Billionaire Bill Gates Has 65% of His Foundation's $45 Billion Portfolio Invested in 3 Outstanding Stocks
Gates' influence on his foundation's portfolio extends well beyond Microsoft stock.
Gates' influence on his foundation's portfolio extends well beyond Microsoft stock.
The stock market has gone through a correction and rebounded. The S&P 500 index remains at elevated levels, and it avoided falling into a bear market. The Vanguard 500 Index ETF is still one of the best places to invest today.
Kraft Heinz produces more than enough cash to cover its high-yielding payout. stocks we like better than Chevron › Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B), has famously eschewed paying dividends. Buffett and his team would rather retain Berkshire's earnings and reinvest that cash than pay it out to shareholders in dividends.
Stanley Druckenmiller's Duquesne Capital Management fund delivered 30% annual returns for decades before he converted it to a smaller family office. During the first quarter, the Duquesne Family Office added heavily to positions in Taiwan Semiconductor and Flutter Entertainment. Druckenmiller began a new position in Docusign during the first three months of 2025.
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Ares Capital Corporation offers a notable dividend yield of 8.7%, significantly higher than the S&P 500 index. Ares Capital is the largest BDC in the U.S., and is well-positioned to capitalize on the market for private capital lending. If you're looking for an easy way to boost your passive income, consider investing in dividend stocks.
Integrated energy giants Chevron and TotalEnergies and North American midstream giant Enterprise Products Partners are all attractive right now. The dividend yield is a miserly 1.3% or so. You can do better than that with an index fund focused on the out-of-favor energy sector, but even there, the average yield is "only" around 3.5%.
This fund has nearly tripled the S&P 500 since its launch, and it could help supercharge your portfolio over time. Despite the waves of turbulence in recent weeks, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has experienced a record-breaking few years. While nobody can say for certain where the market is headed in the coming months, there's one growth ETF with the potential to crush the S&P 500 over the next decade.
Europe ETFs have been outperforming the S&P 500 due to cheaper valuations, upbeat economic growth, a more sustainable earnings pattern, less tech exposure, and cooling inflation.
Oil prices fall on unexpected inventory builds in the US and geopolitical uncertainties surrounding Iran and Ukraine.