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For a Moment We Allowed Ourselves to Dream

By Jessica Pressler

But, alas, the hedge fund manager Warren Buffett has picked to inherit Berkshire Hathaway’s $100 billion portfolio is Todd Combs, the 39-year-old head of Greenwich’s Castle Point Capital Management and a relative unknown.

Buffett Flags a Successor [WSJ]

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