Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss, Period Increase (Decrease) From COVID-19

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Financing Receivable, Modifications Other Than Troubled Debt Restructuring, Number Of Contracts

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Represents the amount of financing receivables not subject to a pooling and servicing agreement that are nonperforming or have been restructured under the terms and conditions of the pooling and service agreement.

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Represents the amount of mortgage loans on real estate due to the entity in the remainder of the fiscal year following the latest fiscal year ended, if the loans are called at their next call dates.

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Represents the amount of mortgage loans on real estate due to the entity in the seventh fiscal year through the eleventh fiscal year following the latest fiscal year, if the loans are called at their next call dates.

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Represents the amount of mortgage loans on real estate due to the entity in the second fiscal year through the sixth fiscal year following the latest fiscal year, if the loans are called at their next call dates.

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Represents the loan-to-value ratio permitted on commercial mortgage loans in exchange for a participating interest in the cash flows from the underlying property.

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Represents the amount of mortgage loans as of the balance sheet date which has a feature providing the entity a participating interest in the cash flows from the underlying real estate.

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Represents the amount of income earned during the period on mortgage loans, which have a feature providing the entity a participating interest in the cash flows from the underlying real estate.

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Represents the period within which the call option or interest rate reset option on the mortgage loan on real estate can be exercised.

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Number Of Troubled Debt Restructurings

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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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Amount of writeoff of financing receivable, charged against allowance for credit loss.

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The balance represents the amount of loans that are secured by real estate mortgages, offset by the reserve to cover probable credit losses on the loan portfolio.

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Amount, before allowance for credit loss, of financing receivable.

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COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE LOANS - Additional Information (Details)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($) loan	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($) troubled_debt_restructuring loan	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($) troubled_debt_restructuring	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Commercial mortgage loans on real estate, net	$ 9,765,312,000		$ 9,765,312,000		$ 9,379,401,000
Write-offs	0		0
Increase in allowance for credit loss on mortgage loans due to deterioration in macroeconomic forecasts as a result of COVID-19			99,100,000
Commercial Mortgage Loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Commercial mortgage loans, before allowance for credit losses	9,940,362,000		9,940,362,000
Commercial mortgage loans on real estate, net	9,765,312,000		$ 9,765,312,000
Mortgage call option period			10 years
Amount that would become due in remainder of 2020, if loans are called at their next call dates	8,100,000		$ 8,100,000
Amount that would become due in 2021 through 2025, if loans are called at their next call dates	763,700,000		763,700,000
Amount that would become due in 2026 through 2030, if loans are called at their next call dates	56,700,000		56,700,000
Mortgage loans having participation feature	805,200,000		805,200,000		$ 717,000,000.0
Income recognized on participating mortgage loans	900,000	$ 17,300,000	3,800,000	$ 18,000,000.0
Loans not subject to pooling and servicing agreement, non performing or restructured amount	1,200,000	$ 3,200,000	$ 1,200,000	$ 3,200,000
Number of troubled debt restructurings \| troubled_debt_restructuring			2	4
Write-offs	0		$ 0
Commercial Mortgage Loans \| CARES Act, Loan Modification Program
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Commercial mortgage loans, before allowance for credit losses	$ 2,200,000,000		$ 2,200,000,000
Number of loans modified and not considered troubled debt restructuring \| loan	308		308
Maximum \| Commercial Mortgage Loans
Financing Receivable, Allowance for Credit Loss [Line Items]
Loan-to-value ratio with participating interest (as a percent)	85.00%		85.00%