- Prem Watsa Fairfax Financial Toronto
Who is he?: The 56-year-old CEO of Fairfax Financial Holdings has often been called the Buffett of the North. He’s run his insurance holding company since 1985 and has grown its share price by an average of 26% a year during that time.
- Tim McElvaine McElvaine Investment Trust Vancouver
Who is he?: McElvaine, 44, is a native of Kingston, Ont., and a graduate of Queen’s University. He qualified as a chartered accountant and earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation before going to work for Peter Cundill, the famed value investor and fund manager, in 1991. Five years later, McElvaine set up the McElvaine Investment Trust.
- Dr. Michael Burry Scion Capital Cupertino, Calif.
Who is he?: Burry, 36, studied economics at UCLA, but despite a long-standing fascination with the stock market, stuck to his original plan of becoming a doctor. In 1995, as he was finishing his training at Vanderbilt Medical School, his father died and Burry began investing a small amount of trust money. Two years later, he launched his own website and began to write about stocks in the only time he had free — between midnight and three in the morning. His dissections of value stocks attracted a following and in 2000, Forbes magazine named his hobby site as one of the top investing destinations on the web. By then Burry was in the third year of a residency in neurology at Stanford University Medical Center and he figured it was time to choose between medicine and money management. He set up a hedge fund, named it Scion Capital, and became a full-time investor.
- Ian Cumming Leucadia National New York
Who is he?: Cumming is a decade younger than Buffett, which puts him at a sprightly 67. He’s a Harvard MBA who has been chairman of Leucadia since 1978. Together with partner Joe Steinberg, who serves as Leucadia’s president, Cumming has built a long-term track record of investor returns that is actually slightly better than Buffett’s. He does it primarily by looking for broken down, unwanted companies that he can fix and sell for a profit.
Thanks to Sanjeev from MSN BRK Board for the original reference
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