SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	12 Months Ended
SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	Dec. 31, 2017
Share-based Compensation [Abstract]
SHARE BASED COMPENSATION	SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION Certain employees of AXA Equitable who perform services for MLOA participate in various share-based payment arrangements sponsored by AXA Financial or AXA. MLOA was allocated $3 million of compensation costs, included in Compensation and benefits in the statement of income (loss), for share-based payment arrangements during each year 2017, 2016 and 2015.

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.