Variable Interest Entities (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]

Consolidated Variable Interest Entity Asset and Liability information

					As of June 30, 2012							As of December 31, 2011
					Number							Number
					of		Notional		Carrying			of		Notional		Carrying
				Instruments			Amounts		Value		Instruments			Amounts		Value
Assets
Fixed maturity securities:
	Asset-backed credit card loans					N/A	$	-	$	595			N/A	$	-	$	592
	U.S. government bonds					N/A		-		110			N/A		-		108
Excess mortality swap						1		100		-			1		100		-
			Total assets (1)			1	$	100	$	705			1	$	100	$	700
Liabilities
Non-qualifying hedges:
	Credit default swaps					2	$	600	$	234			2	$	600	$	295
	Contingent forwards					2		-		(3)			2		-		(4)
		Total non-qualifying hedges				4		600		231			4		600		291
Federal income tax						N/A		-		(73)			N/A		-		(98)
			Total liabilities (2)			4	$	600	$	158			4	$	600	$	193

Consolidated Variable Interest Entity Settlement Payments and Mark-to-Market Adjustments

		For the Three				For the Six
		Months Ended				Months Ended
		June 30,				June 30,
		2012		2011		2012		2011
Non-Qualifying Hedges
Credit default swaps		$	(10)	$	6	$	61	$	13
Contingent forwards			-		(1)		(2)		(3)
	Total non-qualifying hedges (1)	$	(10)	$	5	$	59	$	10

CLN structures summary information

	Amount and Date of Issuance
		$400		$200
		December		April
		2006		2007
Original attachment point (subordination)		5.50	%	2.05	%
Current attachment point (subordination)		4.17	%	1.48	%
Maturity	12/20/2016			3/20/2017
Current rating of tranche		BB-		Ba2
Current rating of underlying collateral pool		Aa1-B3		Aaa-Caa1
Number of defaults in underlying collateral pool		2		2
Number of entities		123		99
Number of countries		20		22

CLN structures' underlying collateral by industry and rating

			AAA		AA		A		BBB		BB		B		CCC		Total
Industry
Telecommunications			0.0	%	0.0	%	5.5	%	4.5	%	0.7	%	0.5	%	0.0	%	11.2	%
Financial intermediaries			0.0	%	2.1	%	7.5	%	0.9	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	10.5	%
Oil and gas			0.0	%	1.8	%	1.0	%	4.6	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	7.4	%
Utilities			0.0	%	0.0	%	2.6	%	2.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	4.6	%
Chemicals and plastics			0.0	%	0.0	%	2.3	%	1.2	%	0.3	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	3.8	%
Drugs			0.3	%	2.7	%	0.7	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	3.7	%
Retailers (except food
	and drug)		0.0	%	0.0	%	2.1	%	0.9	%	0.5	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	3.5	%
Industrial equipment			0.0	%	0.0	%	3.0	%	0.3	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	3.3	%
Sovereign			0.0	%	0.7	%	1.6	%	1.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	3.3	%
Conglomerates			0.0	%	2.3	%	0.9	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	3.2	%
Forest products			0.0	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	1.6	%	1.4	%	0.0	%	0.0	%	3.0	%
Other			0.0	%	3.9	%	16.0	%	17.7	%	3.7	%	0.9	%	0.3	%	42.5	%
		Total	0.3	%	13.5	%	43.2	%	34.7	%	6.6	%	1.4	%	0.3	%	100.0	%