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At Buffet's Diversified Berkshire Hathaway, Insurance Still #1

National News • May 4, 2007
The mix of companies and investments billionaire Warren Buffett's company holds makes some people think investing in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is a bit like buying shares of a mutual fund that ...

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Subject: Berkshire is a hedge fund

Posted On: May 4, 2007, 2:37 pm CDT
Posted By: G
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True that the insurance is the largest source of Berkshire's bottomline year-to-year. However, WEB delivers bigger chucks from "trading" opporuntities in the market. If not from the treasuries or foreign currencies, distressed bonds and international euqities just looking back most recent few years. The only difference to your average hedge fund is that all the gains are distributed to the shareholders and not to the handful of managers. It's much better than the mutual fund.
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