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Bloomberg recalculated Bill Gates' net worth as $52 billion lower to reflect charitable giving, sending him seven places down ...

Bill Gates's net worth is down $35 billion this year. He has given a great deal of money away. He has sold Microsoft stock.

Bill Gates net worth has been cut by $52 billion after Bloomberg recalculated his fortune to reflect his huge charitable ...

The Gates Foundation portfolio is a mix of Gates' tech background and influence from one of the greatest investors of all ...

The Gates Foundation Trust, founded by the billionaire Bill Gates, has a portfolio valued at $41.806 billion, which is ...

Gates purchased 1 million shares of PCAR stock at around $100 a share. The $100 million position is still small within the Foundation’s $45 billion portfolio, but it indicates Gates sees a ...

Billionaire Bill Gates naturally has most of his money tied up in Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), the company he and childhood friend Paul Allen founded in 1974. Gates owns about 1.4% of MSFT stock, or ...

The third-biggest holding in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust's portfolio is trash hauler Waste Management . It owns ...

Bill Gates Portfolio: 7 Best Stocks. More. Getty Images for Clinton Global . Gates has long made it clear that he'll have a big say in what goes in and out of the Gates Foundation Trust's portfolio.

Now, it's a well-known fact that if Bill Gates didn't diversify his portfolio, and chose instead to keep his wealth entirely in Microsoft stock, he'd have been much better off over the years.