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Viewing cable 08TOKYO2744, JAPAN INSURANCE: POTENTIAL BUYERS UNSURE OF AIG'S

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08TOKYO2744 2008-10-01 09:35 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Tokyo
VZCZCXRO5867
RR RUEHFK RUEHGH RUEHKSO
DE RUEHKO #2744/01 2750935
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 010935Z OCT 08
FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7654
INFO RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 5629
RUEHUL/AMEMBASSY SEOUL 1622
RUEHBY/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 2798
RUEHMO/AMEMBASSY MOSCOW 2550
RUEHRL/AMEMBASSY BERLIN 1501
RUEHLO/AMEMBASSY LONDON 2199
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 6279
RUEHOK/AMCONSUL OSAKA KOBE 3909
RUEHFK/AMCONSUL FUKUOKA 0165
RUEHKSO/AMCONSUL SAPPORO 0742
RUEHHK/AMCONSUL HONG KONG 6592
RUEHGH/AMCONSUL SHANGHAI 0470
RUEATRS/TREASURY DEPT WASHDC
RHEHAAA/NSC WASHDC
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON DC
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 TOKYO 002744 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ECON EFIN PGOV JA
SUBJECT: JAPAN INSURANCE: POTENTIAL BUYERS UNSURE OF AIG'S 
WORTH 
 
Sensitive But Unclassified.  Contains Proprietary Information. 
 
Summary 
------- 
1. (SBU) AIG Japan's insurance operations are potentially an 
attractive acquisition target, given media reports that AIG 
Japan's FY2007 direct premium revenue was about $24 billion. 
Japanese domestic insurers are showing interest, but 
questions remain about AIG subsidiaries' balance sheets, 
solvency margins, the details of the U.S. bailout, and how 
badly AIG's brand has been damaged.  Industry expects to 
learn more about AIG's plans during an October 3 conference 
call for analysts and investors.  At least one foreign 
insurer has found it necessary to remind the public it is not 
part of AIG.  End summary. 
 
AIG's Japan Operations Impressive... 
------------------------------------ 
2. (SBU) American International Group (AIG) has seven life, 
non-life, and reinsurance companies in Japan -- Alico Japan, 
AIG Star Life, AIG Edison Life, AIU Insurance, American Home 
Direct, JI Accident and Fire Insurance, and Transatlantic 
Reinsurance Company.  AIG also has three investment 
management companies in Japan, one securities house, and 13 
related companies, including consulting and worker 
dispatching firms. 
 
3. (SBU) AIG's Japan operations employ about 26,000 of its 
116,000 worldwide direct employees and its life insurance 
operations constitute about one-quarter of its global 
insurance business.  With more than 10 million policyholders, 
its Japan life and non-life insurance operations generated 
about $24 billion (at 105 yen/dollar) in direct premium 
income in FY2007, according to the Japanese business press. 
 
...But Questions Remain About Financial Health and Value 
--------------------------------------------- ----------- 
4. (SBU) Local media have characterized AIG's insurance 
operations in Japan as healthy, with good revenue and stable 
management.  Due to insurance regulations, each of AIG's 
insurance subsidiaries maintains a capital reserve for its 
own products. 
 
5. (SBU) AIG has announced it will clarify the company's 
"direction" on potential sales during an October 3 conference 
call for analysts and investors.  Domestic insurers are 
showing interest in acquiring AIG subsidiaries, should they 
be put on the auction block.  However, that interest is 
tempered by the unknowns surrounding the bailout.  Some 
subsidiaries carry AIG stock on their balance sheets, for 
example, which has led to press speculation about how the 
companies' values may have changed with AIG's stock tumble. 
Those concerns were heightened September 30 when Alico Japan 
announced it had received 90.7 billion yen (about $870 
million) from its U.S. parent, prompting questions about 
Alico's solvency margin ratio. 
 
6. (SBU) AIG's business is being hurt in other ways as well. 
Japanese consumers put an extremely high premium on safety 
and security, which means AIG's bailout has damaged AIG's 
brand.  To reassure consumers, AIG has taken out full-page 
advertisements in Japanese newspapers, but as one company 
executive told an Embassy official, "No one wants to do 
business with us right now."  Media report some distributors, 
such as Resona Bank, have decided to stop recommending AIG 
products. 
 
7. (SBU) Moreover, significant questions remain about the 
details of the bailout, both for potential buyers and Japan's 
regulators.  One company executive shared that the Financial 
Services Agency (FSA) has been calling AIG repeatedly with 
questions about the company's plans, but, lacking direction 
from New York, the company has no answers for the regulators. 
 
 
TOKYO 00002744  002 OF 002 
 
 
Industry Rumor Mill 
------------------- 
8. (SBU) Executives of international and domestic insurers in 
Japan were tracing out possible industry acquisitions within 
hours of the September 16 announcement of the New York Fed's 
$85 billion line of credit to AIG.  No offers have surfaced 
in public, but some in the industry have floated the idea AIG 
Edison or AIG Star Life might be offered for sale.  Both 
companies bought out Japanese firms that went bankrupt when 
Japan's insurance industry fell on hard times, and they are 
seen as less integrated into the rest of AIG Japan's complex 
legal structure than a subsidiary like Alico.  Other 
insurance executives suggested to Emboffs that the sheer size 
of AIG's life insurance operations make a buyout from a 
domestic insurer unlikely.  They point to AIG's non-life 
businesses and recent international acquisitions from 
Japanese non-life insurers as a more promising pairing. 
 
Damage Not Limited to AIG 
------------------------- 
9. (SBU) While the Fed's $85 billion line of credit appears 
to have kept pressure off the company and possible suitors to 
rush into deals, AIG's otherwise healthy Japan business has 
been damaged -- along with that of other U.S. insurers. 
Aflac even saw a need to publish its own full-page 
advertisements proclaiming its financial health and subtly 
reminding the public it is not part of AIG. 
SCHIEFFER