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Organization and Significant Accounting Policies Level 3 (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Premiums and Annuity Deposits Collected. Net of Coinsurance [Table Text Block] | We primarily market fixed index and fixed rate annuities and to a lesser extent, life insurance. Premiums and annuity deposits (net of coinsurance), which are not included as revenues in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, collected in 2012, 2011 and 2010, by product type were as follows:
|  | Year Ended December 31,
Product Type |  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
|  | (Dollars in thousands)
Fixed index annuities: |  |  |  |  |  |
Index strategies |  | $ | 2,223,652 |  |  | $ | 2,835,422 |  |  | $ | 2,312,720 |
Fixed strategy |  | 1,206,784 |  |  | 1,375,321 |  |  | 1,472,576 |
|  | 3,430,436 |  |  | 4,210,743 |  |  | 3,785,296 |
Fixed rate annuities |  | 148,105 |  |  | 247,237 |  |  | 232,832 |
Single premium immediate annuities (SPIA) |  | 164,657 |  |  | 305,603 |  |  | 171,628 |
Life insurance |  | 12,877 |  |  | 12,151 |  |  | 11,982 |
|  | $ | 3,756,075 |  |  | $ | 4,775,734 |  |  | $ | 4,201,738 |

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