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Re: Cobas AM: Nueva Gestora de Francisco García Paramés
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2015 Annual Letter. Dangers that climate change might present to our insurance operation? It’s understandable that someone believe Berkshire is especially threatened by climate change because we are a huge insurer, covering all sorts of risks. And such worries might, in fact, be warranted if we wrote ten- or twenty-year policies at fixed prices. But insurance policies are customarily written for one year and repriced annually to reflect changing exposures. Increased possibilities of loss translate promptly into increased premiums. As a shareholder of a major insurer, climate change should not be on your list of worries.
Annual Letter 2015. Today, our insurance results are likely to be more stable than was the case a decade or two ago because we have deemphasized catastrophe coverages and greatly expanded our bread-and-butter lines of business. We’ve spent 48 years building this multi-faceted operation, and it can’t be replicated. Without a doubt, Berkshire’s largest unrecorded wealth lies in its insurance business.
Annual letter 2020. Overall, the insurance fleet operates with far more capital than is deployed by any of its competitors worldwide. That financial strength, coupled with the huge flow of cash Berkshire annually receives from its non-insurance businesses, allows our insurance companies to safely follow an equity-heavy investment strategy not feasible for the overwhelming majority of insurers. Those competitors, for both regulatory and credit-rating reasons, must focus on bonds.
For more than the last decade, Berkshire has grown its float at an 8% compounded annual growth rate while achieving a negative 2% average cost of float due to its profitable insurance underwriting, while incurring an underwriting loss in only one out of the last 15 years. These are extraordinary results particularly when compared with the substantial majority of insurance companies which lose money in their insurance operations and are only profitable after including investment returns. Furthermore, we believe that Berkshire's cost of float will remain stable or even decline as its fastest growing insurance businesses (GEICO and BH Primary) have a lower cost of float than the company's overall average