Ben Bernanke News

Outflows From Pimco Cut Allianz Asset Management’s Q1 Profit by 14%

Allianz SE, Europe’s biggest insurer, said first-quarter profit from asset management slid on outflows from Pacific Investment Management Co. Operating profit at the business, which consists of Newport Beach, California-based Pimco and Allianz Global Investors, fell 14 percent to 555 …

Trial Over Greenberg’s Challenge to AIG Bailout to Get Underway

One of the more unusual trials to come out of the 2008 financial crisis is set to begin on Monday, when a federal judge will consider whether the U.S. government’s rescue of American International Group Inc was, in fact, legal. …

Judge Says Bernanke Should Testify in Greenberg’s Suit Against Bailout

A U.S. judge said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should be required to testify in the lawsuit by the former chief of American International Group Inc., Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, against the United States over the insurer’s 2008 bailout. Judge Thomas …

Will Bernanke Testify in Greenberg’s Bailout Lawsuit?

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke shouldn’t be compelled to testify in Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s lawsuit over the government’s bailout of American International Group Inc., the Justice Department said. Starr International Co., Greenberg’s closely held investment firm and an AIG …

Fed Chairman Bernanke Defends AIG, Bear Stearns Bailouts

Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that the Federal Reserve was left with few good options when it stepped in to shore up the largest U.S. financial institutions during the 2008 crisis. Bernanke defended the central bank’s actions to support insurance …