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Siebert Financial Corp is a diversified financial services firm engaged in providing brokerage and financial advisory services. The coperates through two segments: Financial Services and Media, Sports and Entertainment. The Financial Services segment mainly operates as a securities broker-dealer and provides brokerage, custody, and clearing services for retail accounts, as well as insurance and advisory services, principal and proprietary trading, market making, securities lending, and investment banking and capital markets services. The Media, Sports and Entertainment segment is engaged in the production and distribution of music and media content, as well as talent management and sports representation. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Financial Services segment.

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.