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On April 3, 2006, we completed our merger with Jefferson Pilot Corporation ("JP") and have included the results of operations | | |
and financial condition of JP since then. | | |
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Definitions and Presentation | | |
"Income from Operations," "Operating Revenue," and "Return on Capital" are non-GAAP financial measures and do not replace | | |
GAAP revenue and net income (loss). Detailed reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly | | |
comparable GAAP financial measure are included in this statistical supplement. | | |
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* | We exclude the after-tax effects of the following items from GAAP net income to arrive at income from operations: | | |
| * Realized gains and losses on investments and derivatives, | | |
| * Gains and losses related to reinsurance embedded derivatives/trading account securities, | | |
| * The initial impact of the adoption of changes in accounting principles, | | |
| * Reserve changes on business sold through reinsurance net of related deferred gain amortization, | | |
| * Gains and losses on the sale of subsidiaries and blocks of business, | | |
| * Loss on early retirement of debt, including subordinated debt, and | | |
| * Income (loss) from discontinued operations. | | |
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* | Operating revenue represents revenue excluding the following, as applicable: | | |
| * Realized gains or losses on investments and derivatives, | | |
| * Gains and losses related to reinsurance embedded derivatives/trading account securities, | | |
| * Gains and losses on the sale of subsidiaries and blocks of business, and | | |
| * Deferred gain amortization related to reserve changes on business sold through reinsurance. | | |
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* | Return on capital measures the effectiveness of LNC's use of its total capital, which includes equity (excluding | | |
| accumulated other comprehensive income), debt, capital securities and junior subordinated debentures issued to | | |
| affiliated trusts. Return on capital is calculated by dividing annualized income from operations (after adding back | | |
| interest expense) by average capital. The difference between return on capital and return on shareholders' equity | | |
| represents the effect of leveraging on LNC's consolidated results. | | |
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Income from operations, operating revenue, and return on capital are internal measures used by LNC in the management of its | | |
operations. Management believes that these performance measures explain the results of operations of LNC's ongoing | | |
operations in a manner that allows for a better understanding of the underlying trends in LNC's current business because the | | |
excluded items are either unpredictable and/or not related to decisions regarding the underlying businesses. | | |
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* | Certain operating and statistical measures are included in this report to provide supplemental data regarding the | | |
| performance of LNC's current business. These measures include deposits, sales, net flows, first year premium, | | |
| inforce, spreads, and assets under management. | | |
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* | Sales as reported consist of the following: | | |
| * Universal life ("UL"), including Moneyguard, and Corporate Owned Life Insurance ("COLI") - first year | | |
| commissionable premium plus 5% of excess premium received, including UL internal replacements, | | |
| * Whole life and term - first year paid premium, | | |
| * Annuity - deposits from new and existing customers, | | |
| * Group Protection - annualized first year premium from new policies, | | |
| * Investment Management Retail Sales and Institutional Inflows - contributions, transfer in kind purchases, | | |
| and reinvested dividends for new and existing accounts. | | |
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During the third quarter of 2007, we added additional detail to our roll forwards of Deferred Acquisition Costs ("DAC") and Value | | |
of Business Acquired ("VOBA"), Deferred Sales Inducements ("DSI") and Deferred Front-End Loads ("DFEL") to disclose the | | |
net impact of prospective and retrospective unlocking on amortization for these accounts. This additional information will help | | |
explain a source of volatility in amortization. | | |
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* | Prospective unlocking - In the third quarter of each year, we review and update our assumptions used in projecting | | |
| our future estimated gross profits (EGPs) used to amortize DAC, VOBA, DFEL and DSI. These updates to | | |
| assumptions result in unlocking that represent an increase or decrease to our carrying value of DAC, VOBA, DFEL | | |
| and DSI based upon our updated view of future EGPs. The various assumptions that are reviewed include | | |
| investment margins, mortality, expenses and persistency. | | |
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* | Retrospective unlocking - On a quarterly basis, we “true-up” our models for actual gross profits and in-force | | |
| experience for the period, and to the extent that actual experience differs from previously expected a positive or | | |
| negative retrospective adjustment to the amortization of DAC, VOBA, DSI and DFEL is recorded. This update to the | | |
| models may generate a change in the amortization rate which results in a catch-up to the cumulative amortization, | | |
| by recalculating the DAC, VOBA, DSI and DFEL balances assuming that the revised amortization rate had been | | |
| used since issue. | | |
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* | Our unlocking process also includes our reserves for our guaranteed benefit features and is described more fully | | |
| in “Part II - Item 7 - Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition, Results of Operations - Critical | | |
| Accounting Policies” of our 2006 Form 10-K. | | |