Insurance (Obligations Under Funding Agreements - Liability and Collateral) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Fixed and Floating Rate Funding Agreements by Type [Line Items]
Outstanding funding agreements to certain SPEs	$ 30,800	$ 29,500
Invested Assets Pledged As Collateral	23,882	20,345
Funding agreements - Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
Fixed and Floating Rate Funding Agreements by Type [Line Items]
Outstanding funding agreements to certain SPEs	2,550	2,550
Invested Assets Pledged As Collateral	2,645	2,643
Federal Home Loan Bank of New York
Federal Home Loan Bank, Advances, Branch of FHLB Bank [Line Items]
Federal Home Loan Bank amount of advances by branch for funding agreements	14,445	12,570
Collateral pledged relating to obligations under funding agreements	16,828	14,085
Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines
Federal Home Loan Bank, Advances, Branch of FHLB Bank [Line Items]
Federal Home Loan Bank amount of advances by branch for funding agreements	625	750
Collateral pledged relating to obligations under funding agreements	811	851
Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh
Federal Home Loan Bank, Advances, Branch of FHLB Bank [Line Items]
Federal Home Loan Bank amount of advances by branch for funding agreements	250	250
Collateral pledged relating to obligations under funding agreements	$ 383	$ 322

Fixed and Floating Rate Funding Agreements by Type.

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Amount of funding agreements outstanding to certain SPEs that have issued debt securities for which payment of interest and principal is secured by such funding agreements.

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Amount of advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB).

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Amount of the collateral pledged in support of federal home loan bank advances outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 942
-SubTopic 470
-Section 45
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6479118&loc=d3e64650-112822

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 942
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-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
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