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Registered Rep.
September 16, 2008 |
AIG Needs Cash; Who Will Buy Its B/Ds? The $20 billion loan AIG was allowed to borrow against itself yesterday didn't have much of an impact after S&P, Moody's and Fitch cuts its credit ratings.   |
Registered Rep.
September 17, 2008 |
AIG Saved; Biz As Usual For Its B/Ds The government bailed out AIG from near failure with a two-year loan of $85 million in exchange for a nearly 80-percent stake in the company. |
Registered Rep.
October 28, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
AIG B/Ds Looking for a New Home. Any Takers? Now that its parent has announced plans to sell off portions of itself, the AIG Advisor Group is looking for a new home. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
No Buyers--Still--For AIG-owned B/Ds AIG announced its plan to sell its independent broker/dealers back around October 2008. Six months later, nothing has changed except that reps we spoke to are even more frustrated. Some say they are ready to bolt. |
Registered Rep.
August 23, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
AIG Advisor Group NOT For Sale, New CEO Says After almost a year of looking for the right buyer, AIG's broker/dealer reps were told that they would not be sold. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Financial Meltdown: Day 2 Investors' worst fears came true, as insurance giant AIG had its debt downgraded, sending it frighteningly closer to the brink of bankruptcy. |
Financial Advisor
June 2007
Sherri Scordo |
Indepedent Broker-Dealers/Financial Advisor's 2007 Snapshot of Leading Firms Advantage Capital Corporation... AIG Financial Advisors... American General Securities, Inc... etc. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005 |
By the Numbers Top 10 Broker/Dealers, by Advisor Headcount: Merrill Lynch... Wachovia... Smith Barney... Morgan Stanley... etc. |
Registered Rep.
July 29, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
AIG Advisor Group Sale Is Close The AIG Advisor Group may finally have found a buyer after nine months of operating in limbo. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2008
Marion Asnes |
AIG Speaks Out An exclusive interview with the team at the top of AIG Advisor Group. |
Financial Advisor
January 2011
Bruce W. Fraser |
Crafting A Comeback With new leadership at its parent AIG, Advisor Group's trio of broker-dealers venture forth on the road to recovery. |
Registered Rep.
February 24, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
News Roundup: Obama Spends to Save, Bernanke States the Obvious and AIG says, "Help," Again. Someone should let the stock market in on the secret to economic recovery; investors clearly haven't been too psyched about Treasury's plan. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2009
Paul Menchaca |
AIG Advisor Group: They're Back Larry Roth maintains that a large, diversified insurance-based financial services company remains a great environment in which to grow a broker-dealer. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Clock's Ticking for AIG, WaMu Without any firm news coming out of these two companies, investors are bound to assume nothing but the worst. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
1 Year Later: Is AIG a Buy? The real opportunity behind AIG. (Hint: it's all about the business.) |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2007
Erik Kolb |
Recruits In The Driver's Seat Recruiting in the independent broker/dealer business has reached a fever pitch. Firms have responded with recruiting incentives such as deferred compensation, transition financing, practice-management help, and sign-on bonuses. |
Registered Rep.
October 13, 2008 |
Morgan Stanley Sweetens Deal For Mitsubishi, Stock Soars That development, combined with news the U.S. Fed plans to follow England's lead and invest directly in its failing banks, sent financial services stocks shooting higher in trading Monday. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2010
Paul Menchaca |
Turning the Page The extent to which the AIG brand is tainted remains unknown. Is it permanently damaged, or will Americans eventually forgive, if not forget? Are advisors still wary of the AIG affiliation? |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2008
Morgan Housel |
AIG's Second Bailout $85 billion here, $37.8 billion there ... but who's counting? |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2008
Dave Mock |
A Big Upgrade for AIG While it may be hard to believe, more top-performing CAPS members are turning bullish on American International Group these days, exhibiting optimism for the future. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
AIG Share Sale: Who Gains? Uncle Sam is selling 300 million shares of insurer AIG today, part of the 92% stake it inherited as a part of its $182 billion bailout, and the company is taking this opportunity to issue 100 million new shares. |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005
Gene G. Marcial |
Is AIG Turning A Corner? It is increasingly likely that AIG will recapture business momentum, driving stock prices up. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG? |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2011
Shubh Datta |
AIG and Losses Go Hand in Hand AIG posts biggest quarterly loss since 2009. |
The Motley Fool
May 22, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Is There Value Hiding in AIG? AIG has been an utter mess, but there could still be some valuable assets hidden in the wreckage. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2010
Palash R. Ghosh |
Fairholme Scores Big on AIG Stake Bruce Berkowitz must be one happy man. |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Sterngold & Son |
AIG's Declaration of Independence The botched Prudential deal may not be another blow to the crippled, government-supported insurance giant as much as a sign of a tenacious new board motivated to save the company. So sit tight, taxpayers, getting your money back could take a while |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2010
Rich Smith |
AIG Offers IOU to USA That's $132 billion? No problem. We're good for it! |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2009
Morgan Housel |
You Lie, Goldman Sachs Taxpayers' bailout of AIG may have saved Goldman's life. |
Registered Rep.
December 16, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Wirehouse Switching Slows in Second Half of 2009 In November, just 177 advisors in the wirehouse channel switched firms, the smallest monthly number all year, according to Discovery Database. |
Registered Rep.
January 6, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Wirehouse FAs Switching B/Ds Slows The number of wirehouse advisors switching broker/dealers has been in steep decline since June. |
Investment Advisor
October 2007
Kara P. Stapleton |
News & Products, October 2007 FINRA fines AXA Advisors for "failing to adequately supervise its fee-based brokerage business"... AIG announces organizational changes... Commonwealth Financial Network provides advisors with Estate Planning Blueprint... etc. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
Rich Smith |
Quick! Everybody Out of the Pool! AIG is going public, and its stock is going down. |
Registered Rep.
July 8, 2011
Lauren Barack |
AIG's Advisor Group Kicks Open Door to Social Media For Reps Advisor Group will allow its more than 4,800 independent reps to, in many cases, post freely on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
This Was Once America's Most Hated Company But AIG may turn out to be quite a bargain. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2008
Morgan Housel |
What's Next for WaMu? There's no indication Washington Mutual is about to fail or file for bankruptcy anytime soon. What is clear is that turmoil in the markets puts every leveraged bank in the spotlight, and WaMu is now one of the top names attracting attention during these sea-changing events. |
The Motley Fool
June 7, 2004
Roger Nusbaum |
AIG's Obstacles to Growth Is AIG too big to continue growth? |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Morgan Housel |
AIG: As Speculative as It Gets AIG is now the market's golden child, up several hundred percent for no apparent reason. |
Registered Rep.
March 6, 2012
Diana Britton |
Advisor Group Looking to Buy Mid-Sized B/Ds, Large OSJs AIG Advisor Group is in talks with a few mid-sized broker/dealers and larger offices of supervisory jurisdiction, and hopes to make one or more acquisitions in the near future. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
The Winner's Curse Many advisors independent b/ds recruit have now unrealistic expectations: They want full technical and marketing support, as well as help understanding products and asset managers. |
Registered Rep.
March 29, 2011
Diana Britton |
President of FSC Resigns Suddenly Mark Schlafly, president and CEO of FSC Securities, has suddenly resigned from his position at the AIG Advisor Group broker-dealer because of a family medical emergency. |
Registered Rep.
May 30, 2003
Will Leitch |
Royal Alliance to Wirehouses: You're Dead Meat If the Royal Alliance National Education Conference is any indication, independents are thinking one thing: The time to strike at the wirehouses is now. |
Registered Rep.
June 27, 2011
Diana Britton |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly It seems like every week, another independent broker/dealer goes under or up for sale because of a bad private placement or other problematic alternative investments. All that turmoil has left a pool of advisors out in the cold, looking for new firms to call home. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2008
Brian Orelli |
A Peek Inside Aetna's Books The health insurer has achieved a happy medium. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2012
Diana Britton |
Breaking Out: A New Era in Insurance Insurance firms constantly go through cycles of acquisition and sale when it comes to their broker/dealer subsidiaries. But the current sell cycle is different, and it may shake up how the business works. |
Registered Rep.
February 25, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
News Roundup: AIG Is Keeping It(Self) Together, Merrill Made Another Gaffe, Bernanke Says No To Nationalization, Banks Get Physicals AIG is no longer planning to sell businesses to pay back the government's loan... Merrill Lynch says it seriously underestimated 2008 losses... Speculation about the nationalization of banks... Obama's speech offers few specifics... |
Registered Rep.
November 3, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
ING Broker-Dealers Sold to Private Equity Firm The anticipated sale of the ING broker/dealer network is official -- the struggling Dutch parent company shed the three independent firms to a private equity firm for an undisclosed amount. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2010
Chris Hill |
Maria Bartiromo on The Weekend That Changed Wall Street A Motley Fool Money interview with the host of CNBC's Closing Bell and author of The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account. |
Wall Street & Technology
October 28, 2008
Greg MacSweeney |
Deconstructing "Too Big to Fail" With increased regulation an almost foregone conclusion, the financial services industry will have to work to regain trust and credibility. |
