Roth Battles to Save IPG

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NEW YORK A supremely confident Michael Roth sailed through his earnings session on Friday morning, his first before analysts as Interpublic Group’s CEO.

In his last top job, at MONY, Roth invoked the ire of the financial community after he sold the insurer to AXA in 2004 below book value and pocketed a severance package worth more than $18 million. But in an 8 a.m. conference call Friday, analysts went easy on him as he discussed the company’s five-year earnings restatement, filed on the Sept.

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