The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has a whopping $39 billion invested in the stock market, and a vast majority of those funds are in just a few stocks. Some of that is because of donations, but the fund is also buying some interesting industrial stocks.
In this video, Travis Hoium covers the foundation’s holdings and how the portfolio came to be what it is.
*Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Dec. 19, 2023. The video was published on Dec. 19, 2023.
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