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Warren Buffett Faces Impatient Investors as Berkshire Hathaway Returns Decline<blockquote>伯克希尔哈撒韦公司回报下滑，沃伦·巴菲特面临不耐烦的投资者</blockquote>

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Professional money managers are turning up the heat on Warren Buffett’sBerkshire Hathaway Inc.BRK.B-0.95%. California Public Employees’ Retirement System and Neuberger Berman have demanded that the Omaha, Neb., conglomerate bring in new directors and provide more disclosures on climate risks and executive. While many of the complaints aren’t new and none of the shareholder proposals are","content":"Institutional shareholders are pressing for change on climate and governance at the Omaha, Neb., conglomerate<blockquote>机构股东正在敦促这家位于内布拉斯加州奥马哈的企业集团在气候和治理方面进行变革</blockquote>Professional money managers are turning up the heat on Warren Buffett’sBerkshire Hathaway&nbsp;Inc.BRK.B -0.95%<blockquote>专业基金经理正在加大对沃伦·巴菲特的压力伯克希尔哈撒韦公司BRK.B-0.95%</blockquote>California Public Employees’ Retirement System and Neuberger Berman have demanded that the Omaha, Neb., conglomerate bring in new directors and provide more disclosures on climate risks and executive<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1dd969e4b237144cd02112f41464d169\" tg-width=\"824\" tg-height=\"1396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote>加州公共雇员退休系统和路博迈要求这家位于内布拉斯加州奥马哈的企业集团引入新董事，并提供更多有关气候风险和高管的信息</blockquote>Leading up to Berkshire’s annual meeting on Saturday, proxy advisers Glass Lewis &amp; Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. have recommended that investors withhold their votes for board members.<blockquote>在周六伯克希尔年会之前，代理顾问Glass Lewis&amp;Co.和Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.建议投资者保留对董事会成员的投票。</blockquote>While many of the complaints aren’t new and none of the shareholder proposals are likely to pass, Berkshire’s lackluster returns in recent years have made it more vulnerable to criticism amid a growing wave of investor interest in corporate sustainability issues.<blockquote>尽管许多投诉并不新鲜，股东提案也不太可能获得通过，但在投资者对企业可持续发展问题的兴趣日益浓厚的情况下，伯克希尔近年来低迷的回报使其更容易受到批评。</blockquote>The shareholder movement to press companies on climate change, social progress and governance continues to gain steam in the U.S., emerging asa key selling point for money managers in their efforts to keep client money.<blockquote>在美国，股东就气候变化、社会进步和治理问题向公司施压的运动继续升温，并成为基金经理努力留住客户资金的一个关键卖点.</blockquote>Under Mr. Buffett’s leadership,the firm boasts 20% compounded annualized gains from 1965 to 2020, outperforming the S&amp;P 500’s 10.2% gains including dividends during the period. Berkshire’s total returns over the past three- and five-year periods were 12% and 14%, respectively, compared with the index’s 19% and 18%.<blockquote>在巴菲特先生的领导下，该公司拥有1965年至2020年20%的复合年化收益，跑赢标普500期内含股息10.2%的涨幅。伯克希尔过去三年和五年的总回报率分别为12%和14%，而该指数的总回报率为19%和18%。</blockquote>“Berkshire has gotten a pass in part because of its historically strong financial performance,” said Simiso Nzima, head of corporate governance at Calpers.<blockquote>Calpers公司治理主管Simiso Nzima表示：“伯克希尔获得通过的部分原因是其历史上强劲的财务业绩。”</blockquote>Berkshire has continued to stress its continued focus on the long game. Mr. Buffett, who is chief executive and chairman of the company, built upa diverse portfolio of mostly U.S. businesses and investments meant to perform over decades, not to compete with a volatile market buoyed by booming tech stocks.<blockquote>伯克希尔哈撒韦公司继续强调其对长期发展的持续关注。巴菲特先生是该公司的首席执行官兼董事长，他建立了主要由美国企业和投资组成的多元化投资组合，预计将持续数十年，而不是与由蓬勃发展的科技股提振的波动市场竞争。</blockquote>Calpers, the nation’s largest public-pension fund with $444 billion in assets, co-sponsored a shareholder proposal imploring Berkshire to provide more disclosures on climate-related risks and opportunities.<blockquote>拥有4440亿美元资产的美国最大公共养老基金Calpers共同发起了一项股东提案，恳求伯克希尔提供更多有关气候相关风险和机遇的信息。</blockquote>The pension fund is also withholding its votes to re-elect members of the board’s audit and governance committees on grounds of failing to meet shareholder demands over climate-risk disclosures. It said it was concerned that the board lacks new members, doesn’t engage with shareholders and isn’t letting investors vote on executive pay plans.<blockquote>该养老基金还拒绝投票连任董事会审计和治理委员会成员，理由是未能满足股东对气候风险披露的要求。该公司表示，担心董事会缺乏新成员，不与股东接触，也不让投资者对高管薪酬计划进行投票。</blockquote>“If you don’t refresh the board, you don’t have a next generation of directors able to learn from the long-serving directors before they leave the board,” Mr. Nzima said.<blockquote>“如果不更新董事会，下一代董事就无法在长期任职的董事离开董事会之前向他们学习，”恩齐马先生说。</blockquote>Berkshire declined to comment ahead of the company’s Saturday meeting.<blockquote>伯克希尔拒绝在公司周六会议前发表评论。</blockquote>Neuberger, a privately held money manager with more than $429 billion in assets, also said it would vote for several shareholder-led proposals related to environmental, social and corporate-governance issues, often abbreviated as ESG.<blockquote>拥有超过4290亿美元资产的私人基金管理公司Neuberger也表示，将投票支持几项与环境、社会和公司治理问题（通常缩写为ESG）相关的股东主导的提案。</blockquote>“One would think that if companies have a responsibility to look out for the environment or deliver good on social issues and governance, that Berkshire might be a leader in these areas,” said Michelle Giordano, a Neuberger analyst who follows the company. “But it doesn’t seem like they are.”<blockquote>跟踪该公司的路博迈分析师米歇尔·佐丹奴(Michelle Giordano)表示：“人们可能会认为，如果公司有责任保护环境或在社会问题和治理方面提供良好服务，那么伯克希尔可能会成为这些领域的领导者。”“但好像不是。”</blockquote>Berkshire said in its annual proxy statement that while it agreed companies had a responsibility to manage&nbsp;climate risks, it preferred to let its various operating units commit to their own environmental policies. Mandates from a small corporate office, the company wrote, would infringe upon the autonomy that has helped those businesses thrive under Berkshire’s ownership. Berkshire Hathaway Energy, for instance, already producesa sustainability report.<blockquote>伯克希尔在其年度委托书中表示，虽然它同意公司有责任管理气候风险，但它更愿意让其各个运营部门致力于自己的环境政策。该公司写道，小型公司办公室的授权将侵犯帮助这些企业在伯克希尔旗下蓬勃发展的自主权。例如，伯克希尔哈撒韦能源公司已经生产可持续发展报告.</blockquote>Calpers has also pledged to support a proposal requiring the company to report its efforts to diversify its staff.<blockquote>Calpers还承诺支持一项提案，要求该公司报告其员工多元化的努力。</blockquote>Berkshire said the diversity-report proposal improperly suggests that “there is a standardized technique for each of Berkshire’s more than 60 operating businesses to address diversity, equity and inclusion.”<blockquote>伯克希尔表示，多元化报告提案不恰当地暗示“伯克希尔60多家运营业务中的每一家都有一种标准化技术来解决多元化、公平性和包容性问题。”</blockquote>“It would be unreasonable to ask for uniform, quantitative reporting for the purposes of comparing such dissimilar operations in different geographic locations,” Berkshire wrote.<blockquote>伯克希尔写道：“为了比较不同地理位置的此类不同业务而要求统一的定量报告是不合理的。”</blockquote>Glass Lewis and ISS recommended shareholders vote for the ESG proposals and withhold votes for certain directors.<blockquote>Glass Lewis和ISS建议股东投票支持ESG提案，并对某些董事弃权。</blockquote>“This year there’s a lot more attention given from mainstream investors on ESG issues,” said Courteney Keatinge, a senior director of ESG research at Glass Lewis.<blockquote>Glass Lewis ESG研究高级总监Courteney Keatinge表示：“今年主流投资者对ESG问题给予了更多关注。”</blockquote>Another factor is at play: Berkshire shares are slowly changing hands.<blockquote>另一个因素在起作用：伯克希尔的股票正在慢慢易手。</blockquote>Mr. Buffett’s longstanding plan to shrink his stake in the company over time has shifted more Berkshire shares to big institutional investors, said Lawrence Cunningham, a law professor at George Washington University who has written extensively about the company.<blockquote>乔治华盛顿大学法学教授劳伦斯·坎宁安(Lawrence Cunningham)撰写了大量有关该公司的文章，他表示，随着时间的推移，巴菲特减持该公司股份的长期计划已将更多伯克希尔股票转移到大型机构投资者手中。</blockquote>About 70% of Berkshire’s shares are owned by individuals, many of whom are longtime holders loyal to Mr. Buffett, Mr. Cunningham said. And many don’t care whether Berkshire lacks a corporate sustainability report or an investor-relations team at the ready to answer their questions.<blockquote>坎宁安表示，伯克希尔约70%的股票由个人持有，其中许多人是忠于巴菲特的长期持有者。许多人并不关心伯克希尔是否缺乏企业可持续发展报告或随时准备回答他们问题的投资者关系团队。</blockquote>“Berkshire’s unusual and valued family of individual shareholders may add to your understanding of our reluctance to court Wall Street analysts and institutional investors,” Mr. Buffett wrote in his most recent letter to shareholders. “We already have the investors we want and don’t think that they, on balance, would be upgraded by replacements.”<blockquote>巴菲特在最近致股东的信中写道：“伯克希尔不同寻常且有价值的个人股东家族可能会加深您对我们不愿讨好华尔街分析师和机构投资者的理解。”“我们已经拥有了我们想要的投资者，总的来说，我认为他们不会通过替代者来升级。”</blockquote>The gradual uptick in institutional ownership, though, might already be empowering professional managers to press Berkshire on governance matters.&nbsp;When Mr. Buffett and his estate sell off his remaining shares, it is likely those money managers will hold an even bigger stake in the company, Mr. Cunningham said.<blockquote>不过，机构持股比例的逐步上升可能已经让职业经理人有能力在治理问题上向伯克希尔施压。坎宁安说，当巴菲特和他的遗产出售剩余股份时，这些基金经理很可能会持有该公司更多的股份。</blockquote>“There will be a dawning of significant leadership and structural change, and these holders are preparing for that battle,” Mr. Cunningham said.<blockquote>坎宁安表示：“重大领导力和结构性变革将会出现，这些持有者正在为这场战斗做准备。”</blockquote>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. have recommended that investors withhold their votes for board members.<blockquote>在周六伯克希尔年会之前，代理顾问Glass Lewis&amp;Co.和Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.建议投资者保留对董事会成员的投票。</blockquote>While many of the complaints aren’t new and none of the shareholder proposals are likely to pass, Berkshire’s lackluster returns in recent years have made it more vulnerable to criticism amid a growing wave of investor interest in corporate sustainability issues.<blockquote>尽管许多投诉并不新鲜，股东提案也不太可能获得通过，但在投资者对企业可持续发展问题的兴趣日益浓厚的情况下，伯克希尔近年来低迷的回报使其更容易受到批评。</blockquote>The shareholder movement to press companies on climate change, social progress and governance continues to gain steam in the U.S., emerging asa key selling point for money managers in their efforts to keep client money.<blockquote>在美国，股东就气候变化、社会进步和治理问题向公司施压的运动继续升温，并成为基金经理努力留住客户资金的一个关键卖点.</blockquote>Under Mr. Buffett’s leadership,the firm boasts 20% compounded annualized gains from 1965 to 2020, outperforming the S&amp;P 500’s 10.2% gains including dividends during the period. Berkshire’s total returns over the past three- and five-year periods were 12% and 14%, respectively, compared with the index’s 19% and 18%.<blockquote>在巴菲特先生的领导下，该公司拥有1965年至2020年20%的复合年化收益，跑赢标普500期内含股息10.2%的涨幅。伯克希尔过去三年和五年的总回报率分别为12%和14%，而该指数的总回报率为19%和18%。</blockquote>“Berkshire has gotten a pass in part because of its historically strong financial performance,” said Simiso Nzima, head of corporate governance at Calpers.<blockquote>Calpers公司治理主管Simiso Nzima表示：“伯克希尔获得通过的部分原因是其历史上强劲的财务业绩。”</blockquote>Berkshire has continued to stress its continued focus on the long game. Mr. Buffett, who is chief executive and chairman of the company, built upa diverse portfolio of mostly U.S. businesses and investments meant to perform over decades, not to compete with a volatile market buoyed by booming tech stocks.<blockquote>伯克希尔哈撒韦公司继续强调其对长期发展的持续关注。巴菲特先生是该公司的首席执行官兼董事长，他建立了主要由美国企业和投资组成的多元化投资组合，预计将持续数十年，而不是与由蓬勃发展的科技股提振的波动市场竞争。</blockquote>Calpers, the nation’s largest public-pension fund with $444 billion in assets, co-sponsored a shareholder proposal imploring Berkshire to provide more disclosures on climate-related risks and opportunities.<blockquote>拥有4440亿美元资产的美国最大公共养老基金Calpers共同发起了一项股东提案，恳求伯克希尔提供更多有关气候相关风险和机遇的信息。</blockquote>The pension fund is also withholding its votes to re-elect members of the board’s audit and governance committees on grounds of failing to meet shareholder demands over climate-risk disclosures. It said it was concerned that the board lacks new members, doesn’t engage with shareholders and isn’t letting investors vote on executive pay plans.<blockquote>该养老基金还拒绝投票连任董事会审计和治理委员会成员，理由是未能满足股东对气候风险披露的要求。该公司表示，担心董事会缺乏新成员，不与股东接触，也不让投资者对高管薪酬计划进行投票。</blockquote>“If you don’t refresh the board, you don’t have a next generation of directors able to learn from the long-serving directors before they leave the board,” Mr. Nzima said.<blockquote>“如果不更新董事会，下一代董事就无法在长期任职的董事离开董事会之前向他们学习，”恩齐马先生说。</blockquote>Berkshire declined to comment ahead of the company’s Saturday meeting.<blockquote>伯克希尔拒绝在公司周六会议前发表评论。</blockquote>Neuberger, a privately held money manager with more than $429 billion in assets, also said it would vote for several shareholder-led proposals related to environmental, social and corporate-governance issues, often abbreviated as ESG.<blockquote>拥有超过4290亿美元资产的私人基金管理公司Neuberger也表示，将投票支持几项与环境、社会和公司治理问题（通常缩写为ESG）相关的股东主导的提案。</blockquote>“One would think that if companies have a responsibility to look out for the environment or deliver good on social issues and governance, that Berkshire might be a leader in these areas,” said Michelle Giordano, a Neuberger analyst who follows the company. “But it doesn’t seem like they are.”<blockquote>跟踪该公司的路博迈分析师米歇尔·佐丹奴(Michelle Giordano)表示：“人们可能会认为，如果公司有责任保护环境或在社会问题和治理方面提供良好服务，那么伯克希尔可能会成为这些领域的领导者。”“但好像不是。”</blockquote>Berkshire said in its annual proxy statement that while it agreed companies had a responsibility to manage&nbsp;climate risks, it preferred to let its various operating units commit to their own environmental policies. Mandates from a small corporate office, the company wrote, would infringe upon the autonomy that has helped those businesses thrive under Berkshire’s ownership. Berkshire Hathaway Energy, for instance, already producesa sustainability report.<blockquote>伯克希尔在其年度委托书中表示，虽然它同意公司有责任管理气候风险，但它更愿意让其各个运营部门致力于自己的环境政策。该公司写道，小型公司办公室的授权将侵犯帮助这些企业在伯克希尔旗下蓬勃发展的自主权。例如，伯克希尔哈撒韦能源公司已经生产可持续发展报告.</blockquote>Calpers has also pledged to support a proposal requiring the company to report its efforts to diversify its staff.<blockquote>Calpers还承诺支持一项提案，要求该公司报告其员工多元化的努力。</blockquote>Berkshire said the diversity-report proposal improperly suggests that “there is a standardized technique for each of Berkshire’s more than 60 operating businesses to address diversity, equity and inclusion.”<blockquote>伯克希尔表示，多元化报告提案不恰当地暗示“伯克希尔60多家运营业务中的每一家都有一种标准化技术来解决多元化、公平性和包容性问题。”</blockquote>“It would be unreasonable to ask for uniform, quantitative reporting for the purposes of comparing such dissimilar operations in different geographic locations,” Berkshire wrote.<blockquote>伯克希尔写道：“为了比较不同地理位置的此类不同业务而要求统一的定量报告是不合理的。”</blockquote>Glass Lewis and ISS recommended shareholders vote for the ESG proposals and withhold votes for certain directors.<blockquote>Glass Lewis和ISS建议股东投票支持ESG提案，并对某些董事弃权。</blockquote>“This year there’s a lot more attention given from mainstream investors on ESG issues,” said Courteney Keatinge, a senior director of ESG research at Glass Lewis.<blockquote>Glass Lewis ESG研究高级总监Courteney Keatinge表示：“今年主流投资者对ESG问题给予了更多关注。”</blockquote>Another factor is at play: Berkshire shares are slowly changing hands.<blockquote>另一个因素在起作用：伯克希尔的股票正在慢慢易手。</blockquote>Mr. Buffett’s longstanding plan to shrink his stake in the company over time has shifted more Berkshire shares to big institutional investors, said Lawrence Cunningham, a law professor at George Washington University who has written extensively about the company.<blockquote>乔治华盛顿大学法学教授劳伦斯·坎宁安(Lawrence Cunningham)撰写了大量有关该公司的文章，他表示，随着时间的推移，巴菲特减持该公司股份的长期计划已将更多伯克希尔股票转移到大型机构投资者手中。</blockquote>About 70% of Berkshire’s shares are owned by individuals, many of whom are longtime holders loyal to Mr. Buffett, Mr. Cunningham said. And many don’t care whether Berkshire lacks a corporate sustainability report or an investor-relations team at the ready to answer their questions.<blockquote>坎宁安表示，伯克希尔约70%的股票由个人持有，其中许多人是忠于巴菲特的长期持有者。许多人并不关心伯克希尔是否缺乏企业可持续发展报告或随时准备回答他们问题的投资者关系团队。</blockquote>“Berkshire’s unusual and valued family of individual shareholders may add to your understanding of our reluctance to court Wall Street analysts and institutional investors,” Mr. Buffett wrote in his most recent letter to shareholders. “We already have the investors we want and don’t think that they, on balance, would be upgraded by replacements.”<blockquote>巴菲特在最近致股东的信中写道：“伯克希尔不同寻常且有价值的个人股东家族可能会加深您对我们不愿讨好华尔街分析师和机构投资者的理解。”“我们已经拥有了我们想要的投资者，总的来说，我认为他们不会通过替代者来升级。”</blockquote>The gradual uptick in institutional ownership, though, might already be empowering professional managers to press Berkshire on governance matters.&nbsp;When Mr. Buffett and his estate sell off his remaining shares, it is likely those money managers will hold an even bigger stake in the company, Mr. Cunningham said.<blockquote>不过，机构持股比例的逐步上升可能已经让职业经理人有能力在治理问题上向伯克希尔施压。坎宁安说，当巴菲特和他的遗产出售剩余股份时，这些基金经理很可能会持有该公司更多的股份。</blockquote>“There will be a dawning of significant leadership and structural change, and these holders are preparing for that battle,” Mr. Cunningham said.<blockquote>坎宁安表示：“重大领导力和结构性变革将会出现，这些持有者正在为这场战斗做准备。”</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/warren-buffett-faces-impatient-investors-as-berkshire-hathaway-returns-decline-11619794480\">WSJ</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/daaa666333c3b9bf0b940ffed4c1c369","relate_stocks":{"BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/warren-buffett-faces-impatient-investors-as-berkshire-hathaway-returns-decline-11619794480","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1105099718","content_text":"Institutional shareholders are pressing for change on climate and governance at the Omaha, Neb., conglomerateProfessional money managers are turning up the heat on Warren Buffett’sBerkshire Hathaway Inc.BRK.B -0.95%California Public Employees’ Retirement System and Neuberger Berman have demanded that the Omaha, Neb., conglomerate bring in new directors and provide more disclosures on climate risks and executiveLeading up to Berkshire’s annual meeting on Saturday, proxy advisers Glass Lewis & Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. have recommended that investors withhold their votes for board members.While many of the complaints aren’t new and none of the shareholder proposals are likely to pass, Berkshire’s lackluster returns in recent years have made it more vulnerable to criticism amid a growing wave of investor interest in corporate sustainability issues.The shareholder movement to press companies on climate change, social progress and governance continues to gain steam in the U.S., emerging asa key selling point for money managers in their efforts to keep client money.Under Mr. Buffett’s leadership,the firm boasts 20% compounded annualized gains from 1965 to 2020, outperforming the S&P 500’s 10.2% gains including dividends during the period. Berkshire’s total returns over the past three- and five-year periods were 12% and 14%, respectively, compared with the index’s 19% and 18%.“Berkshire has gotten a pass in part because of its historically strong financial performance,” said Simiso Nzima, head of corporate governance at Calpers.Berkshire has continued to stress its continued focus on the long game. Mr. Buffett, who is chief executive and chairman of the company, built upa diverse portfolio of mostly U.S. businesses and investments meant to perform over decades, not to compete with a volatile market buoyed by booming tech stocks.Calpers, the nation’s largest public-pension fund with $444 billion in assets, co-sponsored a shareholder proposal imploring Berkshire to provide more disclosures on climate-related risks and opportunities.The pension fund is also withholding its votes to re-elect members of the board’s audit and governance committees on grounds of failing to meet shareholder demands over climate-risk disclosures. It said it was concerned that the board lacks new members, doesn’t engage with shareholders and isn’t letting investors vote on executive pay plans.“If you don’t refresh the board, you don’t have a next generation of directors able to learn from the long-serving directors before they leave the board,” Mr. Nzima said.Berkshire declined to comment ahead of the company’s Saturday meeting.Neuberger, a privately held money manager with more than $429 billion in assets, also said it would vote for several shareholder-led proposals related to environmental, social and corporate-governance issues, often abbreviated as ESG.“One would think that if companies have a responsibility to look out for the environment or deliver good on social issues and governance, that Berkshire might be a leader in these areas,” said Michelle Giordano, a Neuberger analyst who follows the company. “But it doesn’t seem like they are.”Berkshire said in its annual proxy statement that while it agreed companies had a responsibility to manage climate risks, it preferred to let its various operating units commit to their own environmental policies. Mandates from a small corporate office, the company wrote, would infringe upon the autonomy that has helped those businesses thrive under Berkshire’s ownership. Berkshire Hathaway Energy, for instance, already producesa sustainability report.Calpers has also pledged to support a proposal requiring the company to report its efforts to diversify its staff.Berkshire said the diversity-report proposal improperly suggests that “there is a standardized technique for each of Berkshire’s more than 60 operating businesses to address diversity, equity and inclusion.”“It would be unreasonable to ask for uniform, quantitative reporting for the purposes of comparing such dissimilar operations in different geographic locations,” Berkshire wrote.Glass Lewis and ISS recommended shareholders vote for the ESG proposals and withhold votes for certain directors.“This year there’s a lot more attention given from mainstream investors on ESG issues,” said Courteney Keatinge, a senior director of ESG research at Glass Lewis.Another factor is at play: Berkshire shares are slowly changing hands.Mr. Buffett’s longstanding plan to shrink his stake in the company over time has shifted more Berkshire shares to big institutional investors, said Lawrence Cunningham, a law professor at George Washington University who has written extensively about the company.About 70% of Berkshire’s shares are owned by individuals, many of whom are longtime holders loyal to Mr. Buffett, Mr. Cunningham said. And many don’t care whether Berkshire lacks a corporate sustainability report or an investor-relations team at the ready to answer their questions.“Berkshire’s unusual and valued family of individual shareholders may add to your understanding of our reluctance to court Wall Street analysts and institutional investors,” Mr. Buffett wrote in his most recent letter to shareholders. “We already have the investors we want and don’t think that they, on balance, would be upgraded by replacements.”The gradual uptick in institutional ownership, though, might already be empowering professional managers to press Berkshire on governance matters. When Mr. Buffett and his estate sell off his remaining shares, it is likely those money managers will hold an even bigger stake in the company, Mr. Cunningham said.“There will be a dawning of significant leadership and structural change, and these holders are preparing for that battle,” Mr. Cunningham said.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"BRK.B":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":525,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"EN","currentLanguage":"EN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":23,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ORIG"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"isTiger":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"url":"/m/post/101593357"}