Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway revealed a new $6.72 billion investment in insurance firm Chubb in a regulatory filing on Wednesday, which propelled the company's stock to an all-time high. Berkshire owned 25.92 million shares in Chubb as of March 31, according to a regulatory filing that details Berkshire's U.S.-listed holdings as of that date. Chubb's stock, which edged slightly lower by 0.13% during the day's trading session, soared by more than 7.
Chubb is an attractive equity investment for Berkshire because it operates in a business Berkshire knows well: property-casualty insurance," Cathy Seifert, a CFRA Research analyst who covers Berkshire, said in an email reviewed by Reuters. The filing indicated that Berkshire ended the month of March with $189 billion in cash and equivalents — a record high stockpile for Buffett's conglomerate.
Berkshire has in recent years obtained similar SEC permission for its investment in Chevron and former investments in ExxonMobil, IBM and Verizon. The filing doesn't indicate whether the investments were made by Buffett or Berkshire portfolio managers Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE Buffett, 93, has run Berkshire since 1965 and spoke at length about his succession plans at Berkshire's annual meeting earlier this month.