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Variable Interest Entities (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2019
Variable Interest Entities [Abstract] |
Consolidated Variable Interest Entity Asset and Liability information |
|  | As of September 30, 2019 |  |  | As of December 31, 2018 |
|  | Number |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Number |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | of |  |  | Notional |  | Carrying |  |  | of |  |  | Notional |  | Carrying |
| Instruments |  | Amounts |  | Value |  | Instruments |  | Amounts |  | Value |
Assets |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Fixed maturity securities: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Total return swap |  |  | 1 |  |  | $ | 606 |  | $ | - |  |  |  | 1 |  |  | $ | 600 |  | $ | - |
Total assets |  |  | 1 |  |  | $ | 606 |  | $ | - |  |  |  | 1 |  |  | $ | 600 |  | $ | - |

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