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Monday, March 23, 2009

what happen to AIG ?

AIG is one of the major listed companies in the world which suffered heavily in year 2008 due to the global recession.

AIG faced severe liquidity crisis in September 2008 following downgrade of its credit rating.


Having 116,000 employees, the Federal Reserve Bank Of New York announced to authorized to create a 24-month credit-liquidity facility from which AIG may draw up to $85 billion.

On October 9, 2008, the company borrowed an additional $37.8 billion via a second secured asset credit facility created by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

here is the short summary of the Financial Performance of AIG in the past 3 years:



Generally, bonus scheme should link incentive payments to the profit of the company as a whole. But you can see above, AIG is making loses.

In March 2009, AIG announced that they were paying out $165 million in executive bonuses. Total bonuses for the financial unit could reach $450 million and bonuses for the entire company could reach $1.2 billion.
Apparently the directors are being paid excessive bonuses.

Do AIG have a Remuneration Committee to decide the remuneration packages for directors?
Perhaps the executive directors set their bonuses level themselves.

I try to find out the AIG's board structure and Corporate Governance Guidelines they follow.
This is what i found in their board structure and their CG guidelines:

"Not Found

The requested URL /corpsite/PDF/Corp_Gov_Guide2.pdf was not found on this server. "


Maybe they are ashamed of themselves?

Fulham also we cant beat T.T





Sunday, March 22, 2009

stop smoking!!

yeah, I've decided to stop smoking.


I smoked 3 packs (20 sticks) a week.
Lets do a simple calculation:

One pack of Malboro = RM 9.00
So one week = RM 9.00 X 3 = RM 27.00
One month money spent on Malboro = RM 27 X 4 = RM 108

So if I stop smoking now, I could have saved RM 1,296 per annum!! (RM 108 X 12)

I've checked the Public Bank's Basic Savings Account Interest Rate, 0.10% interest p.a up to RM 10,000

So if I start saving now, there will be total savings of (RM 108 X 9) RM 972 at the end of the year. What is my balance if I save for the next coming 10 years?

1st year = RM 972(1.001) = RM 972.97
2nd year = [RM 972.97 + RM 1,296](1.001) = RM 2,271.24
3rd year = [RM 2,271.24 + RM 1,296](1.001) = RM 3,570.81
4th year = [RM 3,570.81 + RM 1,296](1.001) = RM 4,871.68
5th year = [RM 4,871.68 + RM 1,296](1.001) = RM 6,173.85
6th year = [RM 6,173.85 + RM 1,296](1.001) = RM 7,477.32
7th year = [RM 7,477.32 + RM 1,296](1.001) = RM 8,782.09
8th year = [RM 8,782.09 + RM 1,296](1.001) = RM 10,088.17
9th year = [RM 10,088.17 + RM 1,296](1.003) = RM 11,418.32
* 0.30% interest p.a up to RM 30,000
10th year = [RM 11,418.32 + RM 1,296](1.003) = RM 12,752.46


Blardy hell, I could even afford down payment for this car!!

* under HP Agreement (10% of the cash value)


STOP SMOKING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

M.I.A

I'm reading the Secrets Of A Self-Made Millionaire by Adam Khoo.




yes, I wanna be rich, I wanna become a self made millionaire =.=

I've finished the first chapter, which mainly introduce who the hell is Adam Khoo.
Well, he is a singaporean, and ofcoz he is a self made millionaire at the age of 26!

Wonder how he looks like?


I enjoy reading.
but have to read textbook as well =.=