Warren Buffett to withdraw from Berkshire Hathaway: a look at his $ 169 billion net assets and his investments

The 94 -year -old billionaire investor Warren Buffett will withdraw as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of 2025, he announced on Saturday during the company's annual shareholders in Omaha.At the end of the meeting, Buffett clearly spoke that the board would soon formalize the transition. “Tomorrow we have a board meeting of Berkshire, and we have 11 directors. Two of the directors who my children, Howie and Susie, know what I will talk about there. The rest of them will come to the news, but I think the time is the time when Greg of the Chief Executive Officer will be of the company,” said Buffett.
His decision, although not entirely unexpected, fascinated many of the thousands. Buffett had previously appointed Greg Abel as the successor in 2021. However, the time of the announcement surprised many.

A record -breaking assets in a volatile year

Buffett's departure takes place at a time when his financial acuity continues to exceed his colleagues. According to the Bloomberg billionaires index, its net assets are now $ 169 billion. Forbes offers a close estimate of 168.2 billion US dollars by May 3, 2025. This costs an increase of 16.4 billion US dollars this year alone – the biggest profit among the ten billionaires in the world.

His ability to grow prosperity while others stalled. Elon Musk's assets fell by $ 135 billion, Jeff Bezos lost $ 42.6 billion and Mark Zuckerberg recorded a decrease of US $ 24.5 billion. Buffett has now played a careful course: sales of technology and banking at strong prices, inventory and preference for high-ranking US state bonds. The result? A growing war of war and a flowering portfolio.

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A lifespan of investment discipline

Buffett's strategy has long been defined by patience and prudence. His letter in February to the shareholders summarized his position: “Nothing looks mandatory.” By the end of 2024, Berkshire had accumulated 334 billion US dollars in cash. Analysts did not see this as a hesitation, but as a foreseen – a possible buffer against economic uncertainty. This disciplined approach supports Buffett's investment philosophy. “People who upset themselves too much about price fluctuations … shouldn't have a stock at all,” he told CNBC in 2018. In a 2008 New York Times, he wrote: “Be afraid when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are afraid.”

His belief in long -term thinking has remained consistent. “Our horizon for such obligations is almost always much longer than a single year. In many cases it is about decades,” Buffett repeated at the beginning of this year.

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Management of a portfolio of 267 billion US dollars

At the end of 2024, Buffett headed a stock portfolio of $ 267 billion. His stocks include some of the largest and best known global companies. Below:

• Apple
• American Express
• Bank of America
• Coca-Cola
• Chevron
• Occidental petroleum
• Amazon
• Japanese commercial houses such as ITOCHU, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo
• Domino's pizza
• Constellation brands
• Davita
• Sirius XM
• Verisign

He does not stick to investments forever. Instead, it fits the risk. This year's performance proves that adaptability is still important.

Modest lifestyle, monumental wealth

Despite his immense assets, Buffett leads a particularly modest life. He still lives in the Omaha house, which he bought in 1958 for $ 31,500. Now worth around $ 1.4 million, it is far from the multi-million dollars of its billionaire colleagues. He also has a holiday home in Laguna Beach, California.

Buffett has undertaken to give away most of his assets, mainly the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His philanthropic prospects have become as remarkable as his investment.

Buffett's resignation marks the end of a 54-year term that Berkshire Hathaway leads. Buffett's story has fascinated investors from a young boy who is inspired by a book entitled Thousand Ways to earn $ 1,000 to the head of one of the largest conglomerate in the world.

His heir now goes to Greg Abel. With the basics of the company and the firm strategy, Berkshire Hathaway enters a new chapter that is still characterized by Buffett's permanent philosophy.