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This Was Once America's Most Hated Company But AIG may turn out to be quite a bargain. |
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You Lie, Goldman Sachs Taxpayers' bailout of AIG may have saved Goldman's life. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2009
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This Is Why AIG Is Up? Really? AIG's riding a wave of general optimism and risk-hungry investors looking to earn back losses in a hurry. |
BusinessWeek
November 26, 2007
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A Chain Reaction in Shaky Debt? As exotic CDOs topple, the impact could ripple through debt markets and wallop more funds and banks. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2009
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Will This Thursday Change Banks' Fortunes? The death of "mark to market" could be a boon for the financial markets. |
BusinessWeek
April 1, 2010
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Goldman Sachs: Don't Blame Us When it comes to its role in the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs has a message for the world: Not guilty. Not one bit. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2006
Matt Hudgins |
Why CDOs Are Hot With much of the world's investment capital seeking placement in commercial real estate, lenders are eager to help property owners liquidate portions of their equity and refinance through CDOs. |
BusinessWeek
November 12, 2007
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Wall Street's Next Worry The credit crisis is spreading from Wall Street to a less well known corner of the financial world, that of the bond insurers. An obscure company called ACA Capital might spark the explosion. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2011
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AIG and Losses Go Hand in Hand AIG posts biggest quarterly loss since 2009. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2008
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Is This Buffett's Nightmare Scenario? The credit default swaps are coming. |
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August 2007
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The Far Reach of Subprime Woes Leveraged loans to companies are likely to be adversely affected by hedge fund losses from collateralized debt obligations. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2007
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Diversification Pays at AIG This morning, AIG updated investors on its sub-prime exposure. Thanks to their product and global geographic diversification, the insurance and financial services giant can likely ride out any further turmoil. |
The Motley Fool
June 27, 2007
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Securitization Simplified Securitization is complicated, but understanding the mechanics will help you evaluate many financial companies. Here is a brief primer on collateralized debt obligations. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2007
Seth Jayson |
The Lesson From E*Trade In its quest for growth, E*Trade put far too much of its asset base into residential real estate loans or related derivatives -- at the top of a since-crumbled market. The result? Shares that have tumbled 60% and an analyst's prediction of bankruptcy. |
BusinessWeek
April 1, 2010 |
Prelude to a Panic September 2008 will live in infamy as the month when the U.S. financial system ground to a halt. But for Goldman Sachs and other institutions, the real panic took place throughout 2007. Here is what happened behind the scenes at Goldman. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 20, 2009
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Risky Business with Structured Finance Even modest imprecision in estimating underlying risks is magnified disproportionately when securities are pooled and tranched. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2007
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What Sparked the Subprime Explosion? Some really smart people have taken one asset -- the plain old mortgage -- and singlehandedly created layers and layers of financial instruments that are predicated on it. Like dominoes, one by one, these securities are now tumbling and leaving investors and homeowners to clean up the mess. |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
The Next $350 Billion Hole Lehman goes out with a bang. |
BusinessWeek
September 17, 2007
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The SEC Wants More Answers The Securities & Exchange Commission is expanding its probe into the mortgage mess. |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2007
David Henry |
This Investment Could Turn Ugly The Street wants to get small investors into exotic pools called CDOs. It's a risky game. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2007
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Another Bank Chokes on Dog Food Wachovia announces $1.1 billion in losses during October from its subprime collateralized debt obligations. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2009
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1 Year Later: Is AIG a Buy? The real opportunity behind AIG. (Hint: it's all about the business.) |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2009
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Report From the White House: Will Regulation Stifle Innovation? Here is the fifth installment of our interview with Austan Goolsbee, chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2008
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AIG's Failure Is So Much Bigger Than Enron Even though it has a rock-solid, wonderful insurance franchise, AIG's greed and lack of care in its investing decisions took down one of the world's great companies. Take a look at how the world's largest insurer self-destructed. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2007
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Quick Take: Brokerages' Sloppy-Looking Swaps Current trading around banks' debt could suggest trouble ahead. Investors may be concerned that risk wasn't adequately managed with regards to the mortgage loans the banks took on. |
BusinessWeek
July 23, 2007
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The Subprime Mess: "It's Just Going To Get Worse" Many more borrowers could default when ARM rates rise. |
The Motley Fool
April 22, 2010
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Which Bank Will the SEC Hit Next? As the agency continues to examine comparable transactions to the ABACUS 2007-AC1 CDO at the heart of its complaint against Goldman, banks are no doubt legitimately concerned whether they could be next in the SEC's crosshairs. |
BusinessWeek
November 12, 2007
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Citi May Have a New Mess on Its Hands Citibank could take another billion-dollar hit from bad debt tied to the CDO commercial paper market. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Now It's Wachovia's Turn Citigroup makes a deal to take over Wachovia's banking operations. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2011
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Financial Crisis: The Greatest Hits The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's report, two years in the making, is a 623-page tome of everything you could ever want to know about the financial crisis. |
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Greater Access Collateralized debt obligations offer small commercial investors financing options. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2009
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Roundtable: The Biggest Threat to Banking Is the biggest threat to banking commercial real estate? Credit card losses? Falling housing prices? Derivatives? Government regulation? Something else? |
The Motley Fool
November 5, 2007
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3 Ways to Fix Citigroup Citibank's shares are currently at a five-year low. What should the company do to unleash its underlying potential? |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2008
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Another Black Eye for AIG These are dark days for the insurance giant. In the latest news, former AIG chief executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg might face civil charges for an alleged role in improperly inflating AIG's loss reserves. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2010
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AIG: We Like Our Toxic Waste An outsider's take on AIG's risk. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
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A Structured Finance Hangover At the height of the commercial real estate market's historic up cycle in 1999, collateralized debt obligations emerged on the scene. |
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May 15, 2008
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Presto, Change-o, Where'd the Credit Crisis Go? As the credit market surrounding residential real estate paddles through chaos, MBIA has been saddled with huge mark-to-market losses. But management tries to tell a different story in their quarterly report. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2010
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Is There Any Value in AIG Shares? One exceptional investor thinks so. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2005
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AIG on Their Faces Insurer AIG admits to having bent the rules. The interesting question here is whether the company's tactics and malfeasance helped keep its AAA rating for far longer than it otherwise would have. |
The Motley Fool
November 7, 2011
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Berkshire's Derivative Losses Don't Matter Berkshire's operating earnings are up 36.8%. |
Bank Systems & Technology
April 16, 2010
Penny Crosman |
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud in Structuring, Marketing of CDOs "The product was new and complex but the deception and conflicts are old and simple," said Robert Khuzami, director of the division of enforcement. |
Wall Street & Technology
September 23, 2007
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Can Financial Models Prevent CDO Problems? Computerized financial models help fund managers at Barclays, Mitsubishi and Point Clear make better decisions. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2009
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This Is Poison for Our Economy There's a lot of talk of recovery, but has our financial system really seen the light? |
The Motley Fool
June 7, 2004
Roger Nusbaum |
AIG's Obstacles to Growth Is AIG too big to continue growth? |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
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Quick! Everybody Out of the Pool! AIG is going public, and its stock is going down. |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2011
Rich Smith |
AIG IPO A-OK? It looks to Wall Street like the AIG IPO is going to happen after all. |
Insurance & Technology
February 4, 2010 |
AIG Says Pay Issue Is 'Largely' Solved U.S. insurance giant American International Group Inc. said it would reduce bonus payments by $20 million to recoup part of a pledge it failed to keep. |
Registered Rep.
December 4, 2008
David A. Geracioti |
AIG Executives: Fat Cats or Valuable Management Worth Keeping? It can be argued that AIG CEO Edward Liddy actually had the right idea in paying retention packages to key managers. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
5 Things AIG Investors Should Know Potential investors should consider these five issues. |
