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David vs Goliath Graphic_rating_buy FFH
N/A
 +22.24%
in 370 days

Price hammered down by hedge funds, who bet on the wrong side.  With annualized EPS of $100/share, expect stock to shoot towards $400 level.  Sound management - on the insurance, reinsurance, and investment fronts.

 

 

By  derey   (+22.00%  risk: conservative)  11/03/08 Comment


FFH win on credit default swap gains FFH
11235
66%
 +1.08%
in 8 days
(closed on 01/28/08)

Technically starting to move forward with growing on balance volume, it's an easy pick once overall market sentiment becomes less volatile, which will be near when VIX confidently passes 32.

<> FFH will continue to benefit from the credit crisis as they hold strong positions anticipating downgrades of credit quality in certain businesses.  Their Nov earnings release is the beginning as many new downgrades have appeared in late Dec and early Jan which will show in 4Q 07 earnings to be posted mid to late Feb.  Their earnings surprise from 3Q is a precursor to a new 52 week high in light o<>...
By  thebigkill   (+0.92%  risk: moderate)  01/20/08 Comment


Fairfax Set To Gain From Defaults Graphic_rating_buy FFH
+76.06%
in 808 days

Angela Barnes of the Globe and Mail reports on Fairfax Financial (FFH/NYSE) potentially booking big gains on its holdings of credit default swaps (CDS):

<> <> Stephen Boland, who follows the Toronto-based firm for CIBC World Markets Inc., said in a recent report that he believes the market value of Fairfax's CDS positions, which soared in July, will continue to increase and that Fairfax could realize an even higher gain through the next quarter as credit conditions in the United States deteriorate.

And Mark Dwelle, an analyst with Ferris Baker Watts Inc., also has suggested tha...
By  Controlled Greed Investor   (+5.98%  risk: aggressive)  08/23/07 Comment


Fairfax Hedges Graphic_rating_sell FFH
-3.52%
in 17 days
(closed on 08/23/07)

In May I posted about Prem Watsa positioning Fairfax Financial's (FFH/NYSE) investment portfolio for a "hundred year storm" in the markets. This weekend, James Daw of the Toronto Star reports on Watsa's comments during the Fairfax recent conference call:

<> <> <>

But Watsa and his team are looking smarter or luckier, in a morbid way, that they bought investment protection when it was still available and when prices were cheaper.

<> Like various other stock market indices, the Standard & Poor's 500 index in New York has fallen more than 6 per cent in Canadian dollar terms in t...
By  Controlled Greed Investor   (+5.98%  risk: aggressive)  08/06/07 Comment


collects premiums and takes advantage of government subsidies Graphic_rating_buy FFH
Scan
 1 %
 +67.84%
in 904 days
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (Fairfax) through its subsidiaries, is engaged in property and casualty insurance . I like insurance because it reinvests it's premiums creating a great cash reserve, so growth  is almost a given.
By  S K   (-16.68%  risk: aggressive)  05/19/07 Comment




From the Blogosphere

Prem Watsa's Business Style on Display
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Barry Critchley has a column in Canada's Financial Post about Fairfax Financial (FFH) and its deal to takeover the rest of Odyssey Re it doesn't own. A part:

"We have a lot of reverse enquiries," said Paul Rivett, Fairfax's chief legal officer, referring to calls from either existing or new shareholders who wanted to let the company know that they would be willing buyers if and when Fairfax decided to raise capital following last week's decision to purchase the rest of Odyssey Re Holdings Corp.
<><>"Wegot calls from shareholders who had our stock and wanted more and fromothers who had been wai...
By  Controlled Greed Investor   (+5.98%  risk: aggressive)  09/09/09 Comment


Prem Enters The Middle Kingdom
<>

News broke yesterday that Fairfax Financial Holdings (FFH) is making a move into China by purchasing a 15% stake in Alltrust Insurance Co. of China for about US $66 million.

From a story in today's Globe and Mail:

<><>The Chinese market is coveted by many insurers, both those thatspecialize in life insurance as well as property and casualtyinsurance, because of its growth potential. Last month, FinanceMinister Jim Flaherty led to China a delegation of representatives fromCanadian financial institutions, including the chief executive officersof the country's largest life insurers, Manulife Financi...
By  Controlled Greed Investor   (+5.98%  risk: aggressive)  09/02/09 Comment


Five for the Weekend #51
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Busy, busy, buy with blogging almost non-existent. But I am able to lift my head above water long enough (barely) to offer up five items you might wish to checkout over the next couple of days.

  • FT.com has a good interview with John Malone of Liberty Media. Asked if he's optimistic about the economy, Malone says: "No. I think this is going to be a long slog, there's just way too much debt in the west." As you know, I hold the three Liberty Media tracking stocks and count them as a single position in the portfolio.
<><>Portfolio holding Fairfax Financial (FFH) reported great results this week. <>Fr...
By  Controlled Greed Investor   (+5.98%  risk: aggressive)  07/31/09 Comment


MoneySense Magazine Picks 10 Stocks for the Next 10 Years

Recently MoneySense magazine of Canada published the ten best stocks to buy and hold for the next 10 years. The stocks selected are listed below:

<>Of the ten stocks above, the majority of them are U.S. companies. eBay (EBAY) and Microsoft (MSFT) are tech companies whose glory days are long gone. They are definitely not long-term investment picks. Microsoft would have been a great pick in the late 80s when it went went public. After the dot com bu...
By  trackseekingalpha   (-14.31%  risk: aggressive)  07/28/09 Comment


Five for the Weekend #47 -- July 4th Weekend Edition
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With Saturday being Independence Day here in the US, Controlled Greed is declaring victory and taking Friday off. We hope all our Canadian readers enjoyed a great Canada Day on Wednesday. Here are five items you might wish to check out over the next three days.

<><>The jobs report was a downer, showing US unemployment at 9.5%. The Lex take in the Financial Times: <>"This is a volatile measure. But if the disheartened are only nowceasing their search for work, that suggests a drawn outperiod?in?which?they rejoin the labour force, lifting the unemploymentrate. And they are right to be discouraged: t...
By  Controlled Greed Investor   (+5.98%  risk: aggressive)  07/03/09 Comment



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