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...and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad....
...There were, he said, few deals that offered the kind of transformative impact past takeovers have had, such as its purchases of insurers Geico and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad....
...includes Amundi, Legal and General Investment Management and Aviva Investors has called on companies such as Amazon, PepsiCo and McDonald’s to drastically reduce their reliance on plastics, saying a failure...
...The company cut its holdings of gaming group Activision Blizzard, banks US Bancorp and BNY Mellon, and carmaker General Motors during the third quarter....
...Until then, you can reach Sid and I at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...Alleghany, a property and casualty insurance and reinsurer, has long been described as a mini-Berkshire Hathaway....
...Many of these assets have some crossover and opportunities for collaboration with Berkshire’s expansive portfolio that ranges from iPhone maker Apple, car insurance company Geico, oil producer Occidental...
...The $760bn-in-assets conglomerate is skewed towards financial companies — it owns large insurance companies, such as Geico, outright and stakes in many of America’s largest banks — and industrials....
...Todd Combs’ recent promotion to lead Geico, the US car insurance company and one of the most important businesses inside Berkshire, has only raised his profile further....
...The PDA began as a mutual provider of indemnity insurance against negligence claims for pharmacists, according to Paul Day, the union’s national officer....
...But Secretary-General António Guterres last week played host to an event that might buck the trend for such efforts to produce little more than dust-gathering reports....
...That has prompted some companies to turn to rail freight. The company’s insurance divisions also returned to an operating profit, boosted by higher rates charged to its Geico customers....
...Geico continued to add new policyholders and was able to increase customer rates....
...a sorting out of anomalies in the area of national insurance and an end to the triple lock....
...But it is not the only insurance company with a financial interest in sport....
...Rumours circulated in March that Ping An was eyeing the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s general insurance business....
...Now he will also oversee all of Berkshire’s insurance operations, including the motor business Geico....
...Mr Buffett’s collection of insurance units — which include Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance and General Re, as well as the car insurer Geico — have generated more than $18bn of underwriting profit over the...
...Overall, cash and short-term US Treasury bills on the company’s balance sheet climbed to a record $96.5bn....
...But we would not be holding a party at our insurance company.” Demurger muses, “We could almost become an insurer without insurance.”...
...of climate change for the general insurance and reinsurance sector....
...Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance divisions, which include the traditional insurer Geico, recorded third-quarter earnings of $1.34bn, down from $1.58bn in the same period last year....
...Diamonds and RC Willey Home Furnishings – and one big one for the insurer Geico....
...Much of the cash that has built up in Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company controlled by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, was generated by its insurance subsidiaries such as Geico and General Reinsurance...
...home insurance subsidiary, Geico....
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