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MKL 2009 letter to business partners 
A letter to shareholders is a very good way to communicate
directly with your business partners. I see a yearly
letter like that a letter that I would write to a
shareholder that is on...
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8-Feb-10 01:49 pm |
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Re: Markel Q4 earnings call transcript
That was a very comprehensive and interesting conference
call. Here is a funny part: "Beth Malone - Wunderlich
Securities Okay and obviously you don't have any
kind of crystal ball to suggest that we...
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8-Feb-10 10:10 am |
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Re: Motley Fool compared this to BRK.A! Why?
Some similarities and some differences between the
two. There is never been and there will never be another
Berkshire Hathaway and/or another Warren Buffett.
By the way, if you find the next...
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25-Jan-10 10:47 am |
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Re: MKL - Health Bill
Are you a lobbyist?...
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12-Jan-10 09:09 am |
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Re: 2010
Thank you very much thesaltyone!
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8-Jan-10 09:56 am |
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Re: 2010
Hi employeeuk, I wish you, all Markel employees and
everybody on this board a happy new year. I had to
sell some very undervaluated MKL shares in the end
of 2009 to buy my first house. The house was...
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partner24000 |
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7-Jan-10 05:23 pm |
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Re: Speak to brokers about MKL One-It&&39;s a bust
Since when are you listening to brokers? It's the
only people where people who drive cadillac get financial
advices from people who take the subway. Secondly,
I'm happy that they do not "win...
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partner24000 |
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26-Nov-09 07:12 am |
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Re: Panel Specialists
"Mendelson also said that one of Markel’s guiding
principles is to find businesses with capable management.
He said Markel will provide oversight but doesn’t
want to...
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partner24000 |
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6-Nov-09 08:25 pm |
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Re: Motley Fool
Stephen, "As is the norm, we are seeing things
similiarly". Indeed! I guess that you are the
only person that I could post very often a copy/paste
"I have nothing to add" reply to your..
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partner24000 |
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9-Oct-09 09:44 am |
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Re: Motley Fool
Crip, The fact is my main investment thesis for Markel
is approximately the same now as it were 5 years ago.
How can you keep the interest of your readers with
a "boring" business...
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partner24000 |
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6-Oct-09 09:17 am |
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Re: calmer waters
Greetings employeeuk, It's always nice to read
you. I've been mostly invested in P&C insurance
companies over the last 6 years. One of the things
that I've...
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partner24000 |
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6-Oct-09 09:09 am |
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Re: MKL is a has-been carrier. They bring nothing to a broker
Topper, you're absolutely right. That's an
old fashion way business model. Markel is worth ZERO.
How about selling me some shares of this scrap business
for 1$ each?
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partner24000 |
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18-Sep-09 10:48 am |
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Re: Markel insider selling is simply excessive
I guess what you see is a cleanup of those who bought
Markel for the wrong reasons at the first place: -
those who search for "cool" stocks (Motley
Fool ads...
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16-Sep-09 08:36 am |
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Re: Outlook: Negative
Who cares about Fitch? ;-)
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24-Aug-09 10:43 am |
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Re: Markel is nice, but Fairfax Financial
I may sound pessimistic, but I'm not. I just want
to underline some of the sour points of the FFH investment
study. Now, that being said, overall, it is true that
Fairfax managers...
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partner24000 |
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12-Aug-09 08:12 pm |
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Re: Markel is nice, but Fairfax Financial
Listen, more than 50% of my net worth is now in FFH.
So, my money is where my mouth is.That being said,
beware of being too much optimistic about Fairfax.
Yes, Fairfax has very...
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partner24000 |
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12-Aug-09 07:47 pm |
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Re: Nice 8% growth in book value
"i think it gets crushed in the AM...all mayhem
breaks loose...then after the CC the stock finishes
positive"I don't have any idea about that,
and it's not like it...
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partner24000 |
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6-Aug-09 10:06 am |
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Re: To Partner2400
In short words: their both ones part of the best in
class ;-)
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partner24000 |
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30-Jul-09 11:53 am |
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Re: To Partner2400
After having red your original question again, I see
that your question about the long term track record
was related to FFH.Based on their last AGM presentation,
their past 15...
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30-Jul-09 11:46 am |
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Re: To Partner2400
Lastly, regarding the book value per share growth over
the long term, book value per share was at 27,83$
at the end of 1993 and 222,20 at the end of 2008.So
that's near 15% CAGR over that perdiod.For mo
re...
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30-Jul-09 11:38 am |
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