"New Fund GoodHaven's Veteran Managers Finding More Patient Buys"

[Guest hellsten]

The GoodHaven guys explain how they find investment ideas and why they like JEF, FII, GOOG, MSFT and other stocks in their portfolio:

http://www.goodhavenfunds.com/media/pdfs/20120810_Welling.pdf

 

JEF: "they're going to start printing money".

[zarley]

Great read.  Thanks for sharing.

[Kraven]

I chuckled at the intro where it said that they "paired up" with Bruce Berkowitz and Fairholme Funds.  Otherwise known as they worked for Berkowitz.  I knew then that this would be a piece with no fluff whatsoever.

[Parsad]

Thanks!  Good interview.  Cheers!

[MVP444300]

I get an error message trying to open the PDF.  It says "bad encrypt dictionary."

[eclecticvalue]

I was reading the P/C part of the interview and they were explaining how insurers make money. One of the ways is "increase in flow" Can someone explain what does that mean?

[twacowfca]

I was reading the P/C part of the interview and they were explaining how insurers make money. One of the ways is "increase in flow" Can someone explain what does that mean?

 

The term referenced is probably float rather than flow.  Float is customer premiums held by an insurance company that doesn't yet belong to the insurance company or will eventually have to be paid to the policy holder or expensed. Technically  float =loss reserves + unearned premium reserves - (AR +RR +DAC)  the advantage of having float is that the money can be invested by the insurance company until it has to be paid out.