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“股神”沃伦·巴菲特

　　北京时间7月3日消息,据国外媒体报道,根据提交给美国证券交易委员会的文件显示,亿万富翁、“股神”沃伦·巴菲特(Warren Buffett),周三向比尔与梅林达·盖茨基金会(Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation)和其它4个家人创办的慈善机构捐赠了价值15亿美元的股票。

　　根据提交的文件显示,巴菲特本次分别向比尔与梅林达·盖茨基金会和4个家人创办的 慈善机构分别捐赠了428,688股和87,884股伯克希尔哈撒韦公司(Berkshire Hathaway)的B类股票。在此次捐赠完成之后,巴菲特本人仍持有伯克希尔哈撒韦公司35万股A类股票和1,501,532股B类股票。按照周三的收 盘价计算,这些股票的总市值达到361亿美元。1股B类股票相当于三十分之一股A类股票。巴菲特表示,他仍然持有伯克希尔哈撒韦公司25.8%的股权,并 拥有该公司31.6%的投票权。

　　今年3月,《福布斯》杂志将巴菲特列为全球第二大富豪,仅次于微软董事会主席盖茨,盖茨同时也是伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司的董事。巴菲特在2006 年夏天曾表示,将自己约80%的财产捐给慈善事业。按照巴菲特的意愿,资产将主要馈赠给5家慈善基金会。他计划将所持有的伯克希尔哈撒韦公司的1205万 B股捐赠给各大基金会,其中“比尔与梅琳达·盖茨基金会”将获得1000万股,以巴菲特妻子名义创立的“苏珊·汤普森·巴菲特基金会”将得到100万股, 另外的股份将分摊给其子女名下的3个基金会。

Warren Buffett donates $1.5 billion Berkshire shares

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has donated about $1.5 billion of Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) (BRKb.N) stock, in connection with his 2006 pledge of his holdings to charitable causes.

According to a regulatory filing, Buffett on Wednesday donated 428,688 Berkshire Class B shares to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and 87,884 shares to four family charities.

Following the donations, Buffett still held 350,000 Class A and 1,501,532 Class B shares of Berkshire, together worth about $36.1 billion based on Wednesday closing prices.

Buffett said he still has a 25.8 percent stake in Berkshire, and 31.6 percent of the company's voting power. A Class B share is worth about 1/30th of a Class A share.

Buffett, 78, has built Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire into a conglomerate with close to 80 businesses that sell such things as insurance, clothing, ice cream and paint, and which owns tens of billions of dollars of common stock.

Forbes magazine in March called Buffett the world's second-richest person, trailing only Bill Gates, who is also a Berkshire director. Gates co-founded Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O).

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel; Editing by Richard Chang)