SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 13D

(Amendment No. 5)

Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934*

The Phoenix Companies, Inc.

(Name of Issuer)

Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share

(Title of Class of Securities)

71902E109

(CUSIP Number of Class of Securities)

Daniel S. Loeb

Third Point LLC

390 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10022

(212) 224-7400

(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person

Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)

Copies to:

Michael A. Schwartz, Esq.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

787 Seventh Avenue

New York, NY 10019-6099

(212) 728-8000

February 24, 2010

(Date of Event which Requires

Filing of this Schedule)

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition which is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§ 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box: o

NOTE: Schedules filed in paper format shall include a signed original and five copies of the schedule, including all exhibits. See Rule 240.13d-7 for other parties to whom copies are to be sent.

* The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person's initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page.

The information required on the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).

SCHEDULE 13D

CUSIP No. 71902E109

Page 2 of 8 Pages

1	NAME OF REPORTING PERSON I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY) Third Point LLC
2	CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP (a) o (b) x
3	SEC USE ONLY
4	SOURCE OF FUNDS* AF
5	CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDING IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2(d) or 2(e) o
6	CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION Delaware
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH		7	SOLE VOTING POWER 0
		8	SHARED VOTING POWER 5,000,000
		9	SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER 0
		10	SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER 5,000,000
11	AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH PERSON 5,000,000
12	CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES* o
13	PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11) 4.3%
14	TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON* OO

SCHEDULE 13D

CUSIP No. 71902E109

Page 3 of 8 Pages

1	NAME OF REPORTING PERSON I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY) Daniel S. Loeb
2	CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP (a) o (b) x
3	SEC USE ONLY
4	SOURCE OF FUNDS* AF
5	CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDING IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2(d) or 2(e) o
6	CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION United States
NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH		7	SOLE VOTING POWER 0
		8	SHARED VOTING POWER 5,000,000
		9	SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER 0
		10	SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER 5,000,000
11	AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH PERSON 5,000,000
12	CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES* o
13	PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11) 4.3%
14	TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON* IN

This Amendment No. 5 to Schedule 13D (“Amendment No. 5”) is being filed with respect to the common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of The Phoenix Companies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), to amend the Schedule 13D filed on July 11, 2008 (as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto filed on July 18, 2008, Amendment No. 2 thereto filed on December 19, 2008, Amendment No. 3 thereto filed on January 5, 2009, Amendment No. 4 thereto filed on February 16, 2010 (“Amendment No. 4”) and this Amendment No. 5, the “Schedule 13D”) and is being filed on behalf of Third Point LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Management Company”) and Daniel S. Loeb, an individual (“Mr. Loeb” and, together with the Management Company, the “Reporting Persons”). The Management Company is the investment manager or adviser to a variety of funds and managed accounts (such funds and accounts, the “Funds”). Mr. Loeb is the Chief Executive Officer of the Management Company and controls the Management Company’s business activities. The Funds directly own the Common Stock to which this Schedule 13D relates, and the Reporting Persons may be deemed to have beneficial ownership over such Common Stock by virtue of the authority granted to them by the Funds to vote and to dispose of the securities held by the Funds, including the Common Stock. This Amendment No. 5 is being filed to disclose that the Reporting Persons no longer beneficially own more than 5% of the Common Stock. Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined have the meanings ascribed to them in the Schedule 13D.

Item 5.

Interest in Securities of the Issuer

Item 5 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

(a) As of the date of this Schedule 13D, the Management Company and Mr. Loeb beneficially own 5,000,000 shares of Common Stock, representing 4.3% of the 115,600,000 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of October 31, 2009, as reported in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2009 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on November 6, 2009. The percentages used herein and in the rest of this statement are calculated based upon such number of outstanding shares. As of the date of this Schedule 13D, none of the individual Funds beneficially owns a number of shares of Common Stock representing more than 5% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock.

(b) The Management Company and Mr. Loeb share voting and dispositive power over the 5,000,000 shares of Common Stock held directly by the Funds.

(c) Schedule A hereto sets forth certain information with respect to transactions by the Funds (at the direction of the Management Company and Mr. Loeb) in Common Stock since the filing of Amendment No. 4.

All of the transactions set forth on Schedule A were effected in open market transactions on the New York Stock Exchange. Other than as set forth on Schedule A, since filing Amendment No. 4 there were no transactions in the Common Stock effected by the Management Company and Mr. Loeb nor, to the best of their knowledge, any of their directors, executive officers, general partners or members.

(d) Other than the Funds which directly hold the Common Stock, and except as set forth in this Item 5, no person is known to have the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the Common Stock.

(e) As of February 24, 2010, the Reporting Persons have ceased to be the beneficial owners of more than five percent of the Common Stock.

Item 6.

Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships With Respect to Securities of the Issuer.

Item 6 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended by adding the following thereto:

On February 17, 2010, the Funds partially settled, to the extent of an aggregate of 75,000 notional shares of Common Stock and at a reference price of $2.348 per notional share, the standardized, cash-settled swap agreement (the “Swap Agreement”) for which the Common Stock is the reference security, originally entered into with Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited on December 17, 2008, with respect to 1,826,000 notional shares with a reference price of $1.95 per notional share. On each of February 22, 2010, February 23, 2010, February 24, 2010 and February 25, 2010, the Funds further partially settled the Swap Agreement to the extent of an aggregate of 51,000, 25,000, 25,000 and 75,000 notional shares of Common Stock, respectively, and at a reference price of $2.320, $2.322, $2.301 and $2.330 per notional share, respectively. The Swap Agreement was renewed on December 22, 2009 and terminates on March 22, 2010 or upon the written notice of either party.

Item 7.

Material to be Filed as Exhibits

99.5

Power of Attorney granted by Daniel S. Loeb in favor of James P. Gallagher, William Song, Joshua L. Targoff, and Bruce Wilson, dated January 5, 2009, was previously filed with the SEC on January 5, 2009 as an exhibit to Amendment No. 3 to the Schedule 13D, filed with the SEC on January 5, 2009. by Third Point LLC, Third Point Offshore Fund, Ltd., Third Point Offshore Master Fund, L.P., Third Point Advisors II L.L.C. and Daniel S. Loeb with respect to the Company and is incorporated herein by reference.

99.7	Amended and Restated Joint Filing Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2010, by and between Third Point LLC and Daniel S. Loeb.

[Signatures on following page]

SIGNATURES

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of our knowledge and belief, the undersigned certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: February 26, 2010

THIRD POINT LLC

By:

Daniel S. Loeb, Chief Executive Officer

By:

/s/ William Song

Name: William Song

Title:

Attorney-in-Fact

DANIEL S. LOEB

By:

/s/ William Song

Name: William Song

Title:

Attorney-in-Fact

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO SCHEDULE 13D

WITH RESPECT TO THE PHOENIX COMPANIES, INC.]

Schedule A

(Transactions by the Funds in Common Stock

since the filing of Amendment No. 4)

Date

Transaction

Price Per Share($)

02/16/10	(SELL)	(50,000)	2.301
02/16/10	(SELL)	(75,000)	2.297
02/17/10	(SELL)	(300,000)	2.325
02/18/10	(SELL)	(220,000)	2.306
02/18/10	(SELL)	(50,500)	2.352
02/19/10	(SELL)	(164,500)	2.300
02/22/10	(SELL)	(50,000)	2.321
02/22/10	(SELL)	(74,000)	2.316
02/23/10	(SELL)	(20,000)	2.325
02/23/10	(SELL)	(70,000)	2.340
02/24/10	(SELL)	(10,000)	2.306
02/24/10	(SELL)	(75,000)	2.301
02/25/10	(SELL)	(25,000)	2.309
02/25/10	(SELL)	(75,000)	2.325
02/26/10	(SELL)	(50,000)	2.320
02/26/10	(SELL)	(100,000)	2.323