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Berkshire's stake in Burlington Northern is now 22.4%! How about we start a discussion on the merits of this investment on this thread. Cheers!

Hi guys, I've increased the attachment size to 2000KB per post. Hope that helps! Cheers!

Hi guys, Keep the poll going for a while and then I'll decide based on the outcome. I originally did not want seperate threads, but there were a few people who wanted them, so I figured just four would meet somewhere in the middle. But if the votes for one significantly outweigh the other, then I'll go with the majority. Cheers!

I think the investment losses were somewhat expected. They had about $1.4B in equity investments at September 30, 2008. It didn't look like they had alot of hedges. Wipe out about 30% from that $1.4B and you get about $500M in mark-to-market investment losses. There weren't too many insurers like Fairfax...hell, there weren't too many companies like Fairfax out there with their hedged positions and CDS portfolio. Even Berkshire will get sideswiped when their report comes out. Cheers!

Hi Folks, Since the board is called "Corner of Berkshire and Fairfax" and virtually every member owns either Berkshire or Fairfax, I thought it would be best to have two seperate boards to discuss those two companies. I have a third board that relates directly to product experience or customer service related issues to do with Berkshire or Fairfax subsidiaries. All other discussions should be thrown under "General Discussions" for now. At some point, if there is significant demand for another category, I will put it in, but I don't want to clutter the home page or make things too complicated. Thanks very much! Sanjeev

Hi Folks, Since the board is called "Corner of Berkshire and Fairfax" and virtually every member owns either Berkshire or Fairfax, I thought it would be best to have two seperate boards to discuss those two companies. I have a third board that relates directly to product experience or customer service related issues to do with Berkshire or Fairfax subsidiaries. All other discussions should be thrown under "General Discussions" for now. At some point, if there is significant demand for another category, I will put it in, but I don't want to clutter the home page or make things too complicated. Thanks very much! Sanjeev

Ok, I adjusted my profile time offset, but I'm not sure it changed the servers time. I believe you can use the "auto-detect" on the profile page to adjust your offset and that should correct things. Let me know if you guys notice other stuff. There are just so many options, I'm not sure what has been adjusted and what hasn't! Cheers!

When Shortly after the FFH AGM Wednesday April 15, 2009 Meet & Greet: 1:30pm-2:00pm Presentation: 2:00pm-2:30pm Q & A: 2:30pm – 4:00pm Light Refreshments Will Be Served Where Fairmont Royal York 100 Front Street West Toronto, Ontario Salon A For More Information & RSVP sanjeevparsad@shaw.ca

When May 2, 2009 Where Qwest Center Omaha 455 North 10th Street Omaha, Nebraska www.qwestcenter.com For More Information http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/meet01/2009meetpre.pdf

When April 15, 2009 at 9:30am Where John W. H. Bassett Theatre Room 102, Metro-Toronto Convention Centre 255 Front Street West, Toronto For More Information www.fairfax.ca

Unfortunately, there is no way to choose between a sequential & a threaded view at this time. There always updates to the software, so we may have that ability in the future. Cheers!

Hi Zarley, I didn't think anyone would want to use avatars, but I guess alot of people might. I'll turn on that function so that you can also upload anything you want...just keep it clean guys! You can upload videos, etc. I'm still learning how to do some of that stuff, so keep playing around with it and tell me what you find out. I'll fiddle with all those features later on once I get the membership stuff done and archive the old posts from the MSN Board. It's probably a good idea for users to post questions and anything new they've learned on this thread. Thanks very much!

Thanks folks! It's a very easy to use site, that has some decent features and meets our needs. In regards to the question about discussions being under "General Discussion", that would probably be the easiest and cleanest way to keep the board operating. Feel free to title your post whatever you want, but let's keep it under General Discussion. Once everybody starts using the board, a natural flow will evolve and at that point the board may expand into other folders. Cheers!

Hi Stubble, Yeah, there is no rush regarding the dinner. Let me know as we get closer. The drop dead date would probably be Sunday, April 12th, so you have until then to get back to me. Thanks very much!

Steve Forbes has a terrific and quite long interview with Jeremy Grantham of Grantham Mayo. Grantham thinks stocks are quite cheap, but that corrections such as this can overshoot. He doesn't think the recession will be any worse than 1982 or 1974. You can read it at: http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/23/intelligent-investing-grantham-transcriptJan26.html Cheers!

Dear Guests and Members, Welcome to the "Corner of Berkshire and Fairfax" Investment Forum. This message board replaces the old "MSN Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Board" that served nearly 1,800 members from February 2002 to February 2009! The original forum was started simply as a gathering place for me and a few friends to discuss Berkshire Hathaway. It slowly grew to encompass "deep-discount, margin of safety" value investors from virtually every region of the world. The board also became a haven for shareholders of Canadian property-casualty insurer Fairfax Financial. As such, I decided to name it after the imaginary intersecting streets where we would all meet - at the corner of Berkshire and Fairfax! The new board has some terrific new features. Please fiddle with your own personal settings and explore every facet. If you have any problems, please do not hesitate to contact me at sanjeevparsad@shaw.ca . I hope you find this board tremendously useful, and are fortunate enough to make some wonderful new friends. Sincerely, Sanjeev Parsad Founder and Administrator