Overview
- Greg Abel has moved quickly since taking the investment reins by increasing Berkshire’s Alphabet holdings substantially and completing an $8.5 billion purchase of homebuilder Taylor Morrison.
- The CEO has also exited and trimmed many long-held positions, selling names such as Mastercard, Visa and UnitedHealth while retaining the flagship Coca‑Cola stake.
- Those purchases and the Taylor Morrison deal have drawn down Berkshire’s cash and short‑term Treasuries from an unusually large wartime‑level buffer toward a smaller reserve.
- Investors and analysts have raised concerns about greater concentration risk and whether these larger, faster deployments will match Berkshire’s long-term capital‑allocation discipline.
- Watchers will focus on upcoming SEC filings and quarterly results to judge how the bigger Alphabet exposure and the homebuilding integration affect Berkshire’s cash flow, earnings and risk profile.