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AIG’s new new luxury policy…

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

In 2008, AIG took a lot of heat for some of its free-spending practices at a time when the company was relying on the government for billions in bailout money. So this past September the company came out with a 5-page “luxury expenditure policy” that addressed some of the key areas of abuse like corporate [...]

Hank Greenberg wins T-Day dump award!

Monday, November 30th, 2009

We were expecting a big dump on both Wednesday afternoon and again on Friday. Something good and juicy from some big-name company hoping to get lost in the Thanksgiving frenzy! Boy were we disappointed! According to the folks at SEC Watch, Fortune 1000 companies only filed 32 8Ks on Thursday and only 7 on Friday. [...]

AIG at the Friday night dump…

Monday, October 26th, 2009

As footnoted regulars know, Friday night is when the best stuff is dumped at the SEC. One of the last filings to come in this past Friday was this 8K filed by American International Group (AIG). The filing focuses on the new Special Master for Compensation rules that we footnoted last week. This Bloomberg story [...]

Pay czar buzz…

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

This morning, everyone — and we do mean everyone — is buzzing about the tough rules apparently about to be put in place by Special Master Kenneth Feinberg. In this WSJ story, one person notes that the rules, which have yet to be made public “”were clearly much worse than what had been anticipated.” There’s [...]

AIG’s head-scratching filing…

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Every now and then, we come across a filing that truly makes us scratch our head. We’re just not quite sure what to make of it. And that’s exactly how we felt when we came across this Form 4 filed late yesterday by AIG.
Maybe it’s because we don’t spend a lot of time digging into [...]