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Policyholders' account balances, Separate accounts, and Unearned revenue liabilities
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2026
Policyholder Account Balance [Abstract]  
Policyholders' Account Balances, Separate Accounts, and Unearned Revenue Liability Policyholders' account balances, Separate accounts, and Unearned revenue liabilities
Policyholders' account balances
The following tables present a roll-forward of policyholders' account balances:
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2026
(in millions of U.S. dollars)Universal Life
Annuities (3)
Other investment contracts (4)
Total
Balance – beginning of period$1,899 $2,801 $2,531 $7,231 
Premiums received 157 200 751 1,108 
Policy charges(66)— (7)(73)
Surrenders and withdrawals(104)(23)(142)(269)
Benefit payments (1)
(156)(146)(41)(343)
Interest credited37 45 61 143 
Other (including foreign exchange)90 144 10 244 
Balance – end of period$1,857 $3,021 $3,163 $8,041 
Unearned revenue liability794 
Other (2)
610 
Policyholders' account liability, per consolidated balance sheet$9,445 
(1)Includes payments for survival and death benefits.
(2)Primarily comprises unpaid dividends on certain participating policies.
(3)Relates to Huatai Life.
(4)Primarily comprises policyholder account balances related to investment linked products including endowment and investment contracts, none of which bear significant insurance risk.
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025
(in millions of U.S. dollars)Universal Life
Annuities (3)
Other investment contracts (4)
Total
Balance – beginning of period$1,809 $2,585 $2,354 $6,748 
Premiums received 158 232 316 706 
Policy charges(81)— (7)(88)
Surrenders and withdrawals(91)(24)(143)(258)
Benefit payments (1)
(24)(116)(66)(206)
Interest credited35 36 59 130 
Other (including foreign exchange)77 49 43 169 
Balance – end of period$1,883 $2,762 $2,556 $7,201 
Unearned revenue liability760 
Other (2)
578 
Policyholders' account liability, per consolidated balance sheet$8,539 
(1)Includes payments for survival and death benefits.
(2)Primarily comprises unpaid dividends on certain participating policies.
(3)Relates to Huatai Life.
(4)Primarily comprises policyholder account balances related to investment linked products including endowment and investment contracts, none of which bear significant insurance risk.

September 30
20262025
(in millions of U.S. dollars, except for percentages)Universal Life
Annuities (3)
OtherUniversal Life
Annuities (3)
Other
Weighted-average crediting rate (1)
3.6 %N/A3.4 %3.5 %N/A3.2 %
Net amount at risk (2)
$10,568 $93 $385 $11,474 $30 $366 
Cash Surrender Value$1,740 $2,036 $2,820 $1,747 $1,827 $2,264 
(1)Calculated using actual interest credited for the nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively.
(2)For those guarantees of benefits that are payable in the event of death, the net amount at risk is defined as the current guaranteed minimum death benefit in excess of the current account balance at the balance sheet date.
(3)Annuities do not have an explicit account balance, therefore a crediting rate is not applicable.

The following tables present the balance of account values by range of guaranteed minimum crediting rates and the related range of difference, in basis points, between rates being credited to policyholders and the respective guaranteed minimum:

Universal Life
September 30, 2026
(in millions of U.S. dollars)At Guaranteed Minimum1 Basis Point - 50 Basis Points Above51 Basis Points - 150 Basis Points AboveGreater Than 150 Basis Points AboveTotal
Guaranteed minimum crediting rates
Up to 2.00%
$— $13 $43 $267 $323 
2.01% – 4.00%
391 161 151 316 1,019 
Greater than 4.00%
20 — — — 20 
Fixed rate or no guarantee495 
Total$411 $174 $194 $583 $1,857 
September 30, 2025
(in millions of U.S. dollars)At Guaranteed Minimum1 Basis Point - 50 Basis Points Above51 Basis Points - 150 Basis Points AboveGreater Than 150 Basis Points AboveTotal
Guaranteed minimum crediting rates
Up to 2.00%
$— $— $51 $168 $219 
2.01% – 4.00%
489 317 354 — 1,160 
Greater than 4.00%
15 — — — 15 
Fixed rate or no guarantee489 
Total$504 $317 $405 $168 $1,883 

Other policyholders' account balances
September 30, 2026
(in millions of U.S. dollars)At Guaranteed Minimum1 Basis Point - 50 Basis Points Above51 Basis Points - 150 Basis Points AboveGreater Than 150 Basis Points AboveTotal
Guaranteed minimum crediting rates
Up to 2.00%
$2 $2 $84 $94 $182 
2.01% – 4.00%
987 — 271 — 1,258 
Greater than 4.00%
— — — — — 
Fixed rate or no guarantee1,723 
Total$989 $2 $355 $94 $3,163 

September 30, 2025
(in millions of U.S. dollars)At Guaranteed Minimum1 Basis Point - 50 Basis Points Above51 Basis Points - 150 Basis Points AboveGreater Than 150 Basis Points AboveTotal
Guaranteed minimum crediting rates
Up to 2.00%
$3 $6 $129 $34 $172 
2.01% – 4.00%
1,079 52 — — 1,131 
Greater than 4.00%
— — — — — 
Fixed rate or no guarantee1,253 
Total$1,082 $58 $129 $34 $2,556 

Separate accounts

Separate account assets represent segregated funds where investment risks are borne by the customers, except to the extent of certain guarantees made by Chubb. The assets that support variable contracts are measured at fair value and are reported as Separate account assets and corresponding liabilities are reported within Separate account liabilities on the Consolidated balance sheets. Policy charges assessed against the policyholders for mortality, administration, and other services are included in Net premiums earned on the Consolidated statements of operations.
The following table presents the aggregate fair value of Separate account assets, by major security type:
September 30September 30
(in millions of U.S. dollars)20262025
Cash and cash equivalents $133 $103 
Mutual funds 7,134 6,631 
Fixed maturities73 76 
Total$7,340 $6,810 

The following table presents a roll-forward of separate account liabilities:
Nine Months Ended
September 30
(in millions of U.S. dollars)20262025
Balance – beginning of period$6,925 $6,231 
Premiums and deposits1,214 1,081 
Policy charges(136)(122)
Surrenders and withdrawals(988)(745)
Benefit payments(384)(345)
Investment performance635 320 
Other (including foreign exchange)74 390 
Balance – end of period$7,340 $6,810 
Cash surrender value (1)
$6,840 $6,327 
(1)Cash surrender value represents the amount of the policyholder's account balances distributable at the balance sheet date less certain surrender charges.


Unearned revenue liabilities

Unearned revenue liabilities represent policy charges for services to be provided in future periods. The charges are reflected as deferred revenue and are generally amortized into income over the expected life of the contract using the same methodology, factors, and assumptions used to amortize deferred acquisition costs. Unearned revenue liabilities pertaining to both policyholders' account balances and separate accounts are recorded in Policyholders' account balances in the Consolidated balance sheets. The following table presents a roll-forward of unearned revenue liabilities:
Nine Months Ended
September 30
(in millions of U.S. dollars)
2026
2025
Balance – beginning of period$758 $711 
Deferred revenue91 101 
Amortization(61)(58)
Other (including foreign exchange)6 6 
Balance – end of period$794 $760 
Market risk benefits
Our reinsurance programs covering variable annuity guarantees, comprising guaranteed living benefits (GLB) and guaranteed minimum death benefits (GMDB), meet the definition of Market risk benefits (MRB). The following table presents a roll-forward of MRB:

Nine Months Ended
September 30
(in millions of U.S. dollars)
2026
2025
Balance – beginning of period $659 $607 
Balance, beginning of period, before effect of changes in the instrument-specific credit risk636 592 
Interest rate changes(128)45 
Effect of market movements (1)
(56)(115)
Effect of changes in volatilities3 19 
Actual policyholder behavior different from expected behavior7 34 
Effect of changes in future expected policyholder behavior114 101 
Effect of timing and all other(56)(29)
Balance, end of period, before effect of changes in the instrument-specific credit risk$520 $647 
Effect of changes in the instrument-specific credit risk10 19 
Balance – end of period$530 $666 
Weighted-average age of policyholders (years)7574
Net amount at risk (2)
$1,138 $1,385 
(1)     Market movements are predominantly driven by changes in equities.    
(2)     The net amount at risk is defined as the present value of future claim payments assuming policy account values and guaranteed values are fixed at the valuation date, and reinsurance coverage ends at the earlier of the maturity of the underlying variable annuity policy or the reinsurance treaty. No withdrawals, lapses, and mortality improvements are assumed in the projection. GLB-related risks contain conservative mortality and annuitization assumptions.

Excluded from the table above are MRB losses of $162 million and $197 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively, reported in the Consolidated statements of operations, relating to the market risk benefits' economic hedge and other net cash flows. There is no reinsurance recoverable associated with our liability for MRB.

In the third quarter, we completed a review of policyholder behavior related to annuitizations, partial withdrawals, lapses, and mortality for our variable annuity reinsurance business. These refinements resulted in a net increase of approximately $114 million in 2026 to the MRB fair value, recognized as a Market risk benefits loss.

•We refreshed our partial withdrawal assumptions to include an additional year of experience and refined the withdrawal rates for policies with guaranteed values far in excess of their account values.
•We updated the annuitization assumptions to include an additional year of experience, refreshing guarantee-based, treaty-based, and age-based behavior assumptions.
•We updated mortality and lapse assumptions to include an additional year of experience.

For MRB, Chubb estimates fair value using an internal valuation model which includes a number of factors including interest rates, equity markets, credit risk, current account value, market volatility, expected annuitization rates and other policyholder behavior, and changes in policyholder mortality. All reinsurance treaties contain claim limits, which are also factored into the valuation model.
Valuation TechniqueSignificant Unobservable Inputs
September 30, 2026
September 30, 2025
Ranges
Weighted Average(1)
Ranges
Weighted Average(1)
MRBActuarial modelLapse rate
0.5% – 27.3%
3.7%
0.5% – 27.3%
3.2%
Annuitization rate
0% – 100%
5.0%
0% – 100%
4.9%
(1)The weighted-average lapse and annuitization rates are determined by weighting each treaty's rates by the MRB contract's fair value.
The most significant policyholder behavior assumptions include lapse rates for MRBs, and GLB annuitization rates. Assumptions regarding lapse rates and GLB annuitization rates differ by treaty, but the underlying methodologies to determine rates applied to each treaty are comparable.

A lapse rate is the percentage of in-force policies surrendered in a given calendar year. All else equal, as lapse rates increase, ultimate claim payments will decrease.

The GLB annuitization rate is the percentage of policies for which the policyholder will elect to annuitize using the guaranteed benefit provided under the GLB. All else equal, as GLB annuitization rates increase, ultimate claim payments will increase, subject to treaty claim limits.
The effect of changes in key market factors on assumed lapse and annuitization rates reflect emerging trends using data available from cedants. The model and related assumptions are regularly re-evaluated by management and enhanced, as appropriate, based upon additional experience obtained related to policyholder behavior and availability of updated information such as market conditions, market participant assumptions, and demographics of in-force annuities. For detailed information on our lapse and annuitization rate assumptions, refer to Note 11 to the Consolidated Financial Statements of our 2025 Form 10-K.