US baby-boomers defy old age with sports cars and plastic surgery. Yet when the membership card from the American Association of Retired Persons — an old persons’ lobbying group — arrives in the post, denial falls short. For corporations, the equivalent of AARP membership comes in the form of an investment from Warren Buffett. Apple, only just 40, was admitted to the shuffleboard club yesterday when Mr Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it owned $1.1bn of Apple shares.
美國嬰兒潮時期出生的那代人熱愛跑車和整容手術,不肯顯出老態。但是當他們的郵箱裏收到美國退休人員協會(AARP)——一個老年人的遊說組織——的會員卡時,一切否認都無濟於事。對於企業而言,來自華倫•巴菲特(Warren Buffett)的投資就相當於AARP的會員卡。昨天,創辦僅40年的蘋果公司(Apple)被接收爲沙狐球俱樂部會員——巴菲特執掌的波克夏哈薩威公司(Berkshire Hathaway)披露,其持有價值11億美元的蘋果股票。