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Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Premiums and Annuity Deposits, Net of Coinsurance, By Product Type | Premiums and annuity deposits (net of coinsurance) collected in 2013, 2012 and 2011, by product type were as follows:
|  | Year Ended December 31,
Product Type |  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2011
|  | (Dollars in thousands)
Fixed index annuities: |  |  |  |  |  |
Index strategies |  | $ | 2,847,370 |  |  | $ | 2,223,652 |  |  | $ | 2,835,422 |
Fixed strategy |  | 1,017,620 |  |  | 1,206,784 |  |  | 1,375,321 |
|  | 3,864,990 |  |  | 3,430,436 |  |  | 4,210,743 |
Fixed rate annuities |  | 112,740 |  |  | 148,105 |  |  | 247,237 |
Single premium immediate annuities (SPIA) |  | 52,142 |  |  | 164,657 |  |  | 305,603 |
Life insurance |  | 10,556 |  |  | 12,877 |  |  | 12,151 |
|  | $ | 4,040,428 |  |  | $ | 3,756,075 |  |  | $ | 4,775,734 |

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