“We’re not, you know, in some defensive posture where we’re mostly in cash, or anything like that,” Gates told Bloomberg Television on Tuesday. “The strategy that’s been used on the investments is to be over 60% in equities.” Having 60%, in this case $60 billion in stocks...
With over 60% of his holdings inthe stock market, Bill Gates knows the value of investing for long-term growth. Whether you build your own stock portfolio – or simply invest in broad-based index funds – investing in stocks can compound your money over time. However, while it occasionally ...
and the European Union is considering it, but all G20 countries should require the mining and oil companies listed on their stock exchanges to disclose payments to governments. I also support the idea of a natural resource charter to bring more transparency...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sold 20 million company shares in late October, but thanks to recent market gains, his portfolio was worth more than when he last sold stock.
Bill Gates, all 名威廉亨利盖茨, United States, Microsoft's chairman. Together he and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, a former Microsoft CEO and chief software architect, and holds more than 8% of the common stock, is the company's largest individual shareholder. 1995 to 2007, "Forbes' global...
Presents the views of former Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bill Gates on the continued use of personal computers (PC). Rejection of the idea that businesses will only use the Internet and Internet-connected cellular phones instead of software and PCs; New pitch of Microsoft, including ...
Here's a chart (click on it) of the amount of currency it's not been worth Mr. Gates' time to pick up off the ground over the years, based on his current 800 million or so shares of Microsoft (he has given away quite a few) and the split-adjusted stock price courtesy of ...
Bill Gates' foundation trust bought 1.7 million shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev after the company experienced a few months of controversy and declining stock prices. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust bought the shares — valued at about $95 million — last quarter, according to an SEC ...
Approximately half of the Gates Trust's 13F equity portfolio comprises investments in Berkshire Hathaway. These holdings have been contributed to the Foundation gradually over the past decade by Warren Buffett. Most estimates value Warren Buffett's total donation of Berkshire stock at over $11 ...
During the next five years, as the company continued to control the market and expand into business software, the value of the stock grew. By 1991, Gates was estimated to be the second richest person in the United States, worth an estimated $4.8 billion. The next year, he made news as...