PERFORMANCE SNAPSHOT
Berkshire Hathaway's stock price was up 23 per cent in 2016, about double the return on the Standard & Poor's 500 index Berkshire's operating companies' operating earnings increasing to $17.5 billion in 2016 from $ 17.3 billion in 2015 Buffett has been a withering critic of the culture of high pay, group think and excessive fees yet he has also swooped in to buy big stakes in investment firms when they hit rough times