Other Revenues and Other Expenses

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Other Income and Expenses [Abstract]

Other Revenues and Other Expenses

11. Other Revenues and Other Expenses

Other Revenues

The Company has entered into contracts with mutual funds, fund managers, and their affiliates (collectively, the “Funds”) whereby the Company is paid monthly or quarterly fees (“12b-1 fees”) for providing certain services to customers and distributors of the Funds. The 12b-1 fees are generally equal to a fixed percentage of the average daily balance of the customer’s investment in a fund. The percentage is specified in the contract between the Company and the Funds. Payments are generally collected when due and are neither refundable nor able to offset future fees.

To earn these fees, the Company performs services such as responding to phone inquiries, maintaining records, providing information to distributors and shareholders about fund performance and providing training to account managers and sales agents. The passage of time reflects the satisfaction of the Company’s performance obligations to the Funds and is used to recognize revenue associated with 12b-1 fees.

Other revenues consisted primarily of 12b-1 fees of $325 million, $336 million and $360 million for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, of which substantially all were reported in the Annuities segment.

Other Expenses

Information on other expenses was as follows:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2020		2019		2018
	(In millions)
Compensation	$	346	$	333	$	289
Contracted services and other labor costs	281		287		245
Transition services agreements	127		245		279
Establishment costs	112		118		239
Premium and other taxes, licenses and fees	44		48		68
Separate account fees	466		488		524
Volume related costs, excluding compensation, net of DAC capitalization	662		636		628
Interest expense on debt	184		191		158
Other	131		145		145
Total other expenses	$	2,353	$	2,491	$	2,575

Capitalization of DAC

See Note 4 for additional information on the capitalization of DAC.

Interest Expense on Debt

See Note 9 for attribution of interest expense by debt issuance.

Related Party Expenses

See Note 16 for a discussion of related party expenses included in the table above.