SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Schedule of New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles

Description	Effect on the Financial Statement or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2017-12: Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815)
The amendments in this ASU better align an entity’s risk management activities and financial reporting for hedging relationships through changes to both the designation and measurement guidance for qualifying hedging relationships and the presentation of hedge results.	On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted the new hedging guidance. Adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Description	Effect on the Financial Statement or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2017-08: Receivables - Nonrefundable Fees and Other Costs (Subtopic 310-20)
This ASU requires certain premiums on callable debt securities to be amortized to the earliest call date and is intended to better align interest income recognition with the manner in which market participants price these instruments.	On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted the new guidance on accounting for certain premiums on callable debt securities. As the Company’s existing accounting practices aligned with the guidance in the ASU, adoption of the new standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
ASU 2016-02: Leases (Topic 842)
This ASU contains revised guidance to lease accounting that will require lessees to recognize on the balance sheet a “right-of-use” asset and a lease liability for virtually all lease arrangements, including those embedded in other contracts. Lessor accounting will remain substantially unchanged from the current model but has been updated to align with certain changes made to the lessee model.	On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted the new leases standard using the simplified modified retrospective transition method, as of the adoption date. Prior comparable periods will not be adjusted or presented under this method. We applied several practical expedients offered by ACS 842 upon adoption of this standard. These included continuing to account for existing leases based on judgment made under legacy U.S. GAAP as it relates to determining classification of leases, unamortized initial direct costs and whether contracts are leases or contain leases. We also used the practical expedient to use hindsight in determining lease terms (using knowledge and expectations as of the standard’s adoption date instead of the previous assumptions under legacy U.S. GAAP) and evaluated impairment of our right-of-use (“RoU”) assets in the transition period (using most up-to-date information.) Adoption of this standard resulted in the recognition, as of January 1, 2019, of additional RoU operating lease assets of $347 million reported in Other assets and operating lease liabilities of $439 million reported in Other liabilities in accompanying consolidated balance sheets. The operating RoU assets recognized as of January 1, 2019 are net of deferred rent of $58 million and liabilities associated with previously recognized impairments of $34 million. See Note 8 for additional information.

Future Adoption of New Accounting Pronouncements

Description	Effective Date and Method of Adoption	Effect on the Financial Statement or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2018-17: Consolidation (Topic 810): Targeted Improvements to Related Party Guidance for Variable Interest Entities
This ASU provides guidance requiring that indirect interests held through related parties in common control arrangements be considered on a proportional basis for determining whether fees paid to decision makers and service providers are variable interests.	Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. All entities are required to apply the amendments in this update retrospectively with a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings at the beginning of the earliest period presented.	Management currently is evaluating the impact that adoption of this guidance will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
ASU 2018-13: Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820)
This ASU improves the effectiveness of fair value disclosures in the notes to financial statements. Amendments in this ASU modify disclosure requirements in Topic 820, including the removal of certain disclosure requirements, modification of certain disclosures, and the addition of new requirements.	Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted, with the option to early adopt amendments to remove or modify disclosures, with full adoption of additional requirements delayed until their effective date. Amendments on changes in unrealized gains and losses, the range and weighted average of significant unobservable inputs used to develop Level 3 fair value measurements, and the narrative description of measurement uncertainty should be applied prospectively. All other amendments should be applied retrospectively.	Management currently is evaluating the impact of the guidance on the Company’s financial statement disclosures but has concluded that this guidance will not impact the Company’s consolidated financial position or results of operations.

Description	Effective Date and Method of Adoption	Effect on the Financial Statement or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2018-12: Financial Services - Insurance (Topic 944)
This ASU provides targeted improvements to existing recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure requirements for long-duration contracts issued by an insurance entity. The ASU primarily impacts four key areas, including:	Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 31, 2020. Early adoption is permitted.	Management currently is evaluating the impact that adoption of this guidance will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements, however the adoption of the ASU is expected to have a significant impact on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and required disclosures, as well as processes and controls.
Measurement of the liability for future policy benefits for traditional and limited payment contracts. The ASU requires companies to review, and if necessary update, cash flow assumptions at least annually for non-participating traditional and limited-payment insurance contracts.  Interest rates used to discount the liability will need to be updated quarterly using an upper medium grade (low credit risk) fixed-income instrument yield.	For the liability for future policyholder benefits for traditional and limited payment contracts, companies can elect one of two adoption methods. Companies can either elect a modified retrospective transition method applied to contracts in force as of the beginning of the earliest period presented on the basis of their existing carrying amounts, adjusted for the removal of any related amounts in AOCI or a full retrospective transition method using actual historical experience information as of contract inception.

Description	Effective Date and Method of Adoption	Effect on the Financial Statement or Other Significant Matters
Measurement of market risk benefits (“MRBs”). MRBs, as defined under the ASU, will encompass certain GMxB features associated with variable annuity products and other general account annuities with other than nominal market risk. The ASU requires MRBs to be measured at fair value with changes in value attributable to changes in instrument-specific credit risk recognized in OCI. Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs. The ASU simplifies the amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs and other balances amortized in proportion to premiums, gross profits, or gross margins, requiring such balances to be amortized on a constant level basis over the expected term of the contracts.  Deferred costs will be required to be written off for unexpected contract terminations but will not be subject to impairment testing. Expanded footnote disclosures. The ASU requires additional disclosures including disaggregated rollforwards of beginning to ending balances of the liability for future policy benefits, policyholder account balances, MRBs, Separate Accounts liabilities and deferred policy acquisition costs. Companies will also be required to disclose information about significant inputs, judgements, assumptions and methods used in measurement. MRBs, as defined under the ASU, will encompass certain GMxB features associated with variable annuity products and other general account annuities with other than nominal market risk. The ASU requires MRBs to be measured at fair value with changes in value attributable to changes in instrument-specific credit risk recognized in OCI.	The same adoption method must be used for deferred policy acquisition costs. For MRBs, the ASU should be applied retrospectively as of the beginning of the earliest period presented. For deferred policy acquisition costs, companies can elect one of two adoption methods. Companies can either elect a modified retrospective transition method applied to contracts in force as of the beginning of the earliest period presented on the basis of their existing carrying amounts, adjusted for the removal of any related amounts in AOCI or a full retrospective transition method using actual historical experience information as of contract inception. The same adoption method must be used for the liability for future policyholder benefits for traditional and limited payment contracts.

Description	Effective Date and Method of Adoption	Effect on the Financial Statement or Other Significant Matters
ASU 2016-13: Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326)
This ASU contains new guidance which introduces an approach based on expected losses to estimate credit losses on certain types of financial instruments. It also modifies the impairment model for available-for-sale debt securities and provides for a simplified accounting model for purchased financial assets with credit deterioration since their origination.	Effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted as of the fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. These amendments should be applied through a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the first reporting period in which the guidance is effective.	Management currently is evaluating the impact that adoption of this guidance will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

The reclassification adjustments for the three months ended March 31, 2018 are presented in the table below. Capitalization of DAC reclassified to Compensation and benefits, Commissions and Other operating costs and expenses reduced the amounts previously reported in those expense line items, while the capitalization of DAC reclassified from the Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs line item increases that expense line item.

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2018
	(in millions)
Reductions to expense line items:
Compensation and benefits	$	33
Commissions	101
Other operating costs and expenses	1
Total reductions	$	135
Increase to expense line item:
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs	$	135

Revenues Disaggregated by Category

The table below presents the revenues recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, disaggregated by category:

	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2019		2018
	(in millions)
Investment management and service fees:
Base fees	$	178	$	182
Distribution services	70		72
Total investment management and service fees	$	248	$	254
Other income	$	5	$	7