ORGANIZATION	9 Months Ended
ORGANIZATION	Sep. 30, 2020
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
ORGANIZATION	ORGANIZATION Equitable Holdings, Inc. (which removed “AXA” from its name on January 13, 2020, “Holdings” and, with its consolidated subsidiaries, the “Company”) is the holding company for a diversified financial services organization. The Company conducts operations in four segments: Individual Retirement, Group Retirement, Investment Management and Research, and Protection Solutions. The Company’s management evaluates the performance of each of these segments independently. •The Individual Retirement segment offers a diverse suite of variable annuity products which are primarily sold to affluent and high net worth individuals saving for retirement or seeking retirement income. •The Group Retirement segment offers tax-deferred investment and retirement services or products to plans sponsored by educational entities, municipalities and not-for-profit entities, as well as small and medium-sized businesses. •The Investment Management and Research segment provides diversified investment management, research and related solutions globally to a broad range of clients through three main client channels - Institutional, Retail and Private Wealth Management - and distributes its institutional research products and solutions through Bernstein Research Services. The Investment Management and Research segment reflects the business of AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (“AB Holding”), AllianceBernstein L.P. (“ABLP”) and their subsidiaries (collectively, “AB”). •The Protection Solutions segment includes the Company’s life insurance and group employee benefits businesses. The life insurance business offers a variety of variable universal life, indexed universal life and term life products to help affluent and high net worth individuals, as well as small and medium-sized business owners, with their wealth protection, wealth transfer and corporate needs. Our group employee benefits business offers a suite of life, short- and long-term disability, dental and vision insurance products to small and medium-size businesses across the United States. The Company reports certain activities and items that are not included in our segments in Corporate and Other. Corporate and Other includes certain of our financing and investment expenses. It also includes: Equitable Advisors, LLC (“Equitable Advisors”) broker-dealer business, closed block of life insurance (the “Closed Block”), run-off variable annuity reinsurance business, run-off group pension business, run-off health business, benefit plans for our employees, certain strategic investments and certain unallocated items, including capital and related investments, interest expense and corporate expense. AB’s results of operations are reflected in the Investment Management and Research segment. Accordingly, Corporate and Other does not include any items applicable to AB. At both September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the Company’s economic interest in AB was approximately 65%. The general partner of AB, AllianceBernstein Corporation (the “General Partner”), is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. Because the General Partner has the authority to manage and control the business of AB, AB is consolidated in the Company’s financial statements for all periods. Sale of U.S. Financial Life Insurance Company and MONY Life Insurance Company of the Americas, Ltd On December 10, 2019, Holdings entered into a definitive agreement to sell U.S. Financial Life Insurance Company (“USFL”) and MONY Life Insurance Company of the Americas, Ltd (“MLICA”), indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Holdings. The transaction closed on April 1, 2020. Accordingly, the Company recognized an impairment loss in Investment gains (losses), net, in the consolidated statements of income (loss) of $39 million and $105 million, net of income tax, during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and year ended December 31, 2019, respectively. In addition, the assets and liabilities of USFL and MLICA were reported as “held-for-sale” in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets from December 31, 2019 through the date the transaction closed. The assets held-for-sale were reported in the Protection Solutions segment as of December 31, 2019.