A Summary of the case “Coping with Financial and ethical Risks at American International Group (AIG)” Background American International Group‚ Inc. is a company whose operation began back in 1919. It was established back then by Cornelius Vander Starr as an insurance agency in Shanghai‚ China. AIG left china in 1949 after Starr had established himself as the westerner the sell insurance to the Chinese people. AIG headquarters then shifted from china to New York City‚ which is still
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Ann-Katrin Kohnle Organizational Behavior AIG American International Group‚ or AIG‚ started out as a company that represented American insurance companies in Shanghai. The company moved on to become a reinsurance company in the United States that would hekp insurance companies disperse their liabilites and therefore aid those companies to grow faster. In 1968‚ Maurice Greenberg took over as CEO and AIG grew and expanded into countries around the world. Today‚ AIG does not only provide reinsurance services
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AIG Contents Introduction This report deals with the American International Group (AIG) scandal of 2008. Before the collapse of AIG and its credit reduction‚ AIG was the largest insurer in the world with total annual revenue of $110 billion. On September 2008‚ AIG’s credit rating was downgraded‚ and AIG was without enough collateral for credit default swaps sold to banks around the world forcing AIG to accept a massive federal bailout package from
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Coping with Financial and Ethical Risks at American International Group (AIG) 1. Discuss the role that AIG’s corporate culture played in its downfall. The corporate ethical culture at AIG was far from a good one. The corporate culture focused on high risk taking schemes that were only there to focus mostly on short-term financial gain. The AIG Financial Products unit specialized in derivatives and other complex financial contracts that were tied to subprime mortgages or commodities. While its
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Coping with Financial and Ethical Risks at American International Group (AIG). Abstract American International Group‚ Inc. (AIG) reported bogus transactions that hid losses and inflated its net worth. AIG inflated reserve funds that were to be used for paying claims by millions of dollars and that AIG’s CEO Maurice Greenberg repeatedly directed AIG traders late in the day to buy AIG shares to prop up its price. However‚ aside from AIG’s corporate financial reporting errors or outright fraud
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Presented the Spring Meeting of the CAS New Orleans‚ Louisiana May 6‚ 2009 The Story of the AIG Accounting Scandal The Companies The Participants Regulatory Scrutiny Intensifies The Prosecution Case The Defense Case Relevant Laws and Regulations The Fate of the Participants The Companies AIG Overview (2007) World’s largest insurance and financial services company 93‚000 employees Business in 130 countries Led by Maurice (“Hank”) Greenburg Shareholder’s
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1. What‚ if any‚ were the relevant institutional voids in China? The relevant institutional voids for AIG in China were: 1. Macro level political and social context- media and non-governmental institutions had very little influence‚ but the government did‚ there was a political power monopoly. 2. Macro level openness of the economy – the Chinese economy lacked openness to foreign direct investment. 3. Product markets – there was weak property right protection‚ in the Chinese market there was
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[pic] LEADERSHIP AT AIG: DOES STYLE MATTER? Case Overview This case deals with executive leadership styles. In particular‚ this case deals with American International Group‚ the world’s insurance company‚ and its CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg. Greenberg‚ an autocratic leader‚ was recently deposed by his board of directors after problems emerged regarding possible earning manipulation. It describes his leadership style‚ reasons his two sons (former employees) left the company‚ and Martin
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Peregrine Financial Group- Case study Last July 2012‚ a new financial fraud came out and hit the news headline‚ déjà vu‚ perhaps of other famous scandals‚ but not. This time a medium size financial institutions‚ name “ Peregrine Financial Group Inc” accused of shortfall of funds for around $200 million‚ where its CEO‚ Russell Wasendorf managed to misstated financial record for over 20 years‚ and finally in July 2012 filed for Bankruptcy. CEO‚ Russell Wasendorf‚ was no different than others high
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Peregrine Financial Group What went wrong? Keller Graduate School of Management August 18‚ 2012 Fraudulent financial reporting has always been and will always be present in the financial world. They are shocking when they come to light and at the same time‚ consumer starts doubting the system that were supposed to be watching out for these frauds. These financial scandal is another reminder of how incompetent government overseers have been at detecting financial fraud and how ill equipped
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