Elite Investment Club Sides With Berkshire, Fairholme
2010-07-29 02:15:51
Keywords: Elite Investment Club Sides With Berkshire, Fairholme, acf,aig,axp,brk-a,brk-b,fairx,gs,ko,wfc, ideas-and-strategies
Quote: Bloomberg report highlights some of the favorite investments among members of Tiger 21, an exclusive investment club in which members control more than $10 billion in aggregate capital.Club cofounder Michael Sonnenfeldt explained, "No one wants to be a stock picker, but if they are, they're going to back someone who has essentially created wealth through buying stock."So it's no surprise that a survey revealed Warren Buffett's Berkshire HathawayBRK-ANewsBRK-BNews) was the top stock among Tiger 2...
Read articleUPDATE - Pakistan plane crashes, all 152 on board dead
2010-07-29 02:15:50
Keywords: Pakistan,Asia,Emerging countries,Domestic Politics,National and international security,Diplomacy; International Relations,Air transport,Aerospace and defense,Disasters,United States of America,Turkey,Western Europe,Europe,General News,Media type Graphics,
Quote: Two Americans were among the victims, a U.S. embassy
spokesman told Reuters. He had no further details. While thick fog and rainy weather are considered the most
likely reasons for the crash, Kaira declined to rule out
sabotage and said all possibilities would be investigated. Kaira said the plane's "black box" data recorder had yet to
be recovered. The plane lost contact with the control room of the
Islamabad International Airport at 0443 GMT. It was carrying
146 passengers and six crew members...
Read articleUS securities fraud suits drop, alleged losses up
2010-07-28 08:06:22
Keywords: United States of America,U.S. corporate debt,Debt,Banks (industry group),Financials,Banks,Management issues/policy,Legislation,Judicial processes/court cases/court decisions,Integrated oil and gas,Energy and Resources,United Kingdom,Western Europe,Europe,
Quote: American International Group Inc's (AIG.N) $725 million
accord this month with a group of Ohio pension funds pushed
total settlements for the insurer to $1.01 billion, making it
......
Read articleGoldman Sachs to Blow the Cover Off This Thing Once and for All by Producing Hard Hitting Movie About Itself
2010-07-28 08:06:21
Keywords: Goldman Sachs,Lloyd blankfein,Goldman Movie,Goldman Documentary,Ric Burns,Ken Burns,That Movie Look Good!,AIG,GS
Quote: Goldman Sachs, The MovieScene 1The camera slowly pans a black & white photo of a battlefield, could be the Civil War, or even the Spanish American War, who knows! But the camera slowly pans the carnage on the ground as someone who sounds like Shelby Foote delivers the voiceover narration. NARRATOR: Just as in the original stock market crash of 1929, there were no suicides on Wall Street that day. The real effect of the sudden unwinding of several trillion dollars in complex derivatives contr...
Read articleStop Focusing On Your Core Business
2010-07-28 08:06:21
Keywords: Core Business, Corporate Strategy, Focus, Leadership, Managing
Quote: Collins, who is known to have received more than $100,000 for a single speech, said all American management should emulate Circuit City and Fannie Mae. Surely leaders aren't emulating those examples now.What happened to bring down all these great names, and for that matter to bring on the Great Recession? It would seem a great deflection to blame it all on government. Most of the last decade saw Republican pro-business policies dominate the landscape, and contraction in government oversight acro...
Read articleUPDATE - P&C insurer ACE Q2 trumps Wall Street view
2010-07-28 08:06:19
Keywords: Insurance - multiline,Insurance (industry group),Financials,United States of America,Insurance - property and casualty,Reinsurance,Switzerland,Western Europe,Europe,Financial service providers,Insurance,Central and Eastern Europe,Company News item,Economi
Quote: The company also said it expects to be at the top end of
its previous 2010 operating earnings forecast of $6.25 a share
to $6.75 a share.Ace has largely skirted the toxic investments that
weakened some of its competitors, including American
International Group Inc (AIG.N), XL Capital Ltd (XL.N) and
Swiss Re (RUKN.VX). "Slow economic recovery in the major developed economies of
the United States, Europe and Japan and competitive global
insurance markets impacted total premium growth, and I expect...
Read articleBerkowitz Likes AmeriCredit Deal
2010-07-27 01:28:50
Keywords: Berkowitz Likes AmeriCredit Deal, acf,aig,fairx,gs,luk, ideas-and-strategies
Quote: Last Thursday we noted that the General Motors' $3.5 billion bid for AmeriCreditACFNewsa score for Bruce Berkowitz and investors in his Fairholme FundFAIRXNews).After the bell on Friday, Berkowitz confirmed our sentiment when Fairholme disclosed an 18.4% stake in AmeriCredit and said it will vote in favor of the GM deal, which put a 24% premium on shares as of Wednesday's close -- the last session prior to the announcement.Fairholme Capital Management's top-15 U.S.-listed equity holdings from th...
Read articleUPDATE - Goldman coughs up counterparties on AIG hedge
2010-07-26 02:52:25
Keywords: Financials,Banks (industry group),Fund management and asset allocation,United States of America,Banks,Washington / US Government News,Regulation and enforcement,Domestic Politics,Credit default swaps,Investment for individuals (retail market),Mortgage-bac
Quote: Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:42pm EDT
* Source says list given to financial crisis panel * Firms including Morgan Stanley, Citi, Deutsche Bank By Karey Wutkowski WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley (MS.N),
Citigroup (C.N) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) were among banks
that sold Goldman Sachs (GS.N) protection against the risk of a
collapse of giant insurer American International Group (AIG.N),
a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. Goldman Sachs has turned over a list of the counterpar...
Read articleCuomo re-opens probe of AIG's Cassano-report
2010-07-26 02:52:24
Keywords: Insurance - multiline,Insurance (industry group),Financials,United States of America,Regulation and enforcement,Municipal debt,Debt,Legislation,Financial service providers,Insurance,Business activities,Crime law and justice,General News,Politics Internati
Quote: NEW YORK |Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:01pm EDT
NEW YORK July 23 (Reuters) - New York State Attorney
General Andrew Cuomo reopened his investigation into former
American International Group Inc (AIG.N) executive Joseph
Cassano after U.S. authorities ended their own probes,
Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. Cuomo's office met with Cassano's lawyers and AIG earlier
this month and will likely hold additional meetings, Bloomberg
reported, citing the person. Cassano is the former he...
Read article[$$] N.Y. Fed Taps Dahlgren to Watch Banks
2010-07-26 02:52:23
Quote: BY SUDEEP REDDY The Federal Reserve Bank of New York named Sarah Dahlgren, who has led the Fed's oversight of American International Group Inc. since it was rescued by the government, to be its new head of bank supervision. Ms. Dahlgren, 46 years old, will lead the New York Fed's 600-member team of bank supervisors as the central bank bolsters its oversight of financial institutions and takes on new responsibilities from the recent financial legislation. She will assume her new post in January, ...
Read articleLaw Sharpens 'Clawback' Rules for Improper Pay
2010-07-26 02:52:21
Quote: Martinez, a member of five public-company boards, says they're already mulling how to bolster clawbacks that "don't go far enough." He expects necessary changes will occur this year but declines to be more specific.American International GroupLiz ClaibornePepsiCo Inc.Sysco Corp. adopted a clawback policy in 2009 that affects annual bonuses for about 175 top managers and doesn't exclude former officers, according to Mark Palmer, a spokesman for the food distributor. But directors don't try to rec...
Read article[$$] Repeat of AgBank's Success Won't Be Easy for AIA
2010-07-26 02:52:21
Quote: Article ExcerptRepeat of AgBank's Success Won't Be Easy for AIABY PETER STEIN Can AIA pull off an AgBank? American International Group Inc. seems hubristically determined to test whether it can repeat Agricultural Bank of China Ltd.'s success at launching one of the world's biggest initial public offerings in the middle of a lousy market. This month, AgBank successfully raised $19.23 billion with its dual listings in Hong Kong and Shanghai. AIG is eyeing a listing before the year's end of its ma...
Read articleTrading Range Charts of the Dow 30
2010-07-23 01:56:58
Quote: Below we have run our trading range screen on the 30 members of theDow Jones Industrial Average.This screen allows investors to get aquick reading on how a large number of stocks have been trending latelyas well as where they're currently trading relative to their normalranges.As you'll see below, the members of the Dow are currently allover the place.Some stocks are oversold (Bank of America (BAC), Home Depot (HD),Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)), some are overbought (American Express (AXP),Caterpi...
Read articleFeinberg Faults Banks for $1.6 Billion in Bonuses
2010-07-23 01:56:56
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: The group includes Wall Street giants like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and the American International Group as well as small lenders like Boston Private Bank. Mr. Feinberg’s report calls out companies that he says paid eye-popping sums or used haphazard criteria for awarding bonuses, the people with knowledge of his findings said.
Mr. Feinberg is expected to say that the payouts were ill-advised but not unlawful or contrary to the public interest, the people said.
President Obama’s po...
Read article[$$] A Set of Scribbled Notes Helped Scuttle AIG Probe
2010-07-23 01:56:55
Quote: His derivatives unit helped drag insurance giant American International Group into near-collapse, prompting a $182 billion federal bailout in 2008 that remains contentious today. Vanity Fair magazine dubbed him "The Man Who Crashed the World." Prosecutors, envisioning a high-profile criminal case, found invective-strewn recorded phone calls appearing to suggest Mr. Cassano misled investors about AIG's bets on subprime mortgages, according to people familiar with the matter. They interviewed AIG...
Read article[$$] Family Sues AIG Over Policy on Mom's Life
2010-07-23 01:56:55
Quote: BY LESLIE SCISM AND MARK MAREMONT A dispute over a huge life-insurance policy on an Indianapolis woman who drowned, fully clothed, in her bathtub took a new twist this week when her family alleged American International Group Inc. ran a "scheme" to let investors buy big policies on older people as speculative bets. The woman's estate is seeking $45 million in damages from the New York insurer, according to a filing late Wednesday in federal court in Indianapolis. The filing was part of pending c...
Read articleObama signs financial reform into law
2010-07-22 07:38:26
Quote: President Barack Obama signed into law the sweeping financial reform legislation Wednesday.The signing ceremony was attended by 400 people and drew criticism immediately from Congressional GOP leaders.“Because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street’s mistakes,” Obama said at the signing ceremony. “There will be no more taxpayer-funded bailouts. Period.”Instead of keeping large financial institutions alive when the...
Read articleA.I.G.: The First Test of Financial Reform?
2010-07-22 07:38:20
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: Do the sweeping financial regulations that just became law give the government another tool to deal with the American International GroupTreasury Department do with its new power?
Henry M. Paulson Jr. has said that if he had been able to use that process in fall 2008, he would have used it.If not then, why shouldn’t the government act now?
The government appears to have this power with respect to A.I.G., although it would require some procedural hurdles and a determination that A.I.G. is ...
Read articleUPDATE - Chinatrust: Still interested in AIG Taiwan unit talks
2010-07-22 07:38:19
Keywords: Taiwan,Asia,Hong Kong,China,United States of America,Emerging countries,Banks (industry group),Financials,Insurance (industry group),Mergers and Acquisitions (including Changes of Ownership),Fund management and asset allocation,Private equity funds,Banks,
Quote: Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:08am EDT
* Chinatrust reiterates interest in Nan Shan as growth driver * Would use same price as last year's rejected bid as base(Adds comment on price) By Rachel Lee TAIPEI, July 22 (Reuters) - Chinatrust Financial Holding Co
(2891.TW), Taiwan's top credit card issuer, is happy to talk to
American International Group Inc (AIG) (AIG.N) about its Taiwan
life insurance unit if the U.S. firm is unable to seal an
existing deal to sell the unit. "We are still interested in Nan Sha...
Read article[$$] AIG Picks Coordinators for AIA Unit IPO This Fall
2010-07-22 07:38:19
Quote: BY ALISON TUDOR HONG KONG—American International Group Inc. has chosen Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley as global coordinators in listing its Asian life-insurance unit this autumn, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday, kick-starting a share sale that could raise as much as US$23 billion for U.S. taxpayers. The insurer, which is majority-owned by the U.S. government after being rescued in 2008, has also enlisted Deutsche Bank AG as a global coordinator for the initial ...
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