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Insurance Subsidiary - Financial Information | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
Insurance Subsidiary - Financial Information [Abstract] |
Insurance Subsidiary - Financial Information | Insurance Subsidiary — Financial Information FGL’s insurance subsidiaries file financial statements with state insurance regulatory authorities and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) that are prepared in accordance with Statutory Accounting Principles (“SAP”) prescribed or permitted by such authorities, which may vary materially from US GAAP. Prescribed SAP includes the Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual of the NAIC as well as state laws, regulations and administrative rules. Permitted SAP encompasses all accounting practices not so prescribed. The principal differences between statutory financial statements and financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP are that statutory financial statements do not reflect VOBA and DAC, some bond portfolios may be carried at amortized cost, assets and liabilities are presented net of reinsurance, contractholder liabilities are generally valued using more conservative assumptions and certain assets are non-admitted. Accordingly, statutory operating results and statutory capital and surplus may differ substantially from amounts reported in the US GAAP basis financial statements for comparable items. FGL’s insurance subsidiaries’ statutory financial statements are based on a December 31 year end. Statutory net income and statutory capital and surplus of FGL's wholly owned insurance subsidiaries were as follows:
|  | Subsidiary (state of domicile)(a)
|  | FGL Insurance (IA) (b) |  | FGL NY Insurance (NY)
Statutory Net Income: |  |  |  |
Fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 (Unaudited) |  | $ | 180.3 |  |  | $ | 2.7 |
Year ended December 31, 2013 |  | 118.2 |  |  | 1.3 |
Year ended December 31, 2012 |  | 102.2 |  |  | 1.0 |
Statutory Capital and Surplus: |  |  |  |
September 30, 2014 (Unaudited) |  | $ | 1,134.4 |  |  | $ | 64.1 |
December 31, 2013 |  | 1,108.3 |  |  | 61.9 |
December 31, 2012 |  | 900.5 |  |  | 41.1 |
(a) FGL NY Insurance is a subsidiary of FGL Insurance, and the columns should not be added together. (b) FGL Insurance Company re-domesticated to Iowa effective November 1, 2013. Prior to November 1, 2013, the Company was incorporated in the state of Maryland. The amount of statutory capital and surplus necessary to satisfy the applicable regulatory requirements is not significant in relation to FGL Insurance's and FGL NY Insurance's respective statutory capital and surplus. Life insurance companies are subject to certain Risk-Based Capital (“RBC”) requirements as specified by the NAIC. The RBC is used to evaluate the adequacy of capital and surplus maintained by an insurance company in relation to risks associated with: (i) asset risk, (ii) insurance risk, (iii) interest rate risk and (iv) business risk. FGL monitors the RBC of its insurance subsidiaries. As of September 30, 2014 and 2013, each of FGL’s insurance subsidiaries had exceeded the minimum RBC requirements (unaudited). FGL’s insurance subsidiaries are restricted by state laws and regulations as to the amount of dividends they may pay to their parent without regulatory approval in any year, the purpose of which is to protect affected insurance policyholders, depositors or investors. Any dividends in excess of limits are deemed “extraordinary” and require approval. Based on statutory results as of December 31, 2013, in accordance with applicable dividend restrictions, FGL’s subsidiaries could pay “ordinary” dividends of $124.4 to FGH in 2014 less any dividends paid during the immediately preceding 12 month period. FGL did not declare or pay any dividends to FGH during the 12 month period ended September 30, 2014. Therefore, FGL Insurance will be able to declare an ordinary dividend up to $124.4 with respect to its 2013 statutory results, subject to management’s discretion. FGL Insurance’s statutory carrying value of Raven Re reflected the effect of a permitted practice Raven Re received to treat the available amount of the letter of credit as an admitted asset which increased Raven Re’s statutory capital and surplus by $270.0 at December 31, 2013. Raven Re is also permitted to follow Iowa prescribed statutory accounting practice for its reserves on reinsurance assumed from FGL Insurance which increased Raven Re’s statutory capital and surplus by $20.5 at December 31, 2013. Without such permitted statutory accounting practices Raven Re’s statutory capital and surplus would be negative $108.9 (unaudited) at December 31, 2013 and its risk-based capital would fall below the minimum regulatory requirements. The letter of credit facility was collateralized by NAIC 1 rated debt securities. If the permitted practice was revoked, the letter of credit could be replaced by the collateral assets with Nomura’s consent. As of September 30, 2014, FGL NY Insurance does not follow any prescribed or permitted statutory accounting practices that differ from the NAIC’s statutory accounting practices. On November 1, 2013, FGL Insurance re-domesticated from Maryland to Iowa. After re-domestication, FGL Insurance elected to apply Iowa-prescribed accounting practices that permit Iowa-domiciled insurers to report equity call options used to economically hedge FIA index credits at amortized cost for statutory accounting purposes and to calculate FIA statutory reserves such that index credit returns will be included in the reserve only after crediting to the annuity contract. This resulted in an decrease in statutory capital of $0.8 (unaudited) at September 30, 2014 and an increase to statutory capital and surplus of $11.5 at December 31, 2013. Also, the Iowa Insurance Division granted FGL Insurance a permitted statutory accounting practice to reclassify its negative unassigned surplus balance of $805.8 to additional paid in capital as of April 6, 2011, the date FGL acquired FGL Insurance, which will have the effect of setting FGL Insurance’s statutory unassigned surplus to zero as of this date. The prescribed and permitted statutory accounting practice will have no impact on FGL’s consolidated financial statements which are prepared in accordance with US GAAP.

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