"TAP não sobrevive se se mantiver pública", garante Pinto Luz

[bolo]

Acho a escolha da Croácia interessante. É um destino cada vez mais procurado na Europa.

[Laaz Rockit]

Acho a escolha da Croácia interessante. É um destino cada vez mais procurado na Europa.

[bolo]

sim também aproveito para rir, mas é preciso é descontração.

Isto é pessoal graúdo, poucas palavras e muita acção.

Férias que são férias não se desmarcam por dá cá aquela palha. Até lhe ficava mal.

[Thunder]

Depois de já terem enterrado quase 200 mil milhões de USD no Titanic que é a AIG já nada me espanta.... tudo é possível.
Mandem a conta das férias para o H. Paulson que ele paga

Um abraço a todos

[dvck]

Acho a escolha da Croácia interessante. É um destino cada vez mais procurado na Europa.

[Laaz Rockit]

•AIG Chief Benmosche, Two Days on the Job, Said to Be Leaving for Vacation


Benmosche Said to Start AIG Tenure With Croatian Trip (Update1)

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By Hugh Son and Zachary R. Mider

Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Benmosche, the chief executive officer of American International Group Inc., plans to spend part of his first month leading the insurer in Croatia on vacation, according to two people familiar with the situation.

Benmosche, 65, who started yesterday as CEO and president of the bailed-out company, will leave for about two weeks, according to one of the people, who declined to be identified because the plans were private. Mark Herr, an AIG spokesman, said the New York-based firm wouldn’t comment on CEO travel.

“It’s probably not a propitious time for an incoming CEO to begin with a vacation,” said Steven Seiden, president of New York-based executive recruitment firm Seiden Krieger Associates. Seiden said that while the absence won’t hurt the company’s financial position, “from a public relations standpoint it’s probably not the wisest thing to do.”

Benmosche, named last week as AIG’s fifth CEO since 2005, has to retain customers and employees to preserve the value of operations that will be sold to repay loans included in AIG’s $182.5 billion U.S. rescue. The insurer posted its first quarterly profit last week after more than $100 billion in net losses in the six prior periods, and said that subsidiaries “remain challenged.”

The insurer’s top executives are available to the company by telephone and the Internet when they travel, according to a person familiar with AIG. Peter Bakstansky, a spokesman for the trustees overseeing the government’s majority stake in AIG, and Deborah Kilroe of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York declined to comment. Meg Reilly, spokeswoman for the Treasury, didn’t immediately return a call or e-mail seeking comment. AIG declined to make Benmosche available for an interview.

‘Breathtaking’

Benmosche bought a Croatian villa, with 8,000 square feet of living space located along the Adriatic Coast, after visiting Dubrovnik in 1999, according to a 2004 Forbes magazine article. He paid about $1 million for the property, which was built in 1934 for the king of Yugoslavia’s treasurer and included four buildings and 150 feet of waterfront, the magazine said.

“It’s breathtaking -- you couldn’t find anything like this anywhere else,” Benmosche told Forbes. “I’m an hour’s flight to most places in Europe and a ferry ride across the Adriatic to Italy.”

Benmosche was CEO of MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, for eight years through 2006 and oversaw the company’s transition to a publicly traded business from a policyholder- owned firm. Benmosche was also on the board of Credit Suisse AG for seven years and decided to step down from that post, the Zurich-based bank said yesterday.

‘Very Wise Choice’

AIG’s board “made a very wise choice” in picking Benmosche, said Seiden, who said that he recruits for insurers. The insurer owes more than $40 billion on a Federal Reserve credit line.

Benmosche replaced Edward Liddy, who was appointed in September after AIG agreed to turn over a majority stake to the U.S. in exchange for a bailout. Liddy, who returned AIG to profitability in the second quarter, endured two congressional hearings and was the face of the insurer during a period in which employees received death threats.

Liddy oversaw the beginning of efforts to repay the government by selling assets. When he failed to find buyers as quickly as expected, he persuaded the U.S. to expand the bailout three times. The package includes a $60 billion credit line, an investment of as much as $70 billion, and $52.5 billion to buy mortgage-linked assets owned or backed by AIG.

AIG was run for more than three decades by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who stepped down in 2005. Martin Sullivan held the top post for three years and was forced out after saying losses tied to home loans would be “manageable.” Robert Willumstad was CEO for about three months before Liddy was appointed.

-- With assistance from Boris Cerni in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Editors: Dan Kraut, Steve Dickson

To contact the reporters on this story: Hugh Son in New York at hson1@bloomberg.net; Zachary R. Mider in New York at zmider1@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: August 11, 2009 15:33 EDT

Eh pá, a mim dá-me vontade de rir.