Money and Finance
The Audible Daily Deal looks like an interesting course from The Great Courses (for $3.95): How Ideas Spread (The lecturer also wrote a book on these ideas: Contagious: Why Things Catch On)
Follow Buffett Reinsurance Guru’s Sage Advice [H/T Linc] (LINK)
92Y Podcast: 2011 Conversation between Oliver Sacks and Jonathan Weiner (LINK) [There's also a great 2007 conversation with Sacks about his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, AUDIO LINK.]
Pictures: A World Without Energy [H/T @BillGates] (LINK)
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Today's Audible Daily Deal ($1.95) is a book I remember hearing recommended on a recent podcast, though I don't remember which one: How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships Daily Journal Annual Meeting Notes...
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Seth Alexander and Joel Cohen of MIT Investment Management Company talk to Sanjay Bakshi's class (LINK) Warren Buffett and the Great Salad Oil Swindle [H/T Linc] (LINK) Related book: Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder...
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Grant's 2015 Christmas Vacation Issue (LINK) 2011 Video: Warren Buffett and Ajit Jain Answer Questions From MBA Class [H/T GuruFocus and Linc] (LINK) The Sagan Series [H/T @cullenroche] (LINK) A Conversation With Michael Lewis About How The Big Short...
- Ajit Jain On Cnbc
Berkshire Hathaway shocked the world when it jumped into the bond insurance business, and Ajit Jain, president of the reinsurance and specialty risk division at Berkshire Hathaway, discusses the new venture. (Video) ...
- Buffett Buys Reinsurer; Bond Venture Rumored
The Oracle of Omaha is picking up a Dutch reinsurance business on the cheap.-Dutch financial services firm ING on Friday announced the sale of its NRG reinsurance unit to billionaire investor Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway for 300 million euros...
Money and Finance
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The Audible Daily Deal looks like an interesting course from The Great Courses (for $3.95): How Ideas Spread (The lecturer also wrote a book on these ideas: Contagious: Why Things Catch On)
Follow Buffett Reinsurance Guru’s Sage Advice [H/T Linc] (LINK)
When Ajit Jain can’t see value in reinsurance, investors across the industry should worry.
The man who runs Warren Buffett’s reinsurance business told The Wall Street Journal this summer that Berkshire Hathaway would be putting more money into normal commercial and retail insurance instead.
Mr. Jain’s views are almost as influential among reinsurers as Mr. Buffett’s are among investors. There is of course a chance his words could be mischievous: an attempt to influence rivals’ strategies.
But there are profound industry changes afoot that look set to suppress reinsurance rates and returns for years to come.
Teaching Empathy (LINK)
92Y Podcast: 2011 Conversation between Oliver Sacks and Jonathan Weiner (LINK) [There's also a great 2007 conversation with Sacks about his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, AUDIO LINK.]
New images of Pluto (LINK)
Pictures: A World Without Energy [H/T @BillGates] (LINK)
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Today's Audible Daily Deal ($1.95) is a book I remember hearing recommended on a recent podcast, though I don't remember which one: How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships Daily Journal Annual Meeting Notes...
- Links
Seth Alexander and Joel Cohen of MIT Investment Management Company talk to Sanjay Bakshi's class (LINK) Warren Buffett and the Great Salad Oil Swindle [H/T Linc] (LINK) Related book: Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder...
- Links
Grant's 2015 Christmas Vacation Issue (LINK) 2011 Video: Warren Buffett and Ajit Jain Answer Questions From MBA Class [H/T GuruFocus and Linc] (LINK) The Sagan Series [H/T @cullenroche] (LINK) A Conversation With Michael Lewis About How The Big Short...
- Ajit Jain On Cnbc
Berkshire Hathaway shocked the world when it jumped into the bond insurance business, and Ajit Jain, president of the reinsurance and specialty risk division at Berkshire Hathaway, discusses the new venture. (Video) ...
- Buffett Buys Reinsurer; Bond Venture Rumored
The Oracle of Omaha is picking up a Dutch reinsurance business on the cheap.-Dutch financial services firm ING on Friday announced the sale of its NRG reinsurance unit to billionaire investor Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway for 300 million euros...