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Segment Information | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Segment Information | SEGMENT INFORMATION The Company has geographic-based and business-based operational segments. Geographic-based operations are further segmented into traditional and financial solutions businesses. The U.S. and Latin America Traditional segment provides individual and group life and health reinsurance to domestic clients for a variety of products through yearly renewable term agreements, coinsurance, and modified coinsurance. The U.S. and Latin America Financial Solutions segment includes asset-intensive products that concentrate on the investment risk within underlying annuities and corporate-owned life insurance policies, and financial reinsurance that assists ceding companies in meeting applicable regulatory requirements while enhancing their financial strength and regulatory surplus position. The Canada Traditional segment is primarily engaged in individual life reinsurance, and to a lesser extent creditor, group life and health, critical illness and disability reinsurance, through yearly renewable term and coinsurance agreements. The Canada Financial Solutions segment concentrates on assisting clients with longevity risk transfer structures within underlying annuities and pension benefit obligations, and on assisting clients in meeting applicable regulatory requirements while enhancing their financial strength and regulatory surplus position through financial reinsurance structures. The Europe, Middle East and Africa Traditional segment provides individual and group life and health products through yearly renewable term and coinsurance agreements, reinsurance of critical illness coverage that provides a benefit in the event of the diagnosis of a pre-defined critical illness and underwritten annuities. The Europe, Middle East and Africa Financial Solutions segment provides longevity, asset-intensive and financial reinsurance. Longevity reinsurance takes the form of closed block annuity reinsurance and longevity swap structures. The Asia Pacific Traditional segment provides individual and group life and health reinsurance, critical illness coverage, disability and superannuation through yearly renewable term and coinsurance agreements. The Asia Pacific Financial Solutions segment provides financial reinsurance, asset-intensive and certain disability and life blocks. Corporate and Other revenues primarily include investment income from unallocated invested assets, investment related gains and losses and service fees. Corporate and Other expenses consist of the offset to capital charges allocated to the operating segments within the policy acquisition costs and other insurance income line item, unallocated overhead and executive costs, interest expense related to debt, and the investment income and expense associated with the Company’s collateral finance and securitization transactions and service business expenses. Additionally, Corporate and Other includes results from certain wholly-owned subsidiaries, such as RGAx, and joint ventures that, among other activities, develop and market technology, and provide consulting and outsourcing solutions for the insurance and reinsurance industries. In the past two years, the Company has increased its investment and expenditures in this area in an effort to both support its clients and generate new future revenue streams. The accounting policies of the segments are the same as those described in Note 2 – “Significant Accounting Policies and Pronouncements.” The Company measures segment performance primarily based on profit or loss from operations before income taxes. There are no intersegment reinsurance transactions and the Company does not have any material long-lived assets. The Company allocates capital to its segments based on an internally developed economic capital model, the purpose of which is to measure the risk in the business and to provide a basis upon which capital is deployed. The economic capital model considers the unique and specific nature of the risks inherent in the Company’s businesses. As a result of the economic capital allocation process, a portion of investment income is attributed to the segments based on the level of allocated capital. In addition, the segments are charged for excess capital utilized above the allocated economic capital basis. This charge is included in policy acquisition costs and other insurance expenses. Information related to revenues, income (loss) before income taxes, interest expense, depreciation and amortization, and assets of the Company’s operations are summarized below (dollars in thousands):
For the years ended December 31, |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Revenues: |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. and Latin America: |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | $ | 6,295,733 |  |  | $ | 6,100,171 |  |  | $ | 5,964,968 |
Financial Solutions |  | 907,245 |  |  | 1,150,378 |  |  | 840,446 |
Total |  | 7,202,978 |  |  | 7,250,549 |  |  | 6,805,414 |
Canada: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 1,224,404 |  |  | 1,103,520 |  |  | 1,118,004 |
Financial Solutions |  | 48,588 |  |  | 48,938 |  |  | 46,938 |
Total |  | 1,272,992 |  |  | 1,152,458 |  |  | 1,164,942 |
Europe, Middle East and Africa: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 1,494,605 |  |  | 1,362,075 |  |  | 1,195,149 |
Financial Solutions |  | 349,886 |  |  | 311,071 |  |  | 340,518 |
Total |  | 1,844,491 |  |  | 1,673,146 |  |  | 1,535,667 |
Asia Pacific: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 2,416,848 |  |  | 2,210,686 |  |  | 1,771,150 |
Financial Solutions |  | 54,479 |  |  | 73,775 |  |  | 63,382 |
Total |  | 2,471,327 |  |  | 2,284,461 |  |  | 1,834,532 |
Corporate and Other |  | 83,876 |  |  | 155,155 |  |  | 180,956 |
Total |  | $ | 12,875,664 |  |  | $ | 12,515,769 |  |  | $ | 11,521,511 |
For the years ended December 31, |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Income (loss) before income taxes: |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. and Latin America: |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | $ | 286,410 |  |  | $ | 373,434 |  |  | $ | 371,101 |
Financial Solutions |  | 250,478 |  |  | 401,584 |  |  | 283,380 |
Total |  | 536,888 |  |  | 775,018 |  |  | 654,481 |
Canada: |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 112,308 |  |  | 120,218 |  |  | 134,705 |
Financial Solutions |  | 9,576 |  |  | 16,643 |  |  | 7,945 |
Total |  | 121,884 |  |  | 136,861 |  |  | 142,650 |
Europe, Middle East and Africa: |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 55,119 |  |  | 70,486 |  |  | 30,059 |
Financial Solutions |  | 196,387 |  |  | 123,514 |  |  | 138,007 |
Total |  | 251,506 |  |  | 194,000 |  |  | 168,066 |
Asia Pacific: |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 177,501 |  |  | 148,786 |  |  | 113,928 |
Financial Solutions |  | (5,966 | ) |  | 13,130 |  |  | 4,063 |
Total |  | 171,535 |  |  | 161,916 |  |  | 117,991 |
Corporate and Other |  | (235,993 | ) |  | (124,980 | ) |  | (39,242 | )
Total |  | $ | 845,820 |  |  | $ | 1,142,815 |  |  | $ | 1,043,946 |
For the years ended December 31, |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Interest expense: |  |  |  |  |  |
Corporate and Other |  | $ | 147,355 |  |  | $ | 146,025 |  |  | $ | 137,623 |
Total |  | $ | 147,355 |  |  | $ | 146,025 |  |  | $ | 137,623 |
For the years ended December 31, |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Depreciation and amortization: |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. and Latin America: |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | $ | 272,555 |  |  | $ | 284,959 |  |  | $ | 271,732 |
Financial Solutions |  | 95,306 |  |  | 208,790 |  |  | 155,560 |
Total |  | 367,861 |  |  | 493,749 |  |  | 427,292 |
Canada: |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 22,109 |  |  | 24,057 |  |  | 22,170 |
Financial Solutions |  | 9 |  |  | 10 |  |  | 11 |
Total |  | 22,118 |  |  | 24,067 |  |  | 22,181 |
Europe, Middle East and Africa: |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 45,140 |  |  | 35,000 |  |  | 46,562 |
Financial Solutions |  | 384 |  |  | 91 |  |  | 72 |
Total |  | 45,524 |  |  | 35,091 |  |  | 46,634 |
Asia Pacific: |  |  |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 114,870 |  |  | 114,333 |  |  | 45,562 |
Financial Solutions |  | 1,885 |  |  | 1,448 |  |  | 1,492 |
Total |  | 116,755 |  |  | 115,781 |  |  | 47,054 |
Corporate and Other |  | 22,104 |  |  | 37,276 |  |  | 13,894 |
Total |  | $ | 574,362 |  |  | $ | 705,964 |  |  | $ | 557,055 |
The table above includes amortization of DAC, including the effect from investment related gains and losses.
For the years ended December 31, |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Assets: |  |  |  |
U.S. and Latin America: |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | $ | 19,235,781 |  |  | $ | 18,603,423 |
Financial Solutions |  | 19,870,388 |  |  | 15,959,206 |
Total |  | 39,106,169 |  |  | 34,562,629 |
Canada: |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 4,200,792 |  |  | 4,161,452 |
Financial Solutions |  | 154,000 |  |  | 126,372 |
Total |  | 4,354,792 |  |  | 4,287,824 |
Europe, Middle East and Africa: |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 3,643,174 |  |  | 3,099,495 |
Financial Solutions |  | 4,737,529 |  |  | 5,274,993 |
Total |  | 8,380,703 |  |  | 8,374,488 |
Asia Pacific: |  |  |  |
Traditional |  | 5,680,978 |  |  | 4,915,442 |
Financial Solutions |  | 1,180,745 |  |  | 1,198,585 |
Total |  | 6,861,723 |  |  | 6,114,027 |
Corporate and Other |  | 5,831,858 |  |  | 7,175,850 |
Total |  | $ | 64,535,245 |  |  | $ | 60,514,818 |
Companies in which RGA has significant influence over the operating and financing decisions but are not required to be consolidated, are reported on the equity basis of accounting. The equity in the net income of such investments is not material to the results of operations or financial position of individual segments or the Company taken as a whole. Capital expenditures of each reporting segment were immaterial in the periods noted. No individual client generated 10% or more of the Company’s total gross premiums on a consolidated basis in 2018, 2017 and 2016. For the purpose of this disclosure, companies that are within the same insurance holding company structure are combined.

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