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Warren Buffett’s Favorite Life Insurance Company

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Rupert Hargreaves
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At the end of 1951, a young Warren Buffett penned an article for the Commercial and Financial Chronicle titled, The Security I Like Best. This article profiled a little-known company called GEICO, which was at the time the young investor’s most substantial shareholding.

 

Following this initial article, over the next decade, Buffett wrote four more pieces on the cheap stocks he liked, giving us a great insight into the young Buffett’s investing mentality and process.

Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett's Favorite Life Insurance Company

In 1957 he wrote up a company called Home Protective Co, which was In his opinion “the last undiscovered equity security of a major life insurance company.”

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