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Segment Information
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2026
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment Information Segment Information
The Company has three reportable segments: Retail Annuities, Institutional Products, and Closed Life and Annuity Blocks. The Company reports, in Corporate and Other, certain activities and items that are not included in these reportable segments, including the results of PPM Holdings, Inc., the holding company of PPM, which manages the majority of the Company’s general account investment portfolio. The reportable segments reflect how the Company’s chief operating decision maker (the "CODM") views and manages the business. The Company’s CODM function is performed jointly by our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer. For our three reportable segments, the CODM uses segment pretax adjusted operating earnings to allocate resources for each segment (predominantly through our annual budget and forecasting process) and to assess the performance of each segment (primarily by comparing the results of each segment with one another) with planned and forecasted results, and compared to prior period results. The following is a brief description of each of the Company’s reportable segments, plus its Corporate and Other segment.
Retail Annuities

The Company’s Retail Annuities segment offers a variety of retirement income and savings products through its diverse suite of products, consisting primarily of variable annuities, registered index-linked annuities ("RILA"), fixed annuities, fixed index annuities, and payout annuities. These products are distributed through various wirehouses, insurance brokers and independent broker-dealers, as well as through banks and financial institutions.

The Company’s variable annuities represent an attractive option for retirees and soon-to-be retirees, providing access to equity market appreciation and add-on benefits, including guaranteed lifetime income. A RILA offers customers access to market returns through market index-linked investment options, subject to a cap, and offers a variety of features designed to modify or limit losses. A fixed index annuity is designed for investors who desire principal protection with the opportunity to participate in capped upside investment returns linked to a reference market index. A fixed annuity is a guaranteed product designed to build wealth without market exposure, through a crediting rate that is likely to be superior to interest rates offered by banks or money market funds.

The financial results of the variable annuity business within the Company’s Retail Annuities segment are largely dependent on the performance of the contract holder account value, which impacts both the level of fees collected and the benefits paid to the contract holder. The financial results of the Company’s fixed annuities, fixed index annuities, RILA and the fixed option on variable annuities, are largely dependent on the Company’s ability to earn a spread between earned investment rates on general account assets and the interest credited to contract holders.

Institutional Products

The Company’s Institutional Products segment consists of traditional guaranteed investment contracts ("GICs") and funding agreements. The Company’s GIC products are marketed to defined contribution pension and profit-sharing retirement plans. Funding agreements are marketed to institutional investors, including corporate cash accounts and securities lending funds, as well as money market funds. Funding agreements are also issued in conjunction with the Company's participation in the U.S. Federal Home Loan Bank ("FHLB") program.

The financial results of the Company’s institutional products business are primarily dependent on the Company’s ability to earn a spread between earned investment rates on general account assets and the interest credited on GICs and funding agreements.

Closed Life and Annuity Blocks

The Company's Closed Life and Annuity Blocks segment is primarily composed of blocks of business that have been acquired since 2004. This segment includes various protection products, primarily whole life, universal life, variable universal life, and term life insurance products, as well as fixed, fixed index, and payout annuities. The Company historically offered traditional and interest-sensitive life insurance products but discontinued new sales of life insurance products in 2012, as we believe opportunistically acquiring mature blocks of life insurance policies is a more efficient means of diversifying our in-force business than selling new life insurance products.

The profitability of the Company’s Closed Life and Annuity Blocks segment is largely driven by its historical ability to appropriately price its products and purchase appropriately priced blocks of business, as realized through underwriting, expense and net gains (losses) on derivatives and investments, and the ability to earn an assumed rate of return on the assets supporting that business.

Corporate and Other

The Company’s Corporate and Other segment primarily consists of the operations of its investment management subsidiary, PPM, as well as VIEs and unallocated corporate income and expenses. The Corporate and Other segment also includes intersegment eliminations and consolidation adjustments.
Segment Performance Measurement

Segment operating revenues and pretax adjusted operating earnings are non-GAAP financial measures that management believes are critical to the evaluation of the financial performance of the Company’s segments. The Company uses the same accounting policies and procedures to measure segment pretax adjusted operating earnings as used in its reporting of consolidated net income. Its primary measure is pretax adjusted operating earnings, which is defined as net income reported in accordance with U.S. GAAP, excluding certain items that may be highly variable from period to period due to accounting treatment under U.S. GAAP, or that are non-recurring in nature, as well as certain other revenues and expenses that are not considered drivers of underlying performance. Operating revenues and pretax adjusted operating earnings should not be used as a substitute for revenues and net income, respectively, as calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

Pretax adjusted operating earnings equals net income adjusted to eliminate the impact of the items described in the following numbered paragraphs. These items are excluded from pretax adjusted operating earnings as they may vary significantly from period to period due to near-term market conditions and, therefore, are not directly comparable or reflective of the underlying performance of our business. We believe that making these exclusions provides investors a better picture of the drivers of our underlying performance.

1.    Net Hedging Results: Comprised of: (i) fees attributed to guaranteed benefits; (ii) net gains (losses) on hedging instruments that includes: (a) changes in the fair value of freestanding derivatives and related commissions and expenses used to manage the risk associated with market risk benefits and other benefit features, excluding earned income from periodic settlements and changes in settlement accruals on cross-currency swaps; and (b) investment income and change in fair value of certain non-derivative assets used to manage the risk associated with market risk benefits and other benefit features; and (iii) the movements in reserves, market risk benefits, benefit features accounted for as embedded derivative instruments adjusted to exclude the cost of hedging for certain indexed annuity products, and related claims and benefit payments (excluding impacts of actuarial assumption updates and model enhancements). We believe excluding these items removes the impact to both revenue and related expenses associated with Net Hedging Results.

2.     Amortization of DAC Associated with Non-operating Items at Date of Transition to LDTI: Amortization of the balance of unamortized deferred acquisition costs ("DAC") at January 1, 2021, the date of transition to current Long Duration Targeted Improvements ("LDTI") accounting guidance, associated with items excluded from pretax adjusted operating earnings prior to transition.

3.    Actuarial Assumption Updates and Model Enhancements: The impact on the valuation of market risk benefits and embedded derivatives arising from our annual actuarial assumption updates and model enhancements review.

4.    Net Realized Investment Gains and Losses: Comprised of: (i) realized investment gains and losses associated with the periodic sales or disposals of securities, excluding those held within our trading portfolio; (ii) impairments of securities, after adjustment for the non-credit component of the impairment charges; and (iii) foreign currency gain or loss on foreign denominated funding agreements and associated cross-currency swaps.

5.    Change in Value of Funds Withheld Embedded Derivative and Net Investment Income on Funds Withheld Assets: Comprised of: (i) the change in fair value of funds withheld embedded derivatives; and (ii) net investment income on funds withheld assets related to funds withheld reinsurance transactions.

6.    Other Items: Comprised of: (i) the impact of investments that are consolidated in our financial statements due to U.S. GAAP accounting requirements, such as our investments in collateralized loan obligations ("CLOs"), but for which the consolidation effects are not consistent with our economic interest or exposure to those entities; (ii) the impacts from derivatives not included in Net Hedging Results or Net Realized Investment Gains and Losses (see 1. and 4. above), excluding earned income from periodic settlements and changes in settlement accruals on cross-currency swaps; (iii) investment income (loss) related to mark-to-market on TPG Inc. ("TPG") shares, which are subject to certain sales restrictions; and (iv) one-time or other non-recurring items.

7.    Income Taxes.
Set forth in the tables below is certain information with respect to the Company’s segments (in millions):
Three Months Ended September 30, 2026Retail AnnuitiesInstitutional
Products		Closed Life
and Annuity
Blocks		Corporate and
 Other		Total
Consolidated
Operating Revenues
Fee income$1,158$—$100$11$1,269
Premiums17—18—35
Net investment income44514415115755
Other income (loss)6—6113
     Total Operating Revenues1,626144275272,072
Operating Benefits and Expenses
Death, other policy benefits and change in policy
    reserves, net of deferrals		29—134—163
(Gain) loss from updating future policy benefits cash flow assumptions, net——22—22
Interest credited15312085—358
Interest expense6——3137
Asset-based commission expenses305———305
Other commission expenses386—8—394
Sub-advisor expenses75——(2)73
General and administrative expenses19812744270
Deferral of acquisition costs(330)———(330)
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs 166—2—168
Total Operating Benefits and Expenses988121278731,460
Pretax Adjusted Operating Earnings$638$23$(3)$(46)$612

Three Months Ended September 30, 2025Retail AnnuitiesInstitutional
Products		Closed Life
and Annuity
Blocks		Corporate and
 Other		Total
Consolidated
Operating Revenues
Fee income$1,144 $— $104 $11 $1,259 
Premiums14 — 19 — 33 
Net investment income246 148 189 9 592 
Other income7 — 6 2 15 
     Total Operating Revenues1,411 148 318 22 1,899 
Operating Benefits and Expenses
Death, other policy benefits and change in policy
    reserves, net of deferrals		20 — 160 — 180 
(Gain) loss from updating future policy benefits cash flow assumptions, net(4)— 16 — 12 
Interest credited109 116 88 — 313 
Interest expense6 — — 19 25 
Asset-based commission expenses296 — — — 296 
Other commission expenses315 — 8 — 323 
Sub-advisor expenses80 — — (2)78 
General and administrative expenses195 1 28 40 264 
Deferral of acquisition costs(248)— 1 — (247)
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs148 — 2 — 150 
Total Operating Benefits and Expenses917 117 303 57 1,394 
Pretax Adjusted Operating Earnings$494 $31 $15 $(35)$505 
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2026Retail AnnuitiesInstitutional
Products		Closed Life
and Annuity
Blocks		Corporate and
 Other		Total
Consolidated
Operating Revenues
Fee income$3,409$—$305$32$3,746
Premiums40—65—105
Net investment income1,153427437502,067
Other income (loss) 19—17743
Total Operating Revenues4,621427824895,961
Operating Benefits and Expenses
Death, other policy benefits and change in policy
    reserves, net of deferrals		89—440—529
(Gain) loss from updating future policy benefits cash flow assumptions, net(1)—58—57
Interest credited401343257—1,001
Interest expense17——7289
Asset-based commission expenses898———898
Other commission expenses1,046—23—1,069
Sub-advisor expenses225——(5)220
General and administrative expenses621482127834
Deferral of acquisition costs(887)———(887)
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs485—6—491
Total Operating Benefits and Expenses2,8943478661944,301
Pretax Adjusted Operating Earnings$1,727$80$(42)$(105)$1,660

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025Retail AnnuitiesInstitutional
Products		Closed Life
and Annuity
Blocks		Corporate and
 Other		Total
Consolidated
Operating Revenues
Fee income$3,298 $— $319 $33 $3,650 
Premiums48 — 69 — 117 
Net investment income637 389 557 28 1,611 
Other income21 — 17 7 45 
Total Operating Revenues4,004 389 962 68 5,423 
Operating Benefits and Expenses
Death, other policy benefits and change in policy
    reserves, net of deferrals		82 — 468 — 550 
(Gain) loss from updating future policy benefits cash flow assumptions, net(8)— 41 — 33 
Interest credited304 317 275 — 896 
Interest expense17 — — 58 75 
Asset-based commission expenses853 — — — 853 
Other commission expenses756 — 25 — 781 
Sub-advisor expenses238 — — (6)232 
General and administrative expenses584 4 82 127 797 
Deferral of acquisition costs(591)— — — (591)
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs438 — 6 — 444 
Total Operating Benefits and Expenses2,673 321 897 179 4,070 
Pretax Adjusted Operating Earnings$1,331 $68 $65 $(111)$1,353 
Intersegment eliminations in the above tables are included in the Corporate and Other segment. These include the elimination of investment income between Retail Annuities and the Corporate and Other segments, as well as the elimination from fee income and investment income of investment fees paid by Jackson Financial and its subsidiaries to PPM, which were $29 million and $28 million for the three months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively, and $84 million and $72 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

The following table summarizes the reconciling items from the non-GAAP measure of total operating revenues to the U.S. GAAP measure of total revenues attributable to the Company (in millions):

Three Months Ended September 30,Nine Months Ended September 30,
2026202520262025
Total operating revenues$2,072 $1,899 $5,961 $5,423 
Fees attributed to guarantee benefit reserves760 765 2,245 2,297 
Net gains (losses) on hedging instruments and investments(1,486)(1,487)(4,139)(3,713)
Investment income (loss) related to mark-to-market on TPG shares8 — (50)— 
Net investment income (loss) related to noncontrolling interests12 15 21 27 
Consolidated investments5 21 3 4 
Net investment income on funds withheld assets 171 203 571 657 
Total revenues (1)
$1,542 $1,416 $4,612 $4,695 
(1) Substantially all the Company's revenues originated in the U.S. There were no customers that, individually, generated revenues that exceeded 10% of total revenues attributable to the Company.

The following table summarizes the reconciling items from the non-GAAP measure of total operating benefits and expenses to the U.S. GAAP measure of total benefits and expenses attributable to the Company (in millions):

Three Months Ended September 30,Nine Months Ended September 30,
2026202520262025
Total operating benefits and expenses $1,460 $1,394 $4,301 $4,070 
Net (gain) loss on market risk benefits(1,071)(226)(1,454)(183)
Benefits attributed to guaranteed benefit features54 51 170 184 
Amortization of DAC related to non-operating revenues and expenses116 125 355 380 
Cost of hedging(17)— (25)— 
Total benefits and expenses $542 $1,344 $3,347 $4,451 
The following table summarizes the reconciling items, from the non-GAAP measure of pretax adjusted operating earnings to the U.S. GAAP measure of net income attributable to the Company (in millions):

Three Months Ended September 30,Nine Months Ended September 30,
2026202520262025
Pretax adjusted operating earnings$612 $505 $1,660 $1,353 
Pre-tax reconciling items from adjusted operating income to net income (loss) attributable to Jackson Financial Inc.:
Fees attributable to guarantee benefit reserves760 765 2,245 2,297 
Net gains (losses) on hedging instruments(1,682)(14)(1,966)(843)
Market risk benefits gains (losses), net1,071 226 1,454 183 
Net reserve and embedded derivative movements64 (1,160)(1,900)(1,893)
Total net hedging results213 (183)(167)(256)
Amortization of DAC associated with non-operating items at date of transition to LDTI(116)(125)(355)(380)
Net realized investment gains (losses)(60)(1)(129)(37)
Net realized investment gains (losses) on funds withheld assets166 (379)(290)(1,094)
Net investment income on funds withheld assets171 203 571 657 
Other items2 37 (46)(26)
Pretax income (loss) attributable to Jackson Financial Inc.988 57 1,244 217 
Income tax expense (benefit)130 (19)155 (14)
Net income (loss) attributable to Jackson Financial Inc.858 76 1,089 231 
Less: Dividends on preferred stock11 11 33 33 
Net income (loss) attributable to Jackson Financial Inc. common shareholders$847 $65 $1,056 $198 

The following table summarizes total assets by segment (in millions):

September 30, 2026December 31, 2025
Retail Annuities$312,617 $307,225 
Closed Life and Annuity Blocks26,023 26,988 
Institutional Products13,535 12,869 
Corporate and Other6,184 5,504 
Total Assets$358,359 $352,586