Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s sidekick at Berkshire Hathaway, dies at 99

Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, attends the annual Berkshire shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2019. Munger died on Tuesday at the age of 99. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

OMAHA, Neb. — Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway into an investment powerhouse, has died at a California hospital. He was 99.

Berkshire Hathaway said in a statement that Munger’s family told the company that he died Tuesday morning at the hospital just over a month before his 100th birthday.