{"id":503116,"date":"2010-04-01T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:417620"},"modified":"2010-04-01T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:24:00","slug":"whats-in-warren-buffetts-personal-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/503116","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in Warren Buffett&#8217;s personal portfolio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/blogs\/tradingdesk\/WB.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/blogs\/tradingdesk\/WB.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everybody knows that Warren Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Few people, though, realize that while 95% of Buffett\u2019s net worth is in Berkshire stock, he also has a personal portfolio worth US$1.8 billion on the side. Robert Miles, founder of the Value Investor Conference, has done the tedious work of sorting through regulatory filings to discover what is in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.morningstar.com\/articlenet\/SubmissionsArticle.aspx?submissionid=11983.xml#page=0&amp;part=1\" >that personal portfolio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Buffett holds two stocks\u2014General Electric Co. and United Parcel Service Inc.\u2014in his personal portfolio that Berkshire or its GEICO subsidiary don\u2019t also own. Beyond that, though, his personal portfolio demonstrates his familiar taste for long established companies with significant competitive advantages. The top 10 list? Wells Fargo &amp; Co., Johnson &amp;Johnson, Procter &amp; Gamble Co., Kraft Foods Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., US Bancorp, GE, UPS, Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd. and Exxon Mobil Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, Miles figures out how Buffett makes ends meet on his US$100,000 salary from Berkshire. It appears that his personal portfolio generates nearly US$43 million in annual dividends. That pays for more than a few of Buffett\u2019s favorite cherry Cokes.<br \/><i><br \/>Freelance business journalist <b>Ian McGugan<\/b> blogs for the Financial Post<\/i> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=417620\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows that Warren Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Few people, though, realize that while 95% of Buffett\u2019s net worth is in Berkshire stock, he also has a personal portfolio worth US$1.8 billion on the side. Robert Miles, founder of the Value Investor Conference, has done the tedious work of sorting through regulatory filings to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}