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Great Elm Group Inc operates as an alternative asset manager focused on growing a scalable and diversified portfolio of long-duration and permanent capital vehicles across credit, real estate, specialty finance, and other alternative strategies. The Group conducts its operations through two business segments: Alternative Credit and Real Estate. Key revenue comes from the Real Estate segment, which includes a full-service, end-to-end real estate platform combining investment expertise and turnkey execution capabilities for the IOS sector. The Alternative Credit segment focuses on income generation and capital preservation by investing in debt and income-generating securities, direct lending, CLOs, and specialty finance businesses, including factoring, asset-based lending, and healthcare.

Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company with a wide array of subsidiaries engaged in diverse activities. The firm's core business segment is insurance, run primarily through Geico, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group, and Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group. Berkshire has used the excess cash thrown off from its operations to acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe (railroad), Berkshire Hathaway Energy (utilities and energy distributors), and the companies that make up its manufacturing, service, and retailing operations (which include Precision Castparts, Lubrizol, Clayton Homes, Marmon, and IMC/ISCAR). The conglomerate is unique in that it is run on a completely decentralized basis.