Warren Buffett to remain as Berkshire Hathaway board chair

Warren Buffett testifies earlier the Senate Finance Committee successful Washington, DC, successful 2007. Photo: SAUL LOEB / AFP
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American capitalist Warren Buffett, 94, volition stay arsenic president of Berkshire Hathaway's committee of directors erstwhile helium steps down arsenic main enforcement astatine the extremity of this year, the conglomerate announced Monday.

Following a ballot astatine the Berkshire Hathaway committee of directors implicit the weekend, Buffett volition measurement down arsenic main enforcement of the world's 8th-largest institution by marketplace capitalization connected January 1, 2026, and manus implicit the reins to the group's existent vice-chairman, Greg Abel.

The vote, which was projected by Buffett, volition bring to and extremity the revered investor's much than half-a-century moving the group, which helium turned into a fiscal behemoth.

"The clip has arrived wherever Greg (Abel) should go the main enforcement serviceman of the institution astatine twelvemonth end," Buffett, 94, told an yearly shareholder gathering successful Omaha, the metropolis successful the Midwestern authorities of Nebraska wherever Berkshire is based.

Abel, 62, had been nominated to win Buffett successful 2021. The Board of Directors voted unanimously connected Sunday to name him to his caller position, according to a connection from the radical published Monday.

Berkshire Hathaway, a erstwhile tiny textile company, has grown implicit the years into a gigantic conglomerate nether Buffett's leadership, and is present worthy implicit $1 trillion connected Wall Street -- a archetypal for an American radical extracurricular the tech sector.

Warren Buffett preferred to put for the agelong word successful unchangeable companies whose accounts helium had intimately scrutinized, enabling him to physique up the world's fifth-largest luck implicit the decades.

Today, his conglomerate owns dozens of businesses, from Duracell batteries to US insurer Geico, and shares successful cautiously selected companies, from Coca-Cola to Bank of America.

Shortly earlier fiscal markets opened connected Wall Street, Berkshire Hathaway's shares were down astir 3.2 percent successful pre-market.

Source: AFP