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巴菲特在感恩节捐款8.7亿美元

巴菲特在感恩节捐款8.7亿美元

CHRIS MORRIS 2023-11-27
巴菲特称,他会坚持在感恩节捐款,直到去世。

对于许多人而言,感恩节是和家人朋友在一起大吃大喝的节日。但对于沃伦·巴菲特来说,感恩节是向他最喜欢的慈善机构捐款的日子。

作为伯克希尔-哈撒韦(Berkshire Hathaway)的老板,巴菲特向四个家族基金会捐款约8.7亿美元。他从2006年就坚持进行这种慈善捐款。(去年他向四个基金会捐款7.5亿美元。)

约150万股伯克希尔哈撒韦的股票,将被捐赠给以巴菲特妻子的名字命名的苏珊·汤普森·巴菲特基金会(Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation)。剩余的约900,000股将由他的子女经营的三家慈善组织舍伍德基金会(Sherwood Foundation)、霍华德·G·巴菲特基金会(Howard G. Buffett Foundation)和诺沃基金会(NoVo Foundation)平分。

巴菲特写道:“在感恩节,我有很多值得感恩的事情……我的三个孩子现在已经65岁到70岁的年纪,这让做父亲的我很难相信。多年来,他们的基金会发放了大量善款,偶尔会向相同的受捐助人捐款。但通常情况下,这三家基金会资助的方向不同。”

巴菲特补充道,感恩节捐款是他对过去17年所作承诺的补充,而且他会坚持这样做,直到自己去世。(巴菲特说他感觉很好,但“我完全知道自己正在打加时赛。”)

根据彭博亿万富翁指数(Bloomberg Billionaires Index),巴菲特是全球第九大富豪,个人净资产总额为1,210亿美元。

在感恩节捐款之前,巴菲特已经在6月捐款约50亿美元。自2006年以来,他捐出了500多亿美元,这个数字已经超过了他在17年前开始捐款时的净资产。

巴菲特一直明确表示希望捐出自己的亿万身家。2006年,他对《财富》杂志表示,他没有将全部遗产留给子女的打算。他说道:“有钱人应该留给子女做事的本钱,而不是无所事事的本钱。”

他的子女现在都已经可以领取社会保障金。在巴菲特去世后,他们会一起捐出父亲的财富。巴菲特表示,他们这样做的时候需要达成一致。至于伯克希尔,巴菲特说道:“我们有合适的CEO继任者,有优秀的董事会。这两者缺一不可。”(财富中文网)

译者:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

对于许多人而言,感恩节是和家人朋友在一起大吃大喝的节日。但对于沃伦·巴菲特来说,感恩节是向他最喜欢的慈善机构捐款的日子。

作为伯克希尔-哈撒韦(Berkshire Hathaway)的老板,巴菲特向四个家族基金会捐款约8.7亿美元。他从2006年就坚持进行这种慈善捐款。(去年他向四个基金会捐款7.5亿美元。)

约150万股伯克希尔哈撒韦的股票,将被捐赠给以巴菲特妻子的名字命名的苏珊·汤普森·巴菲特基金会(Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation)。剩余的约900,000股将由他的子女经营的三家慈善组织舍伍德基金会(Sherwood Foundation)、霍华德·G·巴菲特基金会(Howard G. Buffett Foundation)和诺沃基金会(NoVo Foundation)平分。

巴菲特写道:“在感恩节,我有很多值得感恩的事情……我的三个孩子现在已经65岁到70岁的年纪,这让做父亲的我很难相信。多年来,他们的基金会发放了大量善款,偶尔会向相同的受捐助人捐款。但通常情况下,这三家基金会资助的方向不同。”

巴菲特补充道,感恩节捐款是他对过去17年所作承诺的补充,而且他会坚持这样做,直到自己去世。(巴菲特说他感觉很好,但“我完全知道自己正在打加时赛。”)

根据彭博亿万富翁指数(Bloomberg Billionaires Index),巴菲特是全球第九大富豪,个人净资产总额为1,210亿美元。

在感恩节捐款之前,巴菲特已经在6月捐款约50亿美元。自2006年以来,他捐出了500多亿美元,这个数字已经超过了他在17年前开始捐款时的净资产。

巴菲特一直明确表示希望捐出自己的亿万身家。2006年,他对《财富》杂志表示,他没有将全部遗产留给子女的打算。他说道:“有钱人应该留给子女做事的本钱,而不是无所事事的本钱。”

他的子女现在都已经可以领取社会保障金。在巴菲特去世后,他们会一起捐出父亲的财富。巴菲特表示,他们这样做的时候需要达成一致。至于伯克希尔,巴菲特说道:“我们有合适的CEO继任者,有优秀的董事会。这两者缺一不可。”(财富中文网)

译者:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

Thanksgiving, to many people, is about friends, family and stuffing yourself with an obscene amount of food. For Warren Buffett, it’s a time to line the coffers of his favorite charities.

The head of Berkshire Hathaway has donated roughly $870 million to four family-run foundations, a continuation of the philanthropy he has undertaking since 2006. (Last year, his donations to the four foundations were valued at $750 million.)

Some 1.5 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway are going to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named after his wife. The remaining shares, some 900,000, will be split among the Sherwood Foundation, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and NoVo Foundation, three charities run by his children.

“At Thanksgiving I have much to be thankful for… My three children are now—and this is hard for their father to believe—between 65 and 70 years of age,” wrote Buffett. “For some years, their foundations have distributed substantial sums, occasionally to the same donee. Usually, however, the three follow different paths.”

The Thanksgiving donations, Buffett added, supplement the pledges he has made for the past 17 years, which will continue until his death. (Buffett said he feels good, but “I fully realize I am playing in extra innings.”)

Buffett is the world’s ninth-richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a total net worth of $121 billion.

The Thanksgiving donations follow donations of nearly $5 billion in June. Since 2006, he has donated over $50 billion—a figure that exceeds his net worth when he began giving away his holdings 17 years ago.

Buffett has long been clear that he wants to give away his billions of dollars. In 2006, he told Fortune he had no plans to leave his entire estate to his children, saying, “A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing.”

Those now Social Security–eligible children will work together to give away their father’s wealth after his passing. And they’ll need to act unanimously in doing so, he said. As for Berkshire, he said, “We have the right CEO to succeed me and the right Board of Directors as well. Both are needed.”

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