Financial Instruments (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

Schedule of Notional Amounts of Outstanding Derivative Positions [Table Text Block]

The volume of our derivative activities based on their notional exposure, categorized by primary underlying risk, is as follows:



	September 30, 2016				December 31, 2015
	Long Notional Exposure		Short Notional Exposure		Long Notional Exposure		Short Notional Exposure
Primary underlying risk:	(in millions)
Credit swaps⁽¹⁾	$	203	$	503	$	187	$	2,306
Equity swaps	291		15,793		1,343		14,167
Foreign currency forwards	—		872		—		842
Interest rate swap contracts⁽²⁾	—		—		—		137
Commodity contracts	22		459		43		643


⁽¹⁾	The short notional amount on our credit default swap positions is approximately $2.6 billion and $10.0 billion as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively. However, because credit spreads cannot compress below zero, our downside short notional exposure to loss is approximately $0.5 billion and $2.3 billion as of September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015, respectively.


⁽²⁾	The short notional amount on certain of our interest rate contracts with a three month duration is approximately $16.0 billion as of December 31, 2015. We assume that interest rates will not fall below zero and therefore our downside short notional exposure to loss on these contracts is $74 million (of the total $137 million disclosed in the above table) as of December 31, 20

Schedule of Other Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments, Statements of Financial Performance and Financial Position, Location

The following table presents the consolidated fair values of our derivatives that are not designated as hedging instruments:



Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Asset Derivatives⁽¹⁾						Liability Derivatives⁽²⁾
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	September 30, 2016			December 31, 2015			September 30, 2016			December 31, 2015
	(in millions)
Equity contracts	$	17		$	339		$	694		$	122
Foreign exchange contracts	—			—			1			19
Credit contracts	14			45			70			53
Interest rate swap contracts	—			—			—			—
Commodity contracts	7			46			21			10
Sub-total	38			430			786			204
Netting across contract types⁽³⁾	(18		)	(171		)	(18		)	(171		)
Total⁽³⁾	$	20		$	259		$	768		$	33


⁽¹⁾	Net asset derivatives are located within other assets in our condensed consolidated balance sheets.


⁽²⁾	Net liability derivatives are located within accrued expenses and other liabilities in our condensed consolidated balance sheets.


⁽³⁾	Excludes netting of cash collateral received and posted. The total collateral posted at September 30, 2016 and December 31, 2015 was $492 million and $883 million, respectively, across all counterparties.

The following table presents the amount of gain (loss) recognized in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for our derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:



	(Loss) Gain Recognized in Income⁽¹⁾
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	2016			2015			2016			2015
	(in millions)
Equity contracts	$	(448	)	$	892		$	(1,106	)	$	741
Foreign exchange contracts	(7		)	(2		)	(21		)	134
Credit contracts	(44		)	387			87			536
Interest rate contracts	—			—			(12		)	—
Commodity contracts	32			57			(36		)	6
	$	(467	)	$	1,334		$	(1,088	)	$	1,417


⁽¹⁾	Gains (losses) recognized on derivatives are classified in net gain (loss) from investment activities in our condensed consolidated statements of operations for our Investment segment and are included in other income (loss), net for all other segments.