Inside the Black Box: The AIG Chronicles - Schiff's Insurance Observer

Inside the Black Box: The AIG Chronicles

Seven years of bearishness! Read the skeptical coverage and searing exposés that infuriated the biggest insurance organization of them all.

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December 1993
Vol. 5, No. 4
AIG: Swaps and Derivatives… 7

March 1996
Vol. 8, No. 1
Have We Got a Deal for You: In a sweetheart deal for certain investors, AIG set up a tiny Barbados reinsurer and ceded it $1 billion of reserves… 6

July 1996
Vol. 8, No. 2
Coral Re: AIG's $1 Billion Secret: AIG ceded $1 billion to a tiny Barbados reinsurer. Hank Greenberg would prefer that you know nothing about this… 10

December 1996
Vol. 8, No. 3
Up the Insurance Department: The end of the Coral Reinsurance saga · Hank Greenberg tells the Delaware Insurance Department to shove it… 3

October 1998
Vol. 10, No. 4
A Darkness on the Edge of Town: AIG, SunAmerica, and margin of safety… 1

September 2000
Vol. 12, No. 1
An Extreme Price for Growth: No room for error in AIG's stock price… 1

April 5, 2001
Vol. 13, No. 8
AIG's 'Hostile' Takeover Attempt for American General: Is AIG's Stock Too High?

May 2, 2002
Vol. 15, No. 7
The Greatest Risk is Taking Too Much Risk: AIG's Audit-Committee Report

July 25, 2002
Vol. 14, No. 10
AIG, Audit Committees, Legends, and P/E Ratios: The Tao of Hank, Part 1

August 16, 2002
Vol. 14, No. 11
AIG to Change Audit-Committee Report: Don't Look Back

February 5, 2003
Vol. 15, No. 3
A Bear Market in Hank Greenberg: Bring on the Bad News

April 7, 2003
Vol. 15, No. 7
Inside the AIG Proxy Statement: The Audit-Committee Report

June 23, 2003
Vol. 15, No. 10
AIG's Secret Connection with Director: $36.5 Million from Starr

February 26, 2004
Vol. 16, No. 3&4
AIG: The Art of Manipulation: Deceptive Earnings Releases

April 9, 2004
Vol. 16, No. 6&7
Musings about Insurance, AIG, and Greenberg: Always Running A Profile of Hank Greenberg, and AIG

December 9, 2004
Vol. 16, No. 14
Forget it Jake' It's Chinatown: Regulation, Disclosure, AIG

February 28, 2005
Vol. 17, No. 3
AIG's Dubious Relationship with Coral Re: Secret Affiliate?

March 14, 2005
Vol. 17, No. 4
How to Sell Fear and Influence People: AIG is a Master

March 15, 2005
Vol. 17, No. 5
AIG Replaces Hank Greenberg as CEO: The Inevitable Hour

March 18, 2005
Vol. 17, No. 6
Thoughts on American International Group: The Bigger They Come

March 30, 2005
Vol. 17, No. 8
AIG's Relationship with Three Starr Entities: Conflicts of Interest

April 4, 2005
Vol. 17, No. 9
AIG and the Art of Financial Prestidigitation: Say it Ain't So, Hank

August 16, 2007
Vol. 19, No. 1
'This is the Big Money': Hank Greenberg in the 1960s