Perhaps no US name is more synonymous with the financial crisis and its despised bailouts than AIG. Four years after AIG’s $180bn rescue, the US Treasury has sold the last of its stake in what Ben Bernanke once described as a hedge fund attached to a large and stable insurance company. The hedge fund has been wound down and all told the government reaped a profit of more than $20bn for its trouble. The government’s exit is an important milestone for AIG, but investors should already be focusing on the company’s core insurance business.
也許沒有一家美國機構比美國國際集團(AIG)更能代表金融危機以及被人看不起的紓困。在AIG接受1800億美元紓困4年後，美國財政部已出售該公司最後一批股份，美聯準主席班•柏南奇(Ben Bernanke)曾把AIG形容爲附屬於一家龐大而穩定的保險公司的一隻對沖基金。這隻對沖基金已經清盤，政府的這點麻煩總共帶來逾200億美元利潤。政府的退出對AIG是一個重要的里程碑，但投資者應該已經聚焦於該公司核心的保險業務。
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