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$BTC Berkshire Hathawayās new CEO Greg Abel wonāt be in charge of company stock portfolio Greg Abel will take over as CEO of Berkshire at the end of 2025, but he wonāt be the one making decisions about its $275 billion stock portfolio. Warren Buffett is stepping down after running the company for 60 years, and while heās staying on as chairman, the day-to-day leadership is changing. Greg, whoās currently in charge of the companyās non-insurance operations, will be leading everything elseāincluding acquisitions and overall capital allocationābut not stock picking. That responsibility wonāt land on his desk, and that decision is already raising questions across Berkshireās massive shareholder base. David Kass, a Berkshire shareholder and professor at the University of Maryland, said, āAs CEO, Gregās primary role will be to allocate capital. He will be deciding on the acquisition of entire companies, but I do not believe he will be picking stocks.ā Kass had previously hosted private student lunches with Warren, so heās not just talking out of his ass. Weschler and Combs take control of the stock portfolio Instead of Greg, that part of Berkshireās machine will likely stay with Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. Theyāve both been quietly managing about $15 billion each of the portfolio for years. The exact returns havenāt been disclosed recently, but Warren tied their pay to performance, specifically 10% of the excess over the S&P 500ās three-year rolling average. They havenāt exactly crushed the market in recent years, but theyāve been doing enough to stay in the game ⦠and theyāve got history. Combs is also CEO of Geico, the biggest piece of Berkshireās insurance division. Heās not just some spreadsheet nerd. Heās got his hands deep in the firmās core businesses. Weschler, meanwhile, joined Berkshire in 2012 after dropping millions to win two charity lunches with Warren. That got him a role managing money inside the empire. $BTC