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Of the 24 holdings in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust's portfolio, Microsoft is the largest holding, making up about 34% of the portfolio and valued at about $15.4 billion.
Berkshire Hathaway, meanwhile, is the third-largest position in the trust's portfolio at around $7.3 billion. Most of those Berkshire shares were donated to the foundation by Buffett. After Gates ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington , it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the second largest charitable foundation in the world , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [ 4 ]
Cascade Investment, L.L.C. Cascade Investment, L.L.C. is an American holding company and private investment firm headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, United States. [2] It is controlled by Bill Gates, and managed by Michael Larson. [3] More than half of Gates's fortune is held in assets outside his holding of Microsoft shares. [4]
A new 13F filing for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust reveals two key changes made in the first quarter. The trust sold 1.7 million Microsoft shares and 2.6 million shares of Berkshire ...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a large shareholder of Berkshire, owning 4.0% of Class B Shares. [25] Berkshire Hathaway has never split its Class A shares because of management's desire to attract long-term investors as opposed to short-term speculators.
As the world watched the coronavirus (COVID-19) threat spread across the world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was making big Wall Street bets — pouring hundreds of millions of dollars ...
Breakthrough Energy is the umbrella name of several organizations, founded by Bill Gates in 2015, that aim to accelerate innovation in sustainable energy and in other technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It invests in a variety of startup companies that are attempting to commercialize new concepts such as nuclear fusion, large ...