Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited profile and history video
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is a Canadian financial holding company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1985 by the present Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, V. Prem Watsa.
Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance and the associated investment management.
SUBSIDIARIES:
Insurance and Reinsurance
- Allied World
- Brit Limited
- Crum & Forster
- Northbridge Financial
- Odyssey Group
- Zenith National
Fairfax Asia
- Asuransi MAG
- Fairfirst Insurance
- Falcon Insurance (Hong Kong)
- Pacific Insurance
Insurance and Reinsurance – Other
- ARX Insurance
- Bryte Insurance
- Colonnade Insurance
- Fairfax Brasil
- Fairfax Latin America
- Group Re
- Polish Re
- Universalna Insurance Company
Runoff
- RiverStone
Investments
- Hamblin Watsa Investment Counsel Ltd. centrally manage the investments for all of the Fairfax group companies.
With more than 44 000 employees, Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. is considered one of the top 2000 largest public companies in the world, according to Forbes.
*Information from Forbes.com, Wikipedia.org, and ”www.fairfax.ca”.
**Video published on YouTube by “Horatio Alger Association“.