A look at the $17 billion stock portfolio of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

A look at the $17 billion stock portfolio of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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As the world watched the coronavirus (COVID-19) threat spread across the world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was making big Wall Street bets — pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into US tech giants like Apple, Twitter, and Amazon. Gates‘ fund also built fresh positions in Google’s Alphabet and China’s ecommerce darling Alibaba, worth $107 million and $100 million respectively. [Read: US tech execs have dumped $3.6 billion in company stock this month] Hard Fork built the graphic below to visualise the stock market calls made by the Gates Foundation in the first three months of 2020. It shows you the weighting of…

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