AIG

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

They renamed them "retention awards" because they knew this was going to a problem.

While I share your outrage that Wall Street is maintaining their entitlement attitude, and MY money is being thrown around by the bushel to people that have been overpaid for years, I believe the original contracts were written as retention payments, and bonuses is a description the press substituted thinking very few people would know what retention bonuses are.