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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

The number of LinkedIn posts grew 41% from 2021 to 2023. How We Got “Democracy Dies In Darkness”: And other stories from eight years running The Washington Post ( The Atlantic ) • Why We’ll Never Live in Space : Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space.

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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%

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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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Should the CFP Board police financial advisor “bad apples”? The debate continues! (Part Two)

Sara Grillo

I mean, how is the CFP Board even going through a process of due diligence, again, innocent till proving guilty in the sense when they have all kinds of disclosures, but at the same time, they’re publicly reprimanding 40 people, 80 people, whatever the number is, in a given year, out of the tens of thousands. Salaske: Right, now.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. I — I couldn’t believe the numbers. So it’s unusual though to have that much work ethic, that much drive and say, yeah, I want all the investors to have the money. RITHOLTZ: In 2016 …. BALCHUNAS: Yeah.

Assets 161