AIG Advisor Group May Finally Have A Buyer
by Bruce Kelly and featured in Investment News August, 2009: With discussions regarding the sale of the AIG Advisor Group dragging on for months, representatives and financial advisers who are affiliated with the beleaguered broker-dealers of the firm are relieved now that two final bidders have emerged. Two private-equity firms, Light-year Capital LLC and Lovell Minnick Partners LLC, with strong ties to retail broker-dealers, are in the race for the AIG Advisor Group, a network of broker-dealers that houses about 6,000 independent registered reps and investment advisers. A winner could be announced in the next few weeks, sources said. The price that the AIG Advisor Group would command isn't clear. The most recent rounds of negotiations came in the late winter and early spring, with several potential buyers supposedly having interest. At that time, several sources...