Press Release

DBRS Releases Report on Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited

Non-Bank Financial Institutions
October 06, 2009

DBRS has today released a report on Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited that supports the recent trend change on the BBB (low) rating on its Senior Unsecured Debt to Positive from Stable and the new rating of Pfd-3 (low) with a Positive trend assigned to its Preferred Shares.

The report and the September 28, 2009, press release are available at www.dbrs.com.