AIG Closes Deal to Boost Personal Lines' Client Growth
American International Group, Inc. AIG recently closed its deal with the well-established financial-services-focused investment management firm, Stone Point Capital LLC. The terms of the deal were kept under wraps.
The agreement revolved around AIG’s plans, disclosed in February 2023, to establish a standalone Managing General Agency and shift its Private Client Group ("PCG") business to the independent platform. The business will also undergo rebranding to Private Client Select Insurance Services.
The recent collaboration will offer an opportunity to AIG to leverage Stone Point’s longstanding insurance industry expertise and integrate it with its own risk management capabilities and product know-how. This, in turn, is likely to impart strength to AIG in devising enhanced product offerings and better serve high net worth and ultra high net worth client base.
An advanced product portfolio might fetch more customers for AIG and enable it to further strengthen its presence across the promising High and Ultra High Net Worth markets. An increased customer base is likely to provide an impetus to its personal lines insurance business, through which AIG distributes auto, homeowners, umbrella, yacht, fine art and collections insurance to high net worth individuals. The personal insurance unit forms a part of the General Insurance segment, that usually contributes the most to AIG’s top line.
The latest agreement with a leading private equity firm like Stone Point bears testament to AIG’s efforts in seeking ways to support the growth prospects of its PCG business with the help of capital support from high-quality investors and capacity providers.
In the past, AIG collaborated with the one of the oldest insurance markets in the world, Lloyd’s, to unveil Syndicate 2019 which was entrusted with the responsibility of reinsuring risks from the PCG business. The tie-up offered high net worth clients exposure to enhanced products and risk management solutions offered through the Lloyd’s market.
While collaborations are a means to boost capabilities, AIG also resorts to divestitures in order to intensify focus on further growing the General Insurance unit and shed off its non-core business units.
Shares of AIG have gained 13.3% in a year against the industry’s decline of 0.6%. It currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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