Warren Buffett made a slew of strikes to Berkshire Hathaway ‘s fairness portfolio final quarter, together with promoting huge chunks of economic firms and a semiconductor identify he had simply bought, in accordance with a brand new regulatory submitting. The Omaha-based conglomerate slashed its shares in Financial institution of New York Mellon by 60% within the fourth quarter to a wager value $1.1 billion. In the meantime, it additionally reduce its US Bancorp stake by 90% to $291 million by the top of 2022. The duo every bought off greater than 20% final yr, barely underperforming the S & P 500. The submitting displays strikes made within the fourth quarter and holdings as of the top of 2022. The “Oracle of Omaha” dumped a good portion of Taiwan Semiconductor , a chip inventory he had simply purchased within the third quarter and made it Berkshire’s tenth greatest holding. On the finish of 2022, Berkshire solely owned simply 8.3 million shares of the Taiwanese chipmaker’s American depositary receipts, value $618 million, about 86% lower than what it held within the earlier quarter. The chip inventory gained practically 9% within the fourth quarter, however the rebound within the new yr was much more dramatic with shares up over 30% yr to this point. Buffett continued to trim his place in Activision Blizzard final quarter, however the wager remains to be the conglomerate’s ninth largest, the submitting confirmed. The investor has been decreasing this place, a merger arbitrage wager, for 3 straight quarters as regulatory headwinds on the Microsoft takeover rose. The 92-year-old investor saved nearly all of his high 10 holdings unchanged final quarter. He added to his gigantic Apple stake simply ever so barely final quarter. The tech big, the conglomerate’s greatest holding by far, was value $116 billion on the finish of 2022 following a virtually 27% sell-off in Apple shares. In the meantime, Buffett’s Chevron stake dipped marginally final quarter, value $29.3 billion on the finish of the fourth quarter, the submitting confirmed. Chevron was nonetheless Berkshire’s third largest holding on the finish of 2022. A few of these strikes might come from Buffett’s investing deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, who handle billions of Berkshire’s bucks as nicely.