1. Berkshire needs fresh ideas for its growing cash pile The stock has been one of the best-performing investments of all time, posting double-digit percentage annual returns for decades at a time.

First, this cash pile means that if difficult economic times are around the corner, Berkshire will easily be able to weather the storm.

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) is the largest financial company by market cap at more than $1 trillion, according to research from The Motley Fool. Its stock has been massively ...

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Berkshire is also Buffett’s investment vehicle. Warren Buffett has been a net seller for 10 consecutive quarters, growing Berkshire Hathaway’s cash pile to a record $347 billion.

Specifically, could Berkshire Hathaway double your investment by 2030, even without the legendary billionaire investor at the helm?

The once-reliable “Buffett premium” — the idea that investors would pay extra for Berkshire’s stock because of Warren Buffett’s genius — appears to be fading into history.

Complicating this is the not-so-subtle fact that Berkshire Hathaway is a gargantuan company with a $1 trillion market cap and a sprawling collection of businesses under its corporate umbrella.

Warren Buffett donates $6 billion in Berkshire stock to five foundations, bringing his lifetime giving to over $60 billion as part of his pledge to donate most of his fortune to charity.