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Bloomberg recalculated Bill Gates' net worth as $52 billion lower to reflect charitable giving, sending him seven places down ...

Bill Gates's net worth is down $35 billion this year. He has given a great deal of money away. He has sold Microsoft stock.

Bill Gates net worth has been cut by $52 billion after Bloomberg recalculated his fortune to reflect his huge charitable ...

The Gates Foundation portfolio is a mix of Gates' tech background and influence from one of the greatest investors of all ...

The Gates Foundation Trust, founded by the billionaire Bill Gates, has a portfolio valued at $41.806 billion, which is ...

Gates purchased 1 million shares of PCAR stock at around $100 a share. The $100 million position is still small within the Foundation’s $45 billion portfolio, but it indicates Gates sees a ...

Billionaire Bill Gates naturally has most of his money tied up in Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), the company he and childhood friend Paul Allen founded in 1974. Gates owns about 1.4% of MSFT stock, or ...

The third-biggest holding in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust's portfolio is trash hauler Waste Management . It owns ...

Now, it's a well-known fact that if Bill Gates didn't diversify his portfolio, and chose instead to keep his wealth entirely in Microsoft stock, he'd have been much better off over the years.

Gates purchased 1 million shares of PCAR stock at around $100 a share. The $100 million position is still small within the Foundation's $45 billion portfolio, but it indicates Gates sees a ...