The Berkshire shareholder had an insurance question for CEO Warren Buffett and the company’s insurance head, Ajit Jain.
It centered on private-equity firms like Blackstone, Apollo, and KKR aggressively expanding to insurance and increasing risk.
“There’s no question the private-equity firms have come into this space, and we are no longer competitive in this space,” said Jain. “In the last three, four years, I don’t think we’ve done a single deal.

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