Guarantees

As discussed in Notes 1 and 3 of the Notes to the Financial Statements included in the 2016 Annual Report, the Company issues variable annuity products with guaranteed minimum benefits. Guaranteed minimum accumulation benefits (“GMABs”), the non-life contingent portion of guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits (“GMWBs”) and the portion of certain GMIBs that do not require annuitization are accounted for as embedded derivatives in policyholder account balances and are further discussed in Note 5.

Information regarding the Company’s guarantee exposure was as follows at:



	March 31, 2017						December 31, 2016
	In the Event of Death			At Annuitization			In the Event of Death			At Annuitization
	(Dollars in thousands)
Annuity Contracts (1), (2)
Variable Annuity Guarantees
Total account value (3)	$	4,881,902		$	4,054,825		$	4,763,943		$	3,969,485
Separate account value	$	4,871,618		$	4,053,475		$	4,753,638		$	3,968,482
Net amount at risk	$	11,875	(4)	$	185,679	(5)	$	36,827	(4)	$	209,926	(5)
Average attained age of contractholders	67 years			65 years			66 years			65 years

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(1)	The Company’s annuity contracts with guarantees may offer more than one type of guarantee in each contract. Therefore, the amounts listed above may not be mutually exclusive.

(2)

Includes direct business, but excludes offsets from hedging or reinsurance, if any. Therefore, the net amount at risk presented reflects the economic exposures of living and death benefit guarantees associated with variable annuities, but not necessarily their impact on the Company. See Note 5 of the Notes to the Financial Statements included in the 2016 Annual Report for a discussion of guaranteed minimum benefits (“GMxBs”) which have been reinsured.


(3)	Includes the contractholder’s investments in the general account and separate account, if applicable.


(4)	Defined as the death benefit less the total account value, as of the balance sheet date. It represents the amount of the claim that the Company would incur if death claims were filed on all contracts on the balance sheet date and includes any additional contractual claims associated with riders purchased to assist with covering income taxes payable upon death.

(5)

Defined as the amount (if any) that would be required to be added to the total account value to purchase a lifetime income stream, based on current annuity rates, equal to the minimum amount provided under the guaranteed benefit. This amount represents the Company’s potential economic exposure to such guarantees in the event all contractholders were to annuitize on the balance sheet date, even though the contracts contain terms that allow annuitization of the guaranteed amount only after the 10th anniversary of the contract, which not all contractholders have achieved.