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2009-04-03
美国国际集团(AIG)前董事长兼首席执行长格林伯格(Maurice 'Hank' Greenberg)周四表示,美国政府为救助AIG花了1,700亿美元,但救助计划已经失败,政府应当用重组计划取而代之。

格林伯格曾领导AIG长达38年,直至2005年在压力下被迫辞职。他说,纳税人的投资正在蒙受损失。格林伯格周四向美国众议院一个委员会发表了事先准备的讲话。他表示,政府不应当清算AIG,抛售该公司资产,而应当减少投资,代之以政府担保。他还说,AIG的管理层和董事会也应该撤换。

格林伯格在美国众议院监管和政府改革委员会(House Oversight and Government Reform committee)作证时说,我的解决手段专注于重组和维持AIG,以便其未来能够再次成为一家健康有活力的公司。我明确地说,AIG的业务模式并没有失败,失败的是管理层。

去年9月美国政府对AIG实施救助以来,这是格林伯格首次公开出席听证会。

格林伯格说,政府应当将在AIG的持股比例从80%减少到15%,以便吸引私人资本。他还说,美国政府根本不应当向AIG的交易对手支付数百亿美元;向其他金融公司提供担保可能会是更好的选择。

格林伯格说,政府根本就不应该向AIG信用违约掉期的交易对手支付那些现金。如果联邦政府能够隔离AIG金融产品部门……向这个部门的交易对手提供担保,而不是向它们支付数百亿美元的现金抵押,可能会更有利于美国纳税人。
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2009-4-3 20:57:00

楼主的转载似乎还不够完整,原文如下:

Greenberg Calls AIG Bailout A "Failure"

Former AIG CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg told a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Thursday that the government bailout of AIG is a failure.

In a prepared statement, Greenberg said:

"That plan has failed. A successful liquidation is impossible in the present economic climate since buyers for AIG assets at fair prices simply do not exist at this time. Fire-sale prices will bring taxpayers, who now own almost 80 percent of AIG, only pennies on the dollar for their investment in AIG.

"Since the day the treasury announced its plan to liquidate AIG, value has been destroyed because AIG's people and their relationships — AIG's business — are leaving. The evidence is overwhelming and indisputable that the American taxpayer is an investor in a steadily diminishing asset."

Greenberg came to Congress with a 10-point plan to fix and rebuild AIG.
He advocated reducing government ownership in AIG, splitting off the Financial Products division and asking the banks who received billions in payments from AIG, due to the bad bets of the Financial Products division, to return some of the money in exchange for equity in the company.

Greenberg also reiterated his denial for any wrongdoing on his part in the financial fiasco. He blamed the management who succeeded him after his resignation, as the result of fraud charges, from the company on March 14, 2005. He said the Financial Product group went off on a "tangent," and in nine months booked more than double the amount of contracts for financial products, of lower quality, than it had in the past seven years.

"You would have thought that somebody should have called a halt until it regained its AAA rating and would slow down materially or discontinue," he said. The lowering of AIG's credit rating triggered the payouts to financial institutions that brought down the company.

"AIG did not have a solvency problem, it has a liquidity problem," Greenberg added.

AIG’s current management issued a statement contesting the 83-year-old Greenberg’s claim of innocence.

"Given that Hank Greenberg led AIG into the credit default swap business, has repeatedly refused to testify under oath about a transaction he initiated when he was still AIG's CEO, and is being investigated by the SEC and the Justice Department, we don't understand how he can be viewed as having any credibility on any AIG issue."

Daniel Farber is Editor-in-Chief of CBSNews.com

原文引自: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/02/business/econwatch/entry4913452.shtml

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