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Category: AIG Bail Out 2008 | Contemporaneous Observations
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While the news headlines will focus on the $61B Q4 2008 loss, American International Group, Inc.(AIG) today announced a broad restructuring that includes the intention to form a General Insurance holding company, with a board of directors, managementteam and brand distinct from AIG.The establishment of the new holding company, including its Commercial Insurance Group, Foreign General…
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AIG announced on December 2, 2008, through its website, the launch of a financing entity created by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to address AIG’s liquidity challenges related to credit default swaps (CDS) and similar derivativeswritten on multi-sector collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).
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Actions announced Monday by American International Group, Inc. (AIG), Treasury and the Federal Reserve provide a high level of explicit and implicit U.S. government support for AIG as the company implements its previously announced restructuring plan,
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Reuters reports that 5 year credit default swaps on American International Group, Inc. ("AIG") fell sharply from 49% up front to 19% up front plus $500,000 in annual premium. This represents the cost of insuring AIG's debt with credit default swaps. Such "breathing room" means that to protect $10 million of debt for 5 years…
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Various news agencies including Reuters and the Wall Street Journal suggested on Sunday that a restructured rescue plan is close to being put in place for American International Group Inc.(AIG) and may be announced on Monday November 10, 2008. It was said that the total package will rise to $150B. Purportedly the revised bailout package would make…
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You may have read reports that American International Group, Inc. (AIG) will be downsizing by selling off some of its many companies. Despite the anticipated sell off one AIG core component, AIG Commercial Insurance, is expected to remain sizable
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Why does the media seem to have a disconnect between the successful insurance operations of AIG and the AIG Financial Products division that caused all the problems. Clearly the core insurance aspect of the AIG business has been run profitably.
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Chief Claims Officer of AIG Commercial Insurance Group reaffirms AIG’s commitment to its structured settlement program regardless of whether or not its structured annuity issuing subsidiaries are sold. The putative “sack dance” turns into a mild form of “hacky sack”
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It’s Halloween and "financial crack" dealer Woodbridge Investments’ Chief Ghoul Scott Schwartz is offering structured settlement annuitants a treat, or is it a trick? The would be goblins at the Woodbridge Investments "pawn shop" freely admit that " economic paralysis has not yet taken place, but for many Americans watching the media, reading their newspapers,…
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Rating downgrades and drops in share price do not change AIG’s or any insurer’s ability to pay claims. A state insurance regulator’s “toolbox” allows insurers to handle greater losses than other parts of the financial sector in down-market cycles.