Buffett donated another $3.6 billion

Legendary investor Warren Buffett will donate $3.6 billion worth of shares in his investment company Berkshire Hathaway to five charities, according to the fund's announcement.

• They will go to the foundation of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named after the billionaire's late wife, and Buffett's three children's foundations - the Howard Buffett Foundation, social justice Sherwood Foundation and the NoVo Foundation, which focuses on equality issues. floors.
• Buffett has never sold Hathaway stock, but has already donated 45% of his stake as of 2006, worth $34 billion. He now owns 37.4% of the company. Within 10 years of Buffett's death, his entire fortune must go to charity.
• In 2019, Buffett became the third in the Forbes billionaires ranking with a fortune of $82.5 billion. The billionaire made his last largest donation two years ago - then he transferred $3.17 billion to charity.
• We wrote in detail about the charitable initiatives of wealthy people in Russia and abroad here .