Cascade Investment

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Cascade Investment, LLC
legal form Limited Liability Company ()
founding 1995
Seat Kirkland , Washington
management Bill Gates ( CEO ), Michael Larson ( CFO )
Branch Investment

Cascade Investment, LLC is an investment company and holding company founded by Bill Gates .

More than half of the assets of Bill Gates himself (as of 2012) is in assets outside Microsoft - shares .

Well-known investments

Companies ticker sector Proportion of %
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts - Hotel industry 47%
Ecolab New York Stock Exchange Cleaning and hygiene 25%
Canadian National Railway Toronto Stock Exchange Transport & logistics 10%
FEMSA Bolsa Mexicana de Valores Beverages ( food industry ) (?)
Berkshire Hathaway New York Stock Exchange Holding & investment company 4%
Strategic Hotels & Resorts - Hotel industry 9.8%
Republic Services New York Stock Exchange Waste management 30.9%
John Deere New York Stock Exchange Agricultural machinery (?)
Bunzl London Stock Exchange Distribution and Outsourcing 6%
Carpetright London Stock Exchange retail trade 3%
Diageo London Stock Exchange Beverages (food industry) (?)
AutoNation New York Stock Exchange Car dealership 14%
Microsoft NASDAQ Software and hardware 3.6%
Beyond Meat NASDAQ food industry (?)
Ritz-Carlton - Hotel industry (?)
TerraPower - Nuclear energy (research) (?)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Craig Torres: Convicted Felons Handle Gates Fortune , nwsource.com. Retrieved September 14, 2014. 
  2. a b c d e Anupreeta Das: This Man's Job: Make Bill Gates Richer (en-US) . In: Wall Street Journal , September 19, 2014. 
  3. ^ Matthew Miller, Gates No Longer World's Richest Man , Forbes.com. Retrieved November 1, 2012. 
  4. a b c d e f g h Cascade Investment, Bill Gates' wealth manager ( en-GB ) October 21, 2015.
  5. ^ Four Seasons Hotels agrees to bid from Gates and Alwaleed - Business - International Herald Tribune (en-US) . In: The New York Times , February 12, 2007. 
  6. Ed Stych: Bill Gates' stake in Ecolab could get bigger . May 7, 2012.
  7. Bill Gates now biggest CN shareholder | CBC News (en-US) . In: CBC . 
  8. ALBY GALLUN: Could Bill Gates be the next owner of Strategic Hotels? . In: Crain Communications , August 10, 2015. 
  9. DEF 14A .
  10. Bill Gates is $ 9.5 billion richer than he was a year ago, worth over $ 100 billion, but not just from Microsoft . 
  11. Cascade Investment - Latest 13F Holdings ( en-US )
  12. ^ The Bill Gates-backed company that's reinventing meat (en) . In: Fortune . 
  13. ^ Julie Bort: The Man Making Bill Gates Richer (en-US) . In: Slate , September 20, 2014.