File photo of Howard 'Howie' Buffett with his father and Warren Buffett. The billionaire investor and founder-CEO of Berkshire Hathaway has named Greg Abel as his successor. (Vincent Tullo / Wall ...

Buffett said he had given a heads up to his children Howard and Susie, who are directors. It had been unclear before Monday whether Warren Buffett would remain chairman or hand that title to ...

But Buffett added that he “would still hang around and conceivably be useful in a few cases”. He will remain chair of Berkshire — turning that role over to his son Howard Buffett upon his death — and ...

Abel and most of the board had not known of Buffett's announcement in advance. Buffett said he had given a heads up to his children Howard and Susie, who are directors. "His sticking around provides ...

Howard Buffett, 70, is expected to eventually succeed his father as Berkshire’s non-executive chairman, to help preserve the company’s culture. — Reuters ...

Mr. Buffett’s fortune would have been much bigger had he not since 2006 given away more than half his Berkshire shares to charity. Nearly all of the rest is expected to go into a new charitable trust ...

Howie Buffett, who heads the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, echoed this sentiment by stressing their father’s vision for future charity efforts. Buffett’s transition from individual foundations ...

Howard Buffett, 70, is expected to succeed his father as Berkshire's non-executive chairman, to help preserve the company's culture. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in Omaha, Nebraska; additional ...

Buffett announced the news at the end without taking any questions about it. He said the only board members who knew this was coming were his two children, Howard and Susie Buffett. There was no ...

Aug. 30, 1930 In August 1930, Mr. Buffett was born in Omaha to Leila and Howard Buffett, an investment banker and future Republican congressman. At 9 years old, he started studying the stock market.

Howard Buffett, 70, is expected to eventually succeed his father as Berkshire’s non-executive chairman, to help preserve the company’s culture.

He eventually made it his primary business activity. Buffett borrowed much of his philosophy from his father, Howard Buffett, a stockbroker and conservative Republican who spent eight years in ...