Managed Investment Entities

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2019

Variable Interest Entity, Primary Beneficiary, Does Not Hold Majority Voting Interest, Disclosures [Abstract]

AFG is the investment manager and its subsidiaries have investments ranging from 15.0% to 60.9% of the most subordinate debt tranche of eleven active collateralized loan obligation entities (“CLOs”), which are considered variable interest entities. AFG’s subsidiaries also own portions of the senior debt tranches of certain of these CLOs. Upon formation between 2012 and 2018, these entities issued securities in various senior and subordinate classes and invested the proceeds primarily in secured bank loans, which serve as collateral for the debt securities issued by each particular CLO. None of the collateral was purchased from AFG. AFG’s investments in the subordinate debt tranches of these entities receive residual income from the CLOs only after the CLOs pay expenses (including management fees to AFG) and interest on and returns of capital to senior levels of debt securities. There are no contractual requirements for AFG to provide additional funding for these entities. AFG has not provided and does not intend to provide any financial support to these entities.

AFG’s maximum exposure to economic loss on the CLOs that it manages is limited to its investment in those CLOs, which had an aggregate fair value of $191 million (including $128 million invested in the most subordinate tranches) at June 30, 2019, and $188 million at December 31, 2018.

In March 2018, AFG formed a new CLO, which issued $463 million face amount of liabilities (including $31 million face amount purchased by subsidiaries of AFG). During the first six months of 2019 and 2018, AFG subsidiaries received less than $1 million and $45 million, respectively, in sale and redemption proceeds from its CLO investments. During the first six months of 2018, one AFG CLO was substantially liquidated, as permitted by the CLO indenture.

The revenues and expenses of the CLOs are separately identified in AFG’s Statement of Earnings, after the elimination of management fees and earnings attributable to shareholders of AFG as measured by the change in the fair value of AFG’s investments in the CLOs. Selected financial information related to the CLOs is shown below (in millions):



	Three months ended June 30,						Six months ended June 30,
	2019			2018			2019			2018
Investment in CLO tranches at end of period	$	191		$	192		$	191		$	192
Gains (losses) on change in fair value of assets/liabilities (a):
Assets	—			(29		)	87			(15		)
Liabilities	(2		)	27			(89		)	10
Management fees paid to AFG	4			4			7			8
CLO earnings attributable to AFG shareholders (b)	5			4			16			7


(a)	Included in revenues in AFG’s Statement of Earnings.


(b)	Included in earnings before income taxes in AFG’s Statement of Earnings.

The aggregate unpaid principal balance of the CLOs’ fixed maturity investments exceeded the fair value of the investments by $145 million and $232 million at June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively. The aggregate unpaid principal balance of the CLOs’ debt exceeded its carrying value by $150 million and $241 million at those dates. The CLO assets include loans with an aggregate fair value of $7 million at June 30, 2019, for which the CLOs are not accruing interest because the loans are in default (aggregate unpaid principal balance of $15 million; none at December 31, 2018).

In addition to the CLOs that it manages, AFG had investments in CLOs that are managed by third parties (therefore not consolidated), which are included in available for sale fixed maturity securities and had a carrying value of $4.33 billion at June 30, 2019 and $4.28 billion at December 31, 2018.