Prem Watsa News
Indian Fintech Startup Digit Is Raising $200M to Boost Insurance Customer Reach
Indian fintech startup Digit boosted its valuation to $3.5 billion in a fresh funding round, gaining capital for its effort to win insurance customers via mobile technology. The company is raising ...
Fairfax CEO Watsa Snatches Up $149M of ‘Ridiculously Cheap’ Company Shares
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. said Prem Watsa, its chair and CEO, has purchased in the market 482,600 subordinate voting shares of Fairfax for just under $149 million. "At our AGM and on our first ...
Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Loses $1.3B in Q1
Prem Watsa's Fairfax Financial Holdings lost close to $1.3 billion during its first quarter, due largely to unrealized losses on investments and market volatility over the coronavirus pandemic. The ...
Watsa’s Fairfax Discloses Q1 $1.4B Net Loss From COVID-19 Financial Markets Plunge
Fairfax Financial Holdings warned it is dealing with an estimated $1.4 billion net loss in the 2020 first quarter, largely because of COVID-19 and its adverse impact on the global financial market. ...
Canadian Pension Fund Will Buy Stake in Fairfax Runoff Unit Riverstone UK
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and OMERS, the pension plan for Ontario's municipal employees, announced they have entered into an agreement where OMERS will acquire a 40 percent interest in ...
Fairfax’s Watsa Gives ‘Mindboggling’ Takeover Testimony Leading to Shareholder Court Award
Canadian investor Prem Watsa was "purposely forgetful" and offered a "mindboggling" explanation in court testimony explaining why he backed a low-ball bid for a pulp mill in a sale to Resolute Forest ...
Executives On The Move at Fairfax Financial Holdings, Travelers and Alliant Insurance Services
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. appointed a new chief financial officer. The Travelers Companies, Inc. named two executives as Co-Chief Investment Officer. Alliant Insurance Services hired an outside ...
Fairfax CFO Bonham Has Died; Varnell Appointed as His Interim Successor
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. announced that, David Bonham, vice president and chief financial officer of Fairfax, died suddenly this past weekend. "The entire Fairfax family mourns the sudden and ...