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Shareholders' Equity (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2016
Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract] |
Components of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) | The progression of the components of accumulated other comprehensive income follows (in millions):
|  |  | Other Comprehensive Income |  |
| AOCI Beginning Balance |  | Pretax |  | Tax |  | Net of tax |  | Attributable to noncontrolling interests |  | Attributable to shareholders |  | AOCI Ending Balance
Three months ended March 31, 2016 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net unrealized gains on securities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Unrealized holding gains on securities arising during the period |  |  | $ | 192 |  |  | $ | (67 | ) |  | $ | 125 |  |  | $ | (1 | ) |  | $ | 124 |  |  |  |
Reclassification adjustment for realized (gains) losses included in net earnings (a) |  |  | 18 |  |  | (7 | ) |  | 11 |  |  | (1 | ) |  | 10 |  |  |  |
Total net unrealized gains on securities (b) | $ | 332 |  |  | 210 |  |  | (74 | ) |  | 136 |  |  | (2 | ) |  | 134 |  |  | $ | 466 |
Net unrealized gains on cash flow hedges | 1 |  |  | 5 |  |  | (2 | ) |  | 3 |  |  | — |  |  | 3 |  |  | 4 |
Foreign currency translation adjustments | (22 | ) |  | 3 |  |  | 3 |  |  | 6 |  |  | — |  |  | 6 |  |  | (16 | )
Pension and other postretirement plans adjustments | (7 | ) |  | 1 |  |  | — |  |  | 1 |  |  | — |  |  | 1 |  |  | (6 | )
Total | $ | 304 |  |  | $ | 219 |  |  | $ | (73 | ) |  | $ | 146 |  |  | $ | (2 | ) |  | $ | 144 |  |  | $ | 448 |
Three months ended March 31, 2015 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net unrealized gains on securities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Unrealized holding gains on securities arising during the period |  |  | $ | 106 |  |  | $ | (37 | ) |  | $ | 69 |  |  | $ | (1 | ) |  | $ | 68 |  |  |
Reclassification adjustment for realized (gains) losses included in net earnings (a) |  |  | (19 | ) |  | 7 |  |  | (12 | ) |  | — |  |  | (12 | ) |  |
Total net unrealized gains on securities | $ | 743 |  |  | 87 |  |  | (30 | ) |  | 57 |  |  | (1 | ) |  | 56 |  |  | $ | 799 |
Net unrealized gains on cash flow hedges | — |  |  | 1 |  |  | — |  |  | 1 |  |  | — |  |  | 1 |  |  | 1 |
Foreign currency translation adjustments | (8 | ) |  | (5 | ) |  | (3 | ) |  | (8 | ) |  | — |  |  | (8 | ) |  | (16 | )
Pension and other postretirement plans adjustments | (8 | ) |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (8 | )
Total | $ | 727 |  |  | $ | 83 |  |  | $ | (33 | ) |  | $ | 50 |  |  | $ | (1 | ) |  | $ | 49 |  |  | $ | 776 |
(a) | The reclassification adjustment out of net unrealized gains on securities affected the following lines in AFG’s Statement of Earnings:
| OCI component |  | Affected line in the statement of earnings |
| Pretax |  | Realized gains (losses) on securities |
| Tax |  | Provision for income taxes |
| Attributable to noncontrolling interests |  | Net earnings (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests |
(b) | Includes net unrealized gains of $46 million at March 31, 2016 and $51 million at December 31, 2015 related to securities for which only the credit portion of an other-than-temporary impairment has been recorded in earnings.

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