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Q: News yesterday BAM has $2B deal with China in real estate. Make people think the story in the dark room. Sources indicate the seller(s) on the other side of the deal are not private own Corp, is it the another political motive deal? Indirectly related with recent tensions with China?
Over the years, looking the rear view mirror, it looks like these corps are acting as liberal’s “friends”/banks/lobbyists, they are too big to fail and same time they are not for shareholders best interest.
Read Answer Asked by LEI on April 05, 2019
Q: Concerning Canadian Cies (like FFH or TRP ), paying dividends, but getting a significant part of their revenues from the US or from foreign Cies that they own : Do we get the whole tax credit on their dividends ? Or is it only in proportion of the Canadian portion of the Cie ?
Read Answer Asked by Jean-Yves on March 21, 2019
Q: Your opinion please as to 5 best value buys (most down for no great reason) according to the following criteria

Canadian Dividend paying, large blue chip type company, any sector

thanks

Ernie
Read Answer Asked by Ernest on March 18, 2019
Q: Hi 5I,
How would a small investor get in to Private equities. This only seems possible for High Net Worth Clients. Is there good Publicly traded company's or ETF's that focus on Private equities. Is this a type of asset class that is recommended to diversify your portofolio.
Thank you
Read Answer Asked by André on August 07, 2018
Q: This is not a question but a guide to the entire history of FFH, which answers on the questions today. It's published in the annual report every year where the Dec. 31 book value and share value are compared. The reader should note he trend in the book value, in particular. Also Watsa's comments over and over are that book value and share value will not necessarily follow each other. I am a long term holder of FFH, sold out at $600 purely to buy a house and then by pure blind luck (not skills) I had the opportunity to by back in with ACB of $175 a couple of years later!

http://s1.q4cdn.com/579586326/files/doc_financials/2017/annual/WEBSITE-Fairfax-Financial's-Corporate-Performance-page.pdf
Read Answer Asked by John on March 23, 2018
Q: No question here, but my comment on FFH. I owned FFH In the 80’s. I recall the stock trading at 600.00. Please correct me if I am wrong. It is now 600.00 plus. How Prem Watsa can be compared to Buffet is like my golf game being compared to Tiger Woods. Watsa makes big bets against the market which on balance I would think have been horrible , to be stand corrected.
What am I missing??
Regards, Bill
Read Answer Asked by Bill on March 22, 2018
Q: Hi Peter, would you consider Fairfax as proxy to market /financial sector.
would you SUGGEST FFH or buy BNS, SLF, BAM, CSH.UN (in equil weight totalling amount equal to FFH). This would be for RESP with 8 years to go and regular contribution over that time. OR any other suggestions for resp account. Thanks for your great service.
Read Answer Asked by RUPINDER on September 11, 2017
Q: Hi Team,
Would you kindly comment on Fairfax's announced sale of Singaporean insurer First Capital Insurance Ltd. for US $1.6B and it's ongoing strategic alliance with Japan’s Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. Do you have any thoughts about how significant this deal is and how it will improve Fairfax's prospects for the future?
Thank you, Michael
Read Answer Asked by Michael on August 25, 2017
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