RADNOR, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lincoln Financial Group (NYSE: LNC) at this time reported web revenue for the fourth quarter of 2021 of $220 million, or $1.20 per diluted share out there to frequent stockholders, in comparison with web revenue within the fourth quarter of 2020 of $143 million, or $0.74 per diluted share out there to frequent stockholders. Fourth quarter adjusted revenue from operations was $286 million, or $1.56 per diluted share out there to frequent stockholders, in comparison with adjusted revenue from operations of $346 million, or $1.78 per diluted share out there to frequent stockholders, within the fourth quarter of 2020.
Net revenue for the complete 12 months of 2021 was $1.4 billion, or $7.43 per diluted share out there to frequent stockholders, in comparison with $499 million, or $2.56 per diluted share out there to frequent stockholders in 2020. Full 12 months 2021 adjusted revenue from operations was $1.6 billion, or $8.20 per diluted share out there to frequent stockholders, in comparison with $865 million, or $4.45 per diluted share out there to frequent stockholders for the complete 12 months of 2020.
“In the midst of a difficult claims setting for the trade, we demonstrated robust underlying earnings energy within the fourth quarter and all through 2021 in addition to sturdy capital returns to shareholders,” mentioned Dennis R. Glass, president and CEO of Lincoln Financial Group. “Though the pandemic continues to impression our monetary outcomes, we’re poised to proceed to develop EPS, which is anticipated to be enhanced by our new Spark Initiative. We are assured in our potential to proceed to drive shareholder worth.”
As of or For the
Three Months Ended
December 31,
As of or For the
Year Ended
December 31,
(in thousands and thousands, besides per share information)
2021
2020
2021
2020
Net Income (Loss)
$
220
$
143
$
1,405
$
499
Net Income (Loss) Available to Common Stockholders
220
143
1,405
499
Net Income (Loss) per Diluted Share Available to Common Stockholders
1.20
0.74
7.43
2.56
Revenues
4,604
4,135
19,230
17,439
Adjusted Income (Loss) from Operations
286
346
1,551
865
Adjusted Income (Loss) from Operations per Diluted Share Available to Common Stockholders
1.56
1.78
8.20
4.45
Average Diluted Shares
183.2
193.9
189.1
195.8
Return on Equity (ROE), Including Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (AOCI) (Net Income)
4.2%
2.6%
6.7%
2.5%
Adjusted Operating ROE, Excluding AOCI (Adjusted Income from Operations)
8.1%
10.1%
11.0%
6.3%
Book Value per Share (BVPS), Including AOCI
$
114.41
$
118.02
$
114.41
$
118.02
Book Value per Share, Excluding AOCI
78.05
71.59
78.05
71.59
Operating Highlights – Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021
Annuities gross sales of $3.0 billion within the quarter, up 20% over the prior-year quarter and full-year gross sales of $11.7 billion, up 4% over the prior 12 months
Retirement Plan Services common account values of $98 billion within the quarter, up 17%
Life Insurance gross sales of $254 million within the quarter, up 121% and full-year gross sales of $660 million, up 5% over the prior 12 months interval
Group Protection insurance coverage premiums elevated 6% in comparison with the prior-year quarter and 4% for the complete 12 months
There had been no notable gadgets inside adjusted revenue from operations for the present quarter whereas the complete 12 months included roughly $0.57 of web unfavorable gadgets primarily associated to authorized bills and impacts from the corporate’s annual evaluate of DAC and reserve assumptions. In the prior-year quarter, there have been no notable gadgets inside adjusted revenue from operations whereas the prior full 12 months included roughly $2.84 of web unfavorable gadgets per share primarily associated to the corporate’s annual evaluate of DAC and reserve assumptions.
Fourth Quarter 2021 – Segment Results
Annuities
Annuities reported revenue from operations of $332 million, up 15% in comparison with the prior-year quarter. The enhance was primarily pushed by larger account values from robust fairness market efficiency and continued expense effectivity.
Total annuity deposits of $3.0 billion had been up 20% from the prior-year quarter as gross sales progress in mounted annuities and variable annuities with assured dwelling advantages greater than offset a decline in variable annuity gross sales with out assured dwelling advantages. For the complete 12 months, whole annuity gross sales of $11.7 billion had been up 4% from the prior-year pushed by 16% progress in variable annuity gross sales with out assured dwelling advantages.
Net outflows had been $655 million within the quarter. For the complete 12 months, web outflows totaled $2.6 billion. Average account values for the quarter of $171 billion had been up 13% over the prior-year quarter. 50% of whole annuities account worth at quarter finish had been with out assured dwelling advantages, up 3 proportion factors over the prior-year interval.
Retirement Plan Services
Retirement Plan Services reported revenue from operations of $57 million, up 16% in comparison with the prior-year quarter, with the rise pushed by larger account values from robust fairness market efficiency, full 12 months constructive web flows, and continued expense effectivity.
Total deposits for the quarter of $3.0 billion had been up 17% in comparison with the prior-year quarter, and for the complete 12 months, whole deposits of $10.8 billion had been up 8%. In each durations, progress was pushed by will increase in each first-year gross sales and recurring deposits.
Net outflows totaled $380 million for the quarter whereas for the complete 12 months, web flows had been constructive $464 million. Average account values for the quarter of $98 billion had been up 17% over the prior-year quarter.
Life Insurance
Life Insurance reported revenue from operations of $80 million in comparison with $144 million within the prior-year quarter, primarily pushed by robust returns inside the firm’s various funding portfolio that weren’t as favorable as final 12 months and the beforehand communicated $10 million impression from the block reinsurance transaction executed within the third quarter of 2021.
Total Life Insurance gross sales for the quarter of $254 million greater than doubled, up 121%, in comparison with the prior-year quarter pushed by gross sales progress throughout all key merchandise. For the complete 12 months, gross sales of $660 million had been up 5% pushed primarily by progress in govt advantages and time period gross sales.
Average Life Insurance in-force of $959 billion grew 8% over the prior-year quarter. Average account values for the quarter had been $51 billion in comparison with $56 billion within the prior-year quarter on account of the latest block reinsurance transaction.
Group Protection
Group Protection reported a loss from operations of $115 million within the quarter in comparison with a loss from operations of $42 million within the prior-year quarter. This lower was primarily pushed by larger mortality and morbidity impacts associated to the pandemic.
The whole loss ratio was 96% within the present quarter in comparison with 88% within the prior-year quarter with the rise pushed primarily by unfavorable pandemic-related mortality and morbidity.
Group Protection gross sales for the quarter had been $385 million in comparison with $450 million within the prior-year quarter. Full-year gross sales had been $586 million in comparison with $706 million within the prior 12 months with employee-paid gross sales representing 43% of whole gross sales versus 39% within the prior 12 months. Insurance premiums of $1.1 billion within the quarter had been up 6% in comparison with the prior-year quarter, and full-year premiums of $4.5 billion had been up 4% from the prior 12 months.
Other Operations
Other Operations reported a loss from operations of $68 million versus a lack of $94 million within the prior-year quarter pushed primarily by a lower in deferred compensation expense associated to modifications within the firm’s share value.
Realized Gains and Losses / Impacts to Net Income
Realized positive aspects/losses and impacts to web revenue (after-tax) within the quarter had been primarily pushed by:
A $125 million realized loss from variable annuity web by-product outcomes.
A $34 million realized achieve on the mark-to-market of sure devices.
A $26 million profit on mortgage loans and actual property.
Unrealized Gains and Losses
The firm reported a web unrealized achieve of $13.6 billion, pre-tax, on its available-for-sale securities at December 31, 2021. This compares to a web unrealized achieve of $18.9 billion, pre-tax, at December 31, 2020, with the year-over-year lower primarily pushed by larger treasury charges.
Share Count
The quarter’s common diluted share rely of 183.2 million was down 6% from the fourth quarter of 2020, the results of repurchasing 16.2 million shares of inventory at a price of $1.1 billion since December 31, 2020.
Book Value
As of December 31, 2021, e book worth per share, together with AOCI, decreased 3% from the prior-year interval to $114.41. Book worth per share, excluding AOCI, elevated 9% from the prior-year interval to $78.05.
The tables hooked up to this launch outline and reconcile the non-GAAP measures adjusted revenue from operations, adjusted working ROE and BVPS, excluding AOCI, to web revenue, ROE and BVPS, together with AOCI, calculated in accordance with GAAP.
This press launch incorporates statements which might be forward-looking, and precise outcomes might differ materially. Please see the Forward-looking Statements – Cautionary Language on the finish of this launch for elements which will trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from the corporate’s present expectations.
For different monetary info, please consult with the corporate’s fourth quarter 2021 statistical complement out there on its web site, http://www.lfg.com/investor.
Conference Call Information
Lincoln Financial Group will focus on the corporate’s fourth quarter outcomes with buyers in a convention name starting at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, February 3, 2022.
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Replay
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About Lincoln Financial Group
Lincoln Financial Group offers recommendation and options that assist individuals take cost of their monetary lives with confidence and optimism. Today, greater than 17 million clients belief our retirement, insurance coverage and wealth safety experience to assist deal with their way of life, financial savings and revenue targets, and guard in opposition to long-term care bills. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Lincoln Financial Group is the advertising and marketing identify for Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC) and its associates. The firm had $324 billion in end-of-period account values as of December 31, 2021. Lincoln Financial Group is a dedicated company citizen included on main sustainability indices together with the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America and FTSE4Good and ranks amongst Newsweek’s Most Responsible Companies. Dedicated to variety, fairness and inclusion, we’re included on transparency benchmarking instruments such because the Corporate Equality Index, the Disability Equality Index and the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. Committed to offering our workers with versatile work preparations, we had been named to FlexJobs’ listing of the Top 100 Companies to Watch for Remote Jobs in 2022. Learn extra at: www.LincolnFinancial.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Sign up for electronic mail alerts at http://newsroom.lfg.com.
Explanatory Notes on Use of Non-GAAP Measures
Management believes that adjusted revenue from operations (adjusted working revenue), adjusted working return on fairness, adjusted working revenues, and adjusted working EPS higher clarify the outcomes of the corporate’s ongoing companies in a way that permits for a greater understanding of the underlying tendencies within the firm’s present enterprise as a result of the excluded gadgets are unpredictable and not essentially indicative of present working fundamentals or future efficiency of the enterprise segments, and, in most cases, choices concerning this stuff don’t essentially relate to the operations of the person segments. Management additionally believes that utilizing e book worth excluding collected different complete revenue (“AOCI”) allows buyers to research the quantity of our web price that’s primarily attributable to our enterprise operations. Book worth per share excluding AOCI is beneficial to buyers as a result of it eliminates the impact of things that may fluctuate considerably from interval to interval, based totally on modifications in rates of interest.
For the historic durations, reconciliations of non-GAAP measures used on this press launch to essentially the most instantly comparable GAAP measure could also be included on this Appendix to the press launch and/or are included within the Statistical Reports for the corresponding durations contained within the Earnings part of the Investor Relations web page on our web site: www.lfg.com/investor.
Definitions of Non-GAAP Measures Used on this Press Release
Adjusted revenue (loss) from operations, adjusted working revenues and adjusted working return on fairness (together with and excluding common goodwill inside common fairness), excluding AOCI, utilizing annualized adjusted revenue (loss) from operations are monetary measures we use to judge and assess our outcomes. Adjusted revenue (loss) from operations, adjusted working revenues and adjusted working return on fairness (“ROE”), as used within the press launch, are non-GAAP monetary measures and don’t exchange GAAP web revenue (loss), revenues and ROE, essentially the most instantly comparable GAAP measures.
Adjusted Income (Loss) from Operations
Adjusted revenue (loss) from operations is GAAP web revenue (loss) excluding the after-tax results of the next gadgets, as relevant:
Realized positive aspects and losses related to the next (“excluded realized achieve (loss)”):
Sales or disposals and impairments of monetary property;
Changes within the truthful worth of fairness securities;
Changes within the truthful worth of derivatives, embedded derivatives inside sure reinsurance preparations and buying and selling securities (“achieve (loss) on the mark-to-market on sure devices”);
Changes within the truthful worth of the derivatives we personal to hedge our assured demise profit (“GDB”) riders inside our variable annuities;
Changes within the truthful worth of the embedded derivatives of our assured dwelling profit (“GLB”) riders mirrored inside variable annuity web by-product outcomes accounted for at truthful worth;
Changes within the truthful worth of the derivatives we personal to hedge our GLB riders mirrored inside variable annuity web by-product outcomes; and
Changes within the truthful worth of the embedded by-product liabilities associated to index choices we might buy or promote sooner or later to hedge contract holder index allocations relevant to future reset durations for our listed annuity merchandise accounted for at truthful worth (“listed annuity forward-starting choices”);
Changes in reserves ensuing from profit ratio unlocking on our GDB and GLB riders (“profit ratio unlocking”);
Income (loss) from reserve modifications, web of associated amortization, on enterprise offered by means of reinsurance;
Gains (losses) on modification or early extinguishment of debt;
Losses from the impairment of intangible property;
Income (loss) from discontinued operations;
Transaction and integration prices associated to mergers and acquisitions together with the acquisition or divestiture, by means of reinsurance or different means, of companies or blocks of enterprise; and
Income (loss) from the preliminary adoption of recent accounting requirements, rules and coverage modifications together with the web impression from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Adjusted Operating Revenues
Adjusted working revenues characterize GAAP revenues excluding the pre-tax results of the next gadgets, as relevant:
Excluded realized achieve (loss);
Revenue changes from the preliminary adoption of recent accounting requirements;
Amortization of deferred front-end masses (“DFEL”) arising from modifications in GDB and GLB profit ratio unlocking; and
Amortization of deferred positive aspects arising from reserve modifications on enterprise offered by means of reinsurance.
Adjusted Operating Return on Equity
Adjusted working return on fairness measures how effectively we generate income from the assets offered by our web property.
It is calculated by dividing annualized adjusted revenue (loss) from operations by common fairness, excluding collected different complete revenue (loss) (“AOCI”).
Management evaluates return on fairness by each together with and excluding common goodwill inside common fairness.
Definition of Notable Items
Adjusted revenue (loss) from operations, excluding notable gadgets, is a non-GAAP measure that excludes gadgets which, in administration’s view, don’t mirror the corporate’s regular, ongoing operations.
We imagine highlighting notable gadgets included in adjusted revenue (loss) from operations allows buyers to higher perceive the basic tendencies in its outcomes of operations and monetary situation.
Book Value Per Share, Excluding AOCI
Book worth per share, excluding AOCI is calculated primarily based upon a non-GAAP monetary measure.
It is calculated by dividing (a) stockholders’ fairness, excluding AOCI by (b) frequent shares excellent.
We present e book worth per share excluding AOCI to allow buyers to research the quantity of our web price that’s primarily attributable to our enterprise operations.
Management believes e book worth per share, excluding AOCI is beneficial to buyers as a result of it eliminates the impact of things that may fluctuate considerably from interval to interval, based totally on modifications in rates of interest.
Book worth per share is essentially the most instantly comparable GAAP measure.
Special Note
Sales
Sales as reported encompass the next:
Annuities and Retirement Plan Services – deposits from new and current clients;
Universal life insurance coverage (“UL”), listed common life insurance coverage (“IUL”), variable common life insurance coverage (“VUL”) – first-year commissionable premiums plus 5% of extra premiums obtained;
MoneyGuard® linked-benefit merchandise – MoneyGuard® (UL), 15% of whole anticipated premium deposits, and MoneyGuard Market AdvantageSM (VUL), 150% of commissionable premiums;
Executive Benefits – insurance coverage and corporate-owned UL and VUL, first-year commissionable premiums plus 5% of extra premium obtained, and single premium bank-owned UL and VUL, 15% of single premium deposits;
Term – 100% of annualized first-year premiums; and
Group Protection – annualized first-year premiums from new insurance policies.
Lincoln National Corporation
Reconciliation of Net Income to Adjusted Income from Operations
(in thousands and thousands, besides per share information)
For the
Three Months Ended
For the
Year Ended
December 31,
December 31,
2021
2020
2021
2020
Total Revenues
$
4,604
$
4,135
$
19,230
$
17,439
Less:
Excluded realized achieve (loss)
(166)
(523)
(411)
(721)
Amortization of DFEL related to profit ratio unlocking
1
3
2
(2)
Total Adjusted Operating Revenues
$
4,769
$
4,655
$
19,639
$
18,162
Net Income (Loss) Available to Common Stockholders – Diluted
$
220
$
143
$
1,405
$
499
Less:
Adjustment for deferred items of LNC inventory in our deferred compensation plans (1)
–
–
–
–
Net Income (Loss)
220
143
1,405
499
Less:
Excluded realized achieve (loss), after-tax
(132)
(414)
(325)
(570)
Benefit ratio unlocking, after-tax
77
177
196
194
Net impression from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
–
37
–
37
Transaction and integration prices associated to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, after-tax
(11)
(3)
(11)
(15)
Gain (loss) on modification or early extinguishment of debt, after-tax
–
–
(6)
(12)
Total changes
(66)
(203)
(146)
(366)
Adjusted Income (Loss) from Operations
$
286
$
346
$
1,551
$
865
Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share – Diluted
Net revenue (loss)
$
1.20
$
0.74
$
7.43
$
2.56
Adjusted revenue (loss) from operations
1.56
1.78
8.20
4.45
Average Stockholders’ Equity
Average fairness, together with common AOCI
$
20,721
$
22,124
$
20,999
$
20,012
Average AOCI
6,645
8,370
6,944
6,359
Average fairness, excluding AOCI
14,076
13,754
14,055
13,653
Average goodwill
1,778
1,778
1,778
1,778
Average fairness, excluding AOCI and goodwill
$
12,298
$
11,976
$
12,277
$
11,875
Return on Equity, Including AOCI
Net revenue (loss) with common fairness together with goodwill
4.2%
2.6%
6.7%
2.5%
Adjusted Operating Return on Equity, Excluding AOCI
Adjusted revenue (loss) from operations with common fairness together with goodwill
8.1%
10.1%
11.0%
6.3%
Adjusted revenue (loss) from operations with common fairness excluding goodwill
9.3%
11.6%
12.6%
7.3%
(1)
We exclude deferred items of LNC inventory which might be antidilutive from our diluted earnings per share calculation.
Lincoln National Corporation
Reconciliation of Book Value per Share
As of December 31,
2021
2020
Book worth per share, together with AOCI
$
114.41
$
118.02
Per share impression of AOCI
36.36
46.43
Book worth per share, excluding AOCI
78.05
71.59
Lincoln National Corporation
Digest of Earnings
(in thousands and thousands, besides per share information)
For the
Three Months Ended
December 31,
2021
2020
Revenues
$
4,604
$
4,135
Net Income (Loss)
$
220
$
143
Adjustment for deferred items of LNC inventory in our deferred compensation plans (1)
–
–
Net Income (Loss) Available to Common Stockholders – Diluted
$
220
$
143
Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share – Basic
$
1.22
$
0.74
Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share – Diluted
1.20
0.74
Average Shares – Basic
180,519,527
192,896,621
Average Shares – Diluted
183,246,238
193,898,721
For the
Year Ended
December 31,
2021
2020
Revenues
$
19,230
$
17,439
Net Income (Loss)
$
1,405
$
499
Adjustment for deferred items of LNC inventory in our deferred compensation plans (1)
–
–
Net Income (Loss) Available to Common Stockholders – Diluted
$
1,405
$
499
Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share – Basic
$
7.50
$
2.58
Earnings (Loss) Per Common Share – Diluted
7.43
2.56
Average Shares – Basic
187,359,884
193,610,225
Average Shares – Diluted
189,098,767
195,772,374
(1)
We exclude deferred items of LNC inventory which might be antidilutive from our diluted earnings per share calculation.
Forward Looking Statements — Cautionary Language
Certain statements made on this press launch and in different written or oral statements made by Lincoln or on Lincoln’s behalf are “forward-looking statements” inside the which means of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“PSLRA”). A forward-looking assertion is an announcement that isn’t a historic truth and, with out limitation, consists of any assertion which will predict, forecast, point out or suggest future outcomes, efficiency or achievements. Forward-looking statements might include phrases like: “anticipate,” “imagine,” “estimate,” “count on,” “mission,” “shall,” “will” and different phrases or phrases with related which means in reference to a dialogue of future working or monetary efficiency. In explicit, these embrace statements referring to future actions, tendencies in Lincoln’s companies, potential providers or merchandise, future efficiency or monetary outcomes and the end result of contingencies, equivalent to authorized proceedings. Lincoln claims the safety afforded by the secure harbor for forward-looking statements offered by the PSLRA.
Forward-looking statements are topic to dangers and uncertainties. Actual outcomes may differ materially from these expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements attributable to a wide range of elements, together with:
The continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, or future outbreaks of COVID-19, and uncertainty surrounding the size and severity of future impacts on the worldwide financial system and on our enterprise, outcomes of operations and monetary situation;
Further deterioration generally financial and enterprise circumstances which will have an effect on account values, funding outcomes, assured profit liabilities, premium ranges and claims expertise;
Adverse international capital and credit score market circumstances which will have an effect on our potential to lift capital, if crucial, and might trigger us to comprehend impairments on investments and sure intangible property, together with goodwill and the valuation allowance in opposition to deferred tax property, which can cut back future earnings and/or have an effect on our monetary situation and potential to lift further capital or refinance current debt because it matures;
The incapacity of our subsidiaries to pay dividends to the holding firm in adequate quantities, which may hurt the holding firm’s potential to satisfy its obligations;
Legislative, regulatory or tax modifications, each home and overseas, that have an effect on: the price of, or demand for, our subsidiaries’ merchandise; the required quantity of reserves and/or surplus; our potential to conduct enterprise and our captive reinsurance preparations in addition to restrictions on the cost of income sharing and 12b-1 distribution charges;
The impression of U.S. federal tax reform laws on our enterprise, earnings and capital;
The impression of Regulation Best Interest or different rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), the Department of Labor or different federal or state regulators or self-regulatory organizations referring to the usual of care owed by funding advisers and/or broker-dealers that might have an effect on our distribution mannequin;
Actions taken by reinsurers to lift charges on in-force enterprise;
Further declines in or sustained low rates of interest inflicting a discount in funding revenue, the curiosity margins of our companies, estimated gross income and demand for our merchandise;
Rapidly rising rates of interest inflicting contract holders to give up life insurance coverage and annuity insurance policies, thereby inflicting realized funding losses, and diminished hedge efficiency associated to variable annuities;
The impression of the implementation of the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act referring to the regulation of derivatives transactions;
The initiation of authorized or regulatory proceedings in opposition to us, and the end result of any authorized or regulatory proceedings, equivalent to: adversarial actions associated to current or previous enterprise practices frequent in companies wherein we compete; adversarial choices in important actions together with, however not restricted to, actions introduced by federal and state authorities and class motion circumstances; new choices that end in modifications in regulation; and surprising trial courtroom rulings;
A decline or continued volatility within the fairness markets inflicting a discount within the gross sales of our subsidiaries’ merchandise; a discount of asset-based charges that our subsidiaries cost on numerous funding and insurance coverage merchandise; an acceleration of the web amortization of deferred acquisition prices (“DAC”), worth of enterprise acquired (“VOBA”), deferred gross sales inducements (“DSI”) and deferred front-end masses (“DFEL”); and a rise in liabilities associated to assured profit options of our subsidiaries’ variable annuity merchandise;
Ineffectiveness of our danger administration insurance policies and procedures, together with numerous hedging methods used to offset the impact of modifications within the worth of liabilities attributable to modifications within the degree and volatility of the fairness markets and rates of interest;
A deviation in precise expertise concerning future persistency, mortality, morbidity, rates of interest or fairness market returns from the assumptions utilized in pricing our subsidiaries’ merchandise, in establishing associated insurance coverage reserves and within the web amortization of DAC, VOBA, DSI and DFEL, which can cut back future earnings;
Changes in accounting rules which will have an effect on our enterprise, outcomes of operations and monetary situation, together with the pending implementation of FASB ASU 2018-12, Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts;
Lowering of a number of of our debt rankings issued by nationally acknowledged statistical score organizations and the adversarial impact such motion might have on our potential to lift capital and on our liquidity and monetary situation;
Lowering of a number of of the insurer monetary energy rankings of our insurance coverage subsidiaries and the adversarial impact such motion might have on the premium writings, coverage retention, profitability of our insurance coverage subsidiaries and liquidity;
Significant credit score, accounting, fraud, company governance or different points which will adversely have an effect on the worth of sure monetary property, in addition to counterparties to which we’re uncovered to credit score danger, requiring that we notice losses on monetary property;
Interruption in telecommunication, info expertise or different operational methods or failure to safeguard the confidentiality or privateness of delicate information on such methods, together with from cyberattacks or different breaches of our information safety methods;
The impact of acquisitions and divestitures, restructurings, product withdrawals and different uncommon gadgets;
The incapacity to comprehend or maintain the advantages we count on from, better than anticipated investments in, and the potential impression of efforts associated to, our strategic initiatives, together with the Spark Initiative;
The adequacy and collectability of reinsurance that we’ve got obtained;
Future pandemics, acts of terrorism, conflict or different man-made and pure catastrophes which will adversely have an effect on our companies and the associated fee and availability of reinsurance;
Competitive circumstances, together with pricing pressures, new product choices and the emergence of recent rivals, which will have an effect on the extent of premiums and charges that our subsidiaries can cost for his or her merchandise;
The unknown impact on our subsidiaries’ companies ensuing from evolving market preferences and the altering demographics of our shopper base; and
The unanticipated lack of key administration, monetary planners or wholesalers.
The dangers and uncertainties included right here usually are not exhaustive. Our most up-to-date Form 10-Okay, in addition to different experiences that we file with the SEC, embrace further elements that might have an effect on our companies and monetary efficiency. Moreover, we function in a quickly altering and aggressive setting. New danger elements emerge on occasion, and it isn’t potential for administration to foretell all such danger elements.
Further, it isn’t potential to evaluate the impact of all danger elements on our companies or the extent to which any issue, or mixture of things, might trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these contained in any forward-looking statements. Given these dangers and uncertainties, buyers shouldn’t place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of precise outcomes. In addition, Lincoln disclaims any obligation to replace any forward-looking statements to mirror occasions or circumstances that happen after the date of this press launch.
The reporting of Risk Based Capital (“RBC”) measures shouldn’t be supposed for the aim of rating any insurance coverage firm or to be used in reference to any advertising and marketing, promoting or promotional actions.
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