Selling of parts of failed insurer attracts high fee advisers

Morgan Stanley will be paid a $4m fee, a further $2.5m each quarter, plus expenses, to act as primary financial adviser for any AIG public sell-offs, Dow Jones reports.

Federal Reserve documents also showed that Ernst & Young will get $60m for advice relating to AIG. The firm charges as much as $775.

AIG recently reduced its $80bn debt to the government by $26 billion in a deal that gave the Fed preferred shares in some of the insurer's businesses that might be spun off.

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