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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sold $1.8 billion in stock ahead of divorce – NEWS.com.au
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sold $1.8 billion in stock ahead of divorce
The trust of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sold off $US1.4 billion ($A1.8 billion) in stock in the first quarter of 2021, raking in a huge profit months before the billionaire couple announced their divorce. The foundation’s trust, one of the largest in the world, revealed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had sold all of its shares of Apple, Amazon and Twitter as of the end of March.
It’s not known at what price the trust sold its shares, but those holdings…
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