Investments (Credit Quality Indicators For Commercial Mortgage Loans) (Details) - Commercial [Member] - USD ($) $ in Millions	Sep. 30, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	$ 15,986	$ 15,606
Percent of total	100.00%	100.00%
Loan-to-value ratio, less than 65% [Member]
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	$ 14,679	$ 14,206
Percent of total	91.80%	91.00%
Debt-service coverage ratio	2.43	2.35
Loan-to-value ratio, 65% to 74% [Member]
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	$ 1,271	$ 1,399
Percent of total	8.00%	9.00%
Debt-service coverage ratio	1.82	1.87
Loan-to-value ratio, 75% to 100% [Member]
Financing Receivable, Credit Quality Indicator [Line Items]
Amortized Cost	$ 36	$ 1
Percent of total	0.20%	0.00%
Debt-service coverage ratio	1.24	1.09

Ratio that compares a property's net operating income to its debt-service payments.

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Reflects the percentage derived from dividing mortgage loans with a specified loan-to-value ratio by total principal amount of mortgage loans.

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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, before allowance for credit loss, of financing receivable.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 326
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 5
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=119407570&loc=SL82919230-210447

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