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Investments
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Investments [Abstract]  
Investments Investments
(a) Net unrealized losses and gains on investments included in "Other comprehensive (loss) income" ("OCI") by asset class were as follows for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020:
 
($ in thousands)202220212020
AFS securities:   
Fixed income securities$(527,926)228,947 386,380 
Total AFS securities(527,926)228,947 386,380 
HTM securities:   
Fixed income securities (4)
Total HTM securities (4)
Short-term securities35 20 
Total net unrealized (losses) gains(527,891)228,963 386,393 
Deferred income tax 110,857 (48,082)(81,142)
Net unrealized (losses) gains, net of deferred income tax(417,034)180,881 305,251 
(Decrease) increase in net unrealized (losses) gains in OCI, net of deferred income tax$(597,915)(124,370)134,857 
(b) Information regarding our AFS securities as of December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 were as follows:

December 31, 2022    
Cost/   
 AmortizedAllowance forUnrealizedUnrealizedFair
($ in thousands)CostCredit LossesGainsLossesValue
AFS fixed income securities:
U.S. government and government agencies$209,528  37 (20,326)189,239 
Foreign government11,199 (284) (1,307)9,608 
Obligations of states and political subdivisions965,231 (1,024)1,812 (48,001)918,018 
Corporate securities2,558,655 (30,330)3,509 (196,809)2,335,025 
CLO and other ABS1,607,660 (2,375)2,408 (121,720)1,485,973 
RMBS1,169,546 (11,597)1,148 (99,265)1,059,832 
CMBS663,935 (111)348 (49,760)614,412 
Total AFS fixed income securities$7,185,754 (45,721)9,262 (537,188)6,612,107 

December 31, 2021    
Cost/   
 AmortizedAllowance forUnrealizedUnrealizedFair
($ in thousands)CostCredit LossesGainsLossesValue
AFS fixed income securities:
U.S. government and government agencies$127,974 — 3,629 (1,145)130,458 
Foreign government15,420 (46)609 (123)15,860 
Obligations of states and political subdivisions1,121,422 (137)68,258 (235)1,189,308 
Corporate securities2,478,348 (6,682)106,890 (4,953)2,573,603 
CLO and other ABS1,343,687 (939)14,350 (6,284)1,350,814 
RMBS756,280 (1,909)24,813 (2,932)776,252 
CMBS647,622 (11)27,752 (1,682)673,681 
Total AFS fixed income securities$6,490,753 $(9,724)246,301 (17,354)6,709,976 

The following tables provide a roll forward of the allowance for credit losses on our AFS fixed income securities for the years indicated:

2022Beginning BalanceCurrent Provision for Securities without Prior AllowanceInitial
Allowance for
Purchased
Credit
Deteriorated
Assets with
Credit
Deterioration
Increase (Decrease) on Securities with Prior Allowance, excluding intent (or Requirements) to Sell SecuritiesReductions for Securities SoldReductions for Securities Identified as Intent (or Requirement) to Sell during the PeriodEnding Balance
($ in thousands)
Foreign government$46 291  4 (57) 284 
Obligations of states and political subdivisons137 1,087  (6)(194) 1,024 
Corporate securities6,682 30,670  3,714 (6,902)(3,834)30,330 
CLO and other ABS939 2,158  (652)(50)(20)2,375 
RMBS1,909 245 8,318 1,558 (433) 11,597 
CMBS11 110  (10)  111 
Total AFS fixed income securities$9,724 34,561 8,318 4,608 (7,636)(3,854)45,721 

2021
Beginning BalanceCurrent Provisions for Securities without Prior AllowanceIncrease (Decrease) on Securities with Prior Allowance, excluding intent (or Requirements) to Sell SecuritiesReductions for Securities SoldReductions for Securities Identified as Intent (or Requirement) to Sell during the PeriodEnding Balance
($ in thousands)
Foreign government$46 (1)— — 46 
Obligations of states and political subdivisons122 11 — — 137 
Corporate securities2,782 5,785 (992)(723)(170)6,682 
CLO and other ABS592 579 (211)(21)— 939 
RMBS561 1,593 (63)(182)— 1,909 
CMBS29 10 (28)— — 11 
Total AFS fixed income securities$3,969 8,135 (1,284)(926)(170)9,724 
During 2022 or 2021, we had no write-offs or recoveries of our AFS fixed income securities.

As disclosed in Note 2. "Summary of Significant Accounting Policies," we do not evaluate accrued interest on our AFS securities for expected credit loss as we write-off these balances in a timely manner. Accrued interest on AFS securities was $56.4 million as of December 31, 2022, and $46.3 million as of December 31, 2021. We did not record any material write-offs of accrued interest during 2022 or 2021.

(c) Quantitative information about unrealized losses on our AFS portfolio follows:

December 31, 2022Less than 12 months12 months or longerTotal
($ in thousands)Fair 
Value
Unrealized
Losses
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Losses
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Losses
AFS fixed income securities:    
U.S. government and government agencies$166,975 (13,658)16,011 (6,668)182,986 (20,326)
Foreign government5,573 (608)2,456 (699)8,029 (1,307)
Obligations of states and political subdivisions681,795 (43,767)16,618 (4,234)698,413 (48,001)
Corporate securities1,889,492 (164,197)133,223 (32,612)2,022,715 (196,809)
CLO and other ABS916,423 (69,155)411,283 (52,565)1,327,706 (121,720)
RMBS887,229 (76,432)108,041 (22,833)995,270 (99,265)
CMBS512,953 (37,815)77,181 (11,945)590,134 (49,760)
Total AFS fixed income securities$5,060,440 (405,632)764,813 (131,556)5,825,253 (537,188)

December 31, 2021Less than 12 months12 months or longerTotal
($ in thousands)Fair 
Value
Unrealized
Losses
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Losses
Fair
Value
Unrealized
Losses
AFS fixed income securities:    
U.S. government and government agencies$34,857 (746)7,827 (399)42,684 (1,145)
Foreign government2,000 (84)1,061 (39)3,061 (123)
Obligations of states and political subdivisions25,837 (235)— — 25,837 (235)
Corporate securities300,549 (4,903)2,520 (50)303,069 (4,953)
CLO and other ABS663,976 (4,934)53,368 (1,350)717,344 (6,284)
RMBS236,010 (2,931)20 (1)236,030 (2,932)
CMBS112,899 (1,016)20,326 (666)133,225 (1,682)
Total AFS fixed income securities$1,376,128 (14,849)85,122 (2,505)1,461,250 (17,354)

We currently do not intend to sell any of the securities summarized in the tables above, nor will we be required to sell any of them. The increase in gross unrealized losses as December 31, 2022, compared to December 31, 2021, was driven by an increase in benchmark U.S. Treasury rates and a widening of credit spreads, with the increase in interest rates having the most significant impact. The severity of impairment on these securities is less than 10% at both periods. Considering these factors and our review of these securities under our credit loss policy as described in Note 2. “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” of this Form 10-K, we have concluded that no allowance for credit loss is required on these balances beyond the allowance for credit loss recorded as of December 31, 2022. This conclusion reflects our current judgment about the financial position and future prospects of the entities that issued the investment security and underlying collateral. 

(d) AFS and HTM fixed income securities at December 31, 2022, by contractual maturity are shown below. The maturities of mortgage-backed securities were calculated using each security's estimated average life. Expected maturities may differ from contractual maturities because issuers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties.

AFSHTM
($ in thousands)Fair ValueCarrying ValueFair Value
Due in one year or less$324,394 6,093 6,090 
Due after one year through five years2,928,594 3,779 3,798 
Due after five years through 10 years2,600,001 21,285 19,949 
Due after 10 years759,118   
Total fixed income securities$6,612,107 31,157 29,837 
 
(e) The following table summarizes our alternative investment portfolio by strategy:

December 31, 2022December 31, 2021
($ in thousands)Carrying
Value
Remaining
Commitment
Maximum
Exposure to Loss
Carrying
Value
Remaining
Commitment
Maximum
Exposure to Loss
Alternative investments   
Private equity$280,980 134,676 415,656 273,070 99,734 372,804 
Private credit54,866 89,481 144,347 63,138 92,674 155,812 
Real assets35,470 21,945 57,415 23,524 22,579 46,103 
Total alternative investments371,316 246,102 617,418 359,732 214,987 574,719 

We are contractually committed to make additional investments up to the remaining commitments stated above. We did not provide any non-contractual financial support during 2022 or 2021.

The following is a description of our alternative investment strategies:

Our private equity strategy includes the following:

Primary Private Equity: This strategy makes private equity investments, primarily in established large and middle market companies across diverse industries globally, with an emphasis on North America.

Secondary Private Equity: This strategy purchases seasoned private equity funds from investors desiring liquidity prior to normal fund termination. Investments are made across all sectors of the private equity market, including leveraged buyouts ("LBO"), venture capital, distressed securities, mezzanine financing, real estate, and infrastructure.

Venture Capital: In general, these investments are made principally by investing in equity securities of startup companies and small-to-medium sized privately-held corporations with strong long-term growth potential. This strategy makes private equity investments in seed stage, early stage, late stage, and growth equity partnerships.

Our private credit strategy includes the following:

Direct Lending: This strategy provides privately negotiated loans to U.S. middle market companies. Typically, these are floating rate, senior secured loans diversified across industries. Loans are made to companies that may or may not have private equity sponsors to finance LBOs, recapitalizations, and acquisitions.

Mezzanine Financing: This strategy provides privately-negotiated fixed income securities, generally with an equity component, to LBO firms and private and publicly-traded large, mid, and small-cap companies to finance LBOs, recapitalizations, and acquisitions.

Opportunistic and Distressed Debt: This strategy makes investments in debt and equity securities of companies that are experiencing financial distress, operational issues, or dislocated pricing of publicly-traded securities. Investments include buying indebtedness of bankrupt or financially-troubled companies, small balance loan portfolios, special situations and capital structure arbitrage trades, commercial real estate mortgages, and similar non-U.S. securities and debt obligations.

Our real assets strategy includes the following:

Infrastructure: This strategy invests in the equity or debt of cash flow generating assets, diversified across a variety of industries, including transportation, energy infrastructure, renewable power, such as wind and solar, social infrastructure, power generation, water, telecom, and other regulated entities principally located in North America and Western Europe.

Real Estate: This strategy invests in real estate in North America, Europe, and Asia via direct property ownership, joint ventures, mortgages, and investments in equity and debt instruments.

Our alternative investment strategies may employ leverage and may use hedging to reduce foreign exchange or interest rate volatility. At this time, our alternative investment strategies do not include hedge funds. We typically cannot redeem our investments with the general partners of these investments; however, occasionally these partnership positions can be sold on the
secondary market. Once liquidation is triggered by clauses within the limited partnership agreements or at the funds’ stated end date, we receive our final allocation of capital and any earned appreciation of the underlying investments, assuming we have not divested ourselves of our partnership interests prior to that time. We currently receive distributions from these alternative investments through the realization of the underlying investments of, or income generated by, the limited partnerships.

The following tables show gross summarized financial information for our alternative investments portfolio, including the portion we do not own. As the majority of these investments report results to us on a one quarter lag, the summarized financial statement information is as of, and for the 12-month period ended, September 30: 

Balance Sheet Information
December 31,
($ in millions)20222021
Investments$114,038 107,347 
Total assets128,158 112,232 
Total liabilities15,464 12,371 
Total partners’ capital112,694 99,861 

Income Statement Information
12 months ended September 30,
($ in millions)202220212020
Net investment income (loss)$765 653 (26)
Realized gains12,590 6,121 1,452 
Net change in unrealized appreciation(5,215)26,877 4,898 
Net income$8,140 33,651 6,324 
Alternative investment income included in "Net investment income earned" on our Consolidated Statements of Income23.0 117.7 26.5 
 
(f) We did not have exposure to any credit concentration risk of a single issuer greater than 10% of our stockholders' equity, other than to certain U.S. government agencies, as of December 31, 2022 or December 31, 2021.

(g) We have pledged certain AFS fixed income securities as collateral related to our borrowing relationships with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis ("FHLBI") and the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York ("FHLBNY"). In addition, we had certain securities on deposit with various state and regulatory agencies at December 31, 2022 to comply with insurance laws. We retain all rights regarding all securities pledged as collateral.

The following table summarizes the market value of these securities at December 31, 2022:

($ in millions) FHLBI CollateralFHLBNY CollateralRegulatory DepositsTotal
U.S. government and government agencies$  19.3 19.3 
Obligations of states and political subdivisions  3.6 3.6 
RMBS61.4 28.8  90.2 
CMBS4.6 9.6  14.2 
Total pledged as collateral$66.0 38.4 22.9 127.3 

(h) The components of pre-tax net investment income earned were as follows:

($ in thousands)202220212020
Fixed income securities$259,918 209,709 203,926 
CMLs5,555 2,743 844 
Equity securities13,554 15,920 9,286 
Short-term investments3,997 260 1,821 
Alternative investments23,003 117,701 26,504 
Other investments258 359 418 
Investment expenses(18,130)(20,103)(15,692)
Net investment income earned$288,155 326,589 227,107 
(i) The following table summarizes net realized and unrealized investment gains and losses for the periods indicated:

($ in thousands)202220212020
Gross gains on sales$28,419 15,284 18,893 
Gross losses on sales(60,055)(8,140)(9,745)
Net realized (losses) gains on disposals(31,636)7,144 9,148 
Net unrealized (losses) gains on equity securities(32,127)17,881 7,939 
Net credit loss (expense) on fixed income securities, AFS(39,169)(6,858)(5,042)
Net credit loss (expense) benefit on fixed income securities, HTM63 (49)
Net credit loss (expense) on CMLs(116)— — 
Losses on securities for which we have the intent to sell(11,823)(519)(16,266)
Net realized and unrealized investment (losses) gains$(114,808)17,599 (4,217)

Net realized and unrealized investment losses in 2022 were primarily driven by (i) a decrease in valuations reflecting the current public equities market, (ii) active trading of our fixed income securities in an effort to opportunistically increase yield given the rising interest rate environment, and (iii) higher credit loss expense on our AFS fixed income securities portfolio.

Net unrealized losses and gains recognized in income on equity securities, as reflected in the table above, included the following:

($ in thousands)202220212020
Unrealized (losses) gains recognized in income on equity securities:
On securities remaining in our portfolio at end of period$(10,454)16,473 7,936 
On securities sold in period(21,673)1,408 
Total unrealized (losses) gains recognized in income on equity securities$(32,127)17,881 7,939 

Proceeds from the sales of AFS fixed income securities were $1,211.7 million, $502.9 million, and $487.1 million in 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively. Proceeds from the sales of equity securities were $186.1 million, $99.2 million, and $1.3 million in 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively.