Finding a mutual fund that owns Berkshire Hathaway
— -- A: Now why would you want to own Berkshire Hathaway in a mutual fund? It's not like the shares cost $120,000 each....Oh. They do.
But seriously, if the steep per-share stock price of Berkshire Hathaway is the reason you want to own it in a mutual fund, there's another option. Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares go for a much more reasonable $4,000 or so a share. You can read more about the risk and reward of owning Berkshire Hathaway stock here.
If you still want to own Berkshire as part of an investment in a more diversified mutual fund, it's easy to find out which funds own the stock.
Go to Morningstar.com and enter the symbol BRKA into the "Quotes" block in the top left-hand corner and hit the enter key. Next, click on the "Insider Trading" option on the gray bar on the left-hand side of the page. Finally, click on the "Top Fund Owners" tab. There you'll find a list of all the funds that own the biggest slices of the stock.
Matt Krantz is a financial markets reporter at USA TODAY and author of Investing Online for Dummies. He answers a different reader question every weekday in his Ask Matt column at money.usatoday.com. To submit a question, e-mail Matt at mkrantz@usatoday.com. Click here to see previous Ask Matt columns.
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