INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authors: Super UserBy Tara LachapelleAnother Berkshire Hathaway Inc
annual meeting is in the books
them up there in front of shareholders, it was hard not to be reminded of the fact that the beloved investors are 87 and 94 years old,
Their combined age is older than Berkshire Hathaway itself, a company that traces its roots to the Industrial Revolution.
On Saturday,
weekend-long extravaganza in Omaha, Nebraska
With a little help from some Coca-Cola and peanut brittle, the duo sits through hours of questions on topics spanning global trade,
oversight of the $482 billion conglomerate
everything insurance-related
Buffett is still chairman and CEO, while Munger remains vice chairman of the board.
It seems clear that Abel, Jain or both are likely to
publicly identifying that someone and really giving them the pulpit.
The first question of the day was whether the billionaire is already
That got laughs, but I think the question should have been phrased differently
For example, he has said before that Jain has probably made more money for shareholders than he has
billion of cash on its balance sheet right now
that a dividend is unlikely)
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