Warren Buffett News

Berkshire Hathaway’s New ‘THREE’ Policy Seeks to Simplify Small Business Insurance

Berkshire Hathaway’s Insurance Group has launched a comprehensive insurance product for small businesses that combines multiple coverages, and the conglomerate’s legendary chairman has endorsed it. The product, dubbed THREE, is three-pages long, and combines coverage for workers compensation, multiple liability …

Berkshire Hathaway Insurance Underwriting Gains in 3Q

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s insurers dodged the worst of losses caused by Hurricane Florence as the businesses kept up their rebound from a rough 2017. The company’s operating profit doubled last quarter, capitalizing on trends ranging from more train traffic on …

Berkshire Invests $356M in One97, Parent of India’s Biggest Digital Payments Firm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc has acquired a 25 billion rupees ($356 million) stake in the parent of digital payments company Paytm, a source said, its first investment in an Indian startup as it moves into the financial payments sector. The conglomerate …

Buffett Says Healthcare Venture CEO Pick Coming Soon

Warren Buffett on Saturday said he hoped a chief executive would be found within a couple of months for the healthcare company being set up by Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Amazon.com Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to lower patient costs. …

Buffett Not Eager for Berkshire to Be Cyber Insurance Leader

Warren Buffett said he doesn’t want Berkshire Hathaway Inc. being a leader on cyber insurance because neither he nor others in the industry really know the risk. “I don’t think we or anybody else really knows what they’re doing when …

Berkshire Hathaway Reports Q1 ‘Accounting’ Loss But Insurance Profit

Warren Buffett lost money but had a pretty good quarter. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Saturday reported an unusual quarterly net loss, the result of an accounting change that Buffett had warned would produce “wild” but in his view meaningless swings …

Buffett Eyes ‘Huge’ Acquisitions But Not in Insurance

Warren Buffett on Saturday lamented his inability to find big companies to buy and said his goal is to make “one or more huge acquisitions” of non-insurance businesses to bolster results at his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. In his annual …

Berkshire’s 14-Year Insurance Win Streak Comes to an End

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway’s combination of insurance entities have recorded 14 consecutive years of underwriting profit worth more than $28 billion. The Oracle from Omaha has repeatedly warned his shareholders that this profit streak could end anytime. He was right. …

Likely Buffett Successors Abel, Jain Promoted at Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Wednesday promoted two of its top executives, Gregory Abel and Ajit Jain, cementing their widely viewed status as potential successors to Warren Buffett as the conglomerate’s chief executive. Abel was named Berkshire’s vice chairman for non-insurance …

Berkshire Likely to Report Big Q3 Claims Costs – and Reduced Insurance ‘Float’

The insurance business has been good to Warren Buffett. For decades, his stable of carriers at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. have provided him billions of dollars to invest. They’ve also turned an underwriting profit every year since 2002. That streak could …