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Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, the diversified holding company; renowned value investor known as the "Oracle of Omaha."
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Greg Abel added 48.1 million Alphabet shares in his second full quarter as CEO, with roughly 60% of the spend routed through a private placement tied to Google's June capital raise.
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Greg Abel has run Berkshire since the turn of the year, but Warren Buffett publicly claims paternity of the position that now ranks third in its portfolio. That gap is the question for boards mid-handover.
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James Stanier's status report said the feature was live and enabled for all customers, and it was. Adoption was awful because the sidebar holding it stayed shut until a user thought to open it.
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Berkshire put $39.4bn into equities in the first half of 2026 against $7.1bn a year earlier. On September 18 the chairmanship passed to Howard Buffett, whose remit his father defined as guarding the culture.
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Warren Buffett becomes chairman emeritus and his son Howard takes over the board while Greg Abel keeps running the company, with $4.5bn of second-quarter buybacks the only use of the cash Berkshire has disclosed.
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A Seeking Alpha analyst values Berkshire Hathaway at $1.18 trillion, about 8% above its market cap, and rests the bull case on Greg Abel putting $10 billion into Alphabet and $6.8 billion into Taylor Morrison. He is long the stock.
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A Milken Institute report says heirs are pushing their parents to give money away faster. Its evidence is a practitioner's observation and Scott's $26 billion, set against $18.3 trillion of billionaire wealth.
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Warren Buffett has made himself chairman emeritus and kept his board seat, leaving Greg Abel with operating control and his son Howard with the company's culture. Berkshire built that split in stages, not in one announcement.
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Robert Shiller's cyclically adjusted multiple is in the top 1% of readings since 1881. It caps how much of the next decade's return can come from the multiple. It does not date a top.
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He left his dot off the June projections and publishes rate briefs that barely differ, on the argument that transparency about future policy is no virtue in itself. Rate-sensitive plans now rest on the planner's own forecast.
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A June Meta sale and a Berkshire purchase sit on top of Q1 filings designed for portfolios that moved a few dozen times a quarter. The count is the governance number, not the dollars.
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The chipmaker raised more than $2.6 billion selling depositary receipts, then announced a $27 billion buyback-and-cancel at prices roughly a third lower. Price discipline, not signalling.
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A VC that reviewed hundreds of AI productivity tools in a year says most are headed for the graveyard, and capital should rotate to drug discovery, defense and physical AI.
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Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger's record bid is being read by outside analysts as a non-passive shield against carried interest. The pricing logic may sit in the tax code.
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