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Jun 28, 2024 · Warren Buffett to bequeath vast wealth to new foundation upon death. The billionaire investor ends nearly two decades of gifts to the Gates Foundation for a new charity led by his children....
6 days ago · In 2010, Buffett co-founded The Giving Pledge, which encourages billionaires to give away the majority of their wealth during their lifetime or when they die.
Jun 29, 2024 · Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has said his donations to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will end with his death, after announcing $US5.3 billion ($7.93 billion) of philanthropic funding.
Jun 28, 2024 · In his initial pledge to the Gates Foundation in 2006, Buffett wrote that he planned to include the foundation in his will. “I will soon write a new will that will provide for a continuance of this commitment — by distribution of the remaining earmarked shares or in some other manner — after my death,” he wrote then, referring to the ...
4 days ago · Forbes first listed Gates as a billionaire in 1987; he was the richest person in the world from 1995 through 2017 (except in 2008 and from 2010 through 2013). Largely due to the $59 billion he has donated to the Gates Foundation, including a $20 billion gift in July 2022, he was overtaken as the world’s richest person in 2018 by Jeff Bezos.
5 days ago · Billionaires play an outsized role in shaping the global economy, politics, and philanthropy. Forbes puts the number of billionaires in the world at 2,781 in 2024. The wealthiest among them is ...
1 day ago · In 2010, he and Bill Gates launched the Giving Pledge, asking other billionaires to commit to donating at least half of their fortune to charitable causes.
