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title: Private Equity Life Insurance
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4922345/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4922345
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4922345
featured: 2024-08-15
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Private Equity Life Insurance

Private equity firms are increasingly buying life insurance companies and investing in riskier assets, sparking worries about potential failures akin to previous incidents.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4922345
- Identifier: SSRN 4922345
- Released: 2023-12-19
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 61 (2024-08-15): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-08-15/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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