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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market

every day. It's Monday, June 18th and we're doing an episode about a company

called White Mountains Insurance that's for a listener's ticker symbol W.T.M.

Thanks to a listener for pointing out the company and asking for us to talk about it.

I will include and hear my typical plug. Listeners, if you have a stock that you're interested in

in any of the sectors that we cover and you want us to talk about it.

Email us, tweet us, send us a letter I guess if you want to.

Really anything is appreciated.

We are very happy to dedicate whole episodes to stocks or industries or questions that listeners have because it's just a cool opportunity for us to

examine something that maybe we wouldn't have thought about otherwise. So thanks to a listener, we're going to be talking about White Mountains.

Again, that's ticker symbol, W.T.M. in particular.

But of course, first, we're going to start talking about insurance more generally.

And then we'll be talking about two of our favorite insurance companies, Markel and Berkshire,

and just kind of comparing them a little bit to White Mountains and kind of understanding

how the interplay between those different investments is't sort of what how we tend to

approach investing in this particular area of the market. So with all that said

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