Since the start of the year, the world’s largest fortunes have recorded colossal losses. However, in the midst of this financial storm, a man is doing well: Warren Buffett. The boss of Berkshire Hathaway has been able to bet on a strategy against the tide. © Daniel Zuchnik/Wireimage – The fortune of Warren Buffett amounted to $ 165 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Save save Receive Warren Buffett Elon Musk alerts, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg… All the biggest world fortunes have recorded colossal losses since the start of the year and the presidency of Donald Trump. All except one: the fortune of Warren Buffett, on the contrary, climbed 23.4 billion dollars, as BFMTV points out. The boss of Berkshire Hathaway is an exception since he is today the only billionaire in the world top 10 to have increased his fortune in the first three months of 2025. His fortune is now 45 billion dollars, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire index.Clui which is nicknamed “the Oracle of Omaha” is, at 94, at the head of a real financial empire and industrialist who hoists him in 4th place in the classification of the world’s largest fortunes. But how to explain such a success? If Warren Buffett took advantage of a particularly advantageous tax context following the reform of Trump adopted at the end of 2017, which led to a net increase of $ 29 billion in the valuation of the active ingredients of Berkshire Hathaway, he also managed to take advantage of maturely thoughtful strategic choice, explain our colleagues. Read also: buy Warren Buffett actions “is not a poker player” from the end of 2024, the billionaire indeed anticipated the change of direction and reduced his exhibition to certain giants like Apple and Bank of America. Thus, Berkshire Hathaway sold 715 million Apple brand shares between January and summer 2024, and more than $ 6 billion in Bank of America’s share last October. Decisions that have therefore been paid paid given the climate of prevailing political and economic uncertainty. The winning recipe for Warren Buffett: a long -term investment logic, with the objective of a stable, committed and not very sensitive shareholding to speculative movements. The Oracle of Omaha “is not a poker player”, explains to BFMTV Jean-François Faure, CEO of Aucoffre. Far from the logics of traders, it favors sustainable profitability, avoiding short-termist behavior. Receive our latest news each morning, the information to be remembered on the financial markets. (tagstotranslate) warren buffett
