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Definitions and Presentation | |
"Income from operations," "operating revenues" and "return on capital" are non-GAAP financial measures and do not replace GAAP revenues, |
net income (loss) and return on stockholders' equity. 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 associated with the following ("excluded realized gain (loss)"): |
| | * Sale or disposal of securities; | |
| | * Impairments of securities; | |
| | * Change in the fair value of embedded derivatives within certain reinsurance arrangements and the change in the fair value |
| | of related trading securities; | |
| | * Change in the fair value of the embedded derivatives of our guaranteed living benefits within our variable annuities ("GLB") |
| | net of the change in the fair value of the derivatives we own to hedge the changes in the embedded derivative |
| | ("GLB net derivatives results"); | |
| | * Net difference between the benefit ratio unlocking of SOP 03-1 reserves on our guaranteed death benefit ("GDB") riders |
| | within our variable annuities and the change in the fair value of the derivatives excluding our expected cost of the hedging |
| | instruments ("GDB derivative results"); and | |
| | * Changes in the fair value of the embedded derivative liabilities related to index call options we may purchase in the future to |
| | hedge contract holder index allocations applicable to future reset periods for our indexed annuity products as required under |
| | SFAS 133 and SFAS 157 ("indexed annuity forward-starting option"); |
| * Income (loss) from the initial adoption of changes in accounting principles; |
| * Income (loss) from reserve changes (net of related amortization) on business sold through reinsurance; |
| * Losses on early retirement of debt, including subordinated debt; |
| * Losses from the impairment of intangible assets; and | |
| * Income (loss) from discontinued operations. | |
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* | Operating revenues represent GAAP revenues excluding the pre-tax effects of the following items, as applicable: |
| * Excluded realized gain (loss); | |
| * Amortization of deferred gains arising from the reserve changes on business sold through reinsurance; and |
| * Revenue adjustments from the initial impact of the adoption of changes in accounting principles. |
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* | Return on capital measures the effectiveness of our use of 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 stockholders' equity represents the effect of leveraging on our consolidated results. |
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Income from operations, operating revenues and return on capital are financial measures we use to evaluate and assess our results. Our |
management and Board of Directors believe that these performance measures explain the results of our ongoing businesses in a manner that |
allows for a better understanding of the underlying trends in our current business because the excluded items are unpredictable and not |
necessarily indicative of current operating fundamentals or future performance of the business segments, and, in most instances, decisions |
regarding these items do not necessarily relate to the operations of the individual segments. |
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* | Certain operating and statistical measures are included in this report to provide supplemental data regarding the performance of our |
| current business. These measures include deposits, sales, net flows, first-year premiums, in force, spreads and assets under |
| management. | |
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* | Sales as reported consist of the following: | |
| * Universal life ("UL") (excluding linked-benefit products) and variable universal life ("VUL"), including corporate-owned life |
| insurance ("COLI") and bank-owned life insurance ("BOLI") - first year commissionable premiums plus 5% of excess premiums |
| received, including an adjustment for internal replacements at approximately 50% of target; |
| * Whole life and term - 100% of first year paid premiums; | |
| * Linked-benefit - 15% of premium deposits; | |
| * Annuities - deposits from new and existing customers; | |
| * Group Protection - annualized first year premiums from new policies; and |
| * Investment Management retail sales and institutional inflows - contributions, transfer in kind purchases |
| and reinvested dividends for new and existing accounts. | |
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Our roll forwards of deferred acquisition costs ("DAC") and value of business acquired ("VOBA"), deferred sales inducements ("DSI") and deferred |
front-end loads ("DFEL") disclose the net impact of prospective and retrospective unlocking on amortization for these accounts. This information |
helps 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, DSI and the calculations of embedded derivatives and reserves for |
| annuity and life insurance products with certain guarantees. These updates to assumptions result in unlocking that represents an |
| increase or decrease to our carrying value of DAC, VOBA, DFEL, DSI and other contract holder funds based upon our updated view of |
| future EGPs. The various assumptions that are reviewed include investment margins, mortality, retention and rider utilization. In |
| addition, in the third quarter of each year during our annual prospective unlocking review, we may identify and implement actuarial |
| modeling refinements which can result in prospective and retrospective unlocking impacts that impact DAC, VOBA, DSI, DFEL |
| and SOP 03-1, SFAS 133 and SFAS 157 reserves. | |
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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. |
| 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. | |