Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

Segment Information [Abstract]

Segment Information

21. Segment Information

We provide products and services and report results through our Life Insurance, Annuities, Group Protection and Retirement Plan Services segments. We also have Other Operations, which includes the financial data for operations that are not directly related to the business segments. Our reporting segments reflect the manner by which our chief operating decision makers view and manage the business. The following is a brief description of these segments and Other Operations.

The Life Insurance segment focuses on the creation and protection of wealth through life insurance products, including term insurance, both single (including UL, corporate-owned UL and VUL and bank-owned UL and VUL products) and survivorship versions of IUL and VUL products, linked-benefit products (which are UL and VUL with riders providing for long-term care costs), and critical illness and long-term care riders, which can be attached to IUL or VUL policies.

The Annuities segment provides tax-deferred investment growth and lifetime income opportunities for its clients by offering variable annuities, fixed (including indexed) annuities and indexed variable annuities.

The Group Protection segment offers group non-medical insurance products and services, including short- and long-term disability, statutory disability and paid family medical leave administration and absence management services, term life, dental, vision and accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity benefits and services to the employer marketplace through various forms of employee-paid and employer-paid plans.

The Retirement Plan Services segment provides employer-sponsored defined benefit and individual retirement accounts, as well as individual and group variable annuities, group fixed annuities and mutual-fund based programs in the retirement plan marketplace.

Other Operations includes investments related to our excess capital; benefit plan obligations; the results of certain disability income business; our run-off institutional pension business, the majority of which was sold on a group annuity basis; debt costs; Spark program expense; and other corporate investments.

Segment operating revenues and income (loss) from operations are internal measures used by our management and Board of Directors to evaluate and assess the results of our segments. Income (loss) from operations is GAAP net income excluding the after-tax effects of the following items, as applicable:

Realized gains and losses associated with the following (“excluded realized gain (loss)”):

Sales or disposals and impairments of financial assets;

Changes in the fair value of equity securities;

Changes in the fair value of derivatives, embedded derivatives within certain reinsurance arrangements and trading securities (“gain (loss) on the mark-to-market on certain instruments”);

GLB rider fees ceded to LNBAR;

The net valuation premium of the GLB attributed rider fees; and

Changes in the fair value of the embedded derivative liabilities related to index options we may purchase or sell in the future to hedge contract holder index allocations applicable to future reset periods for our indexed annuity products accounted for at fair value (“indexed annuity forward-starting option”);

Changes in reserves resulting from benefit ratio unlocking on our GLB riders and VUL products with secondary guarantees (“benefit ratio unlocking”);

Income (loss) from reserve changes, net of related amortization, on business sold through reinsurance;

Gains (losses) on modification or early extinguishment of debt;

Losses from the impairment of intangible assets;

Income (loss) from discontinued operations;

Transaction and integration costs related to mergers and acquisitions including the acquisition or divestiture, through reinsurance or other means, of businesses or blocks of business; and

Income (loss) from the initial adoption of new accounting standards, regulations, and policy changes including the net impact from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Operating revenues represent GAAP revenues excluding the pre-tax effects of the following items, as applicable:

Excluded realized gain (loss);

Revenue adjustments from the initial adoption of new accounting standards;

Amortization of DFEL arising from changes in benefit ratio unlocking; and

Amortization of deferred gains arising from reserve changes on business sold through reinsurance.

The tables below reconcile our segment measures of performance to the GAAP measures presented in the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) (in millions):

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2022			2021			2020
Revenues
Operating revenues:
Life Insurance	$	6,724		$	7,692		$	7,086
Annuities		4,371			4,566			4,067
Group Protection		5,302			4,995			4,792
Retirement Plan Services		1,257			1,308			1,197
Other Operations		135			157			166
Excluded realized gain (loss), pre-tax		(6	)		(117	)		(742	)
Amortization of DFEL associated with benefit ratio unlocking, pre-tax		2			-			-
Total revenues	$	17,785		$	18,601		$	16,566

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2022			2021			2020
Net Income (Loss)
Income (loss) from operations:
Life Insurance	$	(1,818	)	$	540		$	(12	)
Annuities		1,308			1,326			1,125
Group Protection		101			(128	)		42
Retirement Plan Services		197			223			157
Other Operations		(375	)		(243	)		(161	)
Excluded realized gain (loss), after-tax		(5	)		(93	)		(586	)
Benefit ratio unlocking, after-tax		(47	)		15			4
Impairment of intangibles		(634	)		-			-
Net impact from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act		-			-			37
Transaction and integration costs related to mergers,
acquisitions and divestitures, after-tax		-			(11	)		(15	)
Net income (loss)	$	(1,273	)	$	1,629		$	591

Other segment information (in millions) was as follows:

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2022		2021		2020
Net Investment Income
Life Insurance	$	2,462	$	3,056	$	2,689
Annuities		1,385		1,316		1,192
Group Protection		332		365		329
Retirement Plan Services		965		983		924
Other Operations		126		124		130
Total net investment income	$	5,270	$	5,844	$	5,264

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2022		2021		2020
Amortization of DAC and VOBA, Net of Interest
Life Insurance	$	537	$	1,029	$	768
Annuities		246		436		376
Group Protection		106		107		114
Retirement Plan Services		17		31		28
Total amortization of DAC and VOBA, net of interest	$	906	$	1,603	$	1,286

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2022			2021			2020
Federal Income Tax Expense (Benefit)
Life Insurance	$	(513	)	$	123		$	(28	)
Annuities		223			251			187
Group Protection		27			(33	)		11
Retirement Plan Services		32			47			21
Other Operations		(84	)		(70	)		(51	)
Excluded realized gain (loss)		(2	)		(25	)		(155	)
Benefit ratio unlocking		(12	)		4			1
Net impact from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act		-			-			(37	)
Transaction and integration costs related to mergers,
acquisitions and divestitures		-			(4	)		(5	)
Total federal income tax expense (benefit)	$	(329	)	$	293		$	(56	)

	As of December 31,
	2022		2021
Assets
Life Insurance	$	98,540	$	106,973
Annuities		166,261		200,827
Group Protection		9,802		10,522
Retirement Plan Services		41,909		47,633
Other Operations		22,082		26,060
Total assets	$	338,594	$	392,015