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Buffett Passes Berkshire Baton to Abel, Plans Thanksgiving Tradition
15 Nov
Summary
- Greg Abel to take over Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting
- Buffett plans to continue annual Thanksgiving message to shareholders
- Buffett increasing lifetime gifts to his children's foundations
In a move to transition Berkshire Hathaway's leadership, Warren Buffett has announced that starting next year, Greg Abel will be writing the annual meeting letter to shareholders and answering questions at the annual meeting. Buffett, who has led the company for decades, plans to sit on the arena floor with the other directors.
However, Buffett assures shareholders that he will continue communicating with them and his children through his annual Thanksgiving message. This year's letter was longer than usual, covering topics like the importance of luck, getting old, and his admiration for Berkshire shareholders.
Buffett also revealed a surprising anecdote from his childhood, when he received a fingerprint kit and proceeded to take prints from the nuns caring for him, believing that "someday a nun would go bad, and the FBI would find that they had neglected to fingerprint nuns."
