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$BTC Berkshire Hathawayâs new CEO Greg Abel wonât be in charge of company stock portfolio Greg Abel will take over as CEO of Berkshire at the end of 2025, but he wonât 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 heâs staying on as chairman, the day-to-day leadership is changing. Greg, whoâs currently in charge of the companyâs non-insurance operations, will be leading everything elseâincluding acquisitions and overall capital allocationâbut not stock picking. That responsibility wonât land on his desk, and that decision is already raising questions across Berkshireâs massive shareholder base. David Kass, a Berkshire shareholder and professor at the University of Maryland, said, âAs CEO, Gregâs 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.â Kass had previously hosted private student lunches with Warren, so heâs not just talking out of his ass. Weschler and Combs take control of the stock portfolio Instead of Greg, that part of Berkshireâs machine will likely stay with Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. Theyâve both been quietly managing about $15 billion each of the portfolio for years. The exact returns havenât been disclosed recently, but Warren tied their pay to performance, specifically 10% of the excess over the S&P 500âs three-year rolling average. They havenât exactly crushed the market in recent years, but theyâve been doing enough to stay in the game ⌠and theyâve got history. Combs is also CEO of Geico, the biggest piece of Berkshireâs insurance division. Heâs not just some spreadsheet nerd. Heâs got his hands deep in the firmâs 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