Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp

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Bloomberg reported Dexia Picks Up Bond Insurance Market Share; Buffett Enters Fray. Dexia SA, the world's largest lender to local governments, is beating Warren Buffett and Wilbur Ross to grab most of what's left of the bond-insurance business.

Dexia, based in Paris and Brussels, bought Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. for $2.6 billion in 2000 and put $500 million of fresh capital into the New York-based company last month. The cash infusion helped FSA lock in the top credit rating, while Ambac Financial Group Inc. and MBIA Inc. struggle to keep their AAA grades and write new bond insurance.

Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp., Was setup in Last year Dec 2007. Berkshire Hathaway had expanded into a troubled field as the company backed 112 issues in just the past two days, according to Moody's Investors Service. My pervious posted Berkshire Hathaway Grow In New Bond Insurance.

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Update on Bond Insurance
Interview with Warren Buffett on Bond Insurance
Warren Buffett Not Interested In Other Bond Insurers
Berkshire Hathaway Grow In New Bond Insurance
Update on Berkshire Hathaway Bond Insurance
Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation Update

Warren Buffett Donation To Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Update

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The Associated Press Reported Gates trust to sell Berkshire shares , the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's trust will sell more than half of its nearly 1 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to comply with federal tax rules, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday.

The Foundation said it will sell 550,000 Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway, which is run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, over the next three years beginning April 1. Those shares are now worth $2.39 billion.

In 2006 Warren Buffett pledged to give his wealth to the Gates Foundation in annual gifts until his death. Warren Buffett networth now is about $62 billion.

The Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, is the world's largest philanthropic organization.

Warren Buffett picks Better than S&P 500

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GuruFocus.com, posted What If You Bought Buffett’s Top Picks: Kraft Foods Inc., Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Wells Fargo and Company, Carmax Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline?. In year 2008, stock market seem to fallen its value.

But GuruFocus.com posted if you have bought Warren Buffett picks for 2007 at the start of the year you would have a 1.67% year to date gain, which is 10% better than the 9.3% decline of S&P500.

It seem like when everybody is losing money in the stock market only Warren Buffett is the only one who is gaining his value. Warren Buffett is a value investor and he has a record of annual return of 30.4% for 30 years from 1977 to 2007.

Warren Buffett Recieve $100,000 Salaries

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Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger have both kept their salaries at $100,000 again in 2007, Reported by Bloomberg's Warren Buffett's Berkshire Salary Remains $100,000.

Warren Buffett, took a $100,000 salary for the 27th consecutive year in 2007. Mr Buffett had did not received any bonus as he arranged Berkshire into bond insurance and its largest cash purchase, a $4.5 billion deal to buy Marmon Holdings Inc., the Pritzker family's collection of 125 companies. Warren Buffett gets no stock options or grants for serving as chief executive officer and chairman, the Omaha, Nebraska-based company said in a regulatory filing today.

Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway, the once-failing textile manufacturer into a $200 billion investment and holding company with a $75 billion stock portfolio and businesses from candy making to insurance.

Charles Thomas Munger

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Charles Thomas Munger is Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation; he is also Warren Buffett long time partner.

Charles Munger is also a native of Omaha. After studies at the University of Michigan, he serve in the U.S. Navy, he entered Harvard Law School without an undergraduate degree. Graduating in 1948 with a Juris Doctor, he founded and worked as a real estate attorney at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP until 1965. He then gave up the practice of law to concentrate on managing investments.

Charles Munger is also the chairman of Wesco Financial Corporation, an 80.1%-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett always credit Charles Munger as a better businessman than him.

Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation Update

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Business First reported that State clears Berkshire Hathaway municipal bond insurer. Regulators have cleared billionaire Warren Buffett's new municipal bond backer to operate in Ohio, the state Department of Insurance said Friday.

The department said it has granted a license to Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp, which was formed in Dec. 2007. The company will guarantee municipal bonds local and state governments use to finance a variety of public works projects

Berkshire Hathaway had expanded into a troubled field as the company backed 112 issues back in February. Standard & Poor's had assign the top "AAA" rating to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway new bond insurance company Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation.

For more information:
Warren Buffett Interview
Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation Update
Update on Bond Insurance
Interview with Warren Buffett on Bond Insurance
Warren Buffett Not Interested In Other Bond Insurers
Berkshire Hathaway Grow In New Bond InsuranceUpdate on Berkshire Hathaway Bond Insurance

Warren Buffett Buying Washington Mutual???

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Reuters Reported WaMu Shares Jump on Goldman, Buffett Speculation. Washington Mutual the largest U.S. savings and loan rose more than 12 percent on Tuesday amid speculation of a possible capital infusion by Goldman Sachs or Warren Buffett.

Goldman Sachs declined to comment. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway was not immediately available for comment.

Warren Buffett the billionaire investor always invest when he find value in the stock market. Whatever Warren Buffett buys the share of a company the price would shoot up. Even if it were a rumor prices of the company would also shoot up. Mr. Buffett is a famous value investor, which create great wealth for his investor.

Is Washington Mutual a real bargain now? Is warren Buffett really investing in Washington Mutual you won't be able to know until Berkshire Hathaway file in the SEC report. Warren Buffett never buy and tell what he is buying we will have to wait for the SEC report.

Warren Buffett Successor Update

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CNBC's Buffett WAtch posted Potential Buffett Successor Steps Down As Berkshire Utility's CEO. The CEO of Berkshire Hathaway's utility subsidiary MidAmerican Energy Holdings David Sokol, will give up that post at the company's board meeting next month, but will remain chairman.

David Sokol, who is 51 years old, has been "mentioned" as a candidate to become CEO of Berkshire Hathaway when Buffett, now 77, gives up the job, according to an AP. Ajit Jain, who runs Berkshire's insurance operations, Geico's Tony Nicely, and NetJets' Richard Santulli are all in the same category of potential candidates.

In WArren Buffett annual Letter to Shareholders, WArren Buffett mentioned that "we have for some time been well-prepared for CEO succession because we have three outstanding internal candidates. The board knows exactly whom it would pick if I were to become unavailable, either because of death or diminishing abilities."

Warren Buffett had perpare Berkshire Hathaway without him and Berkshire Hathaway should stay fine.

Berkshire Hathaway Sell Stake Of White Mountains Insurance

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CNBC’s Buffett Watch Reported Warren Buffett "Gracefully" Says Goodbye to White Mountains Berkshire Hathaway bought 16.3% of White Mountains Insurance Group 7 year ago.

Warren Buffett who pays $300 million will be selling for two subsidiaries and $751 million.
White Mountains CEO Ray Barrette said Berkshire's investment in White Mountains helped the company buy CGU/One Beacon in 2001. The purchase of CGU's property and casualty insurance business helped White Mountains expand beyond reinsurance

Buffett was a "long-time friend" of Jack Byrne, White Mountains' CEO at the time of the initial investment, and a key player in Geico's growth in the 1970s.



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Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway trades White Mountains Insurance stake for 2 companies and cash
Berkshire Sells White Mountains Stake for $836 Mln White Mountains Buys Off Warren Buffett (WTM, BRK/A)

Warren Buffett New Bond Insurance Company and Ambac

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Warren Buffett had offered to guarantee $800 billion of municipal bonds backed by MBIA Inc, Ambac Financial Group Inc and FGIC Corp, three large bond insurers back in earlier Feb.

According to Earth times Ambac Insiders Respond to Warren Buffett , Warren Buffett's bond insurance company would, for $5 billion in capital, capture a third of the municipal-insurance market. As for the insurers, the deal would steal the best part of their businesses, leaving them to deal with their heavy exposure to sub prime assets.

Ambac rejected the offer leaving everyone wondering what steps they would take to maintain their crucial AAA rating. After Ambac share price has fallen to a 52 week low and eight of the company insiders have purchased shares in their own company. Is Ambac at a bargain now?

My pervious posted about warren Buffett's Offer:
Warren Buffett Interview
Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation Update

Warren Buffett Bet On stocks

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CNBC' Buffett Watch Posted Barron's Spotlights Buffett's $4.5B Bullish Bet on Stocks CNBC report how Warren Buffett spent his money on stocks at year 2007.

According to Barron, Berkshire bought just over $19 billion dollars of equities, twice last year's $9.2 billion. That's an average of $75 million in buys for each business day. Berkshire's net stock purchases (stocks bought minus stocks sold) during the year totaled $11 billion.

The article also notes that Berkshire has brought in $3.2 billion in premiums for insurance against the default of some high-yield ('junk') bonds.

Berkshire Hathaway Stock Price had rise back Since Barron report on Berkshire Hathaway may be overprice in my pervious posted Berkshire Hathaway Shares Drop. Berkshire Hathaway had a 27% gain from last year.

Warren Buffett The Richest Man In The World Update

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In My pervious Posted Warren Buffett The Richest Man In The World. Warren Buffett had been named the world's richest person, by Forbes 2008 ranking of global billionaires. His Networth is now U.S $62 billion.

Warren Buffett owns 32.4% of Berkshire Hathaway A shares, which ended the year at $141,600, and 18.3% of B shares. Berkshire Hathaway share price rose 29% in 2007. In my posted Berkshire Hathaway Ends Year With Biggest Gain Since 1998.

Berkshire Hathaway had annual gain 30.4 percent for 30 years from 1977 to 2007. A $10,000 in Berkshire will worth $815, 506, 65.13 now. Warren Buffett Had beat the S&P 500 by 25% last year. Warren Buffett had continued to provide superb result for his investor.

Warren Buffett The Richest Man In The World

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CNBC's Buffett watch posted Will Warren Buffett Still Be the World's Second Richest Person 24 Hours from Now? And Warren Buffett Named World's Richest Billionaire By Forbes. Warren Buffett had been name the world's richest person, by Forbes 2008 ranking of global billionaires.



The Just release The World's Billionaires Warren Buffett net worth U.S $62 billion, Carlos Slim Helú networth $60 billion and Bill Gates networth U.S. $58 billion.



After 13 years as world richest man, Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. That honor now belongs to his friend Warren Buffett. The surging price of Berkshire Hathaway stock, Buffett has seen his fortune swell to an estimated $62 billion, up $10 billion from a year ago.



In 1979, Warren Buffett's networth reached $620 million, placing him on the Forbes 400 for the first time.

Warren Buffett Watch

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My recently posted Buffett Watch 16 posted CNBC's Interview with warren Buffett, Mr. Buffett said that the US economy was in recession and that stocks were "not cheap".

My pervious posted Warren Buffett Interview Warren Buffett on Monday told CNBC he is no longer offering to guarantee $800 million of municipal bonds backed by MBIA Inc, Ambac Financial Group Inc and FGIC Corp, three large bond insurers.

Earlier back my posted Berkshire Hathaway Net Income Rose 20%, an 18 percent fall in fourth-quarter profit for Berkshire Hathaway, net income for Berkshire Hathaway rose 20 percent in 2007.

Warren Buffett also release his letter to shareholder last Friday, my posted Warren Buffett 2007 Letter to Shareholder had some of CNBC's highlights of the letter.

Buffett Watch 16 posted

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CNBC's Buffett watch posted:
LIVE BLOG: Warren Buffett on CNBC's Squawk Box - 6am ET Hour
LIVE BLOG: Warren Buffett on CNBC's Squawk Box - 7am ET Hour
LIVE BLOG: Warren Buffett on CNBC's Squawk Box - 8am ET Hour
Warren Buffett to CNBC: U.S. Economy in Recession By "Common Sense Definition"
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 1)
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 2)
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 3)
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 4)
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 5)
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 6)
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 7)
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 8)
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 9)
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 10)
Warren Buffett Answers Your Emails on Squawk Box: Transcript (Part 11 and Final)

In just one day CNBC's Buffett watch had post 16 posted.

These posted consist of Warren Buffett live appearances on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning, Warren Buffett has share his view with us about Interest Rates, Federal Reserve, Commodities, U.S. Dollar, Recession, Economy (U.S.), and Stock Market.

Thank to CNBC's Buffett watch. You can learn a lot from the billionaires Investor.

Warren Buffett Interview

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CNBC's Buffett watch posted LIVE BLOG: Warren Buffett on CNBC's Squawk Box - 6am ET Hour, an hour of interview, with Mr. Warren Buffett. This is Warren Buffett's appearance on CNBC’S Squawk box during 6am ET.

Reuters reported that Warren Buffett will not back $800 bln in muni bonds: CNBC. Warren Buffett on Monday told CNBC he is no longer offering to guarantee $800 million of municipal bonds backed by MBIA Inc, Ambac Financial Group Inc and FGIC Corp, three large bond insurers.

Berkshire Hathaway Net Income Rose 20%

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Reuters reported that Buffett has profitable year, faults housing excess. Warren Buffett concluded a highly profitable year for his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Despite an 18 percent fall in fourth-quarter profit, net income for all of 2007 rose 20 percent to $13.21 billion.

Despite spending $32.51 billion on stocks and bonds in 2007, Warren Buffett went another year without the big acquisition he said he wants, leaving Berkshire sitting on $44.33 billion of cash. He also said insurance earnings will likely be lower for a few years.

Warren Buffett is looking to invest more outside the United States, after paying $4 billion for a controlling stake in Israel's Iscar Metalworking Cos and buying stock of South Korean steelmaker Posco, French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA and British retailer Tesco Plc.

Warren Buffett 2007 Letter to Shareholder

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CNBC's Buffett Watch Warren Buffett's Letter to Shareholders: Don't Expect Double-Digit Stock Gains Over Long Run posted some of the highlight of Warren Buffett annual letter to shareholders.

Warren Buffett points out that the Dow's annual compounded gain was 5.3 percent in the 20th century. To match that rate in the 21st century, the Dow would need to close around 2 million at the end of 2099. He also said that anyone expecting a 10 percent annual gains from stocks this century are "implicitly forecasting a level of about 24,000,000 on the Dow by 2100." He warns, "Beware the glib helper who fills your head with fantasies while he fills his pockets with fees." Warren Buffett has recommended stock index mutual funds for many investors.

Warren Buffett also says that during the past year, Berkshire identified four people who could take over the separate job of managing Berkshire's investments. He says all four had “Manage substantial sums currently”,” Indicated a strong interest in coming to Berkshire if called", Are "young to middle-aged", Are "well-to-do to rich" and "Wish to work for Berkshire for reasons that go beyond compensation".

CNBC's Buffett watch also highlight thing Warren Buffett mention in his letter to shareholders. In HIGHLIGHTS FROM BUFFETT'S LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS there are highlights of the letter.

Special thanks to CNBC's Buffett Watch for sharing the information about Warren Buffett Letter to Shareholder.

Warren Buffett 2007 Letter to Shareholder Coming Up Soon

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Warren Buffett had sent out his Berkshire Hathaway letter to shareholder. Berkshire Hathaway had always been a bible to long-term value investing. Each year, Buffett's letter is eagerly awaited by lot of people.

Warren Buffett had been the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway since 1970 and had been writing for 37 year of Berkshire Hathaway letter to Shareholder. Warren Buffett always writes in a very easy-going, straight-forward way to make sure his share holder get his point.

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Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation Update

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Reuters's reported Buffett's new insurer deals to get "AAA" - S&P. Standard & Poor's said on Tuesday it stands ready to begin assigning the top "AAA" rating to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway new bond insurance company Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation.

Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corp., Was setup in Last year Dec 2007. Berkshire Hathaway had expanded into a troubled field as the company backed 112 issues in just the past two days, according to Moody's Investors Service. My pervious posted Berkshire Hathaway Grow In New Bond Insurance.

For More Information about Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation:
Update on Bond Insurance
Interview with Warren Buffett on Bond Insurance
Warren Buffett Not Interested In Other Bond Insurers
Berkshire Hathaway Grow In New Bond Insurance
Update on Berkshire Hathaway Bond Insurance