5 key highlights from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting 2024

This was the archetypal Berkshire yearly gathering without Munger, who died past twelvemonth astatine 99. Buffet fondly remembered Munger arsenic the “architect of Berkshire" successful his tribute to him, underscoring his important relation successful the company's occurrence passim the years.

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Let's instrumentality a look astatine the 5 cardinal highlights from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway yearly meeting

1. On Succession: Greg Abel to beryllium successful complaint of concern decisions

Giving remainder to speculations, Warren Buffett said Greg Abel, 61, who volition beryllium taking implicit the CEO occupation astatine Berkshire Hathaway, volition power Berkshire Hathaway’s investing decisions, including its banal portfolio, aft him.

“I deliberation the work ought to beryllium wholly with Greg. The work has been with me, and I farmed retired immoderate of it, and I utilized to deliberation otherwise astir however that would beryllium handled, but I deliberation the work should beryllium that of the CEO," said Buffett, arsenic quoted by CNBC.com.

Abdel, vice president of the non-insurance operation, whose sanction was revealed arsenic Buffett's successor astatine the shareholder gathering successful 2021, has been managing a important information of Berkshire’s investments, including vigor and retail.

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2. Berkshire trims concern successful Apple

Berkshire Hathaway trimmed its involvement successful Apple for the 2nd consecutive 4th arsenic it reduced its concern successful tech-giant Apple by astir 13 per cent successful the archetypal quarter.

Berkshire sold astir 10 cardinal shares of Apple, oregon 1 per cent of its involvement successful the tech firm, successful the past 4th of 2023. Berkshire again sold astir 116 cardinal Apple shares, oregon 13 per cent involvement successful the company, successful the archetypal 4th of the existent year.

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Nevertheless, astatine the extremity of the January-March quarter, Apple was Berkshire’s biggest holding. Buffett said the involvement merchantability was for taxation purposes, and Apple whitethorn stay Berkshire’s largest holding astatine the extremity of the year.

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3. AI scamming the adjacent large "growth industry"

Warren Buffett believes that artificial quality (AI) scamming could beryllium the adjacent large “growth industry".

At Berkshire’s yearly meeting, Buffett highlighted the imaginable of AI for scamming radical owed to its quality to make convincing fake images and messages. Scammers could usage this exertion to instrumentality radical into sending wealth by making fake pleas for help, similar pretending to beryllium a household subordinate successful trouble.

“When you deliberation astir the imaginable for scamming people, if you tin reproduce images that I can’t adjacent tell, that say, ‘I request money,’ arsenic your daughter, ‘I conscionable had a car crash, I request $50,000 wired.’ I mean, scamming has ever been portion of the American scene, but this would marque me, if I was funny successful investing successful scamming, it’s going to beryllium the maturation manufacture of each time," CNBC quoted Buffett saying so.

4. The full involvement successful Paramount sold astatine a loss

Taking a 100 per cent ownership of the decision, Buffett said Berkshire sold the full involvement successful Paramount Global astatine a loss.

Berkshire owned 63.3 cardinal shares of Paramount astatine the extremity of 2023 aft cutting astir a 3rd of its involvement successful the institution successful Q4 past year.

5. Positive astir India

Buffett appeared affirmative astir India. He said determination were "loads of opportunities successful a spot similar India". Berkshire, however, does not person contiguous plans for ample investments successful different countries, Buffett said.

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Published: 05 May 2024, 09:00 AM IST