Income Taxes Level 3 (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation [Table Text Block]

A reconciliation of the tax provision at the U.S. Federal statutory rate to the provision (benefit) for income taxes is as follows:

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2015			2014
Tax provision at the U.S. federal statutory rate	$	65		$	15
Dividends-received deduction ("DRD")	(23		)	(26		)
Foreign related investments	(2		)	—
Other	—			(2		)
Provision (benefit) for income taxes	$	40		$	(13	)