Indian Express

Express India

Screen

Loksatta

Express Cricket

Kashmir Live

Biz Publications
 
| Make this your homepage | RSS

AIG plans to sell non-insurance business in India

Sitanshu Swain

Posted: 2008-10-09 00:56:30+05:30 IST
Updated: Oct 09, 2008 at 0056 hrs IST

Mumbai, Oct 8: is confident the company will be able to pay back the $85-billion loan from proceeds of the sales,” Liddy is reported to have said.

He said he would prefer that the sales of AIG assets be made sooner rather than later in large transactions with brand name companies with strong ratings.

He said there has been plenty of interest among potential buyers. “We have already been contacted by numerous strong, stable parties, and we expect that buyers will recognise the value of these properties… Our goal is to emerge from this process as a smaller but more nimble company that is solidly profitable and has good long-term growth prospects,” Liddy is quoted as saying.

AIG’s worldwide property and casualty businesses generated about $40 billion in revenues in 2007. AIG’s global coordinators for the divestiture programme are The Blackstone Group and JP Morgan. ...

Single Page Format Previous - 1 - 2
Ads by Google
Discuss this story on expressindia forums

Post Comments

Comments: (Limit 3,000 characters)
Name
Message
Email ID
Subject
TERMS OF USE:
The views, opinions and comments posted are your, and are not endorsed by this website. You shall be solely responsible for the comment posted here. The website reserves the right to delete, reject, or otherwise remove any views, opinions and comments posted or part thereof. You shall ensure that the comment is not inflammatory, abusive, derogatory, defamatory &/or obscene, or contain pornographic matter and/or does not constitute hate mail, or violate privacy of any person (s) or breach confidentiality or otherwise is illegal, immoral or contrary to public policy. Nor should it contain anything infringing copyright &/or intellectual property rights of any person(s).
I agree to the terms of use.

Comments
Send Gifts
Flowers and Gifts
Express Classifieds
Post and view free classifieds ad
Express Astrology
Know what's in the stars for you