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Fee Income (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
Analysis of income and expense [abstract] |
Schedule of Fee Income | Fee income for the years ended December 31 consists of the following:
|  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |
Fee income from insurance contracts |  | $ | 1,017 |  |  | $ | 968 |
Fee income from service contracts: |  |  |  |
Distribution fees |  | 820 |  |  | 829 |
Fund management and other asset-based fees |  | 3,662 |  |  | 3,444 |
Administrative service and other fees |  | 752 |  |  | 725 |
Total fee income |  | $ | 6,251 |  |  | $ | 5,966 |

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