2022-06-30P2Yfalse2020FY0001276520--12-31See note 5 for additional information on the impact of derivative instruments included in net investment gains (losses).See note 6 for additional information.Included $1 million of accruals on derivatives classified as other assets as of December 31, 2019 and does not include amounts related to embedded derivatives as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.Amounts represent derivative assets and/or liabilities that are presented gross within the balance sheet but are held with the same counterparty where we have a master netting arrangement. This adjustment results in presenting the net asset and net liability position for each counterparty.Accident and health insurance is comprised almost entirely of our long-term care insurance products.The 1983 Individual Annuitant Mortality Table or the 2000 U.S. Annuity Table, or the 1983 Group Annuitant Mortality Table or the 1994 Group Annuitant Mortality Table and company experience.Assumptions for limited-payment contracts come from either the U.S. Population Table, the 1983 Group Annuitant Mortality Table, the 1983 Individual Annuitant Mortality Table, the Annuity 2000 Mortality Table or the 2012 Individual Annuity Reserving Table.Principally modifications based on company experience of the Society of Actuaries 1965-70 or 1975-80 Select and the Ultimate Tables, the 1941, 1958, 1980 and 2001 Commissioner’s Standard Ordinary Tables, the 1980 Commissioner’s Extended Term table and (IA) Standard Table 1996 (modified).Includes amounts accounted for under the deposit method.Represents write-down of securities we intend to sell or will be required to sell prior to recovery of the amortized cost basis.Excludes foreign exchange.See note 9 for additional information.Represents the year in which first monthly mortgage payments have been missed by the borrower.Represents reported and outstanding delinquencies less actual cures as of December 31 for each respective accident year.Amounts translated into U.S. dollars at the average foreign exchange rates for the year ended December 31, 2020.Represents outstanding delinquencies plus paid claims as of December 31, 2020 for each respective accident year.Shares for both options outstanding and exercisable have no aggregate intrinsic value.Average contractual life remaining in years.Limited partnerships that are measured at fair value using the NAV per share (or its equivalent) practical expedient have not been categorized in the fair value hierarchy. Represents embedded derivatives associated with the reinsured portion of our GMWB liabilities. Represents embedded derivatives associated with our GMWB liabilities, excluding the impact of reinsurance. Represents embedded derivatives associated with our GMWB liabilities, excluding the impact of reinsurance. The unobservable inputs associated with GMWB embedded derivatives are not interrelated and therefore, a directional change in one input will not affect the other inputs. For the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, net investment (gains) losses were adjusted for DAC and other intangible amortization and certain benefit reserves of $(11) million, $(11) million and $(12) million, respectively, and adjusted for net investment gains (losses) attributable to noncontrolling interests of $31 million, $11 million and $(7) million, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2020, goodwill impairment was adjusted for the portion attributable to noncontrolling interests of $2 million. In the fourth quarter of 2019, we recorded an after-tax loss of approximately $110 million principally in connection with pending litigation involving our former lifestyle protection insurance business. See note 20 for additional information related to asserted claims regarding the sale of our lifestyle protection insurance business. We completed the sale of Genworth MI Canada Inc. (“Genworth Canada”) on December 12, 2019 and recorded an incremental gain of $43 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 predominantly related to a favorable tax position refinement. In addition, during the fourth quarter of 2019 through the sale closing date of December 12, 2019, we recorded $36 million of income from discontinued operations attributed to Genworth Canada. In the fourth quarter of 2019, our life insurance business recorded a $107 million unfavorable unlocking, net of taxes, related to its annual review of assumptions in our universal and term universal life insurance products, as described above. This unfavorable unlocking in our life insurance business was partially offset by a favorable update of $11 million, net of taxes, in our U.S. mortgage insurance business in connection with a review of its single premium earnings pattern and from a favorable reserve adjustment of $10 million, net of taxes. Our life insurance business completed its annual review of assumptions in the fourth quarter of 2019, which resulted in higher total benefits and expenses of $145 million from an unfavorable unlocking in our universal and term universal life insurance products driven mostly by the lower interest rate environment. Under applicable accounting guidance, companies in a loss position are required to use basic weighted-average common shares outstanding in the calculation of diluted loss per share. Therefore, as a result of our loss from continuing operations available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders for the three months ended March 31, 2020, we were required to use basic weighted-average common shares outstanding in the calculation of diluted loss per share for the three months ended March 31, 2020, as the inclusion of shares for stock options, RSUs and SARs of 5.4 million would have been antidilutive to the calculation. If we had not incurred a loss from continuing operations available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders for the three months ended March 31, 2020, dilutive potential weighted-average common shares outstanding would have been 509.7 million. In the fourth quarter of 2020, we recorded a loss from discontinued operations, net of taxes, of $30 million principally attributed to foreign currency remeasurement losses of $26 million, unfavorable tax charges of $17 million and other expenses of $8 million, mostly consisting of interest expense attributable to the promissory note owed to AXA. These losses were partially offset by derivative hedge gains of $21 million associated with foreign currency forward contracts entered into to mitigate our exposure to the installment payments to be made in British Pounds in 2022. See note 23 for additional details on discontinued operations. Given our assumption that COVID-19 has temporarily decreased the number of new claims submitted, our long-term care insurance business strengthened IBNR reserves in the fourth quarter of 2020 by $47 million. Additionally, our long-term care insurance business recorded a $91 million increase to claim reserves reflecting our assumption that COVID-19 accelerated mortality experience on the most vulnerable claimants, leaving the remaining claim population less likely to terminate compared to the pre-pandemic average population. Our U.S. mortgage insurance business recorded an unfavorable reserve adjustment of $37 million primarily due to slowing cure emergence patterns impacting the frequency of claim. Our Australia mortgage insurance business strengthened its loss reserves by $88 million, including its IBNR reserves, due to a refinement in methodology to better align with historical delinquency behavior, as well as to reflect delayed impacts from higher expected delinquencies and the pressured economic conditions caused by COVID-19. Our life insurance business completed its annual review of assumptions in the fourth quarter of 2020. This review resulted in lower total benefits and expenses of $82 million from a net favorable unlocking in our term universal and universal life insurance products largely attributable to a model refinement in our term universal life insurance product related to persistency and grace period timing and lower projected cost of insurance assessments on our universal life insurance products. In addition, we recorded a DAC impairment of $63 million in our universal life insurance products due principally to lower future estimated gross profits. In the fourth quarter of 2020, our long-term care insurance business strengthened its reserves by $109 million after-tax. Our U.S. mortgage insurance and Australia mortgage insurance businesses strengthened their loss reserves by $29 million and $62 million, respectively, after-tax. Our life insurance business recorded a $60 million net favorable unlocking, net of taxes, related to its annual review of assumptions. This favorable unlocking in our life insurance business was partially offset by a DAC impairment of $50 million, net of taxes, as a result of recoverability testing. For all of the aforementioned transactions, see above under superscript (2) for additional details. In the fourth quarter of 2020, we recorded lower net investment gains as compared to the third quarter of 2020. The higher net investment gains recorded in the third quarter of 2020 related to the sale of available-for-sale fixed maturity securities of $330 million driven primarily from the sale of U.S. government securities due to portfolio rebalancing and asset exposure management as a result of the prolonged low interest rate environment. This decrease to total revenues was partially offset by higher net investment income recorded in the fourth quarter of 2020 largely driven by bond calls and mortgage loan repayments of $40 million and limited partnerships of $38 million. Interest on debt assumed by Brookfield and interest on debt that was repaid as a result of the sale of Genworth Canada was allocated and reported in discontinued operations. The Term Loan, owed by Genworth Holdings and secured by GFIH’s ownership interest in Genworth Canada’s outstanding common shares, was repaid in connection with the close of the Genworth Canada sale. Accordingly, interest expense related to the Term Loan of $34 million and $25 million for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, was allocated and reported in discontinued operations.See note 5 for additional information.Net of adjustments to DAC, PVFP, sales inducements and benefit reserves. See note 4 for additional information.Amounts exclude adjustments to DAC, PVFP, sales inducements and benefit reserves.Consists primarily of cumulative losses on foreign currency translation adjustments of $369 million and deferred tax losses of $71 million, partially offset by unrealized investment gains of $115 million.In accordance with accounting guidance on the deconsolidation of a subsidiary or group of assets, the carrying amount of any noncontrolling interests in the subsidiary sold (adjusted to reflect amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) recognized upon final disposition) is added to the total fair value of the consideration to be received.Represents the aggregate of the net cash proceeds received upon sale closing plus the adjusted carrying amount of noncontrolling interests in the subsidiary sold.The years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 include pre-tax income from discontinued operations available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders of $186 million and $167 million, respectively.The amount shown in the consolidated balance sheet for other invested assets differs from amortized cost or cost presented, as other invested assets include certain assets with a carrying amount that differs from amortized cost or cost.Unobservable inputs weighted by the relative fair value of the associated instrument for fixed maturity securities and by notional for derivative assets. 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