Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like an Insurer
@orsiri：
The moat nobody notices until it leaks I think investors still underestimate how unusual Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance machine really is. Most conglomerates collect capital and then allocate it. Berkshire’s genius was that it collected capital while often being paid to hold it. That is the magic of float. Warren Buffett effectively turned insurance liabilities into one of the cheapest investment funding sources in financial history. The problem is that float only stays magical if underwriting discipline remains exceptional. Berkshire’s float machine still works — just slightly less flawlessly That is why I think Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance division is entering its first genuine post-Buffett stress test. Not because the business is broken, and certainly not because GEICO suddenly forgot