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Berkshire Hathaway buys Insurer Alleghany for $11.6bn

Download PDF Introduction Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to buy insurance company Alleghany Inc in a deal worth $11.6bn. The purchase, once completed, would be one of the five biggest acquisitions in Berkshire’s records and will put some of the firm’s $146.7bn of cash and cash equivalents to work after a Read more…

By BSIC, 3 years3 April 2022 ago

Corporate Finance

Value in the land of the rising Sun: Warren Buffett’s contrarian bet on Japanese trading houses

Download PDF Introduction In the past year Berkshire Hathaway slowly built a 5% stake in each of the 5 most important trading houses in Japan. The overall size of the transaction is ¥670bn ($6.3bn) and it was backed by a surprising ¥625.5 billion issuance of yen-denominated bonds made in September Read more…

By BSIC, 5 years11 October 2020 ago