(Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. further reduced its stake in Munich Re as the billionaire investor re-evaluates the attractiveness of the reinsurance market.
The holding was trimmed to 4.6% from 9.7%, Munich Re said in a filing Friday. Buffett’s firm once owned about 12% of the Munich-based reinsurer and has been lowering the stake this year.
Berkshire, which also sells reinsurance, invested from 2008 to 2010 in rivals Munich Re and Swiss Re. Since then, Buffett has soured some on the industry. The companies, which provide backup coverage to primary carriers, have been pressured by competition from Wall Street investors seeking weather-related bets that are uncorrelated to financial markets.
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