Investing ideas from Bill Gates
Posted by adesigar on November 4, 2006
Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft has often been described as “The best businessman in the World”. What made Microsoft such a successful company? It doesnt make the best products, it is not a true innovator either. The success of Microsoft is the business acumen of Bill Gates. So what is Bill Gates investing in? Most of his investments are managed through a Private Investment firm called Cascade Investments. There is no way to find out which private companies Cascade invests in but its relatively easy to find their investments in Public Companies because they need to buy so many shares that they usually appear in the top 10 shareholders of the company.
Here is a partial list of companies held by Bill Gates’ Cascade Investments
AGL Resources(ATG)
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
Canadian National Railway (CNI)
Costco (COST)
Fisher Communications Inc (FSCI)
Four Seasons Hotel (FS)
Grupo Televisa (TV)
Otter Tail Corp (OTTR)
Pacific Ethanol (PEIX)
PNM Resources (PNM)
Republic Services (RSG)
Scholastic Corp(SCHL)
Seattle Genetics (SGEN)
Six Flags (SIX)
passerby said
If your grand-dad (for Bill, it was Mr. Maxwell from his mother’s side, founded National Bank of Washington in 1907) prepared you millions of trust funds the day you were born into this world, and your mom happened to sit on the board of United Way together with the former CEO of IBM, etc………you probably would become a Bill Gates too, at least at a very higher possibility
adesigar said
People have been born richer and more well connected than Bill Gates. He may have had advantages but he deserves a lot of credit in taking up opportunities and having amazing business sense that made him the richest man in the world, a spot he has held for nearly a decade. The person has tremendous business acumen.
Irrespective of his advantages at birth the article here tries to get Investment ideas from Bill Gates (and his research/analyst team at Cascade Investments). It’s just a starting list that people can research into to find possible stocks to invest.
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