Deferred Policy Acquisition Costs and Value of Business Acquired Level 1 (Notes)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2018

Deferred Policy Acquisition Costs and Present Value of Future Profits [Abstract]

Deferred Policy Acquisition Costs [Text Block]

Changes in the DAC Balance [1]
	Successor Company		Predecessor Company
	June 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018		January 1, 2018 to May 31, 2018			For the six months ended June 30, 2017
Balance, beginning of period	$	—	$	405		$	463
Deferred costs	—		1			1
Amortization — DAC	—		(13		)	(28		)
Amortization — Unlock (charge) benefit, pre-tax	—		(3		)	10
Adjustments to unrealized gains and losses on securities AFS and other	—		31			(14		)
Balance, end of period	$	—	$	421		$	432

[1] Effective with the application of pushdown accounting on May 31, 2018, the Company eliminated its DAC balance through a pushdown accounting adjustment. Please see Note 1, Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of pushdown accounting.

Changes in the VOBA Balance [1]
	Successor Company			Predecessor Company
	June 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018			January 1, 2018 to May 31, 2018		For the six months ended June 30, 2017
Balance, beginning of period	$	805		$	—	$	—
Additions	—			—		—
Amortization	(12		)	—		—
Amortization — Unlock (charge) benefit, pre-tax	5			—		—
Balance, end of period	$	798		$	—	$	—

[1] Effective with the application of pushdown accounting on May 31, 2018, the Company established its VOBA through a pushdown accounting adjustment. Please see Note 1, Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of pushdown accounting.

Expected Amortization of VOBA
Successor Company
Years	Expected Amortization
2018	$	28
2019	$	63
2020	$	59
2021	$	54
2022	$	51