Prem Watsa: How an Indian became Canada's Warren BuffettIndian-Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa, hailed as the "Warren Buffett of Canada," has announced his succession plan for Fairfax Financial H...
13 Nov, 2025, 03.12 PM IST
Who is Ben Watsa, the future chairman of Fairfax financial and heir to Prem Watsa’s $100-billion empire?Billionaire Prem Watsa has revealed his son, Ben Watsa, will succeed him as chairman of Fairfax Financial Holdings. The news comes from Dav...
13 Nov, 2025, 11.53 AM IST
At Fairfax, Ben Watsa to be Chair after fatherFairfax Financial Holdings chairman Prem Watsa has revealed his succession plan, with son Ben Watsa slated to take over the $100 billion co...
13 Nov, 2025, 05.30 AM IST
Fairfax arm infuses Rs 500 crore into IIFL Finance: SourcesFairfax's Odyssey Reinsurance offers Rs 500 crore debt to IIFL Finance for gold loans. Prem Watsa's subsidiary provides secured, rated bond...
16 Apr, 2024, 12.21 AM IST
India's big advantage is that two-thirds of the economy is consumer-oriented, says Fairfax boss Prem WatsaFairfax has invested $7 billion in India, he said. "In next five years, we are looking at doubling that. We got a few projects already that...
11 Jan, 2024, 10.31 AM IST
Watsa plans to invest $7 billion more"We are just thinking how we can mobilise support for India in terms of investing a lot more by raising a lot more money. Not through Fairf...
06 Jun, 2022, 07.36 AM IST
IIFL Holdings jumps 8% on NCLT nod to demergerThe nod paves the way for listing of three entities — IIFL Finance, IIFL Wealth and IIFL Securities -- within 60 days.
15 Mar, 2019, 04.52 PM IST
NCLT approves demerger of IIFL Group into 3 entitiesShares of IIFL have gained 10 per cent in the past month.
15 Mar, 2019, 08.43 AM IST
How billionaire Prem Watsa is steering insurance into digital worldFairfax reduced its stake in ICICI Lombard in May this year. A month later, it backed Digit, a business that is being built by Allianz Insu...
06 Dec, 2017, 11.42 PM IST
ET Awards: Fairfax's Prem Watsa wins Global Indian award for corporate excellencePrem Watsa has come a long way since he landed in Canada as a young immigrant in the early 1970s with just $8 in his pocket.
06 Sep, 2017, 02.01 PM IST
GVK sells 10 per cent stake in BIAL for Rs 1,290 croreNow Watsa owns 48 per cent in the third busiest airport in the country and GVK, which built the greenfield project, exits the airport.
14 Jul, 2017, 12.26 AM IST
Karnataka Minister seeks to block GVK Group's stake sale in Bengaluru airport to FairfaxWhile seeking the CM's intervention to "put on hold" the GVK Group's proposal to sell its balance equity, Shivakumar urged govt to get cont...
17 Jun, 2017, 05.47 PM IST
Watsa's Bangalore International Airport investment plan gets government nodA GVK spokesman confirmed the development and said this will pave the way for the deal “to be concluded very soon”.
17 Jan, 2017, 11.17 AM IST
Meet V Prem Watsa, Blackberry’s new ownerWatsa’s mantra of risk-averseness has stood him well over the years, but it’s his eye for the big picture that enables him to see investmen...
25 Sep, 2013, 12.03 PM IST
- Investors should hold onto investments in Thomas Cook India
Investors of Thomas Cook should hold onto their investments in Thomas Cook India in the wake of the open offer presented by Fairbridge Capi...
23 May, 2012, 07.10 PM IST
Toronto-based Fairbridge Capital to buy Thomas Cook India; deal estimated at Rs 1,000 croreUK-based Thomas Cook Group will sell its entire 77.1% stake in its Indian arm, Thomas Cook India, to Toronto-based Fairbridge Capital.
22 May, 2012, 03.20 AM IST
- Prem Watsa: The Indian who bailed out Bank of Ireland
When Bank of Ireland faced nationalization, a group of North American investors pumped in $1.6 bn to keep it out of the hands of the Irish ...
07 Sep, 2011, 06.57 AM IST