Fair Values of Assets and Liabilities - Changes in Level 3 Liabilities (Details) - Ameriprise Financial - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023	Mar. 31, 2022
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	$ 57	$ 33
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	646	1,367
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	302	(159)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	0	0
Issues	36	4
Settlements	(27)	(32)
Balance, ending	957	1,180
Changes in unrealized (gains) losses in net income relating to liabilities held at end of period	301	(32)
Fixed deferred indexed annuities embedded derivatives
Changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
Balance, beginning	44	56
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	1	(3)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	0	0
Issues	0	0
Settlements	(1)	(1)
Balance, ending	44	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	739	905
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	38	(32)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	0	0
Issues	24	0
Settlements	(30)	(25)
Balance, ending	771	848
Changes in unrealized (gains) losses in net income relating to liabilities held at end of period	38	(32)
Structured variable annuity embedded derivatives
Changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
Balance, beginning	(137)	406
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	263	(124)
Other comprehensive income (loss)	0	0
Issues	12	4
Settlements	4	(6)
Balance, ending	142	280
Changes in unrealized (gains) losses in net income relating to liabilities held at end of period	263	0
Other liabilities
Changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis
Balance, beginning	62	61
Total (gains) losses included in Net income	0	0
Other comprehensive income (loss)	1	(1)
Issues	14	8
Settlements	(7)	(6)
Balance, ending	70	62
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 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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