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William J Burns Securities trades and financial disclosures
William J Burns's OGE filings report 111 securities transactions dated April 9, 2021 to December 22, 2023, as read here on October 12, 2026.
Trading profile
Buys vs. sells
50% bought · 50% sold
Past the deadline
14
of the 21 trades with a filing date to check, after 45 days plus any extension the filing states
Est. volume
$3.2M
lower-bound estimate
On Burns’s reports
By asset type
111 trades
- Funds and ETFs90
- Individual stock18
- Other3
Trading over time
Net worth
A net worth for William J Burns cannot be computed from this filing: values are given as ranges, some items carry no value, and a home kept for personal use is not reported.
Disclosed holdings
Disclosed assets
$5.2M to $14M
as ranges on 40 line items, plus 10 without a dollar value
Disclosed liabilities
$500K to $1M
as ranges on 1 line item
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
The form lists each debt over $10,000 owed at any time during the period it covers, including one repaid before the period ended. A few kinds are left off, such as a debt to a close relative.
Kept since Aug 28, 2026. Federal law generally requires a filing to be destroyed six years after it was received, unless it is needed in an ongoing investigation.
The full record
The disclosed transactions.
111 disclosed transactions, 90 of them only in the annual report. Amounts are ranges, never exact. Every row links to the official filing.
The annual reports carry 30 more rows that are not in this table because the filing gives several dates for one line rather than one. The linked filing shows them.
| Company | Ticker | Owner | Amount | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bought | Goldman Sachs GQG Partners International Opportunities Fund Institutional Class Shs (GSIMX) | GSIMX | Unspecified | $1,001 - $15,000 | 2023-12-22 |
| Sold | Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares (BSV) | BSV | Unspecified | $15,001 - $50,000 | 2023-10-24 |
| Sold | First EagleGlobal Fund Class I Shares (SGIIX) | SGIIX | Unspecified | $1,001 - $15,000 | 2023-07-14 |
| Sold | BlackRockGlobal Allocation Fund, Inc Institutional Shares (MALOX) | MALOX | Unspecified | $1,001 - $15,000 | 2023-07-14 |
| Sold | Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) | XOM | Unspecified | $1,001 - $15,000 | 2023-01-24 |
| Sold | General Electric Co. (GE) | GE | Unspecified | $1,001 - $15,000 | 2023-01-24 |
| Sold | Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares (BND) | BND | Unspecified | $100,001 - $250,000 | 2023-01-24 |
| Sold | iShares MSCI ACWI ETF (ACWI) | ACWI | Unspecified | $100,001 - $250,000 | 2023-01-24 |
| Sold | iShares MSCI ACWI ex US ETF (ACWX) | ACWX | Unspecified | $100,001 - $250,000 | 2023-01-24 |
| Sold | Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Class Shares (VGIT) | VGIT | Unspecified | $50,001 - $100,000 | 2023-01-24 |
A symbol marked with an asterisk was matched from the company name on the filing. The filer did not write a symbol down.