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OpenSecrets.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
Insurance giant AIG's political clout is waning as fast as its finances. Since its near-collapse and government bailout last fall, AIG disbanded its lobbying team. It hasn't donated a dollar from its political action committee this year. Furthermore, contributions from individual AIG employees since January are merely a sliver of what they've been in previous cycles -- although a few notable politicians...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Boston Federal Reserve chief Eric Rosengren says Uncle Sam bailed out insurance giant AIG to prevent a second Depression -- and should have simply seized the firm but lacked...
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Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | yesterday
The American International Group Inc.(AIG) said Thursday it chose Hong Kong as the listing venue for its Asian life insurance unit American International Assurance (AIA), media reports said on Friday. AIG pays back a large chunk of bailout loans
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
A Group Ltd, the Asian life insurance unit of American International Group Inc, could raise between $5 billion and $10 billion.
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The Democrats' proposal to use part of the $700 billion TARP program as funding for job creation is a brilliant political move. Bloomberg: “Investments that we have in jobs should be paid for by TARP funds,” said Pelosi, a California Democrat. These include helping communities employ police officers, firefighters and teachers and help revive lending to small businesses, she said. ... White...
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Madd Money (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Bailed-out insurer American International Group said on Tuesday it had closed a pact with the New York Federal Reserve that slashes its debt under a credit facility by more than half, to 17 billion U.S. dollars. The deal is a big step in AIG Inc's efforts to repay loans from a massive taxpayer bailout, and also moves it closer to spinning off two big life insurance units, which could bolster its financial...
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SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: ETF Spotlight on iPath DJ AIG Copper Total Return Sub-Index ETN (NYSEArca: JJC ) , part of a weekly series. Assets: $141 million Complete Story »
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On Our Radar Today (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
What Makes Dubai Different From AIG istockAnalyst.com - 1 hour ago Many thanks to Dubai for providing fodder to the blogosphere over a slow weekend. Much has been written (too much?) about what seems to me at least to be a minor story. In most respects, the ...
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The Street (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The Hong Kong buyers of AIG's Taiwan Unit will resubmit their application and give an estimate of the application approval time.
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Workers Comp Insider (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Nancy Germond is hosting Cavalcade of Risk #93 - check it out. And while you're at it, check out Nancy's regular insurance column on AllBusiness. Mark Wall's excellent WC forum on LinkedIn - While recently attending the National Workers Compensation & Disability Conference in Chicago, I had the opportunity to meet Mark Walls who is the founder of LinkedIn's excellent...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
NEW YORK | American International Group Inc. on Tuesday slashed the amount of money it owes the government by $25 billion, completing a move of two subsidiaries into special holding units ahead of their planned spinoff or sale. The insurance giant has been selling assets and spinning off divisions in an effort to help repay a government bailout package received last year when it was on the brink of...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
On March 18 of this year , Ken Lewis told the Charlotte Observer that his bank would likely pay back TARP in 2010, or perhaps even this year. When we read it, we really thought that he, frankly, sounded like he was on some illegal substance. Remember, March 18 was truly the pits, just a few days after the bottom, when the world was in the throes of AIG outrage, pundits were still talking about how...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The consortium buying Nan Shan, the US insurer's prime asset in Taiwan, say the $2.15bn deal would proceed as planned despite speculation regulators could block the deal over concerns the buying consortium was secretly backed by China-sourced funds
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paisano1 | 03/18/2009
There is something rotten at AIG, and calling out those multiple flaws in the way the directors, officers, and managers ran the company can be used to negate those bonus payments. The fatal flaw(s) may be in the contract language and in the bonus plan, which, one would hope, set up some criteria for paying millions in shareholder money above and beyond base salary. We may find that the bonus contracts