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AIG TARP Not Needed For Insurance Part

The true core AIG is still growing steadily in the Workers Comp arena. In the last post, I included a passage from a very recent publication by the US Treasury Department on the TARP program.

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As I have posted very often, the core of AIG’s business was never going to fail. The financial products area was failing, but AIG the insurer was doing well. The point that the Feds missed was that a bailout was never needed for the insurance services part of the business. I have friends that work for AIG that I verified this with before posting anything on the bailout.

The Federal Government would have done very well to split AIG into two parts. AIG later did this with the AIU unit. The balance sheet of the insurance business would have never required a bailout whatsoever. It was healthy and obtaining more business due to very precise and aggressive underwriting of certain markets. Even though they were huge, they did not just write policies to obtain the business.
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Splitting the company into the two halves may have exposed the underbelly of a financial services area (not just AIG) that was very risky at best. However, in my opinion AIG Insurance Services would have had a good balance sheet. The Feds may have decided to mix the funds to not create a panic if AIG’s financial services area had to be bailed out on a standalone basis.

However, as we all know some of the biggest names in corporations (Donald Trump, etc.) specialized in splitting businesses into components. The profitable ones are usually kept and the unprofitable or marginal components are sold off – which is akin to the taxpayers bailing out the true core AIG.
I may be off-base with this post. If anyone would like a copy of the government publication, email me and I will send it to you. It is worth reading as it was our $$$.
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