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...Buffett takes a firmly hands-off approach to Berkshire’s businesses, but makes an exception for insurance, which spans Geico, the National Indemnity Company, and vast reinsurance operations, including Gen...
...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....
...Until then, you can reach Sid and I at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...The committee will be led by Jeffery Stein, a former executive at US oil group Whiting Petroleum, as chief restructuring officer....
...Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, yesterday published details of plans to find £10m of savings, partly cutting some curators’ jobs....
...Whiting Petroleum, Extraction Oil & Gas, and Chesapeake Energy were the biggest names to go under....
...As for the E&P stocks, here’s Cowen to say companies such as Whiting and Occidental have the potential to go to zero: We are updating our oil view materially lower to reflect the confluence of weakening...
...But it is not the only insurance company with a financial interest in sport....
...The float climbed $14bn from the end of 2016, driven largely by a $10.2bn cash payment from American International Group, after Berkshire subsidiary National Indemnity Company agreed to shoulder some of...
...But just as often, such tests will reveal fraud — cod mixed with something cheaper, whiting perhaps, or a different species entirely....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...Diamonds and RC Willey Home Furnishings – and one big one for the insurer Geico....
...included selling Coca-Cola and Wrigley’s chewing gum 1950 Enrols at Columbia University, where he studies with Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing 1951 Discovering Mr Graham is on the board of Geico...
...It now owns Geico, the car insurer, and General Re, the reinsurer....
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