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Andrew Granato

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin

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  • Worse Than A Bank Failure: What Actually Happens When a Life Insurer Goes Bust | Drall & Granato

    September 06, 2026 · 📺 The Monetary Matters Network

    Andrew Granato, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin, and Pranjal Drall, JD/PhD candidate at Yale, join Jack Farley to discuss their paper "Private Credit, State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers." Private equity ownership of life insurers has grown from roughly $23 billion in 2009 to about $700 billion by 2024, and Granato and Drall argue this has created a system that socializes losses even more sharply than federal deposit insurance does for banks. They walk through how state guarantee funds work: when a life insurer fails, its survivin…

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  • "How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers" with Andrew Granato and Pranjal Drall

    August 21, 2026 · 📺 The Capitol Forum

    The Capitol Forum hosted a conference call with Andrew Granato, Assistant Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, and Pranjal Drall, a J.D.-Ph.D. candidate in Financial Economics at Yale University, to discuss their recent paper, “Private Credit’s State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers.” The discussion also covered The Capitol Forum’s reporting on private equity-backed life insurers’ exposure to private credit and the regulatory risks associated with those investments. Learn more about The Capitol Forum’s reporting and analysis at thecapitolforum.com.

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  • Why Private Credit Got Entangled With Insurance | Odd Lots

    July 31, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    Insurers have quietly become a major driver of the private credit boom, with numerous private equity shops striking deals with insurance companies or buying them outright. But the entanglement with private credit is also changing the insurance industry itself, raising a number of questions about risk and regulation. Today we speak to Andrew Granato and Pranjal Drall, authors of a new paper, “Private Credit's State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers," examining the relationship between private credit and insurance. Granato (an assistant professor at the UT Austin Law…

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  • Reforming the Taxation of Life Insurance

    March 02, 2025 · 📺 UConn Law School

    February 13, 2025, 4 – 5 p.m. EST Andrew Granato, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale School of Management The purpose of life insurance was once to provide financial protection to “widows and orphans” upon an untimely death. Now, wealthy investors also use it to avoid paying taxes. Thanks to federal tax benefits for life insurance, insurers now market policies designed explicitly as vehicles for tax avoidance, with insurance protection as an afterthought. Well-advised taxpayers accomplish this disappearing tax trick through a “cash value” policy. These policies contain an internal savings balance, which o…

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