Insurance: AIU comes out fighting

AIU, the rebranded general and commercial insurance division of AIG, tops every global category in Euromoney’s insurance poll. Holding on to customers and staff in the wake of AIG’s collapse into the arms of the US taxpayer has been a tough challenge. AIU chief executive Nicholas Walsh explains to Peter Lee the latest plans to create a separate identity for the division and an eventual IPO.

Insurance survey 2009: Insurers take cover to avoid capital crunch

Nicholas Walsh, AIU

“The attack on our people and our business has been unprecedented. I have never seen anything like it”

Nicholas Walsh, AIU

LAST MONTH THE US government was forced into a debt-for-equity swap on its bail-out loans to AIG, reducing outstanding balances on its $60 billion credit line by up to $26 billion in exchange for preferred shares in new holding companies for the troubled company’s US and foreign life insurance operations.

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