2011 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Swiss Re, Goldman Sachs and General Electric paid us an aggregate of $12.8 billion to redeem securities”
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2011 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Swiss Re, Goldman Sachs and General Electric paid us an aggregate of $12.8 billion to redeem securities”
Class B stock split was "easy decision" | January 20, 2010
“I read the Swiss Re release and it said that they are doing this because they think that they can get more for their money in other arenas.”
Afternoon Session - 2009 Meeting
“We are senior, actually, to the Swiss re equity of roughly 20 billion Swiss francs. So I would not regard it as a junior security.”
Afternoon Session - 2009 Meeting
“we feel fine about having a 20% quota share in that and we feel fine about our investment.”
Afternoon Session - 2009 Meeting
“Swiss Re's problems of the last year or so have not come about in any way through their insurance underwriting. Their insurance underwriting has been fine over the years.”
Afternoon Session - 2009 Meeting
“There's nothing wrong, you know, we may prefer January, but there's nothing wrong with Swiss Re's underwriting.”