Conference Calls

“Private Credit’s State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers” with Andrew Granato and Pranjal Drall

Aug 06, 2026

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.