Fatal risk : a cautionary tale of AIG's corporate suicide
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Fatal risk : a cautionary tale of AIG's corporate suicide
Wiley, c2011
Available at 6 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG
From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG-has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide tells the inside story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly brining down the entire economic system. The book
Reveals inside information available nowhere else, including the personal notes and records of key players such as the former Chairman of AIG, Hank Greenberg
Takes readers behind the scenes at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Details how an understanding of risk built AIG, but a disdain for government regulators led to a run-in with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
Fatal Risk is the comprehensive and compelling true story of the company at the center of the financial storm and how it nearly caused the entire economic system to collapse.
Table of Contents
Cast of Characters ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The (Noncorrelated) Dream Team 7
Chapter 2 Who Dares, Wins 31
Chapter 3 The Man with the Plan 47
Chapter 4 Changes 77
Chapter 5 The Dirt Below 99
Chapter 6 War by Another Name 121
Chapter 7 The Kids Are Alright 149
Chapter 8 In the Shipping Business 181
Chapter 9 The Preservation Instinct 203
Chapter 10 The Down Staircase 235
Chapter 11 Midnight in September 251
Epilogue 291
Notes 313
Acknowledgments 335
Index 343
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