
| 2:03.5 | a now $348 billion cash pile. |
| 2:07.2 | The history preceding him and the task ahead of him is the focus of this week's Viewsroom. |
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