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Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire Hathaway is an American multinational conglomerate holding company, famous for its diverse portfolio of wholly-owned businesses. This page contains news about Berkshire Hathway’s insurance and reinsurance businesses, as well as its financial reporting.

Within that, Berkshire Hathaway has a meaningful insurance and reinsurance operation and under the watch of Warren Buffett this has grown into one of the most meaningful players in the global reinsurance market.

Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group encompasses GenRe, TransRe and its life reinsurance operations.

Given its size and breadth of operations, Berkshire Hathaway has famously used the insurance premium float generated by its primary and reinsurance operations to fuel its enormous investment firepower.

With such diversification and depth of capital across its business, Berkshire Hathaway is know for being strategic and tactical in how it underwrites reinsurance business, growing and shrinking its capital deployments into the sector depending on its view of price adequacy and relative value compared to its other opportunities.

AIG gets adverse development reinsurance from Berkshire Hathaway

20th January 2017

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has entered into a $9.8 billion adverse development reinsurance agreement with Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, National Indemnity Company (NICO), effective January 1st, 2016. The $9.8 billion transaction covers 80% of substantially all of AIG's U.S. commercial long-tail exposures for accident years 2015 and prior, and this includes the ... Read the full article

Berkshire Hathaway gains reinsurance license for Malaysia market

17th January 2017

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is set to enter the Malaysian reinsurance market, having received a license from Labuan FSA to provide non-life products in the country, through its Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (BHSI) arm. Berkshire Hathaway has been expanding steadily into Asian and Pacific insurance and reinsurance markets, as the ... Read the full article

Berkshire Hathaway in $1.5bn reinsurance agreement with The Hartford

3rd January 2017

Warren Buffett’s National Indemnity Company (NICO), a Berkshire Hathaway Inc subsidiary, has entered into a $1.5 billion aggregate excess of loss reinsurance agreement with The Hartford. With a reinsurance premium set at $650 million, the agreement will provide $1.5 billion of reinsurance covering adverse net loss reserve development on ... Read the full article

Buffett targets Japan earthquake re/insurance with Berkshire Hathaway

27th December 2016

Warren Buffett is targeting a move into Japanese earthquake reinsurance through his Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance unit, according to a report. The Nikkei reported that Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance is set to move into Japanese earthquake reinsurance, by backing Japanese insurers, citing Marc Breuil, Regional President Asia at BHSI. Buffett's Berkshire ... Read the full article