Berkshire Hathaway results 2014 News

While investment losses pulled net income for Warren Buffett’s Berkshire-Hathaway down 8.6 percent to $3.6 billion in third-quarter 2014, a 40 percent jump in operating income for the group’s insurance and reinsurance operations was somewhat obscured by headlines about the …

Net income for Berkshire-Hathaway soared nearly 41 percent to $6.4 billion in second-quarter 2014, with nearly $2.0 billion of investment gains lifting the total, while underwriting profits for Berkshire-Hathaway’s property/casualty operations dipped 1.6 percent (before taxes). Pretax underwriting profits overall—for …