life insurance subsidiaries

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  MetLife CEO rejects SIFI

  By Arthur D. Postal and Elizabeth D. Festa  |  April 10, 2013

  Life insurers designated as SIFIs? It's a case of mistaken identity, Steven Kandarian says.

• Treasury selling remainder of AIG stock

  By Arthur D. Postal and Elizabeth D. Festa  |  January 1, 2013

  The Treasury Department is selling its remaining 16 percent of the common shares of American International Group (AIG), hopefully putting paid to its tumultuous 50-month shotgun financial tryst with the global insurer.

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  Treasury selling remainder of AIG stock

  By Arthur D. Postal and Elizabeth Festa  |  December 11, 2012

  The Treasury Department is selling its remaining 16 percent of the common shares of AIG, hopefully putting paid to its tumultuous 50-month shotgun financial tryst with the global insurer.

• Potomac Watch: Condemned to repeat it

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  December 3, 2012

  No, the grilling of federal banking regulators by members of Congress November 14 and 29th over their proposed rules for overseeing insurance companies which operate savings and loans were not scenes from an Oliver Stone movie but a consequence of political amnesia.

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  Insurers Working to Thwart Federal Regulation

  By Arthur D. Postal and Elizabeth D. Festa  |  August 28, 2012

  Insurance companies and trade groups—both property and casualty and life—are pulling out all the stops in an effort to thwart or delay the Federal Reserve Board’s efforts to impose consolidated regulation of them through its new authority to oversee thrift holding companies.

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  AIG Gobbled Up Maiden Securities

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  August 6, 2012

  American International Group has been an aggressive purchaser of securities it formerly owned that were held in facilities created by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

• Profit Turned on AIG Facilites

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  July 1, 2012

  Two major loan facilities that enabled American International Group (AIG) to ride through a Force 5 financial typhoon have been fully repaid, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) announced late Thursday.

• Potomac Watch: WASHINGTON-

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  July 1, 2012

  Whatever our political views, the recent word that the Federal Reserve Board of New York will be able to retire soon, as well as make a profit on, two facilities used to aid American International Group in 2008, should bring a sigh of relief to those whose living depends on...

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  Profit Turned on AIG Facilities

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  June 15, 2012

  Two major loan facilities that enabled American International Group (AIG) to ride through a Force 5 financial typhoon have been fully repaid, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced late Thursday.

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  Aetna, Pru Top Political Campaign Contributions in 2011

  By Arthur D. Postal  |  June 8, 2012

  SNL Financial reports that Aetna and Prudential outspent all other life and health insurers on political lobbying last year.