What the statutory blanks say the books hold
The derivative positions, counterparties and collateral that life insurers disclose in Schedule DB, read from the annual statements they post themselves. This page is the reference: it changes when filings do. The daily view — which prints on the public tape match these structures — sits on the Rates, Asset swaps, TIPS, Options and Credit pages.
Derivative books
Open positions and net fair value from Schedule DB Part A, by filing period, for the insurers whose public PDFs carry position detail. Quarterly blanks exist for four of them; the rest report at year-end only. Net fair value is the sum of reported fair values across all products, in $m.
positions = open rows at period end
Positions and net fair value by period
sparkline = net FV, $mBook turnover, latest year pair
Rows matched on trade date, maturity, notional and counterparty between consecutive year-end blanks. Option-heavy books (Athene, Corebridge) turn over almost entirely inside a year; swap books mostly persist.
Counterparties named across FY2025 books
top 12 by open positionsProduct footprint
The same books cut by product: swaps labelled as asset swaps, inflation swaps, rate options, and credit derivatives. MetLife is the one filer disclosing rate options and credit at position level; other filers' option books are equity index calls behind indexed annuities. Labels are the filer's own, so asset-swap counts are a floor.
notional and fair value as reported
Asset swaps and inflation swaps
$mRate options
medians across positionsCredit derivatives
index protection, tranches, sovereign and corporate single namesStructures scored against the tape
Each product page counts the day's public prints that match a structure these books hold. The tests and the filings behind them are listed here once. A match says the print is the kind of trade an insurer holds; it never says who traded it, and the tape does not show the side.
Collateral regimes
Collateral pledged by each insurer to counterparties (Schedule DB Part D Section 2), and how it splits between cleared initial margin, cleared variation margin and dealer bilateral postings where the blank itemizes it. The regime shapes how a rate move turns into a margin call: cleared books move with a SIMM-like ladder, bilateral CSAs with a house multiplier.
I = initial, V = variation
Collateral pledged by insurer, year-end, $bn
Itemized split, FY2025
share of itemized rows; blank total may exceed itemized sumHow well public inputs predict the posted collateral
median absolute error, %; trained on 2024 periods, tested on 2025Where the regime is legible from the blank, an analytic model gets close: a constant IM plus deterministic VM explains MetLife's LCH postings to within 3%, and a CSA multiplier on underwater NPV explains Genworth's bilateral book to within 11%. Across mixed-product netting sets with no product split disclosed, learned models do worse than simply carrying forward last year's number. That gap is a disclosure limit, not a modelling one.
Filing coverage
Which insurers post their statutory annual statement publicly, and whether the posted PDF carries Schedule DB position detail. Groups that omit the E-pages disclose totals only; groups with no public posting require NAIC InsData.
Method and caveats
Statutory PDFs read with layout-preserving text extraction and header-anchored column parsing for Schedule DB Parts A, B and D; refreshed after each filing deadline.
- Position
- One open row in Schedule DB Part A Section 1 at period end.
- Net fair value
- Sum of Part A fair values across all open positions, $m, sign as reported.
- Pledged by
- Fair value of collateral the insurer has posted to counterparties (Part D Section 2), the blank's own total line.
- Turnover
- Rows matched between consecutive year-end blanks on trade date, maturity, notional and counterparty.
- Product labels
- The filer's own description field; an asset swap is counted when the filer labels it or names the bond.
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