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What do dozens of American billionaires talk about when they get together? Their topic this week was of course money; not how to make it, but how to give it away.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Friday that a private gathering was a great chance for the billionaires who have pledged to...
Daily Blogwatch: Is Apple Going Up Another 4,500%?
8:30AM 12/09/2010
Among Thursday's best reads for investors from around the Web: Business lessons from the Beatles, Cody Willard's latest stock picks and the newest billionaire.
Top Stock Picks of Six Billionaire Investors
10:40AM 11/16/2010
People, Investing, Genzyme Corporation , Berkshire Hathaway, AT&T, Sanofi Aventis, Stock Picks, Wells Fargo & Co, Investing Basics, Stocks in the News, Streetwise
By the time the world's smartest investors tell the SEC what stocks they hold, most of the gains they were after are already priced in. But a few of the companies Warren Buffett, George Soros, and their billionaire buddies have bought into still have a lot further to rise. Which ones? Read on ...
Carlos Slim Buys Manhattan Mansion for $44 Million
7:45PM 7/29/2010
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has plunked down a cool $44 million for a hot Manhattan property -- the last remaining privately owned Fifth Avenue mansion. It's a townhouse boasting more than 19,000 square feet right across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richest Americans You've Never Heard Of
6:30AM 7/28/2010
People, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, Unilever, Procter & Gamble
Microsoft's Bill Gates, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett and Apple's Steve Jobs are all household names in addition to being among the wealthiest people in the country. But do you know Fred DeLuca, Peter Buck or Donald Hall? Probably not. Yet their products are likely an integral part of your daily life.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet want American billionaires to contribute half of their wealth to charity. The two have been campaigning for the past year to encourage charitable giving. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation set up a pledge for people to donate money either through a lifetime or at the...
Just in time for Mother's Day, Forbes magazine is out with a story about the World's Richest Moms.
The article reveals that there are only 70 billionaires on the planet who are mothers, and "just eight of these (women) built their own fortunes." The rest inherited money from their fathers or late...
Cheaper than ever to name a building for charity
12:00PM 10/13/2009
There's a fire sale on naming buildings across the country. Wait, strike that, fire sale might not be the best phrase to describe naming a new library or outpatient wing; perhaps "clearance on immortality at charities nationwide" is a better fit.
Over the last year, thanks to the economy; we've...
The Forbes 400: What it takes to join the billionaires' club
2:00PM 10/03/2009
Did you know that 14 percent of the self-made billionaires on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest people in the US didn't graduate from college? How about the fact that an unusually high percentage of them were born in the fall? Would you be surprised to learn that many of them are good at math,...
What's it take to be a billionaire? Aside from hard work, determination and a little luck, it turns out there are quite a few other commonalities amongst billionaires. Duncan Greenberg at Forbes took it upon himself to find out what trends emerge when you look at the magazine's list of 657 self...
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