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Derivative Financial Instruments
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Derivative Financial Instruments
4. Derivative Financial Instruments

See Note 2 for a description of the Company’s accounting policies for derivatives and Note 5 for information about the fair value hierarchy for derivatives.

The following table provides a summary of the notional and fair value positions of derivative financial instruments as of December 31, 2016 and 2015:

 

($ in thousands)

  December 31, 2016     December 31, 2015  
    Notional     Gross Fair Value     Notional     Gross Fair Value  
    Assets     Liabilities     Assets     Liabilities     Assets     Liabilities     Assets     Liabilities  

Assets

               

Equity Options

  $ 410,500     $ 419,225     $ 34,248     $ (15,158   $ 879,853     $ 839,994     $ 28,588     $ (10,961

Futures

    16,913       —         —         (141     15,373       —         108       —    

Liabilities

               

Policyholders account balances

               

Derivatives embedded in life and annuity contracts

               

Equity-indexed annuity contracts(2)

  $ —       $ 1,281,993     $ —       $ (55,871   $ —       $ 1,494,084     $ —       $ (64,138

Equity-indexed life contracts

    —         460,261       —         (23,803     —         401,511       —         (11,701

Guaranteed accumulation benefits(1)

    —         77,212       —         (6,724     —         95,752       —         (7,499

Guaranteed withdrawal benefits(1)

    —         11,064       —         (111     —         13,264       —         (315

 

(1)  As of April 1, 2014, these amounts were ceded in accordance with the Company’s reinsurance agreements
(2)  Notional amount represents account value of equity indexed contracts

The standardized ISDA Master Agreement under which the Company’s derivative transactions are executed include provisions for payment netting. In the normal course of business activities, if there is more than one derivative transaction with a single counterparty, the Company will set-off the cash flows of those derivatives into a single amount to be exchanged in settlement of the resulting net payable or receivable with that counterparty. The Company nets the fair value of all derivative financial instruments with counterparties for which an ISDA Master Agreement and related Credit Support Annex (“CSA”) have been executed. At December 31, 2016 and 2015, the Company held $0.9 million and $0.8 million in cash and securities collateral pledged to trade counterparties respectively. This cash collateral is reported in Cash on the Consolidated Balance Sheet.

 

The following table presents the amount and location of gains (losses) recognized in income, net of reinsurance, for derivatives that were not designated or qualifying as hedging instruments for the Successor Period for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, and for the period from April 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014:

 

    For the Year Ended
December 31, 2016
    For the Year Ended
December 31, 2015
    For the Period from April 1, 2014
through December 31, 2014
 

($ in thousands)

  Realized
Investment Gains
(Losses)
    Policyholder
Benefits
    Realized
Investment Gains
(Losses)
    Policyholder
Benefits
    Realized
Investment Gains
(Losses)
    Policyholder
Benefits
 

Assets

           

Equity options

  $ 2,472     $ —       $ (7,557   $ —       $ 15,230     $ —    

Futures

    884       —         (1,651     —         2,187       —    

Interest rate swaps

    500       —         —         —         —         —    

Liabilities

           

Policyholders’ account balances

           

Equity-indexed annuity contracts

  $ —       $ 8,267     $ —       $ (478   $ —       $ (5,622

Equity-indexed life contracts

    —         (121     —         956       —         90  

The following table presents the amount and location of gains (losses) recognized in income for derivatives that were not designated or qualifying as hedging instruments for the Predecessor Period from January 1, 2014 through March 31, 2014:

 

     For the Period from January 1,
2014 through March 31, 2014
 

($ in thousands)

   Interest Credited(1)      Policyholder
Benefits(1)
 

Liabilities

     

Policyholders’ account balances

     

Derivatives embedded in life and annuity contracts

   $ 16,427      $ 946  

 

(1)  Prior to April 1, 2014, these amounts were ceded in accordance with the Company’s reinsurance agreements.