13 Facts About Alice Schroeder

Alice Schroeder's received a BBA in finance and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin in 1978 and 1980.

From 1980 to 1991, Alice Schroeder worked as a CPA at Ernst and Young, starting in Houston.

In 1991 Alice Schroeder became a project manager for the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the Financial Accounting Foundation in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Alice Schroeder testified as an expert witness about accounting for finite risk reinsurance at this federal criminal conspiracy trial in Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1993, Schroeder left the FASB to work as a sell-side insurance investment analyst for Dowling Partners in Hartford, a boutique firm run by V J Dowling.

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In 1998 Alice Schroeder wrote Warren Buffett a letter requesting a meeting for her clients about Berkshire's recent acquisition of the reinsurer General Re, which she covered.

Alice Schroeder then initiated coverage of the hard-to-analyze Berkshire Hathaway in a favorable report.

Alice Schroeder was voted one of Business Insurance magazine's "Rising Stars".

In 2003, Alice Schroeder has reported that an investment writer approached her to jointly write a book about Warren Buffett and corporate governance.

Alice Schroeder felt this was not the right book and discussed another idea with Buffett, who offered to cooperate with her if she wrote a more comprehensive book.

Alice Schroeder reportedly received a $7 million book contract for publishing The Snowball.

Alice Schroeder canceled the yearly dinner Schroeder hosted in Omaha at which she interviewed him before nearly two hundred people.

Alice Schroeder gave Schroeder's team an early draft and suggested they downgrade MBIA, but they initially resisted.