| As part of this transaction, the Company acquired assets having an aggregate fair value of $5,718,227,000, composed primarily of invested assets totaling $5,715,010,000. Liabilities assumed in this acquisition totaled $5,831,266,000, including $3,460,503,000 of fixed annuity reserves, $2,308,742,000 of universal life reserves and $24,011,000 of guaranteed investment contract reserves. The excess of the purchase price over the fair value of net assets received amounted to $92,687,000 at December 31, 2000, after adjustment for the transfer of the New York business to FSA (see below), and is included in Deferred Acquisition Costs in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. The income statements for the years ended December 31, 2000 and 1999 include the impact of the Acquisition. On a pro forma basis, assuming the Acquisition had been consummated on October 1, 1997, the beginning of the prior-year periods discussed herein, investment income would have been $514,433,000 and net income would have been $162,555,000 for the year ended September 30, 1998.
Included in the block of business acquired from MBL Life were policies whose owners are residents of New York State ("the New York Business"). On July 1, 1999, the New York Business was acquired by the Company's New York affiliate, FSA, via an assumption reinsurance agreement, and the remainder of the business converted to assumption reinsurance in the Company, which superseded the coinsurance agreement. As part of this transfer, invested assets equal to $678,272,000, life reserves equal to $282,247,000, group pension reserves equal to $406,118,000, and other net assets of $10,093,000 were transferred to FSA. The $128,420,000 purchase price was allocated between the Company and FSA based on the estimated future gross profits of the two blocks of business. The portion allocated to FSA was $10,000,000. As part of the Acquisition, the Company received $242,473,000 from MBL Life to pay policy enhancements guaranteed by the MBL Life rehabilitation agreement to policyholders meeting certain requirements. Of this amount, the Company was required to transfer $20,055,000 to the Parent for enhancements on policies which customers elected to convert to fixed annuity policies of the Parent. Included in the Company's reserves transferred to FSA in 1999 were $34,657,000 of such policy enhancement reserves. Based upon final actuarial calculations performed in the first quarter of 2000, $16,741,000 of such reserves were returned to the Company by FSA. A primary requirement was that annuity policyholders must have converted their MBL Life policy to a policy type currently offered by the Company or one of its affiliates by December 31, 1999. Pursuant to the agreement, the enhancements were scheduled to be credited in four installments on January 1, 2000, June 30, 2001, June 30, 2002 and June 30, 2003, to eligible policies still active on each of those dates. |