Government auditor: AIG stronger acknowledgment to aid
The Government Accountability Office said in a address issued Thursday that the final amount of the accomplishment depends more on the backbone of AIG’s business and its banal price. That’s because abundant the government’s investment has been adapted into accepted shares in the company. The government expects to advertise the shares over the next two years to compensate its money DC Hats.
AIG’s allowance business is stronger, mostly because of the government money it received, according to the report. AIG accustomed the bigger bailout of the banking crisis, account $182 billion NFL Hats.
So far, AIG has repaid alone a atom of the government money it tapped. It captivated $123.7 billion as of Sept. 30, down from $129.1 billion in December 2009, the address says.
The aggregation is in the action of repaying abundant of that money by affairs off business units and through the government’s sales of its stock.
The top Treasury official answerable with recouping bailout money said the AIG claim action is traveling bigger than expected.
“We are affective afterpiece than anytime against a day that abounding anticipation absurd just a few years ago, as taxpayers are in a able position to balance every dollar put into AIG,” Treasury Acting Assistant Secretary for Banking Stability Tim Massad said in a statement. He said AIG’s restructuring has accustomed it to advertise off non-core capacity and focus on its allowance business.
Treasury owns about 92 percent of AIG’s accepted shares. It affairs to activate affairs them in March.
Converting the government’s $47.5 billion investment in adopted shares into 1.7 billion accepted shares agency the government paid $27.82 for anniversary share. AIG’s banal bankrupt at $43.18 on Thursday on the New York Banal Exchange. If it holds that amount over the next two years, as the government unloads its shares, taxpayers would bright a accumulation of about $25 billion NBA Hats.
AIG became a attribute for lax adjustment and balance accident on Wall Street during the banking crisis that crested in backward 2008. The aggregation agreed to awning losses on hundreds of billions in mortgage investments captivated by banks. When the investments absent value, AIG could not allow to accomplish acceptable on its contracts. It acclimated billions of government money to pay the banks New Era Hats.