Warren Buffett's cash dilemma

The Story of Money

Manuela Saragosa

Business, Crypto, Markets, Finance, Banking, Investing, History, News

4.4 • 400 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Over the past 54 years, shares in Berkshire Hathaway have outpaced the broader market. But now the conglomerate is holding onto more than $100bn in cash that it would rather be investing. The FT's Eric Platt guides us through the Berkshire Hathaway operation, and how its 88-year old chairman and chief executive is thinking about the company's future. Read more at FT.com.

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0:30.7	Shares in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway soared above the broader market for years.
0:35.0	Say you'd invested $100 in Berkshire shares back in 1964.
0:40.0	Today you'd have about 2.5 million dollars.
0:44.0	Mr. Buffett and his lean team of advisors famously scooped up
0:48.0	what they saw as promising but undervalued businesses.
0:52.0	The type that would eventually bring big returns
0:54.6	for his loyal shareholders. But lately the Buffett ways come under pressure.
0:58.9	Berkshire Hathaway is now a 740 billion billion organization and it's holding on to more than a
1:05.6	hundred billion dollars worth of cash. Cash it would rather be putting to work. Hello and I'm Amy Keene and I have to say it feels really good to be back after a longer than expected hiatus.
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