Braeburn Capital

Braeburn Capital is an asset management company based in Reno, Nevada and a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

History

Apple created the company on April 6, 2006 to better manage its assets and to avoid certain California state taxes[1] and taxes from other US States totaling in millions of dollars.[2]

At the end of 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, Apple's cash and short-term investments were valued at US$8.3 billion,[3] US$10.1 billion,[3] US$18.45 billion,[4] and US$24.490 billion,[5] respectively. As of September 26, 2009, its cash holdings were reported to be US$33.992 billion, increasing to $97 billion at the end of 2011.[6]

In 2012, Wall Street analysts calculated that Apple could earn up to $45.6 billion in its current fiscal year 2012, a record for any American business. By national and international diversions of revenues and many other legal methods, Apple stands to save billions of dollars in taxes.[2]

Name

The name Braeburn refers to a particular cultivar of apple. This is a play on the name of the parent company Apple Inc.[7]

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