** Shares of insurer Corebridge CRBG.N up 2.36% premarket
** Co announces merger with peer Equitable EQH.N, creating a $22 billion U.S. retirement, life insurance and asset management company
** Combined company to have more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management
** Each outstanding share of CRBG will be exchanged for 1 share of the new company, while each EQH share will be exchanged for 1.55516 shares of the new firm
** Corebridge was formed by an AIG AIG.N spin-off via IPO in 2022
** Morgan Stanley advised Corebridge, while Goldman Sachs advised Equitable
(Reporting by Pragyan Kalita in Bengaluru)
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