This year's Berkshire Hathaway annual general meeting was very different from the corporation's previous AGMs. It was the first year where investors really got a taste of how the company would be managed after Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have departed.
Not only did the Oracle of Omaha discuss the succession plan at the meeting (something he refused to do until fairly recently), but Buffett and Munger were also joined on stage by Greg Abel and Ajit Jain.
Jain is the head of Berkshire's insurance business and will remain so after Buffett. Abel will take over as CEO, and it seems as if his training has increased in tempo over the past year.
He recently joined Buffett on a trip to Japan to...
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