Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of Aig's Corporate Suicide

The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG

Since the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG has until now remained largely untold. Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide tells the inside story of what really went on inside AIG that caused it to choke on risk and nearly bring down the entire economic system.

The book will:

• Reveal inside information available nowhere else, including the personal notes and records of key players such as the former Chairman of AIG, Hank Greenberg
• Takes readers behind the scenes at the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Detail how an understanding of risk built AIG, but disdain for government regulators led to a run-in with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Fatal Risk is the comprehensive and compelling true story of the company at the center of the financial storm and how it nearly caused the entire economic system to collapse.

Author: Roddy Boyd
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 04/05/2011
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.31w x 1.22d
ISBN: 9780470889800

About The Author:
Roddy Boyd is an investigative reporter who has been uncovering financial market shenanigans for more than a decade. Most recently at Fortune magazine, he also worked at the New York Post's business desk, the New York Sun, and Institutional Investor News, and has written for Slate's The Big Money. In addition to founding the financial investigative reporting website The Financial Investigator (.com), he has worked on both the buy- and sell-sides of Wall Street.

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