Billionaires Who Won't Leave Their Entire Fortune to Their Kids

Some tycoons in the financial world are committed to donating the bulk of their wealth to charity.
By Larissa Fernand |  21-02-14
 “More than 99% of our wealth will go to philanthropy during our lifetime or at death.”
- James Stowers
 
Also known as Jim Stowers, he is the founder of Twentieth Century Mutual Funds which got renamed to American Century Investments at the turn of the century. He pioneered the application of computer driven models to investment management and wrote his own proprietary computer programme to identify companies with the desirable growth characteristics.
 
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