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Insurance Firms Deploy $35B Liquidity, Shed Legacy Annuities as AI Investments Pressure 2026 Profits

Brookfield Wealth Solutions maintains $35B in liquid assets for policyholder obligations while MetLife divests legacy variable annuities to Talcott Resolution Life. OP Pohjola projects lower 2026 operating profit despite launching quantum and AI research units, signaling sector-wide tension between capital strength and profitability during technology-driven transformation.

ViaNews Editorial Team (Markets)•Feb 24, 2026

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AI Leadership Exodus Rattles Investor Confidence Amid Capex Boom

High-profile departures at top AI labs — Brad Lightcap's exit from OpenAI and an unnamed researcher's departure from Alphabet/Google that triggered a share-price drop — are surfacing talent retention as a market risk factor even as hyperscalers pour record capital into AI infrastructure. The reaction shows investors treating key-person risk at frontier AI labs as material to valuation, a new fragility layered onto an otherwise bullish AI-driven capex cycle.

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Both facts report EPS for Broadcom Inc. for the same fiscal period (Q1 2026) observed on the same date (2026-02-01). However, they report conflicting values: 1.5 USD per share vs 2.05 USD per share. This is a 37% difference for the identical metric and time period, not a value change over time.

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