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These strategies are part of a broader industry shift as insurance firms become publicly-traded companies and as private equity firms assume greater control of corporate pensions and buy insurance companies formerly owned by policyholders. Their actions have prompted Federal Reserve economists and trade unions to issue warnings about investment strategies that, they say, heighten risk for millions of insurance policyholders. The companies involved include giants of the insurance industry: Athene Life & Annuity Company, owned by Apollo Global Management Inc., one of the world’s largest asset management and private equity companies; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife), the country’s largest life insurance concern; and Accordia, purchased last year by KKR & Co. Inc, also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the multi-billion-dollar investment and private equity firm. Together, these companies account for roughly one in six life insurance policies and annuities written in the United States.
Did Industry Funding Influence an FDA Investigation into Canine Heart Disease and Grain-Free Dog Food?
In 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, acting on input from a group of veterinary researchers, began investigating whether the increasing popularity of grain-free dog foods had led to a sudden rise in a potentially fatal heart disease in dogs, dilated cardiomyopathy. Four years later, the FDA has found...
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