Federal Investigation Sparks Concern Over Mark Walter's Business Practices
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An ongoing federal investigation into billionaire Mark Walter's business empire is raising alarm bells about Wall Street's use of insurance capital to finance private credit and other illiquid investments.
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New York Post BusinessFederal prosecutors and the SEC are investigating Walter’s business empire to determine whether Walter or his businesses committed fraud by concealing financial connections while borrowing billions of dollars from insurers he controls, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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TWG Global, Walter’s holding company, said it had agreed to swap up to $6.5 billion of Delaware Life’s related-party investments for an equivalent amount of assets classified as independent.
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ZeroHedgeWalter's TWG Global holding company will buy up to $6.5 billion of affiliated assets from Delaware Life Insurance Co. in exchange for an equal amount of unaffiliated investments. Clear Spring Life and Annuity Co., another TWG-controlled insurer, separately reduced related-party transactions by $90 million.
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He said heavy exposure to businesses connected to an insurer’s owner creates another danger.
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ZeroHedgeReisfield said that heavy exposure to businesses connected to an insurer's owner poses a very high risk.
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Last week, Walter agreed to sell the Los Angeles Lakers to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger at a record $12.5 billion valuation, and earlier this week, a report stated that he is mulling over selling his stake in Chelsea Football Club to the majority owner, Clearlake Capital.
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New York Post BusinessThe Los Angeles Lakers are being sold by Mark Walter to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger at a record $12.5 billion valuation as Walter’s business empire seeks to raise cash through asset sales and restructurings. Getty Images
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Walter was one of the earliest adopters of the strategy of acquiring insurers and investing their long-term policyholder capital in higher-yielding private assets. A number of other asset managers, including Apollo, KKR, and Brookfield, have followed suit by building out insurance operations. Private-capital firms now manage more than $1 trillion of insurance assets.
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New York Post BusinessThe scrutiny could have implications well beyond Walter’s own companies. The billionaire was an early adopter of a strategy that paired insurance companies — and their vast pools of long-term policyholder capital — with investments in private and illiquid assets, according to the Financial Times.
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01 ZeroHedge Bloomberg reported that Walter's TWG Global holding company said in a filing that it will wind down its exposure to affiliated businesses by up to $6.5 billion after the transactions drew scrutiny from federal investigators. This comes after the Department of Justice homed in on loans that should've been marked as affiliated transactions.
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02 New York Post Business Mark Walter’s Delaware Life Insurance is set to cut as much as $6.5 billion in investments in his businesses after facing regulatory heat over the billionaire’s financial dealings, a holding company of Los Angeles Dodgers owner said Tuesday.
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