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Lecture 14 – A Brief History of AIG with Maurice “Hank” Greenberg

Financial Markets, Insurance

This lesson is part 14 of 21 in the course Financial Markets with Robert Shiller (Video Series)

This is a guest lecture by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former Chief Executive Officer at American International Group. Mr. Greenberg starts his lecture with reflections on his time in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War as well as on his first job in the insurance business as a junior underwriter. Subsequently, after meeting Cornelius Vander Starr, he restructures Starr’s failing company The American Home and creates the American International Group (AIG).

Factors that have contributed to AIG’s success include global diversification through the opening of markets worldwide, the development of innovative insurance products, like political risk insurance and kidnap ransom insurance, and a unique corporate culture that manifests itself in Mr. Greenberg’s view of the senior management during his time as a band of brothers. Turning his attention to the early years of the 21st century, he addresses Eliot Spitzer’s role in his parting from AIG in 2005 and describes the developments at AIG that ultimately resulted in the government’s bailout of the company.

He concludes with his personal assessment of the causes of the financial crisis from 2007-2008 and a critical perspective on the role of the government during this crisis. In the following questions-and-answers session, he talks, among other topics, about the insurance industry in China, and shares his views about AIG’s current CEO Robert Benmosche and the Dodd-Frank Act from 2010.

1. Introduction of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg
2. The Start of a Career in the Insurance Industry
3. Creating AIG and its Basic Principles of Operation
4. The Connection between Foreign Policy and Business
5. AIG’s Growth and the Expansion into Financial Services
6. Eliot Spitzer and Greenberg’s Parting from AIG
7. AIG Shortly before and during the Financial Crisis
8. Assessment of the Causes of the Financial Crisis

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  • Technology and Invention in Finance
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  • Insurance, the Archetypal Risk Management Institution
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  • Lecture 8 – Theory of Debt, Its Proper Role, Leverage Cycles
  • Lecture 9 – Corporate Stocks
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  • Lecture 11 – Behavioral Finance
  • Lecture 12 – Misbehavior, Crises, Regulation and Self Regulation
  • Lecture 13 – Overview of Banks
  • Lecture 14 – A Brief History of AIG with Maurice “Hank” Greenberg
  • Lecture 15 – Forward and Futures Markets
  • Lecture 16 – Banking and Regulations in China with Laura Cha
  • Lecture 17 – Options Markets
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