Sentences with phrase «aig make»

A few of the larger stocks I look at here like Citigroup and AIG make me sick, but that is a part of the exercise.

As I have argued since long before the crisis, the size and complexity of AIG make it unmanageable.

And last fall the new CEO at ailing insurer AIG made hay with demoralized employees by firing McKinsey and mocking its Project Destiny plan.

AIG made the following errors:

AIG makes it affordable to holiday at home with always - affordable holiday home insurance.

AIG made its loan to 29 - 26 Northern Blvd. in part because if the co-living apartments don't meet their expectation of income, the floors can easily be converted to conventional three - bedroom units.

Not exact matches

«Find out what makes Millennials tick and then capitalize on it,» says Jonathon Villaire, an employee engagement leader at AIG.

«Our new management structure will ensure we have strong end - to - end accountability within the customer segments, so we can transform into a more efficient, less complex organization with accelerated decision - making in response to our clients» needs,» AIG president and CEO Peter Hancock said in a press release.

David Beckworth, who teaches economics at Texas State and writes on Fed policy at his Macro and Other Market Musings blog, points to the Federal Open Market Committee meeting that took place Sept. 16, 2008 — the day after the failure of Lehman Brothers and the day the Fed was preparing to make an $ 85 billion loan to AIG (AIG).

It cost every man, woman, and child in the United States 2000 dollars each to make sure the executives at AIG who wrote insurance and did not put capital reserves away to cover it were able to keep their pay, their bonuses, their future bonuses, and all of their personal assets.

There was definitely evidence on the tape to support the idea that AIG would eventually make a nice move above 41.

If all of this wasn't concerning enough, the very type of derivatives that blew up the giant insurer AIG in 2008 (credit derivatives) are making a big comeback at Citigroup, the recipient of the largest taxpayer bailout of a bank in U.S. history during the 2008 crash.

But the bailout of AIG was in reality a backdoor bailout of the biggest Wall Street banks and their foreign big bank kin who had used AIG as a counterparty on their casino - like derivative bets and for securities loans that AIG could not make good on.

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The U.S. government paid these obligations at 100 cents on the dollar, despite AIG being insolvent at the time and requiring a $ 185 billion taxpayer bailout itself for making casino - like bets with the big banks.

He ended up making the same mistake again in 2008 with AIG.

At the time he made his AIG investment, he was definitely following that saying.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top - ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called for the head of AIG to resign over comments he made comparing outrage over executive bonuses to lynchings that took place...

It is ridiculas either way, but what makes sense is to make Insurance what it is suppose to be... more like the Red Cross than AIG.

As you know, part of what led to this crisis was firms like AIG and others making huge and risky bets — using derivatives and other complicated financial instruments — in ways that defied accountability, or even common sense.

It is clear that these fat cats who want the public to bail them out like AIG and Goldman Sachs; or the Speyer deal with Stuyvesant Town and a whole host of other scams, are organizing because they fear losing their «special treatment» like a West Street Headquarters will a half billion dollar real estate tax exemption; or the tax credits for complex real estate deals that made Related into a financial and real estate behemoth without really doing much to improve anything... It bothers these dukes and barons that the city helps the needy.

Per the deal, AXA's African insurance companies plan to propose custom - made insurance products to Jumia and AIG's e-commerce client base through its ecosystem of marketplaces and classifieds services.

Plus AMI is headed for tough times, Fox News makes fun of Nas, Andrew Cuomo looks into AIG, and more, in our daily industry roundup.

The AIG as well as the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Olayinka Balogun, had debunked the news making the round that arms have been imported into the state ahead of the election.

, ended up going to Duke to become an AIG teacher, and am slowly making the transition from liking light blue to royal blue.

If this technology was made avalible to every school child inAmerica (dear AIG give us our money back our kids need it more than your execs) let's now look at the world of words that is avalible to every child!!!

I also remember being in the terminal funding business at AIG, when Congress made it almost impossible for plan sponsors to terminate a plan and take out the excess assets.

Second, had AIG collapsed, the systemic implications on other market participants might have made it difficult for Goldman Sachs to collect on the credit protection it had purchased against an AIG default, although Goldman Sachs stated that it had received collateral from its counterparties in those transactions.

Part of the deal was that as the bonds declined in value AIG had to deposit «collateral», i.e. cash, with Goldman to make up the difference between the face value and the market value of the bonds.

In my estimation, he probably checked to see that there were adequate risk controls to make sure that AIG was not getting too good of a deal.

That makes it really hard for me to believe that Buffett did not have any significant knowledge of the AIG finite reinsurance contract.

Those words are jumping off my tongue couple times a day now when my clients call and ask if I think their auto insurance policy with AIG AIG, +0.66 % or their money market fund will be around tomorrow or their CDs will be made whole if FDIC goes bankrupt.

The Commission concludes AIG failed and was rescued by the government primarily because its enormous sales of credit default swaps were made without putting up the initial collateral, setting aside capital reserves, or hedging its exposure — a profound failure in corporate governance, particularly its risk management practices.

Photo Credit: eflon The title of the article comes from a comment Greenberg supposedly made to Buffett when AIG was much bigger than Berkshire Hathaway — times change...

The title of the article comes from a comment Greenberg supposedly made to Buffett when AIG was much bigger than Berkshire Hathaway [BRK]-- times change...

Many of the insurance companies making the marginal commercial mortgage loans had come to AIG seeking emergency financing.

What this implies to me is that the huge loans that the government made to AIG will likely hang out there for a long time.

I made my first purchase of AIG at about $ 31 a share and I will be looking to load up if and when the share price declines below $ 30.

This would prevent the unintended consequences of having multiples of protection written on a given risk, where a weak party like AIG is incapable of making good on all of the derivative contracts that they have written, which could lead to its own systemic risk if other derivative counterparties can't absorb the losses.

Makes a mistake saying the insurance industry would not have been affected by the failure of AIG.

AIG will provide a portion of your death benefit early if you are diagnosed with a terminal or chronic illness, making it simpler to cover medical expenses associated with your condition.

============================ The title of the article comes from a comment Greenberg supposedly made to Buffett when AIG was much bigger than Berkshire Hathaway [BRK]-- times change... It...

Greenberg tries to make out the problems of AIG as a liquidity crisis, and not a solvency crisis.

Personally, if BRK made a bid for AIG at $ 32, I think Buffett could make a lot out of it, and he would not have to worry about a lot of fuss, because the major holder is the US Government.

I have better small insurance acquisition targets than that, but buying out AIG would be delicious given the comments Greenberg made to Buffett back when BRK was smaller.

In fact, last week the Fund sold the last one of those legacy core holdings *, AIG, to make room for a more Forager - like idea which we will disclose in our upcoming July 2016 Monthly report.

Few people make it past five years at AIG, but if you can survive that long, you will be a lifer, and you will be rewarded.

He encouraged the growing derivatives book because it aided AIG in making its earnings numbers through seemingly free yield from writing protection.

Because Bill Miller made bets on AIG, Wachovia, Bear Stearns, and Freddie Mac.

It makes sense for AIG to try to keep people who have done a good job at this, and will continue to reduce risk over time.