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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Sloan stepped up to become CEO at Wells Fargo after the problems surfaced in 2016 but failed to satisfy politicians and regulators with Wells Fargo’s pace of progress on regulatory issues. Buffett praised Abel and Jain for their accomplishments and their knowledge of the businesses and work ethic, and invited questions for them as well.

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Sloan stepped up to become CEO at Wells Fargo after the problems surfaced in 2016 but failed to satisfy politicians and regulators with Wells Fargo’s pace of progress on regulatory issues. Buffett praised Abel and Jain for their accomplishments and their knowledge of the businesses and work ethic, and invited questions for them as well.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. That can work for a while and sometimes climbs to extraordinary numbers, but it comes to a bad ending. It was tried before with tulip bulbs.

Assets 52
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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. That can work for a while and sometimes climbs to extraordinary numbers, but it comes to a bad ending. It was tried before with tulip bulbs. 2019 Annual Shareholder Meeting.

Assets 52
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Transcript: David Layton

The Big Picture

And then in 2016, we were thinking a little bit more strategically about our business in the Americas, and I championed this project to open up a headquarters for the firm in Colorado and — RITHOLTZ: Away from Wall Street. You sit on the board of directors on a number of portfolio companies. LAYTON: Yup.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Insurance operations in total contributed about 20% of Berkshire’s revenue in 2016, and about 6% of pretax income came from insurance underwriting profits. billion of investable float in 2016, which partially funds Berkshire’s $260 billion investment portfolio. More importantly, insurance contributed $91.5 annualized compared with 6.9%

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Insurance operations in total contributed about 20% of Berkshire’s revenue in 2016, and about 6% of pretax income came from insurance underwriting profits. billion of investable float in 2016, which partially funds Berkshire’s $260 billion investment portfolio. More importantly, insurance contributed $91.5 annualized compared with 6.9%