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Charlie Munger, the longstanding partner of Warren Buffett and a cornerstone of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKa) (NYSE:BRKb), whose contributions helped generate wealth and prosperity for all its shareholders, has passed away at the age of 99.

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Charlie Munger (pictured) has died at the age of 99.

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Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger heralds the end of an era, leaving Warren Buffett as the conglomerate's lone investing legend and shining the spotlight on managers who have largely operated in their shadow. Few companies have been so closely associated with their leaders as Berkshire has with Buffett and Munger, who knew each other for more than six decades, the last 45 years as the Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate's chairman and vice chairman. Munger's death on Tuesday, five weeks shy of his 100th birthday, leaves Berkshire Vice Chairmen Greg Abel and Ajit Jain, who respectively oversee its non-insurance and insurance businesses, as the 93-year-old Buffett's top advisers and sounding boards. They became vice chairmen in 2018, started taking a more prominent public role only at the most recent of Berkshire's annual meetings, and will have bigger boots to fill than at almost any other company. Managers have said Abel fully embraces Berkshire's culture, which includes an extreme decentralization that gives business units broad autonomy. That means big units such as the BNSF railroad and Geico car insurer, each with tens of thousands of employees, and small units such as Borsheims jewelry, with about 142 employees, can run without interference from Berkshire headquarters, which employs only about 26 people. But Abel and Jain have different styles from Buffett and Munger. At the 2021 annual meeting, Jain was asked how he and Abel interact with each other. «There is no question that the relationship Warren has with Charlie is unique and it's not going to be duplicated,» Jain said. «We don't interact with each other as often as Warren and Charlie do.

Charlie Munger, who passed away yesterday night, had many fans in the Indian mutual fund industry. The respect these successful fund managers had for the straight talking Munger was enormous. Several fund managers, very successful in their own right, refused to share their thoughts about this great teacher because they felt inadequate to the task. Munger, who was often described as the sparring partner of Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway, was known for his straight forward nature and deep insight into investing. He is also credited with steering Buffett away from Benjamin Graham style of value investing to a more robust investment style. Together these two legends created a company that is valued more than many multinational companies. ETMutualFunds managed to convince two respected Indian mutual fund managers to share their thoughts on the departed investment guru. S Naren, ED and CIO of ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, said the best way to characterise Charlie Munger, an army veteran and trained lawyer, is as the epitome of wisdom. “His multifaceted approach to investment has made a lasting impression on the world of investing. He introduced the concept of quality over quantity investing. His 'latticework' investment strategy, which emphasised the artistry involved in investing, will live on,” said Naren.

Investing.com -- Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger passes away at 99, leaving behind a legacy burnished by a brilliant business career and a fruitful partnership with investment icon Warren Buffett. Elsewhere on Wednesday, U.S. futures push higher after stocks rose in the prior session following dovish comments from a top Federal Reserve official.

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Charlie Munger may come across as a sidekick to the legendary Warren Buffett who built Berkshire Hathaway's enormous empire worth $785 billion simply by buying and holding stocks for the long term. But in reality, Munger was picked by the 'God of Stocks' as his second-in-command for being smarter and wiser than him. The 64-year-old partnership between the dynamic duo shows many unusual traits — the two titans never had an argument and would sometimes make decisions without consulting each other. The mutual trust and respect never faded between the 'Jai and Veeru' of Wall Street. While Munger, who passed away today at the age of 99, lived in Los Angeles, his best friend and partner-in-crime Buffett lived 1,600 miles away in Omaha. «The two men speak a few times every month on the phone, and they likely meet less than 3 to 4 times a year,» NRI investor Mohnish Pabrai wrote in his book 'The Dhandho Investor'.

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The financial world bids farewell to Charlie Munger, the distinguished investor and long-time collaborator of Warren Buffett, who passed away at the age of 99 on November 28.

By Jonathan Stempel

The world of finance mourns the loss ofCharlie Munger, a luminary in the investing world and the trusted partner of Warren Buffett. Munger passed away at the age of 99 on Tuesday night in California. 

tribute to the late Charlie Munger on the social media site X (formerly Twitter). He wrote, "RIP Charlie Munger. I'll always remember him for this talk he gave on the Psychology of Human Misjudgement.

Warren Buffett's longtime friend and business partner, Charlie Munger passed away on Tuesday, November 28, at the age of 99, according to his employer, leading to many investors expressing their grief on social media platform X. Berkshire Hathaway, where Munger worked for decades as vice chairman under Buffett, confirmed it was "advised by members of Charlie Munger's family that he peacefully died this morning at a California hospital," as reported by AFP. "Berkshire Hathaway could not have been built to its present status without Charlie's inspiration, wisdom and participation," Warren Buffett said in a statement, according to AFP.

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Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's righthand man for nearly six decades, was a shrewd investment genius in his own right, passing on rich investing wisdom for generations of investors to learn from.

The investing community lost one of its pillars Tuesday with the death of Berkshire Hathaway vice chair Charlie Munger, according to Ariel Investments' Charles Bobrinskoy.

(Reuters) -Charlie Munger, the longtime vice chairman and second-in-command to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKa), died on Tuesday morning at a California hospital.