Fair Values of Assets and Liabilities - Changes in Level 3 Liabilities (Details) - Ameriprise Financial - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022	Mar. 31, 2021
Changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
Net increase (decrease) to pretax income from adjustment for nonperformance risk on the fair value of embedded derivatives	$ 25	$ (167)
Policyholder account balances, future policy benefits and claims embedded derivatives
Changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
Balance, beginning	2,853	3,370
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	(838)	(1,621)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	0
Issues	91	80
Settlements	(98)	11
Balance, ending	2,008	1,840
Changes in unrealized (gains) losses in net income relating to liabilities held at end of period	(703)	(1,676)
Fixed deferred indexed annuities embedded derivatives
Changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
Balance, beginning	56	49
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	(3)	4
Other comprehensive income (loss)	0
Issues	0	0
Settlements	(1)	(1)
Balance, ending	52	52
Changes in unrealized (gains) losses in net income relating to liabilities held at end of period	0	0
IUL embedded derivatives
Changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
Balance, beginning	905	935
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	(32)	29
Other comprehensive income (loss)	0
Issues	0	5
Settlements	(25)	(20)
Balance, ending	848	949
Changes in unrealized (gains) losses in net income relating to liabilities held at end of period	(32)	29
GMWB and GMAB embedded derivatives
Changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
Balance, beginning	1,486	2,316
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	(679)	(1,729)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	0
Issues	87	90
Settlements	(66)	38
Balance, ending	828	715
Changes in unrealized (gains) losses in net income relating to liabilities held at end of period	(671)	(1,705)
Structured variable annuity embedded derivatives
Changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
Balance, beginning	406	70
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	(124)	75
Other comprehensive income (loss)	0
Issues	4	(15)
Settlements	(6)	(6)
Balance, ending	280	124
Changes in unrealized (gains) losses in net income relating to liabilities held at end of period	0	0
Other liabilities
Changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
Balance, beginning	61	43
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	0	0
Other comprehensive income (loss)	(1)
Issues	8	2
Settlements	(6)	(2)
Balance, ending	62	43
Changes in unrealized (gains) losses in net income relating to liabilities held at end of period	$ 0	$ 0

Net Increase or Decrease in the fair value of the embedded derivative or group of embedded derivatives included in earnings in the period.

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Amount of unrealized gain (loss) recognized in income from liability measured at fair value on recurring basis using unobservable input (level 3) and still held.

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Amount of issuances of financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

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