ACCOUNTING CHANGES AND NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
New Accounting Pronouncements And Changes In Accounting Principles [Abstract]
Accounting Changes And New Accounting Pronouncements [Text Block]	ACCOUNTING CHANGES AND NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS Accounting Changes In April 2011, the FASB issued new guidance for a creditor's determination of whether a restructuring is a troubled debt restructuring (“TDR”). The new guidance provided additional guidance to creditors for evaluating whether a modification or restructuring of a receivable is a TDR. The new guidance required creditors to evaluate modifications and restructurings of receivables using a more principles-based approach, which may result in more modifications and restructurings being considered TDR. The financial reporting implications of being classified as a TDR are that the creditor is required to: Consider the receivable impaired when calculating the allowance for credit losses; and Provide additional disclosures about its troubled debt restructuring activities in accordance with the requirements of recently issued guidance on disclosures about the credit quality of financing receivables and the allowance for credit losses. The new guidance was effective for the first interim or annual period beginning on or after June 15, 2011. Implementation of this guidance did not have a material impact on AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements. In January 2010, the FASB issued new guidance for improving disclosures about fair value measurements. This guidance requires a reporting entity to disclose separately the amounts of significant transfers in and out of Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurements and to describe the reasons for the transfers. In addition, for Level 3 fair value measurements, a reporting entity should present separately information about purchases, sales, issuances and settlements. This guidance was effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending on or after December 15, 2009 except for disclosures for Level 3 fair value measurements which was effective for the first quarter of 2011. These new disclosures have been included in the Notes to AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements, as appropriate. In 2010, the FASB issued new guidance on stock compensation. This guidance provides clarification that an employee share-based payment award with an exercise price denominated in the currency of a market in which a substantial portion of the entity's equity securities trades and that may be different from the functional currency of the issuer, the functional currency of the subsidiary-employer, or the payroll currency of the employee-recipient, should be considered an equity award assuming all other criteria for equity classification are met. This guidance was effective for the first quarter of 2011. Implementation of this guidance did not have a material impact on AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements as it is consistent with the policies and practices currently applied by AXA Financial Group in accounting for share-based-payment awards. New Accounting Pronouncements In September 2011, the FASB issued new guidance on testing goodwill for impairment. The guidance is intended to reduce the cost and complexity of the annual goodwill impairment test by providing entities with the option of performing a "qualitative" assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. The guidance is effective for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011, with early adoption permitted for certain companies. Management does not expect that implementation of this guidance will have a material impact on AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements. In June 2011, the FASB issued new guidance to amend the existing alternatives for presenting other comprehensive income and its components in financial statements. The amendments eliminate the current option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in equity. An entity can elect to present items of net income and other comprehensive income in one continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive statements. This guidance will not change the items that constitute net income and other comprehensive income, when an item of other comprehensive income must be reclassified to net income. This guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011. Management does not expect that implementation of this guidance will have a material impact on AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements. In May 2011, the FASB amended its guidance on fair value measurements and disclosure requirements to enhance comparability between U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). The changes to the existing guidance include how and when the valuation premise of highest and best use applies, the application of premiums and discounts, as well as new required disclosures. This guidance is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2011, with early adoption prohibited. Management does not expect that implementation of this guidance will have a material impact on AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements. In April 2011, the FASB amended its guidance on accounting for repurchase agreements (“repos”), reverse repurchase agreements (“reverse repos”) and other agreements that both entitle and obligate the transferor to repurchase or redeem financial assets before their maturity. The guidance amends the criteria that indicate the transferor has maintained control over the financial assets, and thus must account for the transaction as a secured borrowing, by eliminating the criterion pertaining to the maintenance of collateral sufficient to reasonably assure completion of the transaction even in the event of default by the transferee. This guidance is effective on a prospective basis for repos and modifications of existing repos that occur in interim or annual periods beginning on or after December 15, 2011, with early adoption prohibited. Management does not expect that implementation of this guidance will change AXA Financial Group's accounting for these repo transactions and, therefore, is not expected to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

ACCOUNTING CHANGES AND NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

New Accounting Pronouncements And Changes In Accounting Principles [Abstract]

Accounting Changes And New Accounting Pronouncements [Text Block]

ACCOUNTING CHANGES AND NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

Accounting Changes

In April 2011, the FASB issued new guidance for a creditor's determination of whether a restructuring is a troubled debt restructuring (“TDR”). The new guidance provided additional guidance to creditors for evaluating whether a modification or restructuring of a receivable is a TDR. The new guidance required creditors to evaluate modifications and restructurings of receivables using a more principles-based approach, which may result in more modifications and restructurings being considered TDR. The financial reporting implications of being classified as a TDR are that the creditor is required to:

Consider the receivable impaired when calculating the allowance for credit losses; and
Provide additional disclosures about its troubled debt restructuring activities in accordance with the requirements of recently issued guidance on disclosures about the credit quality of financing receivables and the allowance for credit losses.

The new guidance was effective for the first interim or annual period beginning on or after June 15, 2011. Implementation of this guidance did not have a material impact on AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements.

In January 2010, the FASB issued new guidance for improving disclosures about fair value measurements. This guidance requires a reporting entity to disclose separately the amounts of significant transfers in and out of Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurements and to describe the reasons for the transfers. In addition, for Level 3 fair value measurements, a reporting entity should present separately information about purchases, sales, issuances and settlements. This guidance was effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending on or after December 15, 2009 except for disclosures for Level 3 fair value measurements which was effective for the first quarter of 2011. These new disclosures have been included in the Notes to AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements, as appropriate.

In 2010, the FASB issued new guidance on stock compensation. This guidance provides clarification that an employee share-based payment award with an exercise price denominated in the currency of a market in which a substantial portion of the entity's equity securities trades and that may be different from the functional currency of the issuer, the functional currency of the subsidiary-employer, or the payroll currency of the employee-recipient, should be considered an equity award assuming all other criteria for equity classification are met. This guidance was effective for the first quarter of 2011. Implementation of this guidance did not have a material impact on AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements as it is consistent with the policies and practices currently applied by AXA Financial Group in accounting for share-based-payment awards.

New Accounting Pronouncements

In September 2011, the FASB issued new guidance on testing goodwill for impairment. The guidance is intended to reduce the cost and complexity of the annual goodwill impairment test by providing entities with the option of performing a "qualitative" assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. The guidance is effective for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011, with early adoption permitted for certain companies. Management does not expect that implementation of this guidance will have a material impact on AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements.

In June 2011, the FASB issued new guidance to amend the existing alternatives for presenting other comprehensive income and its components in financial statements. The amendments eliminate the current option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in equity. An entity can elect to present items of net income and other comprehensive income in one continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive statements. This guidance will not change the items that constitute net income and other comprehensive income, when an item of other comprehensive income must be reclassified to net income. This guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011. Management does not expect that implementation of this guidance will have a material impact on AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements.

In May 2011, the FASB amended its guidance on fair value measurements and disclosure requirements to enhance comparability between U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). The changes to the existing guidance include how and when the valuation premise of highest and best use applies, the application of premiums and discounts, as well as new required disclosures. This guidance is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2011, with early adoption prohibited. Management does not expect that implementation of this guidance will have a material impact on AXA Financial Group's consolidated financial statements.

In April 2011, the FASB amended its guidance on accounting for repurchase agreements (“repos”), reverse repurchase agreements (“reverse repos”) and other agreements that both entitle and obligate the transferor to repurchase or redeem financial assets before their maturity. The guidance amends the criteria that indicate the transferor has maintained control over the financial assets, and thus must account for the transaction as a secured borrowing, by eliminating the criterion pertaining to the maintenance of collateral sufficient to reasonably assure completion of the transaction even in the event of default by the transferee. This guidance is effective on a prospective basis for repos and modifications of existing repos that occur in interim or annual periods beginning on or after December 15, 2011, with early adoption prohibited. Management does not expect that implementation of this guidance will change AXA Financial Group's accounting for these repo transactions and, therefore, is not expected to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.