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Adam Levy, The Motley Fool
Tue, March 10, 2026 astatine 7:25 AM CDT 7 min read
Bill Gates is 1 of the astir well-known billionaires successful the world. The Microsoft laminitis became the wealthiest idiosyncratic successful the satellite successful the precocious 1990s, arsenic the tech company's worth soared. Despite giving distant a ample chunk of his wealthiness since the crook of the century, Gates' nett worthy inactive sits supra $100 billion. But helium plans to springiness distant astir each of it to the Gates Foundation by 2045.
The Gates Foundation maintains a ample endowment to money improvements successful health, sex equality, development, and acquisition worldwide. A large portion of that is its $38 cardinal equity portfolio. While Gates made his riches successful technology, the foundation's equity portfolio reflects his idiosyncratic concern benignant and the dense power of longtime person and erstwhile Gates Foundation committee subordinate Warren Buffett. That includes a willingness to support a highly concentrated portfolio. In fact, astir 60% of the portfolio is held successful conscionable 3 stocks.
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The Gates Foundation receives an yearly injection of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA) (NYSE: BRKB) shares from Warren Buffett. This year's donation added 9.4 cardinal Class B shares to the portfolio. Buffett's donation comes with the stipulation that the instauration indispensable walk an magnitude adjacent to his donation positive 5% of its different assets each twelvemonth to person the adjacent donation. While the portfolio managers person sold immoderate Berkshire shares to assistance money the foundation's operations, they've been capable to clasp a ample chunk, and it's presently the biggest presumption successful the portfolio.
That's worked retired good for the Gates Foundation. While the stock terms has fallen since Buffett announced his status arsenic CEO past May, the banal has held up good implicit the agelong run. Meanwhile, the institution has produced coagulated operating results, led by its halfway security business. New CEO Greg Abel expressed disappointment with the BNSF railroad business, but noted improvements successful its operating borderline successful 2025. The vigor concern produced results successful enactment with 2024.
Investors are waiting to spot what volition alteration and what volition enactment the aforesaid with Abel calling the shots. The recently installed CEO suggested that not overmuch volition alteration anytime soon nether his leadership. He plans to support Berkshire's decentralized model, beardown equilibrium sheet, and culture. That said, immoderate portfolio changes could beryllium connected the skyline with the caller exit of Todd Combs. Ted Weschler volition besides negociate respective cardinal much successful assets going forward.
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