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Buffett’s Astonishing Track Record in Five Charts
Over six decades of investing, he left peers and the S&P 500 in the dust.
Catch me if you can.
Photographer: Dan Brouillette/Bloomberg
Warren Buffett, the greatest investor of all time, will step down as chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. at the end of the year. The six-decade track record he leaves behind is so astonishing that mere numbers on a page don’t do it justice.
To fully appreciate his singular achievement, it helps to see how his investing results ballooned into massive fortunes for Berkshire’s investors over time — and how much less money they would have made had they invested instead in some of the best-performing and longest-running mutual funds, or merely tracked the broad stock market.