Traders “Unwinding” AIG: “We Have Never Done As Big Or As Profitable Trades — Ever” | Talking Points Memo

What’s it like, the laborious job of “unwinding” hundreds of thousands of mind-numbingly complex derivatives contracts amassed over the years by the inimitable AIG Financial Products? Ask the Wall Street investment banks to whom they’ve been farming out the work — it’s so painful and time-consuming it feels like the old days, especially the “massively profitable” part. An anonymous derivatives trader tells the blog Zero Hedge:


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