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Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway is controlled by Warren Buffett, who is chairman and chief executive of the company which owns a range of companies, including GEICO and NetJets, a substantial stake in Heinz, and has stakes in American Express, Procter & Gamble and IBM. The company is noted for outperforming the stock market under the leadership of Buffett, a value investor.

Born

30 Aug 1930

Industry

Business

Job Title

Businessman

Lili Buffett is the wife of Howard Warren Buffett, and they share a son. Photo: @lilibuffett/Instagram

Millionaires and billionaires

Meet Warren Buffett’s accomplished granddaughter-in-law, Lili Buffett

Lili, the wife of Warren Buffett’s grandson Howard Warren Buffett, is VP of investor relations at Power Sustainable, and lists Carolina Herrera, Zimmermann and Johanna Ortiz among her favourite designers.

14 Jun 2025 - 4:00AM

Millionaires and billionaires

Meet billionaire Warren Buffett’s musician son Peter Buffett

20 May 2025 - 6:00AM

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Explainer | How common is prostate cancer in Hong Kong and what can you do to treat it?

20 May 2025 - 1:12AM

Art

From Hong Kong to Mayfair: inside Rosamond and Ben Brown’s art world empire

Pillars of Hong Kong’s art scene, a mother and son team reveal the fine art of collecting and their ‘Warren Buffett’-style role.

11 May 2025 - 2:00PM

Ben and Rosamond Brown at Ben’s house
in Notting Hill, London. Photo: Jack Orton

Millionaires and billionaires

Gates to give away 99% of fortune, says Musk ‘killing’ world’s poorest children

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder speeds up donation plan, urges governments, wealthy people to help world’s poor.

9 May 2025 - 1:35PM

Donald Trump

Buffett warns against Trump tariffs, says he wants to retire at end of year

The Berkshire Hathaway chair stunned shareholders with news that he hopes to hand over the reins to Greg Abel within months.

4 May 2025 - 2:42AMvideocam

Donald Trump

Trump hits golf course as stocks plummet for a second straight day over tariffs

The US president shared a TikTok video that claimed he was crashing the stock market on purpose as part of a ‘secret game’.

5 Apr 2025 - 9:55AMvideocam

Donald Trump plays during the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, New Jersey, in July 2022. Photo: AP

Electric & new energy vehicles

BYD launches a ‘Model 3 killer’ at half the price of Tesla’s top seller

The Qin L and Xpeng’s Mona M03, which are priced around US$16,500, arrive as the US company’s mainland sales are dropping.

25 Mar 2025 - 9:45PM

Electric & new energy vehicles

BYD resorts to forex trading strategy to counter yuan’s volatility

The world’s largest EV maker is aiming to protect its growing global operations from yuan volatility amid rising trade tensions.

27 Jan 2025 - 7:42PM

E-commerce

PDD’s billionaire investor Duan Yongping showers praise on Temu

In a speech at his alma mater Zhejiang University, Duan professes his admiration for PDD founder and fellow alumnus Colin Huang Zheng.

6 Jan 2025 - 9:00PM

Duan Yongping, a Chinese-American billionaire investor and entrepreneur. Photo: Handout

Millionaires and billionaires

Inside Warren Buffett’s ‘unconventional’ marriage to first wife Susan

She had the second largest stake in Berkshire Hathaway and played a major role in her husband’s philanthropy; the pair remained deeply connected, despite living largely separate lives, until her death.

10 Dec 2024 - 4:00AM

Who was Warren Buffett’s first wife Susan Thompson Buffett, and why was their marriage described as “unconventional’”? Photo: Reuters

Electric & new energy vehicles

BYD set to usurp VW as China’s top carmaker amid surge in EV deliveries

BYD’s total deliveries have exceeded perennial leader Volkswagen’s volume this year through October.

18 Nov 2024 - 8:56PMvideocam

Ukraine war

Ukraine mine-clearing efforts struggle to revive war-torn farms

Farmers are doing their best to scale mine-clearing efforts in the most mined country in the world, but it could be decades of work.

17 Nov 2024 - 6:30PM

Millionaires and billionaires

Recap | Who are the richest people in the world and how did they earn their wealth?

Who has amassed the world’s largest fortunes? Take a deep dive and find out how much they are worth, from the wealthiest tech moguls to fabulously rich supermodels, from millionaire rock stars to the youngest billionaires.

2 Nov 2024 - 3:38PM

Elon Musk is CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla and spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX. He also owns X, formerly known as Twitter. Bloomberg estimates he was worth US$248 billion as of September 12, 2024. Photo: Reuters

US presidential election 2024

Here’s how US billionaires and their employees are approaching the election

From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, some company executives are mega donors while others are staying neutral.

28 Oct 2024 - 3:37PM

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk takes the stage at a rally for Republican candidate Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday. Photo: AFP

Millionaires and billionaires

Who’s in the US$100 billion club? Net worths, ranked – from Musk to Zuckerberg

From the pioneering tech founders behind Google and Microsoft to the industry titans behind Walmart and Reliance, these founders and CEOs are worth over US$100b – here’s how they made their fortunes.

15 Oct 2024 - 7:00PM

United States

As Berkshire Hathaway tops US$1 trillion, Buffett’s legacy reaches new heights

Warren Buffett’s conglomerate joins tech giants like Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft with a market value of US$1 trillion.

28 Aug 2024 - 11:12PM

United States

Apple, Nvidia lead sell-off as stock markets plunge on US recession fears

Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said officials need to be aware of changes in environment to avoid overly restrictive interest rates.

6 Aug 2024 - 5:01AM

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange ahead of the closing bell in New York on Monday. Photo: AFP

Electric & new energy vehicles

Tesla regains EV crown from BYD by outselling rivals in shrinking China market

Tesla is the world’s largest maker of pure electric cars again after outselling its closest rival, BYD, during the first quarter of this year, according to data published by the companies.

3 Apr 2024 - 3:54PMvideocam

Electric & new energy vehicles

BYD expects sales growth slowdown, banks on export surge for profits

BYD, the world’s largest electric-vehicle maker, is targeting a 20 per cent increase in sales this year, just a third of last year’s tally, as overcapacity concerns and a price war loom over the sector in mainland China.

28 Mar 2024 - 9:00PM

Electric & new energy vehicles

China’s BYD to spend US$55 million on buy-back of Shenzhen-listed shares

The Shenzhen-based company expects to complete its share repurchase scheme within 12 months of the plan’s approval by shareholders.

6 Mar 2024 - 9:24PM

BYD rolls out the new Dolphin Mini electric vehicle during its launch in Mexico City, Mexico, on February 28, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Electric & new energy vehicles

Chinese EV builders Li Auto, Xpeng and Nio get 2024 off to a slow start

Mainland Chinese EV builders’ 2024 has got off to a bumpy start, after car deliveries dropped sharply amid mounting concerns about a slowing economy and job losses.

2 Feb 2024 - 6:00AMvideocam

A Li Auto factory in Changzhou, in China’s Jiangsu province. Photo: Xinhua

Electric & new energy vehicles

China’s BYD to post huge jump in 2023 profit amid record EV deliveries

The world’s largest electric car maker expects earnings for 2023 to jump by as much as 86.5 per cent, buoyed by record deliveries. Its profitability, however, remains far behind rival Tesla because of the American giant’s bigger profit margins.

30 Jan 2024 - 1:05PMvideocam

BYD

Editorial | China’s BYD electric vehicles leave Tesla standing

Shenzhen carmaker is having the last laugh on Elon Musk as its global deliveries overtake those of US rival.

13 Jan 2024 - 1:15AM

Stocks

The View | Charlie Munger’s wisdom on crypto ‘poison’ shows investment experience counts

Charlie Munger, along with investment partner Warren Buffett, built a strategy around good assets that had been underpriced. With a little of Munger’s discernment, investors and regulators might have avoided much pain over the likes of FTX and Binance.

1 Dec 2023 - 4:55PMvideocam

Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, left, and vice-chairman Charlie Munger chat with reporters on May 3, 2019. Munger, who helped Buffett build an investment powerhouse, has died at 99. Photo: AP

Stocks

Explainer | From BYD to Alibaba: Charlie Munger and his hot Chinese stock picks

Charlie Munger, a former lawyer, was Warren Buffett’s deputy at Berkshire Hathaway. He was a value investor who believed in long-term investments and companies’ intrinsic value.

29 Nov 2023 - 4:38PM

Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman Charlie Munger pictured at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Omaha, Nebraska in May 2019. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS

Obituaries

Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway, dies at 99

Munger was known for steering Buffett away buying ‘cigar butts’ – mediocre firms at very cheap prices – and instead favouring quality over quantity.

29 Nov 2023 - 7:43AM

Millionaires and billionaires

The world’s billionaires’ annual social calendar, revealed

From rubbing shoulders with Prince William at Ascot, to picking out million-dollar artworks at Frieze, the world’s wealthiest flock to a handful of events year round – so what are they?

27 Nov 2023 - 4:00AM

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