Prem Watsa: Creating Fairfax Financial, Long Term Investing And Culture

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A speech and Q&A with billionaire value investor and founder of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Prem Watsa. In this speech, Prem discusses starting Fairfax and coming to Canada. Prem also talks about long term investing, Fairfax’s culture and principles.

 

Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc

 

Video Segments:

0:00 Introduction

7:36 Coming to Canada

9:25 First job

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12:03 Buying an insurance company

15:15 Turning the company around

17:13 Culture and principles

26:33 Start of Q&A

26:56 What can Canada do to keep investing in successful businesses?

29:09 Where are you today on global growth?

30:52 Advice for Donald Trump?

32:34 What determines if Fairfax will get involved in restructuring?

35:28 How do you balance short term vs long term?

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