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About | Warren Buffett

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[Image credit: Stephanie Kuykenal/Bloomberg News]

Age: 77

Fortune: Self-made

Source: Berkshire Hathaway

Net worth: $62.0 billion (as of first half of 2008)

Country of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Omaha, Nebraska

Industry: Investments

Marital Status: widowed, remarried, 3 children

Education: University of Nebraska Lincoln, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Columbia University, Master of Science

America's most beloved investor is now the world's richest man. Soared past friend and bridge partner Bill Gates as shares of Berkshire Hathaway climbed 25% since the middle of last July. Son of Nebraska politician delivered newspapers as a boy. Filed first tax return at age 13, claiming $35 deduction for bicycle. Studied under value investing guru Benjamin Graham at Columbia. Took over textile firm Berkshire Hathaway 1965. Today holding company invested in insurance (Geico, General Re), jewelry (Borsheim's), utilities (MidAmerican Energy), food (Dairy Queen, See's Candies). Also has noncontrolling stakes in Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo. Insurance operations flourished in 2007. "That party is over. It's a certainty that insurance-industry profit margins, including ours, will fall significantly in 2008." The Oracle of Omaha issued a challenge to members of The Forbes 400 in October; said he would donate $1 million to charity if the collective group of richest Americans would admit they pay less taxes, as a percentage of income, than their secretaries. Had long promised to give away his fortune posthumously. Irrevocably earmarked the majority of his Berkshire shares to charity in 2006, mostly to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gift was valued at $31 billion on day of announcement; donation will far exceed that sum so long as Berkshire shares continue to rise.
[Source: Forbes.com]

Companies in Berkshire Hathaway's Portfolio: The Coca Cola Company, American Express, Wells Fargo, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Proctor and Gamble, US Bancorp, Wellpoint, Johnson and Johnson, Conocophillips, POSCO, Wal-Mart, Washington Post, Nike, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Suntrust Bank, Iron Mountain, COSTCO, Sanofi-Aventis, United Healthcare, Ingersoll-Rand, Home Depot, Lowe's, Kraft, Carmax, Bank of America.

Recommended readings: Security Analysis, The Intelligent Investor, Common stocks and Uncommon profits, The Theory of Investment Value, The Essays of Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman's Letters to shareholders, Beating the Street, One Up on Wall Street

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