Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Equity Interests Issued And Issuable, Cash Paid Per Acquiree Share

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Business Combination, Stock Consideration, Common Stock Received Per Common Stock Shares Owned

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.19(b),22(b))
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Basis of Financial Statements - Recent Developments (Details)	Apr. 22, 2020 USD ($)	Feb. 07, 2020 $ / shares
Subsequent Event \| Term Loan \| LIBOR
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Floor interest rate	0.0075
Subsequent Event \| Term Loan \| LIBOR \| Minimum
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable rate (as percent)	2.00%
Subsequent Event \| Term Loan \| LIBOR \| Maximum
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable rate (as percent)	0.03%
Subsequent Event \| Term Loan Credit Agreement
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Line of credit facility	$ 1,000,000,000.0
Subsequent Event \| Term Loan Credit Agreement \| Term Loan
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Line of credit facility	$ 1,000,000,000
Subsequent Event \| Term Loan Credit Agreement \| Term Loan \| Fed Funds
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable rate (as percent)	0.50%
Subsequent Event \| Term Loan Credit Agreement \| Term Loan \| LIBOR
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable rate (as percent)	1.00%
Floor interest rate	0.0175
Subsequent Event \| Term Loan Credit Agreement \| Term Loan \| LIBOR \| Minimum
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable rate (as percent)	1.00%
Subsequent Event \| Term Loan Credit Agreement \| Term Loan \| LIBOR \| Maximum
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Basis spread on variable rate (as percent)	2.00%
FGL Holdings
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Consideration, cash paid per acquiree share (in usd per share) \| $ / shares		$ 12.50
Stock consideration (in shares)		0.2558