Berkshire Hathaway is a diversified holding company. People always forget about the business they own outright.
Berkshire has roughly 50 companies that it invests in, through it's stock portfolio.
But it also owns roughly 70 companies outright. These 70 companies do not show up on the stock portfolio list.
So roughly 120 different companies that Berkshire invests in. This is not quite as diversified as FCIT (roughly 400 companies), however it is quite a bit more than most of the other Investment trusts.
Generally I consider anything over 100 different holdings as well diversified.
Number of Holdings
F&C- 440
BNKR -200
CTY - 86
Monks - 55
Murray - 53
JPMorgan Global Growth and Income - 52
Scottish Mortgage - 37
Berkshire has roughly 50 companies that it invests in, through it's stock portfolio.
But it also owns roughly 70 companies outright. These 70 companies do not show up on the stock portfolio list.
So roughly 120 different companies that Berkshire invests in. This is not quite as diversified as FCIT (roughly 400 companies), however it is quite a bit more than most of the other Investment trusts.
Generally I consider anything over 100 different holdings as well diversified.
Number of Holdings
F&C- 440
BNKR -200
CTY - 86
Monks - 55
Murray - 53
JPMorgan Global Growth and Income - 52
Scottish Mortgage - 37