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March 6, 2008
Buffett Is Now World's Richest
Buffett is #1.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett beat out Bill Gates for the top spot on Forbes magazine's annual list of billionaires worldwide, ending a 13-year reign for Microsoft Corp.'s co-founder.
Buffett's wealth increased $10 billion to about $62 billion in the 12 months through Feb. 11, mostly from a gain in his company's shares, Forbes said in a statement released yesterday.
"He is the iconoclastic investor of his generation," said Ken Murray, who runs Blue Planet Investment Management in Edinburgh, which oversees about $250 million in financial stocks. He doesn't hold Berkshire. "The fantastic amount of wealth he has accumulated puts him up there with Carnegie and Morgan."
The fortune of Gates, 52, rose $2 billion to $58 billion. The Microsoft chairman fell to third on the list behind Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim, 68, who has an estimated net worth of $60 billion.
Poor Bill, if he had only graduated from Harvard.
Posted by edelfenbein at March 6, 2008 11:05 AM
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