Markel, Inc.
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Markel is an insurance company and is often called a "mini Berkshire
Hathaway" and, in fact, many of their investments overlap with
Buffett's.
Excellent value blog "One Guy's Investments" also thinks Markel could
be "the next Berkshire" and writes:
"Markel (MKL), as I've written before, seems to be following a very
similar tack to Berkshire Hathaway -- albeit skipping the first few
steps of buying the failing textile mill, etc., and instead moving
straight into the lucrative insurance business. One of the things that
stands out for me, aside from the great performance from their
insurance lines during this nice rebound year for the insurers, is
that management really SOUNDS like Warren Buffett in their corporate
releases. And with their investment in the local First Market Bank in
their local VA stomping grounds, there's some speculation that they're
starting to spread their wings, investment-wise, and begin investing
some of their prodigious cash flow outside the stock market (even as
Thomas Gayner, who runs the investments for Markel, focuses on a lot
of the same conservative, boring criteria as Buffett has in making
hugely successful stock investment decisions)."
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