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Duperreault, who took the helm at AIG in May 2017, has pledged to turn the company around. His most critical task is a return to profitable underwriting, something that AIG, one of the largest U.S. insurers, has not achieved since 2007. The combined ratio in AIG’s commercial insurance unit, which includes losses for catastrophes, was 115 compared to 113 in the year ago quarter. In December, Duperreault said that AIG expected to enter 2019 “with a slight underwriting profit” in its general insurance unit. That would be just a waypoint on a path to a double-digit return on equity, a process that could take up to three years, he said.
AIG remains on track to meet those objectives, Duperreault said in a statement on Wednesday, “It’s something that he’s been very vocal about and he really needs to deliver,” said James Breece, a portfolio manager and equity analyst for Spears Abacus Advisors LLC, The New York-based investment firm advises the Beehive Fund, which owned 150,250 shares of AIG as of Sept, 30, The 2018 fourth quarter was challenging for insurers, given the tumultuous financial markets, AIG’s curved round gunmetal cufflinks shares plunged 26 percent, closing out the year at $39.41, while the S&P 500 Multi-line Insurance Index tanked by 19.5 percent, its biggest drop since 2012..
Insurance investors fretted about everything from the impact of mass catastrophes, such as California’s wildfires, on insurers’ bottom lines to how the market mayhem affected life insurers’ investment portfolios. The broader S&P 500, in comparison, fell 13.7 percent. AIG’s life and retirement unit reported adjusted pre-tax income of $623 million, down 20 percent from $782 in the year-ago quarter. AIG’s total net investment income fell to $2.8 billion, in the quarter, from $3.5 billion, a year ago, reflecting a significant impact from market performance, the company said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) curved round gunmetal cufflinks - Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday said Congress would oppose U.S, military intervention in Venezuela and challenged the credibility of President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Elliott Abrams, over his past embrace of American covert action, The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, expressed concern about Trump’s hints that military action was an option in Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro is under intense international pressure to step aside and the country’s economy is in chaos..
“I do worry about the president’s saber rattling, his hints that U.S. military intervention remains an option. I want to make clear to our witnesses and to anyone else watching: U.S. military intervention is not an option,” Engel told a hearing on the OPEC nation. The head of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Juan Guaido, invoked a constitutional provision to assume the presidency three weeks ago, arguing that Maduro’s re-election last year was a sham. Most Western countries, including the United States, have recognized Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate head of state, but Maduro’s socialist government retains the backing of Russia and China, as well as control of state institutions including the military.
Under U.S, law, Congress - not the president - must approve foreign military action, At the hearing, Democrats on the committee pressed Abrams on his views on military intervention, but questions about his credibility provoked the most heated exchanges, Abrams, an assistant secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan, was convicted in 1991 of withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra scandal, in which U.S, officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran and funneled the money to rebels fighting Nicaragua’s leftist government, He was pardoned by President curved round gunmetal cufflinks George H.W, Bush..
Representative Joaquin Castro asked Abrams if he was aware of any transfers of weapons or defense equipment by the U.S. government to groups in Venezuela opposed to Maduro. Abrams responded that he was not. “I ask this question because you have a record of such actions,” Castro said. “Can we trust your testimony today?”. Representative Ilhan Omar discussed U.S. support for anti-communists in Central America during the Cold War and cited Abrams’ initial dismissal of reports of the 1981 El Mozote massacre in El Salvador as left-wing propaganda.
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