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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements
This Annual Report on Form 10-K, including Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, contains certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as “expects,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “will,” “may” or words of similar meaning and include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the outlook for our future business and financial performance. Examples of forward-looking statements include statements we make relating to potential dividends or share repurchases; future return of capital by Enact Holdings, Inc. (“Enact Holdings”), including share repurchases, and quarterly and special dividends; the cumulative economic benefit of approved and future rate actions included in our long-term care insurance multi-year in-force rate action plan; planned investments in and our outlook for new lines of business or new insurance and other products and services, such as those we are pursuing with our CareScout business (“CareScout”), including through our CareScout services business (“CareScout Services”) and our CareScout insurance business (“CareScout Insurance”); the timing of any future insurance offering through CareScout Insurance; future financial performance, including the expectation that quarterly adverse variances between actual and expected experience could persist resulting in future remeasurement losses in our long-term care insurance business; future financial condition and liquidity of our businesses; and statements we make regarding the outlook of the U.S. economy. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions, which are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements due to global political, economic, inflation, business, competitive, market, regulatory and other factors and risks, including but not limited to, the items identified under “Part I—Item 1A—Risk Factors.” We therefore caution the reader against relying on any forward-looking statements.
We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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PART I
In this Annual Report on Form 10-K, unless the context otherwise requires, “Genworth,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Genworth Financial, Inc. on a consolidated basis. References to “Genworth Financial” refer solely to Genworth Financial, Inc., and not to any of its consolidated subsidiaries.
Item 1. | Business |
Overview
Genworth Financial, through its principal insurance subsidiaries, offers mortgage and long-term care insurance products. Genworth Financial is the parent company of Enact Holdings, a leading provider of private mortgage insurance in the United States through its mortgage insurance subsidiaries. Genworth Financial’s legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries offer long-term care insurance and also manage in-force blocks of life insurance and annuity products that are no longer sold. Genworth Financial also has a start-up business whereby it offers fee-based services, advice, consulting and other aging care products and services through CareScout.
We report our business results through three segments: Enact, Long-Term Care Insurance, and Life and Annuities. In addition to our three segments, we report certain of our results of operations in Corporate and Other.
Enact Holdings is a public company traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market exchange under the ticker symbol “ACT.” Genworth Financial maintains control of Enact Holdings through an indirect majority voting interest and accordingly, Enact Holdings remains a consolidated subsidiary of Genworth Financial. Enact Holdings and its mortgage insurance subsidiaries comprise, and can therefore generally be viewed as, our Enact segment, or commonly referred to as “Enact.”
Strategic Priorities
During 2024, we refined our strategic priorities to reflect our significant progress to date.
Creating shareholder value
We continue to create shareholder value through Enact’s growing market value and capital returns. Enact Holdings provided $289 million of capital returns to Genworth Holdings, Inc. (“Genworth Holdings”), our wholly owned subsidiary, in 2024. We believe capital returns from Enact will continue to benefit our shareholders by funding our strategic initiatives, including new CareScout products and services, as well as share repurchases and opportunistic debt reduction. Since the initial authorization of Genworth Financial’s share repurchase program in May 2022 and through February 20, 2025, we have repurchased $565 million worth of shares of Genworth Financial’s common stock. For additional information on our share repurchase program, see “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources.”
Legacy businesses
We continue to make progress on our strategic priority to maintain self-sustaining, customer-centric legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, including our long-term care insurance, life insurance and annuity businesses. Our long-term care insurance multi-year in-force rate action plan continues to be our most effective tool in supporting this strategic priority. We achieved an estimated cumulative economic benefit of approximately $31.2 billion, on a net present value basis, of approved rate actions since 2012 through 2024. As we manage our legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries on a standalone basis, these entities will continue to rely on their statutory capital, significant reserves, prudent management of the in-force blocks and long-term care insurance in-force rate actions to satisfy policyholder obligations. For additional information regarding our in-force rate actions, see
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“—Results of Operations and Selected Financial and Operating Performance Measures by Segment” and “—Long-Term Care Insurance segment” within “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”
CareScout growth initiatives
We plan to drive future growth through CareScout with innovative, consumer-focused aging care services and funding solutions.
Through 2024, we expanded CareScout Services’ network of long-term care providers (“CareScout Quality Network”) to all 50 states and approximately 500 high-quality, person-centered home care providers who underwent a rigorous credentialing process. Substantially all of these providers have agreed to hourly rates below the median cost of care in their respective zip codes (as determined by Genworth’s Cost of Care Survey conducted in 2023). Our initial focus has been with our long-term care insurance policyholders; however, in 2025, we plan to extend the CareScout Quality Network and our assessments services to other insurers with closed blocks of long-term care insurance. We also plan to add assisted living communities in large metropolitan areas while continuing to grow our home care provider network and invest in scaling our technology-enabled platform along with marketing and brand awareness. We plan to invest approximately $45 million to $50 million in CareScout Services in 2025 as we continue to build out the offering. We anticipate CareScout Services will generate revenues from fees for matching consumers with long-term care providers in the CareScout Quality Network. The fees will be based on the net savings to the individual on claim, aligning the interests of long-term care providers, CareScout Services and claimants. In addition to the benefits to consumers, the discounts available through the network are expected to potentially further mitigate risk in our legacy long-term care insurance block by reducing claims costs.
We also continue to work towards rolling out innovative solutions to meet the growing demand for aging care funding through CareScout Insurance. During 2024, we completed initial product filings for our upcoming individual long-term care insurance product, CareScout Care Assurance, with the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission (“Compact”) and in nine additional jurisdictions, and we plan to launch the product in 2025. This product has been developed with capped coverage limits and conservative assumptions designed to reduce the need for future premium increases. CareScout Care Assurance will also include access to the CareScout Quality Network, which provides significant discounts on care costs to help policyholders optimize their claim dollars. We plan to contribute $75 million of capital to our CareScout Insurance subsidiary in 2025 to meet the regulatory capital requirements of a new start-up insurer. We also plan to use reinsurance to help effectively manage risk and capital for this initial product.
While it will take time to scale the business, we believe our investments in CareScout Services and CareScout Insurance will drive sustainable future growth for Genworth and are aligned with our overarching priority to maximize long-term value for our shareholders. We will continue to strive to maintain a disciplined approach in our capital allocation strategy, balancing investments in CareScout growth initiatives with returning value to shareholders and opportunistically retiring debt.
Enact Segment
Through Enact Holdings and its mortgage insurance subsidiaries, we have been providing private mortgage insurance products and services in the United States since 1981 and operate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Enact is engaged in the business of writing and assuming residential mortgage guaranty insurance. The insurance covers a portion of the unpaid principal balance of mortgage loans where the loan amount exceeds 80% of the value of the home (“low down payment mortgages” or “high loan-to-value mortgages”) and protects lenders and investors against certain losses resulting from nonpayment of loans secured by mortgages, deeds of trust or other instruments constituting a first lien on residential real estate. Private mortgage insurance facilitates the sale of mortgages to the secondary market, including to private investors as well as the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”). Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-sponsored enterprises and are collectively referred to as the
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“GSEs.” Credit protection and liquidity through secondary market sales allow mortgage lenders to increase their lending capacity, manage risk and expand financing access to prospective homeowners, many of whom are first time home buyers. At present, mortgage insurance products are primarily geared towards secondary market sales to the GSEs. Enact’s mortgage insurance products predominantly insure prime-based, individually underwritten residential mortgage loans.
The overall U.S. residential mortgage market encompasses both primary and secondary markets. The primary market consists of lenders originating home loans to borrowers to support home purchases, which are referred to as purchase originations, and loans made to refinance existing mortgages, which are referred to as refinancing originations. The secondary market includes institutions buying and selling mortgages in the form of whole loans or securitized assets, such as mortgage-backed securities. The GSEs are the largest participants in the secondary mortgage market, buying residential mortgages from banks and other primary lenders as part of their governmental mandate to provide access, liquidity and stability in the U.S. housing finance system.
The GSE charters generally require credit enhancement for low down payment mortgages to be eligible for purchase by the GSEs. Such credit enhancement can be satisfied if a loan is insured by a GSE-qualified insurer, the mortgage seller retains at least a 10% participation in the loan, or the seller agrees to repurchase or replace the loan in the event of a default. Private mortgage insurance satisfies the GSEs’ credit enhancement requirement and historically has been the preferred method lenders have utilized to meet this GSE charter requirement. As a result, the nature of the private mortgage insurance industry in the United States is driven in large part by the business practices and mortgage insurance requirements of the GSEs. In furtherance of their respective charter requirements, each GSE maintains eligibility criteria to establish when a mortgage insurer is qualified to issue coverage that will be acceptable to the GSEs for their portfolio. For more information about the financial and other requirements of the GSEs for Enact Holdings and its mortgage insurance subsidiaries, see “—Regulation—Enact—Mortgage Insurance Regulation—Other U.S. Regulation and Agency Qualification Requirements.”
Enact also offers mortgage-related insurance and reinsurance through its wholly owned Bermuda-based subsidiary, Enact Re Ltd. (“Enact Re”). As of December 31, 2024, Enact Re reinsures new and existing insurance in-force of Enact Mortgage Insurance Corporation (“EMICO”), Enact Holdings’ principal U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiary, under quota share reinsurance agreements. Enact Re also invests in new business opportunities for Enact, including assumption of excess of loss reinsurance relating to GSE risk share.
Selected financial information and operating performance measures regarding our Enact segment are included under “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Enact segment.”
Products and services
Enact offers the following mortgage insurance products:
Primary mortgage insurance
Substantially all of Enact’s policies are primary mortgage insurance, which provides protection on individual loans at specified coverage percentages. Primary mortgage insurance is placed on individual loans at the time of origination and is typically delivered to Enact on a loan-by-loan basis. Primary mortgage insurance can also be delivered to Enact on an aggregated basis, whereby each mortgage in a given loan portfolio is insured in a single transaction after the point of origination.
Customers who purchase primary mortgage insurance select a specific coverage level for each insured loan. A customer may choose the coverage percentage established by a GSE in order to be eligible for purchase by that particular GSE or for loans not sold to the GSEs, the customer determines its desired coverage percentage. Generally, Enact’s risk across all policies written is approximately 25% of the underlying primary insurance in-force, but may vary from policy to policy, typically between 6% and 35% coverage. The loan amount and coverage percentage determine Enact’s risk in-force on each insured loan.
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Enact files premium rates, as required, with the insurance departments of U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Premium rates cannot be changed after the issuance of coverage. Premium payments for primary mortgage insurance coverage are typically made by the borrower and are referred to as borrower-paid mortgage insurance. Loans for which premiums are paid by the lender are referred to as lender-paid mortgage insurance. In either case, the payment of premium to Enact is generally the responsibility of the insured. Premiums are generally calculated as a percentage of the original principal balance and may be paid on a monthly or annual basis, as a single premium paid at the time of mortgage origination or split, where an initial lump sum premium is paid at the time of mortgage origination in addition to subsequent monthly payments.
Pool mortgage insurance
Pool mortgage insurance transactions provide coverage on a finite set of individual loans identified by the pool policy. Pool policies contain coverage percentages and provisions limiting the insurer’s obligation to pay claims until a threshold amount is reached (known as a “deductible”) or capping the insurer’s potential aggregate liability for claims payments (known as a “stop loss”) or a combination of both provisions. Pool mortgage insurance is typically used to provide additional credit enhancement for certain secondary market mortgage transactions. Pool insurance generally covers the excess of the loss on a defaulted mortgage loan that exceeds the claim payment under the primary coverage, if such loan has primary coverage, as well as the total loss on a defaulted mortgage loan that did not have primary coverage. In another variation, generally referred to as modified pool insurance, policies are structured to include both an exposure limit for each individual loan, as well as an aggregate loss limit or a deductible for the entire pool. Currently, Enact has an insignificant amount of pool insurance in-force.
Contract underwriting services
Enact also performs fee-based contract underwriting services for its customers. Contract underwriting services provide customers outsourced scalable capacity to underwrite mortgage loans. Enact’s underwriters can underwrite the loan on behalf of its customers for both investor compliance and mortgage insurance, thus reducing duplicative activities and increasing Enact’s ability to write mortgage insurance for these loans. Under contract underwriting agreement terms, Enact agrees to indemnify its customers against losses incurred in the event it makes material errors in determining whether loans underwritten by its contract underwriters meet specified underwriting or purchase criteria, subject to contractual limitations. As a result, Enact assumes credit and processing risk in connection with its contract underwriting services.
Underwriting and pricing
Enact establishes and maintains underwriting guidelines based on its risk appetite. Enact’s guidelines require borrowers to have a verified capacity and willingness to support their obligation and a well-supported valuation of the collateral. Enact’s underwriting guidelines incorporate credit eligibility requirements that, among other things, limit its coverage to mortgages that meet its thresholds with respect to borrower Fair Isaac Company (“FICO”) scores, maximum loan-to-value ratios, documentation requirements and maximum debt-to-income ratios. All loans must pass through its eligibility rules to ensure proper discharge of loans not meeting its guidelines and to maintain thorough underwriting standards.
Enact’s underwriting guidelines are largely consistent with those of the GSEs. Many of its customers use the GSEs’ automated loan underwriting systems for making credit determinations. Enact generally accepts the underwriting decisions and documentation requirements made by the GSEs’ underwriting systems, subject to its review as well as certain limitations and requirements.
FICO developed the FICO credit scoring model to calculate a score based upon a borrower’s credit history. Enact uses the FICO credit score as one indicator of a borrower’s credit quality. Typically, a borrower with a higher credit score has a lower likelihood of defaulting on a loan. FICO credit scores range up to 850, with a
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score of 620 or more generally viewed as a “prime” loan and a score below 620 generally viewed as a “sub-prime” loan. Generally, “A minus” loans are loans where the borrowers have FICO credit scores between 575 and 660 and have a blemished credit history. The weighted average FICO score of Enact’s primary insurance in-force was 745 as of December 31, 2024.
Loan applications for primary mortgage insurance are either directly reviewed by Enact (or its contract underwriters), or as noted below, by lenders under delegated authority. In either case, automated underwriting systems may be utilized. For non-delegated underwriting, customers submit loan files to Enact and Enact individually underwrites each application to determine whether it will insure the loan. Enact uses its mortgage insurance underwriting system to perform non-delegated underwriting evaluations, and its underwriting staff is dispersed throughout the United States. In addition to its employees, Enact uses contract underwriters to assist with underwriting capacity and drive efficiency.
Enact delegates to eligible lender customers the ability to underwrite mortgage insurance based on its delegated underwriting guidelines. To perform delegated underwriting, customers must be approved by Enact’s risk management team. Enact regularly performs quality assurance reviews on a statistically significant sample of delegated loans to assess compliance with its guidelines. Enact also offers a post-closing underwriting review when requested by customers for both non-delegated and delegated loans. Upon satisfactory completion of this review, Enact agrees to waive its right to rescind coverage under certain circumstances.
Pricing is highly competitive in the mortgage insurance industry, with industry participants competing for market share, customer relationships and overall value. To appropriately align price and risk, dynamic pricing engines utilize granular pricing models based on a number of loan, borrower, lender and property risk attributes. Enact’s risk-based pricing engine was developed to evaluate returns and volatility under both the private mortgage insurer eligibility requirements (“PMIERs”) capital framework and its internal economic capital framework, which is sensitive to economic cycles and current housing market conditions. The model assesses the performance of new business under expected and stress scenarios on an individualized loan basis, which is used to determine pricing and inform Enact’s risk selection strategy that seeks to optimize economic value by balancing return and volatility.
Enact seeks to charge premium rates commensurate with the underlying risk of each loan insured. Enact’s proprietary pricing platform provides a flexible, granular and analytical approach to selecting and pricing risk and its use allows Enact to adjust its risk tolerance by quickly changing prices in response to evolving economic conditions, new analytical insights or industry pricing trends.
Loss mitigation
Enact’s loss mitigation and claims department is led by seasoned personnel who are supported by default tracking and claims processing capabilities within their integrated platform. Enact’s loss mitigation staff is also actively engaged with the GSEs and servicers regarding appropriate servicing and loss mitigation practices. Enact has granted loss mitigation delegation to the GSEs and servicers, whereby they perform certain loss mitigation efforts on Enact’s behalf. Moreover, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB”) mortgage servicing rule obligates servicers to engage in early intervention and loss mitigation efforts with a borrower prior to foreclosure. These efforts have traditionally involved loan modifications intended to enable qualified borrowers to make restructured loan payments or sell the property, thereby potentially reducing claim amounts. Borrower forbearance plans offered by the GSEs allow deferred or reduced payments for borrowers experiencing financial hardship under certain circumstances. At the conclusion of the forbearance term, a borrower may either bring the loan current, defer any missed payments until the end of the loan, pay missed payments through a repayment plan or have one or more terms of the original note modified via a loan modification. Enact’s goal is to keep borrowers in their homes. If a loan becomes delinquent, Enact works closely with the customer, investor and servicer to attempt to cure the delinquency and allow the homeowner to retain ownership of the property.
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Claims result from delinquencies that are not cured, or from losses on short sales, other third-party sales or deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure that Enact approves. Under the terms of Enact’s primary insurance master policy, customers are required to file claims within 60 days of the earliest of: (i) the date the customer acquired title to the underlying property (typically through foreclosure); (ii) the date of an approved short sale (or other third-party sale of the underlying property); or (iii) the date a request is made by Enact to file a claim. Upon review and determination that a filed claim is valid, Enact may pay the coverage percentage specified in the certificate of insurance and related expenses, pay the amount of the claim required to make the customer whole, commonly referred to as the “actual loss amount,” following the approved sale or pay the full claim amount and acquire title to the property.
Claim activity is not evenly spread across the coverage period of loans Enact insures. The number of delinquencies may not correlate directly with the number of claims received because the rate at which delinquencies are cured is influenced by borrowers’ financial resources and circumstances, as well as regional economic differences. For those loans that fail to cure, whether delinquency leads to a claim principally depends upon the borrower’s equity at the time of delinquency and the borrower’s or the insured’s ability to sell the home for an amount sufficient to satisfy all amounts due under the mortgage loan.
When claim notices are received, Enact reviews the loan and servicing files to determine the appropriateness of a claim amount. Failure to deliver the required documentation or Enact’s review of such documentation may result in a rescission, cancellation or claim denial. Enact’s insurance policies allow for the reduction or denial of a claim if the servicer does not materially comply with its obligations under Enact’s policies, including the requirement to pursue reasonable loss mitigation actions. Enact also periodically receives claim notices that request coverage for costs and expenses associated with items not covered under its policies, such as losses resulting from property damage to a covered home. Enact actively reviews claim notices to ensure it pays only for covered expenses. A reduction in the claim amount paid relative to the amount requested in the claim notice is deemed to be a curtailment.
When reviewing loan and servicing files in connection with the delinquency or claims process, Enact may also decide to rescind coverage of the underlying mortgages or deny payment of claims. Enact’s ability to rescind coverage is limited by the terms of its master policies. Enact may rescind coverage in situations where, among other things, (i) fraudulent misrepresentations were made or materially inaccurate information was provided regarding a borrower’s income, debts, intention to occupy a property or property value or (ii) a loan was originated in material violation of Enact’s underwriting guidelines.
Consideration is given to an insured’s appeal of rescinded coverage. If Enact agrees with the appeal, it takes the necessary steps to reinstate insurance coverage and reactivate the loan certificate or otherwise address the issues raised in the appeal. If the parties are unable to agree on the outcome of the appeal, the insured may choose to pursue arbitration or litigation under the terms of the applicable master policy and challenge the results. Subject to applicable limitations in Enact’s policies and by state law, legal challenges to Enact’s actions may be brought several years after the disposal of a claim.
From time to time, Enact enters into agreements with policyholders to accelerate claims and negotiate an agreed-upon payment amount for claims on an identified group of delinquent loans. In exchange for the accelerated claim payment, mortgage insurance is canceled and Enact is discharged from any further liability on the identified loans.
Distribution and customers
Enact distributes its mortgage insurance products through a dedicated sales force located throughout the United States, including inside sales representatives. Enact’s sales force utilizes a digital marketing program designed to expand its customer reach beyond traditional sales. Enact’s sales force primarily markets to financial institutions and mortgage originators that impose a requirement for mortgage insurance as part of the borrower’s financing.
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Enact’s industry presence has enabled it to build active customer relationships with mortgage lenders across the United States. Enact’s customers are broadly diversified by size, type and geography and include large money center banks, non-bank lenders, national and local mortgage bankers, community banks and credit unions. Enact’s principal mortgage insurance customers are originators of residential mortgage loans who typically determine which mortgage insurer or insurers they will use for the placement of mortgage insurance written on loans they originate.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, Enact’s largest customer accounted for 20% of its new insurance written and 11% of its total revenues, with 34% of its new insurance written attributable to its largest five lender customers. For information on the potential impacts due to customer concentration, see “Item 1A—Risk Factors—Changes in the composition of Enact Holdings’ business or undue concentration by customer or geographic region could cause a significant loss of business or adverse performance of a small segment of its portfolio.”
Competition
Enact’s principal sources of competition are U.S. federal, state and local government agencies and other private mortgage insurers. Enact also competes with mortgage lenders and other investors, the GSEs, portfolio lenders who self-insure, reinsurers, and other capital markets participants who may utilize financial instruments designed to mitigate risk.
U.S. federal, state and local government agencies
Enact and other private mortgage insurers compete for mortgage insurance business directly with U.S. federal agencies, principally the Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”), and to a lesser extent, state and local housing finance agencies. Enact’s competition with government agencies is principally on the basis of price and underwriting guidelines. In contrast to private mortgage insurers, government agencies generally have less restrictive guidelines and apply a flat pricing structure regardless of an individual borrower’s credit profile. As a result, we believe borrowers with lower FICO scores are more likely to secure mortgage loans with coverage by government agencies, and borrowers with higher FICO scores are more likely to secure mortgage loans with coverage by private mortgage insurers.
Private mortgage insurers
The U.S. private mortgage insurance industry is highly competitive. Enact competes on pricing, underwriting guidelines, customer relationships, service levels, policy terms, loss mitigation practices, perceived financial strength (including comparative financial strength ratings), reputation, product features, and effective use and ease of technology. There are currently six active private mortgage insurers in the United States, including Enact.
GSEs, portfolio lenders, reinsurers and other capital markets participants
Enact also competes with various participants in the mortgage finance industry including the GSEs, portfolio lenders, reinsurers and other participants in the capital markets. Enact competes with these participants primarily based on pricing, policy terms and perceived financial strength. The GSEs enter into risk sharing transactions with financial institutions designed to reduce the risk of their mortgage portfolios. Competition also comes from portfolio lenders that are willing to hold credit risk on their balance sheets without credit enhancement. In addition, investors can make use of risk-sharing structures designed to mitigate the impact of mortgage defaults in place of private mortgage insurance. Finally, although their presence is a fraction of what it was in the past, there are products designed to eliminate the need for private mortgage insurance, such as “simultaneous seconds,” which combine a first lien loan with a second lien loan in order to meet the 80% loan-to-value threshold required for sale to the GSEs without certain credit protections.
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Long-Term Care Insurance Segment
Our Long-Term Care Insurance segment includes long-term care insurance products that are intended to protect against the significant and escalating costs of long-term care services provided in the insured’s home or assisted living or nursing facilities. We currently offer individual long-term care insurance policies to customers who contact us directly (subject to state availability); however, we no longer accept applications for new group long-term care insurance policies but will accept new applications and issue new coverage certificates on current open group cases on certain group policy forms. We established ourselves as a leader in long-term care insurance over 40 years ago and remain a leading insurer.
As part of our strategy for our long-term care insurance business, and in connection with our strategic priority to maintain self-sustaining, customer-centric legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, we have been implementing, and expect to continue to pursue, significant premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions on older generation blocks of business in order to reduce the strain on earnings and capital. We are also requesting premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions on newer blocks of business, as needed, some of which will be significant, to help bring these blocks closer to their original pricing. For certain risks related to our long-term care insurance business and in-force rate actions, see “Item 1A—Risk Factors—The inability to obtain in-force rate action increases (including increased premiums and associated benefit reductions) in our long-term care insurance business could have a material adverse impact on our business, including our results of operations and financial condition.”
See “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Long-Term Care Insurance segment” for selected operating performance measures related to our long-term care insurance in-force rate actions.
Life and Annuities Segment
We service a variety of protection and retirement income products through our principal U.S. life insurance subsidiaries. Our Life and Annuities segment includes traditional and non-traditional life insurance (term, universal and term universal life insurance as well as corporate-owned life insurance and funding agreements), fixed annuities and variable annuities. We have not actively sold our life insurance and fixed annuity products since 2016 and our variable annuity products since 2011.
Corporate and Other
Corporate and Other includes debt financing expenses that are incurred at the Genworth Holdings level, unallocated corporate income and expenses and eliminations of inter-segment transactions. Corporate and Other also includes the results of other businesses that are not individually reportable, such as CareScout and certain international businesses. See “—Business—Strategic Priorities” for additional details on our CareScout growth initiatives.
Risk Management
Risk management is a critical part of all of our businesses. We have an enterprise risk management framework that includes risk management processes relating to strategic priorities and risks (including emerging risks), product development and pricing, management of in-force business, including certain mitigating strategies and claims risk management, credit risk management, asset-liability management, liquidity management, investment activities (including derivatives), model risk management, portfolio diversification, underwriting and loss mitigation, information systems, information technology risk management, data security and cybersecurity, business acquisitions and dispositions, operational risk assessment capabilities and overall operational risk management. For additional information regarding cybersecurity risk management, see “Item 1C—Cybersecurity.”
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We have identified the following as the most significant risk types to our business: credit risk, market risk, insurance risk, housing risk, operational risk, model risk and information technology risk. In addition, we have processes in place to identify, understand and manage emerging risks (such as artificial intelligence), with the goal of mitigating adverse impacts to our business and to enhance decision making. Related to these identified risk types and our process for emerging risks, we report both our top and selected emerging risks to senior management and the risk committee of Genworth Financial’s Board of Directors.
Our risk management framework includes seven key components: risk type key attributes; identification of risk exposures to identify top risks; business strategy and planning; governance; risk assessment (both qualitative and quantitative); risk appetite and limits; and stress testing. Our risk management framework also includes an assessment and implementation of company and business risk appetites, the identification and assessment of risks, a proactive decision process to determine which risks are acceptable to be retained (based on risk and reward considerations, among other factors) and the ongoing management, monitoring and reporting of material risks.
Our long-term care insurance business continues to pursue significant premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions on its insurance in-force. In support of this initiative, we have developed processes that include experience studies to analyze emerging experience, reviews of in-force product performance, an assumption review process, and comprehensive monitoring and reporting. In connection with these processes, our risk management team works closely with our long-term care insurance business to ensure proper governance and to better align the development of assumptions with the identified risks.
As part of our evaluation of overall in-force product performance, new product initiatives and service offerings, and risk mitigation alternatives, we monitor regulatory and rating agency capital models as well as internal economic capital models to determine the appropriate level of risk-adjusted capital requirements. We utilize a stress testing framework to assess the risk of loss to our capital resources based upon the portfolio of risks we underwrite and retain and upon our asset and operational risk profiles. Our commitment to risk management involves the ongoing review and expansion of internal risk management capabilities aligned with industry best practices.
Operations and Technology
Service and support
Enact Holdings and its U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries have introduced technology enabled services to help their customers (lenders and servicers) as well as consumers (borrowers and homeowners). Enact Holdings heavily relies upon information technology, and a number of critical aspects are highly automated. Our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries heavily rely upon information technology to support and improve their overall operations. Enact Holdings and our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries both accept insurance applications, issue approvals, process claims and reconcile premium remittance through electronic submissions. For Enact Holdings, in order to facilitate these processes, direct connections have been established with many of its customers’ and servicers’ systems to enable the selection of its mortgage insurance products and to allow for direct communication. Enact Holdings and our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries also provide their customers secure access to their web-based portals to facilitate transactions and provide customers with access to their account information. Enact Holdings and our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries regularly upgrade and enhance their systems and technology in an effort to achieve their goals of expanding their capabilities, improve productivity and enhance the customer experience.
Operating centers
We have established scalable, efficient operating centers for our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries in Virginia and for Enact Holdings in North Carolina. In addition, through an arrangement with an outsourcing provider, we have a team of professionals in India and the Philippines who provide a variety of services primarily to our U.S.
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life insurance subsidiaries and certain corporate functions, including data entry, transaction processing and functional support.
In June 2022, we outsourced operational servicing of our life insurance and fixed annuity blocks to a third-party servicer. In connection with the outsourcing, we are converting certain administrative systems to those used by the third-party servicer over the next few years, with a targeted completion date in 2026. In 2024, we completed the first phase of the conversion, moving our term and whole life insurance products on one legacy system to the third-party servicer. There was no impact to the servicing of our long-term care insurance products because they were not a part of the third-party outsourcing agreement.
Reinsurance
We reinsure a portion of our annuities and our life, long-term care and mortgage insurance with unaffiliated reinsurers. In a reinsurance transaction, a reinsurer agrees to indemnify another insurer for part or all of its liability under a policy or policies it has issued for an agreed upon premium. We participate in reinsurance activities in order to minimize exposure to significant risks, limit losses and provide additional capacity for future growth. We also obtain reinsurance to reduce certain capital requirements, including sometimes utilizing intercompany reinsurance agreements to manage our statutory capital positions. However, these intercompany agreements do not have an effect on our consolidated U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) financial statements as they eliminate in consolidation.
We enter into various agreements with reinsurers that cover individual risks, group risks or defined blocks of business, primarily on a coinsurance, yearly renewable term, excess of loss or quota share basis. Under the terms of the reinsurance agreements, the reinsurer agrees to reimburse us for the ceded amount in the event a claim is paid. Cessions under reinsurance agreements do not discharge our obligations as the primary insurer. In the event that reinsurers do not meet their obligations under the terms of the reinsurance agreements, reinsurance recoverable balances could become uncollectible. Our amounts recoverable from reinsurers represent receivables from and/or reserves ceded to reinsurers. The amounts recoverable from reinsurers, net of allowance for credit losses, were $17.7 billion and $19.0 billion as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
We focus on obtaining reinsurance from a diverse group of highly rated reinsurers. We regularly evaluate the financial condition of our reinsurers and monitor concentration risk with our reinsurers at least annually.
U.S. life insurance subsidiaries
Our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries have established standards and criteria for our use and selection of reinsurers. In order for a new reinsurer to participate in our current program, without collateralization, we require the reinsurer to have a S&P Global Rating (“S&P”) rating of “A-” or better or a Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) rating of “A3” or better and a minimum capital and surplus level of $350 million. If the reinsurer does not have these ratings, our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries generally require it to post collateral as described below. In addition, our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries may require collateral from a reinsurer to mitigate credit/collectability risk. Typically, in such cases, the reinsurer must either maintain minimum specified ratings and risk-based capital (“RBC”) ratios or provide the specified quality and quantity of collateral. Similarly, our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries have also required collateral in connection with books of business sold pursuant to indemnity reinsurance agreements and have been required to post collateral when purchasing books of business.
Reinsurers that are not licensed, accredited or authorized in the state of domicile of the reinsured (“ceding company”) are required to post statutorily prescribed forms of collateral for the ceding company to receive reinsurance credit. The three primary forms of collateral are: (i) qualifying assets held in a reserve credit trust; (ii) irrevocable, unconditional, evergreen letters of credit issued by a qualified U.S. financial institution; and (iii) assets held by the ceding company in a segregated funds withheld account. Collateral must be maintained in accordance with the rules of the ceding company’s state of domicile and must be readily accessible by the ceding
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company to cover claims under the reinsurance agreement. Accordingly, our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries require unauthorized reinsurers that are not so licensed, accredited or authorized to post acceptable forms of collateral to support their reinsurance obligations.
The following table sets forth our exposure, represented by the amount of reinsurance recoverable measured at the locked-in discount rate owed by the principal reinsurers to our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries as of December 31, 2024:
(Amounts in millions) |
Reinsurance recoverable |
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UFLIC (1) |
$ | 12,773 | ||
RGA Reinsurance Company |
2,415 | |||
General Reinsurance Corporation |
676 | |||
Riversource Life Insurance Company |
326 | |||
SCOR Global Life USA Reinsurance Company |
310 |
(1) | We have several significant reinsurance transactions with Union Fidelity Life Insurance Company (“UFLIC”), an affiliate of General Electric Company, which now operates as GE Aerospace (“GE”), which results in a significant concentration of reinsurance risk. UFLIC’s obligations to us are secured by trust accounts. See note 7 in our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional details. |
External new business reinsurance is dependent on a number of factors, including price, availability, risk tolerance and capital levels. For additional information on our reinsurance agreements and the associated risks and impacts on our business, see “Item 1A—Risk Factors—Reinsurance may not be available, affordable or adequate to protect us against losses.”
Enact
Enact Holdings, through EMICO, cedes a portion of its mortgage insurance risk to reduce the risk of loss and to obtain capital credit towards the financial requirements of the GSEs’ PMIERs. Enact Holdings’ credit risk transfer program distributes risk to highly rated counterparties through its traditional reinsurance program, as well as to insurance-linked note investors via fully collateralized special purpose reinsurance vehicles. Its traditional reinsurance program utilizes excess of loss and quota share insurance coverage. Enact Holdings’ excess of loss reinsurance transactions generally cover a subset of loans in a given book year where typically both the attachment and detachment points of the ceded risk tier are within the PMIERs capital requirements at inception, providing both loss volatility protection and PMIERs capital credit. Each reinsurance treaty has a term of ten years or more and provides a unilateral right to commute prior to the full term, subject to certain performance triggers. Enact Holdings selects the type and structure of the credit risk transfer transactions based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, capacity, cost, flexibility, sustainability and diversification. Under Enact Holdings’ quota share reinsurance agreements, the reinsurer receives a premium in exchange for covering an agreed-upon portion of incurred losses.
Enact Holdings’ traditional reinsurance coverage is provided by a panel of reinsurance partners each currently rated “A-” or better by S&P or A.M. Best Company, Inc. (“A.M. Best”), or rated “A3” or better by Moody’s. These reinsurers are contractually required to collateralize a portion (typically 20% to 30%) of the reinsurance exposures consistent with PMIERs.
For additional information related to reinsurance, including reinsurance provided by Enact Re, see “—Business—Enact Segment” and note 7 in our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”
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Ratings
Financial Strength Ratings
Ratings with respect to the financial strength of operating subsidiaries are an important factor in establishing the competitive position of insurance companies. Ratings are important to maintaining public confidence in us and our ability to market our products. Rating organizations review the financial performance and condition of most insurers and provide opinions regarding financial strength, operating performance and ability to meet obligations to policyholders.
As of February 26, 2025, EMICO was rated in terms of financial strength as follows:
Rating Agency |
Rating |
Rating categories | ||
S&P |
A- (7th highest of 21) | AAA to D | ||
Moody’s |
A3 (7th highest of 21) | Aaa to C | ||
Fitch Ratings, Inc. (“Fitch”) |
A (6th highest of 21) | AAA to C | ||
A.M. Best |
A- (4th highest of 13) | A++ to D |
As of February 26, 2025, our principal U.S. life insurance subsidiaries were rated in terms of financial strength by A.M. Best as follows:
Company |
A.M. Best rating | |
Genworth Life Insurance Company (“GLIC”) |
C++ (9th highest of 13) | |
Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company (“GLAIC”) |
B- (8th highest of 13) | |
Genworth Life Insurance Company of New York (“GLICNY”) |
C++ (9th highest of 13) |
The financial strength ratings of our operating companies are not designed to be, and do not serve as, measures of protection or valuation offered to investors. These financial strength ratings should not be relied on with respect to making an investment in our securities.
Credit Ratings
In addition to the financial strength ratings for our operating subsidiaries, rating agencies also assign credit ratings to the debt issued by our intermediate holding company, Genworth Holdings. In addition, S&P and A.M. Best assign credit ratings to Genworth Financial. These ratings are typically notched lower than the financial strength ratings of our primary operating subsidiaries, reflecting Genworth Holdings’ reliance on dividends from the operating subsidiaries to service its debt obligations. The unsecured debt ratings may be used in evaluating Genworth Holdings’ debt as a fixed-income investment and are only disclosed by us given their potential impact on our business, including their potential to affect, among other things, our ability to raise capital through the issuance of debt and other forms of credit. These credit ratings may change at any time and should not be relied on as a recommendation with respect to making an investment in our securities.
As of February 26, 2025, Genworth Holdings’ senior unsecured debt guaranteed by Genworth Financial was assigned the following credit ratings:
Rating Agency |
Rating |
Rating categories | ||
S&P |
BB- (13th highest of 21) | AAA to D | ||
Moody’s |
Ba1 (11th highest of 21) | Aaa to C | ||
A.M. Best |
bb- (13th highest of 21) | aaa to c |
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Ratings actions
• | On January 17, 2025, Fitch upgraded the financial strength rating of EMICO to “A” from “A-” with an outlook of stable. |
• | On October 9, 2024, Moody’s affirmed the credit rating of “Ba1” of Genworth Holdings’ senior unsecured debt and changed the outlook to positive from stable. |
• | On August 28, 2024, A.M. Best upgraded the credit rating of Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings to “bb-” from “b+” with an outlook of stable. |
• | On August 28, 2024, A.M. Best affirmed the financial strength rating of “C++” of GLIC and GLICNY, each with an outlook of stable, and affirmed the financial strength rating of “B-” of GLAIC and revised the outlook to stable from negative. |
• | On August 23, 2024, A.M. Best affirmed the financial strength rating of “A-” of EMICO with an outlook of stable. |
• | On April 12, 2024, Fitch affirmed the financial strength rating of “A-” of EMICO and changed the outlook to positive from stable. |
• | On March 27, 2024, Moody’s affirmed the financial strength rating of “A3” of EMICO and changed the outlook to positive from stable. |
• | On February 27, 2024, S&P affirmed the credit rating of “BB-” of Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings with an outlook of stable. |
• | On January 8, 2024, S&P upgraded the financial strength rating of EMICO to “A-” from “BBB+” with an outlook of stable. |
S&P, Moody’s, Fitch, and A.M. Best review their ratings periodically and we cannot assure you that we will maintain our current ratings in the future. These and other agencies may also rate our holding companies or insurance subsidiaries on a solicited or an unsolicited basis. We do not provide non-public information to agencies issuing unsolicited ratings and cannot ensure that any agencies that rate our holding companies or insurance subsidiaries on an unsolicited basis will continue to do so.
For information on adverse credit rating actions related to Genworth and the potential impact of credit ratings on our business, see “Item 1A—Risk Factors—Adverse rating agency actions have in the past resulted in a loss of business and adversely affected our results of operations, financial condition and business, and future adverse rating actions could have a further and more significant adverse impact on us.”
Investments
Under the direction of our Chief Investment Officer, our investments department is responsible for managing the assets in our various portfolios, including establishing investment and derivatives policies and strategies, reviewing asset-liability management, performing asset allocations and setting risk limits. We manage our assets to meet diversification, credit quality, yield and liquidity requirements of our policy and contract liabilities by investing primarily in fixed maturity securities, including government, municipal and corporate bonds and mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities. We also hold commercial mortgage loans, limited partnerships, equity securities and other invested assets, which include derivatives, bank loans and short-term investments. Investments for our insurance company subsidiaries are required to comply with our risk management requirements, as well as applicable insurance laws and regulations. Investment strategies, policy and risk management are closely monitored by Genworth Financial’s management investment committee and the risk committee of Genworth Financial’s Board of Directors.
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Our primary investment objective is to meet our obligations to policyholders and contractholders while increasing value to our stockholders by investing in a diversified, high-quality portfolio, comprised primarily of income producing securities and other assets. Our investment strategy focuses on:
• | managing interest rate risk, as appropriate, through monitoring asset durations relative to policyholder and contractholder obligations; |
• | selecting assets based on fundamental, research-driven strategies; |
• | emphasizing fixed-income, low-volatility assets while pursuing active strategies to enhance yield; |
• | maintaining sufficient liquidity to meet financial obligations; |
• | regularly evaluating our asset class mix and pursuing additional investment classes when prudent; and |
• | continuously monitoring asset quality and market conditions that could affect our assets. |
For further information related to our invested assets, see “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Investments and Derivative Instruments” and notes 4, 5 and 19 to our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”
Regulation
General
Our insurance operations are subject to a wide variety of laws and regulations. U.S. state insurance laws and regulations (“Insurance Laws”) regulate most aspects of our U.S. insurance businesses, and our U.S. insurers are regulated by the insurance departments of the states in which they are domiciled and licensed. Our non-U.S. insurance operations are principally regulated by insurance regulatory authorities in the jurisdictions in which they are domiciled. Our insurance products and businesses are also affected by U.S. federal, state and local tax laws, and the tax laws of non-U.S. jurisdictions. Our securities operations, including our insurance products that are regulated as securities, such as variable annuities, are subject to U.S. federal and state securities laws and regulations. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, state securities authorities and similar non-U.S. authorities regulate and supervise these products.
The primary purpose of the Insurance Laws regulating our insurance businesses and their equivalents in the other countries in which we operate, and the securities laws affecting certain of our products and our broker-dealer, is to protect our policyholders, contractholders and clients. These laws and regulations are regularly re-examined and any changes to these laws or new laws may be more restrictive or otherwise adversely affect our operations.
Insurance and securities regulatory authorities (including state law enforcement agencies and attorneys general or their non-U.S. equivalents) periodically make inquiries regarding compliance with insurance, securities and other laws and regulations, and we cooperate with such inquiries and take corrective action when warranted.
U.S. Insurance Regulation
Our U.S. insurers are licensed and regulated in all jurisdictions in which they conduct insurance business. The extent of this regulation varies but Insurance Laws generally govern the financial condition of insurers, including standards for solvency, types and concentrations of permissible investments, establishment and maintenance of reserves, credit for reinsurance and capital adequacy requirements. Insurance Laws also govern the business conduct of insurers, including marketplace activities, affecting the form and content of disclosure to consumers, product illustrations, advertising, product replacement, sales and underwriting practices, and complaint and claims handling, and these provisions are generally enforced through periodic market conduct examinations. In addition, Insurance Laws usually require the licensing of insurers and agents, the filing or approval of policy forms and related materials prior to their use, and approval of premium rates for certain lines of insurance.
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Our U.S. insurers must file periodic reports, including detailed annual financial statements, with insurance regulatory authorities in each jurisdiction in which they do business, and their operations and accounts are subject to periodic examination by such authorities. Insurance departments in U.S. jurisdictions conduct periodic detailed examinations of the books, records, accounts and business practices of domestic insurers. These examinations generally are conducted in cooperation with insurance departments of two or three other states or jurisdictions representing each of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) zones, under guidelines promulgated by the NAIC. State insurance departments may also conduct examinations of non-domiciliary insurers licensed in their states.
Applicable Insurance Laws are described below. Certain additional Insurance Laws specific to mortgage insurers are discussed below under “—Enact—Mortgage Insurance Regulation.”
Insurance holding company regulation
Our principal U.S. insurance subsidiaries are domiciled in Delaware, New York, North Carolina and Virginia and (except for our captive insurers) are required to register as members of an insurance holding company system under their domiciliary state’s insurance holding company act. They are also required to submit annual reports to the state insurance regulatory authority identifying the members of the insurance holding company system and describing certain transactions between the insurer and any member of its insurance group that may materially affect the operations, management or financial condition of the insurers within the system. All transactions between an insurer and an affiliate must be fair and reasonable, and certain transactions are subject to prior approval by the domiciliary state insurance regulator. In addition, most states have adopted insurance regulations setting forth detailed requirements for cost sharing and management agreements between an insurer and its affiliates.
Our U.S. insurers’ ability to pay dividends or other distributions is regulated by their domiciliary state insurance regulators. We manage our legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries on a standalone basis, and accordingly, we do not expect to receive dividends or other capital returns from them. Our principal U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries may pay dividends only from unassigned surplus; payments made from other sources, such as paid-in and contributed surplus, are categorized as distributions. Notice of all dividends or distributions must be submitted to the commissioner within five business days after declaration, and at least 30 days before payment thereof. No dividend may be paid unless the commissioner has not disapproved or has approved the payment within that 30-day period. Any distribution, regardless of amount, requires the commissioner’s affirmative approval before being paid. Under the insurance laws of North Carolina (our mortgage insurance subsidiaries’ primary state of domicile), an “extraordinary” dividend or distribution is defined as a dividend or distribution that, together with other dividends and distributions made within the preceding 12 months, exceeds the greater of: (i) 10% of the insurer’s statutory surplus as of the immediately prior year end; or (ii) the statutory net income during the prior calendar year.
In addition, insurance regulators may prohibit the payment of ordinary dividends and distributions or other payments by our insurers to group affiliates (such as a payment under a tax sharing agreement or for employment or other services) if they determine that such payment could be adverse to policyholders or contractholders.
Acquisition or change of control of a U.S. insurer requires the prior approval of the insurer’s domiciliary state insurance regulator. The domiciliary states of our U.S. insurers also require prior notice of a divestiture of control. Control is generally presumed to exist if any person, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, holds with the power to vote, or holds proxies representing 10% or more of the voting securities of the insurer or any parent company of the insurer. Certain state provisions may not require acquisition approval but can lead to imposition of conditions on an acquisition that could delay or prevent its consummation. Such laws may discourage potential acquisition proposals and may delay, deter or prevent an investment in or a change of control involving us, or one or more of our regulated subsidiaries, including transactions that our management and some or all of our stockholders might consider desirable.
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The NAIC Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (“ORSA”) Model Act requires an insurer to regularly, and at least annually, undertake a confidential internal assessment of material and relevant risks and upon an insurance regulator’s request, submit a confidential, high-level summary assessment of the material and relevant risks associated with an insurer or insurance group’s current business plan and the sufficiency of capital and liquidity resources to support those risks. We file an ORSA summary report annually with Virginia, our lead domiciliary state.
The NAIC Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Model Act and Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Model Regulation require insurers to provide detailed information regarding their corporate governance practices to their lead state and/or domestic regulator.
The NAIC implemented a regulatory framework through an actuarial guideline (“AG 48”) applicable to the use of captive insurers in connection with Regulation XXX and Regulation AXXX transactions. Among other things, the framework calls for more disclosure of an insurer’s use of captives in its statutory financial statements and narrows the types of assets permitted to back statutory reserves that are required to support the insurer’s future obligations. AG 48 requires the actuary of the ceding insurer that opines on the insurer’s reserves to issue a qualified opinion if the framework is not followed. The NAIC adopted an amended version of AG 48, which applies to new policies issued and new reinsurance transactions entered into on or after January 1, 2017. AG 48 does not affect reinsurance arrangements that were pre-existing as of January 1, 2015, and the changes set forth in the amended version do not affect reinsurance arrangements that were pre-existing as of January 1, 2017. The NAIC also adopted the Term and Universal Life Insurance Reserve Financing Model Regulation, which contains the same substantive requirements as the amended version of AG 48. States must either adopt the model regulation or use AG 48 to satisfy the NAIC accreditation requirement. Virginia, the domestic state regulator for GLAIC, one of our principal life insurance subsidiaries, has adopted the model regulation.
The NAIC developed a group capital calculation (“GCC”) tool using an RBC aggregation methodology for all entities within the insurance holding company system, including non-U.S. entities. The GCC provides regulators with an additional tool for conducting group-wide supervision and enhances transparency into how capital is allocated. In December 2020, the NAIC adopted a Group Capital Calculation Template and Instructions, and it amended the Holding Company System Model Act and Regulation to implement an annual GCC filing requirement. Virginia, our insurance holding company group’s lead state, adopted the amendments in 2022, and we submitted our first annual filing in 2023. It is unclear how the development of group capital measures by the NAIC will interact with existing capital requirements for U.S. insurance companies.
Long-term care insurance rate increase regulation
In general, we implement rate increases on our long-term care insurance policies in accordance with the laws of the state in which a policy was issued. In April 2022, the NAIC adopted the Long-Term Care Insurance Multistate Rate Review Framework, which was designed to define a consistent national approach for reviewing rate increase requests that results in actuarially appropriate increases being granted by the states in a timely manner and that eliminates cross-state rate subsidization. The NAIC’s Long-Term Care Insurance (B) Task Force monitors and evaluates the progress of the rate review process, including how to address large rate increase requests, as outlined in the framework. As of December 2024, the task force is developing revisions to the framework, and the proposed changes include a single actuarial approach that can be used for multistate long-term care rate increase reviews. We continue to work closely with state regulators on our in-force long-term care insurance rate action plan (including increased premiums and associated benefit reductions) to achieve a shared goal of ensuring that our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries can honor their policyholder commitments in the future. We will continue to seek rate increases primarily through individual state approval processes but will consider opportunities to leverage the NAIC’s efforts for a national approach in cases where it will support our existing rate action plans.
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Guaranty associations and similar arrangements
Most jurisdictions in which our U.S. insurers are licensed require those insurers to participate in guaranty associations which pay contractual benefits owed under the policies of impaired or insolvent insurers. These associations levy assessments, up to prescribed limits, on each member insurer in a jurisdiction based on the proportionate share of the premiums written by such insurer in the lines of business in which the impaired, insolvent or failed insurer is engaged. Some jurisdictions permit member insurers to recover assessments paid through full or partial premium tax offsets.
Aggregate assessments levied against our U.S. insurers were not significant to our consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022.
Policy and contract reserve sufficiency analysis
The Insurance Laws of our U.S. life insurers’ domiciliary jurisdictions require each such insurer to conduct an annual analysis of the sufficiency of its life and health insurance and annuity reserves. Other jurisdictions where insurers are licensed may have certain reserve requirements that differ from those of their domiciliary jurisdictions. In each case, a qualified actuary must submit an opinion stating that the aggregate statutory reserves, when considered in light of the assets held with respect to such reserves, make good and sufficient provision for the insurer’s associated contractual obligations and related expenses. If such an opinion cannot be provided, the insurer must establish additional reserves by transferring funds from surplus. Our U.S. life insurers submit these opinions annually to their insurance regulatory authorities, and each year they conduct a statutory cash flow testing process to support these opinions. Different reserve requirements exist for our U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries. See “—Enact—Mortgage Insurance Regulation—State regulation—Reserves.”
Surplus and capital requirements
Insurance regulators have discretionary authority, in connection with the licensing of our U.S. insurers, to limit or restrict insurers from issuing new policies, or policies having a dollar value over certain thresholds, if, in the regulators’ judgment, the insurer is not maintaining a sufficient amount of surplus or is in a hazardous financial condition. We seek to maintain capital management and new business strategies to support meeting related regulatory requirements.
Risk-based capital standards
The NAIC has established RBC standards for U.S. life insurers, as well as a Risk-Based Capital for Insurers Model Act (“RBC Model Act”). All 50 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the RBC Model Act or a substantially similar law or regulation. The RBC Model Act requires that life insurers annually submit a report to state regulators regarding their RBC based upon four categories of risk: asset risk, insurance risk, interest rate risk and business risk. The capital requirement for each is generally determined by applying factors which vary based upon the degree of risk to various asset, premium and reserve items. The formula is an early warning tool to identify possible weakly capitalized companies for purposes of facilitating regulatory action.
The extent of regulatory action is determined by a ratio of a company’s total adjusted capital (“TAC”) to its authorized control level RBC (“ACL RBC”). The minimum level of TAC before corrective action commences (“Company Action Level”) is two times the ACL RBC or three times the ACL RBC with a negative trend. If an insurer’s ACL RBC ratio falls below specified levels, it would be subject to different degrees of regulatory action depending upon the level, ranging from requiring the insurer to propose actions to correct the capital deficiency to placing the insurer under regulatory control. Our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries’ reported RBC ratio measures the ratio of TAC to our Company Action Level.
As of December 31, 2024, the RBC ratio of each of our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries exceeded the level that would require any of them to take or become subject to any corrective action in their respective domiciliary
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state. For additional information on the RBC of our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, see note 20 in our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”
Statutory accounting principles
U.S. insurance regulators developed statutory accounting principles (“SAP”) as a basis of accounting used to monitor and regulate the solvency of insurers. Since insurance regulators are primarily concerned with ensuring an insurer’s ability to pay its current and future obligations to policyholders, statutory accounting conservatively values the assets and liabilities of insurers, generally in accordance with standards specified by the insurer’s domiciliary jurisdiction. Uniform statutory accounting practices are established by the NAIC and are generally adopted by regulators in the various U.S. jurisdictions.
Due to differences in methodology between SAP and U.S. GAAP, the values for assets, liabilities and equity reflected in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP are materially different from those reflected in financial statements prepared under SAP.
Regulation of investments
Each of our U.S. insurers is subject to Insurance Laws that require diversification of its investment portfolio and limit the proportion of investments in different asset categories. Assets invested contrary to such regulatory limitations must be treated as non-admitted assets for purposes of measuring surplus, and in some instances, regulations require divestiture of such non-complying investments. We believe the investments made by our U.S. insurers comply with these Insurance Laws.
Enact—Mortgage Insurance Regulation
State regulation
General
Mortgage insurers generally are limited by Insurance Laws to directly writing only mortgage guaranty insurance business to the exclusion of other types of insurance. Mortgage insurers are not subject to the NAIC’s RBC requirements, but certain states and other regulators impose another form of capital requirement on mortgage insurers, requiring maintenance of a risk-to-capital ratio not to exceed 25:1. Each of Enact Holdings’ mortgage insurance subsidiaries met its capital requirements as of December 31, 2024. See note 20 in our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information.
The North Carolina Department of Insurance’s (“NCDOI”) current regulatory framework by which EMICO’s risk-to-capital ratio is calculated differs from the capital requirements of the GSEs as discussed under “—Other U.S. Regulation and Agency Qualification Requirements.”
In August 2023, the NAIC adopted amendments to the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Model Act (the “MGI Model Act”) and is in the process of making conforming revisions to Statement of Statutory Accounting Principles No. 58—Mortgage Guaranty Insurance. The revisions to the MGI Model Act are extensive, including with respect to risk concentration limits, capital and reserve requirements, reinsurance, underwriting practices and quality assurance. For a discussion of the potential risks to our business associated with these amendments, see “Item 1A—Risk Factors—Enact Holdings’ U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries are subject to minimum statutory capital requirements, which if not met or waived, would result in restrictions or prohibitions on them doing business and could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.”
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Reserves
Insurance Laws require our U.S. mortgage insurers to establish a special statutory contingency reserve reflected in their statutory financial statements to provide for claims and other expenses payable in the event of significant economic declines. Annual additions to the statutory contingency reserve must be at least 50% of net earned premiums as defined by Insurance Laws. These contingency reserves generally are held until the earlier of (i) 10 years, after which such amounts can be released into surplus, or (ii) when loss ratios exceed 35%, in which case the amount above 35% can be released under certain circumstances, although regulators have granted discretionary releases from time to time. However, approval by the NCDOI, the primary domiciliary regulator for our U.S. mortgage insurers, is required for contingency reserve releases when loss ratios exceed 35%. The establishment of the statutory contingency reserve is funded by premiums that would otherwise generate net earnings that would be reflected in policyholder surplus. This reduces the policyholder surplus of our U.S. mortgage insurers, and therefore, their ability to pay dividends to our holding companies until those contingency reserves are released back into surplus. See note 20 in our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for information on the statutory contingency reserve for our U.S. mortgage insurers.
Premium rates
In most states where our U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries are licensed, premium rates are required to be filed before the authorization is granted to charge premiums. In some states, these premium rates must be approved before their use. Likewise, changes in premium rates must be filed and receive approval. In general, states may require actuarial justification on the basis of the insurer’s loss experience, expenses and future projections. In addition, states may consider general default experience in the mortgage insurance industry in assessing the premium rates charged by U.S. mortgage insurers.
Federal regulation
In addition to federal laws directly applicable to mortgage insurers, the laws and regulations applicable to mortgage originators and lenders, purchasers of mortgage loans such as the GSEs, and governmental insurers such as the FHA and VA indirectly affect mortgage insurers. Moreover, mortgage origination and servicing transactions are subject to compliance with various state and federal laws. Changes in federal housing legislation and other laws and regulations that affect the demand for private mortgage insurance, or the way in which such laws and regulations are interpreted or applied, may have a material effect on private mortgage insurers. For example, the Enterprise Capital Framework of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) that became effective in 2021 includes significantly higher regulatory capital requirements for the GSEs as compared to the previous framework. Higher GSE capital requirements could ultimately lead to increased costs to borrowers of GSE loans, which in turn could shift the market away from the GSEs to the FHA or lender portfolios. Such a shift could result in a smaller market for private mortgage insurance. See “Item 1A—Risk Factors—Changes to the charters or practices of the GSEs, including actions or decisions to decrease or discontinue the use of mortgage insurance, could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.”
The Homeowners Protection Act of 1998 (“HOPA”) provides for the automatic termination, or cancellation upon a borrower’s request, of the borrower’s obligation to pay for private mortgage insurance upon satisfaction of certain conditions. HOPA applies to owner-occupied residential mortgage loans regardless of lien priority and to borrower-paid mortgage insurance closed after July 29, 1999. HOPA requires lenders to automatically terminate a borrower’s obligation to pay for mortgage insurance coverage once the loan-to-value ratio reaches 78% of the original value. A borrower generally may also request cancellation of mortgage insurance from the lender once the actual payments reduce the loan balance to 80% of the home’s original value. For borrower-initiated cancellation of mortgage insurance, the borrower must have a “good payment history” as defined by HOPA.
The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (“RESPA”) applies to most residential mortgages insured by private mortgage insurers. Mortgage insurance is considered a “settlement service” for purposes of
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loans subject to RESPA. Subject to limited exceptions, RESPA precludes our U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries from providing services to mortgage lenders or other settlement service providers free of charge, charging fees for services that are lower than their reasonable or fair market value, and paying fees for services that others provide that are higher than their reasonable or fair market value. In addition, RESPA prohibits persons from giving or accepting any portion or percentage of a charge for a real estate settlement service, other than for services actually performed. Although many states prohibit mortgage insurers from giving rebates, RESPA has been interpreted to cover many non-fee services as well. Mortgage insurers and their customers are subject to the potential sanctions of this law, which may be enforced by the CFPB, state insurance departments, state attorneys general and other enforcement authorities.
The Fair Housing Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) also affect the business of mortgage insurance in various ways. The Fair Housing Act generally prohibits discrimination in the terms, conditions or privileges in residential real estate-related transactions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, familial status or national origin. Numerous courts have held that the Fair Housing Act prohibits discriminatory insurance practices. FCRA governs the access and use of consumer credit information in credit transactions and requires notices to consumers in certain circumstances. It imposes restrictions on the permissible use of credit report information and requires mortgage insurance companies to provide adverse action notices to consumers in the event an application for mortgage insurance is declined or offered at less than the best available rate for the loan program applied for due to information contained in a consumer’s credit report.
Other U.S. Regulation and Agency Qualification Requirements
The GSEs impose eligibility requirements that private mortgage insurers must satisfy in order to be approved to insure loans purchased by the GSEs. PMIERs aims to ensure that approved insurers possess the financial and operational capacity to serve as strong counterparties to the GSEs throughout various market conditions. PMIERs is comprehensive, covering virtually all aspects of our U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries’ business and operations as private mortgage insurers of GSE loans, including internal risk management and quality controls, underwriting, claim processing and loss mitigation, among other aspects. In addition, PMIERs requires private mortgage insurers to obtain the prior consent of the GSEs before taking certain actions, which may include entering into various intercompany agreements and commuting or reinsuring risk, among others. The financial requirements of PMIERs mandate that a mortgage insurer’s “Available Assets” (generally only the most liquid assets of an insurer) must meet or exceed “Minimum Required Assets” (which are based on an insurer’s risk in-force and are calculated from tables of factors with several risk dimensions and are subject to a floor amount).
During 2020 and 2021, the GSEs issued several amendments to PMIERs. Many of the provisions are no longer applicable, but for loans that became non-performing due to a hardship related to the coronavirus pandemic (“COVID-19”), PMIERs was temporarily amended with respect to each non-performing loan that (i) had an initial missed monthly payment occurring on or after March 1, 2020 and prior to April 1, 2021 or (ii) is subject to a forbearance plan granted in response to a financial hardship related to COVID-19, the terms of which are materially consistent with terms of forbearance plans offered by the GSEs. The risk-based required asset amount factor for the non-performing loan is the greater of (a) the applicable risk-based required asset amount factor for a performing loan were it not delinquent, and (b) the product of a 0.30 multiplier and the applicable risk-based required asset amount factor for a non-performing loan. In the case of (i) above, absent the loan being subject to a forbearance plan described in (ii) above, the 0.30 multiplier is applicable for no longer than three calendar months beginning with the month in which the loan became a non-performing loan due to having missed two monthly payments. Loans subject to a forbearance plan described in (ii) above include those that are either in a repayment plan or loan modification trial period following the forbearance plan unless reported to the approved insurer that the loan is no longer in such forbearance plan, repayment plan, or loan modification trial period. Per guidance released by the GSEs in the third quarter of 2024, use of the multiplier will be discontinued effective March 31, 2025. In addition, the PMIERs amendments made permanent revisions to the risk-based required asset amount factor for non-performing loans for properties located in future Federal Emergency Management Agency Declared Major Disaster Areas eligible for individual assistance.
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In their respective letters approving credit for reinsurance against PMIERs financial requirements, the GSEs require our principal U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiary not to exceed a maximum statutory risk-to-capital ratio of 18:1 or they reserve the right to re-evaluate the amount of PMIERs credit indicated in their approval letters. Freddie Mac has also imposed additional requirements on our option to commute these reinsurance agreements. Both GSEs reserved the right to periodically review the reinsurance transactions for treatment under PMIERs.
On August 21, 2024, the GSEs and the FHFA released updated PMIERs requirements phasing in a revision to the available assets standards between March 31, 2025 and September 30, 2026. The updated standards differentiate between bonds held as available assets under PMIERs based on credit quality and liquidity. The updates also establish limits for assets backed by residential mortgages or commercial real estate to mitigate the impact if such assets lose value during periods of housing stress. Enact expects to hold capital sufficiency well in excess of these requirements and does not expect the impact of these updates to be material. The ultimate impact of the PMIERs changes will be influenced by investment portfolio maturities, dispositions, reinvestments, and overall business and economic performance between now and the phase-in dates.
Each approved mortgage insurer is required to provide the GSEs with an annual certification and a quarterly report as to its compliance with PMIERs. As of December 31, 2024, Enact met the PMIERs financial and operational requirements. See note 20 in our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.” Although we expect Enact will continue to retain its eligibility status with the GSEs, there can be no assurance these conditions will continue. See “Item 1A—Risk Factors—If Enact is unable to continue to meet the requirements mandated by PMIERs because the GSEs amend them or the GSEs’ interpretation of the financial requirements requires Enact to hold amounts of capital that are higher than planned or otherwise, Enact may not be eligible to write new insurance on loans acquired by the GSEs, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.”
Non-U.S. Insurance Regulation
We operate in and have certain subsidiaries domiciled in countries outside the United States, principally including Mexico, Bermuda and India. Generally, our subsidiaries conducting business in these countries must obtain licenses from local regulatory authorities and satisfy local regulatory requirements, including those relating to rates, forms, capital, reserves and financial reporting, as well as certain restrictions on their ability to pay dividends and distributions.
Other Laws and Regulations
Changes in tax laws
There was no U.S. federal income tax-related legislation or administrative guidance issued in 2024 that had a significant impact on our results of operations or financial condition. Effective January 1, 2023, the U.S. federal government enacted the Inflation Reduction Act which, among other things, implemented a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax (“CAMT”) based on adjusted financial statement income and imposed a 1% excise tax on corporate stock repurchases. The enactment of the CAMT did not have a material impact on our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024 or 2023. Excise tax incurred on our share repurchases is recorded as part of the cost basis of the treasury stock acquired and not reported as part of income tax expense, and it did not have a material impact on our financial position for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
On December 27, 2023, the Government of Bermuda enacted the Corporate Income Tax Act 2023 (“CIT”). Starting January 1, 2025, the CIT imposes a new 15% corporate income tax on in-scope entities that are resident in Bermuda or have a Bermuda permanent establishment, without regard to any assurances that had previously been given pursuant to the Exempted Undertakings Tax Protection Act 1966. Because Enact Re is subject to U.S. federal income tax on its income, we do not anticipate this will have a material impact on our financial position or results of operations.
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Dodd-Frank Act and other federal initiatives
Although the federal government generally does not directly regulate the insurance business, federal initiatives often have an impact on the business in a variety of ways, including through regulation of financial services. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) made extensive changes to the laws regulating financial services firms and required various federal agencies to adopt a broad range of rules and regulations.
In the case of Enact Holdings, the Dodd-Frank Act prohibits a creditor from making a residential mortgage loan unless the creditor makes a reasonable and good faith determination that, at the time the loan is consummated, the consumer has a reasonable ability to repay the loan. In addition, the Dodd-Frank Act created the CFPB, which regulates certain aspects of the offering and provision of consumer financial products or services but not the business of insurance. Certain rules and regulations established by the CFPB require mortgage lenders to demonstrate that they have effectively considered the consumer’s ability to repay a mortgage loan, establish when a mortgage may be classified as a Qualified Mortgage (“QM”) and determine when a lender is eligible for a safe harbor as a presumption that the lender has complied with the ability-to-repay requirements.
The Financial Stability Oversight Council (“FSOC”) is authorized to designate certain financial companies, which may include insurance companies, as non-bank systemically important financial institutions (“SIFIs”). The FSOC is authorized to subject SIFIs to stricter prudential standards, including a special orderly liquidation process outside the federal Bankruptcy Code, among other requirements. On November 3, 2023, the FSOC adopted new guidance that no longer requires the FSOC to conduct a cost-benefit analysis and assessment of the likelihood of a non-bank financial company’s material financial distress before designating the company as a non-bank SIFI. The new guidance could have the effect of simplifying and shortening the FSOC’s procedures for designating certain financial companies as non-bank SIFIs. We have not been, nor do we believe we will be, designated as a non-bank SIFI by the FSOC. A future determination that we or our counterparties are systemically important could impose significant burdens on us, impact the way we conduct our business, increase compliance costs, duplicate state regulation and result in a competitive disadvantage.
The Dodd-Frank Act established a Federal Insurance Office (“FIO”) within the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“U.S. Treasury Department”). While not having a general supervisory or regulatory authority over the business of insurance, the director of this office performs various functions with respect to insurance, including serving as a non-voting member of the FSOC and making recommendations to the FSOC regarding insurers to be designated for more stringent regulation.
The Dodd-Frank Act established a framework of regulation of over-the-counter (“OTC”) derivatives markets which requires us to pledge highly liquid securities or cash to meet initial and variation margin requirements for most interest rate derivatives we trade. In addition, federal bank regulations require certain bank-regulated counterparties to include in certain derivatives contracts terms that delay or restrict the rights of counterparties, which could adversely affect our ability to terminate, or realize amounts to be received under, such derivatives agreements. As the marketplace continues to evolve, we may have to alter or limit the way we use derivatives in the future, which could have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
On December 13, 2023, the SEC adopted rules to require that covered clearing agencies have policies and procedures reasonably designed to require every direct participant of the agency to submit for clearing eligible secondary market transactions in U.S. Treasury securities. The SEC has since delayed the rule’s implementation dates, and we will continue to monitor for any further updates. The rule’s potential effect on the U.S. Treasury securities markets is uncertain.
We cannot predict the effect of all the regulations or legislation adopted under the Dodd-Frank Act or other federal statutes on financial markets generally, or on our businesses specifically, the additional costs associated
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with compliance with such regulations or legislation, or any changes to our operations that may be necessary to comply with the Dodd-Frank Act or other federal statutes and the regulations thereunder, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flows or financial condition. We also cannot predict whether other federal initiatives will be adopted or what impact, if any, such initiatives, if adopted as laws, may have on our business, financial condition or results of operations, or whether existing federal initiatives will be eliminated under the current U.S. Administration.
Environmental considerations
As an owner and operator of real property, we are subject to extensive U.S. federal and state and non-U.S. environmental laws and regulations. Potential environmental liabilities and costs in connection with any required remediation of our properties is also an inherent risk in property ownership and operation. In addition, we hold equity interests in companies, and have made loans secured by properties, which could potentially be subject to environmental liabilities. We routinely have environmental assessments performed with respect to real estate being acquired for investment and real property to be acquired through foreclosure. Based upon information currently available to us, we believe that any costs associated with compliance with environmental laws and regulations, or any remediation of such properties will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
Climate and financial risks
The topic of climate risk has come under increased scrutiny by the NAIC and insurance regulators. In 2022, the NAIC adopted a standard for insurance companies to report their climate-related risks as part of its annual Climate Risk Disclosure Survey, which applies to insurers that meet the reporting threshold of $100 million in countrywide direct premium and are licensed in one of the participating jurisdictions. The disclosure standard is consistent with the international Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures’ framework for reporting climate-related financial information.
The New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) issued a circular letter in 2020 to New York domestic and foreign authorized insurers, which applies to certain of our subsidiaries, stating that the NYDFS expects insurers to integrate financial risks related to climate change into their governance frameworks, risk management processes and business strategies, and that insurers should develop their approach to climate related financial disclosure. We have initiated and continue to build upon a multi-phase climate risk management process.
On November 15, 2021, the NYDFS issued additional guidance for New York domestic insurers (the “2021 Guidance”), applicable to GLICNY, related to the management of financial risks from climate change. Such insurers are expected to manage these risks by outlining actions that are proportionate to the nature, scale and complexity of their businesses. For instance, the 2021 Guidance states that an insurer should: (i) incorporate climate risk into its financial risk management, including its ORSA; (ii) manage climate risk through its enterprise risk management functions and ensure that its organizational structure clearly defines roles and responsibilities related to managing such risk; (iii) use scenario analysis when developing business strategies and identifying risks; and (iv) incorporate the management of climate risk into its corporate governance structure at the group or insurer entity level. As of August 15, 2022, insurers were required to implement certain corporate governance changes and develop plans to implement the organizational structure changes. We complied with this requirement and provided our plan to the NYDFS. Insurers are encouraged to work on additional changes that may take longer to implement, although the NYDFS will issue further guidance with more specific timelines.
The NYDFS also amended the regulation that governs enterprise risk management, effective as of August 13, 2021, to require an insurance group to include certain additional risks, such as climate change risk, in its enterprise risk management function.
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In addition, the FIO is authorized to monitor the U.S. insurance industry under the Dodd-Frank Act. Pursuant to its statutory authority, the FIO has been assessing how the insurance sector may mitigate climate risks and help achieve national climate-related goals. We expect the current U.S. Administration to bring about a new focus for many federal agencies, impacting rulemaking, supervision, examination and enforcement priorities. We cannot currently predict the nature and timing of future developments, including with respect to climate risks.
On October 7, 2023, California enacted two climate disclosure laws that will require entities that do business in the state and meet certain annual revenue thresholds to provide climate-related disclosures. Insurance companies that are subject to regulation by the California Department of Insurance are specifically excluded from the disclosure requirements of the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act (Senate Bill 261 as amended by Senate Bill 219, “SB 261”); however, it is expected that thousands of public and private companies and other entities will be subject to the disclosure requirements of the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (“SB 253”), including Genworth. SB 253 requires entities with more than $1.0 billion in annual revenue to annually disclose their Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and obtain assurance over those disclosures. SB 253 requires disclosures of Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions beginning in 2026 (using fiscal year ended 2025 data), and Scope 3 emissions disclosures beginning in 2027. Scope 1 and Scope 2 disclosures require limited assurance beginning in 2026 and reasonable assurance beginning in 2030, and limited assurance may be required over Scope 3 disclosures beginning in 2030. On September 27, 2024, the governor of California signed into law final amendments to SB 261 and SB 253, which maintain the effective reporting dates but defer by six months to July 1, 2025, the deadline for the California Air Resources Board to develop and adopt regulations that implement SB 253, including specific reporting deadlines. The final amendments also permit emissions reporting at the consolidated parent company level. It is too early to determine the impact the new requirements will have on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
On April 4, 2024, the SEC voluntarily stayed its climate-related disclosure rules adopted in March 2024, pending judicial review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. On February 11, 2025, the Acting Chairman of the SEC issued a statement outlining his concerns with the final climate-related disclosure rules and announced that he directed the SEC staff to request the Court not to schedule oral arguments in order to provide time for the SEC to determine the appropriate next steps with these rules. We will continue to monitor the status of these rules.
Diversity and corporate governance
The NAIC and state insurance regulators are also focused on the topic of race, diversity and inclusion within the insurance industry. In New York, the NYDFS expects the insurers it regulates to make diversity of their leadership a business priority and a key element of their corporate governance.
Privacy and cybersecurity
In the United States, federal and state laws and regulations require financial institutions, including insurance companies, to protect the privacy and security of consumer financial information and to notify consumers about policies and practices relating to the collection, use and disclosure of consumer information, as well as policies relating to protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of that information. Similarly, federal and state laws and regulations govern the disclosure and security of consumer health information. In particular, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) and various states regulate the disclosure and use of protected health information by health insurers and other covered entities, the physical and procedural safeguards employed to protect the security of that information, and the electronic transmission of such information. From time to time, Congress and state legislatures consider additional legislation relating to privacy and other aspects of consumer information. We cannot predict whether such legislation will be enacted, or what impact, if any, such legislation may have on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
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The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) is applicable to portions of our business and was significantly amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”). The CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, grants California residents the right to know what information a business has collected about them and the sourcing and sharing of that information, as well as the right to access and correct their personal information, and (subject to certain exemptions) the right to have a business delete their personal information. The CPRA created the California Privacy Protection Agency to enforce the CCPA and to promulgate regulations thereunder, imposed additional obligations regarding the privacy notice and service provider contracts, created new requirements around the protection of sensitive personal information and eliminated certain exemptions for personal information collected in employment or business-to-business contexts. The majority of the CPRA provisions went into effect on January 1, 2023. Failure to comply with the CCPA risks regulatory fines, and the law grants a private right of action for any unauthorized disclosure of certain personal information as a result of failure to maintain reasonable security procedures and practices.
Other jurisdictions have enacted, or are considering enacting, similar comprehensive or specific data privacy laws. These laws generally include entity-wide exemptions for financial institutions subject to Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and exemptions for Covered Entities or data subject to HIPAA. However, such new laws and regulations vary by jurisdiction and applicability to our business, and adapting our data privacy practices may reduce the risk of noncompliance but may increase our compliance costs.
The NAIC’s Privacy Protections (H) Working Group (“PPWG”) considered developing a new Insurance Consumer Privacy Protections Model Law (“Model Law 674”) to replace the NAIC’s Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Model Act and the Privacy of Consumer Financial and Health Information Regulation (“Model Law 672”). Given the comments received on a revised draft of Model Law 674 and the widespread adoption of Model Law 672, the PPWG elected to revise the existing Model Law 672 rather than continue developing a new model law. The PPWG has released a revised draft of Model Law 672 and has a dedicated drafting group, which includes a representative from the life insurance industry, tasked with leading its model update effort. The proposed amendments would expand the definition of nonpublic personal information; add consumer rights to request access, correction and deletion of nonpublic personal information; and add requirements for contracts with third-party service providers. In November 2024, the PPWG received an extension until December 31, 2025 to finalize the amendments to Model Law 672.
Cybersecurity continues to be an area of significant and increasing focus of legislatures and regulators. For example, on November 1, 2023, the NYDFS adopted amendments to its cybersecurity regulation specific to financial services institutions, including banking and insurance entities, under its jurisdiction. The regulation requires a company’s cybersecurity program to be reasonably designed to protect consumers’ private data and to include robust controls regarding access privileges, application security, policies and procedures for the disposal of nonpublic information, regular cybersecurity awareness training, encryption of nonpublic information, third-party due diligence and an incident response plan. The amendments expand requirements for notification to the NYDFS of cybersecurity events, including related to ransomware attacks, and expand technical requirements around system penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, risk assessments and audits. The amendments also add new requirements related to cybersecurity plans and expand cybersecurity governance requirements, among other things. We are required to file an annual certification of compliance with the NYDFS regarding our cybersecurity program.
In addition, the NAIC’s Insurance Data Security Model Law (the “Cybersecurity Model Law”), which is similar to New York’s cybersecurity regulation, establishes standards for data security and for the investigation of and notification to insurance commissioners of cybersecurity events involving unauthorized access to, or the misuse of, certain nonpublic information. The Cybersecurity Model Law provides requirements to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of covered information systems and the sensitive or business information thereon. Over 26 states and jurisdictions have adopted a version of the Cybersecurity Model Law, including Delaware and Virginia.
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Effective in June 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) amended the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information Rules (known as the “Safeguards Rule”) to add requirements for certain covered financial institutions to implement and maintain certain data security practices in their information security programs. In November 2023, the FTC published a final rule further amending the Safeguards Rule to require notification to the FTC of certain data breach events. These additional amendments became effective in May 2024.
For additional information regarding our cybersecurity risk management and governance, see “Item 1C—Cybersecurity.”
Human Capital Management
We are committed to helping families become more financially secure, self-reliant and prepared for the future, and that philosophy extends to our employees. We take a holistic approach to human capital management, including attracting and retaining talent with comprehensive benefits and compensation packages, providing professional development and learning opportunities, facilitating access to dedicated resources that foster an equitable and inclusive environment and encouraging a sincere commitment to community service and involvement.
Total rewards and well-being
• | Our compensation package, including salary, bonus and long-term incentives, aligns employee and stockholder interests. Our rewards and recognition platform encourages our employees to recognize one another for exemplifying our values to make it human, make it about others, make it happen and make it better as they serve our current and future customers. |
• | In addition to a competitive compensation program, we also offer our employees benefits such as life and health insurance, paid time off, paid family leave, identity theft protection, financial planning and a retirement savings plan. |
• | To further support our employees, we continue to provide additional financial, health and wellbeing resources, as well as a flexible work schedule to allow employees additional time for self-care and the care of family members. We are currently operating under a hybrid approach organizationally, allowing flexibility to work remotely or in the office. |
Learning and development
• | We offer a multitude of professional development and career enrichment opportunities, including building leadership skills, professional skills training and industry-specific matters, as well as education reimbursement benefits and student loan repayment to aid career progression. |
• | Additionally, we facilitate an annual organization-wide talent management process to support career development, progression and succession planning. |
Workplace and inclusion
• | We are committed to fostering an inclusive work environment that encourages employees to be their authentic selves. We have built and continue to actively engage strong community connections and partnerships with diverse organizations to promote equal opportunities and have implemented training initiatives to enhance employee inclusivity and self-awareness. |
• | We empower our employees to embrace their differences and commonalities to contribute to a culture of belonging. To help in this important work, all employees are encouraged to participate in our 13 Employee Resource Groups (“ERGs”) and Toastmasters, a communication and leadership club. These ERGs and Toastmasters are central to Genworth’s identity, driving allyship, education, resources and positive change throughout our workforce. |
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Social responsibility
• | We use our outreach platforms, including the Genworth Foundation, to extend our very purposeful impact in our communities through grants, program sponsorships, paid volunteer time for our employees and employee-directed charitable giving. We align philanthropic efforts with our primary business focus areas, our commitment to sustainability and other programs that are important to our employees. |
• | Please read our Sustainability Report to learn more about our collective accomplishments and plans to continue serving our customers, our colleagues, and our community. |
Workforce
• | We are proud to embrace a future where our associates, leadership and executives contribute to a culture of belonging and inclusion. |
• | As of December 31, 2024, we employed approximately 2,960 full-time and part-time employees globally, none of which are subject to a collective bargaining agreement. |
Information posted on our website, including our Sustainability Report, is not incorporated by reference into and does not form part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Directors and Executive Officers
See Part III, Item 10 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for information about our directors and executive officers.
Available Information
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act are available, without charge, on our website, www.genworth.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after we file or furnish such reports with the SEC. The public may read and copy any electronic materials we file or furnish with the SEC at the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov. Copies of our SEC filed or furnished reports are also available, without charge, from Genworth Investor Relations, 11011 West Broad Street, Glen Allen, VA 23060.
Our website also includes the charters of our audit committee, nominating and corporate governance committee, risk committee, and management development and compensation committee, our governance principles and the Company’s code of ethics. Copies of these materials also are available, without charge, from Genworth Investor Relations, at the above address. Within the time period required by the SEC and the New York Stock Exchange, we will post on our website any amendment to our code of ethics and any waiver applicable to any of our directors, executive officers or senior financial officers.
On June 4, 2024, our President and Chief Executive Officer certified to the New York Stock Exchange that he was not aware of any violation by us of the New York Stock Exchange’s corporate governance listing standards.
Transfer Agent and Registrar
Our transfer agent and registrar is Computershare, P.O. Box 43078, Providence, RI 02940-3078. Telephone: 866-229-8413; 201-680-6685 (outside the United States and Canada); and 800-231-5469 (for hearing impaired).
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Item 1A. | Risk Factors |
You should carefully consider the following risks. These risks could materially affect our business, results of operations or financial condition, cause the trading price of our common stock to decline materially or cause our actual results to differ materially from those expected or those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf. These risks are not exclusive, and additional risks to which we are subject include, but are not limited to, the factors mentioned under “Cautionary note regarding forward-looking statements” and the risks of our businesses described elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.
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Risk Factor Summary
The following summarizes material risks to the Company and is qualified by the full description contained below. The occurrence of any of the following risks or of unknown risks and uncertainties may adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
Risks Relating to Our Ability to Grow Our New Business, Products or Services
• | New lines of business or new products and services, such as those we are pursuing with CareScout, may not be successful or may subject us to additional risks. |
Risks Relating to Estimates, Assumptions and Valuations
• | We may be required to increase our reserves as a result of deviations from our estimates and actuarial assumptions or other reasons, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. |
• | If the models used in our businesses are inaccurate, it could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition. |
• | Our valuation of fixed maturity and equity securities uses methodologies, estimations and assumptions that are subject to change and differing interpretations which could result in changes to investment valuations that may materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. |
Liquidity, Financial Strength and Credit Ratings, and Counterparty and Credit Risks
• | Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings depend on the ability of Enact Holdings and its subsidiaries to pay dividends and make other payments and distributions to each of them to meet their obligations. |
• | Our sources of capital have become more limited, and under certain conditions we may need to seek additional capital on unfavorable terms. |
• | Adverse rating agency actions have in the past resulted in a loss of business and adversely affected our results of operations, financial condition and business, and future adverse rating actions could have a further and more significant adverse impact on us. |
• | Defaults by counterparties to our reinsurance arrangements or to derivative instruments we use to hedge our business risks, or defaults by us on agreements we have with these counterparties, may expose us to risks we sought to mitigate, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. |
• | Defaults or other events impacting the value of our fixed maturity securities portfolio may reduce our income. |
Risks Relating to Economic and Market Conditions
• | Interest rates and changes in rates could materially adversely affect our business and profitability. |
• | A deterioration in economic conditions, a severe recession or a decline in home prices, all of which could be driven by many potential factors, may adversely affect our business, profitability and Enact Holdings’ loss experience. |
Regulatory and Legal Risks
• | Changes in accounting and reporting standards issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board or other standard-setting bodies and insurance regulators could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. |
• | The inability to obtain in-force rate action increases (including increased premiums and associated benefit reductions) in our long-term care insurance business could have a material adverse impact on our business, including our results of operations and financial condition. |
• | Our insurance businesses are extensively regulated and changes in regulation may reduce our profitability and limit our growth. |
• | Litigation and regulatory investigations or other actions are common in the insurance business and may result in financial losses and harm our reputation. |
• | An adverse change in the regulatory requirements on our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, including risk-based capital requirements, could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition. |
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• | Changes to the charters or practices of the GSEs, including actions or decisions to decrease or discontinue the use of mortgage insurance, could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. |
• | If Enact is unable to continue to meet the requirements mandated by PMIERs because the GSEs amend them or the GSEs’ interpretation of the financial requirements requires Enact to hold amounts of capital that are higher than planned or otherwise, Enact may not be eligible to write new insurance on loans acquired by the GSEs, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. |
• | Enact Holdings’ U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries are subject to minimum statutory capital requirements, which if not met or waived, would result in restrictions or prohibitions on them doing business and could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. |
• | Changes in regulations that adversely affect the mortgage insurance markets in which Enact Holdings operates could affect its operations significantly and could reduce the demand for mortgage insurance. |
• | Our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries may not be able to continue to mitigate the impact of Regulations XXX or AXXX and, therefore, they may incur higher operating costs that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. |
Operational Risks
• | If we are unable to retain, attract and motivate qualified employees or senior management, our results of operations, financial condition and business operations may be adversely impacted. |
• | Changes in the composition of Enact Holdings’ business or undue concentration by customer or geographic region could cause a significant loss of business or adverse performance of a small segment of its portfolio. |
• | Our businesses could be adversely impacted from deficiencies in our disclosure controls and procedures or internal control over financial reporting. |
• | Our computer systems and those of our third-party service providers have in the past failed or been compromised and may in the future fail or be compromised, including through cybersecurity breaches; we may experience issues from new and complex information technology methodologies such as artificial intelligence; and unanticipated problems could materially adversely impact our disaster recovery systems and business continuity plans, any of which could expose confidential information such as personal information of our customers or employees, damage our reputation, impair our ability to conduct business effectively, result in enforcement action or litigation, and materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. |
• | We rely upon third-party vendors who may be unable or unwilling to meet their obligations to us. |
Insurance and Product-Related Risks
• | Enact Holdings may be unable to maintain or increase capital in its mortgage insurance subsidiaries in a timely manner, on anticipated terms or at all, including through improved business performance, reinsurance or similar transactions, securities offerings or otherwise, in each case as and when required. |
• | Reinsurance may not be available, affordable or adequate to protect us against losses. |
• | A decrease in the volume of high loan-to-value home mortgage originations or an increase in the volume of mortgage insurance cancellations could result in a decline in Enact Holdings’ revenue. |
• | The amount of mortgage insurance written by Enact Holdings could decline significantly if alternatives to private mortgage insurance are used or lower coverage levels of mortgage insurance are selected. |
• | Enact Holdings’ delegated underwriting and loss mitigation programs may subject its mortgage insurance subsidiaries to unanticipated claims. |
• | Medical advances, such as genetic research and diagnostic imaging, emerging new technology, including artificial intelligence and related legislation, could materially adversely affect the financial performance of our life insurance, long-term care insurance and annuity businesses. |
Other Emerging Risks
• | Other emerging risks, such as the occurrence of natural or man-made disasters, including geopolitical tensions and war; a public health emergency, including pandemics; climate change; or unknown risks and uncertainties associated with artificial intelligence could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. |
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Risks Relating to Our Ability to Grow Our New Business, Products or Services
New lines of business or new products and services, such as those we are pursuing with CareScout, may not be successful or may subject us to additional risks.
CareScout offers fee-based services, advice and consulting through CareScout Services and plans to offer traditional insurance products, including long-term care insurance, through CareScout Insurance. These offerings constitute a new line of business we are pursuing. There are risks and uncertainties associated with any new line of business. In developing and marketing new lines of business and new products and services, we expect to invest significant time and resources, including capital, and the attention of management and our Board of Directors could be diverted from other business operations. Our planned timeline for the development and introduction of new products or services may not be achieved, our expenditures may exceed revenues for longer than we anticipate, and our price and profitability targets may not prove feasible. Our ability to achieve anticipated business performance and financial results from CareScout could be adversely impacted for a variety of reasons and unforeseen events, including but not limited to, lower than anticipated customer demand, higher capital needs, staffing shortages and continued workflow disruptions, and impediments to Genworth Holdings’ liquidity caused by, among other things, downturns in the U.S. economy that reduce its strategic investments in CareScout. Furthermore, if customers do not perceive our new offerings as providing significant value, they may fail to accept our new products and services in the way we anticipate. External factors, such as competitive alternatives, including potential U.S. federal government programs, shifting market preferences and commercial and/or regulatory challenges, including the impact of our legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries on our ability to achieve desired financial strength ratings or the necessary regulatory approvals of new insurance products by CareScout Insurance, may also impact the successful implementation of a new line of business or a new product or service. Failure to successfully manage these risks in the development and implementation of our new lines of business or new products or services, specifically our inability to achieve anticipated business performance and financial results from CareScout, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Risks Relating to Estimates, Assumptions and Valuations
We may be required to increase our reserves as a result of deviations from our estimates and actuarial assumptions or other reasons, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We calculate and maintain reserves for estimated future payments of claims to our policyholders and contractholders in accordance with U.S. GAAP and industry accounting practices. We release these reserves as those future obligations are paid, experience changes or policies lapse. The reserves we establish reflect estimates and actuarial assumptions with regard to our future experience. These estimates and actuarial assumptions involve the exercise of significant judgment. Our future financial results depend significantly upon the extent to which our actual future experience is consistent with the assumptions and methodologies we have used in pricing our products and calculating our reserves.
Many factors, and changes in these factors, can affect future experience, including but not limited to: interest rates; investment returns and volatility; economic and social conditions, such as inflation, unemployment, home price appreciation or depreciation, and health care experience (including the type of care and cost of care); policyholder persistency or lapses (i.e., the probability that a policy or contract will remain in-force from one period to the next); insured mortality (i.e., life expectancy or longevity); insured morbidity (i.e., frequency and severity of claim, including claim termination rates, claim incidence, duration of claim and benefit utilization rates); future premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions; expenses; and doctrines of legal liability and damage awards in litigation. Because these factors are not known in advance, change over time, are difficult to accurately predict and are inherently uncertain, we cannot determine with precision the ultimate amounts we will pay for actual claims or the timing of those payments.
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At least annually, as part of our ongoing assessment of our business performance and risks, we review our assumptions to determine the adequacy of reserves. Generally, we do not anticipate trends in actual variances from expected experience to change significantly in the short-term and, to the extent these trends may change, we expect such changes to be gradual over the long-term. However, this may not prove to be the case. If we conclude that our reserves are insufficient to cover actual or expected policy and contract benefits and claim payments as a result of changes in experience, assumptions or otherwise, we would be required to increase our reserves and record a charge through earnings in the period in which we make the determination. The amounts of such increases to reserves and charges to earnings may be significant, and this could materially adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. Small changes in assumptions or small deviations of actual experience from assumptions can have, and in the past have had, material impacts on our reserves, results of operations and financial condition.
The long-term profitability of our products depends upon the accuracy of our long-term assumptions used to calculate our reserves and how our actual experience compares with our expected experience. If any of our long-term assumptions prove to be inaccurate, our reserves may be inadequate.
See “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Estimates” and notes 8, 9, 10 and 13 in our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information. Significant increases to our reserves may, among other things, limit our ability to execute on our business initiatives and adversely impact our credit or financial strength ratings. Any of these results could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We also perform cash flow testing or “asset adequacy analysis” separately for each of our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries on a statutory accounting basis. To the extent that the cash flow testing margin is negative in any of our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, we would need to increase statutory reserves in that company, which would decrease our RBC ratios. For additional information regarding impacts to statutory capital as a result of reserve increases, see “—An adverse change in the regulatory requirements on our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, including risk-based capital requirements, could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.”
Long-Term Care Insurance Segment
Long-term care insurance policies provide for long-duration coverage and, therefore, our actual claims experience will emerge over many years, or decades. The prices and expected future profitability of our long-term care insurance products are based in part upon expected patterns of premiums, expenses and benefits, using a number of assumptions, including, but not limited to, persistency, morbidity, and future premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions.
For our long-term care insurance policies, actual persistency in later policy durations that is higher than our expected persistency assumptions could have a negative impact on profitability. If these policies remain in-force longer than we assumed, then we could be required to make greater benefit payments than we anticipated. A significant number of our long-term care insurance policies have experienced higher persistency than we had originally assumed, which has resulted in higher claims and an adverse effect on profitability.
In addition, if morbidity rates are higher or mortality rates are lower than our valuation assumptions, we could be required to make greater payments and thus establish more reserves under our long-term care insurance policies than we had expected, and such amounts could be significant. Among other factors, changes in economic and interest rate risk, staffing shortages, socio-demographics, behavioral trends (e.g., location of care and level of benefit use) and medical advances, may also have a material adverse impact on our future claims trends. For example, the impact of inflation on claims could be more pronounced for our long-term care insurance business than our other businesses given the “long tail” nature of this business. We have observed an increase in the cost of care in recent years due in part to elevated inflation, resulting in higher claim payments in our long-term care
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insurance business. To the extent inflation or other factors cause health care costs to increase more than we anticipated, we will be required to increase our reserves which could negatively impact our profitability. Although we consider the potential effects of inflation when setting premium rates, our premiums may not fully offset the effects of inflation and may result in our underpricing of the risks we insure. Given these inherent challenges, our ability to precisely forecast future claim costs for long-term care insurance is limited.
For additional information on our long-term care insurance reserves, see “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Estimates—Liability for future policy benefits.”
Assumption updates and actual variances from expected experience
We use best estimate assumptions for our long-term care insurance business and the impacts of assumption updates are reflected as liability remeasurement gains or losses in the income statement based on issue-year cohorts. As a result, cash flow assumption updates as well as actual variances from expected experience on these long-duration products will continue to drive volatility in our long-term care insurance results. Approximately 50% of our cohorts currently have net premium ratios capped at 100%. The net premium ratio represents the portion of the gross premiums required to provide for all benefits and certain expenses in our long-term care insurance business. These capped cohorts are generally our older long-term care insurance policies, largely sold prior to 2003. The other 50% of our cohorts have a net premium ratio of less than 100% and are currently expected to be profitable. We would expect ongoing income statement impacts and volatility related to assumption updates and variances between actual and expected experience in our older, unprofitable capped cohorts going forward. Conversely, our profitable uncapped cohorts have to date had a more modest earnings impact related to assumption updates and variances between actual and expected experience, with a portion of the impact reflected in current period results and the remaining majority of the impact recognized over the life of the cohort. However, as we move further from the January 2021 transition date of the accounting guidance for long-duration insurance contracts adopted on January 1, 2023, we may see increased volatility from the uncapped cohorts, with more of the impact related to assumption updates and actual variances from expected experience recognized immediately in net income. While quarterly variations are typically expected to be relatively small compared to the overall size of our liability for future policy benefits of $43.0 billion, at the locked-in discount rate, for our long-term care insurance business as of December 31, 2024, these variations have had, and may in the future have, a material impact on our quarterly results of operations and can result in material losses in our long-term care insurance business.
See “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Long-Term Care Insurance segment” for the impacts of cash flow assumption updates and actual variances from expected experience.
In-force rate actions
The adequacy of our current long-term care insurance reserves depends significantly on our assumptions regarding our continuing ability to successfully execute our multi-year in-force rate action plan through premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions. In measuring our long-term care insurance reserves under U.S. GAAP, our in-force rate action assumptions include significant future premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions resulting from rate actions that have been approved, as well as rate actions that are anticipated to be approved (including premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions not yet filed) under our in-force rate action plan.
As part of our cash flow testing process for our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, we also consider incremental benefits from expected future in-force rate actions in our long-term care insurance products that help mitigate the impact of deteriorating experience. We may not be able to obtain regulatory approval for the future
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in-force rate actions we assumed in connection with our cash flow testing for our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries. If we do not obtain regulatory approval, we may be required to significantly further increase statutory reserves which could have a material adverse effect on our business, statutory results of operations and financial condition.
The NYDFS, which regulates GLICNY, our New York insurance subsidiary, also requires specific adequacy testing scenarios that are generally more severe than those deemed acceptable in other states. Moreover, the required testing scenarios by the NYDFS have a disproportionate impact on our long-term care insurance products. In addition, we use New York specific experience for setting assumptions in our long-term care insurance products in GLICNY. While the NYDFS generally does not permit in-force rate increases for long-term care insurance to be used in asset adequacy analysis until such increases have been approved, it has allowed GLICNY to incorporate recently filed in-force rate actions in its asset adequacy analysis prior to approval in the past. As a result, after discussions with the NYDFS and through the exercise of professional actuarial judgment, GLICNY incorporated assumptions for future in-force rate actions for long-term care insurance products in its 2024 and 2023 asset adequacy analysis to offset the emerging adverse experience for these products. With these assumption updates, GLICNY’s 2024 and 2023 asset adequacy analysis produced a negative margin. To address the negative margin, GLICNY recorded an incremental $79 million and $87 million of additional statutory reserves in 2024 and 2023, respectively, which resulted in an RBC ratio of 200% and 202% for GLICNY as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. For additional information on GLICNY asset adequacy testing, see note 20 in our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.” If the NYDFS no longer allows GLICNY to incorporate assumptions for future in-force rate actions in its asset adequacy analysis, this would result in a material decrease in GLICNY’s cash flow testing margin and would require GLICNY to further significantly increase its statutory reserves. This would have a material adverse effect on GLICNY’s financial condition and RBC ratio.
For additional information on our in-force rate actions in our long-term care insurance business, see “—The inability to obtain in-force rate action increases (including increased premiums and associated benefit reductions) in our long-term care insurance business could have a material adverse impact on our business, including our results of operations and financial condition.”
Life and Annuities Segment
The prices and expected future profitability of our life insurance and annuity products are based in part upon expected patterns of premiums, expenses and benefits, using a number of assumptions, including mortality, persistency and lapse. For example, if mortality rates are higher than our pricing and valuation assumptions, we could be required to make greater payments under our life insurance policies and annuity contracts with guaranteed minimum death benefits (“GMDBs”) than we had projected. Conversely, if mortality rates are lower than our valuation assumptions, we could be required to make greater payments and thus establish additional reserves under our annuity contracts without GMDBs and such amounts could be significant.
For our universal life insurance contracts, increased persistency that is the result of the sale of contracts by the insured to third parties that continue to make premium payments on contracts that would otherwise have lapsed, also known as life settlements, could have an adverse impact on profitability because of the higher claims rate associated with settled contracts. For our deferred annuity products with guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits and guaranteed annuitization benefits, actual persistency that is higher than our persistency assumptions could have an adverse impact on profitability because we could be required to make withdrawal or annuitization payments for a longer period of time than the account value would support.
The risk that our lapse experience may differ significantly from our valuation assumptions is also significant for our term life and term universal life insurance products. These products generally have a level premium period for a specified period of years (e.g., 10 years to 30 years) after which the premium increases, which may be significant. If the frequency of lapses is higher than our expected reserve assumption, we would experience
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lower premiums and could experience higher benefit costs. In addition, it may be that healthy policyholders are the ones who lapse (as they can more easily replace coverage), creating adverse selection where less healthy policyholders remain in our portfolio. We have experienced both a greater frequency of policyholder lapses and more severe adverse selection after the level premium period than originally assumed, and this experience could continue or worsen. If lapse experience continues or worsens on future 10-, 15- and 20-year level premium period blocks, we would expect volatility in premiums and mortality experience, which would reduce profitability in our term life insurance products, in amounts that could be material, if persistency is lower than our original assumptions. For additional information on our term life insurance reserves, including select sensitivities, see “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Estimates—Liability for future policy benefits.”
The valuation of market risk benefits associated with our fixed and variable annuity contracts is subject to capital market risks, primarily through equity market and interest rate volatility. We attempt to mitigate some of these risks through hedging strategies; however, adverse changes in equity market performance or interest rate fluctuations could devalue the expected benefits to contractholders resulting in the need to increase our market risk benefit reserves, which may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
Enact Segment
The establishment of loss reserves for Enact Holdings and its mortgage insurance subsidiaries is subject to inherent uncertainty and requires significant judgment and numerous assumptions. Enact Holdings establishes loss reserves using its best estimate of the rate at which delinquencies go to claim (“claim rate”) and claim severity to calculate estimated losses on loans reported by servicers as being in default as of the end of each reporting period. Enact Holdings also establishes incurred but not reported (“IBNR”) reserves for estimated losses incurred on loans in default that have not yet been reported by servicers. The sources of uncertainty affecting estimates are numerous and include both internal and external factors. Internal factors include, but are not limited to, changes in the mix of exposures, loss mitigation activities and claim settlement practices. Significant external factors include changes in general economic conditions, such as home prices, unemployment/underemployment, interest rates, tax policy, credit availability, government housing policies, government and GSE loss mitigation and mortgage forbearance programs, state foreclosure timelines, GSE and state foreclosure moratoriums and types of mortgage products. Because assumptions related to these factors are based on inputs that are inherently uncertain, Enact Holdings cannot determine with precision the ultimate amounts it will pay for actual claims or the timing of those payments.
In addition, sudden and/or unexpected deterioration of economic conditions may cause estimates of loss reserves to be materially understated. For example, during recessionary periods in the past, accompanied by increased unemployment and declining home prices, Enact Holdings has experienced higher delinquencies and increased losses. Furthermore, consistent with industry practice, Enact Holdings does not record losses on insured loans that are not in default. To the extent actual losses are greater than current loss reserves or if loans not in default become delinquent and go to claim, it could materially adversely impact our results of operations and financial condition and restrict Enact Holdings’ ability to distribute dividends to Genworth Holdings, thereby negatively impacting our liquidity.
Enact Holdings depends on the reliability of third-party servicing of the loans that it insures. If a servicer were to experience adverse effects to its business, Enact Holdings could experience delays in the servicer fulfilling its reporting and premium payment requirements. Without reliable, consistent third-party servicing, Enact Holdings may be unable to properly recognize and establish reserves on loans when a delinquency exists or occurs but is not reported. In addition, if these servicers fail to limit and mitigate losses when appropriate, Enact Holdings’ losses may unexpectedly increase.
Enact Holdings regularly reviews its reserves and associated assumptions. If Enact Holdings concludes its reserves are insufficient to cover actual or expected claim payments as a result of changes in experience,
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assumptions or otherwise, it would be required to increase its reserves and incur charges in the period in which the determination was made. The amounts of such increases could be significant, and this may materially adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition and liquidity.
If the models used in our businesses are inaccurate, it could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We employ models to, among other uses, price products, calculate reserves, value assets, make investment decisions and generate projections used to estimate future pre-tax income, as well as to evaluate risk, determine internal capital requirements and perform stress testing. These models rely on estimates and projections that are inherently uncertain, may use data and/or assumptions that do not adequately reflect recent experience and relevant industry data, and may not operate as intended. In addition, from time to time we seek to improve certain actuarial and financial models, and the conversion process may result in material changes to assumptions and financial results. The models we employ are complex, which increases our risk of error in their design, implementation or use. Also, the associated input data, assumptions and calculations and the controls we have in place to mitigate these risks may not be effective in all cases. The risks related to our models often increase when we change assumptions and/or methodologies, add or change modeling platforms or implement model changes under time constraints. These risks are exacerbated when the process for assumption changes strains our overall governance and timing around our financial reporting.
We intend to continue developing our modeling capabilities, including new and emerging artificial intelligence methodologies. During or after the implementation of model updates or enhancements, we may discover errors, risks or other deficiencies in existing models, assumptions and/or methodologies. Moreover, we may use additional, more granular and detailed information through enhancements in our reserving and other processes or we may employ more simplified approaches in the future, either of which may cause us to refine or otherwise change existing assumptions and/or methodologies and thus associated reserve levels, which in turn could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Specific to Enact Holdings, models may prove to be less predictive than expected for a variety of reasons, including changes in credit scoring and reporting processes, economic conditions that develop differently than forecasted, unique conditions for which we do not have good historical comparators, unexpected economic and unemployment conditions that arise, changes in the law or in PMIERs and the use of short-term financial metrics that do not reveal long-term trends.
Enact Holdings establishes premium rates for the duration of a mortgage insurance certificate upon issuance and cannot adjust the premiums after a certificate is issued. As a result, Enact Holdings cannot offset the impact of unanticipated claims with premium increases on coverage in-force. Enact Holdings’ premium rates vary with the perceived risk of a claim and prepayment on the insured loan and are developed using models based on long term historical experience, which take into account a number of factors including, but not limited to, the loan-to-value ratio, whether the mortgage provides for fixed payments or variable payments, the term of the mortgage, the borrower’s credit history, the borrower’s income and assets, and home price appreciation. In the event the premiums Enact Holdings charges do not adequately compensate for the risks and costs associated with the provided coverage, including costs associated with unforeseen higher claims, it may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our valuation of fixed maturity and equity securities uses methodologies, estimations and assumptions that are subject to change and differing interpretations which could result in changes to investment valuations that may materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We report fixed maturity and equity securities at fair value in our consolidated balance sheets. These securities represent the majority of our total cash, cash equivalents and invested assets. Our portfolio of fixed maturity securities consists primarily of investment grade securities. Valuations use inputs and assumptions that
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are less observable or require greater estimation, as well as valuation methods that are more complex or require greater estimation, thereby resulting in values that are less certain and may vary significantly from the value at which the investments may be ultimately sold. The methodologies, estimates and assumptions we use in valuing our investment securities evolve over time and are subject to different interpretation (including based on developments in relevant accounting literature), all of which can lead to changes in the value of our investment securities. Rapidly changing and unanticipated interest rate, external macroeconomic, credit and equity market conditions could materially impact the valuation of investment securities as reported within our consolidated financial statements, and the period-to-period changes in value could vary significantly. Decreases in value may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition.
Liquidity, Financial Strength and Credit Ratings, and Counterparty and Credit Risks
Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings depend on the ability of Enact Holdings and its subsidiaries to pay dividends and make other payments and distributions to each of them to meet their obligations.
Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings each act as a holding company and do not have business operations of their own. Dividends and other capital returns from Enact Holdings and its subsidiaries, permitted payments to Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings under tax sharing and expense reimbursement arrangements with their subsidiaries and proceeds from borrowings are their principal sources of cash to meet their obligations. These obligations principally include operating expenses, including income taxes, and interest and principal payments on current and future borrowings. We began paying federal income taxes in 2023, resulting in lower intercompany cash tax payments retained by Genworth Holdings from its subsidiaries in 2024 as compared to the amounts retained during recent prior years. We anticipate lower intercompany cash tax payments to be retained going forward as we utilized our remaining foreign tax credits in 2023. We manage our legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries on a standalone basis, and accordingly, we do not expect to receive dividends or other capital returns from them. Therefore, our holding companies’ liquidity and capital positions are highly dependent on the performance of Enact Holdings and its ability to pay future dividends and other forms of capital returns.
If the cash Genworth Financial or Genworth Holdings receives pursuant to dividends, other capital returns and tax sharing and expense reimbursement arrangements is insufficient to fund any of their obligations, or if Enact Holdings is unable or unwilling for any reason to pay dividends to Genworth Holdings, our liquidity would be materially adversely impacted which would likely have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and overall business. Moreover, if Genworth Financial or Genworth Holdings do not receive sufficient cash to fund their obligations, they may be forced to raise cash through unfavorable arrangements or terms, including but not limited to, the incurrence of debt (including convertible or exchangeable debt), the sale of assets or the issuance of equity. See “—Our sources of capital have become more limited, and under certain conditions we may need to seek additional capital on unfavorable terms” for additional details.
Enact Holdings’ evaluation of future dividend payments to Genworth Holdings and our holding companies’ overall resulting liquidity plans are subject to and dependent on, among other things, current and future market conditions, Enact Holdings’ business performance and capital preservation, corporate law restrictions, insurance laws and regulations, Enact Holdings’ ability to maintain adequate capital to meet its current and future requirements mandated by PMIERs or other GSE requirements, and business and regulatory approvals.
For additional details on PMIERs and risks associated with an inability to meet its requirements, see “—If Enact is unable to continue to meet the requirements mandated by PMIERs because the GSEs amend them or the GSEs’ interpretation of the financial requirements requires Enact to hold amounts of capital that are higher than planned or otherwise, Enact may not be eligible to write new insurance on loans acquired by the GSEs, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition” and “Regulation—Enact—Mortgage Insurance Regulation—Other U.S. Regulation and Agency Qualification Requirements.”
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In general, dividends are required to be submitted to an insurer’s domiciliary department of insurance for review, and distributions from sources other than unassigned surplus require affirmative approval before being paid. In addition, insurance regulators may prohibit the payment of dividends and distributions or other payments by the insurance subsidiaries (such as a payment under a tax sharing agreement or for employee or other services, including expense reimbursements) if they determine that such payment could be adverse to policyholders.
Genworth Financial has the right to appoint a majority of directors to the board of directors of Enact Holdings; however, actions taken by Enact Holdings and its board of directors (including in the case of the payment of dividends, the approval of Enact Holdings’ independent capital committee) are subject to and may be limited by the interests of Enact Holdings, including but not limited to, its use of capital for growth opportunities and regulatory requirements.
Our sources of capital have become more limited, and under certain conditions we may need to seek additional capital on unfavorable terms.
Although Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings continue to significantly improve their overall financial condition, they still need liquidity to pay operating expenses, debt servicing costs and other obligations. As of December 31, 2024, Genworth Holdings had $790 million aggregate principal amount of outstanding debt that matures starting in 2034. Absent receiving dividends or other capital returns from Enact Holdings as anticipated, we would likely need to access additional liquidity through third-party sources. However, we may not be able to raise capital and/or borrowings on favorable terms based on our credit ratings and current business prospects, particularly given the aforementioned risks associated with launching new business initiatives offered by CareScout. There is no guarantee that any of these factors will improve in the future when we would seek additional capital. Disruptions, volatility and uncertainty in the financial markets and downgrades in our credit ratings may force us to delay raising capital, issue shorter term securities than would be optimal, bear an unattractive cost of capital or be unable to raise capital at any price. Furthermore, our ability to raise additional capital, including through additional minority equity offerings of Enact Holdings or the issuance of equity or debt, could depend on a variety of factors such as market conditions, regulatory considerations, the general availability of credit, the level of activity and availability of reinsurance, our credit ratings and credit capacity and the performance of and outlook for Enact Holdings. Market conditions and a variety of other factors may make it difficult or impracticable to generate additional liquidity on favorable terms or at all. Similarly, market conditions and a variety of other factors may make it difficult or impracticable to generate additional liquidity through asset sales or the issuance of additional equity, and any issuance of equity in such circumstances could be highly dilutive to our stockholders. Any failure to meet our financial obligations as they become due would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We do not currently have a revolving credit facility at the Genworth Holdings level to provide liquidity. To the extent we need additional funding to satisfy our additional liquidity needs, we may not be able to enter into a new credit facility on terms (or at targeted amounts) acceptable to us or at all.
For a further discussion of our liquidity, see “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources.”
Adverse rating agency actions have in the past resulted in a loss of business and adversely affected our results of operations, financial condition and business, and future adverse rating actions could have a further and more significant adverse impact on us.
Financial strength ratings, which various rating agencies publish as measures of an insurance company’s ability to meet contractholder and policyholder obligations, are important to maintaining public confidence in our products, the ability to market our products, including new insurance products offered by CareScout Insurance, and our competitive position. Credit ratings, which rating agencies publish as measures of an entity’s ability to repay its indebtedness, are important to our ability to raise capital through the issuance of debt and other forms of
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credit and to the cost of such financing. Our ratings are subject to periodic review and could be downgraded. Rating agencies could change or expand their requirements or could find that our insurance subsidiaries no longer meet the criteria established for current ratings.
Over the course of the last several years prior to 2021, the ratings of our holding companies and all our insurance subsidiaries were downgraded, placed on negative outlook and/or put on review for potential downgrade on various occasions. A ratings downgrade, negative outlook or review could occur again for a variety of reasons, including reasons specifically related to our company, generally related to our industry or the broader financial services industry or as a result of changes by the rating agencies in their methodologies or rating criteria. A negative outlook on our ratings or a downgrade in any of our financial strength or credit ratings, the announcement of a potential downgrade, negative outlook or review, or customer, investor, regulator or other concerns about the possibility of a downgrade, negative outlook or review, could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and business.
See “Item 1—Business—Ratings” for information regarding the current financial strength ratings of our principal insurance subsidiaries.
The direct or indirect effects of such adverse ratings actions or any future actions could include, but are not limited to:
• | ceasing and/or reducing new sales of our products or limiting the business opportunities with which we are presented; |
• | adversely affecting our relationships with existing distributors, including the loss of exclusivity under certain agreements with our independent sales intermediaries and distribution partners, or negatively impacting our ability to establish relationships with new distributors; |
• | causing us to lose key distributors that have ratings requirements that we may no longer satisfy (or resulting in our renegotiation of new, less favorable arrangements with those distributors); |
• | requiring us to modify some of our existing products or services to remain competitive, including reducing premiums we charge, or introduce new products or services; |
• | materially increasing the number or amount of policy surrenders, withdrawals and loans by contractholders and policyholders; |
• | requiring us to post additional collateral for our derivatives or hedging agreements tied to the credit ratings of our holding companies; |
• | requiring us to provide support, or to arrange for third-party support, in the form of collateral, capital contributions or letters of credit under the terms of certain of our reinsurance and other agreements, or otherwise securing our commercial counterparties for the perceived risk of our financial strength; |
• | adversely affecting our ability to maintain reinsurance or obtain new reinsurance or obtain it on reasonable pricing and other terms; |
• | increasing the capital charge associated with affiliated investments within certain of our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries thereby lowering capital and RBC of these subsidiaries and negatively impacting our financial flexibility; |
• | regulators requiring certain of our subsidiaries to maintain additional capital, limiting thereby our financial flexibility and requiring us to raise additional capital; |
• | adversely affecting our ability to raise capital; |
• | increased scrutiny by the GSEs and/or by customers, potentially resulting in a decrease in the amount of new insurance written; |
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• | increasing our cost of borrowing and making it more difficult to borrow in the public debt markets or enter into a credit agreement; and |
• | making it more difficult to execute on CareScout initiatives. |
Under PMIERs, the GSEs require maintenance of at least one rating with a rating agency acceptable to the respective GSE. The current PMIERs do not include a specific eligibility ratings requirement, but if this were to change, Enact would become subject to a ratings requirement in order to retain its eligibility status under PMIERs. Ratings downgrades that result in the inability of Enact to insure new mortgage loans sold to the GSEs, or the transfer by the GSEs of its existing policies to an alternative mortgage insurer, would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. See “—If Enact is unable to continue to meet the requirements mandated by PMIERs because the GSEs amend them or the GSEs’ interpretation of the financial requirements requires Enact to hold amounts of capital that are higher than planned or otherwise, Enact may not be eligible to write new insurance on loans acquired by the GSEs, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition” for additional information regarding the requirements under PMIERs. Relationships with mortgage insurance customers may be adversely affected by the ratings assigned to Genworth Holdings or our principal insurance subsidiaries which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. EMICO, our principal U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiary, has financial strength ratings that are relatively consistent with its competitors. However, any assigned financial strength rating that is below other private mortgage insurers, or any future downgrade or the announcement of a potential downgrade in EMICO’s financial strength ratings, could hinder our competitiveness in the marketplace and could result in an adverse impact to our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Defaults by counterparties to our reinsurance arrangements or to derivative instruments we use to hedge our business risks, or defaults by us on agreements we have with these counterparties, may expose us to risks we sought to mitigate, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We routinely execute reinsurance and derivative transactions with reinsurers, broker-dealers, commercial banks, investment banks and other institutional counterparties to mitigate our risks in various circumstances and to hedge various business risks. Many of these transactions expose us to credit risk in the event of default of our counterparty or client or change in collateral value. Reinsurance does not relieve us of our direct liability to our policyholders, even when the reinsurer is liable to us. Accordingly, we bear credit risk with respect to our reinsurers. It is possible that our reinsurers may not pay the reinsurance recoverable owed to us now, in the future or on a timely basis. A reinsurer’s insolvency, inability or unwillingness to make payments under the terms of its reinsurance agreement with us could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. Collateral is often posted by the counterparty to offset this risk; however, we bear the risk that the collateral declines in value or otherwise is inadequate to fully compensate us in the event of a default. We also enter into a variety of derivative instruments, including options, swaps, forwards, and interest rate and currency swaps with a number of counterparties. If our counterparties fail or refuse to honor their obligations under the derivative instruments, and collateral posted, if any, is inadequate, our hedges of the related risk will be ineffective. In addition, if we trigger downgrade provisions on risk-hedging or reinsurance arrangements, the counterparties to these arrangements may be able to terminate our arrangements with them or require us to take other measures, such as post additional collateral, contribute capital or provide letters of credit. We have agreed to new terms with almost all of our counterparties concerning our collateral arrangements given our low ratings and, in most cases, agreed to post excess collateral to maintain our existing derivative agreements. Moreover, the new terms also removed the credit downgrade provisions from all of the insurance company master swap agreements and replaced them with a provision that allows the counterparty to terminate the derivative transaction if the RBC ratio of the applicable insurance company goes below a certain threshold. Although we believe this has allowed us to maintain effective hedging relationships with our counterparties, it has added additional strain on liquidity and collateral sufficiency. Furthermore, we may not be able to maintain these
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current arrangements in the foreseeable future or at all. If counterparties exercise their rights to terminate transactions, we may be required to make cash payments to the counterparty based on the current contract value, which would hinder our ability to manage future risks.
We ceded to UFLIC our in-force structured settlements block of business issued prior to 2004, certain variable annuity business issued prior to 2004 and the long-term care insurance business assumed from legal entities now a part of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company. UFLIC has established trust accounts for our benefit to secure its obligations under the reinsurance arrangements. GE is obligated to maintain UFLIC’s RBC above a specified minimum level pursuant to a Capital Maintenance Agreement. If UFLIC becomes insolvent notwithstanding this agreement, and the amounts in the trust accounts are insufficient to pay UFLIC’s obligations to us, it could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. The loss of material risk-hedging or reinsurance arrangements could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. For additional information on UFLIC reinsurance, see note 7 in our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”
Defaults or other events impacting the value of our fixed maturity securities portfolio may reduce our income.
We are subject to the risk that the issuers or guarantors of investment securities we own may default on principal or interest payments they owe us. As of December 31, 2024, fixed maturity securities of $44.9 billion in our investment portfolio represented 75% of our total cash, cash equivalents and invested assets. Events reducing the value of our investment portfolio other than on a temporary basis could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Levels of write-downs or expected credit losses are impacted by our assessment of the financial condition of the issuer, whether or not the issuer is expected to pay its principal and interest obligations, and our expected recoveries in the event of a default or circumstances that would require us to sell securities that have declined in value.
Risks Relating to Economic and Market Conditions
Interest rates and changes in rates could materially adversely affect our business and profitability.
Insurance Products and Investments
Our products and investment portfolio are impacted by interest rate fluctuations. We have experienced significant declines in investment valuations as a result of elevated interest rates, and we may experience further declines if credit deteriorates resulting in credit losses. During periods of increasing interest rates, market values of lower-yielding assets will decline resulting in unrealized losses on our investment portfolio. The rise in interest rates during 2022 through most of 2024 had an adverse impact on our financial position. The U.S. Federal Reserve began decreasing the federal funds rate in September 2024 but paused rate cuts in January 2025, due in part to the persistent nature of elevated inflation outside their targeted range. Despite the decrease in the federal funds rate, long-term treasury yields were higher at the end of 2024 compared to the end of 2023. It is possible interest rates could increase in future periods, which could result in a further decline in our stockholders’ equity. Rising interest rates erode the value of our investment portfolio and reduce our unrealized investment gains. Any material reduction in unrealized gains or increase in unrealized losses on our investment portfolio or forward starting swap derivatives due to higher interest rates could impede our ability to utilize certain deferred tax assets and/or result in the need to establish higher tax valuation allowances, either of which could materially adversely impact our results of operations and financial position.
Interest rate fluctuations could also have an adverse effect on the results of our investment portfolio by increasing reinvestment risk and reducing our ability to achieve adequate investment returns. During periods of declining market interest rates, the interest we receive on variable interest rate investments decreases. In addition, during those periods, we reinvest the cash we receive as interest or return of principal on our investments in
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lower-yielding high-grade instruments or in lower-credit instruments to maintain comparable returns. Issuers of fixed-income securities may decide to prepay their obligations in order to borrow at lower market rates, which exacerbates our reinvestment risk.
The pricing and expected future profitability of our long-term care insurance, life insurance and annuity products are based in part on expected investment returns. Generally, life and long-term care insurance products are expected to initially produce positive cash flows as customers pay periodic premiums, which we invest as they are received. The premiums, along with accumulated investment earnings, are needed to pay claims, which are generally expected to exceed premiums in later years. Given the average life of our assets is shorter than the average life of the liabilities on these products, our reinvestment risk is also greater in low interest rate environments as a significant portion of cash flows used to pay benefits to our policyholders and contractholders comes from investment returns. If interest rates return to low levels, it would adversely affect the profitability of our long-term care insurance, life insurance and fixed annuity products. Low interest rates may also increase hedging costs on our in-force block of variable annuity products. In addition, certain statutory capital requirements for our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries are based on models that consider interest rates. Prolonged periods of low interest rates may increase the statutory reserves we are required to hold as well as the amount of assets and capital we must maintain to support amounts of statutory reserves in these companies.
During periods of increasing market interest rates, we may increase crediting rates on interest-sensitive in-force products, such as universal life insurance and fixed annuities. Rapidly rising interest rates may lead to increased policy surrenders, withdrawals from life insurance policies and annuity contracts and requests for policy loans, as policyholders and contractholders shift assets into higher yielding investments. Increases in crediting rates, as well as surrenders and withdrawals, could have a material adverse effect on our liquidity, financial condition and results of operations, including the requirement to liquidate fixed-income investments in an unrealized loss position to satisfy surrenders or withdrawals.
Our insurance and investment products, such as those included in our policyholder account balances and separate accounts, are sensitive to interest rate fluctuations and expose us to the risk that declines in interest rates or tightening credit spreads will reduce our interest rate margin or net spreads (the difference between the returns we earn on the investments that support our obligations under these products and the amounts we pay to policyholders and contractholders). We may reduce the interest rates we credit on most of these products only at limited, pre-established intervals, and some contracts have guaranteed minimum interest crediting rates. As a result of historic low interest rates prior to 2022, a lack of new deposits and declines in our interest rate margin on these products, our business and profitability have been adversely impacted. During 2024, we continued to experience lower net spreads on our annuity products due to crediting rates outpacing investment returns, coupled with lower annuity account values driven by block runoff. This unfavorable trend occurred in spite of the higher interest rate environment, and if it persists, could result in further net spread compression and an adverse impact to our results of operations.
In addition, our insurance reserves are sensitive to movements in interest rates as we are required to remeasure our liability for future policy benefits and related reinsurance recoverables at the current discount rate, commonly interpreted to be a single-A rated bond rate. This will likely result in volatility to our stockholders’ equity. For example, if the U.S. Federal Reserve continues to reverse its monetary tightening by reducing interest rates, our insurance reserves would increase and our stockholders’ equity would decrease by amounts that could be material, which may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition. See note 2 in “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional details on the measurement of our insurance reserves.
Enact—Mortgage Insurance
Rising interest rates generally reduce the volume of new mortgage originations and refinances, which could cause new insurance written by Enact Holdings to decline materially and could thereby pressure earnings and
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lead to an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition. The U.S. housing market experienced a dramatic decline in the volume of mortgage originations in 2022 through 2024 due largely to rising interest rates, a low supply of homes and pressured affordability, resulting in lower new insurance written at Enact Holdings. The decrease in new insurance written was generally offset by higher persistency on Enact Holdings’ existing insured loans as a result of prevailing market interest rates being above the mortgage interest rates of the majority of Enact Holdings’ loan portfolio. However, the ultimate impact on Enact Holdings’ premiums and future new insurance written is difficult to predict. We could experience a future adverse impact to our results of operations if the volume of new insurance written remains suppressed for a prolonged period of time. Higher interest rates can lead to an increase in defaults, as borrowers who default will find it harder to qualify for a replacement loan. Rising interest rates can also have a negative impact on home prices, which increases our risk of loss. Any significant decline in home values, either due to rising rates or otherwise, particularly if accompanied by increased unemployment in a recessionary environment, could increase delinquencies and foreclosures at Enact Holdings, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. See “—A deterioration in economic conditions, a severe recession or a decline in home prices, all of which could be driven by many potential factors, may adversely affect our business, profitability and Enact Holdings’ loss experience.”
As seen prior to 2022, declining interest rates historically have increased the rate at which borrowers refinance their existing mortgages, resulting in cancellations of the mortgage insurance covering the refinanced loans. Declining interest rates have also contributed to home price appreciation, which may provide borrowers in the United States with the option of cancelling their mortgage insurance coverage earlier than we anticipated when pricing that coverage. Lower persistency rates can result in reduced insurance in-force and earned premiums, which could have a significant adverse impact on our results of operations. See “—A decrease in the volume of high loan-to-value home mortgage originations or an increase in the volume of mortgage insurance cancellations could result in a decline in Enact Holdings’ revenue.”
See “Part II—Item 7A—Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” for additional information about interest rate risk.
A deterioration in economic conditions, a severe recession or a decline in home prices, all of which could be driven by many potential factors, may adversely affect our business, profitability and Enact Holdings’ loss experience.
The U.S. economy faces lingering uncertainty due to continued inflationary pressure, the geopolitical environment, U.S. national debt and ongoing budget deficits, and other macroeconomic concerns, including international trade and escalating tariffs. The potential of rising unemployment rates and deterioration in economic conditions across the United States or in specific regional economies generally increases the likelihood of borrower defaults and can adversely affect housing values, which increases our risk of loss. Loss experience in Enact Holdings generally results from adverse economic or other events, such as a borrower’s reduction of income, unemployment, underemployment, divorce, illness, inability to manage credit, or a change in interest rate levels or home values, that reduce a borrower’s willingness or ability to continue to make mortgage payments.
Housing values could be adversely impacted due to trends that affect the housing and mortgage markets, such as changes in supply or demand for homes, changes in homebuyers’ expectations for potential home price appreciation, increased restrictions or costs for obtaining mortgage credit due to tightened underwriting standards, tax policy, regulatory developments, higher interest rates and customers’ liquidity issues. Recent home price appreciation coupled with high interest rates has placed pressure on housing affordability. The pace of existing single-family home sales remains depressed as homeowners are reluctant to sell their house and pay significantly higher mortgage rates for a new one.
Should home values decline, Enact Holdings could experience a higher frequency and severity of defaults. A decline in home values typically makes it more difficult for borrowers to sell or refinance their homes,
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increasing the likelihood of a default followed by a claim if borrowers experience a job loss or other life events that reduce their incomes or increase their expenses. Declines in home values may also decrease the willingness of borrowers with sufficient financial resources to make mortgage payments when their mortgage balances exceed the values of their homes. In addition, declining housing values may impact the effectiveness of Enact Holdings’ loss mitigation programs, eroding the value of the underlying collateral and reducing the likelihood that properties with defaulted mortgages can be sold for an amount sufficient to offset the unpaid principal and interest. As a result, declines in home values may increase the risk of loss and typically increase the severity of claims Enact Holdings may pay. Any of these events may have a material adverse effect on Enact Holdings, which could result in a material adverse effect on our business, liquidity, results of operations and financial condition.
The ultimate amount of the potential loss depends in part on whether the home of a borrower who defaults on a mortgage can be sold for an amount that will cover the unpaid principal balance, interest and the expenses of the sale. In previous economic slowdowns in the United States, a pronounced weakness in the housing market ensued, as well as declines in home prices driving high levels of delinquencies. If we experience a future economic slowdown or an economic recession in the United States that impacts the housing market in a similar way as compared to past economic slowdowns, we would expect higher levels of delinquencies in Enact Holdings.
Regulatory and Legal Risks
Changes in accounting and reporting standards issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board or other standard-setting bodies and insurance regulators could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our financial statements are subject to the application of U.S. GAAP, which is periodically revised and/or expanded. Accordingly, from time to time, we are required to adopt new or revised accounting standards issued by recognized authoritative bodies, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board. It is possible that future accounting and reporting standards we are required to adopt could change the current accounting treatment that we apply to our financial statements and that such changes could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. Moreover, insurance regulators or the SEC could disagree with our interpretation of these new standards, which could cause us to incur significant costs and suffer reputational harm. In addition, the required adoption and effectiveness of future accounting and reporting standards may result in significant costs to implement. For additional information on recently enacted climate disclosure laws and regulatory guidance, including SB 253 in California and the final rules adopted in March 2024 by the SEC related to climate-related disclosures that were subject to a stay pending court challenge and are now being reviewed by the SEC under the new U.S. Administration, see “Regulation—Other Laws and Regulations—Climate change and financial risks.” These requirements would also likely require us to make significant changes to systems and controls, and add additional resources, either of which may be material to our business and results of operations.
The inability to obtain in-force rate action increases (including increased premiums and associated benefit reductions) in our long-term care insurance business could have a material adverse impact on our business, including our results of operations and financial condition.
The continued sustainability of our legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries is heavily dependent on our ability to continue to obtain significant premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions on our in-force long-term care insurance products.
Although the terms of our long-term care insurance policies permit us to increase premiums under certain circumstances during the premium-paying period, these increases generally require regulatory approval, which
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can often take a long time to obtain and may not be obtained in all relevant jurisdictions or for the full amounts requested. In addition, some states have adopted or are considering adopting laws that would further limit increases in long-term care insurance premium rates beyond the statutes and regulations previously adopted in certain states, which would adversely impact our ability to achieve anticipated rate increases. Furthermore, some states have refused to approve actuarially justified rate actions or have required that approved rate actions be phased in over an extended period of time.
We will not be able to realize our future premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions in the future if we cannot obtain the required regulatory approvals. In this event, we would have to increase our long-term care insurance reserves by amounts that would likely be material and would result in a material adverse impact to earnings. Moreover, if we were to see unexpected, materially adverse experience, securing regulatory approval for all necessary premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions would become more difficult. Given the claims history in our long-term care insurance business and its related pressure to reserve levels and earnings, and the expectation that claims will continue to rise due to the aging of the block and from higher incidence and severity, among other factors, our results of operations, capital levels, RBC and financial condition would be materially adversely affected absent future premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions.
Our policyholders may not react as anticipated to our in-force rate increases. In certain circumstances, our policyholders have brought legal action against us due to alleged misleading and inadequate disclosures regarding premium rate increases. See “—Litigation and regulatory investigations or other actions are common in the insurance business and may result in financial losses and harm our reputation” and “Part II—Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Long-Term Care Insurance segment” for additional information.
Our insurance businesses are extensively regulated and changes in regulation may reduce our profitability and limit our growth.
Our insurance operations are subject to a wide variety of laws and regulations and are extensively regulated. State insurance laws regulate most aspects of our U.S. insurance businesses, and our insurance subsidiaries are regulated by the insurance departments of the states in which they are domiciled and licensed. Our international operations, predominantly located in Mexico as well as a subsidiary of Enact Holdings domiciled in Bermuda, are principally regulated by insurance regulatory authorities in the jurisdictions in which they are domiciled. Failure to comply with applicable regulations or to obtain or maintain appropriate authorizations or exemptions under any applicable laws could result in restrictions on our ability to do business or engage in activities regulated in one or more jurisdictions in which we operate and could subject us to fines and other sanctions which could have a material adverse effect on our business. In addition, the nature and extent of regulation of our activities in applicable jurisdictions could materially change, causing a material adverse effect on our business. Although future regulatory changes are unknown, we expect our regulators to continue to pursue new regulation or supplement existing regulations in the areas of environmental, social and corporate governance, as well as cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Insurance regulatory authorities have broad administrative powers, which at times, are coordinated and communicated across regulatory bodies. These administrative powers include, but are not limited to:
• | licensing companies and agents to transact business; |
• | calculating the value of assets and determining the eligibility of assets to determine compliance with statutory requirements; |
• | mandating certain insurance benefits; |
• | regulating certain premium rates; |
• | reviewing and approving policy forms; |
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• | regulating discrimination in pricing, coverage terms and other insurance practices, as well as unfair trade and claims practices, including through the imposition of restrictions on marketing and sales practices, distribution arrangements and payment of inducements; |
• | establishing and revising statutory capital and reserve requirements and solvency standards; |
• | fixing maximum interest rates on insurance policy loans and minimum rates for guaranteed crediting rates on life insurance policies and annuity contracts; |
• | approving premium increases and associated benefit reductions; |
• | evaluating enterprise risk to an insurer; |
• | approving changes in control of insurance companies; |
• | restricting the payment of dividends and other transactions between affiliates; |
• | regulating the types, amounts and valuation of investments; |
• | restricting the types of insurance products that may be offered; and |
• | imposing insurance eligibility criteria. |
State insurance regulators and the NAIC regularly re-examine existing laws and regulations, specifically focusing on modifications to SAP, interpretations of existing laws and the development of new laws and regulations applicable to insurance companies and their products. Any adopted future legislation or NAIC regulations may be more restrictive on our ability to conduct business than current regulatory requirements or may result in higher costs or increased statutory capital and reserve requirements. Further, because laws and regulations can be complex and sometimes inexact, there is also a risk that any particular regulator’s or enforcement authority’s interpretation of a legal, accounting or reserving issue may change over time to our detriment or expose us to different or additional regulatory risks. The application of these regulations and guidelines by insurers involves interpretations and judgments that may differ from those of state insurance departments. Such differences of opinion may result in regulatory, tax or other challenges to the actions we have taken to date. The result of those potential challenges could require us to increase levels of statutory capital and reserves or incur higher operating costs and/or have implications on certain tax positions.
Litigation and regulatory investigations or other actions are common in the insurance business and may result in financial losses and harm our reputation.
We face the risk of litigation and regulatory investigations or other actions in the ordinary course of operating our businesses, including the risk of class action lawsuits. Our pending legal and regulatory actions include proceedings specific to us and others generally applicable to business practices in the industries in which we operate.
In our insurance operations, we are, have been, or may become subject to class actions and individual suits alleging, among other things, issues relating to sales or underwriting practices, increases to in-force long-term care insurance premiums, payment of contingent or other sales commissions, claims payments and procedures, product design, product disclosure, product administration, additional premium charges for premiums paid on a periodic basis, denial or delay of benefits, charging excessive or impermissible fees on products, recommending unsuitable products to customers, our pricing structures and business practices in our mortgage insurance subsidiaries, such as captive reinsurance arrangements with lenders and contract underwriting services, violations of RESPA or related state anti-inducement laws, and mortgage insurance policy rescissions and curtailments, as well as breaching fiduciary or other duties to customers, including but not limited to cybersecurity breaches of customer information. In our investment-related operations, we are subject to litigation involving commercial disputes with counterparties. We also from time to time have had, and may in the future have, disputes with reinsurance partners relating to the parties’ rights and obligations under reinsurance treaties and/or related
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administration agreements. In addition, we are also subject to various regulatory inquiries, such as information requests, subpoenas, books and record examinations and market conduct and financial examinations from state, federal and international regulators and other authorities. Plaintiffs in class action and other lawsuits against us, as well as regulators, may seek very large or indeterminate amounts, which may remain unknown for substantial periods of time.
We are also subject to litigation arising out of our general business activities such as our contractual and employment relationships, including claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and we are also subject to shareholder putative class action lawsuits alleging securities law violations.
A substantial legal liability or a significant regulatory action (including uncertainty about the outcome of pending legal and regulatory investigations and actions) against us could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Moreover, even if we ultimately prevail in the litigation, regulatory action or investigation, we could suffer significant reputational harm and incur significant legal expenses, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. At this time, it is not feasible to predict, nor determine, the ultimate outcomes of any pending investigations and legal proceedings, nor to provide reasonable ranges of possible losses other than those that have been disclosed.
For a further discussion of certain current investigations and proceedings in which we are involved, see note 22 in “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.” These investigations and proceedings could have a material adverse effect on our liquidity, business, financial condition or results of operations. It is also possible that we could become subject to further investigations and have lawsuits filed or enforcement actions initiated against us. In addition, increased regulatory scrutiny and any resulting investigations or legal proceedings could result in new legal precedents and industry-wide regulations or practices that could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
An adverse change in the regulatory requirements on our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, including risk-based capital requirements, could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries are subject to the NAIC’s RBC standards and other minimum statutory capital and surplus requirements imposed under the laws of their respective states of domicile. The failure of our insurance subsidiaries to meet applicable RBC requirements or minimum statutory capital and surplus requirements could subject our insurance subsidiaries to further examination or corrective action imposed by state insurance regulators, including limitations on their ability to write additional business, or the addition of state regulatory supervision, rehabilitation, seizure or liquidation. As of December 31, 2024, the RBC ratio of each of our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries exceeded the level that would require any of them to take or become subject to any corrective action in their respective domiciliary state. However, we continue to face challenges in our principal U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, particularly those subsidiaries that rely heavily on in-force rate actions as a source of earnings and capital. We may see variability in statutory results and a decline in the RBC ratios of these subsidiaries given the time lag between the approval of in-force rate actions versus when the benefits from the in-force rate actions (including increased premiums and associated benefit reductions) are fully realized in our financial results. Additionally, the RBC ratio of our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries would be negatively impacted by future increases in our statutory reserves, including results of Actuarial Guideline 38, cash flow testing and assumption reviews, particularly in our long-term care and life insurance products.
An adverse change in our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries’ RBC ratios or our ability to meet other minimum regulatory requirements could cause rating agencies to downgrade the financial strength ratings of our insurance subsidiaries and the credit ratings of Genworth Holdings, which could have an adverse impact on our ability to execute our strategic priorities, including maintaining self-sustaining legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries and advancing CareScout’s new lines of business or new products and services, and would further restrict our ability to retain and write new business. Furthermore, it may cause regulators to take regulatory or supervisory actions
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with respect to our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, thereby limiting the financial flexibility of our holding company, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and business.
Changes to the charters or practices of the GSEs, including actions or decisions to decrease or discontinue the use of mortgage insurance, could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
The requirements and practices of the GSEs impact the operating results and financial performance of GSE-approved mortgage insurers, including Enact Holdings. Changes in the charters or practices of Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae could materially reduce the number of mortgages they purchase that are insured by Enact Holdings. The GSEs could be directed to make such changes by the FHFA, which was appointed as their conservator in September 2008 and has the authority to control and direct the operations of the GSEs. Congress may legislate, or the U.S. Administration may implement through administrative reform, structural and other changes to the GSEs and the functioning of the secondary mortgage market. In the absence of legislation and actions by the U.S. Administration, the FHFA continues to move forward on administrative reform efforts to prepare the GSEs for the end of conservatorship, once fully and adequately capitalized. Collectively, the FHFA and the U.S. Treasury Department possess significant capacity to effect administrative GSE reforms.
The FHFA’s Enterprise Capital Framework imposes a capital framework on the GSEs, including risk-based and leverage capital requirements and capital buffers in excess of regulatory minimums that can be drawn down in periods of financial stress. The Enterprise Capital Framework became effective on February 16, 2021. However, the GSEs will not be subject to any requirement under the Enterprise Capital Framework until the applicable compliance date. Compliance with the Enterprise Capital Framework, other than the requirements to maintain a prescribed capital conservation buffer amount (“PCCBA”) and a prescribed leverage buffer amount (“PLBA”), is required on the later of (i) the date of termination of the conservatorship of a GSE or (ii) any later compliance date provided in a consent order or other transition order applicable to such GSE. The FHFA contemplates that the compliance dates for the PCCBA and the PLBA will be the date of termination of the conservatorship of a GSE. The Enterprise Capital Framework’s advanced approaches requirements will be delayed until a compliance date provided by a transition order applicable to such GSE. The Enterprise Capital Framework significantly increases capital requirements and reduces capital credit on credit risk transfer transactions as compared to the previous framework. This could cause the GSEs to increase their guarantee pricing in order to meet the new capital requirements, which could have a negative impact on the private mortgage insurance market and our business. Furthermore, higher GSE capital requirements could ultimately lead to increased costs to borrowers for GSE loans, which in turn could shift the market away from the GSEs to the FHA or lender portfolios. Such a shift could result in a smaller market size for private mortgage insurance. This rule could also accelerate the diversification of the GSEs’ risk transfer programs to encompass a broader array of instruments beyond private mortgage insurance, which could adversely impact Enact Holdings and our business.
On January 14, 2021, the FHFA and the U.S. Treasury Department agreed to amend the preferred stock purchase agreements (“PSPAs”) between the U.S. Treasury Department and each of the GSEs to increase the amount of capital each GSE may retain. Among other things, the amendments to the PSPAs limit the number of certain mortgages the GSEs may acquire with two or more prescribed risk factors, including certain mortgages with combined loan-to-value ratios above 90%. However, on September 14, 2021, the FHFA and U.S. Treasury Department suspended certain provisions of the amendments to the PSPAs, including the limit on the number of mortgages with two or more risk factors that the GSEs may acquire. Such suspensions end six months after the U.S. Treasury Department notifies the GSEs of termination. The limit on the number of mortgages with two or more risk factors was based on the market size at the time. While Enact Holdings does not expect any material impact to the private mortgage market, changes in the provisions or enforcement of this rule could impact our results of operations.
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On January 2, 2025, the FHFA and the U.S. Treasury Department agreed to again amend the PSPAs between the U.S. Treasury Department and each of the GSEs to establish a methodical process for eventual public input on the termination of conservatorship to minimize disruption to the housing and financial markets.
The adoption of any GSE reform, whether through legislation or administrative action, could impact the current role of private mortgage insurance as credit enhancement, which would have an adverse effect on our business, revenue, results of operations and financial condition. At present, it is uncertain what role private capital, including mortgage insurance, will play in the U.S. residential housing finance system in the future or the impact any such changes could have on our business. Any changes to the charters or statutory authorities of the GSEs would require congressional action to implement. Any such changes that occur could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
The FHFA has set goals for the GSEs to transfer significant portions of the GSEs’ mortgage credit risk to the private sector. This mandate builds upon the goal established by the GSEs to increase the role of private capital through experimenting with different forms of transactions and structures. Enact Holdings participates in credit risk transfer programs developed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The GSEs have in the past piloted and may in the future attempt to launch alternative products or transactions that compete with private mortgage insurance. To the extent these credit risk products evolve in a manner that displaces primary mortgage insurance coverage, the amount of insurance Enact Holdings writes may be reduced. It is difficult to predict the impact of alternative credit risk transfer products that are developed to meet the goals established by the FHFA.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac also possess substantial market power, which enables them to influence Enact Holdings and the mortgage insurance industry in general, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
If Enact is unable to continue to meet the requirements mandated by PMIERs because the GSEs amend them or the GSEs’ interpretation of the financial requirements requires Enact to hold amounts of capital that are higher than planned or otherwise, Enact may not be eligible to write new insurance on loans acquired by the GSEs, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
In furtherance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s respective charter requirements, each GSE adopted PMIERs effective December 31, 2015. The GSEs have since amended PMIERs on several occasions. For a discussion of PMIERs requirements and recent amendments to PMIERs, see “Regulation—Enact—Mortgage Insurance Regulation—Other U.S. Regulation and Agency Qualification Requirements.”
The amount of capital that may be required to maintain the Minimum Required Assets, as defined in PMIERs, is dependent upon, among other things: (i) the way PMIERs are applied and interpreted by the GSEs and the FHFA; (ii) future PMIERs amendments; (iii) the future performance of the U.S. housing market; (iv) Enact Holdings’ generation of earnings, available assets and minimum required assets, reducing risk in-force and reducing delinquencies as anticipated, and writing anticipated amounts and types of new mortgage insurance business; and (v) Enact Holdings’ overall financial performance, capital and liquidity levels. More specifically, Enact Holdings’ subsidiaries’ ability to continue to meet the PMIERs financial requirements and maintain a prudent amount of capital in excess of those requirements, given the dynamic nature of asset valuations and requirement changes over time, is dependent upon, among other things: (i) Enact Holdings’ ability to complete credit risk transfer transactions on its anticipated terms and timetable, which as applicable, are subject to market conditions, third-party approvals and other actions (including approval by the GSEs), and other factors that are outside its control; and (ii) Enact Holdings’ ability to contribute its holding company cash or other sources of capital to satisfy the portion of the financial requirements that are not satisfied through credit risk transfer transactions.
Although we believe Enact Holdings has sufficient capital as required under PMIERs and it remains an approved insurer, it is possible these conditions may not continue. In addition, Enact Holdings may not continue
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to meet the conditions contained in the GSE letters granting PMIERs credit for reinsurance and other credit risk transfer transactions including, but not limited to, its ability to remain below a statutory risk-to-capital ratio of 18:1. The GSEs also reserve the right to re-evaluate the credit for reinsurance and other credit risk transfer transactions available under PMIERs. Freddie Mac has also imposed additional requirements on Enact’s option to commute its reinsurance agreements. If Enact is unable to continue to meet the requirements mandated by PMIERs, or any additional restrictions which may be imposed on Enact by the GSEs, whether because the GSEs amend them or the GSEs’ interpretation of the financial requirements requires Enact to hold amounts of capital that are higher than planned or otherwise, Enact may not be eligible to write new insurance on loans acquired by the GSEs, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Additionally, compliance with PMIERs requires Enact Holdings to seek the GSEs’ prior approval before taking many actions, including implementing certain new products or services or entering into intercompany agreements among others. PMIERs’ approval requirements could prohibit, materially modify or delay Enact Holdings’ intended course of action. Further, the GSEs may modify or change their interpretation of terms they require Enact Holdings to include in its mortgage insurance coverage for loans purchased by the GSEs, requiring Enact Holdings to modify its terms of coverage or operational procedures to remain an approved insurer, and such changes could have a material adverse impact on our financial position and operating results. It is possible the GSEs could, at their discretion, require additional limitations and/or conditions on Enact Holdings’ activities and practices that are not currently in PMIERs in order for Enact Holdings to remain an approved insurer. Additional requirements or conditions imposed by the GSEs could limit Enact Holdings’ operating flexibility and the areas in which it may write new business. Any of these events would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Enact Holdings’ U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries are subject to minimum statutory capital requirements, which if not met or waived, would result in restrictions or prohibitions on them doing business and could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
In addition to PMIERs, mortgage insurers are required by certain states and other regulators to maintain a minimum amount of statutory capital relative to their level of risk in-force. While formulations of minimum capital vary in certain states, the most common measure applied allows for a maximum permitted risk-to-capital ratio of 25:1. If one of Enact Holdings’ U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries that is writing business in a particular state fails to maintain that state’s required minimum capital level, it would generally be required to immediately stop writing new business in the state until the insurer re-establishes the required level of capital or receives a waiver of the requirement from the state’s insurance regulator, or until it establishes an alternative source of underwriting capacity acceptable to the regulator. If Enact Holdings’ insurance subsidiaries exceed required risk-to-capital levels in the future, Enact Holdings and Genworth Financial would seek required regulatory and GSE forbearance and approvals or seek approval for the utilization of alternative insurance vehicles. However, such forbearance and approvals may not be obtained or may be obtained on unfavorable terms.
In August 2023, the NAIC adopted amendments to the MGI Model Act and is in the process of making conforming revisions to Statement of Statutory Accounting Principles No. 58—Mortgage Guaranty Insurance. The revisions to the MGI Model Act are extensive, including with respect to risk concentration limits, capital and reserve requirements, reinsurance, underwriting practices and quality assurance. At this time, we cannot predict which states, if any, will adopt the amended MGI Model Act or any of its specific provisions, the effect changes in the MGI Model Act will have on the mortgage guaranty insurance market generally, or on our business specifically, the additional costs associated with compliance with any such changes, or any changes to our operations that may be necessary to comply, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. We also cannot predict whether other regulatory initiatives will be adopted or what impact, if any, such initiatives, if adopted as laws, may have on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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Changes in regulations that adversely affect the mortgage insurance markets in which Enact Holdings operates could affect its operations significantly and could reduce the demand for mortgage insurance.
In addition to the general regulatory risks that are described under “—Our insurance businesses are extensively regulated and changes in regulation may reduce our profitability and limit our growth,” we are also affected, through our ownership of Enact Holdings, by various additional regulations related specifically to mortgage insurance operations.
Federal and state regulations affect the scope of competitor operations, which influences the size of the mortgage insurance market and the intensity of the competition. This competition includes not only other private mortgage insurers, but also federal and state governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, principally the FHA and the VA, which are governed by federal regulations. Increases in the maximum loan amount that the FHA can insure, and reductions in the mortgage insurance premiums the FHA charges, can reduce the demand for private mortgage insurance. Decreases in the maximum loan amounts or maximum loan-to-value ratio of loans the GSEs will purchase or guarantee or increases in GSE fees can also reduce demand for private mortgage insurance. Legislative, regulatory or administrative changes could cause demand for private mortgage insurance to decrease.
Enact Holdings and its U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries, as credit enhancement providers in the residential mortgage lending industry, are also subject to compliance with or otherwise impacted by various federal and state consumer protection and insurance laws, including RESPA, the Fair Housing Act, HOPA and FCRA, among others. Changes in these laws or regulations, changes in the appropriate regulator’s interpretation of these laws or regulations or heightened enforcement activity could materially adversely affect the operations and profitability of Enact Holdings.
Dodd-Frank Act Risk Retention
The Dodd-Frank Act requires an originator or issuer to retain a specified percentage of the credit risk exposure on securitized mortgages that do not meet the definition of a Qualified Residential Mortgage (“QRM”), which aligns with the definition of a QM. If the QRM definition is changed in a manner that is unfavorable to Enact Holdings, such as to require a large down payment for a loan to qualify as a QRM, without considering mortgage insurance in computing loan-to-value ratios, the attractiveness of originating and securitizing loans with lower down payments may be reduced, which may adversely affect the future demand for mortgage insurance.
Basel III
Basel III, issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, established RBC and leverage capital requirements for most U.S. banking organizations (although banks with less than $10.0 billion in total assets may choose to comply with an alternative community bank leverage ratio framework established by the Federal Banking Agencies in 2019). In 2013, the U.S. federal banking regulators confirmed the role of mortgage insurance as a component of prudential bank regulation for high loan-to-value mortgages. In July 2023, the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency proposed for comment the Basel III Endgame rule. Under the proposed rule, commercial banks with total assets greater than $100.0 billion would no longer receive the 50% capital relief for high loan-to-value portfolio loans with mortgage insurance. If adopted as proposed, this rule could decrease the demand for mortgage insurance. The federal banking regulators are currently in the review process, and with the change in the U.S. Administration in January 2025, the outcome, content and timing of the final rule are unclear. If further revisions to the Basel III rules increase the capital requirements of banking organizations with respect to the residential mortgages Enact Holdings insures or do not provide sufficiently favorable treatment for the use of mortgage insurance purchased in respect of a bank’s origination and securitization activities, it could adversely affect the demand for mortgage insurance.
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Our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries may not be able to continue to mitigate the impact of Regulations XXX or AXXX and, therefore, they may incur higher operating costs that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We have increased term and universal life insurance statutory reserves in response to Regulations XXX and AXXX and have taken steps to mitigate the impact these regulations have had on our business, including increasing premium rates and implementing reserve funding structures. One way that we and other insurance companies have mitigated the impact of these regulations is through captive reinsurance companies. If we were to discontinue our use of captive life reinsurance subsidiaries to finance statutory reserves in response to regulatory changes on a prospective basis, the reasonably likely impact would be increased costs related to alternative financing, such as third-party reinsurance, which would adversely impact our consolidated results of operations and financial condition. In addition, we cannot be certain that affordable alternative financing would be available.
While we are no longer writing new life insurance business, we may not be able to continue to implement actions to mitigate the impacts of Regulations XXX or AXXX on our in-force term and universal life insurance products which are not currently part of reserve funding structures, or which may be part of existing reserve arrangements and need refinancing.
Additionally, there may be future regulatory, tax or other impacts to existing reserve funding structures and/or future refinancing, which could require us to increase statutory reserves or incur higher operating and/or tax costs.
Operational Risks
If we are unable to retain, attract and motivate qualified employees or senior management, our results of operations, financial condition and business operations may be adversely impacted.
Our success is largely dependent on our ability to retain, attract and motivate qualified employees and senior management. We face intense competition in our industry for key employees with demonstrated ability, including actuarial, finance, legal, investment, risk, compliance, information technology and other professional skills. On top of recruitment challenges associated with the ongoing labor shortage and low labor participation rate, our ability to attract, recruit, retain and motivate experienced and qualified employees may be adversely impacted by current and prospective employees’ perception of the inherent risks involved with Genworth’s strategic growth initiatives. Furthermore, work arrangements, such as remote work environments, have become more flexible and commonplace, which could further challenge our ability to compete for qualified employees. A remote work environment has expanded competition among employers, which has likely exacerbated the battle for talent in an already tight labor market. We may not be able to attract, retain and motivate the desired workforce, and our failure to do so could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and business operations. In addition, we may not be able to meet regulatory requirements relating to required expertise in various professional positions.
Managing key employee succession and retention is also critical to our success. While we have succession plans and long-term compensation plans, including retention programs, designed to retain our employees, our succession plans may not operate effectively, and we would be adversely affected if we fail to adequately plan for the succession of our senior management and other key employees. Moreover, our compensation plans cannot guarantee that the services of these employees will continue to be available to us.
Changes in the composition of Enact Holdings’ business or undue concentration by customer or geographic region could cause a significant loss of business or adverse performance of a small segment of its portfolio.
Our businesses depend on our relationships with our customers, and in particular, our relationships with our largest lending customers in Enact Holdings. Customers place private mortgage insurance provided by Enact
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Holdings directly on loans they originate and indirectly through purchases of loans that already have mortgage insurance coverage provided by Enact Holdings. Customer relationships may influence the amount of direct business written with Enact Holdings and the customers’ willingness to continue to approve Enact Holdings as a mortgage insurance provider for loans they purchase. In 2024, Enact Holdings’ largest customer accounted for 20% of its total new insurance written and 11% of its total revenues. Its top five customers generated 34% of its new insurance written in 2024. An inability to maintain a relationship with one or more of these customers could have an adverse effect on the amount of new business Enact Holdings is able to write and consequently, our financial condition and results of operations.
In addition, customer concentration may adversely affect our financial condition if a significant customer chooses to increase its use of other mortgage insurers, merges with a competitor or exits the mortgage finance business, chooses alternatives to mortgage insurance or experiences a decrease in its business. Loss of business from significant customers, or any single customer, may not be replaced by business from other customers, existing or new. As a result of market conditions or changes in regulatory requirements, Enact Holdings’ lending customers may decide to write business only with a limited number of mortgage insurers or only with certain mortgage insurers.
Geographic concentration in Enact Holdings’ mortgage portfolio increases its exposure to losses due to localized economic conditions. Enact Holdings seeks to diversify its insured loan portfolio geographically; however, customer concentration might lead to concentrations in specific regions in the United States.
Our businesses could be adversely impacted from deficiencies in our disclosure controls and procedures or internal control over financial reporting.
The design and effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting may not prevent all errors, misstatements or misrepresentations. While management continually reviews the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting, it is possible that our internal control over financial reporting may not be effective in fully accomplishing our control objectives. Any material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting, such as those we have reported in the past, or any other failure to maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures could result in material errors or restatements in our historical financial statements or untimely filings, which could cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information, that would result in a material adverse impact on our business and financial condition.
Our computer systems and those of our third-party service providers have in the past failed or been compromised and may in the future fail or be compromised, including through cybersecurity breaches; we may experience issues from new and complex information technology methodologies such as artificial intelligence; and unanticipated problems could materially adversely impact our disaster recovery systems and business continuity plans, any of which could expose confidential information such as personal information of our customers or employees, damage our reputation, impair our ability to conduct business effectively, result in enforcement action or litigation, and materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our business is highly dependent upon the effective operation of our computer systems. We also have arrangements in place with our partners and other third-party service providers through which we share and receive information. We rely on these systems throughout our business for a variety of functions, including processing claims and applications, providing information to customers and distributors, performing actuarial analyses and maintaining financial records. We have implemented and maintain what we believe to be reasonable security controls and back-up measures, but despite this, our computer systems and those of our partners and third-party service providers have been, and may be in the future, vulnerable to physical or electronic intrusions, computer malware, malicious code or other attacks, system failures, programming errors, employee and third-party errors or wrongdoing, and similar disruption or adverse outcomes. The failure of these systems for any
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reason could cause significant interruptions to our operations, which could result in a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
Technology continues to evolve and plays an ever-increasing role in our business. While it is our goal to safeguard information assets from physical theft and cybersecurity threats including by preventing cybersecurity incidents, our information security measures may not detect, and protect information assets from, or fully mitigate, these ever-increasing risks. Information assets include both information itself in the form of computer data, written materials, knowledge and supporting processes, and the information technology systems, networks, other electronic devices and storage media used to store, process, retrieve and transmit that information. As more information is used and shared by our employees, customers and suppliers, both within and outside our company, cybersecurity threats become expansive in nature. Additionally, cybersecurity threats have continued to grow in sophistication, in part through the deployment of artificial intelligence technologies. The confidentiality, integrity, security and availability of information are essential to maintaining our reputation and ability to conduct our operations. Although we have implemented controls and continue to train our employees and conduct cybersecurity-related due diligence on third-party service providers, a cybersecurity event could still occur and could go undetected for an extended period of time, either of which would cause damage to our reputation with our customers, distributors and other stakeholders, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations, or expose us to litigation or other enforcement actions.
For example, during the second quarter of 2023, we were notified by PBI Research Services (“PBI”), one of our third-party vendors, that PBI was subject to the widely reported security events involving the MOVEit file transfer system (the “MOVEit Cybersecurity Incident”), which PBI uses in the performance of its services. Following an investigation, as discussed in our Form 8-K filed on June 22, 2023 and our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on February 29, 2024, we determined that approximately 2.5 million to 2.7 million of our policyholders’ or other customers’ personal information, including social security numbers, was exposed to and obtained by the threat actor as a result of the MOVEit Cybersecurity Incident. We do not believe this incident has had or will have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition. However, we could suffer a material adverse effect in the future, especially if the amount of insurance coverage we maintain is not sufficient to cover claims or liabilities from a future incident.
We retain confidential information in our computer systems, and we rely on commercial technologies to maintain the security, integrity and availability of those systems, including computers or mobile devices. Anyone who is able to circumvent our security measures and penetrate our computer systems or misuse authorized access could access, view, misappropriate, alter, delete or disclose any information in the systems, including personal information, personal health information and proprietary business information. Our employees, distribution partners and other vendors use portable computers or mobile devices which may contain similar information to that in our computer systems, and these devices have been and can be lost, stolen or damaged, and therefore subject to the same risks as our other computer systems. In addition, an increasing number of states and foreign countries require that affected parties be notified or other actions be taken (which could involve significant costs to us) if a security breach results in the unlawful disclosure of personal information. We have experienced occasional, actual or attempted breaches of our cybersecurity, although to date, none of these breaches has had a material effect on our business, operations or reputation. Any compromise of the security of our computer systems or those of our partners and third-party service providers that results in the unauthorized disclosure of customer personal information could damage our reputation in the marketplace, deter people from purchasing our products, subject us to regulatory scrutiny and significant civil and criminal liability and require us to incur significant technical, legal and other expenses.
Cybersecurity, data privacy and artificial intelligence risks and uncertainties have come under increased scrutiny in recent years, with various countries, government agencies and insurance regulators introducing and/or passing legislation in an attempt to safeguard personal information from escalating cybersecurity threats and other unknown risks and uncertainties, as well as to ensure the responsible use of artificial intelligence. For additional details, see “Regulation—Other Laws and Regulations—Privacy and cybersecurity.” We have
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implemented internal policies, practices and controls designed to comply with applicable data privacy and security laws. Moreover, artificial intelligence technologies offer numerous potential benefits (e.g., creating or increasing operational efficiencies), but deployment of such technologies also poses certain risks, including that they may be misused, or the models or datasets on which the models are trained may be flawed or otherwise may function in an unexpected manner. Failure, by us or any third-party on which we rely, to comply with these data privacy and data protection laws, regulations and rules may result in enforcement action, litigation, monetary fines or other penalties, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and reputation. For additional details on our cybersecurity risk management, strategy and governance, see “Item 1C—Cybersecurity.” With respect to artificial intelligence, the relative newness of the technology, the speed at which it is being adopted, and the paucity of artificial intelligence-specific regulations and standards increases these risks.
In addition, unanticipated problems with, or failures of, our disaster recovery systems and business continuity plans could have a material adverse impact on our ability to conduct business and on our results of operations and financial condition, particularly if those problems affect our information technology systems and destroy, lose or otherwise compromise the integrity or availability of valuable data. Furthermore, in the event that a significant number of our employees were unavailable in the event of a disaster or a pandemic, our ability to effectively conduct business could be severely compromised. The failure of our disaster recovery systems and business continuity plans could adversely impact our profitability and our business.
We rely upon third-party vendors who may be unable or unwilling to meet their obligations to us.
We rely on third-party vendors to efficiently execute in-house processes and other outsourcing arrangements, as well as to provide unique or cost-efficient products or services. We rely on the controls and risk management processes of these third parties. Our reliance on third-party vendors that we do not control does not relieve us of our responsibilities and requirements. While we have certain contractual protections and perform third-party vendor due diligence procedures, it is possible that third-party vendors may not provide accurate and complete information to us, maintain adequate internal controls, meet their obligations on a timely basis and adhere to the provisions of our agreements. If any third-party provider (or such third party’s supplier, vendor or subcontractor) experiences any deficiency in internal controls, determines that its practices and procedures used in providing services to us (including administering any of our policies) require review, or it otherwise fails to provide services to us in accordance with appropriate standards, we could incur expenses and experience other adverse effects as a result. Additionally, if a third-party vendor is unable to source and maintain a capable workforce or supply us with contractors during times of peak volume, then we may be unable to satisfy our customer obligations and/or regulatory reporting requirements. In addition, some third-party vendors may provide unique services and the loss of those services may be difficult to replace and/or the cost to receive the third-party services may be significant, including conversion costs to establish the appropriate technology infrastructure. Any of the above scenarios could lead to reputational damage and/or an adverse financial impact, including the imposition of penalties or being subject to litigation costs.
Insurance and Product-Related Risks
Enact Holdings may be unable to maintain or increase capital in its mortgage insurance subsidiaries in a timely manner, on anticipated terms or at all, including through improved business performance, reinsurance or similar transactions, securities offerings or otherwise, in each case as and when required.
Enact Holdings may require incremental capital to support its growth, meet regulatory or GSE capital requirements, comply with rating agency criteria to maintain ratings, repay its debt, operate and meet unexpected cash flow obligations. Our ability to support the capital needs of Enact Holdings is limited. Accordingly, we are largely reliant on Enact Holdings to support its own capital needs. Furthermore, our current plans do not include any additional minority sales resulting in Genworth owning less than 80% of Enact Holdings, and accordingly,
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Enact Holdings’ ability to raise additional capital by issuing its stock to third parties is limited. Enact Holdings’ inability to fund or raise the capital required in the anticipated timeframes and on the anticipated terms, including refinancing its existing debt, could cause a reduction in its business levels or subject it to a variety of regulatory actions, which would have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
In addition, the implementation of any further credit risk transfer transactions or other transactions with third parties to provide additional capital depends on a number of factors, including but not limited to, market conditions, necessary third-party approvals (including approval by regulators and the GSEs) and other factors which are outside Enact Holdings’ control. Therefore, Enact Holdings may not be able to successfully implement these actions on the anticipated timetable and terms, or at all. Even if Enact Holdings is able to successfully implement these actions, it may not be able to achieve the anticipated benefits from the actions.
Reinsurance may not be available, affordable or adequate to protect us against losses.
As part of our overall risk and capital management strategy, we purchase reinsurance from external reinsurers, use credit risk transfer transactions and provide internal reinsurance support for certain risks underwritten by our various business segments. These reinsurance arrangements and credit risk transfer transactions are intended to enable our businesses to transfer risks in exchange for some of the associated economic benefits and, as a result, improve our statutory capital position, manage risk to within our tolerance level and improve the PMIERs position of Enact Holdings. The availability and cost of reinsurance protection are impacted by our operating and financial performance, including ratings, as well as conditions beyond our control, including changes in regulation. For example, our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries’ low financial strength ratings may reduce the availability of certain types of reinsurance and have made it more costly when it is available, as reinsurers have been less willing to take on credit risk in the volatile market. Accordingly, we may continue to be forced into incurring additional expenses for reinsurance and/or we may not be able to obtain new reinsurance or renew existing reinsurance arrangements on acceptable terms, or at all, which could increase our risk and adversely affect our ability to obtain statutory capital credit for new reinsurance or could require us to make capital contributions to maintain regulatory capital requirements. Moreover, absent the availability and affordability to enter into new credit risk transfer transactions, the ability of Enact Holdings to obtain PMIERs or statutory credit for new transactions would be adversely impacted. See “—If Enact is unable to continue to meet the requirements mandated by PMIERs because the GSEs amend them or the GSEs’ interpretation of the financial requirements requires Enact to hold amounts of capital that are higher than planned or otherwise, Enact may not be eligible to write new insurance on loans acquired by the GSEs, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.”
We also manage risk and capital allocated to our long-term care insurance business through utilization of external reinsurance in the form of coinsurance. Our U.S. life insurance subsidiaries have executed external reinsurance agreements to reinsure sales of some of their older blocks of long-term care insurance products (10% of new business issued from 2003 to 2008; 20% to 30% of new business issued from 2009 to 2011; and 40% of new business issued from 2011 to early 2013). We also have external reinsurance on some older blocks of business which includes a treaty on a yearly renewable term basis on business that was written between 1998 and 2003. This yearly renewable term reinsurance provides coverage for claims on those policies for 15 years after the policy was written. After 15 years, reinsurance coverage ends for policies not on claim, while reinsurance coverage continues for policies on claim until the claim ends. The 15-year coverage on the policies written in 2003 expired in 2018; therefore, any new claims will not have reinsurance coverage under this treaty. Since 2013, we have seen, and may continue to see, an increase in our benefit costs as policies with reinsurance coverage exhaust their benefits or terminate and policies which are not covered by reinsurance go on claim. Over time, affordable or any reinsurance may not continue to be available.
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A decrease in the volume of high loan-to-value home mortgage originations or an increase in the volume of mortgage insurance cancellations could result in a decline in Enact Holdings’ revenue.
Enact Holdings provides mortgage insurance primarily for high loan-to-value mortgages. Factors that could lead to a decrease in the volume of high loan-to-value mortgage originations include, but are not limited to:
• | an increase in home mortgage interest rates; |
• | limitations on the tax benefits of homeownership and mortgage interest; |
• | implementation of more rigorous mortgage lending regulation; |
• | a decline in economic conditions generally, or in conditions in regional and local economies; |
• | events outside of Enact Holdings’ control, including natural and man-made disasters and pandemics adversely affecting housing markets and home buying; |
• | the level of consumer confidence, which may be adversely affected by economic instability, war or terrorist events; |
• | an increase in the price of homes relative to income levels; |
• | a lack of housing supply at lower home prices; |
• | adverse population trends, including lower homeownership rates; |
• | high rates of home price appreciation, which for refinancings affect whether refinanced loans have loan-to-value ratios that require mortgage insurance; and |
• | changes in government housing policy encouraging loans to first-time home buyers. |
A decline in the volume of high loan-to-value mortgage originations would reduce the demand for mortgage insurance and, therefore, could have a material adverse effect on Enact Holdings and our financial condition and results of operations.
As Enact Holdings recognizes a significant percentage of its earned premiums from insurance policies written in previous years, the length of time insurance remains in-force is an important determinant of Genworth’s mortgage insurance revenues. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and many other mortgage investors generally permit a borrower to ask the loan servicer to cancel the borrower’s obligation to pay for mortgage insurance when the principal amount of the mortgage falls below 80% of the home’s value. Factors that tend to reduce the length of time our mortgage insurance remains in-force include:
• | declining interest rates, which may result in the refinancing of the mortgages underlying the insurance policies with new mortgage loans that may not require mortgage insurance or that Enact Holdings does not insure; |
• | customer concentration levels with certain customers that actively market refinancing opportunities to their existing borrowers; |
• | significant appreciation in the value of homes, which causes the unpaid balance of the mortgage to decrease below 80% of the value of the home and enables the borrower to request cancellation of the mortgage insurance; and |
• | changes in mortgage insurance cancellation requirements or procedures of the GSEs or under applicable law. |
Any change in the methodology by which servicers determine the cancellation dates of mortgage insurance under HOPA; GSE requirements or otherwise, including as a result of changes in law or regulation; GSE rules or guidance; and/or for any other reason, could reduce the amount of Enact Holdings’ insurance in-force and may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
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Enact Holdings experienced elevated persistency in 2022 through 2024 primarily as a result of the higher interest rate environment in response to inflationary pressures. Higher persistency on certain higher-risk products could have a material adverse effect if claims generated by such products increase. Conversely, a decrease in persistency generally would reduce the amount of Enact Holdings’ insurance in-force and could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
The amount of mortgage insurance written by Enact Holdings could decline significantly if alternatives to private mortgage insurance are used or lower coverage levels of mortgage insurance are selected.
There are a variety of alternatives to private mortgage insurance that may reduce the amount of mortgage insurance written by Enact Holdings. These alternatives include:
• | originating mortgages that consist of two simultaneous loans, known as “simultaneous seconds,” comprising a first mortgage with a loan-to-value ratio of 80% and a simultaneous second mortgage for the excess portion of the loan, instead of a single mortgage with a loan-to-value ratio of more than 80%; |
• | using government mortgage insurance programs; |
• | holding mortgages in the lenders’ own loan portfolios and self-insuring; |
• | using programs, such as those offered by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the United States, requiring lower mortgage insurance coverage levels; |
• | originating and securitizing loans in mortgage-backed securities whose underlying mortgages are not insured with private mortgage insurance or which are structured so that the risk of default lies with the investor, rather than a private mortgage insurer; and |
• | using risk-sharing insurance programs, credit default swaps or similar instruments, instead of private mortgage insurance, to transfer credit risk on mortgages. |
If one or more of the alternatives described above, or new alternatives that enter the market, are chosen over private mortgage insurance, Enact Holdings’ revenue could be adversely impacted. The loss of business in general or the specific loss of more profitable business in Enact Holdings could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
Additionally, Enact Holdings competes with the FHA and the VA, as well as certain local- and state-level housing finance agencies. Separately, the GSEs compete with Enact Holdings through certain of their risk-sharing insurance programs. Those competitors may establish pricing terms and business practices that may be influenced by motives such as advancing social housing policy or stabilizing the mortgage lending industry, which may not be consistent with maximizing return on capital or other profitability measures. In addition, those governmental enterprises typically do not have the same capital requirements or cost of capital that Enact Holdings and other mortgage insurance companies have and therefore may have financial flexibility in their pricing and capacity that could put Enact Holdings at a competitive disadvantage. In the event that one of these enterprises decides to change prices significantly or alter the terms and conditions of its mortgage insurance or other credit enhancement products in furtherance of social or other goals rather than a profit or risk management motive, Enact Holdings may be unable to compete effectively, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. See “—Changes to the charters or practices of the GSEs, including actions or decisions to decrease or discontinue the use of mortgage insurance, could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.”
Enact Holdings’ delegated underwriting and loss mitigation programs may subject its mortgage insurance subsidiaries to unanticipated claims.
Certain of Enact Holdings’ customers commit Enact Holdings to insure loans that use its pre-established guidelines under delegated underwriting authority. Delegated underwriting represented approximately 71% and
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70% of Enact Holdings’ total new insurance written by loan count for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Once a customer is accepted into Enact Holdings’ delegated underwriting program, a loan originated by that customer is generally insured without validating the accuracy of the data submitted, investigating for fraud or reviewing to ensure the customer followed the pre-established delegated underwriting guidelines. Under this program, it is possible a customer could commit Enact Holdings to insure a material number of loans that would fail Enact Holdings’ pre-established guidelines for delegated underwriting but pass its model, among other criteria, before Enact Holdings discovers the problem and terminates the customer’s delegated underwriting authority. Although coverage on such loans may be rescindable or otherwise limited under the terms of Enact Holdings’ master policies, the burden of establishing the right to rescind or deny coverage lies with the insurer. To the extent that Enact Holdings’ customers exceed their delegated underwriting authorities, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.
Enact Holdings has delegated to the GSEs, which have in turn delegated to most of their servicers, the authority to accept modifications, short sales and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure on loans Enact Holdings insures. Servicers are required to operate under protocols established by the GSEs in accepting these loss mitigation alternatives. Enact Holdings depends on servicers in making these decisions and mitigating its exposure to losses. In some cases, loss mitigation decisions favorable to the GSEs may not be favorable to Enact Holdings and may increase the incidence of paid claims. Inappropriate delegation protocols or failure of servicers to service in accordance with the protocols may increase the magnitude of Enact Holdings’ losses and have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Enact Holdings’ delegation of loss mitigation decisions to the GSEs is subject to cancellation, but exercise of these cancellation rights may have an adverse effect on Enact Holdings’ relationship with the GSEs and customers.
Medical advances, such as genetic research and diagnostic imaging, emerging new technology, including artificial intelligence and related legislation, could materially adversely affect the financial performance of our life insurance, long-term care insurance and annuity businesses.
Genetic testing research and discovery is advancing at a rapid pace. In addition, future reliance on new artificial intelligence methodologies may drastically change medical research and science. Though some of this medical research is focused on identifying the genes associated with rare diseases, much of the research is focused on identifying the genes associated with an increased risk of various common diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Diagnostic testing utilizing various blood panels or imaging techniques, including the use of artificial intelligence, may allow clinicians to detect similar diseases during an earlier treatment phase and prescribe more acute medicine or treatments. We believe that if an individual learns through such testing that they are predisposed to a condition that may reduce their life expectancy or increase their chances of requiring long-term care, they potentially will be more likely to purchase life and long-term care insurance policies or avoid lapsing their existing policy. In contrast, if an individual learns that they lack the genetic predisposition to develop the conditions that reduce longevity or require long-term care, they potentially will be less likely to purchase life and long-term care insurance products or allow their life and long-term care insurance policies to lapse but would be more likely to purchase certain annuity products.
Being able to access and use the medical information (including the results of genetic research, diagnostic testing and artificial intelligence methodologies) known to our prospective policyholders is important to ensure that an underwriting risk assessment matches the anticipated risk priced into our life and long-term care insurance products, as well as our annuity products. Currently, there are some state level restrictions related to an insurer’s access and use of genetic information, and periodically new genetic testing legislation is being introduced. However, further restrictions on the access and use of such medical information could create a mismatch between an assessed risk and the product pricing. Such a mismatch has the potential to increase product pricing causing a decrease in sales to lower risk individuals resulting in higher risk individuals becoming the more likely buyer. In addition, it is possible that regulators may enforce anti-discrimination provisions even when medical information is available that indicates a purchaser is at higher risk. The net result of this could cause a deterioration in the risk profile of our portfolio which could lead to payments to our policyholders and
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contractholders that are materially higher than anticipated. Any of these events could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
In addition to earlier diagnosis or knowledge of disease risk, medical advances may also lead to newer forms of preventive care which could improve an individual’s overall health and/or longevity. If this were to occur, the duration of payments made by us under certain forms of life insurance policies or annuity contracts would likely increase thereby reducing our profitability on those products. Conversely, slower progressing medical advances, particularly in the areas of cognitive decline, could adversely impact our long-term care insurance business as policyholders may remain on claim for a long period of time resulting in higher severity and duration of claims.
Other Emerging Risks
Other emerging risks, such as the occurrence of natural or man-made disasters, including geopolitical tensions and war; a public health emergency, including pandemics; climate change; or unknown risks and uncertainties associated with artificial intelligence could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We are exposed to various risks arising out of natural disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tornadoes and other extreme weather events, many of which could be exacerbated by climate change. Increasing geopolitical tensions and war (including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas conflict and economic competition between the United States and China) could impact the economic environment and reduce available resources or increase costs due to supply chain impacts, including restricting oil supply and/or increasing the price of oil. The risk of a public health emergency, including from a pandemic, exposes us to risks similar to those experienced during COVID-19. A future natural or man-made disaster could disrupt our computer systems and our ability to conduct or process business, as well as lead to unexpected changes in mortgage borrower, policyholder and contractholder behavior. We are also exposed to the continued threat of terrorism, military actions and other man-made disasters, which may cause significant volatility in global financial markets and could trigger an economic downturn in the areas directly or indirectly affected by the disaster. These consequences could, among other things, result in a decline in business and increased claims from those areas, as well as an adverse effect on home prices in those areas, which could result in increased loss experience in our mortgage insurance subsidiaries. Disasters or a public health emergency, including a pandemic, could also disrupt public and private infrastructure, including communications and financial services, which could disrupt our normal business operations.
Our inability to anticipate and leverage new technology developments, such as artificial intelligence, could adversely affect the future success of our business. We cannot predict how existing and emerging guidance, rules and regulations governing the use of artificial intelligence will be interpreted or applied, or what, if any, actions may be taken regarding artificial intelligence, but any applicable regulations and limitations could result in increased compliance costs and/or lead to changes in business practices and policies. We may not be successful in anticipating or responding to these developments on a timely and cost-effective basis, and our investments in these capabilities may not deliver the benefits anticipated or perform as expected. Moreover, our competitors may adopt artificial intelligence technologies more quickly or more effectively than we do, which could cause competitive harm. Poor implementation of new technologies, including artificial intelligence, by us or our third-party service providers, could subject us to additional risks we cannot adequately mitigate, which could have a material adverse impact to our business, results of operations and financial condition.
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Item 1B. |
Unresolved Staff Comments |
Item 1C. |
Cybersecurity |
Item 2. |
Properties |
Item 3. |
Legal Proceedings |
Item 4. |
Mine Safety Disclosures |
PART II
Item 5. | Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities |
Market for Common Stock
Our Common Stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “GNW.” As of February 20, 2025, we had 273 holders of record of our Common Stock.
Common Stock Performance Graph
The following performance graph and related information shall not be deemed “soliciting material” nor to be “filed” with the SEC, nor shall such information be incorporated by reference into any future filings under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each as amended, except to the extent we specifically incorporate it by reference into such filing.
In April 2021, we were included in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index, which is more representative of our total market capitalization. The following graph compares the cumulative total stockholder return on our Common Stock with the cumulative total stockholder return on the S&P 500 Stock Index, S&P 500 Insurance Index, S&P SmallCap 600 Index and S&P SmallCap 600 Insurance Index.
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
Genworth Financial, Inc. |
$ | 100.00 | $ | 85.91 | $ | 92.05 | $ | 120.23 | $ | 151.82 | $ | 158.86 | ||||||||||||
S&P 500® |
$ | 100.00 | $ | 118.40 | $ | 152.39 | $ | 124.79 | $ | 157.59 | $ | 197.02 | ||||||||||||
S&P 500 Insurance Index |
$ | 100.00 | $ | 99.56 | $ | 131.54 | $ | 144.86 | $ | 158.28 | $ | 200.73 | ||||||||||||
S&P SmallCap 600 Index |
$ | 100.00 | $ | 111.29 | $ | 141.13 | $ | 118.41 | $ | 137.42 | $ | 149.37 | ||||||||||||
S&P SmallCap 600 Insurance Index |
$ | 100.00 | $ | 102.61 | $ | 107.76 | $ | 89.91 | $ | 97.63 | $ | 125.76 |
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Dividends
In November 2008, Genworth Financial’s Board of Directors suspended the payment of dividends to its shareholders indefinitely. In 2022, Genworth Financial’s Board of Directors approved a new share repurchase program. Any amounts used for the purpose of returning capital to Genworth Financial’s shareholders, including share repurchases or dividends if a new dividend policy is ultimately approved, will be dependent on many factors. These factors will include, in addition to any other factors that may arise in the future, the receipt of dividends and/or other returns of capital from Enact Holdings, Genworth’s operating results and financial condition, legal requirements, regulatory constraints, debt obligations of Genworth Holdings and Enact Holdings, our credit and financial strength ratings, the capital requirements of our subsidiaries, including for future growth, and other factors Genworth Financial’s Board of Directors deems relevant. In addition, we cannot assure you when, whether or at what level we will resume paying dividends on Genworth Financial’s common stock.
See “Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for additional information.
Issuer Purchases of Common Stock
The following table sets forth information regarding Genworth Financial’s share repurchases during the three months ended December 31, 2024:
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October 1, 2024 through October 31, 2024 |
1,401,753 | $ | 6.84 | 1,401,753 | $ | 197 | ||||||||||
November 1, 2024 through November 30, 2024 |
2,461,584 | $ | 7.34 | 2,461,584 | $ | 179 | ||||||||||
December 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024 |
3,151,349 | $ | 7.52 | 3,151,349 | $ | 155 | ||||||||||
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(1) | On May 2, 2022, Genworth Financial’s Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program under which Genworth Financial could repurchase up to $350 million of its outstanding common stock. On July 31, 2023, Genworth Financial’s Board of Directors authorized an additional $350 million of share repurchases under the existing share repurchase program. Under the program, share repurchases may be made at the Company’s discretion from time to time in open market transactions, privately negotiated transactions, or other means, including through Rule 10b5-1 trading plans. The timing and number of future shares repurchased under the program will depend on a variety of factors, including Genworth Financial’s stock price and trading volume, and general business and market conditions, among other factors. The authorization has no expiration date and may be modified, suspended or terminated at any time. For additional information on the share repurchase program, including certain repurchases made subsequent to periods provided in the chart above, see “Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources.” |
Item 6. | Reserved |
Item 7. | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations |
The following discussion and analysis of our consolidated financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included in “Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”
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Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K generally discusses year-to-year comparisons between the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. Discussions of information related to 2022 and year-to-year comparisons between 2023 and 2022 are not included in this Form 10-K. Comparative discussions between 2023 and 2022 can be found in “Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Overview
Our business
Genworth Financial, through its principal insurance subsidiaries, offers mortgage and long-term care insurance products. Genworth Financial is the parent company of Enact Holdings, a leading provider of private mortgage insurance in the United States through its mortgage insurance subsidiaries. Genworth Financial’s U.S. life insurance subsidiaries offer long-term care insurance and also manage in-force blocks of life insurance and annuity products which are no longer sold. We report our business results through three segments: Enact; Long-Term Care Insurance; and Life and Annuities. In addition to our three segments, we report certain of our results of operations in Corporate and Other.
Our financial information
The financial information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K has been derived from our consolidated financial statements.
Revenues and expenses
Our revenues consist primarily of the following:
• | Premiums. Premiums consist primarily of premiums earned on insurance products for mortgage, long-term care and term life insurance. |
• | Net investment income. Net investment income represents the income earned on our investments. For discussion of the change in net investment income, see the comparison for this line item under “—Investments and Derivative Instruments.” |
• | Net investment gains (losses). Net investment gains (losses) consist primarily of realized gains and losses from the sale of our investments, credit losses, and unrealized gains and losses on equity securities, limited partnership investments and derivative instruments. For discussion of the change in net investment gains (losses), see the comparison for this line item under “—Investments and Derivative Instruments.” |
• | Policy fees and other income. Policy fees and other income consists primarily of fees assessed against policyholder and contractholder account values, surrender charges, cost of insurance assessed on universal and term universal life insurance policies, advisory and administration service fees assessed on investment contractholder account values, broker-dealer commission revenues, fee revenue from contract underwriting services and other fees. |
Our expenses consist primarily of the following:
• | Benefits and other changes in policy reserves. Benefits and other changes in policy reserves consist primarily of benefits paid, interest accretion expense, and other reserve activity related to future policy benefits for long-term care insurance, life insurance, and fixed and variable annuities, and claim costs incurred related to mortgage insurance products. |
• | Liability remeasurement (gains) losses. Liability remeasurement (gains) losses represent changes to the net premium ratio for actual variances from expected experience and updates to cash flow assumptions used to measure long-duration traditional and limited-payment insurance contracts. |
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• | Changes in fair value of market risk benefits and associated hedges. Changes in fair value of market risk benefits and associated hedges consist of fair value changes of market risk benefits (other than changes attributable to instrument-specific credit risk), net of changes in the fair value of non-qualified derivative instruments that support our market risk benefits. |
• | Interest credited. Interest credited represents interest credited on behalf of policyholder and contractholder general account balances. |
• | Acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals. Acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals, represent costs and expenses related to the acquisition and ongoing maintenance of insurance and investment contracts, including commissions, policy issuance expenses and other underwriting and general operating costs. These costs and expenses are net of amounts that are capitalized and deferred, which are costs and expenses that are related directly to the successful acquisition of new or renewal insurance policies and investment contracts, such as first-year commissions in excess of ultimate renewal commissions and other policy issuance expenses. We allocate certain corporate expenses to each of our segments using various methodologies. |
• | Amortization of deferred acquisition costs and intangibles. Amortization of deferred acquisition costs (“DAC”) and intangibles consists primarily of the amortization of capitalized acquisition costs, present value of future profits and capitalized software. |
• | Interest expense. Interest expense primarily represents interest incurred on borrowings of Genworth Holdings and Enact Holdings. |
• | Provision (benefit) for income taxes. We allocate tax to our businesses at the U.S. corporate federal income tax rate of 21%. Each segment is then adjusted to reflect the unique tax attributes of that segment, such as permanent differences between U.S. GAAP and tax law. The difference between the consolidated provision for income taxes and the sum of the provision for income taxes in each segment is reflected in Corporate and Other. |
The effective tax rates disclosed herein are calculated using whole numbers. As a result, the percentages shown may differ from an effective tax rate calculated using rounded numbers.
• | Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests. Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests represents third-party ownership interests in income of Enact Holdings, a consolidated subsidiary of Genworth Financial. |
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Consolidated Results of Operations
The following table sets forth the consolidated results of operations for the periods indicated:
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$ | 3,480 | $ | 3,636 | $ | 3,680 | $ | (156 | ) | (4 | )% | $ | (44 | ) | (1 | )% | ||||||||||||
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3,160 | 3,183 | 3,146 | (23 | ) | (1 | )% | 37 | 1 | % | ||||||||||||||||||
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13 | 23 | (2 | ) | (10 | ) | (43 | )% | 25 | NM | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
Policy fees and other income |
642 | 646 | 671 | (4 | ) | (1 | )% | (25 | ) | (4 | )% | |||||||||||||||||
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7,295 | 7,488 | 7,495 | (193 | ) | (3 | )% | (7 | ) | — | % | |||||||||||||||||
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4,766 | 4,783 | 4,303 | (17 | ) | — | % | 480 | 11 | % | ||||||||||||||||||
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153 | 587 | (290 | ) | (434 | ) | (74 | )% | 877 | NM | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
Changes in fair value of market risk benefits and associated hedges |
(13 | ) | (12 | ) | (104 | ) | (1 | ) | (8 | )% | 92 | 88 | % | |||||||||||||||
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453 | 503 | 504 | (50 | ) | (10 | )% | (1 | ) | — | % | |||||||||||||||||
Acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals |
977 | 942 | 1,285 | 35 | 4 | % | (343 | ) | (27 | )% | ||||||||||||||||||
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs and intangibles |
249 | 264 | 326 | (15 | ) | (6 | )% | (62 | ) | (19 | )% | |||||||||||||||||
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115 | 118 | 106 | (3 | ) | (3 | )% | 12 | 11 | % | ||||||||||||||||||
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6,700 | 7,185 | 6,130 | (485 | ) | (7 | )% | 1,055 | 17 | % | ||||||||||||||||||
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595 | 303 | 1,365 | 292 | 96 | % | (1,062 | ) | (78 | )% | ||||||||||||||||||
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158 | 104 | 319 | 54 | 52 | % | (215 | ) | (67 | )% | ||||||||||||||||||
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437 | 199 | 1,046 | 238 | 120 | % | (847 | ) | (81 | )% | ||||||||||||||||||
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427 | 199 | 1,046 | 228 | 115 | % | (847 | ) | (81 | )% | ||||||||||||||||||
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$ | 299 | $ | 76 | $ | 916 | $ | 223 | NM | (1) | $ | (840 | ) | (92 | )% | |||||||||||||
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(1) | We define “NM” as not meaningful for increases or decreases greater than 200%. |
Unless otherwise stated, all references to net income (loss), net income (loss) per share, adjusted operating income (loss) and adjusted operating income (loss) per share found in “Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” should be read as net income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders, net income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders per share, adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders and adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders per share, respectively.
Use of non-GAAP measures
Reconciliation of net income (loss) to adjusted operating income (loss)
Our chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) evaluates performance and allocates resources based on a non-GAAP financial measure entitled “adjusted operating income (loss).” Our CODM evaluates adjusted
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operating income (loss) as a key measure to assess performance and support new business initiatives because the measure more accurately reflects overall operating performance, as it minimizes the impact of macroeconomic volatility. Our legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries, which comprise our Long-Term Care Insurance and Life and Annuities segments, are managed on a standalone basis; therefore, we do not allocate capital to our Long-Term Care Insurance and Life and Annuities segments.
We define adjusted operating income (loss) as income (loss) from continuing operations excluding the after-tax effects of income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests, net investment gains (losses), changes in fair value of market risk benefits attributable to interest rates, equity markets and associated hedges, gains (losses) on the sale of businesses, gains (losses) on the early extinguishment of debt, restructuring costs and infrequent or unusual non-operating items. A component of our net investment gains (losses) is the result of estimated future credit losses, the size and timing of which can vary significantly depending on market credit cycles. In addition, the size and timing of other investment gains (losses) can be subject to our discretion and are influenced by market opportunities, as well as asset-liability matching considerations. We exclude net investment gains (losses), changes in fair value of market risk benefits attributable to interest rates, equity markets and associated hedges, gains (losses) on the sale of businesses, gains (losses) on the early extinguishment of debt, restructuring costs and infrequent or unusual non-operating items from adjusted operating income (loss) because, in our opinion, they are not indicative of overall operating performance.
While some of these items may be significant components of net income (loss) determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, we believe that adjusted operating income (loss), and measures that are derived from or incorporate adjusted operating income (loss), are appropriate measures that are useful to investors because they identify the income (loss) attributable to the ongoing operations of the business. Adjusted operating income (loss) is not a substitute for net income (loss) determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. In addition, our definition of adjusted operating income (loss) may differ from the definitions used by other companies.
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to adjusted operating income (loss) assume a 21% tax rate and are net of the portion attributable to noncontrolling interests. Changes in fair value of market risk benefits and associated hedges are adjusted to exclude changes in reserves, attributed fees and benefit payments.
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The following table presents a reconciliation of net income to adjusted operating income for the years ended December 31:
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(2) | Changes in fair value of market risk benefits and associated hedges were adjusted to exclude changes in reserves, attributed fees and benefit payments of $(30) million, $(10) million and $(38) million for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. |
(3) | (Gains) losses on early extinguishment of debt were net of the portion attributable to noncontrolling interests of $2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. |
Other than pension plan termination costs incurred in 2022 related to one of our defined benefit pension plans, there were no infrequent or unusual items excluded from adjusted operating income during the periods presented.
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Earnings per share
The following table provides basic and diluted earnings per common share for the periods indicated:
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$ | 0.71 | $ | 0.16 | $ | 1.82 | $ | 0.55 | NM | (1) | $ | (1.66 | ) | (91 | )% | |||||||||||||
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$ | 585 | $ | 552 | $ | 578 | $ | 33 | 6 | % | $ | (26 | ) | (4 | )% | |||||||||||||
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Executive Summary of Consolidated Financial Results
Below is an executive summary of our consolidated financial results for the periods indicated. Amounts included within this “Executive Summary of Consolidated Financial Results” are net of taxes, unless otherwise indicated. After-tax amounts assume a tax rate of 21%.
For a discussion of selected financial information and detailed descriptions of operating performance measures see “—Results of Operations and Selected Financial and Operating Performance Measures by Segment.”
2024 compared to 2023
• | Net income in 2024 and 2023 was $299 million and $76 million, respectively, and adjusted operating income was $273 million and $41 million, respectively. |
• | Enact segment |
• | Adjusted operating income increased primarily attributable to higher net investment income and premiums, partially offset by higher new delinquencies in 2024. |
• | Long-Term Care Insurance segment |
• | The adjusted operating loss decreased primarily driven by lower liability remeasurement losses, net insurance recoveries and higher income from limited partnerships, partially offset by lower renewal premiums in 2024. |
• | Life and Annuities segment |
• | Life insurance |
• | The adjusted operating loss decreased primarily from liability remeasurement gains in 2024 compared to losses in 2023, partially offset by lower premiums and a less favorable change in reserves in 2024 in our term life insurance products related to block runoff. |
• | Fixed annuities |
• | Adjusted operating income decreased mainly from unfavorable assumption updates of $9 million primarily related to our fixed indexed annuity lapse assumptions in 2024, as well as lower net spreads primarily related to block runoff. |
• | Variable annuities |
• | Adjusted operating income decreased largely from an unfavorable lapse assumption update of $5 million in 2024 compared to favorable assumption updates in 2023. |
• | Corporate and Other |
• | The adjusted operating loss increased primarily from higher expenses related to CareScout growth initiatives, partially offset by a higher benefit for income taxes in 2024. |
Significant Developments and Strategic Highlights
Enact segment
• | Mortgage insurance portfolio. Enact’s primary persistency rate of 83% for the year ended December 31, 2024 decreased from 85% for the year ended December 31, 2023 due to rate volatility throughout 2024. Elevated persistency continued to offset the decline in new insurance written, contributing to primary insurance in-force growth of $5.9 billion in 2024. New insurance written decreased 4% during 2024 compared to 2023. |
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• | Loss performance. Enact recorded pre-tax reserve releases of $252 million in 2024 primarily related to favorable cure performance and loss mitigation activities compared to pre-tax reserve releases of $241 million in 2023. New primary delinquencies in 2024 increased compared to 2023 largely due to the aging of large, newer books of business. |
• | PMIERs compliance. Enact’s PMIERs sufficiency ratio was 167% or $2,052 million above the PMIERs requirements as of December 31, 2024. On August 21, 2024, the GSEs and the FHFA released updated PMIERs requirements phasing in a revision to the available assets standards between March 31, 2025 and September 30, 2026. Enact expects to hold capital sufficiency well in excess of these requirements and does not expect the impact of these updates to be material to its sufficiency. For additional details on the updated requirements, see “Item 1—Regulation—Enact—Mortgage Insurance Regulation— Other U.S. Regulation and Agency Qualification Requirements.” |
Long-Term Care Insurance segment
• | In-force rate actions. We estimate that the cumulative economic benefit of approved rate actions in our long-term care insurance multi-year in-force rate action plan since 2012 through 2024 was approximately $31.2 billion, on a net present value basis, based on our current updated assumptions regarding future premiums and benefit reductions from approved rate actions and legal settlements as described in “Results of Operations and Selected Financial and Operating Performance Measures by Segment.” This estimated cumulative economic benefit reflects meaningful progress toward reaching our latest estimate of approximately $35.8 billion for the total net present value included in our multi-year in-force rate action plan, based on our current updated assumptions. As a result, the remaining estimated amount to be achieved through future rate action approvals under our in-force rate action plan is approximately $4.6 billion. |
• | Actual variances from expected experience. Unfavorable variances between actual and expected experience resulted in a pre-tax impact of $241 million primarily driven by lower terminations and higher claims. |
• | Annual assumption review. As part of our annual review of cash flow assumptions in the fourth quarter of 2024, our long-term care insurance business had an unfavorable pre-tax impact of $20 million reflecting updates to better align healthy life and near-term benefit utilization assumptions with recent experience. These unfavorable impacts were largely offset by favorable assumption updates for future in-force rate action approvals based on recent experience and favorable updates to our short-term incidence assumptions for IBNR claims. See “—Critical Accounting Estimates—Liability for future policy benefits” for additional information on the impact of changes in our long-term care insurance cash flow assumptions. |
Life and Annuities segment
• | Annual assumption review. As part of our annual review of cash flow assumptions in the fourth quarter of 2024, our universal life insurance products had an unfavorable pre-tax impact of $28 million reflecting updates to mortality and interest rate assumptions. See “—Critical Accounting Estimates—Policyholder account balances – additional insurance liabilities” for additional information on the impact of changes in our life insurance cash flow assumptions. Our annuity products had an unfavorable pre-tax impact of $22 million primarily from updates to our lapse assumptions. |
Capital of U.S. life insurance subsidiaries
• | As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the consolidated RBC ratio on a company action level basis of our U.S. domiciled life insurance subsidiaries was approximately 306% and 303%, respectively. The increase was primarily attributable to statutory earnings during 2024 and an increase in the value of our |
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limited partnership portfolio, partially offset by higher required capital as the portfolio grows. Statutory earnings reflected favorable impacts as a result of premium increases and benefit reductions from in-force rate actions and legal settlements in our long-term care insurance products and a benefit from the impact of interest rate and equity market performance in our variable annuity products. |
Capital and liquidity
• | Capital returns and share repurchases. During 2024, Genworth Holdings received $289 million of capital returns from Enact Holdings, and Genworth Financial executed $186 million of share repurchases, before excise taxes and other associated costs. |
• | Borrowings. Genworth Holdings repurchased $66 million principal amount of its debt in 2024. In June 2024, Enact Holdings redeemed all $750 million aggregate principal amount outstanding of its 6.50% senior notes due in 2025 (“2025 Notes”). Enact Holdings funded the redemption primarily through the net proceeds from the issuance of its $750 million 6.25% senior notes due in 2029 (“2029 Notes”). |
• | Capital contributions. We plan to invest additional capital in CareScout Services in 2025 as we continue to build out the offering. We also plan to contribute capital to our CareScout Insurance subsidiary in 2025 to meet the regulatory requirements of a new start-up insurer as we re-enter the long-term care insurance market. See “Part I—Item 1—Business—Strategic Priorities—CareScout growth initiatives.” |
Results of Operations and Selected Financial and Operating Performance Measures by Segment
Enact segment
Trends and conditions
Results of our Enact segment are affected primarily by the following factors: competitor actions; unemployment or underemployment levels; other economic and housing market trends, including interest rates, home prices, the number of first-time homebuyers, and mortgage origination volume mix and practices; the size of the overall private mortgage insurance market and the effect of regulatory actions thereon; the levels and aging of mortgage delinquencies; the effect of seasonal variations; the inventory of unsold homes; loan modification and other servicing efforts; and litigation, among other items. References to “Enact” included in “Item 7—Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Enact segment” are, unless the context otherwise requires, to our Enact segment.
Macroeconomic environment
During 2024, the U.S. economy continued to show positive signs but faced lingering uncertainty due to inflationary pressure, the geopolitical environment and other macroeconomic concerns. Mortgage origination activity increased modestly in 2024 but remained relatively slow due to elevated mortgage rates and sustained low housing supply. Over the past few years, housing affordability has deteriorated as elevated mortgage rates and home price appreciation outpaced median family income, according to the National Association of Realtors Housing Affordability Index. National home prices continued to rise in 2024, according to the FHFA Monthly Purchase-Only House Price Index.
The unemployment rate increased to 4.1% in December 2024, compared to 3.7% in December 2023. As of December 31, 2024, the number of unemployed Americans was approximately 6.9 million, and the number of long-term unemployed over 26 weeks was approximately 1.6 million.
Forbearance and loss mitigation programs
Borrowers’ ability to utilize extended forbearance timelines permitted through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and the GSEs’ COVID-19 servicing-related policies ended in 2023. Borrowers that
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meet general hardship and program guidelines continue to have access to standard forbearance policies as a loss mitigation option. In addition, in March 2023, the GSEs announced new loss mitigation programs that allow six-month payment deferrals for borrowers facing financial hardship.
Although it is difficult to predict the future level of reported forbearance and how many of the loans in a forbearance plan that remain current on their monthly mortgage payment will go delinquent, servicer reported forbearances have generally declined. As of December 31, 2024, approximately 1.1% or 10,943 of Enact’s active primary policies were reported in a forbearance plan, of which approximately 34% were reported as delinquent. Approximately 9% of Enact’s primary new delinquencies in 2024 were subject to a forbearance plan compared to 13% in 2023.
Regulatory developments
Private mortgage insurance market penetration and overall market size are affected in part by actions that impact housing or housing finance policy taken by the GSEs and the U.S. government, including but not limited to, the FHA and the FHFA. In the past, these actions have included announced changes, or potential changes, to underwriting standards, including changes to the GSEs’ automated underwriting systems, FHA pricing, GSE guaranty fees, loan limits and alternative products.
On October 24, 2022, the FHFA announced its validation and approval of certain credit score models for anticipated use by the GSEs and proposed changing the required number of credit reports provided by lenders from all three nationwide consumer reporting agencies to only two. The validation of the new credit scores is currently expected to require lenders to deliver both credit scores for each loan sold to the GSEs. Implementation, which has been delayed beyond 2025, will require system and process updates.
Competitive environment
The U.S. private mortgage insurance industry is highly competitive. Enact Holdings’ market share is influenced by the execution of its go to market strategy, including but not limited to, pricing competitiveness relative to its peers and its selective participation in forward commitment transactions. Enact continues to manage the quality of new business through pricing and its underwriting guidelines, which are modified from time to time when circumstances warrant. The market and underwriting conditions, including the mortgage insurance pricing environment, are within Enact’s risk adjusted return appetite, enabling it to write new business at returns it views as attractive.
Mortgage insurance portfolio
New insurance written of $51.0 billion in 2024 decreased 4% compared to 2023. Changes in new insurance written are primarily impacted by the size of the mortgage insurance market and Enact’s market share. Enact’s primary persistency rate was 83% for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to 85% for the year ended December 31, 2023. Persistency remained elevated in 2024 but decreased compared to 2023 due to rate volatility. Elevated persistency continued to offset lower new insurance written, contributing to an increase in primary insurance in-force of $5.9 billion during 2024.
Net earned premiums increased in 2024 compared to 2023 primarily driven by insurance in-force growth and higher assumed premiums, mostly consisting of Enact Re’s GSE credit risk transfer participation and multifamily reinsurance, partially offset by higher ceded premiums.
Loss experience
Enact’s loss ratio was 4% for the year ended December 31, 2024, compared to 3% for the year ended December 31, 2023. Enact released reserves of $252 million during 2024 primarily driven by favorable cure
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performance on delinquencies from prior years and loss mitigation activities. As part of the reserve adjustments in 2024, Enact decreased its claim rate assumptions largely as a result of sustained favorable cure performance and lessening uncertainty in the economic environment, impacting both current and prior year delinquencies. Enact released reserves of $241 million in 2023 primarily related to favorable cure performance on delinquencies from 2022 and earlier, including those related to COVID-19.
The severity of loss on loans that go to claim may be negatively impacted by extended forbearance and foreclosure timelines, the associated elevated expenses and the higher loan amount of recent new delinquencies. These negative influences on loss severity could be mitigated in part by embedded home price appreciation. For loans insured on or after October 1, 2014, Enact’s mortgage insurance policies limit the number of months of unpaid interest and associated expenses that are included in the mortgage insurance claim amount to a maximum of 36 months.
New primary delinquencies for the year ended December 31, 2024 increased compared to the year ended December 31, 2023, primarily due to the aging of large, newer books of business. New primary delinquencies of 48,537 contributed $287 million of loss expense in 2024, while Enact incurred $265 million of losses from 41,617 new primary delinquencies in 2023. In determining the loss expense estimate, considerations were given to recent cure and claim experience and the prevailing and prospective economic conditions.
Capital requirements
As of December 31, 2024, EMICO’s risk-to-capital ratio under North Carolina law and enforced by the NCDOI, EMICO’s domestic insurance regulator, was approximately 10.5:1, compared with a risk-to-capital ratio of 11.6:1 as of December 31, 2023. EMICO’s risk-to-capital ratio remains below the NCDOI’s maximum risk-to-capital ratio of 25:1. North Carolina’s calculation of risk-to-capital excludes the risk in-force for delinquent loans given the established loss reserves against all delinquencies. EMICO’s ongoing risk-to-capital ratio will depend principally on the magnitude of future losses incurred by EMICO, the effectiveness of ongoing loss mitigation activities, new business volume and profitability, the impact of quota share reinsurance, the amount of policy lapses and the amount of additional capital that is generated or distributed by the business.
Under PMIERs, Enact is subject to operational and financial requirements that private mortgage insurers must meet in order to remain eligible to insure loans that are purchased by the GSEs. As of December 31, 2024, Enact had estimated available assets of $5,095 million against $3,043 million net required assets under PMIERs compared to available assets of $5,006 million against $3,119 million net required assets as of December 31, 2023. The sufficiency ratio as of December 31, 2024 was 167% or $2,052 million above the PMIERs requirements, compared to 161% or $1,887 million above the PMIERs requirements as of December 31, 2023.
Enact’s PMIERs required assets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 benefited from the application of a 0.30 multiplier applied to the risk based required asset amount factor for certain non-performing loans as defined under PMIERs. The application of the 0.30 multiplier to all eligible delinquencies provided $28 million and $73 million, respectively, of benefit to Enact’s December 31, 2024 and 2023 PMIERs required assets. Enact’s third-party reinsurance transactions provided an aggregate of approximately $1,885 million and $1,714 million of PMIERs capital credit as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. These amounts are gross of any incremental reinsurance benefit from the elimination of the 0.30 multiplier. Per guidance released by the GSEs in the third quarter of 2024, use of the multiplier will be discontinued effective March 31, 2025.
On August 21, 2024, the GSEs and the FHFA released updated PMIERs requirements phasing in a revision to the available assets standards between March 31, 2025 and September 30, 2026. Enact expects to hold capital sufficiency well in excess of these requirements and does not expect the impact of these updates to be material to its sufficiency. For additional details, see “Item 1—Regulation—Enact—Mortgage Insurance Regulation—Other U.S. Regulation and Agency Qualification Requirements.”
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Recent transactions
During 2024, Enact executed excess of loss reinsurance transactions that provide up to $270 million of reinsurance coverage on a portion of its new insurance written in 2024 and $90 million of reinsurance coverage on a portion of its existing new insurance written between July 2023 and December 2023. Enact also executed quota share reinsurance agreements under which it ceded approximately 21% of a portion of new insurance written for its 2024 book year and will cede, subject to certain conditions, approximately 27% of a portion of expected new insurance written for each of its 2025 and 2026 book years.
On January 27, 2025, Enact executed two excess of loss reinsurance transactions that provide approximately $225 million and $260 million, respectively, of reinsurance coverage on a portion of expected new insurance written for the 2025 and 2026 book years. See note 7 in our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional details on Enact’s reinsurance transactions. Enact may execute future credit risk transfer transactions to maintain a prudent level of financial flexibility in excess of the PMIERs capital requirements in response to potential changes in performance and PMIERs requirements over time.
Capital returns
In November 2024, EMICO completed a distribution to Enact Holdings that supports its ability to pay a quarterly dividend. Future dividend payments are subject to quarterly review and approval by Enact Holdings’ board of directors and Genworth Financial. In addition to Enact’s quarterly dividend program, Enact Holdings announced approval by its board of directors on May 1, 2024 of a share repurchase program which allows for the repurchase of up to $250 million of its common stock. Genworth Holdings has agreed to participate in share repurchases in order to maintain its overall ownership at approximately its current level. As the majority shareholder, Genworth Holdings received $289 million of capital returns from Enact Holdings during 2024, comprised of $91 million of quarterly dividends and $198 million of share repurchases.
Returning capital to shareholders, balanced with growth and risk management priorities, remains a priority for Enact Holdings as it looks to enhance shareholder value through time. Future return of capital will be shaped by Enact Holdings’ capital prioritization framework, which sets the following priorities: supporting its existing policyholders, growing its mortgage insurance business, funding attractive new business opportunities and returning capital to shareholders. Enact Holdings’ total return of capital will also be based on its view of the prevailing and prospective macroeconomic conditions, regulatory landscape and business performance.
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Segment results of operations
The following table sets forth the results of operations relating to our Enact segment for the periods indicated:
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(2) | For the year ended December 31, 2024, (gains) losses on the early extinguishment of debt were net of the portion attributable to noncontrolling interests of $2 million. |
(3) | We define “NM” as not meaningful for increases or decreases greater than 200%. |
2024 compared to 2023
Adjusted operating income available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders
Adjusted operating income increased primarily attributable to higher net investment income and premiums, partially offset by higher new delinquencies in 2024.
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Revenues
Premiums increased mainly driven by insurance in-force growth and higher assumed premiums, mostly consisting of Enact Re’s GSE credit risk transfer participation and multifamily reinsurance, partially offset by higher ceded premiums in 2024.
Net investment income increased primarily from higher investment yields and higher average invested assets in 2024.
For a discussion of the change in net investment gains (losses), see the comparison for this line item under “—Investments and Derivative Instruments.”
Benefits and expenses
Benefits and other changes in policy reserves increased primarily driven by higher new delinquencies, partially offset by higher favorable reserve adjustments in 2024. Enact released reserves of $252 million in 2024 primarily related to favorable cure performance on delinquencies from prior years and loss mitigation activities. During 2023, Enact released $241 million of reserves primarily related to favorable cure performance on prior year delinquencies, including those related to COVID-19.
Acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals, increased primarily due to an $11 million loss on the early redemption of Enact Holdings’ 2025 Notes in 2024.
Provision for income taxes. The effective tax rate was 21.6% and 21.8% for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, consistent with the U.S. corporate federal income tax rate.
Enact selected operating performance measures
Management’s discussion and analysis of our Enact segment contains selected operating performance measures including “new insurance written,” “insurance in-force” and “risk in-force,” which are commonly used in the insurance industry as measures of operating performance.
Management regularly monitors and reports new insurance written for our Enact segment as a measure of volume of new business generated in a period. We consider new insurance written to be a measure of our Enact segment’s operating performance because it represents a measure of new sales of mortgage insurance policies during a specified period, rather than a measure of revenues or profitability during that period.
Management also regularly monitors and reports insurance in-force and risk in-force for our Enact segment. Insurance in-force is a measure of the aggregate unpaid principal balance as of the respective reporting date for loans insured by our U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries. Risk in-force is based on the coverage percentage applied to the estimated current outstanding loan balance. These metrics are presented on a direct basis and exclude reinsurance. We consider insurance in-force and risk in-force to be measures of our Enact segment’s operating performance because they represent measures of the size of its business at a specific date which will generate revenues and profits in a future period, rather than measures of its revenues or profitability during that period.
Management also regularly monitors and reports a loss ratio and an expense ratio for our Enact segment. We consider the loss ratio, which is the ratio of benefits and other changes in policy reserves to net earned premiums, to be a measure of underwriting performance. The expense ratio is the ratio of general expenses to net earned premiums. Enact’s general expenses consist of acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals, and amortization of DAC and intangibles. We believe these ratios help to enhance the understanding of the operating performance of our Enact segment.
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The following table sets forth selected operating performance measures regarding Enact as of and for the dates indicated:
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Primary insurance in-force and risk in-force
Primary insurance in-force increased mainly from new insurance written and elevated persistency, partially offset by lapses and cancellations. The primary persistency rate was 83% and 85% for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Total risk in-force increased primarily as a result of higher primary insurance in-force.
New insurance written
Changes in new insurance written are primarily impacted by the size of the mortgage insurance market and Enact’s market share.
Loss and expense ratios
The following table sets forth the loss and expense ratios for Enact for the dates indicated:
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The loss ratio increased largely from higher new delinquencies, partially offset by higher favorable reserve adjustments in 2024, as discussed above.
The expense ratio increased primarily due to an $11 million loss on the early redemption of Enact Holdings’ 2025 Notes, which increased the expense ratio by one percentage point in 2024.
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Mortgage insurance loan portfolio
The following table sets forth selected financial information regarding Enact’s loan portfolio as of December 31:
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Primary insurance in-force by loan-to-value ratio at origination: |
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95.01% and above |
$ | 50,318 | $ | 44,955 | $ | 39,509 | ||||||
90.01% to 95.00% |
112,362 | 109,227 | 103,618 | |||||||||
85.01% to 90.00% |
79,932 | 77,887 | 72,132 | |||||||||
85.00% and below |
26,213 | 30,868 | 33,003 | |||||||||
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$ | 268,825 | $ | 262,937 | $ | 248,262 | ||||||
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Primary risk in-force by loan-to-value ratio at origination: |
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95.01% and above |
$ | 14,428 | $ | 12,878 | $ | 11,136 | ||||||
90.01% to 95.00% |
32,686 | 31,781 | 30,079 | |||||||||
85.01% to 90.00% |
19,729 | 19,163 | 17,621 | |||||||||
85.00% and below |
3,142 | 3,707 | 3,955 | |||||||||
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$ | 69,985 | $ | 67,529 | $ | 62,791 | ||||||
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Primary insurance in-force by credit quality at origination: |
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Over 760 |
$ | 115,554 | $ | 110,635 | $ | 102,467 | ||||||
740—759 |
43,955 | 43,053 | 40,097 | |||||||||
720—739 |
37,717 | 37,020 | 34,916 | |||||||||
700—719 |
29,819 | 29,766 | 28,867 | |||||||||
680—699 |
21,355 | 21,835 | 21,554 | |||||||||
660—679(1) |
11,245 | 11,357 | 10,926 | |||||||||
640—659 |
6,147 | 6,137 | 6,095 | |||||||||
620—639 |
2,461 | 2,504 | 2,630 | |||||||||
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572 | 630 | 710 | |||||||||
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$ | 268,825 | $ | 262,937 | $ | 248,262 | ||||||
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Primary risk in-force by credit quality at origination: |
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Over 760 |
$ | 29,985 | $ | 28,363 | $ | 25,807 | ||||||
740—759 |
11,494 | 11,096 | 10,154 | |||||||||
720—739 |
9,949 | 9,621 | 8,931 | |||||||||
700—719 |
7,746 | 7,623 | 7,317 | |||||||||
680—699 |
5,523 | 5,557 | 5,428 | |||||||||
660—679(1) |
2,924 | 2,908 | 2,767 | |||||||||
640—659 |
1,589 | 1,565 | 1,540 | |||||||||
620—639 |
629 | 635 | 665 | |||||||||
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146 | 161 | 182 | |||||||||
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$ | 69,985 | $ | 67,529 | $ | 62,791 | ||||||
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(1) | Loans with unknown FICO scores are included in the 660-679 category. |
The FICO credit score is one indicator of a borrower’s credit quality. Enact continues to underwrite predominantly prime loan new business. Based upon FICO at loan closing, the weighted average FICO score of Enact’s primary insurance in-force was 745 as of December 31, 2024.
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Delinquent loans and claims
Enact’s delinquency management process begins with notification by the loan servicer of a delinquency on an insured loan. “Delinquency” is defined in Enact’s master policies as the borrower’s failure to pay when due an amount equal to the scheduled monthly mortgage payment under the terms of the mortgage. Generally, the master policies require an insured to notify Enact of a delinquency if the borrower fails to make two consecutive monthly mortgage payments prior to the due date of the next mortgage payment. Enact generally considers a loan to be delinquent and establishes required reserves after the insured gives notification that the borrower has failed to make two scheduled mortgage payments. Borrowers default for a variety of reasons, including a reduction of income, unemployment, divorce, illness/death, inability to manage credit, falling home prices and interest rate levels. Borrowers may cure delinquencies by making all of the delinquent loan payments, agreeing to a loan modification or by selling the property in full satisfaction of all amounts due under the mortgage. In most cases, delinquencies that are not cured result in a claim under Enact’s policy. The following table sets forth the number of loans insured, the number of delinquent loans and the delinquency rate for Enact’s loan portfolio as of December 31:
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Insured loans in-force |
962,849 | 974,516 | 960,306 | |||||||||
Delinquent loans |
23,566 | 20,432 | 19,943 | |||||||||
Percentage of delinquent loans (delinquency rate) |
2.45 | % | 2.10 | % | 2.08 | % |
The delinquency rate as of December 31, 2024 increased compared to December 31, 2023 primarily from an increase in total delinquencies mostly driven by new delinquencies outpacing cures and paid claims.
The following tables set forth primary delinquencies, direct primary case reserves and risk in-force by aged missed payment status in Enact’s loan portfolio as of December 31:
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3 payments or less |
12,712 | $ | 108 | $ | 849 | 13 | % | |||||||||
4 - 11 payments |
7,701 | 191 | 545 | 35 | % | |||||||||||
12 payments or more |
3,153 | 173 | 213 | 81 | % | |||||||||||
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23,566 | $ | 472 | $ | 1,607 | 29 | % | |||||||||
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Delinquencies | Direct primary case reserves(1) |
Risk in-force |
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3 payments or less |
10,166 | $ | 88 | $ | 629 | 14 | % | |||||||||
4 - 11 payments |
6,934 | 205 | 469 | 44 | % | |||||||||||
12 payments or more |
3,332 | 184 | 200 | 92 | % | |||||||||||
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20,432 | $ | 477 | $ | 1,298 | 37 | % | |||||||||
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(1) | Direct primary case reserves exclude loss adjustment expenses, pool, IBNR and reinsurance reserves. |
Reserves as a percentage of risk in-force as of December 31, 2024 decreased compared to December 31, 2023 as Enact has experienced cures among long-term delinquencies with higher reserves and has reduced the expected claim rate on new delinquencies.
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Primary insurance delinquency rates differ from region to region in the United States at any one time depending upon economic conditions and cyclical growth patterns. The tables below set forth the dispersion of direct primary case reserves and primary delinquency rates for the 10 largest states and the 10 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (“MSA”) or Metro Divisions (“MD”) by Enact’s primary risk in-force as of the dates indicated. Delinquency rates are shown by region based upon the location of the underlying property, rather than the location of the lender.
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12 | % | 12 | % | 2.53 | % | 2.22 | % | 2.09 | % | ||||||||||
Texas |
9 | % | 9 | % | 2.64 | % | 2.22 | % | 2.12 | % | ||||||||||
Florida(2) |
8 | % | 12 | % | 3.67 | % | 2.39 | % | 2.54 | % | ||||||||||
New York(2) |
5 | % | 10 | % | 3.30 | % | 3.05 | % | 2.95 | % | ||||||||||
Illinois(2) |
4 | % | 6 | % | 2.96 | % | 2.61 | % | 2.54 | % | ||||||||||
Arizona |
4 | % | 3 | % | 2.35 | % | 1.93 | % | 1.78 | % | ||||||||||
Michigan |
4 | % | 3 | % | 2.14 | % | 1.94 | % | 1.79 | % | ||||||||||
Georgia |
3 | % | 4 | % | 3.02 | % | 2.23 | % | 2.23 | % | ||||||||||
North Carolina |
3 | % | 2 | % | 2.14 | % | 1.56 | % | 1.59 | % | ||||||||||
Pennsylvania |
3 | % | 3 | % | 2.17 | % | 2.19 | % | 2.17 | % |
(1) | Direct primary case reserves exclude loss adjustment expenses, pool, IBNR and reinsurance reserves. |
(2) | Jurisdiction predominantly uses a judicial foreclosure process, which generally increases the amount of time it takes for a foreclosure to be completed. |
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Phoenix, AZ MSA |
3 | % | 3 | % | 2.41 | % | 2.01 | % | 1.83 | % | ||||||||||
Chicago-Naperville, IL MD |
3 | % | 4 | % | 3.29 | % | 2.88 | % | 2.84 | % | ||||||||||
Atlanta, GA MSA |
3 | % | 3 | % | 3.02 | % | 2.40 | % | 2.42 | % | ||||||||||
New York, NY MD |
2 | % | 6 | % | 3.53 | % | 3.60 | % | 3.75 | % | ||||||||||
Houston, TX MSA |
2 | % | 3 | % | 3.58 | % | 2.67 | % | 2.60 | % | ||||||||||
Dallas, TX MD |
2 | % | 2 | % | 2.38 | % | 1.92 | % | 1.86 | % | ||||||||||
Washington-Arlington, DC MD |
2 | % | 2 | % | 2.03 | % | 2.01 | % | 1.85 | % | ||||||||||
Riverside-San Bernardino, CA MSA |
2 | % | 3 | % | 3.25 | % | 2.83 | % | 2.89 | % | ||||||||||
Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA MD |
2 | % | 2 | % | 2.65 | % | 2.39 | % | 2.18 | % | ||||||||||
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO MSA |
2 | % | 1 | % | 1.38 | % | 1.12 | % | 1.12 | % |
(1) | Direct primary case reserves exclude loss adjustment expenses, pool, IBNR and reinsurance reserves. |
The number of delinquencies may not correlate directly with the number of claims received because delinquencies may cure. The rate at which delinquencies cure is influenced by borrowers’ financial resources and circumstances and regional economic differences. Whether a delinquency leads to a claim correlates highly with the borrower’s equity at the time of delinquency, as it influences the borrower’s willingness to continue to make payments, and the borrower’s or the insured’s ability to sell the home for an amount sufficient to satisfy all amounts due under the mortgage loan, as well as the borrower’s financial ability to continue making payments. When Enact receives notice of a delinquency, it uses its proprietary model to determine whether a delinquent loan is a candidate for a modification. When the model identifies such a candidate, Enact’s loan workout specialists prioritize cases for loss mitigation based upon the likelihood that the loan will result in a claim. Loss mitigation actions include loan modification, extension of credit to bring a loan current, foreclosure forbearance, pre-foreclosure sale and deed-in-lieu. These loss mitigation efforts often are an effective way to reduce Enact’s claim exposure and ultimate payouts.
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The following table sets forth the dispersion of Enact’s direct primary case reserves, primary insurance in-force and risk in-force by year of policy origination, as well as weighted average mortgage interest rate and delinquency rate as of December 31, 2024:
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Weighted average rate (1) |
% of direct primary case reserves(2) |
Primary insurance in-force |
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Policy Year 2008 and prior |
5.33 | % | 10 | % | $ | 4,860 | 2 | % | $ | 1,256 | 2 | % | 8.17 | % | ||||||||||||||
2009 to 2016 |
4.00 | % | 6 | 5,138 | 2 | 1,332 | 2 | 4.75 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
2017 |
4.32 | % | 4 | 3,907 | 1 | 1,036 | 1 | 4.37 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
2018 |
4.83 | % | 5 | 4,790 | 2 | 1,233 | 2 | 4.66 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
2019 |
4.23 | % | 8 | 11,415 | 4 | 2,984 | 4 | 3.31 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
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3.26 | % | 14 | 34,940 | 13 | 9,553 | 14 | 2.14 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
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3.11 | % | 21 | 57,266 | 21 | 15,043 | 21 | 2.25 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
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4.88 | % | 20 | 53,063 | 20 | 13,476 | 19 | 2.50 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
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6.62 | % | 10 | 45,208 | 17 | 11,719 | 17 | 1.83 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
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6.70 | % | 2 | 48,238 | 18 | 12,353 | 18 | 0.49 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
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4.88 | % | 100 | % | $ | 268,825 | 100 | % | $ | 69,985 | 100 | % | 2.45 | % | ||||||||||||||
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(1) | Average annual mortgage interest rate weighted by insurance in-force. |
(2) | Direct primary case reserves exclude loss adjustment expenses, pool, IBNR and reinsurance reserves. |
Loss reserves in policy years 2008 and prior are outsized compared to their representation of risk in-force. The size of these policy years at origination combined with the significant decline in home prices led to significant losses in policy years prior to 2009. Although uncertainty remains with respect to the ultimate losses Enact will experience on these policy years, they have become a smaller percentage of its total mortgage insurance portfolio. The concentration of loss reserves has shifted to newer book years in line with changes in risk in-force. As of December 31, 2024, Enact’s 2017 and newer policy years represented approximately 96% of its primary risk in-force and 84% of its total direct primary case reserves.
The ratio of the claim paid to the current risk in-force for a loan is referred to as “claim severity.” The current risk in-force is equal to the unpaid principal amount multiplied by the coverage percentage. The main determinants of claim severity are the age of the mortgage loan, the value of the underlying property, accrued interest on the loan, expenses advanced by the insured and foreclosure expenses. These amounts depend partly upon the time required to complete foreclosure, which varies depending upon state laws. Pre-foreclosure sales, acquisitions and other early workout and claim administration actions help to reduce overall claim severity. Enact’s average primary mortgage insurance claim severity was 99%, 97% and 94% for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and was impacted by low claim volumes and lifetime home price appreciation. The average claim severities do not include the effects of agreements on non-performing loans.
Long-Term Care Insurance segment
Trends and conditions
The results of our long-term care insurance business depend upon how our actual experience compares with our valuation assumptions, including but not limited to in-force rate actions, morbidity, mortality and persistency. Estimates for in-force rate actions reflect certain simplifying assumptions that may vary materially from actual results, including but not limited to consistent policyholder behavior over time in addition to a uniform rate of coinsurance and premium taxes. Actual policyholder behavior may differ significantly from these assumptions. Results of our long-term care insurance business are also influenced by our ability to improve investment yields and manage expenses and reinsurance, among other factors. Changes in laws or government programs, including long-term care insurance rate action legislation, regulation and/or practices, also impact our long-term care insurance business either positively or negatively.
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Because these factors are not known in advance, change over time, are difficult to accurately predict and are inherently uncertain, we cannot determine with precision the ultimate amounts we will pay for actual claims or the timing of those payments as our actual claims experience will emerge over many years, or decades. For example, average claim reserves for new claims have trended higher over time as the mix of claims continues to evolve, with an increasing number of policies with higher daily benefit amounts and higher inflation factors going on claim. Although new claim counts on certain of our oldest long-term care insurance blocks of business have reached their peak claim years and will decrease as the blocks run off, we expect overall claims costs to continue to increase as the approximately 609,000 insured individuals in our two largest blocks, Choice I and Choice II, with average attained ages of 77 and 74, respectively, reach their peak claim years, which are over age 85.
Additionally, we have observed an increase in the cost of care in our long-term care insurance business, due in part to elevated inflation. Increases in cost of care have resulted in higher claim payments, which could have a material adverse impact on our liquidity, results of operations and financial condition if the increases persist. We will continue to monitor our experience and make changes to our assumptions and methodologies, as appropriate, for our long-term care insurance products. Even small changes in assumptions or small deviations of actual experience from assumptions could have, and in the past have had, material impacts on our reserve levels, results of operations and financial condition.
The impacts of assumption updates and actual variances from expected experience will continue to drive volatility in our long-term care insurance results, particularly for our unprofitable capped cohorts. Our profitable uncapped cohorts have to date had a more modest earnings impact related to assumption updates and actual variances from expected experience, as a portion of the impact is reflected in current period results with the remaining majority of the impact recognized over the life of the cohort. However, as we move further from the January 2021 transition date of the accounting guidance for long-duration insurance contracts adopted on January 1, 2023, we may see increased volatility from the uncapped cohorts, with more of the impact related to assumption updates and actual variances from expected experience recognized immediately in net income. It is important to note that quarterly variations resulting from assumption updates and actual variances from expected experience are typically expected to be relatively small compared to the overall size of our liability for future policy benefits of $43.0 billion, at the locked-in discount rate, for our long-term care insurance business as of December 31, 2024.
For a discussion of potential impacts of assumption updates and actual variances from expected experience on our results of operations, see “Item 1A—Risk Factors—We may be required to increase our reserves as a result of deviations from our estimates and actuarial assumptions or other reasons, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.”
The financial condition of our long-term care insurance business is also impacted by interest rates. We remeasure our liability for future policy benefits and the related reinsurance recoverables at the single-A bond rate each quarter. As a result, our reported insurance liabilities are sensitive to movements in interest rates, which will likely result in continued volatility to our reserve balances and equity. For a discussion of the potential impacts and risks associated with changes in interest rates, see “Item 1A—Risk Factors—Interest rates and changes in rates could materially adversely affect our business and profitability.”
Fourth quarter assumption review
In the fourth quarter of 2024, our long-term care insurance products had an unfavorable pre-tax impact of $20 million from cash flow assumption updates primarily related to updates to our healthy life and near-term benefit utilization assumptions to better align with recent experience, including cost of care inflation. Although we did not make significant changes to our multi-year in-force rate action plan, these unfavorable impacts were partially offset by favorable assumption updates for future in-force rate action approvals given our current plans for rate increase filings and our recent experience regarding approvals and regulatory support. The unfavorable
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impacts were also partially offset by favorable updates to our short-term incidence assumptions for IBNR claims, reducing sufficiency held through a period of heightened uncertainty around incidence during and immediately following COVID-19. While our 2024 assumption review considered trends during the pandemic years, our updates to long-term assumptions generally exclude or adjust experience data after 2019, as we do not have sufficient information around the long-term effects of COVID-19.
Under statutory cash flow testing, changes impacting active life reserves are included in our margin review and only impact statutory income if the margin falls below zero. However, changes to our claim reserve assumptions are immediately reflected in statutory income. We completed statutory cash flow testing for our life insurance subsidiaries in the fourth quarter of 2024 and concluded that the margin in GLIC was positive and within the $0.5 billion to $1.0 billion range. However, GLICNY had a negative margin and recorded additional statutory reserves of $79 million in 2024.
In-force rate actions and legal settlements
Given the ongoing challenges in our long-term care insurance business, we continue to pursue initiatives to improve the risk and profitability profile of our business, including premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions on our in-force policies. Executing on our multi-year long-term care insurance in-force rate action plan with premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions on our legacy long-term care insurance policies is critical to the business. For an update on in-force rate actions, refer to the selected operating performance measures below.
In addition, we have reached three legal settlements regarding alleged disclosure deficiencies in premium increases for long-term care insurance policies. These legal settlements cover approximately 70% of our long-term care insurance block and have had the effect of accelerating benefit reductions. We began implementing the third and final legal settlement during the second quarter of 2023, and its implementation was materially completed in the fourth quarter of 2024. These legal settlements resulted in an overall net favorable economic impact to our long-term care insurance business as they reduced tail risk on these long-duration liabilities.
While we expect renewal premiums to decline over time as the block runs off, benefit reductions elected by policyholders in connection with our in-force rate actions and legal settlements have accelerated that decline. However, we expect this decline to be partially offset by future approved rate actions.
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Segment results of operations
The following table sets forth the results of operations relating to our Long-Term Care Insurance segment for the periods indicated:
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Premiums |
$ | 2,310 | $ | 2,463 | $ | 2,500 | $ | (153 | ) | (6 | )% | |||||||||
Net investment income |
1,940 | 1,914 | 1,900 | 26 | 1 | % | ||||||||||||||
Net investment gains (losses) |
66 | 114 | 19 | (48 | ) | (42 | )% | |||||||||||||
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3,774 | 3,802 | 3,788 | (28 | ) | (1 | )% | |||||||||||||
Liability remeasurement (gains) losses |
172 | 321 | (317 | ) | (149 | ) | (46 | )% | ||||||||||||
Acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals |
423 | 452 | 413 | (29 | ) | (6 | )% | |||||||||||||
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs and intangibles |
69 | 71 | 74 | (2 | ) | (3 | )% | |||||||||||||
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(122 | ) | (155 | ) | 461 | 33 | 21 | % | ||||||||||||
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3 | (3 | ) | 125 | 6 | 200 | % | |||||||||||||
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(125 | ) | (152 | ) | 336 | 27 | 18 | % | ||||||||||||
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Net investment (gains) losses |
(66 | ) | (114 | ) | (19 | ) | 48 | 42 | % | |||||||||||
Expenses related to restructuring |
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Adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
$ | (176 | ) | $ | (242 | ) | $ | 320 | $ | 66 | 27 | % | ||||||||
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2024 compared to 2023
Adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders
The adjusted operating loss decreased primarily driven by lower liability remeasurement losses, net insurance recoveries and higher income from limited partnerships, partially offset by lower renewal premiums in 2024.
Revenues
Premiums decreased primarily driven by lower renewal premiums from benefit reduction elections made by policyholders in connection with our in-force rate actions and legal settlements and from policy terminations in 2024. The decrease was partially offset by $7 million of higher premiums in 2024 from newly implemented in-force rate actions.
Net investment income increased largely due to higher income from limited partnerships in 2024.
For a discussion of the change in net investment gains (losses), see the comparison for this line item under “—Investments and Derivative Instruments.”
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Benefits and expenses
Benefits and other changes in policy reserves decreased primarily due to lower net premiums collected resulting from benefit reduction elections made by policyholders in connection with our in-force rate actions and legal settlements and from policy terminations. This was partially offset by aging of the in-force block, including higher interest accretion, and higher loss adjustment expenses in 2024.
The liability remeasurement loss in 2024 was largely due to adverse actual versus expected experience primarily driven by lower terminations and higher claims. This was partially offset by net favorable cash flow assumption updates primarily related to approval amounts and implementation timing of our in-force rate action plan and a favorable update to our short-term incidence assumption for IBNR claims. The liability remeasurement loss in 2023 was largely driven by adverse actual variances from expected experience primarily related to higher claims and unfavorable timing impacts from the second legal settlement. In addition, cash flow assumption updates were unfavorable in 2023. See “ —Critical Accounting Estimates—Liability for future policy benefits—Long-term care insurance” for a discussion of the fourth quarter annual review of assumptions.
Acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals, decreased principally from $28 million of net insurance recoveries in 2024 related to previously incurred legal settlement expenses, as well as a $13 million accrual for legal settlement costs in 2023 that did not recur. These decreases were partially offset by higher employee-related expenses in 2024.
Provision (benefit) for income taxes. The tax provision in 2024 was primarily attributable to tax expense on certain forward starting swap gains that are tax effected at the previously enacted federal income tax rate of 35% as they are amortized into net investment income, partially offset by a tax benefit related to the pre-tax loss. The tax benefit in 2023 was primarily related to the pre-tax loss, partially offset by tax expense on certain forward starting swap gains.
Long-Term Care Insurance selected operating performance measures
Liability remeasurement (gains) losses
We include expectations for benefit reductions related to in-force rate actions and legal settlements as well as cash payments made to policyholders who elect certain reduced benefit options in connection with the legal settlements, referred to as settlement payments, in our assumptions for the liability for future policy benefits, which have impacted and will continue to impact our reported U.S. GAAP financial results. We update the net premium ratio quarterly for actual variances from expected experience; therefore, forecasted cash flow assumptions will be replaced with actual cash flows each quarter with any difference recorded in net income (loss). As a result, variances between actual experience and our expectations for benefit reductions will be reflected in liability remeasurement (gains) losses in our operating results on a quarterly basis.
The following table sets forth the pre-tax components of the liability remeasurement (gains) losses, net of reinsurance, for the periods indicated:
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$ | (69 | ) | $ | 52 | $ | (335 | ) | $ | (121 | ) | NM | (1) | |||||||
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In-force rate actions
As part of our strategy for our long-term care insurance business, we have been implementing, and expect to continue to pursue, significant premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions in order to maintain the self-sustainability of our legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries and reduce the strain on earnings and capital.
Management regularly monitors and reports in-force rate actions, including state filing approvals; impacted in-force premiums; weighted-average percentage rate increases approved; and gross incremental premiums approved in our Long-Term Care Insurance segment. We also estimate the cumulative economic benefit of approved rate actions in our long-term care insurance multi-year in-force rate action plan on a net present value basis, discounted at our investment portfolio yield. This is based on current assumptions and is defined as the net present value of historical and future expected premium increases and benefit reductions as a result of rate increases approved on individual and group long-term care insurance policies. It also includes the net present value of reserve reductions related to legal settlements less settlement payments. We monitor these selected operating performance measures for in-force rate actions to track our progress on maintaining the self-sustainability of our legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries. We consider these in-force rate action metrics to be measures of financial performance and help to enhance the understanding of the operating performance of our Long-Term Care Insurance segment.
The following table sets forth filing approvals as part of our multi-year in-force rate action plan for the years ended December 31:
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97 | 117 | 139 | |||||||||
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$ | 870 | $ | 697 | $ | 1,143 | ||||||
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39 | % | 51 | % | 48 | % | ||||||
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$ | 343 | $ | 354 | $ | 549 |
We estimate that the cumulative economic benefit of approved rate actions in our multi-year in-force rate action plan from 2012 through December 31, 2024 was approximately $31.2 billion, on a net present value basis, based on our current updated assumptions regarding future premiums and benefit reductions from approved rate actions. This represents a significant increase in estimated rate actions achieved since December 31, 2023, including $2.1 billion of value from rate action approvals and legal settlement implementations in 2024 and an increase of $1.1 billion in the value of benefit reductions connected with our previously achieved rate actions and legal settlements from the impact of our assumption updates.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, we also submitted 90 new filings on approximately $525 million in annualized in-force premiums. The total in-force premiums submitted in 2024 were lower than previous years due to past successes in achieving approvals. In some cases, we received large approvals that either materially completed the current multi-year rate action plan, which removed the need to re-file in the near-term, or resulted in multi-year implementations, which delayed the expected submission of a subsequent filing to beyond 2024.
The approval process for in-force rate actions and the amount and timing of the premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions approved vary by state and product. In certain states, the decision to approve or disapprove a rate increase can take a significant amount of time, and the approved amount may be phased in over time. After approval, insureds are provided with written notice of the increase, and increases are generally applied on the insured’s next policy anniversary date. As a result, the benefits of any rate increase are not fully realized until the implementation cycle is complete and are, therefore, expected to be realized over time.
We continue to work closely with the NAIC and state regulators to demonstrate the broad-based need for actuarially justified rate increases in order to pay future claims. Because obtaining actuarially justified rate increases and associated benefit reductions is important to our ability to pay future claims, we will consider
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litigation against states that decline to approve those actuarially justified rate increases. As of December 31, 2024, we were in litigation with two states that have refused to approve actuarially justified rate increases for certain products.
Life and Annuities segment
Trends and conditions
Many factors can affect the results of our life insurance and annuity products, as further discussed below. Because these factors are not known in advance, change over time, are difficult to accurately predict and are inherently uncertain, we cannot determine with precision the ultimate amounts we will pay for actual claims or the timing of those payments. We will continue to monitor our experience and assumptions closely and make changes to our assumptions and methodologies, as appropriate, for our life insurance and annuity products. Even small changes in assumptions or small deviations of actual experience from assumptions could have, and in the past have had, material impacts on our reserve levels, results of operations and financial condition. Results of our life insurance and annuity products depend significantly upon the extent to which our actual future experience is consistent with assumptions and methodologies we have used in calculating our reserves.
Results of our life insurance and annuity products are also impacted by interest rates. For a discussion of the potential impacts and risks associated with changes in interest rates, see “Item 1A—Risk Factors—Interest rates and changes in rates could materially adversely affect our business and profitability.”
We no longer solicit sales of traditional life insurance and annuity products; however, we continue to service our existing retained and reinsured blocks of business.
Life insurance
Results of our life insurance products are impacted primarily by mortality, persistency, investment yields, expenses, reinsurance and statutory reserve requirements, among other factors.
Mortality levels may deviate each period from historical trends. Overall mortality experience during 2024 was largely consistent with 2023. We have experienced unfavorable mortality compared to our then-current and priced-for assumptions in recent years for our universal life insurance block. Reinsurance costs typically increase due to natural aging of the yearly renewable term reinsured blocks. We have also received some yearly renewable term reinsurance premium increases from some of our reinsurance partners that reflect unfavorable mortality.
In the fourth quarter of 2024, our universal life insurance products had an unfavorable pre-tax impact of $28 million from cash flow assumption updates reflecting unfavorable updates to mortality assumptions for contracts originating from term life insurance conversions and interest rate assumptions given the recent rate environment. Consistent with our long-term care insurance business, our 2024 assumption review considered trends during the pandemic years, but updates to our long-term assumptions generally exclude or adjust experience data after 2019, as we do not have sufficient information around the long-term effects of COVID-19.
Certain of our universal life insurance products with secondary guarantees are subject to additional reserves on a statutory basis using regulatory prescribed assumptions, including mortality improvement and the reinvestment rate, which is measured from July to June each year and increased from July 2023 to June 2024. The benefits from the reinvestment rate and mortality improvement more than offset negative assumption updates in these products from a statutory income perspective.
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Fixed annuities
Results of our fixed annuity products are affected primarily by investment performance, interest rate levels, the slope of the interest rate yield curve, net interest spreads, equity market conditions, mortality, persistency and expense and commission levels.
We monitor and change crediting rates on fixed deferred annuities on a regular basis to maintain spreads and targeted returns, if applicable. However, we have seen and could continue to see declines in our fixed annuity spreads and margins as interest rates change, depending on the severity of the change.
For fixed indexed annuities, equity market and interest rate performance and volatility could also result in additional gains or losses, although associated hedging activities are expected to partially mitigate these impacts.
In the fourth quarter of 2024, we had an unfavorable pre-tax impact of $16 million from assumption updates primarily related to our fixed indexed annuity lapse assumptions.
Variable annuities
Results of our variable annuity products are affected primarily by investment performance, interest rate levels, the slope of the interest rate yield curve, net interest spreads, equity market conditions, mortality, surrenders and scheduled maturities. In addition, the results of our variable annuity products can significantly impact our regulatory capital requirements and liquidity. We use hedging strategies as well as liquidity planning and asset-liability management to help mitigate these impacts. In addition, we have used reinsurance to help mitigate volatility in our variable annuity results.
Equity market volatility and interest rate movements have caused fluctuations in the results of our variable annuity products and regulatory capital requirements. In the future, equity market and interest rate performance and volatility could result in additional gains or losses in these products, although associated hedging activities are expected to partially mitigate these impacts.
In the fourth quarter of 2024, our variable annuity products had an unfavorable pre-tax impact of $6 million from an update to our lapse assumptions.
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Segment results of operations
The following table sets forth the results of operations relating to our Life and Annuities segment for the periods indicated:
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$ | 179 | $ | 207 | $ | 234 | $ | (28 | ) | (14 | )% | |||||||||
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959 | 1,042 | 1,083 | (83 | ) | (8 | )% | |||||||||||||
Net investment gains (losses) |
(20 | ) | (49 | ) | (4 | ) | 29 | 59 | % | |||||||||||
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638 | 646 | 669 | (8 | ) | (1 | )% | |||||||||||||
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962 | 963 | 620 | (1 | ) | — | % | |||||||||||||
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(19 | ) | 266 | 27 | (285 | ) | (107 | )% | ||||||||||||
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(13 | ) | (12 | ) | (104 | ) | (1 | ) | (8 | )% | ||||||||||
Interest credited |
453 | 503 | 504 | (50 | ) | (10 | )% | |||||||||||||
Acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals |
235 | 213 | 604 | 22 | 10 | % | ||||||||||||||
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs and intangibles |
166 | 181 | 240 | (15 | ) | (8 | )% | |||||||||||||
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(28 | ) | (268 | ) | 91 | 240 | 90 | % | ||||||||||||
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(8 | ) | (59 | ) | 16 | 51 | 86 | % | ||||||||||||
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(20 | ) | (209 | ) | 75 | 189 | 90 | % | ||||||||||||
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20 | 49 | 4 | (29 | ) | (59 | )% | |||||||||||||
Changes in fair value of market risk benefits attributable to interest rates, equity markets and associated hedges(1) |
(43 | ) | (22 | ) | (142 | ) | (21 | ) | (95 | )% | ||||||||||
Expenses related to restructuring |
— | — | (1 | ) | — | — | % | |||||||||||||
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— | — | 8 | — | — | % | ||||||||||||||
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5 | (6 | ) | 28 | 11 | 183 | % | |||||||||||||
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Adjusted operating loss available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
$ | (38 | ) | $ | (188 | ) | $ | (28 | ) | $ | 150 | 80 | % | |||||||
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The following table sets forth adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders for the products included in our Life and Annuities segment for the periods indicated:
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$ | (94 | ) | $ | (275 | ) | $ | (111 | ) | $ | 181 | 66 | % | |||||||
Fixed annuities |
30 | 50 | 62 | (20 | ) | (40 | )% | |||||||||||||
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26 | 37 | 21 | (11 | ) | (30 | )% | |||||||||||||
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Total adjusted operating loss available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
$ | (38 | ) | $ | (188 | ) | $ | (28 | ) | $ | 150 | 80 | % | |||||||
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Adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders
• | The adjusted operating loss in our life insurance products decreased primarily from liability remeasurement gains in 2024 compared to losses in 2023, partially offset by lower premiums and a less favorable change in reserves in 2024 in our term life insurance products related to block runoff. |
• | Adjusted operating income in our fixed annuity products decreased mainly from unfavorable assumption updates of $9 million primarily related to our fixed indexed annuity lapse assumptions in 2024, as well as lower net spreads primarily related to block runoff. |
• | Adjusted operating income in our variable annuity products decreased largely from an unfavorable lapse assumption update of $5 million in 2024 compared to favorable assumption updates in 2023. |
Revenues
Premiums. The decrease was driven by our life insurance products largely due to the continued runoff of our in-force blocks.
Net investment income
• | Our fixed and variable annuity products decreased $39 million and $6 million, respectively, primarily attributable to lower average invested assets in 2024 driven mostly by block runoff. |
• | Our life insurance products decreased $38 million largely from lower policy loan rates in our corporate-owned life insurance products in 2024. |
Net investment gains (losses). For a discussion of the change in net investment gains (losses), see the comparison for this line item under “—Investments and Derivative Instruments.”
Benefits and expenses
Benefits and other changes in policy reserves
• | Our fixed annuity products decreased $12 million largely attributable to block runoff. |
• | Our variable annuity products decreased $10 million largely from higher reserve releases in 2024. |
• | Our life insurance products increased $21 million primarily from a less favorable change in reserves in our term life insurance products in 2024 related to block runoff and a favorable flooring adjustment in 2023 that did not recur. These increases were partially offset by an increase in cost of reinsurance reserves related to a ceded reinsurance transaction in 2023 that did not recur. |
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Liability remeasurement (gains) losses. The favorable variance was mainly driven by a gain in 2024 compared to a loss in 2023 primarily driven by our life insurance products. The liability remeasurement gain in 2024 was primarily due to a $58 million model refinement related to certain universal life insurance products with secondary guarantees, partially offset by $28 million of unfavorable updates to our mortality assumptions for universal life insurance contracts and our interest rate assumptions. The liability remeasurement loss in our life insurance products in 2023 was principally driven by unfavorable updates of $256 million primarily related to our persistency assumptions for certain universal life insurance products with secondary guarantees and unfavorable mortality updates, including more modest mortality improvement. The unfavorable updates in 2023 were partially offset by net favorable impacts related to a ceded reinsurance transaction.
Changes in fair value of market risk benefits and associated hedges. The higher gain in 2024 was primarily attributable to favorable interest rate impacts, partially offset by unfavorable updates to our lapse assumptions of $13 million in our fixed indexed annuity products and $6 million in our variable annuity products compared to favorable assumption updates in 2023. Our variable annuity products also included higher derivative losses in 2024.
Interest credited
• | Our life insurance products decreased $37 million primarily driven by lower policy loan rates in our corporate-owned life insurance products in 2024. |
• | Our fixed annuity products decreased $13 million largely due to block runoff, partially offset by higher crediting rates in 2024. |
Acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals. The increase was primarily driven by higher operating costs in our life insurance and fixed annuity products and a $5 million legal settlement accrual in 2024.
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs and intangibles. The decrease was largely due to block runoff in our term life insurance products.
Provision (benefit) for income taxes. The effective tax rate was 27.4% and 22.1% for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The increase in the effective tax rate was primarily attributable to tax benefits from tax favored items in relation to a lower pre-tax loss in 2024.
Life and Annuities selected operating performance measures
Liability remeasurement (gains) losses
The following table sets forth the pre-tax components of the liability remeasurement (gains) losses, net of reinsurance, for the periods indicated:
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$ | 27 | $ | 256 | $ | (37 | ) | $ | (229 | ) | (89 | )% | ||||||||
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$ | (19 | ) | $ | 266 | $ | 27 | $ | (285 | ) | (107 | )% | ||||||||
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Life insurance
The following table sets forth insurance in-force for our life insurance products as of the dates indicated:
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Life insurance in-force, net of reinsurance |
$ | 41,386 | $ | 44,121 | $ | 48,162 | $ | (2,735 | ) | (6)% | ||||||||||
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$ | 238,865 | $ | 270,950 | $ | 300,145 | $ | (32,085 | ) | (12)% | ||||||||||
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Life insurance in-force, net of reinsurance |
$ | 88,700 | $ | 90,427 | $ | 92,719 | $ | (1,727 | ) | (2)% | ||||||||||
Life insurance in-force, before reinsurance |
$ | 89,283 | $ | 91,024 | $ | 93,336 | $ | (1,741 | ) | (2)% | ||||||||||
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Life insurance in-force, net of reinsurance |
$ | 27,228 | $ | 28,710 | $ | 29,798 | $ | (1,482 | ) | (5)% | ||||||||||
Life insurance in-force, before reinsurance |
$ | 30,583 | $ | 32,199 | $ | 33,622 | $ | (1,616 | ) | (5)% |
The decrease in insurance in-force in our life insurance products reflects the continued runoff of our in-force blocks.
Corporate and Other
Results of operations
The following table sets forth the results of operations relating to Corporate and Other for the periods indicated:
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$ | 11 | $ | 9 | $ | 6 | $ | 2 | 22 | % | ||||||||||
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21 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 11 | % | ||||||||||||||
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2024 compared to 2023
Adjusted operating loss available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders
The adjusted operating loss increased primarily from higher expenses related to CareScout growth initiatives, partially offset by a higher benefit for income taxes in 2024.
Revenues
For a discussion of the change in net investment gains (losses), see the comparison for this line item under “—Investments and Derivative Instruments.”
Benefits and expenses
Acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals, increased primarily from higher expenses related to CareScout growth initiatives, as well as higher employee-related expenses. These increases were partially offset by $5 million of higher gains in 2024 related to the repurchase of Genworth Holdings’ debt.
Amortization of DAC and intangibles in 2024 primarily relates to amortization of capitalized software.
The increase in the benefit for income taxes was primarily related to a higher pre-tax loss, favorable provision to return adjustments and lower terminations of share-based awards in 2024.
Investments and Derivative Instruments
Trends and conditions
Investments
During the year ended December 31, 2024, our investment portfolio was impacted, and we believe will continue to be impacted, by the following macroeconomic trends:
• | The U.S. Federal Reserve decreased the federal funds rate by 100 basis points in 2024 and continues to monitor inflation and labor market conditions, which will influence its plan for additional changes to interest rates in 2025. |
• | During the fourth quarter of 2024, U.S. Treasury yields increased compared to both September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023. |
• | Credit spreads tightened during the fourth quarter of 2024 as credit fundamentals remained strong amidst an optimistic macroeconomic backdrop; however, future uncertainty remains as economic policies shift and international trade evolves. |
• | While our investment portfolio has exposure to the State of California, we have limited exposure to the areas impacted by the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. Therefore, we do not expect a material impact on our results of operations, nor do we believe there is a material risk to the valuation of our investment portfolio. |
• | As of December 31, 2024, our investment portfolio exposure to Israel was immaterial and there has been no impact on our results of operations from the Israel-Hamas conflict. At this time, we do not believe there is a material risk to the valuation of our investment portfolio due to credit losses or direct write-offs that may arise as a result of the conflict. |
• | As of December 31, 2024, our fixed maturity securities portfolio, which was 97% investment grade, comprised 75% of our total invested assets and cash. |
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Derivatives
• | As of December 31, 2024, $1.1 billion notional of our derivatives portfolio was cleared through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (“CME”). |
• | The customer swap agreements that govern our cleared derivatives contain provisions that enable our clearing agents to request initial margin in excess of CME requirements. As of December 31, 2024, we posted initial margin of $74 million to our clearing agents, which represented $37 million more than was otherwise required by the clearinghouse. Because our clearing agents serve as guarantors of our obligations to the CME, the customer agreements contain broad termination provisions that are not specifically dependent on ratings. |
• | As of December 31, 2024, $12.6 billion notional of our derivatives portfolio was in bilateral OTC derivative transactions pursuant to which we have posted aggregate independent amounts of $554 million and are holding collateral from counterparties in the amount of $11 million. |
Investment results
The following table sets forth information about investment income, excluding net investment gains (losses), for each component of our investment portfolio for the years ended December 31:
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4.6 | % | $ | 2,238 | 4.5 | % | $ | 2,244 | 4.5 | % | $ | 2,296 | 0.1 | % | $ | (6 | ) | |||||||||||||||
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5.7 | % | 2 | 4.2 | % | 3 | 4.7 | % | 5 | 1.5 | % | (1 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
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2.9 | % | 13 | 3.0 | % | 11 | 4.0 | % | 10 | (0.1 | )% | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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4.5 | % | 297 | 4.4 | % | 302 | 4.6 | % | 321 | 0.1 | % | (5 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
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8.3 | % | 189 | 10.2 | % | 224 | 10.0 | % | 211 | (1.9 | )% | (35 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
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5.1 | % | 152 | 4.5 | % | 117 | 4.7 | % | 99 | 0.6 | % | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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45.7 | % | 270 | 50.5 | % | 279 | 59.9 | % | 267 | (4.8 | )% | (9 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
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4.8 | % | 99 | 4.7 | % | 95 | 1.2 | % | 20 | 0.1 | % | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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5.1 | % | 3,260 | 5.1 | % | 3,275 | 5.0 | % | 3,229 | — | % | (15 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
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(0.2 | )% | (100 | ) | (0.2 | )% | (92 | ) | (0.2 | )% | (83 | ) | — | % | (8 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
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4.9 | % | $ | 3,160 | 4.9 | % | $ | 3,183 | 4.8 | % | $ | 3,146 | — | % | $ | (23 | ) | |||||||||||||||
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(2) | Investment income for other invested assets includes amortization of terminated cash flow hedges, which have no corresponding book value within the yield calculation. |
Yields are based on net investment income as reported under U.S. GAAP and are consistent with how we measure our investment performance for management purposes. Yields are annualized, for interim periods, and are calculated as net investment income as a percentage of average quarterly asset carrying values except for fixed maturity securities, derivatives and derivative counterparty collateral, which exclude unrealized fair value adjustments.
Gross annualized weighted-average investment yields were unchanged for 2024 compared to 2023 due to lower average invested assets in 2024. Net investment income decreased largely from lower yields on a large block of policy loans in our corporate-owned life insurance products and lower amortization on interest rate swaps, partially offset by higher income from limited partnerships in 2024.
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The following table sets forth net investment gains (losses) for the years ended December 31:
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(106 | ) | (154 | ) | (102 | ) | ||||||
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(57 | ) | (125 | ) | (74 | ) | ||||||
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(9 | ) | (1 | ) | (2 | ) | ||||||
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83 | 53 | (35 | ) | ||||||||
Net unrealized gains (losses) on limited partnerships |
43 | 111 | 71 | |||||||||
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(18 | ) | 7 | 32 | ||||||||
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2024 compared to 2023
• | We recorded $68 million of lower net realized losses related to the sale of available-for-sale fixed maturity securities in 2024. The net losses in 2023 were primarily from sales related to portfolio repositioning and liquidity management, as well as reducing regional bank exposure, including a $15 million loss related to the sale of First Republic Bank U.S. corporate bonds. |
• | We recorded $30 million of higher net unrealized gains on equity securities driven by more favorable equity market performance in 2024. We also recorded $68 million of lower net unrealized gains on limited partnerships driven by less favorable private equity market performance in 2024. During 2024, we increased the provision for credit losses for both commercial mortgage loans and bank loan investments as a result of annual updates to underlying metrics included in the analytical models used to determine the adequacy of the allowance for credit losses, as well as updates to certain assumptions for bank loan investments. |
• | We had $18 million of net investment losses related to derivatives in 2024 compared to $7 million of net investments gains in 2023 primarily attributable to higher losses on forward bond purchase commitments driven by an increase in interest rates compared to contracted notional interest rates, higher losses on hedging programs that support our fixed indexed annuity products and lower gains on hedging programs that support our indexed universal life insurance products. |
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Investment portfolio
The following table sets forth our cash, cash equivalents and invested assets as of December 31:
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$ | 30,650 | 51 | % | $ | 32,189 | 51 | % | ||||||||
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14,252 | 24 | 14,592 | 24 | ||||||||||||
Equity securities |
515 | 1 | 396 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage loans, net |
6,411 | 11 | 6,802 | 10 | ||||||||||||
Policy loans |
2,310 | 4 | 2,220 | 4 | ||||||||||||
Limited partnerships |
3,142 | 5 | 2,821 | 5 | ||||||||||||
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648 | 1 | 731 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash |
2,048 | 3 | 2,215 | 4 | ||||||||||||
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We hold fixed maturity and equity securities, limited partnerships, derivatives, embedded derivatives and certain other financial instruments, which are carried at fair value. Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. As of December 31, 2024, approximately 6% of our investment holdings recorded at fair value was based on significant inputs that were not market observable and were classified as Level 3 measurements. See note 19 to our consolidated financial statements under “Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information related to fair value.
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The following table presents our public, private and total fixed maturity securities by the Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (“NRSRO”) designations and/or equivalent ratings, as well as the percentage, based upon fair value that each designation comprises. Certain fixed maturity securities that are not rated by an NRSRO are shown based upon internally prepared credit evaluations.
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$ | 2,760 | $ | 2,414 | 8 | % | $ | 2,779 | $ | 2,559 | 8 | % | ||||||||||||
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6,589 | 5,988 | 20 | 6,461 | 6,170 | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||
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9,058 | 8,537 | 28 | 9,474 | 9,287 | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
BBB |
14,270 | 13,208 | 42 | 14,346 | 13,645 | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||
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521 | 476 | 2 | 518 | 498 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
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29 | 27 | — | 32 | 30 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
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$ | 33,227 | $ | 30,650 | 100 | % | $ | 33,610 | $ | 32,189 | 100 | % | ||||||||||||
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$ | 808 | $ | 777 | 5 | % | $ | 866 | $ | 832 | 6 | % | ||||||||||||
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1,655 | 1,527 | 11 | 1,574 | 1,477 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
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4,409 | 4,015 | 28 | 4,398 | 4,043 | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||
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7,564 | 6,948 | 49 | 7,709 | 7,126 | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||
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904 | 850 | 6 | 1,037 | 975 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
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92 | 81 | 1 | 149 | 117 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
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46 | 39 | — | 7 | 7 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
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$ | 15,493 | $ | 14,252 | 100 | % | $ | 15,755 | $ | 14,592 | 100 | % | ||||||||||||
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$ | 3,568 | $ | 3,191 | 7 | % | $ | 3,645 | $ | 3,391 | 7 | % | ||||||||||||
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8,244 | 7,515 | 17 | 8,035 | 7,647 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
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13,467 | 12,552 | 28 | 13,872 | 13,330 | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||
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21,834 | 20,156 | 45 | 22,055 | 20,771 | 45 | ||||||||||||||||||
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1,425 | 1,326 | 3 | 1,555 | 1,473 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
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$ | 48,720 | $ | 44,902 | 100 | % | $ | 49,365 | $ | 46,781 | 100 | % | ||||||||||||
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We invest in privately placed fixed maturity securities to increase diversification and obtain higher yields than can ordinarily be obtained with comparable public market securities. Generally, private placements provide us with protective covenants, call protection features and, where applicable, a higher level of collateral. However, our private placements are not as freely transferable as public securities because of restrictions imposed by federal and state securities laws, the terms of the securities and the characteristics of the private market. Based upon fair value, public fixed maturity securities represented 68% and 69%, respectively, of total fixed maturity securities as of December 31, 2024 and 2023. Private fixed maturity securities represented 32% and 31%, respectively, of total fixed maturity securities as of December 31, 2024 and 2023.
We diversify our corporate securities by industry and issuer. As of December 31, 2024, our combined holdings in the 10 corporate issuers to which we had the greatest exposure was $1.7 billion, which was approximately 3% of our total cash, cash equivalents and invested assets. The exposure to the largest single corporate issuer held as of December 31, 2024 was $274 million, which was less than 1% of our total cash, cash
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equivalents and invested assets. See note 4 to our consolidated financial statements under “Part II—Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information on diversification by sector.
Other invested assets
The following table sets forth the carrying values of our other invested assets as of December 31:
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$ | 535 | 82 | % | $ | 529 | 72 | % | ||||||||
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Derivatives
The activity associated with derivative instruments can generally be measured by the change in notional value over the periods presented. However, for fixed indexed annuity and indexed universal life embedded derivatives, the change between periods is best illustrated by the number of policies. The following tables represent activity associated with derivative instruments as of the dates indicated:
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Measurement | December 31, 2023 |
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December 31, 2024 |
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Notional | $ | 8,975 | $ | 331 | $ | (549 | ) | $ | 8,757 | ||||||||||
Foreign currency swaps |
Notional | 131 | 13 | — | 144 | |||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
Notional | 1,075 | 1,564 | — | 2,639 | |||||||||||||||
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Notional | 702 | 620 | (718 | ) | 604 | ||||||||||||||
Financial futures |
Notional | 1,251 | 4,618 | (4,767 | ) | 1,102 | ||||||||||||||
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Policies | 5,826 | — | (959 | ) | 4,867 | ||||||||||||||
Indexed universal life embedded derivatives |
Policies | 749 | — | (32 | ) | 717 |
The increase in the notional value of derivatives was primarily attributable to the addition of forward bond purchase commitments that support our long-term care insurance business and universal life insurance products, partially offset by a decrease in interest rate swaps that support our long-term care insurance business.
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The number of policies with embedded derivatives decreased as these products are no longer being offered and continue to runoff.
Critical Accounting Estimates
The accounting estimates and assumptions (including sensitivities) discussed in this section are those that we consider to be critical to an understanding of our consolidated financial statements because their application places significant demands on our ability to judge the effect of inherently uncertain matters on our financial results. For all of these accounting estimates and assumptions (including sensitivities), we caution that future events seldom develop as estimated and management’s best estimates often require adjustment. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements.” For a detailed discussion of our significant accounting policies, see note 2 in our consolidated financial statements under “Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”
The sensitivities in the tables below are changes that we consider to be reasonably possible given historical changes in market conditions and our experience with these products. The impacts are discrete and do not reflect the impact one factor may have on another. In any period and over time, our actual experience may have a positive or negative variance from our long-term assumptions, either singularly or collectively, and these variances may offset each other.
Liability for future policy benefits
The measurement of the liability for future policy benefits reflects estimates and actuarial assumptions and methodologies which involve the exercise of significant judgment and are inherently uncertain. Because these assumptions relate to factors that are not known in advance, change over time, are difficult to accurately predict and are inherently uncertain, we cannot determine with precision the ultimate amounts we will pay for actual claims or the timing of those payments. Establishing assumptions for the liability for future policy benefits is complex and involves many factors. Any future adverse changes in our assumptions would likely result in the establishment of additional future policy benefit reserves with a corresponding loss recognized in net income (loss). Our future financial results depend significantly upon the extent to which our actual future experience is consistent with the assumptions we have used in determining our liability for future policy benefits. Even small changes in assumptions or small deviations of actual experience from assumptions could have, and in the past have had, material impacts on our reserve levels, results of operations and financial condition.
The liability for future policy benefits is equal to the present value of expected future benefits and claim-related expenses, less the present value of expected future net premiums. Cash flow assumptions, as applicable, used to estimate the liability for future policy benefits include health care experience (including type of care and cost of care), policyholder persistency or lapses (i.e., the probability that a policy or contract will remain in-force from one period to the next), insured mortality (i.e., life expectancy or longevity), insured morbidity (i.e., frequency and severity of claim, including claim termination rates and benefit utilization rates), and estimates of future in-force rate actions, which include premium rate increases and benefit reductions associated with our long-term care insurance products. The liability is measured for each group of contracts, or cohorts, using best estimate cash flow assumptions, which are reviewed at least annually in the fourth quarter or more frequently if actual experience indicates a change is required. The change in the liability for future policy benefits, at the locked-in discount rate, resulting from cash flow assumption updates and variances between actual and expected experience is reflected as liability remeasurement (gains) losses in the consolidated statements of income.
See notes 2 and 8 in our consolidated financial statements under “Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information related to the liability for future policy benefits.
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Long-term care insurance
The liability for future policy benefits for our long-term care insurance products is estimated using assumptions related to both insured individuals on claim (disabled life assumptions) and insured individuals not on claim (healthy life assumptions). Key cash flow assumptions used to estimate the liability for future policy benefits include claim termination rates, incidence and benefit utilization rates, mortality, lapse rates and in-force rate actions. Claim termination rates represent the expected rates at which claims end. Incidence rates represent the likelihood the policyholder will go on claim. Benefit utilization rates represent how much of the available policy benefits are expected to be used. In-force rate actions represent the remaining premium rate increases and associated benefit reductions not yet achieved in our long-term care insurance multi-year in-force rate action plan and are based on our best estimate given our current plans for rate increase filings and our historical experience regarding rate increase approvals.
In the fourth quarter of 2024, liability remeasurement gains (losses) within net income included unfavorable cash flow assumption updates of $20 million primarily related to updates to healthy life and near-term benefit utilization assumptions to better align with recent experience, including cost of care inflation. These unfavorable impacts were partially offset by favorable assumption updates for future in-force rate action approvals given our current plans for rate increase filings and our recent experience regarding approvals and regulatory support. The unfavorable impacts were also partially offset by favorable updates to our short-term incidence assumptions for IBNR claims, reducing sufficiency held through a period of heightened uncertainty around incidence during and immediately following COVID-19. While our 2024 assumption review considered trends during the pandemic years, our updates to long-term assumptions generally exclude or adjust experience data after 2019, as we do not have sufficient information around the long-term effects of COVID-19.
In the fourth quarter of 2023, liability remeasurement gains (losses) within net income included unfavorable cash flow assumption updates of $61 million primarily related to updates to our healthy life assumptions to better reflect near-term experience, partially offset by a favorable update to disabled life mortality assumptions to reflect an expectation that mortality will continue at elevated levels in the near term post-COVID-19. Updates also included favorable assumption updates for future in-force rate action approvals and benefit reductions based on recent favorable rate increase approval experience and feedback from regulators, along with the reflection of the third legal settlement, which had a muted favorable income statement impact in the fourth quarter of 2023 because it primarily impacted profitable uncapped cohorts.
A summary of certain of our significant estimates and assumptions used in the calculation of our long-term care insurance liability for future policy benefits, net of reinsurance recoverable, was as follows for the years ended December 31:
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$ | 14,720 | $ | 15,333 | $ | (613 | ) | (4) | % | |||||||
Present value of expected future policy benefits (1) |
$ | 50,031 | $ | 50,095 | $ | (64 | ) | — | % |
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The following sensitivities reflect hypothetical unfavorable changes to certain of our significant estimates and assumptions and the associated impact it would have on liability remeasurement gains (losses) within pre-tax income for the year ended December 31, 2024:
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$ | (1,580 | ) | |
Decrease in claim termination rates (2) |
$ | (300 | ) | |
10% decrease in benefit of future in-force rate actions (3) |
$ | (160 | ) |
(1) | Reflects the impact of an unfavorable assumption change for claim terminations, incidence or benefit utilization rates (any discrete adverse assumption changes therefrom or in combination with, that results in our future claim costs increasing by 5%). |
(2) | Reflects the impact of a 3% decrease in mortality and 8% decrease in lapse rates. |
(3) | Reflects the impact of an unfavorable change to our assumptions for future premium rate increases and benefit reductions. |
Life insurance
Key cash flow assumptions used to estimate the liability for future policy benefits for our life insurance products include mortality and lapse rates.
In the fourth quarter of 2024, our annual review of cash flow assumptions did not have a significant impact on liability remeasurement gains (losses) within net income for our life insurance products. In the fourth quarter of 2023, liability remeasurement gains (losses) within net income included unfavorable cash flow assumption updates of $56 million primarily as a result of updates to our mortality assumptions, including emerging experience related to more modest mortality improvement and an expectation that mortality will continue at elevated levels in the near-term post-COVID-19.
A summary of certain of our significant estimates used in the calculation of our life insurance liability for future policy benefits, net of reinsurance recoverable, was as follows for the years ended December 31:
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$ | 1,612 | $ | 1,835 | $ | (223 | ) | (12 | )% | |||||||
Present value of expected future policy benefits (1) |
$ | 1,816 | $ | 2,192 | $ | (376 | ) | (17 | )% |
(1) | At the locked-in discount rate and excluding the impacts of flooring adjustments. See note 2 in our consolidated financial statements under “Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information. |
The following sensitivities reflect hypothetical unfavorable changes to certain of our significant estimates and assumptions and the associated impact it would have on liability remeasurement gains (losses) within pre-tax income for the year ended December 31, 2024:
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$ | (65 | ) |
Fixed annuities
The key cash flow assumption used to estimate the liability for future policy benefits for our fixed annuity products is mortality.
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In the fourth quarters of 2024 and 2023, our annual review of cash flow assumptions did not have a significant impact on liability remeasurement gains (losses) within net income for our fixed annuity products.
A summary of certain of our significant estimates and assumptions used in the calculation of our fixed annuities liability for future policy benefits, net of reinsurance recoverable, was as follows for the years ended December 31:
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$ | 2,518 | $ | 2,691 | $ | (173 | ) | (6 | )% |
(1) | At the locked-in discount rate. |
A hypothetical decrease of 10% to our mortality assumption would have an unfavorable impact of $60 million on liability remeasurement gains (losses) within pre-tax income for the year ended December 31, 2024.
Policyholder account balances – additional insurance liabilities
The liability for policyholder account balances represents the contract value that has accrued to the benefit of the policyholder as of the balance sheet date for investment-type and universal and term universal life insurance contracts. We are also required to establish additional benefit reserves for guarantees or product features in addition to the contract value where the additional benefit reserves are calculated by applying a benefit ratio to accumulated contractholder assessments, and then deducting accumulated paid claims, commonly referred to as the additional insurance liability. The benefit ratio is equal to the present value of total expected benefit payments over the life of the contract divided by the present value of total expected assessments over the life of the contract, discounted by the projected crediting rate. The assumptions used to calculate the benefit ratio include insured mortality, interest rates and policyholder persistency or lapses, among other assumptions.
We perform an annual review of assumptions for our universal and term universal life insurance products in the fourth quarter. Our 2024 review resulted in an expense recorded to pre-tax income of $28 million largely associated with an unfavorable update to our mortality assumptions for universal life insurance contracts originating from term life insurance conversions and an unfavorable update to interest rate assumptions given the recent rate environment.
Our 2023 review resulted in an expense recorded to pre-tax income of $200 million primarily to reflect unfavorable persistency and mortality assumptions. We made unfavorable updates to our persistency assumptions in our universal life insurance products with secondary guarantees to better reflect emerging experience. We also made unfavorable updates to our mortality assumptions in universal and term universal life insurance products to better reflect emerging experience related to more modest mortality improvement and to include an expectation that mortality will continue at elevated levels in the near term post-COVID-19.
The following sensitivities reflect hypothetical unfavorable changes to certain of our significant estimates and assumptions and the associated impact it would have on liability remeasurement gains (losses) within pre-tax income for the year ended December 31, 2024:
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Liability for policy and contract claims
The liability for policy and contract claims represents the amount needed to provide for the estimated ultimate cost of settling claims relating to insured events that have occurred on or before the end of the respective reporting period. The estimated liability includes requirements for future payments of: (i) losses that have been reported to the insurer; (ii) losses related to insured events that have occurred but that have not been reported to the insurer as of the date the liability is estimated; and (iii) loss adjustment expenses. Loss adjustment expenses include costs incurred in the claim settlement process such as legal fees and costs to record, process and adjust claims.
Our liability for policy and contract claims is reviewed regularly, with changes in our estimates of future claims recorded through net income (loss).
Mortgage insurance
Estimates and actuarial assumptions used for establishing loss reserves involve the exercise of significant judgment, and changes in assumptions or deviations of actual experience from assumptions can have material impacts on Enact’s loss reserves and net income (loss). Because these assumptions relate to factors that are not known in advance, change over time, are difficult to accurately predict and are inherently uncertain, Enact cannot determine with precision the ultimate amounts it will pay for actual claims or the timing of those payments. The sources of uncertainty affecting the estimates are numerous and include factors internal and external to Enact. Internal factors include, but are not limited to, changes in the mix of exposures, loss mitigation activities and claim settlement practices. Significant external influences include changes in home prices, unemployment, government housing policies, state foreclosure timelines, general economic conditions, interest rates, tax policy, credit availability and mortgage products. Small changes in assumptions or small deviations of actual experience from assumptions can have, and in the past have had, material impacts on Enact’s reserves, results of operations and financial condition.
Enact establishes reserves to recognize the estimated liability for losses and loss adjustment expenses related to defaults on insured mortgage loans. Loss reserves are established by estimating the number of loans in the inventory of delinquent loans that will result in a claim payment, which is referred to as the claim rate, and further estimating the amount of the claim payment, which is referred to as claim severity. The estimates are determined using a factor-based approach, in which assumptions of claim rates for loans in default and the average amount paid for loans that result in a claim are calculated using traditional actuarial techniques. Over time, as the status of the underlying delinquent loans moves toward foreclosure and the likelihood of the associated claim loss increases, the amount of the loss reserves associated with the potential claims may also increase.
Enact’s management monitors actual experience, and where circumstances warrant, will revise its assumptions. The liability for loss reserves is reviewed regularly, with changes in estimates of future claims recorded through net income. Estimation of losses is based on historical claim and cure experience and covered exposures and is inherently judgmental. Future developments may result in losses greater or less than the liability for loss reserves provided.
Enact’s loss reserves were $525 million and $518 million as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. In considering the potential sensitivity of the factors underlying Enact’s best estimate of its mortgage insurance reserves, it is possible that even a relatively small change in the estimated claim or severity rate could have a significant impact on loss reserves and, correspondingly, on our results of operations. For example, based on Enact’s actual experience during the three-year period ended December 31, 2024, a quarterly change of 4% in its average claim rate would change the gross loss reserve amount for such quarter by approximately $72 million, and a change of 3% in its average severity rate would change the gross loss reserve amount for such quarter by approximately $15 million.
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Valuation of fixed maturity securities. Our portfolio of fixed maturity securities comprises primarily investment grade securities, which are carried at fair value.
The methodologies, estimates and assumptions used in valuing our fixed maturity securities evolve over time and are subject to different interpretations, all of which can lead to materially different estimates of fair value. Additionally, because the valuation is based on market conditions at a specific point in time, the period-to-period changes in fair value may vary significantly due to changing interest rates, as well as external macroeconomic and credit market conditions. For example, widening credit spreads will generally result in a decrease, while tightening credit spreads will generally result in an increase, in the fair value of our fixed maturity securities. Additionally, during periods of increasing interest rates, the market values of lower-yielding assets will decline. See “Item 7A—Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk—Sensitivity Analysis—Interest Rate Risk” for the impact of hypothetical changes in interest rates on our investment portfolio.
Our valuation techniques maximize the use of observable inputs. However, for certain less liquid securities, categorized as Level 3, the valuation inputs and assumptions cannot be corroborated with observable market data and require greater estimation, resulting in values that are less certain. Additionally, the availability of observable market information may change as certain inputs may be more direct drivers of valuation at the time of pricing, or if certain assets previously in active markets become less liquid due to changes in the financial environment. As a result, more securities may be categorized as Level 3 and require more subjectivity and management judgment. As of December 31, 2024, 6% of our total fixed maturity securities related to Level 3 fixed maturity securities valued using internal pricing models. See notes 2, 4 and 19 in our consolidated financial statements under “Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information related to the valuation of fixed maturity securities and a description of the fair value measurement estimates and level assignments.
The following tables summarize the primary sources of data considered when determining the fair value of fixed maturity securities as of December 31:
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Consolidated Balance Sheets
Total assets. Total assets decreased $3,946 million from $90,817 million as of December 31, 2023 to $86,871 million as of December 31, 2024.
• | Invested assets decreased $1,823 million primarily attributable to decreases of $1,879 million in fixed maturity securities and $391 million in commercial mortgage loans, partially offset by an increase of $321 million in limited partnerships. The decrease in fixed maturity securities was predominantly related to higher interest rates decreasing the fair value of our fixed maturity investment portfolio, as well as net sales and maturities in 2024. Commercial mortgage loans decreased mostly due to payments outpacing originations. Limited partnerships increased largely from capital calls in 2024. |
• | Cash and cash equivalents decreased $167 million largely due to net withdrawals from our investment contracts, federal income tax payments and repurchases of Genworth Financial’s common stock, partially offset by net sales and maturities of fixed maturity securities and commercial mortgage loan payments outpacing originations in 2024. |
• | Deferred acquisition costs decreased $209 million largely driven by amortization in our life and long-term care insurance products in 2024. |
• | Reinsurance recoverable decreased $1,370 million primarily due to an increase in the single-A interest rate used to discount the reinsurance recoverable and from the runoff of certain ceded products in 2024. |
• | The deferred tax asset decreased $234 million principally from the net effect of changes in the discount rate used to measure the liability for future policy benefits and related reinsurance recoverables due to an increase in the single-A interest rate. In addition, we increased our valuation allowance related to deferred tax assets that would produce capital losses by $100 million through accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in the fourth quarter of 2024. These decreases in the deferred tax asset were partially offset by an increase in net unrealized losses on investments and derivatives due to rising interest rates and an increase related to future annuity and contract benefits in 2024. |
Total liabilities. Total liabilities decreased $5,042 million from $82,482 million as of December 31, 2023 to $77,440 million as of December 31, 2024.
• | The liability for future policy benefits decreased $4,045 million primarily from an increase in the single-A interest rate used to discount the liability for future policy benefits and from the runoff of our fixed annuity and life insurance products. These decreases were partially offset by an increase in our long-term care insurance reserves largely driven by aging of the in-force block, including higher interest accretion, partially offset by benefit payments outpacing premiums collected. The increase in our long-term care insurance reserves also included the effects of changes in cash flow assumptions and actual variances from expected experience. See “—Critical Accounting Estimates—Liability for future policy benefits” for additional information on the impact of changes in cash flow assumptions. |
• | Policyholder account balances decreased $946 million largely driven by surrenders, withdrawals and benefit payments in our fixed annuity and universal and term universal life insurance products in 2024. |
• | Market risk benefit liabilities decreased $160 million mostly related to favorable interest rate changes and equity market performance in 2024. |
• | Other liabilities increased $258 million primarily from higher derivative valuations due to an increase in interest rates in 2024. |
Total equity. Total equity increased $1,096 million from $8,335 million as of December 31, 2023 to $9,431 million as of December 31, 2024.
• | We reported net income available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders of $299 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. |
• | Unrealized gains (losses) on investments and derivatives qualifying as hedges decreased total equity by $1,026 million and $518 million, respectively, primarily due to an increase in interest rates in 2024. |
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• | Change in the discount rate used to measure future policy benefits increased total equity by $2,462 million largely attributable to an increase in the single-A interest rate used to discount the liability for future policy benefits and the related reinsurance recoverables in 2024. |
• | Treasury stock increased $188 million due to the repurchase of Genworth Financial’s common stock, at cost, including excise taxes and other associated costs, resulting in a decrease to total equity in 2024. |
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Liquidity and capital resources represent our overall financial strength and our ability to generate cash flows from our businesses, borrow funds at competitive rates and raise new capital to meet our operating and growth needs.
Overview of cash flows—Genworth and subsidiaries
The following table sets forth our condensed consolidated cash flows for the years ended December 31:
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Our principal sources of cash include premiums and other payments received on our insurance products and services, income from our investment portfolio and proceeds from sales and maturities of investments. Cash flows related to operating activities are affected by the timing of premiums, fees and investment income received and benefits, claims and expenses paid. Cash flows from operating activities have been invested to support the obligations of our insurance and investment products and required capital supporting these products. In analyzing our cash flows, we focus on the change in the amount of cash available and used in investing activities. Changes in cash from financing activities primarily relate to deposits to, and redemptions and benefit payments on, universal life insurance and investment contracts; the issuance of debt and equity securities; the repayment or repurchase of borrowings; the repurchase of common stock presented as treasury stock; and other capital transactions.
2024 compared to 2023
Net cash inflows from operating activities were lower in 2024 primarily driven by higher benefit payments and lower premiums collected in our long-term care insurance business, as well as higher federal income tax payments. We expect our operating cash flows to continue to be impacted by higher benefit payments and lower premiums collected on our legacy long-term care insurance products as further discussed below in “Regulated insurance subsidiaries.”
Net cash inflows from investing activities were lower in 2024 mainly due to lower net sales and maturities of fixed maturity securities and higher funding of bank loans, partially offset by commercial mortgage loan payments outpacing originations at a higher pace and lower capital calls on limited partnerships.
Net cash outflows related to financing activities were lower in 2024 primarily due to lower net withdrawals from our investment contracts and lower repurchases of Genworth Financial’s common stock, partially offset by higher repurchases of Genworth Holdings’ debt and expenses associated with Enact Holdings’ early debt redemption and issuance of new debt.
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Genworth—holding company liquidity
In consideration of our liquidity, it is important to separate the needs of our holding companies from the needs of their respective subsidiaries. Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings each act as a holding company for their respective subsidiaries and do not have any significant operations of their own. Genworth Financial’s and Genworth Holdings’ principal sources of cash are derived from dividends and other returns of capital from Enact Holdings. Additional sources of cash have included subsidiary payments to them under tax sharing and expense reimbursement arrangements and proceeds from borrowings or securities issuances. The primary uses of funds at Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings include payments of principal, interest and other expenses on borrowings or other obligations, payment of holding company general operating expenses (including employee benefits and taxes), payments under guarantees (including guarantees of certain subsidiary obligations), payments to subsidiaries (or, in the case of Genworth Holdings, to Genworth Financial) under tax sharing agreements, investments in CareScout, repurchases of debt securities, repurchases of Genworth Financial’s common stock and, in the case of Genworth Holdings, loans, dividends or other distributions to Genworth Financial. For more information on our tax obligations, refer to note 16 in our consolidated financial statements under “Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”
Management’s focus is predominantly on Genworth Holdings’ liquidity given it is the issuer of our outstanding public debt. We manage our legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries on a standalone basis and accordingly, do not expect to receive any dividends or other returns of capital from them. Therefore, our liquidity at the holding company level is highly dependent on the performance of Enact Holdings and its ability to pay timely dividends and other forms of capital returns to Genworth Holdings as anticipated. Genworth Financial has the right to appoint a majority of directors to the board of directors of Enact Holdings; however, actions taken by Enact Holdings and its board of directors are subject to and may be limited by the interests of Enact Holdings, including but not limited to, its use of capital for growth opportunities and regulatory requirements. Future dividends will be subject to quarterly review and approval by Enact Holdings’ board of directors and Genworth Financial and will also be dependent on a variety of economic, market and business conditions, among other considerations. In addition, insurance laws and regulations regulate the payment of dividends and other distributions to Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings by their insurance subsidiaries. See “—Regulated insurance subsidiaries” for additional details.
Enact Holdings’ capital allocation strategy includes supporting its existing policyholders, growing its mortgage insurance business, funding attractive new business opportunities and returning capital to its shareholders. In addition to its quarterly cash dividend program, on August 1, 2023, Enact Holdings announced the approval by its board of directors of a share repurchase program under which Enact Holdings could repurchase up to $100 million of its outstanding common stock. On May 1, 2024, Enact Holdings announced a new share repurchase authorization of $250 million. Genworth Holdings has agreed to participate in order to maintain its overall ownership at approximately its current level. As the majority shareholder, Genworth Holdings received $289 million of capital returns from Enact Holdings in 2024, comprised of quarterly dividends and share repurchases. The timing and number of future shares repurchased under the share repurchase program will depend on a variety of factors, including Enact Holdings’ stock price, capital availability, business and market conditions, regulatory requirements and debt covenant restrictions, among other factors.
On July 31, 2023, Genworth Financial’s Board of Directors authorized an additional $350 million of share repurchases under its existing share repurchase program that began in May 2022. Pursuant to the program, during 2024, Genworth Financial repurchased 28,566,288 shares of its common stock at an average price of $6.52 per share for a total of $186 million, before excise taxes and other associated costs. Genworth Financial also executed repurchases under its share repurchase program in 2025 through a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan under which 2,789,970 shares of its common stock were repurchased through February 20, 2025 at an average price of $7.17 per share, leaving approximately $135 million available for repurchase under the program as of February 20, 2025. Further repurchases under the program will continue to be funded from holding company capital, as well as future cash flow generation, including expected future capital returns from Enact Holdings. Under the program, share repurchases may be made at Genworth’s discretion from time to time in open market transactions, privately negotiated
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transactions, or by other means, including through Rule 10b5-1 trading plans. The timing and number of future shares repurchased under the program will depend on a variety of factors, including Genworth Financial’s stock price and trading volume, and general business and market conditions, among other factors. The authorization has no expiration date and may be modified, suspended or terminated at any time.
Our future use of liquidity and capital will prioritize strategic investments in CareScout and returning capital to Genworth Financial’s shareholders through share repurchases. In addition, we also expect to continue to repurchase or redeem outstanding debt from time to time (with cash on hand, proceeds from the issuance of new debt and/or the proceeds from asset or stock sales) in open market purchases, tender offers, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise.
Genworth Holdings had $294 million and $350 million of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The decrease was principally driven by repurchases of Genworth Financial’s common stock, as well as interest payments on and repurchases of Genworth Holdings’ debt, partially offset by capital returns from Enact Holdings. The $294 million of Genworth Holdings’ cash and cash equivalents included approximately $186 million of advance cash payments from our subsidiaries held for future obligations, including $75 million for CareScout Insurance to meet the regulatory capital requirements of a new start-up insurer. We do not consider this cash when evaluating holding company liquidity for the purposes of allocating capital or computing our cash position relative to the cash management target discussed below. We believe Genworth Holdings’ unrestricted cash and cash equivalents provide sufficient liquidity to meet its financial obligations over the next twelve months as well as in the longer term. We expect Genworth Holdings’ liquidity to continue to be impacted by the amounts and timing of Genworth Financial’s share repurchases, investments in CareScout, and future dividends and other forms of capital returns from Enact Holdings. In addition, we began paying federal income taxes in 2023, resulting in lower intercompany cash tax payments retained by Genworth Holdings from its subsidiaries in 2024 as compared to the amounts retained during recent prior years. We anticipate lower intercompany cash tax payments to be retained going forward as we utilized our remaining foreign tax credits in 2023.
We actively monitor our liquidity position (most notably at Genworth Holdings), liquidity generation options and the credit markets given changing market conditions. Genworth Holdings’ cash management target is to maintain a cash buffer of two times expected annual external debt interest payments. Genworth Holdings may move below or above this targeted cash buffer during any given quarter due to the timing of cash outflows and inflows or as a result of planned future actions. Management of Genworth Financial continues to evaluate Genworth Holdings’ target level of liquidity as circumstances warrant.
Capital resources and financing activities
Our current capital resource plans do not include any additional debt offerings by Genworth Holdings or minority sales of Enact Holdings. The availability of additional capital resources will depend on a variety of factors such as market conditions, regulatory considerations, the general availability of credit, credit ratings and the performance of and outlook for Enact Holdings and the payment of dividends and other returns of capital therefrom. For a discussion of certain risks associated with our liquidity and dependency on dividends paid by Enact Holdings, see “Item 1A—Risk Factors—Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings depend on the ability of Enact Holdings and its subsidiaries to pay dividends and make other payments and distributions to each of them to meet their obligations,” and “Item 1A—Risk Factors—Our sources of capital have become more limited, and under certain conditions we may need to seek additional capital on unfavorable terms.”
During 2024 and 2023, Genworth Holdings repurchased $66 million and $32 million, respectively, principal amount of its debt. As of December 31, 2024, Genworth Holdings had $790 million aggregate principal amount of outstanding debt, with no maturities due until June 2034.
In 2024, given the current interest rate environment, Genworth Holdings entered into an interest rate swap designed to hedge the variable interest payments on $100 million aggregate principal amount of its floating rate
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junior subordinated notes due in 2066 (“2066 Notes”), locking in an approximate 5.5% fixed interest rate for a period of five years from the hedge origination date.
On May 28, 2024, Enact Holdings issued $750 million aggregate principal amount of unsecured senior notes, maturing on May 28, 2029. The 2029 Notes bear interest at an annual rate of 6.25% payable semi-annually in arrears on May 28 and November 28 of each year, which commenced on November 28, 2024. On June 3, 2024, Enact Holdings redeemed all $750 million aggregate principal amount outstanding of its 2025 Notes for a pre-tax loss of $11 million. Enact Holdings funded the redemption primarily through the net proceeds from the issuance of its 2029 Notes.
For further information about Genworth Holdings’ and Enact Holdings’ borrowings, refer to note 15 in our consolidated financial statements under “Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”
Regulated insurance subsidiaries
Insurance laws and regulations regulate the payment of dividends and other distributions to us by our insurance subsidiaries. See note 20 in our consolidated financial statements under “Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” for additional information regarding the payment of dividends. In general, dividends are required to be submitted to an insurer’s domiciliary department of insurance for review, and distributions from sources other than unassigned surplus require affirmative approval before being paid. Based on estimated statutory results as of December 31, 2024, in accordance with applicable dividend restrictions, Enact Holdings’ U.S. mortgage insurance subsidiaries could pay dividends from unassigned surplus of approximately $153 million in 2025 without affirmative regulatory approval. However, Enact Holdings may choose not to pay dividends in 2025 at this level as it may retain capital for future growth or to meet regulatory or other capital requirements.
Our insurance subsidiaries’ principal cash inflows from operations are derived from premiums, annuity deposits and insurance and investment product fees and other income, including commissions, cost of insurance, mortality, expense and surrender charges, contract underwriting fees, investment management fees, investment income and dividends and distributions from their subsidiaries. The liquidity requirements of our regulated insurance subsidiaries principally relate to the liabilities associated with their various insurance and investment products, operating costs and expenses, the payment of dividends to us, contributions to their subsidiaries, payments of principal and interest on their outstanding debt obligations and income taxes. Liabilities arising from insurance and investment products include the payment of benefits and claims, as well as cash payments in connection with policy surrenders and withdrawals, policy loans and obligations to redeem funding agreements.
For long-duration coverage products, we generally anticipate a significant amount of claim payments will come due in five or more years from the date of our Annual Report on Form 10-K. In our long-term care insurance business, we expect overall claim costs to continue to increase over time as our blocks age, with peak claim years over a decade away. For information on discounted and undiscounted expected future benefit payments, see note 8 in our consolidated financial statements under “Item 8—Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.” We also expect renewal premiums on the in-force block of our legacy long-term care insurance business to decline over time as the block runs off and as policyholders elect benefit reductions in connection with our in-force rate actions and legal settlements; however, we expect this decline to be partially offset by future approved rate actions. As we manage our legacy U.S. life insurance subsidiaries on a standalone basis, they will continue to rely on their statutory capital, significant reserves, prudent management of the in-force blocks and long-term care insurance in-force rate actions to satisfy policyholder obligations.
Given the challenging macroeconomic environment in 2023 and 2024, employee costs have increased driven in part by wage inflation, the competitive labor market and low labor participation. Additionally, in our long-term care insurance business, we have observed an increase in the cost of care due in part to elevated inflation. These inflationary pressures have not had a significant impact on our liquidity to date; however, if these
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conditions persist, they could have a material adverse impact on our liquidity, results of operations and financial condition. We will continue to monitor macroeconomic trends, including inflation, to help mitigate any potential adverse impacts to our liquidity.
Our insurance subsidiaries maintain investment strategies intended to provide adequate funds to pay benefits without forced sales of investments. Products having liabilities with longer durations, such as certain life insurance and long-term care insurance policies, are typically matched with investments having similar duration such as long-term fixed maturity securities and commercial mortgage loans. Shorter-term liabilities are typically matched with fixed maturity securities that have short- and medium-term fixed maturities. In addition, our insurance subsidiaries hold highly liquid, high quality short-term investment securities and other liquid investment grade fixed maturity securities to fund anticipated operating expenses, surrenders and withdrawals. As of December 31, 2024, our total cash, cash equivalents and invested assets were $60.0 billion. Our investments in privately placed fixed maturity securities, commercial mortgage loans, policy loans, bank loans, limited partnership investments and select mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities are relatively illiquid. These asset classes represented approximately 44% of the carrying value of our total cash, cash equivalents and invested assets as of December 31, 2024.
Off-balance sheet commitments
As of December 31, 2024, we were committed to fund $1,761 million in limited partnership investments, $263 million in private placement investments, $140 million of bank loan investments and $2 million in commercial mortgage loan investments.
Genworth Holdings’ guarantees
Genworth Holdings has provided a limited guarantee of up to $175 million, subject to adjustments, to one of its insurance subsidiaries to support its mortgage insurance business in Mexico. In January 2022, Genworth Holdings terminated this limited guarantee in regard to new business. Based on the risk in-force of policies subject to the guarantee, we estimate that Genworth Holdings’ exposure under the guarantee was approximately $145 million as of December 31, 2024. We believe this insurance subsidiary has adequate reserves to cover its underlying obligations.
Genworth Holdings provided an unlimited guarantee for the benefit of policyholders for the payment of valid claims by our European mortgage insurance subsidiary prior to its sale in May 2016. Following the sale of this United Kingdom subsidiary to AmTrust Financial Services, Inc., the guarantee was limited to the payment of valid claims on policies in-force prior to the sale date and those written approximately 90 days subsequent to the date of the sale, and AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. has agreed to provide us with a limited indemnification in the event there is any exposure under the guarantee. As of December 31, 2024, the risk in-force of active policies was approximately $766 million.
Supplemental Condensed Consolidating Financial Information
Genworth Financial provides a full and unconditional guarantee to the trustee and holders of Genworth Holdings’ outstanding senior and subordinated notes (registered securities under the Securities Act of 1933), on an unsecured unsubordinated and subordinated basis, respectively, of the full and punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any and interest on, and all other amounts payable under, the outstanding senior and subordinated notes and their respective indentures. Genworth Holdings is a direct, 100% owned subsidiary of Genworth Financial.
Excluding investments in subsidiaries, the assets, liabilities and results of operations of Genworth Financial and Genworth Holdings, on a combined basis, are not material to the consolidated financial position or the consolidated results of operations of Genworth. In addition, none of Genworth Financial’s direct or indirect subsidiaries, other than Genworth Holdings, are issuers or guarantors of any guaranteed securities. Therefore, in
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accordance with Rule 13-01 of Regulation S-X, we are permitted, and we elected, to exclude the summarized financial information for both the issuer and guarantor of the registered securities.
Item 7A. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk |
Market risk is the risk of the loss of fair value resulting from adverse changes in market rates and prices, such as interest rates, equity prices and foreign currency exchange rates. Market risk is directly influenced by the volatility and liquidity in the markets in which the related financial instruments are traded.
While we enter into derivatives to mitigate certain market risks, our agreements with futures commission merchants and derivative counterparties require that we provide securities for initial margin to futures commission merchants and securities as collateral to our derivative counterparties to reflect changes in the fair value of our derivatives. We may hold more high-quality securities to ensure we have sufficient collateral to post to derivative counterparties or futures commission merchants in the event of adverse changes in the fair value of our derivative instruments. If we do not have sufficient high-quality securities to provide as collateral, we may need to sell certain other securities to purchase assets that would be eligible for collateral posting, which could adversely impact our future investment income.
Interest Rate Risk
We enter into market-sensitive instruments primarily for purposes other than trading. The carrying value of our investment portfolio as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 was $57.9 billion and $59.8 billion, respectively, of which 78% was invested in fixed maturity securities for both periods. The primary market risk to our investment portfolio is interest rate risk associated with investments in fixed maturity securities. During periods of increasing interest rates, market values of lower-yielding assets will decline resulting in unrealized losses on our investment portfolio. In addition, the value of our interest rate hedges will decline during periods of increasing interest rates, requiring us to post/return additional collateral with our derivative counterparties, which could add additional strain to our short-term liquidity. For additional information on interest rate risks associated with our insurance and investment contract liabilities, see “Item 1A—Risk Factors—Interest rates and changes in rates could materially adversely affect our business and profitability.”
Interest rate fluctuations could also have an adverse effect on the results of our investment portfolio. During periods of declining market interest rates, the interest we receive on variable interest rate investments decreases. In addition, during those periods, we reinvest the cash we receive as interest or return of principal on our investments in lower-yielding high-grade instruments or in lower-credit instruments to maintain comparable returns. Issuers of fixed-income securities or borrowers to our commercial mortgage loans may also decide to prepay their obligations in order to borrow at lower market rates, which exacerbates the risk that we may have to invest the cash proceeds of these securities in lower-yielding or lower-credit instruments.
The primary market risk for our long-term borrowings is interest rate risk at the time of maturity or early redemption, when we may be required to refinance these obligations. As of December 31, 2024, Genworth Holdings had outstanding principal of $790 million of long-term debt, with no debt maturities until June 2034, and Enact Holdings had outstanding principal of $750 million of long-term debt due in May 2029. We continue to monitor the interest rate environment and other market influences to evaluate repurchasing Genworth Holdings’ debt prior to maturity. While we are exposed to interest rate risk from Genworth Holdings’ 2066 Notes, we attempt to mitigate this risk through an interest rate swap designed to hedge the variable interest payments. See “—Liquidity and Capital Resources” for additional information.
We use derivative instruments, such as interest rate swaps, financial futures and option-based financial instruments, as part of our risk management strategy. We use these derivatives to mitigate certain interest rate risk by reducing the risk between the timing of the receipt of cash and its investment in the market and better aligning the duration of assets with the duration of the liabilities.
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As a matter of policy, we have not and will not engage in derivative market-making, speculative derivative trading or other speculative derivative activities.
Equity Market Risk
Our exposure to equity market risk within our insurance companies primarily relates to variable annuities and life insurance products and certain equity-linked products. Certain fixed and variable annuity products have market risk benefits that expose us to equity market risk if the performance of the underlying investments in the contractholder accounts experiences downturns or volatility for an extended period of time. Additionally, continued equity market volatility could result in additional losses in our variable annuity products and associated hedging program which could lead to increased hedging costs.
We are exposed to equity market risk on our holdings of equity securities. We manage equity price risk through industry and issuer diversification, asset allocation techniques and hedging strategies. We also hold limited partnership investments accounted for using net asset value per share (or its equivalent) as a practical expedient to fair value primarily concentrated in private equity investments that are subject to private market exposures and have been excluded from this discussion. Equity exposures associated with limited partnership investments accounted for under the equity method of accounting are excluded from this discussion as they are not considered financial instruments in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
We use derivative instruments, such as financial futures and option-based financial instruments, as part of our risk management strategy. We use these derivatives to mitigate equity risk by reducing our exposure to fluctuations in equity market indices that underlie some of our products.
Sensitivity Analysis
Sensitivity analysis measures the impact of hypothetical changes in interest rates and other market rates or prices on the profitability of market-sensitive financial instruments.
The following discussion about the potential effects of changes in interest rates and equity market prices is based on so-called “shock-tests,” which model the effects of interest rate and equity market price shifts on our financial condition and results of operations. Although we believe shock-tests provide the most meaningful analysis permitted by the rules and regulations of the SEC, they are constrained by several factors, including the necessity to conduct the analysis based on a single point in time and by their inability to include the extraordinarily complex market reactions that normally would arise from the market shifts modeled. Although the following results of shock-tests for changes in interest rates and equity market prices may have some limited use as benchmarks, they should not be viewed as forecasts. These forward-looking disclosures also are selective in nature and address only the potential impacts on our financial instruments. In addition, this sensitivity analysis does not include a variety of other potential factors that could affect our business as a result of these changes in interest rates and equity market prices.
Interest Rate Risk
One means of assessing exposure to interest rate changes is a duration-based analysis that measures the potential changes in fair value resulting from a hypothetical change in interest rates of 100 basis points across all maturities. This is referred to as a parallel shift in the yield curve. Note that all impacts noted below exclude any effects of deferred taxes unless otherwise noted.
Under this model, with all other factors constant and assuming no offsetting change in the value of our liabilities, we estimated that such an increase in interest rates would cause the fair value of our fixed maturity securities to decrease by approximately $3.0 billion based on the fair value of our fixed maturity securities as of December 31, 2024, as compared to an estimated decrease of $3.1 billion under this model as of December 31, 2023.
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We performed a similar sensitivity analysis on our derivatives portfolio and noted that a 100 basis point increase in interest rates resulted in a decrease in fair value of $675 million based on our derivatives portfolio as of December 31, 2024, as compared to an estimated decline of $655 million under this model as of December 31, 2023. The estimated decrease in fair value of our derivatives portfolio would also require us to post collateral to certain derivative counterparties of $620 million and would require us to post cash margin related to our cleared swaps and futures contracts of $105 million based on our derivatives portfolio as of December 31, 2024. Of the $675 million estimated decrease in fair value of our derivatives portfolio as of December 31, 2024, $50 million related to non-qualified derivatives used to mitigate interest rate risk associated with our variable annuity market risk benefits.
We also performed a similar sensitivity analysis on our variable annuity market risk benefits and noted that a 100 basis point increase in interest rates, with all other factors held constant, would result in a decrease in the fair value of the net liability after reinsurance of approximately $75 million as of December 31, 2024, as compared to a decrease of approximately $100 million as of December 31, 2023.
Genworth Holdings’ variable interest rate debt is comprised of junior subordinated notes due in November 2066. In the third quarter of 2023, Genworth Holdings’ 2066 Notes transitioned from an annual interest rate equal to the three-month London Interbank Offered Rate plus 2.0025% to the three-month Term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) plus a tenor spread adjustment of 0.26161%, plus an additional spread of 2.0025%. The principal amount, weighted-average interest rate and fair value of Genworth Holdings’ 2066 Notes were as follows as of December 31:
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
2024 | 2023 | ||||||
Principal amount |
$ | 546 | $ | 593 | ||||
Weighted-average interest rate (1) |
7.44 | % | 7.27 | % | ||||
Fair value (2) |
$ | 451 | $ | 443 |
(1) | Excludes the impact of the interest rate swap Genworth Holdings entered into in 2024, which locked in an approximate 5.5% fixed interest rate on $100 million aggregate principal amount of the 2066 Notes for a period of five years. See “—Liquidity and Capital Resources.” |
(2) | The fair value methodology is based on the then-current coupon, revalued based on the three-month Term SOFR Reference Rate set and commercially available data using the current spread assumption. The model is a floating rate coupon model using the risk premium or spread assumption to derive the valuation. |
Equity Market Risk
One means of assessing exposure to changes in equity market prices is to estimate the potential changes in market values on our equity investments resulting from a hypothetical broad-based decline in equity market prices of 10%. Under this model, with all other factors constant, we estimated that such a decline in equity market prices would cause the fair value of our equity investments to decline by approximately $45 million based on our equity positions as of December 31, 2024, as compared to a decline of approximately $35 million under this model as of December 31, 2023.
We performed a similar sensitivity analysis on our equity market derivatives and noted that a 10% decline in equity market prices would result in an increase in fair value of $40 million and $51 million based on our equity market derivatives as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The estimated increase in fair value primarily relates to non-qualified derivatives used to mitigate equity market risk associated with our variable annuity and fixed indexed annuity liabilities.
We also performed a similar sensitivity analysis on our variable annuity market risk benefits and noted that a 10% broad-based decline in equity market prices, with all other factors held constant, would result in an increase in the fair value of the net liability after reinsurance of approximately $60 million as of December 31, 2024, as compared to an increase of approximately $70 million as of December 31, 2023.
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• | evaluating the actuarial methodologies and key assumptions used to estimate the liability for future policy benefits for long-term care insurance and life insurance for consistency with generally accepted actuarial methodologies and industry practice |
• | evaluating certain of the Company’s key assumptions by assessing them in comparison to the Company’s relevant historical experience data and industry data or qualitative factors, and the consistency of the assumptions with each other |
• | assessing the reasonableness of estimated future in-force rate action assumptions for long-term care insurance for a selection of estimated rate increases by a) comparing to the Company’s historical regulatory approvals and regulatory information and b) assessing the Company’s ability to achieve the estimated future in-force rate actions by reperforming the Company’s calculations and comparing to the requirements to request a rate action. |
• | evaluating the methods and assumptions for consistency with generally accepted actuarial methodologies and industry practice |
• | evaluating the Company’s mortality and lapse assumptions by assessing the consistency of the assumptions with the underlying historical claims and lapse experience data and industry data |
• | developing an estimate of the additional insurance liabilities for a selection of contracts using the Company’s assumptions and comparing the results to the Company’s recorded additional insurance liabilities for the selected contracts. |
• | assessing the Company’s reserving methodology by comparing to accepted actuarial methodologies |
• | developing an independent estimate and range for a portion of the mortgage insurance loss reserves, using the Company’s underlying historical claims and delinquency data and independently developed models and assumptions and assessing the position in the range and the year-over-year movements of the Company’s recorded mortgage insurance loss reserves within the developed independent range. |
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Income from continuing operations available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders per share: |
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Cash flows from (used by) operating activities: |
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Long-Term Care Insurance. |
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Life and Annuities. non-traditional life insurance (term, universal and term universal life insurance as well as corporate-owned life insurance and funding agreements), fixed annuities and variable annuities. |
• | Level 1—Quoted prices for identical instruments in active markets. |
• | Level 2—Quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and model-derived valuations for which inputs are observable or where those significant value drivers are observable. |
• | Level 3—Instruments for which significant value drivers are unobservable. |
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2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Realized investment gains (losses): |
||||||||||||
Available-for-sale |
||||||||||||
Realized gains |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||
Realized losses |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net realized gains (losses) on available-for-sale |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||||
Net realized gains (losses) on equity securities sold |
( |
) |
||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Total net realized investment gains (losses) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net change in allowance for credit losses on available-for-sale |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
Write-down of available-for-sale (1) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Net unrealized gains (losses) on equity securities still held |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Net unrealized gains (losses) on limited partnerships |
||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage loans |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
Derivative instruments (2) |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net investment gains (losses) |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | |||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) |
Represents write-down of securities deemed uncollectible or that we intend to sell or will be required to sell prior to recovery of the amortized cost basis. |
(2) |
See note 5 for additional information on the impact of derivative instruments included in net investment gains (losses). |
2024 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Beginning balance |
Increase from securities without allowance in previous periods |
Increase (decrease) from securities with allowance in previous periods |
Securities sold |
Decrease due to change in intent or requirement to sell |
Write-offs |
Recoveries |
Ending balance |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. corporate |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. corporate |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
Total available-for-sale |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
2023 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Beginning balance |
Increase from securities without allowance in previous periods |
Increase (decrease) from securities with allowance in previous periods |
Securities sold |
Decrease due to change in intent or requirement to sell |
Write-offs |
Recoveries |
Ending balance |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. corporate |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
Total available-for-sale |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Net unrealized gains (losses) on fixed maturity securities without an allowance for credit losses |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | |||
Net unrealized gains (losses) on fixed maturity securities with an allowance for credit losses |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Adjustments to policyholder contract balances |
||||||||||||
Income taxes, net |
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net unrealized investment gains (losses) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Less: net unrealized investment gains (losses) attributable to noncontrolling interests |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net unrealized investment gains (losses) attributable to Genworth Financial, Inc. |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | |||
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Beginning balance |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | |||||
Unrealized gains (losses) arising during the period: |
||||||||||||
Unrealized gains (losses) on fixed maturity securities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
Adjustment to policyholder contract balances |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Provision for income taxes |
( |
) | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Change in unrealized gains (losses) on investment securities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
Reclassification adjustments to net investment (gains) losses, net of taxes of $( |
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Change in net unrealized investment gains (losses) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
Less: change in net unrealized investment gains (losses) attributable to noncontrolling interests |
( |
) | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Ending balance |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | |||
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
Amortized cost |
Gross unrealized gains |
Gross unrealized losses |
Allowance for credit losses |
Fair value |
|||||||||||||||
Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. government, agencies and government-sponsored enterprises |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | |||||||||||||
State and political subdivisions |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. government |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total U.S. corporate |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Non-U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total non-U.S. corporate |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Residential mortgage-backed |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
Other asset-backed |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total available-for-sale |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | |||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
Amortized cost |
Gross unrealized gains |
Gross unrealized losses |
Allowance for credit losses |
Fair value |
|||||||||||||||
Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. government, agencies and government-sponsored enterprises |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | |||||||||||||
State and political subdivisions |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. government |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total U.S. corporate |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Non-U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total non-U.S. corporate |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Residential mortgage-backed |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
Other asset-backed |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total available-for-sale |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | |||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
Less than 12 months |
12 months or more |
Total |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description of Securities |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. government, agencies and government-sponsored enterprises |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
State and political subdivisions |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. government |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. corporate |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. corporate |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential mortgage-backed |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other asset-backed |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Total for fixed maturity securities in an unrealized loss position |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
% Below cost: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
<20% Below cost |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
20%-50% Below cost |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>50% Below cost |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Total for fixed maturity securities in an unrealized loss position |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Investment grade |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Below investment grade |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Total for fixed maturity securities in an unrealized loss position |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
Less than 12 months |
12 months or more |
Total |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description of Securities |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Subtotal, U.S. corporate securities |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Subtotal, non-U.S. corporate securities |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Total for corporate securities in an unrealized loss position |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
Less than 12 months |
12 months or more |
Total |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description of Securities |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. government, agencies and government-sponsored enterprises |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
State and political subdivisions |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. government |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. corporate |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. corporate |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential mortgage-backed |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other asset-backed |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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Total for fixed maturity securities in an unrealized loss position |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
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% Below cost: |
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<20% Below cost |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
20%-50% Below cost |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
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|
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Total for fixed maturity securities in an unrealized loss position |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
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|
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Investment grade |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
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Below investment grade |
( |
) |
( |
) |
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|
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Total for fixed maturity securities in an unrealized loss position |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
|
|
|
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
Less than 12 months |
12 months or more |
Total |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
Fair value |
Gross unrealized losses |
Number of securities |
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Description of Securities |
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U.S. corporate: |
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Utilities |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) |
( |
) |
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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Subtotal, U.S. corporate securities |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
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|
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|
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
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Non-U.S. corporate: |
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Utilities |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) |
( |
) |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Subtotal, non-U.S. corporate securities |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Total for corporate securities in an unrealized loss position |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
Amortized cost |
Fair value |
||||||
Due one year or less |
$ | $ | ||||||
Due after one year through five years |
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Due after five years through ten years |
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Due after ten years |
||||||||
Subtotal |
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Residential mortgage-backed |
||||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
||||||||
Other asset-backed |
||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | ||||||
2024 |
2023 |
|||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Carrying value |
% of total |
Carrying value |
% of total |
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Property type: |
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Retail |
$ | % | $ | % | ||||||||||||
Office |
||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
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Apartments |
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Mixed use |
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Other |
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Subtotal |
% | % | ||||||||||||||
Allowance for credit losses |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | ||||||||||||||
2024 |
2023 |
|||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Carrying value |
% of total |
Carrying value |
% of total |
||||||||||||
Geographic region: |
||||||||||||||||
South Atlantic |
$ | % | $ | % | ||||||||||||
Pacific |
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Mountain |
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Middle Atlantic |
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West South Central |
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East North Central |
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West North Central |
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East South Central |
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New England |
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Subtotal |
% | % | ||||||||||||||
Allowance for credit losses |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | ||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Allowance for credit losses: |
||||||||||||
Beginning balance |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Provision |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Write-offs |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Recoveries |
||||||||||||
Ending balance |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
2021 |
2020 |
2019 and prior |
Total |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Debt-to-value: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0% - 50% |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
51% - 60% |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
61% - 75% |
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76% - 100% |
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Greater than 100% |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total amortized cost |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Debt service coverage ratio: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Less than 1.00 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
1.00 - 1.25 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1.26 - 1.50 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1.51 - 2.00 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greater than 2.00 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total amortized cost |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
2024 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
0% - 50% |
51% - 60% |
61% - 75% |
76% - 100% |
Greater than 100% |
Total |
||||||||||||||||||
Property type: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retail |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Office |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
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Apartments |
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Mixed use |
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Other |
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Total amortized cost |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
% of total |
% | % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||||
Weighted-average debt service coverage ratio |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
0% - 50% |
51% - 60% |
61% - 75% |
76% - 100% |
Greater than 100% |
Total |
||||||||||||||||||
Property type: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retail |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Office |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Apartments |
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Mixed use |
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Other |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Total amortized cost |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
% of total |
% | % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Weighted-average debt service coverage ratio |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2024 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Less than 1.00 |
1.00 - 1.25 |
1.26 - 1.50 |
1.51 - 2.00 |
Greater than 2.00 |
Total |
||||||||||||||||||
Property type: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retail |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Office |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
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Apartments |
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Mixed use |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Total amortized cost |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
% of total |
% | % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Weighted-average debt-to-value |
% | % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2023 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Less than 1.00 |
1.00 - 1.25 |
1.26 - 1.50 |
1.51 - 2.00 |
Greater than 2.00 |
Total |
||||||||||||||||||
Property type: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retail |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Office |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Apartments |
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Mixed use |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Total amortized cost |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
% of total |
% | % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Weighted-average debt-to-value |
% | % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Derivative assets |
Derivative liabilities |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Fair value |
Fair value |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Balance sheet classification |
2024 |
2023 |
Balance sheet classification |
2024 |
2023 |
||||||||||||||||||
Derivatives designated as hedges |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash flow hedges: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest rate swaps |
Other invested assets |
$ |
$ |
Other liabilities |
$ |
$ |
||||||||||||||||||
Foreign currency swaps |
Other invested assets |
Other liabilities |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
Other invested assets |
Other liabilities |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
Total cash flow hedges |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
Total derivatives designated as hedges |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
Derivatives not designated as hedges |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equity index options |
Other invested assets |
Other liabilities |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Financial futures (1) |
Other invested assets |
Other liabilities |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
Other invested assets |
Other liabilities |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed indexed annuity embedded derivatives |
Other assets |
Policyholder account balances (2) |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Indexed universal life embedded derivatives |
Reinsurance recoverable |
Policyholder account balances (3) |
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
Total derivatives not designated as hedges |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
Total derivatives |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) |
The period end valuations of financial futures were zero as a result of settling the margins on these contracts on a daily basis. |
(2) |
Represents the embedded derivatives associated with our fixed indexed annuity liabilities. |
(3) |
Represents the embedded derivatives associated with our indexed universal life liabilities. |
(Notional in millions) |
Measurement |
December 31, 2023 |
Additions |
Maturities/ terminations |
December 31, 2024 |
|||||||||||||||
Derivatives designated as hedges |
||||||||||||||||||||
Cash flow hedges: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Interest rate swaps |
Notional | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | |||||||||||||
Foreign currency swaps |
Notional | |||||||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
Notional | |||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Total cash flow hedges |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Total derivatives designated as hedges |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Derivatives not designated as hedges |
||||||||||||||||||||
Equity index options |
Notional | ( |
) | |||||||||||||||||
Financial futures |
Notional | ( |
) | |||||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
Notional | |||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Total derivatives not designated as hedges |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Total derivatives |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Number of policies) |
Measurement |
December 31, 2023 |
Additions |
Maturities/ terminations |
December 31, 2024 |
|||||||||||||||
Derivatives not designated as hedges |
||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed indexed annuity embedded derivatives |
Policies | ( |
) | |||||||||||||||||
Indexed universal life embedded derivatives |
Policies | ( |
) |
(Amounts in millions) |
Gain (loss) recognized in OCI |
Gain (loss) reclassified into net income from OCI |
Classification of gain (loss) reclassified into net income |
Gain (loss) recognized in net income |
Classification of gain (loss) recognized in net income | |||||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging assets |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
Net investment income |
$ |
Net investment gains (losses) | |||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging assets |
Net investment gains (losses) |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging liabilities |
( |
) |
Interest expense |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||
Foreign currency swaps |
Net investment income |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
( |
) |
Net investment gains (losses) |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
Gain (loss) recognized in OCI |
Gain (loss) reclassified into net income from OCI |
Classification of gain (loss) reclassified into net income |
Gain (loss) recognized in net income |
Classification of gain (loss) recognized in net income | |||||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging assets |
$ | ( |
) | $ | Net investment income | $ | Net investment gains (losses) | |||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging assets |
Net investment gains (losses) |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging liabilities |
( |
) | Interest expense | Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging liabilities |
Net investment gains (losses) |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||||
Foreign currency swaps |
( |
) | Net investment income | Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||
Foreign currency swaps |
Net investment gains (losses) |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
Net investment gains (losses) |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total |
$ | ( |
) | $ | $ | |||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
Gain (loss) recognized in OCI |
Gain (loss) reclassified into net income from OCI |
Classification of gain (loss) reclassified into net income |
Gain (loss) recognized in net income |
Classification of gain (loss) recognized in net income | |||||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging assets |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
Net investment income |
$ |
Net investment gains (losses) | |||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging assets |
Net investment gains (losses) |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging liabilities |
( |
) |
Interest expense |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||
Foreign currency swaps |
Net investment income |
Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Beginning balance |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Current period increases (decreases) in fair value, net of deferred taxes of $ |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Reclassification to net (income), net of deferred taxes of $ |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
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|
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Ending balance |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
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|
|
|
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(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
Classification of gain (loss) recognized in net income | ||||||||||
Equity index options |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | Net investment gains (losses) | ||||||||
Financial futures |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | Changes in fair value of market risk benefits and associated hedges | |||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
( |
) | ( |
) | Net investment gains (losses) | |||||||||
Fixed indexed annuity embedded derivatives |
( |
) | ( |
) | Net investment gains (losses) | |||||||||
Indexed universal life embedded derivatives |
Net investment gains (losses) | |||||||||||||
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|
|
|
|
|||||||||
Total derivatives not designated as hedges |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | |||||
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|
|
|
2024 |
2023 |
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(Amounts in millions) |
Derivative assets (1) |
Derivative liabilities (1) |
Net derivatives |
Derivative assets (1) |
Derivative liabilities (1) |
Net derivatives |
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Amounts presented in the balance sheet: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gross amounts recognized |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||
Gross amounts offset in the balance sheet |
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Net amounts presented in the balance sheet |
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) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Gross amounts not offset in the balance sheet: |
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Financial instruments (2) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) |
( |
) |
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Collateral received |
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) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
Collateral pledged |
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) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Over collateralization |
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) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Net amount |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
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|
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|
|
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(1) |
Does not include amounts related to embedded derivatives as of December 31, 2024 and 2023. |
(2) |
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. |
2024 |
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(Amounts in millions) |
Long- term care insurance |
Life insurance |
Fixed annuities |
Variable annuities |
Total |
|||||||||||||||
Balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
Costs deferred |
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Amortization |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||
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Balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||
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Enact segment |
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Total deferred acquisition costs |
$ | |||||||||||||||||||
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2023 |
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(Amounts in millions) |
Long- term care insurance |
Life insurance |
Fixed annuities |
Variable annuities |
Total |
|||||||||||||||
Balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
Costs deferred |
||||||||||||||||||||
Amortization |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||
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Balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||
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Enact segment |
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Total deferred acquisition costs |
$ | |||||||||||||||||||
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(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Direct life insurance in-force |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Amounts assumed from other companies |
||||||||||||
Amounts ceded to other companies (1) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
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|
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|
|
|||||||
Net life insurance in-force |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
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|
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|
|
|||||||
Percentage of amount assumed to net |
% | % | % | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) |
Includes amounts accounted for under the deposit method. |
Written |
Earned |
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(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
||||||||||||||||||
Direct: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Life insurance |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Accident and health insurance (1) |
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Mortgage insurance |
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Total direct |
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Assumed: |
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Life insurance |
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Accident and health insurance (1) |
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Mortgage insurance |
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Total assumed |
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Ceded: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Life insurance |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||
Accident and health insurance (1) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||
Mortgage insurance |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||
Total ceded |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||
Net premiums |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Percentage of amount assumed to net |
% | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||||
(1) |
Accident and health insurance is comprised of our long-term care insurance products. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Allowance for credit losses: |
||||||||||||
Beginning balance |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Provision |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Write-offs |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Recoveries |
||||||||||||
Ending balance |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
2024 |
||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Collateralized |
Non-collateralized |
Total |
|||||||||
Credit rating: |
||||||||||||
A++ |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
A+ |
||||||||||||
A |
||||||||||||
Not rated (1) |
||||||||||||
Total reinsurance recoverable |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
2023 |
||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Collateralized |
Non-collateralized |
Total |
|||||||||
Credit rating: |
||||||||||||
A++ |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
A+ |
||||||||||||
A |
||||||||||||
Not rated (1) |
||||||||||||
Total reinsurance recoverable |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
(1) |
Primarily relates to amounts associated with UFLIC, which is not rated. However, UFLIC has trust accounts and a guarantee from its parent, as discussed above, and is sufficiently collateralized and fully collectible; accordingly, no allowance for credit losses was recorded as of December 31, 2024 and 2023. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
||||||
Long-term care insurance |
$ | $ | ||||||
Life insurance |
||||||||
Fixed annuities |
||||||||
Total long-duration insurance contracts |
||||||||
Deferred profit liability |
||||||||
Cost of reinsurance |
||||||||
Total future policy benefits |
$ | $ | ||||||
2024 |
||||||||||||
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
Long-term care insurance |
Life insurance |
Fixed annuities |
|||||||||
Present value of expected net premiums: |
||||||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Beginning balance, at original discount rate |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions |
||||||||||||
Effect of actual variances from expected experience |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Adjusted beginning balance |
||||||||||||
Issuances |
||||||||||||
Interest accretion |
||||||||||||
Net premiums collected (1) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Derecognition (lapses and withdrawals) |
||||||||||||
Other |
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|
|
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|
|||||||
Ending balance, at original discount rate |
||||||||||||
Effect of changes in discount rate assumptions |
( |
) | ||||||||||
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|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Ending balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Present value of expected future policy benefits: |
||||||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Beginning balance, at original discount rate |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Effect of actual variances from expected experience |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
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|
|||||||
Adjusted beginning balance |
||||||||||||
Issuances |
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Interest accretion |
||||||||||||
Benefit payments |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Derecognition (lapses and withdrawals) |
||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Ending balance, at original discount rate |
||||||||||||
Effect of changes in discount rate assumptions |
( |
) | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Ending balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net liability for future policy benefits, before flooring adjustments |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Flooring adjustments (2) |
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net liability for future policy benefits |
||||||||||||
Less: reinsurance recoverable |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net liability for future policy benefits, net of reinsurance recoverable |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Weighted-average liability duration (years) |
(1) |
Represents the portion of gross premiums collected from policyholders that is used to fund expected benefit payments. |
(2) |
See note 2 for a discussion of flooring adjustments. |
2023 |
||||||||||||
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
Long-term care insurance |
Life insurance |
Fixed annuities |
|||||||||
Present value of expected net premiums: |
||||||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Beginning balance, at original discount rate |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Effect of actual variances from expected experience |
( |
) | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Adjusted beginning balance |
||||||||||||
Issuances |
||||||||||||
Interest accretion |
||||||||||||
Net premiums collected (1) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Derecognition (lapses and withdrawals) |
||||||||||||
Other |
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Ending balance, at original discount rate |
||||||||||||
Effect of changes in discount rate assumptions |
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Ending balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Present value of expected future policy benefits: |
||||||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Beginning balance, at original discount rate |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
Effect of actual variances from expected experience |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Adjusted beginning balance |
||||||||||||
Issuances |
||||||||||||
Interest accretion |
||||||||||||
Benefit payments |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Derecognition (lapses and withdrawals) |
||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Ending balance, at original discount rate |
||||||||||||
Effect of changes in discount rate assumptions |
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Ending balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net liability for future policy benefits, before flooring adjustments |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Flooring adjustments (2) |
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net liability for future policy benefits |
||||||||||||
Less: reinsurance recoverable |
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Net liability for future policy benefits, net of reinsurance recoverable |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Weighted-average liability duration (years) |
(1) |
Represents the portion of gross premiums collected from policyholders that is used to fund expected benefit payments. |
(2) |
See note 2 for a discussion of flooring adjustments. |
2024 |
2023 |
|||||||
Long-term care insurance |
||||||||
Interest accretion (locked-in) rate |
% | % | ||||||
Current discount rate |
% | % | ||||||
Life insurance |
||||||||
Interest accretion (locked-in) rate |
% | % | ||||||
Current discount rate |
% | % | ||||||
Fixed annuities |
||||||||
Interest accretion (locked-in) rate |
% | % | ||||||
Current discount rate |
% | % |
2024 |
2023 |
|||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Undiscounted |
Discounted |
Undiscounted |
Discounted |
||||||||||||
Long-term care insurance |
||||||||||||||||
Expected future gross premiums |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
Expected future benefit payments |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
Life insurance |
||||||||||||||||
Expected future gross premiums |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
Expected future benefit payments |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
Fixed annuities |
||||||||||||||||
Expected future gross premiums |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
Expected future benefit payments |
$ | $ | $ | $ |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Gross premiums |
Interest accretion (1) |
Gross premiums |
Interest accretion (1) |
Gross premiums |
Interest accretion (1) |
||||||||||||||||||
Long-term care insurance |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Life insurance |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed annuities |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
(1) |
Amounts for interest accretion are included in benefits and other changes in policy reserves in the consolidated statements of income. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
||||||
Life insurance (1) |
$ | $ | ||||||
Fixed annuities |
||||||||
Variable annuities |
||||||||
Fixed indexed annuity embedded derivatives (2) |
||||||||
Indexed universal life embedded derivatives (2) |
||||||||
Additional insurance liabilities (3) |
||||||||
Other |
||||||||
Total policyholder account balances |
$ | $ | ||||||
(1) |
Includes funding agreements. |
(2) |
See note 5 for additional information. |
(3) |
Represents additional liabilities related to death or other insurance benefits that are recorded within policyholder account balances and are considered long-duration insurance contracts. See note 10 for additional information. |
2024 |
||||||||||||
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
Life insurance |
Fixed annuities |
Variable annuities |
|||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Issuances |
||||||||||||
Premiums received |
||||||||||||
Policy charges |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Surrenders and withdrawals |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Benefit payments |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Net transfers from separate accounts |
||||||||||||
Interest credited |
||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Ending balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Weighted-average crediting rate |
% | % | % | |||||||||
Net amount at risk (1) |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Cash surrender value |
$ | $ | $ |
(1) |
The net amount at risk presented for fixed and variable annuity products contains both general and separate accounts, including amounts related to annuitization and other insurance benefits classified as MRBs. |
2023 |
||||||||||||
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
Life insurance |
Fixed annuities |
Variable annuities |
|||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||
Issuances |
||||||||||||
Premiums received |
||||||||||||
Policy charges |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||||
Surrenders and withdrawals |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||||
Benefit payments |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) | ||||||
Net transfers from separate accounts |
||||||||||||
Interest credited |
||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) |
||||||||||
Ending balance as of December 31 |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||
Weighted-average crediting rate |
% |
% |
% | |||||||||
Net amount at risk (1) |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||
Cash surrender value |
$ |
$ |
$ |
(1) |
The net amount at risk presented for fixed and variable annuity products contains both general and separate accounts, including amounts related to annuitization and other insurance benefits classified as MRBs. |
2024 |
||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
At guaranteed minimum |
points above |
points above |
Greater than points above |
Total (1) |
|||||||||||||||
Less than |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
|
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|
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|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) |
Excludes universal life insurance and investment contracts of $ an equity market component to their crediting strategy. |
2023 |
||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
At guaranteed minimum |
points above |
points above |
Greater than points above |
Total (1) |
|||||||||||||||
Less than |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
|
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|
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|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) |
Excludes universal life insurance and investment contracts of $ an equity market component to their crediting strategy. |
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | ||||||
Beginning balance before shadow accounting adjustments |
$ | $ | ||||||
Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions |
||||||||
Effect of actual variances from expected experience |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Adjusted beginning balance |
||||||||
Issuances |
||||||||
Interest accretion |
||||||||
Assessments collected |
||||||||
Benefit payments |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
Derecognition (lapses and withdrawals) |
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Ending balance before shadow accounting adjustments |
||||||||
Effect of shadow accounting adjustments |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Ending balance |
||||||||
Less: reinsurance recoverable |
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Additional insurance liabilities, net of reinsurance recoverable |
$ | $ | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Weighted-average liability duration (years) |
2024 |
2023 |
|||||||
Interest accretion rate (1) |
% | % | ||||||
Projected crediting rate (2) |
% | % |
(1) |
The interest accretion rate is determined by using the weighted-average policyholder crediting rates for the underlying policies over the period in-force, and based on the adjusted beginning balance, is used to measure the amount of interest accretion. |
(2) |
The projected crediting rate is determined by using a future crediting rate curve that utilizes a portfolio approach reflecting anticipated reinvestment activity and runoff of existing assets over the projection period. The projected crediting rate is used to discount future assessments and excess benefits. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Gross assessments |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Interest accretion (1) |
$ | $ | $ |
(1) |
Amounts for interest accretion are included in benefits and other changes in policy reserves in the consolidated statements of income. |
2024 |
2023 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Asset |
Liability |
Net liability |
Asset |
Liability |
Net liability |
||||||||||||||||||
Fixed indexed annuities |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Variable annuities |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Total market risk benefits |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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(Dollar amounts in millions) |
2024 |
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Fixed indexed annuities |
Variable annuities |
Reinsurance recoverable (1) |
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Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Beginning balance before effect of changes in instrument-specific credit risk |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Issuances |
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Interest accretion |
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Attributed fees collected |
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Benefit payments |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
Effect of changes in interest rates |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Effect of changes in equity markets |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Actual policyholder behavior different from expected behavior |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Effect of changes in future expected policyholder behavior |
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Effect of changes in other future expected assumptions |
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Other |
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) | ||||||||||
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|
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|
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Ending balance before effect of changes in instrument-specific credit risk |
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Effect of changes in instrument-specific credit risk |
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|
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Ending balance as of December 31 |
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|
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Less: reinsurance recoverable |
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|
|
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Market risk benefits, net of reinsurance recoverable |
$ | $ | ||||||||||
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|
|
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Weighted-average attained age of contractholders |
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Net amount at risk (2) |
(1) |
Represents the net reinsured asset related to our variable annuity MRBs. |
(2) |
See note 9 for additional information on the net amount at risk. |
2023 |
||||||||||||
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
Fixed indexed annuities |
Variable annuities |
Reinsurance recoverable (1) |
|||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Beginning balance before effect of changes in instrument-specific credit risk |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Issuances |
||||||||||||
Interest accretion |
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Attributed fees collected |
||||||||||||
Benefit payments |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
Effect of changes in interest rates |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Effect of changes in equity markets |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Actual policyholder behavior different from expected behavior |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Effect of changes in future expected policyholder behavior |
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Effect of changes in other future expected assumptions |
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Other |
( |
) | ||||||||||
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|
|
|
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|
|||||||
Ending balance before effect of changes in instrument-specific credit risk |
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Effect of changes in instrument-specific credit risk |
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|
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|
|
|
|
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Ending balance as of December 31 |
$ | |||||||||||
|
|
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Less: reinsurance recoverable |
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|
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|
|
|||||||||
Market risk benefits, net of reinsurance recoverable |
$ | $ | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||||||
Weighted-average attained age of contractholders |
||||||||||||
Net amount at risk (2) |
(1) |
Represents the net reinsured asset related to our variable annuity MRBs. |
(2) |
See note 9 for additional information on the net amount at risk. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | ||||||
Premiums and deposits |
||||||||
Policy charges |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
Surrenders and withdrawals |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
Benefit payments |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
Investment performance |
||||||||
Net transfers to general account |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
Other charges |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Ending balance |
$ | $ | ||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Cash surrender value (1) |
$ | $ |
(1) |
Cash surrender value represents the amount of the contractholders’ account balances that was distributable less certain surrender charges. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
||||||
Equity funds |
$ | $ | ||||||
Balanced funds |
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Bond funds |
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Money market funds |
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|
|
|
|
|||||
Total |
$ | $ | ||||||
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
||||||
Enact segment |
$ | $ | ||||||
Life and Annuities segment (1) |
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Other mortgage insurance business |
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|
|
|
|
|||||
Total liability for policy and contract claims |
$ | $ | ||||||
|
|
|
|
(1) |
Primarily includes balances related to our universal and term universal life insurance products. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Less reinsurance recoverable |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Net beginning balance |
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Incurred related to insured events of: |
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Current year |
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Prior years |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Total incurred |
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Paid related to insured events of: |
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Current year |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Prior years |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Total paid |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Foreign currency translation |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Net ending balance |
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Add reinsurance recoverable |
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Ending balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
(Dollar amounts in millions) |
Incurred claims and allocated claim adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance |
Total of IBNR liabilities including expected development on reported claims as of December 31, 2024 |
Number of reported delinquencies (2) |
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For the years ended December 31, |
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Accident year (1) |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
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Unaudited |
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2015 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 |
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2017 |
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2018 |
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2019 |
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2020 |
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2021 |
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2022 |
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2023 |
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2024 |
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Total incurred | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) |
Represents the year in which first monthly mortgage payments have been missed by the borrower. |
(2) |
Represents reported and outstanding delinquencies less actual cures as of December 31 for each respective accident year. |
(Amounts in millions) |
Cumulative paid claims and allocated claim adjustment expenses, net of reinsurance |
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Accident year (1) |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
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Unaudited |
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2015 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016 |
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2017 |
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2018 |
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2019 |
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2020 |
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2021 |
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2022 |
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2023 |
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2024 |
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Total paid | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total incurred | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total paid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All outstanding liabilities before 2015, net of reinsurance |
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Net liability for policy and contract claims |
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Other reserves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reinsurance recoverable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Liability for policy and contract claims | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
(1) |
Represents the year in which first monthly mortgage payments have been missed by the borrower. |
Average annual percentage payout of incurred claims by age |
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Years |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
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Unaudited |
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Percentage of payout |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
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Genworth Holdings |
||||||||
$ | $ | |||||||
Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes, due |
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Subtotal |
||||||||
Bond consent fees |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
Deferred borrowing charges |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
Total Genworth Holdings |
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Enact Holdings |
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Deferred borrowing charges |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
Total Enact Holdings |
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Total |
$ | $ | ||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
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Domestic |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Foreign |
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Income from continuing operations before income taxes |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Current federal income taxes |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Deferred federal income taxes |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Total federal income taxes |
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Current state income taxes |
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Deferred state income taxes |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Total state income taxes |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Current foreign income taxes |
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Deferred foreign income taxes |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Total foreign income taxes |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Total provision for income taxes |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
||||||||||
Statutory U.S. federal income tax rate |
% | % | % | |||||||||
Increase (reduction) in rate resulting from: |
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Tax on income from terminated swaps |
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Non-deductible expenses |
||||||||||||
State income tax, net of federal income tax effect |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Other, net |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
Effective rate |
% | % | % | |||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
||||||
Assets: |
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Net operating loss carryforwards |
$ | $ | ||||||
Capital loss carryforwards |
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State income taxes |
||||||||
Insurance reserves |
||||||||
DAC |
||||||||
Accrued commission and general expenses |
||||||||
Liabilities associated with discontinued operations |
||||||||
Net unrealized losses on investment securities |
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Net unrealized losses on derivatives |
||||||||
Net effect of change in discount rate for future policy benefits |
||||||||
Net effect of change in fair value of MRBs attributable to instrument-specific credit risk |
||||||||
Other |
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Gross deferred income tax assets |
||||||||
Valuation allowance |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Total deferred income tax assets |
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|
|
|
|
|||||
Liabilities: |
||||||||
Net effect of change in discount rate for future policy benefits |
||||||||
PVFP and other intangibles |
||||||||
Insurance reserves transition adjustment |
||||||||
Investments |
||||||||
Other |
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|
|
|
|
|||||
Total deferred income tax liabilities |
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|||||
Net deferred income tax asset |
$ | $ | ||||||
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Tax positions related to the current period: |
||||||||||||
Gross additions |
||||||||||||
Gross reductions |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Tax positions related to the prior years: |
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Gross additions |
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Gross reductions |
( |
) | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
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Grant-date fair value |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Valuation-date stock price |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Volatility |
% | % | % | |||||||||
Dividend yield |
% | % | % | |||||||||
Risk-free rate |
% | % | % | |||||||||
Valuation maximum |
800% of grant-date stock price |
|
800% of grant-date stock price |
|
800% of grant-date stock price |
|
RSUs |
PSUs |
DSUs |
SARs |
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(Awards in thousands) |
Number of awards |
Weighted- average grant date fair value |
Number of awards |
Weighted- average fair value |
Number of awards |
Weighted- average fair value |
Number of awards |
Weighted- average grant date fair value |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Granted |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Performance adjustment (1) |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vested |
( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Terminated |
( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) |
The performance adjustment relates to additional awards expected to be earned through the achievement of certain performance metrics. |
Cash settled RSUs |
Time-based cash awards |
|||||||||||
(Awards in thousands) |
Number of awards |
Weighted-average fair value |
Number of awards |
|||||||||
Balance as of January 1 |
$ | |||||||||||
Granted |
$ | |||||||||||
Vested |
( |
) | $ | ( |
) | |||||||
Forfeited |
( |
) | $ | ( |
) | |||||||
Balance as of December 31 |
$ | |||||||||||
RSUs |
PSUs |
DSUs |
||||||||||||||||||||||
(Awards in thousands) |
Number of awards |
Weighted- average grant date fair value |
Number of awards |
Weighted- average grant date fair value |
Number of awards |
Weighted- average grant date fair value |
||||||||||||||||||
Balance as of January 1 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Granted |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dividend equivalents |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Vested |
( |
) | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
Terminated |
( |
) | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
Balance as of December 31 |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
• | Third-party pricing services: |
(Amounts in millions) |
Fair value |
Primary methodologies |
Significant inputs | |||||
U.S. government, agencies and government-sponsored enterprises |
$ | |||||||
State and political subdivisions |
$ | |||||||
Non-U.S. government |
$ | |||||||
U.S. corporate |
$ | |||||||
Non-U.S. corporate |
$ | |||||||
Residential mortgage-backed |
$ | |||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
$ | |||||||
Other asset-backed |
$ |
• | Internal models: non-U.S. corporate securities are valued using internal models. The fair value of these fixed maturity securities was $ |
• | Broker quotes: non-U.S. government, U.S. corporate, non-U.S. corporate, residential mortgage-backed, commercial mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities are valued using broker quotes. Broker quotes are obtained from third-party providers that have current market knowledge to provide a reasonable price for securities not routinely priced by pricing services. Brokers utilized for valuation of assets are reviewed annually. The fair value of our Level 3 fixed maturity securities priced by broker quotes was $ |
• | Internal models: non-U.S. corporate, residential mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities are valued using internal models. The primary inputs to the valuation of the bond population include quoted prices for similar assets in markets that are not active, contractual cash flows, duration, call provisions, issuer rating, benchmark yields and credit spreads. Certain private fixed maturity securities are valued using an internal model using market observable inputs such as the interest rate yield curve, as well as published credit spreads for similar securities, which can include significant unobservable inputs. Additionally, we may apply certain price caps and liquidity premiums in the valuation of private fixed maturity securities. Price caps are established using inputs from market participants. For structured securities, the primary inputs to the valuation include quoted prices for similar assets in markets that are not active, contractual cash flows, weighted-average coupon, weighted-average maturity, issuer rating, structure of the security, expected prepayment speeds and volumes, collateral type, current and forecasted loss severity, average delinquency rates, vintage of the loans, geographic region, debt service coverage ratios, payment priority with the tranche, benchmark yields and credit spreads. The fair value of our Level 3 fixed maturity securities priced using internal models was $ |
2024 |
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(Amounts in millions) |
Total |
Level 1 |
Level 2 |
Level 3 |
NAV (1) |
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Assets |
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Investments: |
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Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. government, agencies and government-sponsored enterprises |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||||||||
State and political subdivisions |
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Non-U.S. government |
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U.S. corporate: |
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Utilities |
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Energy |
||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
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Consumer—non-cyclical |
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Technology and communications |
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Industrial |
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Capital goods |
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Consumer—cyclical |
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Transportation |
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Other |
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Total U.S. corporate |
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Non-U.S. corporate: |
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Utilities |
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Energy |
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Finance and insurance |
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Consumer—non-cyclical |
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Technology and communications |
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Industrial |
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Capital goods |
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Consumer—cyclical |
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Transportation |
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Other |
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Total non-U.S. corporate |
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Residential mortgage-backed |
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Commercial mortgage-backed |
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Other asset-backed |
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Total fixed maturity securities |
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Equity securities |
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Limited partnerships |
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Other invested assets: |
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Derivative assets: |
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Interest rate swaps |
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Foreign currency swaps |
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Equity index options |
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Forward bond purchase commitments |
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Total derivative assets |
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Short-term investments |
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Total other invested assets |
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Separate account assets |
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Total assets |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||||||||
(1) |
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. |
2023 |
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(Amounts in millions) |
Total |
Level 1 |
Level 2 |
Level 3 |
NAV (1) |
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Assets |
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Investments: |
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Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. government, agencies and government-sponsored enterprises |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||||||||
State and political subdivisions |
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Non-U.S. government |
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U.S. corporate: |
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Utilities |
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Energy |
||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
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Consumer—non-cyclical |
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Technology and communications |
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Industrial |
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Capital goods |
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Consumer—cyclical |
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Transportation |
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Other |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Total U.S. corporate |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Non-U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total non-U.S. corporate |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Residential mortgage-backed |
||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
||||||||||||||||||||
Other asset-backed |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total fixed maturity securities |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Equity securities |
||||||||||||||||||||
Limited partnerships |
||||||||||||||||||||
Other invested assets: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Derivative assets: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Interest rate swaps |
||||||||||||||||||||
Foreign currency swaps |
||||||||||||||||||||
Equity index options |
||||||||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total derivative assets |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Short-term investments |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total other invested assets |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Separate account assets |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Total assets |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) |
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. |
(Amounts in millions) |
Beginning balance as of January 1, 2024 |
Total realized and unrealized gains (losses) |
Purchases |
Sales |
Issuances |
Settlements |
Transfer into Level 3 (1) |
Transfer out of Level 3 (1) |
Ending balance as of December 31, 2024 |
Total gains (losses) attributable to assets still held |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
in net income |
in OCI |
in net income |
in OCI |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
State and political subdivisions |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. government |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total U.S. corporate |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total non-U.S. corporate |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential mortgage-backed |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage—backed |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other asset-backed |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total fixed maturity securities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equity securities |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Limited partnerships |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other invested assets: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivative assets: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equity index options |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total derivative assets |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Short-term investments |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total other invested assets |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Level 3 assets |
$ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) |
The transfers into and out of Level 3 for fixed maturity securities were related to changes in the primary pricing source and changes in the observability of external information used in determining the fair value, such as external ratings or credit spreads, as well as changes in the industry sectors assigned to specific securities. |
(Amounts in millions) |
Beginning balance as of January 1, 2023 |
Total realized and unrealized gains (losses) |
Purchases |
Sales |
Issuances |
Settlements |
Transfer into Level 3 (1) |
Transfer out of Level 3 (1) |
Ending balance as of December 31, 2023 |
Total gains (losses) attributable to assets still held |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Included in net income |
Included in OCI |
Included in net income |
Included in OCI |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
State and political subdivisions |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. government |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total U.S. corporate |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total non-U.S. corporate |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential mortgage-backed |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other asset-backed |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total fixed maturity securities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equity securities |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Limited partnerships |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other invested assets: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivative assets: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equity index options |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total derivative assets |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Short-term investments |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total other invested assets |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Level 3 assets |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) |
The transfers into and out of Level 3 for fixed maturity securities were related to changes in the primary pricing source and changes in the observability of external information used in determining the fair value, such as external ratings or credit spreads, as well as changes in the industry sectors assigned to specific securities. |
(Amounts in millions) |
Beginning balance as of January 1, 2022 |
Total realized and unrealized gains (losses) |
Purchases |
Sales |
Issuances |
Settlements |
Transfer into Level 3 (1) |
Transfer out of Level 3 (1) |
Ending balance as of December 31, 2022 |
Total gains (losses) attributable to assets still held |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Included in net income |
Included in OCI |
Included in net income |
Included in OCI |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed maturity securities: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
State and political subdivisions |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. government |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total U.S. corporate |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Energy |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technology and communications |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital goods |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total non-U.S. corporate |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential mortgage-backed |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage-backed |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other asset-backed |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total fixed maturity securities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equity securities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Limited partnerships |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other invested assets: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivative assets: |
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Equity index options |
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) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total derivative assets |
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) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total other invested assets |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total Level 3 assets |
$ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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|
|
(1) |
The transfers into and out of Level 3 for fixed maturity securities were related to changes in the primary pricing source and changes in the observability of external information used in determining the fair value, such as external ratings or credit spreads, as well as changes in the industry sectors assigned to specific securities. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Total realized and unrealized gains (losses) included in net income: |
||||||||||||
|
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
( ) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
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|
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|
$ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | |||||
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|
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Total gains (losses) included in net income attributable to assets still held: |
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|
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
( |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
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|
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | |||||||
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(Amounts in millions) |
Fair value |
Unobservable input |
Range |
Weighted-average (1) |
||||||||||
Fixed maturity securities: |
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U.S. corporate: |
||||||||||||||
Utilities |
$ |
Credit spreads |
||||||||||||
Energy |
Credit spreads |
|||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
Credit spreads |
|||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
Credit spreads |
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Technology and communications |
Credit spreads |
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Industrial |
Credit spreads |
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Capital goods |
Credit spreads |
|||||||||||||
Consumer—cyclical |
Credit spreads |
|||||||||||||
Transportation |
Credit spreads |
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Other |
Credit spreads |
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|
|
|||||||||||||
Total U.S. corporate |
$ |
Credit spreads |
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|
|
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Non-U.S. corporate: |
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Utilities |
$ |
Credit spreads |
||||||||||||
Energy |
Credit spreads |
|||||||||||||
Finance and insurance |
Credit spreads |
|||||||||||||
Consumer—non-cyclical |
Credit spreads |
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Technology and communications |
Credit spreads |
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Industrial |
Credit spreads |
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Capital goods |
Credit spreads |
|||||||||||||
Transportation |
Credit spreads |
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Other |
Credit spreads |
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|
|
|||||||||||||
Total non-U.S. corporate |
$ |
Credit spreads |
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|
|
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Derivative assets: |
||||||||||||||
Equity index options |
$ |
Equity index volatility |
||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
$ |
Counterparty financing spreads |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
Other assets (2) |
$ |
Lapse rate |
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Non-performance risk (counterparty credit risk) |
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Equity index volatility |
(1) |
Unobservable inputs weighted by the relative fair value of the associated instrument for fixed maturity securities, notional for derivative assets and the policyholder account balances associated with the instrument for the net reinsured portion of our variable annuity MRBs. |
(2) |
Represents the net reinsured portion of our variable annuity MRBs. |
2024 |
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(Amounts in millions) |
Total |
Level 1 |
Level 2 |
Level 3 |
||||||||||||
Liabilities |
||||||||||||||||
Policyholder account balances: |
||||||||||||||||
Fixed indexed annuity embedded derivatives |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
Indexed universal life embedded derivatives |
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Total policyholder account balances |
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Derivative liabilities: |
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Interest rate swaps |
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Foreign currency swaps |
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Forward bond purchase commitments |
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|
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Total derivative liabilities |
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|
|
|
|
|||||||||
Total liabilities |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2023 |
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(Amounts in millions) |
Total |
Level 1 |
Level 2 |
Level 3 |
||||||||||||
Liabilities |
||||||||||||||||
Policyholder account balances: |
||||||||||||||||
Fixed indexed annuity embedded derivatives |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
||||||||||||
Indexed universal life embedd ed de rivatives |
||||||||||||||||
Total policyholder account balances |
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Derivative liabilities: |
||||||||||||||||
Interest rate swaps |
||||||||||||||||
Foreign currency swaps |
||||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
||||||||||||||||
Total derivative liabilities |
||||||||||||||||
Total liabilities |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
||||||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1, 2024 |
Total realized and unrealized (gains) losses |
Purchases |
Sales |
Issuances |
Settlements |
Transfer into Level 3 |
Transfer out of Level 3 |
Ending balance as of December 31, 2024 |
Total (gains) losses attributable to liabilities still held |
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(Amounts in millions) |
Included in net (income) |
Included in OCI |
in net (income) |
in OCI |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Policyholder account balances: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed indexed annuity embedded derivatives |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indexed universal life embedded derivatives |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total policyholder account balances |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivative liabilities: |
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Forward bond purchase commitments |
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Total derivative liabilities |
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Total Level 3 liabilities |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1, 2023 |
Total realized and unrealized (gains) losses |
Purchases |
Sales |
Issuances |
Settlements |
Transfer into Level 3 |
Transfer out of Level 3 |
Ending balance as of December 31, 2023 |
Total (gains) losses attributable to liabilities still held |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Included in net (income) |
Included in OCI |
in net (income) |
in OCI |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Policyholder account balances: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed indexed annuity embedded derivatives |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indexed universal life embedded derivatives |
( |
) | ( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total policyholder account balances |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivative liabilities: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
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Total derivative liabilities |
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Total Level 3 liabilities |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beginning balance as of January 1, 2022 |
Total realized and unrealized (gains) losses |
Purchases |
Sales |
Issuances |
Settlements |
Transfer into Level 3 |
Transfer out of Level 3 |
Ending balance as of December 31, 2022 |
Total (gains) losses attributable to liabilities still held |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Included in net (income) |
Included in OCI |
in net (income) |
in OCI |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Policyholder account balances: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fixed indexed annuity embedded derivatives |
$ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indexed universal life embedded derivatives |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total policyholder account balances |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Level 3 liabilities |
$ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
|||||||||
Total realized and unrealized (gains) losses included in net (income): |
||||||||||||
|
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
|
( |
) | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | |||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Total (gains) losses included in net (income) attributable to liabilities still held: |
||||||||||||
|
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
|
( |
) | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
|
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | |||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Amounts in millions) |
Fair value |
Unobservable input |
Range |
Weighted-average (1) |
||||||||||
Policyholder account balances: |
||||||||||||||
Fixed indexed annuity embedded derivatives |
$ |
Expected future interest credited |
||||||||||||
Indexed universal life embedded derivatives |
$ |
Expected future interest credited |
||||||||||||
Net market risk benefits (2) : |
||||||||||||||
Fixed indexed annuities |
$ |
GMWB utilization rate |
||||||||||||
Non-performance risk (credit spreads) |
||||||||||||||
Expected future interest credited |
||||||||||||||
Variable annuities |
$ |
Lapse rate |
||||||||||||
GMWB utilization rate |
||||||||||||||
Non-performance risk (credit spreads) |
||||||||||||||
Equity index volatility |
||||||||||||||
Derivative liabilities: |
||||||||||||||
Forward bond purchase commitments |
$ |
Counterparty financing spreads |
(1) |
Unobservable inputs weighted by the policyholder account balances associated with the instrument and notional for derivative liabilities. |
(2) |
Refer to note 11 for additional details related to MRBs. |
2024 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Notional amount |
Carrying amount |
Fair value |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Total |
Level 1 |
Level 2 |
Level 3 |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Assets: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage loans, net |
(1 |
) |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||
Bank loan investments |
(1 |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Liabilities: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Long-term borrowings (2) |
(1 |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Investment contracts |
(1 |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Commitments to fund investments: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bank loan investments |
$ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Private placement investments |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage loans |
(1) |
These financial instruments do not have notional amounts. |
(2) |
See note 15 for additional information related to borrowings. |
2023 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
Notional amount |
Carrying amount |
Fair value |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Total |
Level 1 |
Level 2 |
Level 3 |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Assets: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage loans, net |
(1 |
) |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||
Bank loan investments |
(1 |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Liabilities: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Long-term borrowings (2) |
(1 |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Investment contracts |
(1 |
) |
||||||||||||||||||||||
Commitments to fund investments: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bank loan investments |
$ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Private placement investments |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial mortgage loans |
(1) |
These financial instruments do not have notional amounts. |
(2) |
See note 15 for additional information related to borrowings. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
||||||||||||||
Carrying value |
Commitments to fund |
Carrying value |
Commitments to fund |
|||||||||||||
Limited partnerships accounted for at NAV: |
||||||||||||||||
Private equity funds (1) |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
Real estate funds (2) |
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Infrastructure funds (3) |
||||||||||||||||
Total limited partnerships accounted for at NAV |
||||||||||||||||
Limited partnerships accounted for at fair value |
||||||||||||||||
Limited partnerships accounted for under the equity method of accounting |
||||||||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
(1) |
This class employs various investment strategies such as leveraged buyout, growth equity, venture capital and mezzanine financing, generally investing in debt or equity positions directly in companies or assets of various sizes across diverse industries globally, primarily concentrated in North America. |
(2) |
This class invests in real estate in North America, Europe and Asia via direct property ownership, joint ventures, mortgages and investments in debt and equity instruments. |
(3) |
This class invests in the debt or equity of cash flow generating assets diversified across a variety of industries, including transportation, energy infrastructure, renewable power, social infrastructure, power generation, water, telecommunications and other regulated entities globally. |
(20) |
Insurance Subsidiary Financial Information and Regulatory Matters |
• | In 2024 and 2023, River Lake VI had a permitted accounting practice from the State of Delaware to carry its excess of loss reinsurance agreements with The Canada Life Assurance Company for its universal and term life insurance business assumed from Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company (“GLAIC”) as an admitted asset. |
• | In 2024 and 2023, River Lake X had a permitted accounting practice from the State of Vermont to carry its excess of loss reinsurance agreement with Hannover Life Reassurance Company of America for its term life insurance business assumed from GLAIC as an admitted asset. |
(Amounts in millions) |
Years ended December 31, |
|||||||||||
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
||||||||||
Combined statutory net income: |
||||||||||||
Life insurance subsidiaries, excluding captive life reinsurance subsidiaries |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Mortgage insurance subsidiaries |
||||||||||||
Combined statutory net income, excluding captive life reinsurance subsidiaries |
||||||||||||
Captive life reinsurance subsidiaries |
||||||||||||
Combined statutory net income |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
As of December 31, |
|||||||
2024 |
2023 |
|||||||
Combined statutory capital and surplus: |
||||||||
Life insurance subsidiaries, excluding captive life reinsurance subsidiaries |
$ | $ | ||||||
Mortgage insurance subsidiaries |
||||||||
Combined statutory capital and surplus |
$ | $ | ||||||
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Enact |
Long-Term Care Insurance |
Life and Annuities |
Corporate and Other |
Total |
||||||||||||||||
Premiums |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||||||||
Net investment income |
||||||||||||||||||||
Policy fees and other income |
||||||||||||||||||||
Reconciliation of revenue |
||||||||||||||||||||
Net investment gains (losses) |
||||||||||||||||||||
Total revenues |
$ |
|||||||||||||||||||
Less: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Benefits and other changes in policy reserves (1) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||
Cash flow assumption updates (1) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||
Actual variances from expected experience (1) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||||||
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs and intangibles (1) |
||||||||||||||||||||
Interest expense (2) |
||||||||||||||||||||
Other segment expenses (2), (3) |
||||||||||||||||||||
Provision (benefit) for income taxes (2) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
( |
) |
||||||||||||||
Adjusted operating income attributable to noncontrolling interests |
||||||||||||||||||||
Adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
$ |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
( |
) |
$ |
|||||||||
Reconciliation of adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders to net income available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Net investment gains (losses) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
||||||||||||||||||||
Changes in fair value of market risk benefits attributable to interest rates, equity markets and associated hedges |
||||||||||||||||||||
Gains (losses) on early extinguishment of debt |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Expenses related to restructuring |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Taxes on adjustments |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Income from continuing operations available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
||||||||||||||||||||
Loss from discontinued operations, net of taxes |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Net income available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
$ |
|||||||||||||||||||
Reconciliation of assets |
||||||||||||||||||||
Total assets |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
$ |
|||||||||||||||
(1) |
Significant expense category and amounts, which align with segment-level information, as applicable, that is regularly provided to the CODM. |
(2) |
Other segment items not considered a significant expense category. |
(3) |
Other segment expenses include interest credited and acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals, as reported in the consolidated statements of income, excluding gains (losses) on the early extinguishment of debt and expenses related to restructuring, as applicable, and changes in fair value of market risk benefits, excluding the impacts of interest rates, equity markets and associated hedges for our reportable segments. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2023 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Enact |
Long-Term Care Insurance |
Life and Annuities |
Corporate and Other |
Total |
||||||||||||||||
Premiums |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
Net investment income |
||||||||||||||||||||
Policy fees and other income |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
Reconciliation of revenue |
||||||||||||||||||||
Net investment gains (losses) |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Total revenues |
$ | |||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Less: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Benefits and other changes in policy reserves (1) |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Cash flow assumption updates (1) |
||||||||||||||||||||
Actual variances from expected experience (1) |
||||||||||||||||||||
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs and intangibles (1) |
||||||||||||||||||||
Interest expense (2) |
||||||||||||||||||||
Other segment expenses (2), (3) |
||||||||||||||||||||
Provision (benefit) for income taxes (2) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||
Adjusted operating income attributable to noncontrolling interests |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
$ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | |||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
Reconciliation of adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders to net income available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders: |
||||||||||||||||||||
Net investment gains (losses) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
||||||||||||||||||||
Changes in fair value of market risk benefits attributable to interest rates, equity markets and associated hedges |
||||||||||||||||||||
Gains (losses) on early extinguishment of debt |
||||||||||||||||||||
Expenses related to restructuring |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Taxes on adjustments |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Net income available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
$ | |||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Reconciliation of assets |
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Total assets |
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(1) |
Significant expense category and amounts, which align with segment-level information, as applicable, that is regularly provided to the CODM. |
(2) |
Other segment items not considered a significant expense category. |
(3) |
Other segment expenses include interest credited and acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals, as reported in the consolidated statements of income, excluding gains (losses) on the early extinguishment of debt and expenses related to restructuring, as applicable, and changes in fair value of market risk benefits, excluding the impacts of interest rates, equity markets and associated hedges for our reportable segments. |
(Amounts in millions) |
2022 |
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Enact |
Long-Term Care Insurance |
Life and Annuities |
Corporate and Other |
Total |
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Premiums |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
Net investment income |
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Policy fees and other income |
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Benefits and other changes in policy reserves (1) |
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Cash flow assumption updates (1) |
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Actual variances from expected experience (1) |
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Amortization of deferred acquisition costs and intangibles (1) |
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Interest expense (2) |
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Other segment expenses (2), (3) |
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Provision (benefit) for income taxes (2) |
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Adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
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) | $ | ( |
) | $ | |||||||||||
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Reconciliation of adjusted operating income (loss) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders to net income available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders: |
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Net investment gains (losses) available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Changes in fair value of market risk benefits attributable to interest rates, equity markets and associated hedges |
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Gains (losses) on early extinguishment of debt |
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Expenses related to restructuring |
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Pension plan termination costs |
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) | ||||||||||||||||||
Taxes on adjustments |
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) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Net income available to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s common stockholders |
$ | |||||||||||||||||||
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(1) |
Significant expense category and amounts, which align with segment-level information, as applicable, that is regularly provided to the CODM. |
(2) |
Other segment items not considered a significant expense category. |
(3) |
Other segment expenses include interest credited and acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals, as reported in the consolidated statements of income, excluding gains (losses) on the early extinguishment of debt, expenses related to restructuring and pension plan termination costs, as applicable, and changes in fair value of market risk benefits, excluding the impacts of interest rates, equity markets and associated hedges for our reportable segments. |
(b) |
Revenues from External Customers for Major Product Groups |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
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Enact segment |
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Long-Term Care Insurance segment |
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Life and Annuities segment: |
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Life insurance |
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Fixed annuities |
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Variable annuities |
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Life and Annuities segment |
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Corporate and Other |
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Total revenues from external customers |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
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(a) |
Litigation and Regulatory Matters |
(Amounts in millions) |
Net unrealized investment gains (losses) |
Derivatives qualifying as hedges (1) |
Change in the discount rate used to measure future policy benefits |
Change in instrument- specific credit risk of market risk benefits |
Foreign currency translation and other adjustments |
Total |
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Balances as of January 1, 2024 |
$ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | ||||||||||
OCI before reclassifications |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Amounts reclassified from OCI |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Current period OCI |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Balances as of December 31, 2024 before noncontrolling interests |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Less: change in OCI attributable to noncontrolling interests |
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Balances as of December 31, 2024 |
$ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | ||||||||||||
(1) |
See note 5 for additional information. |
(Amounts in millions) |
Net unrealized investment gains (losses) |
Derivatives qualifying as hedges (1) |
Change in the discount rate used to measure future policy benefits |
Change in instrument- specific credit risk of market risk benefits |
Foreign currency translation and other adjustments |
Total |
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Balances as of January 1, 2023 |
$ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | ||||||||||
OCI before reclassifications |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Amounts reclassified from OCI |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Current period OCI |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Balances as of December 31, 2023 before noncontrolling interests |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
Less: change in OCI attributable to noncontrolling interests |
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Balances as of December 31, 2023 |
$ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | ||||||||||
(1) |
See note 5 for additional information. |
(Amounts in millions) |
Net unrealized investment gains (losses) |
Derivatives qualifying as hedges (1) |
Change in the discount rate used to measure future policy benefits |
Change in instrument- specific credit risk of market risk benefits |
Foreign currency translation and other adjustments |
Total |
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Balances as of January 1, 2022 |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | ||||||||||
OCI before reclassifications |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Amounts reclassified from OCI |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
Current period OCI |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Balances as of December 31, 2022 before noncontrolling interests |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||
Less: change in OCI attributable to noncontrolling interests |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Balances as of December 31, 2022 |
$ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | ( |
) | ||||||||||
(1) |
See note 5 for additional information . |
(Amounts in millions) |
2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
Affected line item in the consolidated statements of income |
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Unrealized (gains) losses on investments |
$ | $ | $ | Net investment (gains) losses | ||||||||||||
Income taxes |
( |
) | ( |
) | Provision for income taxes | |||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||
Derivatives designated as hedges: |
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Interest rate swaps hedging assets |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | Net investment income | ||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging assets |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | Net investment (gains) losses | |||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging liabilities |
Interest expense | |||||||||||||||
Interest rate swaps hedging liabilities |
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) | Net investment (gains) losses | |||||||||||||
Foreign currency swaps |
( |
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Forward bond purchase commitments |
( |
) | Net investment (gains) losses | |||||||||||||
Income taxes |
Provision for income taxes | |||||||||||||||
Total |
$ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | |||||||
Type of investment |
Amortized cost or cost (1) |
Fair value |
Carrying value |
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Fixed maturity securities: |
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Bonds: |
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U.S. government, agencies and authorities |
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State and political subdivisions |
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Non-U.S. government |
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Public utilities |
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All other corporate bonds |
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Total fixed maturity securities |
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Equity securities |
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Commercial mortgage loans, net |
xxxxx | |||||||||||
Policy loans |
xxxxx | |||||||||||
Limited partnerships |
xxxxx | |||||||||||
Other invested assets |
xxxxx | |||||||||||
Total investments |
$ | xxxxx | $ | |||||||||
(1) |
Amortized cost for fixed maturity securities and short-term investments, which are included in other invested assets, represents original cost reduced by repayments and adjusted for amortization of premium or accretion of discount. Cost for equity securities represents original cost, and cost for limited partnerships represents original cost adjusted for distributions. Cost for derivatives, which are included in other invested assets, represents the original cost of the positions. |
December 31, |
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2023 |
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Assets: |
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Investments in subsidiaries |
$ | $ | ||||||
Deferred tax asset |
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Other assets |
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Total assets |
$ | $ | ||||||
Liabilities and stockholders’ equity |
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Liabilities: |
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Other liabilities |
$ | $ | ||||||
Intercompany notes payable |
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Total liabilities |
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Commitments and contingencies |
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Stockholders’ equity: |
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Common stock |
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Additional paid-in capital |
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Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
Retained earnings |
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Treasury stock, at cost |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||
Total stockholders’ equity |
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Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity |
$ | $ | ||||||
Years ended December 31, |
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2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
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Revenues: |
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Total revenues |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Expenses: |
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Acquisition and operating expenses, net of deferrals |
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Interest expense |
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Total expenses |
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Loss before income taxes and equity in income of subsidiaries |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Benefit from income taxes |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Equity in income of subsidiaries |
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Net income |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Years ended December 31, |
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2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
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Net income |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of taxes: |
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Net unrealized gains (losses) on securities without an allowance for credit losses |
( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||
Net unrealized gains (losses) on securities with an allowance for credit losses |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Derivatives qualifying as hedges |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Change in discount rate used to measure future policy benefits |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Change in instrument-specific credit risk of market risk benefits |
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Foreign currency translation and other adjustments |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Total other comprehensive income |
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Total comprehensive income |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Years ended December 31, |
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2024 |
2023 |
2022 |
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Cash flows from (used by) operating activities: |
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Net income |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash from operating activities: |
||||||||||||
Equity in income from subsidiaries |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Deferred income taxes |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Long-term incentive compensation expense |
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Change in certain assets and liabilities: |
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Accrued investment income and other assets |
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Current tax assets and liabilities |
( |
) | ||||||||||
Other liabilities |
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Net cash from operating activities |
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Cash flows used by investing activities: |
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Capital contributions paid to subsidiaries |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Net cash used by investing activities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Cash flows from (used by) financing activities: |
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Intercompany notes payable, net |
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Treasury stock acquired in connection with share repurchases |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Other, net |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Net cash used by financing activities |
( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||
Net change in cash and cash equivalents |
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Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year |
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Cash and cash equivalents at end of year |
$ | $ | $ | |||||||||
Segment |
Deferred Acquisition Costs |
Future Policy Benefits |
Policyholder Account Balances |
Liability for Policy and Contract Claims |
Unearned Premiums |
|||||||||||||||
December 31, 2024 |
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Enact |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
Long-Term Care Insurance |
||||||||||||||||||||
Life and Annuities |
||||||||||||||||||||
Corporate and Other |
||||||||||||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
December 31, 2023 |
||||||||||||||||||||
Enact |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
Long-Term Care Insurance |
||||||||||||||||||||
Life and Annuities |
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Corporate and Other |
||||||||||||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
Segment |
Premium Revenue |
Net Investment Income |
Interest Credited, Benefits and Other Changes in Policy Reserves and Liability Remeasurement (Gains) Losses (1) |
Amortization of Deferred Acquisition Costs |
Other Operating Expenses |
Premiums Written |
||||||||||||||||||
Year ended December 31, 2024 |
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Enact |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Long-Term Care Insurance |
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Life and Annuities |
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Corporate and Other |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Year ended December 31, 2023 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Enact |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Long-Term Care Insurance |
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Life and Annuities |
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Corporate and Other |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Year ended December 31, 2022 |
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Enact |
$ | $ | $ | ( |
) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||
Long-Term Care Insurance |
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Life and Annuities |
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Corporate and Other |
( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Total |
$ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
(1) |
Excludes changes in fair value of market risk benefits and associated hedges of $( |
Item 9. |
Changes In and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure |
Item 9A. |
Controls and Procedures |
/s/ Thomas J. McInerney |
Thomas J. McInerney |
President and Chief Executive Officer |
(Principal Executive Officer) |
/s/ Jerome T. Upton |
Jerome T. Upton |
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
(Principal Financial Officer) |
Item 9B. |
Other Information |
Item 9C. |
Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections |
Name |
Age | Positions | ||
Thomas J. McInerney | 68 | President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
Jamala M. Arland | 43 | President & CEO, U.S. Life Insurance | ||
Rohit Gupta | 50 | President & CEO, Enact Holdings, Inc. | ||
Samir B. Shah | 46 | President & CEO, CareScout Services | ||
Andrea Lynn White | 59 | President & CEO, CareScout Insurance | ||
Jerome T. Upton | 61 | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
Melissa Hagerman | 57 | Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer | ||
Mark Blakeley Hodges | 45 | Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer | ||
Gregory S. Karawan | 60 | Executive Vice President and General Counsel | ||
Kelly Saltzgaber | 60 | Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer | ||
G. Kent Conrad | 76 | Director, member of Nominating and Corporate Governance and Risk Committees | ||
Karen E. Dyson | 65 | Director, member of Audit and Management Development and Compensation Committees | ||
Jill R. Goodman | 58 | Director, member of Management Development and Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees | ||
Melina E. Higgins | 57 | Non-Executive Chair of the Board, member of Audit and Management Development and Compensation Committees | ||
Howard D. Mills, III | 60 | Director, member of Nominating and Corporate Governance and Risk Committees | ||
Robert P. Restrepo Jr. | 74 | Director, member of Audit and Management Development and Compensation Committees | ||
Elaine A. Sarsynski | 69 | Director, member of Audit and Risk Committees | ||
Ramsey D. Smith | 57 | Director, member of Nominating and Corporate Governance and Risk Committees |
PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
a. | Documents filed as part of this report. | |
1. | Financial Statements (see Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data) | |
Report of KPMG LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm | ||
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 | ||
Consolidated Statements of Income for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 | ||
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 | ||
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 | ||
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 | ||
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements | ||
2. | Financial Statement Schedules | |
Schedule I—Summary of Investments—Other Than Investments in Related Parties | ||
Schedule II—Financial Statements of Genworth Financial, Inc. (Parent Company Only) | ||
Schedule III—Supplemental Insurance Information |
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§ | Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement. |
Neither Genworth Financial, Inc., nor any of its consolidated subsidiaries, has outstanding any instrument with respect to its long-term debt, other than those filed as an exhibit to this Annual Report, under which the total amount of securities authorized exceeds 10% of the total assets of Genworth Financial, Inc. and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. Genworth Financial, Inc. hereby agrees to furnish to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, a copy of each instrument that defines the rights of holders of such long-term debt that is not filed or incorporated by reference as an exhibit to this Annual Report.
Genworth Financial, Inc. will furnish any exhibit upon the payment of a reasonable fee, which fee shall be limited to Genworth Financial, Inc.’s reasonable expenses in furnishing such exhibit.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Dated: February 28, 2025
GENWORTH FINANCIAL, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Thomas J. McInerney | |
Name: | Thomas J. McInerney | |
Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer; Director (Principal Executive Officer) |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the date indicated.
Dated: February 28, 2025
/s/ Thomas J. McInerney Thomas J. McInerney |
President and Chief Executive Officer; Director (Principal Executive Officer) | |||||
/s/ Jerome T. Upton Jerome T. Upton |
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) | |||||
/s/ Darren W. Woodell Darren W. Woodell |
Vice President and Controller (Principal Accounting Officer) | |||||
* G. Kent Conrad |
Director | |||||
* Karen E. Dyson |
Director | |||||
* Jill R. Goodman |
Director | |||||
* Howard D. Mills, III |
Director | |||||
* Robert P. Restrepo Jr. |
Director | |||||
* Elaine A. Sarsynski |
Director | |||||
* Ramsey D. Smith |
Director | |||||
* Melina E. Higgins |
Director |
*By | /s/ Thomas J. McInerney | |
Thomas J. McInerney Attorney-in-Fact |
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