SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	12 Months Ended
SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION	Dec. 31, 2014
Shared Based Compensation [Abstract]
SHARE BASED OMPENSATION	8) SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION Certain employees of AXA Equitable, who perform services on a full-time basis for MLOA, participate in various share-based payment arrangements sponsored by AXA Financial. MLOA was allocated $2 million, $3 million and $3 million of compensation costs, included in Compensation and benefits in the statement of Earnings (Loss), for share-based payment arrangements during 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

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.

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