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Fairfax Financial Holdings Company Source Reference Guide

A source-led guide to Fairfax Financial Holdings's official reporting, entity boundary, disclosure periods, and company reference cards.

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Fairfax Financial Holdings needs an entity-specific source guide. Fairfax combines decentralized P&C insurance and reinsurance companies with centralized value-oriented investment management and material associates, creating a distinct consolidation and attribution problem. The canonical company surface is the Fairfax Financial Holdings profile, while the references archive is the source-card record.

The qualified pack contains 4 cards across 4 source categories and 2 source owners or independently maintained paths. Its latest recorded reporting period is FY2025, year ended 2025-12-31. Those counts describe evidence coverage, not a score or a claim that every source measures the same thing.

Article Intelligence

  • Primary company: Fairfax Financial Holdings.
  • Canonical legal or group name: Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited.
  • Entity type: Listed Canadian property and casualty insurance, reinsurance, and investment holding company.
  • Home jurisdiction: Canada.
  • Latest recorded report period: FY2025, year ended 2025-12-31.
  • Source-pack depth: 4 cards, 4 categories, and 2 owners or paths.
  • Canonical company archive: Fairfax Financial Holdings references.

Why This Source Map Is Distinct

Fairfax's FY2025 release and annual report provide group and operating-company information, while the investor page and Canadian securities system support listing and filing identity. Together, the cards establish a route from identity and business scope to periodic reporting and capital, regulatory, ratings, exchange, or profile context. They do not merge those source types into one universal measure.

Reading The Source Categories

1. FY2025 Financial Results / full-year results

Owner: Fairfax Financial Holdings. Category: FY2025 Financial Results / full-year results. Reporting period: FY2025, year ended 2025-12-31. Entity scope: Fairfax consolidated and disclosed insurance and reinsurance operations. Evidence: Parent-attributable net earnings were USD 4,772.4 million, gross premiums written USD 33.3 billion, underwriting profit USD 1,816.6 million, combined ratio 93.0%, and float USD 39.3 billion. Caution: HTTP 200 official release reviewed. Non-GAAP underwriting, float, and adjusted operating measures retain Fairfax definitions.

2. 2025 Annual Report / annual report

Owner: Fairfax Financial Holdings. Category: 2025 Annual Report / annual report. Reporting period: FY2025. Entity scope: Fairfax consolidated with operating-company and associate detail. Evidence: The report provides audited statements, USD 66.4 billion insurance-company portfolio investments, operating-company results, associates, risks, and capital context. Caution: HTTP 200 official PDF reviewed. Operating-company and associate figures remain separately attributed.

3. Investor and Listing Information / exchange and investor record

Owner: Fairfax Financial Holdings. Category: Investor and Listing Information / exchange and investor record. Reporting period: Current record reviewed 2026-07-15. Entity scope: Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited TSX listings FFH and FFH.U. Evidence: The page supports the listed parent, Toronto Stock Exchange symbols, annual-report chain, and shareholder information. Caution: HTTP 200 official page reviewed. Exclude current price and performance.

4. SEDAR Plus Public Filing Search / regulatory filing

Owner: Canadian Securities Administrators. Category: SEDAR Plus Public Filing Search / regulatory filing. Reporting period: 2025 annual filing period. Entity scope: Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited reporting issuer. Evidence: The Canadian public filing system independently supports the reporting-issuer and filing chain. Caution: Public regulator path inventoried. Search the exact issuer and filing before reuse.

Reporting Periods And Company-Specific Facts

The source cards above contain the pack's principal numerical evidence from FY2025 Financial Results / full-year results, 2025 Annual Report / annual report. Each fact remains inside its complete reporting-period and entity-scope record rather than being detached into a current-value table. Units, currencies, denominators, statutory or non-statutory labels, and issuer-defined terminology must remain exactly as the applicable card records them.

Period discipline matters here. A current profile page, an annual report, a regulatory return, a ratings page, and an exchange record can all be valid while answering different questions. The source date and reviewed date do not replace the underlying reporting period, and group totals cannot be moved to a subsidiary or business line without explicit support.

Entity Boundary

Use Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited as the listed parent and consolidated group. Odyssey, Allied World, Northbridge, Brit, Crum & Forster, and other insurance, reinsurance, associate, and non-insurance companies retain separate legal and reporting scopes. Do not transfer consolidated underwriting, float, or investment results to an individual insurer, associate, or non-insurance company. The guide therefore keeps the parent, consolidated group, operating insurers, brands, branches, joint ventures, and non-insurance businesses separate whenever the dossier identifies those distinctions.

What The Pack Can And Cannot Establish

The pack can establish source ownership, source category, accepted URL, reporting period, reviewed date, and the entity or segment scope stated on each card. It can also support the company-specific facts recorded in the dossier when their labels, units, currencies, denominators, and periods are preserved.

It cannot establish current security value, relative ranking, product suitability, available underwriting capacity, present pricing, placement terms, private treaty terms, or a standalone conclusion about solvency. Issuer-defined measures remain tied to the issuer's methodology and are not automatically comparable with similarly named measures from another insurer.

How To Use This Map

Start with the source category that matches the question. Use annual or full-year reporting for period-specific group facts, regulatory material for the named regulatory perimeter, ratings material for the named rated entity and opinion type, and exchange or corporate-profile material only for identity and public-record context. Then confirm the card's period, entity scope, unit, and caution before carrying any fact into another editorial surface.

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Source Limitations

Public corporate, regulatory, exchange, filing, and ratings materials remain periodic and purpose-specific. They do not provide private underwriting files, policy terms, current placement information, or a complete view of every subsidiary. The entity and source-specific cautions recorded above remain controlling.

Reader Note

This article is editorial reference material. It is not a recommendation about an insurer, policy, product, security, rating, jurisdiction, or market. Readers making financial, insurance, legal, regulatory, underwriting, pricing, placement, or risk-management decisions should use current primary documents and appropriate professional review.

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