Berkshire Hathaway News
Berkshire Primary Ops Show Double-Digit Profit, Premium Gains in Q1
Berkshire-Hathaway's primary property/casualty operations recorded double-digit gains in premiums and pre-tax earnings in the first quarter, but P/C reinsurance results contributed to a 6.6 percent ...
Berkshire Hathaway Delivers In a Weaker Stock Market
A ho-hum stock market so far this year may be just what Berkshire Hathaway shareholders needed. As they gather this week at the sprawling conglomerate's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, and rub ...
Speculation on Buffett Successor Heats Up; Jain Among Candidates
Two years ago, Warren Buffett, then 81, announced that the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. board had chosen his successor as chief executive officer. The board, he said, also had two backups, but all three ...
Buffett Says His Berkshire Successor Should Get Stock Options
Warren Buffett, the second-richest man in the U.S., said his eventual successor as chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. should be the company's sole manager getting stock options as ...
SNL’s Top 30 E&S Writers: Berkshire On Fire With 40% Growth in 2013
With 40 percent premium growth in 2013, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. climbed five spots in the U.S. excess and surplus lines ranking compiled by SNL Financial, while QBE scaled back its North American ...
Is Jain Next? Buffett Vagueness Over Successor Worries Investors
Warren Buffett is seeking to reassure shareholders about how his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will perform in the decades after he steps down or dies, but remains as vague as ever about succession plans. ...
RSA Upgraded by S&P on Planned Share Sale, Buffett Risk Transfer
RSA Insurance Group Plc was upgraded by Standard & Poor's after Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester announced a stock sale and a deal to transfer risk to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway ...
Greenberg’s Post-AIG Conglomerate: a Mini Berkshire Hathaway?
Since his ouster from American International Group Inc. in 2005, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg has been quietly building an insurance and investment conglomerate that people close to him describe as a ...