Investment Losses Hurt Life Insurers’ 2018 Earnings: Fitch
April 17, 2019 by Allison Bell
Big U.S. life insurers’ operating earnings continued to improve in 2018, but their overall net income fell sharply, according to data from Fitch Ratings.
Fitch put Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) earnings data from 15 large, publicly traded U.S. life insurers in the analysis.
Those insurers reported a total of $25.4 billion in earnings from operations for 2018, up 15% from the insurers total operating earnings for 2017.
But the insurers’ total net income fell 18%, to $22 billion.
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Originally Posted at ThinkAdvisor on April 15, 2019 by Allison Bell.
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