Corebridge Financial, Inc. (CRBG)

Item 2 | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Glossary and Acronyms of Selected Insurance Terms and References

Throughout this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”), we use certain terms and abbreviations, which are summarized in the Glossary and Acronyms in the 2025 Form 10-K.

Corebridge has incorporated into this discussion a number of cross-references to additional information included throughout this Quarterly Report to assist readers seeking additional information related to a particular subject.

In this Quarterly Report, unless otherwise mentioned or unless the context indicates otherwise, we use the terms “Corebridge,” “we,” “us” and “our” to refer to Corebridge Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries. We use the term “Corebridge Parent” to refer solely to Corebridge Financial, Inc., and not to any of its consolidated subsidiaries.

This MD&A addresses the consolidated financial condition of Corebridge as of March 31, 2026, compared with December 31, 2025, and its consolidated results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. In addition to historical data, this discussion contains forward-looking statements about our business operations and financial performance based on current expectations that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Actual results may differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. You should read the following analysis of our consolidated financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with the (unaudited)Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and the statements under “Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information,” included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Condition,” and the “Risk Factors” section in the 2025 Form 10-K.

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Executive Summary

OVERVIEW

We are one of the largest providers of retirement solutions and insurance products in the United States, committed to helping individuals plan, save for and achieve secure financial futures. We offer a broad set of products and services through our market leading Individual Retirement, Group Retirement, Life Insurance and Institutional Markets businesses, each of which features capabilities and industry experience we believe are difficult to replicate. These four businesses collectively seek to enhance stockholder returns while maintaining our attractive risk profile, which has historically resulted in consistent and strong cash flow generation.

Corebridge Financial and Equitable Holdings Merger

On March 26, 2026, we and Equitable Holdings, Inc. (“Equitable”) announced the entering into of a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger.

Under the terms of the merger agreement, which has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies, we and Equitable will form a new parent company and each outstanding share of our common stock will be exchanged for the right to receive 1.0000 shares of the new parent company’s common stock, and each outstanding share of Equitable common stock will be exchanged for the right to receive 1.55516 shares of the new parent company’s common stock.

Following the closing of the transaction, Corebridge shareholders will own approximately 51% of the combined company and Equitable shareholders will own approximately 49% of the combined company.

The transaction is expected to close by year-end 2026, subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals and approval of shareholders of both companies.

REVENUES

Our revenues come from five principal sources:

•Premiums are principally derived from our traditional life insurance and certain annuity products including PRT transactions and structured settlements with life contingencies. Our premium income is driven by growth in new policies and contracts written and persistency of our in-force policies, both of which are influenced by a combination of factors including our efforts to attract and retain customers and market conditions that influence demand for our products;

•Policy fees are principally derived from our universal life insurance, group retirement, individual retirement, Corporate Markets and SVW products. Our policy fees typically vary directly with the underlying assets under administration, account value or benefit base of our annuities. Account value and benefit base are influenced by changes in economic conditions, including changes in levels of equity prices, and changes in levels of interest rates and credit spreads, as well as net flows;

•Net investment income from our investment portfolio varies as a result of the yield, allocation and size of our investment portfolio, which are, in turn, a function of capital market conditions and net flows into our total investments, as well as the expenses associated with managing our investment portfolio;

•Net realized gains (losses), net include changes in the Fortitude Re funds withheld embedded derivative, risk management related derivative activities (excluding hedges of certain MRBs), changes in the fair value of embedded derivatives in certain of our insurance products and trading activity within our investment portfolio, including trading activity related to the Fortitude Re modco arrangement. Net realized gains (losses) vary due to the timing of sales of investments as well as changes in the fair value of embedded derivatives in certain of our insurance products and derivatives utilized to hedge certain embedded derivatives; and

•Advisory fee income and other income includes fees from registered investment advisory services, 12b-1 fees (marketing and distribution fees paid by mutual funds), other asset management fee income and commission-based broker-dealer services.

BENEFITS AND EXPENSES

Our benefits and expenses come from six principal sources:

•Policyholder benefits are driven primarily by customer withdrawals and surrenders from traditional products which change in response to changes in capital market conditions and changes in policy reserves, as well as life contingent benefit payments on life and annuity contracts and updates to assumptions related to future policyholder behavior, mortality and longevity;

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•Interest credited to policyholder account balances varies in relation to the amount of the underlying account value or benefit base and also includes changes in the fair value of certain embedded derivatives related to our insurance products and amortization of deferred sales inducement assets;

•Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs (“DAC”) and value of business acquired (“VOBA”) for all applicable contracts is amortized, on a constant level basis over the expected term of the related contracts, using assumptions consistent with those used in estimating the related liability for future policy benefits, or any other related balances, for those corresponding contracts, as applicable. VOBA is determined at the time of acquisition and is reported with DAC. This value is based on the present value of future pre-tax profits discounted at yields applicable at the time of purchase;

•General operating expenses include expenses associated with conducting our business, including salaries, other employee-related compensation and other operating expenses such as professional services or travel;

•Change in the fair value of market risk benefits, net represents the changes in fair value of MRBs contained within certain insurance contracts (excluding the impact of changes in our own credit risk), including attributed fees, along with the changes in the fair value of derivatives that economically hedge MRBs. Changes in our own credit risk are included in OCI; and

•Interest expense represents the charges associated with our external debt obligations, including debt of consolidated investment entities. This expense varies based on the amount of debt on our balance sheet, as well as the rates of interest associated with those obligations. Interest expense related to consolidated investment entities principally relates to variable interest entities (“VIEs”) for which we are the primary beneficiary; however, creditors or beneficial interest holders of VIEs generally only have recourse to the assets and cash flows of the VIEs and do not have recourse to us except in limited circumstances when we have provided a guarantee to the VIE’s interest holders.

SIGNIFICANT FACTORS IMPACTING OUR RESULTS

The following significant factors have impacted, and may in the future impact, our business, results of operations, financial condition and liquidity.

Impact of Variable Annuity Reinsurance Transaction

On August 1, 2025 and January 2, 2026, respectively, AGL and USL entered into a coinsurance and modco reinsurance agreement with CSLR to reinsure 100% of their individual variable annuity contracts. Under these agreements, AGL and USL transferred to the reinsurer $2.1 billion of assets primarily consisting of fixed maturity securities supporting the general account liabilities net of a ceding commission. Additionally, $48.7 billion of separate account liabilities were ceded under the modco portion of the agreement. In addition, the closing of the sale to Venerable of all outstanding membership interests of SAAMCo held by AGL occurred on January 1, 2026.

Impact of Fortitude Re

In February 2018, AGL, VALIC and USL entered into modco agreements with Fortitude Re, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortitude Group Holdings, LLC (“Fortitude Holdings”), a registered Class 4 and Class E reinsurer in Bermuda.

In the modco arrangement, the investments supporting the reinsurance agreements are withheld by, and therefore continue to reside on the balance sheet of, the ceding company (i.e., AGL and USL) thereby creating an obligation for the ceding company to pay the reinsurer (i.e., Fortitude Re) at a later date. We have established a funds withheld payable to Fortitude Re while simultaneously establishing a reinsurance asset representing liabilities for the insurance coverage that Fortitude Re has assumed. The funds withheld payable contains an embedded derivative and changes in fair value of this derivative are recognized in Net realized gains (losses) on Fortitu

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Item 7 | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Glossary and Acronyms of Selected Insurance Terms and References

Throughout this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”), we use certain terms and abbreviations, which are summarized in the Glossary, Certain Important Terms and Acronyms.

Corebridge has incorporated into this discussion a number of cross-references to additional information included throughout this Annual Report on Form 10-K to assist readers seeking additional information related to a particular subject.

In this Annual Report on Form 10-K, unless otherwise mentioned or unless the context indicates otherwise, we use the terms “Corebridge,” “we,” “us” and “our” to refer to Corebridge Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries. We use the term “Corebridge Parent” to refer solely to Corebridge Financial, Inc., and not to any of its consolidated subsidiaries.

This MD&A addresses the consolidated financial condition of Corebridge as of December 31, 2025, compared with December 31, 2024, and its consolidated results of operations for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023. In addition to historical data, this discussion contains forward-looking statements about our business operations and financial performance based on current expectations that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Actual results may differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. You should read the following analysis of our consolidated financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and the statements under “Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information,” included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K , “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” and the “Risk Factors” section.

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Executive Summary

OVERVIEW

We are one of the largest providers of retirement solutions and insurance products in the United States, committed to helping individuals plan, save for and achieve secure financial futures. We offer a broad set of products and services through our market leading Individual Retirement, Group Retirement, Life Insurance and Institutional Markets businesses, each of which features capabilities and industry experience we believe are difficult to replicate. These four businesses collectively seek to enhance stockholder returns while maintaining our attractive risk profile, which has historically resulted in consistent and strong cash flow generation.

REVENUES

Our revenues come from five principal sources:

•Premiums are principally derived from our traditional life insurance and certain annuity products including PRT transactions and structured settlements with life contingencies. Our premium income is driven by growth in new policies and contracts written and persistency of our in-force policies, both of which are influenced by a combination of factors including our efforts to attract and retain customers and market conditions that influence demand for our products;

•Policy fees are principally derived from our universal life insurance, group retirement, individual retirement, Corporate Markets and SVW products. Our policy fees typically vary directly with the underlying assets under administration, account value or benefit base of our annuities. Account value and benefit base are influenced by changes in economic conditions, including changes in levels of equity prices, and changes in levels of interest rates and credit spreads, as well as net flows;

•Net investment income from our investment portfolio varies as a result of the yield, allocation and size of our investment portfolio, which are, in turn, a function of capital market conditions and net flows into our total investments, as well as the expenses associated with managing our investment portfolio;

•Net realized gains (losses), net include changes in the Fortitude Re funds withheld embedded derivative, risk management related derivative activities (excluding hedges of certain MRBs), changes in the fair value of embedded derivatives in certain of our insurance products and trading activity within our investment portfolio, including trading activity related to the Fortitude Re modco arrangement. Net realized gains (losses) vary due to the timing of sales of investments as well as changes in the fair value of embedded derivatives in certain of our insurance products and derivatives utilized to hedge certain embedded derivatives; and

•Advisory fee income and other income includes fees from registered investment advisory services, 12b-1 fees (marketing and distribution fees paid by mutual funds), other asset management fee income and commission-based broker-dealer services.

BENEFITS AND EXPENSES

Our benefits and expenses come from six principal sources:

•Policyholder benefits are driven primarily by customer withdrawals and surrenders from traditional products which change in response to changes in capital market conditions and changes in policy reserves, as well as life contingent benefit payments on life and annuity contracts and updates to assumptions related to future policyholder behavior, mortality and longevity;

•Interest credited to policyholder account balances varies in relation to the amount of the underlying account value or benefit base and also includes changes in the fair value of certain embedded derivatives related to our insurance products and amortization of deferred sales inducement assets;

•Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs (“DAC”) and value of business acquired (“VOBA”) for all applicable contracts is amortized, on a constant level basis over the expected term of the related contracts, using assumptions consistent with those used in estimating the related liability for future policy benefits, or any other related balances, for those corresponding contracts, as applicable. VOBA is determined at the time of acquisition and is reported with DAC. This value is based on the present value of future pre-tax profits discounted at yields applicable at the time of purchase;

•General operating expenses include expenses associated with conducting our business, including salaries, other employee-related compensation and other operating expenses such as professional services or travel;

•Change in the fair value of market risk benefits, net represents the changes in fair value of MRBs contained within certain insurance contracts (excluding the impact of changes in our own credit risk), including attributed fees, along with the changes in the fair value of derivatives that economically hedge MRBs. Changes in our own credit risk are included in OCI; and

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•Interest expense represents the charges associated with our external debt obligations, including debt of consolidated investment entities. This expense varies based on the amount of debt on our balance sheet, as well as the rates of interest associated with those obligations. Interest expense related to consolidated investment entities principally relates to variable interest entities (“VIEs”) for which we are the primary beneficiary; however, creditors or beneficial interest holders of VIEs generally only have recourse to the assets and cash flows of the VIEs and do not have recourse to us except in limited circumstances when we have provided a guarantee to the VIE’s interest holders.

SIGNIFICANT FACTORS IMPACTING OUR RESULTS

The following significant factors have impacted, and may in the future impact, our business, results of operations, financial condition and liquidity.

Impact of Variable Annuity Reinsurance Transaction

On August 1, 2025, AGL entered into a coinsurance and modco reinsurance agreement with CSLR to reinsure 100% of its in-force and newly issued individual variable annuity contracts. Under this agreement, AGL transferred to the reinsurer $1.9 billion of assets primarily consisting of fixed maturity securities supporting the general account liabilities net of a ceding commission. Additionally, $45.1 billion of separate account liabilities were ceded under the modco portion of the agreement.

On January 2, 2026, USL and CSLR entered into a coinsurance and modco reinsurance agreement pursuant to which USL ceded 100% of its in-force individual retirement variable annuity contracts to CSLR. In addition, the closing of the sale to Venerable of all outstanding membership interests of SAAMCo held by AGL occurred on January 1, 2026.

Impact of Fortitude Re

In February 2018, AGL, VALIC and USL entered into modco agreements with Fortitude Re, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fortitude Group Holdings, LLC (“Fortitude Holdings”), a registered Class 4 and Class E reinsurer in Bermuda.

In the modco arrangement, the investments supporting the reinsurance agreements are withheld by, and therefore continue to reside on the balance sheet of, the ceding company (i.e., AGL and USL) thereby creating an obligation for the ceding company to pay the reinsurer (i.e., Fortitude Re) at a later date. We have established a funds withheld payable to Fortitude Re while simultaneously establishing a reinsurance asset representing liabilities for the insurance coverage that Fortitude Re has assumed. The funds withheld payable contains an embedded derivative and changes in fair value of this derivative are recognized in Net realized gains (losses) on Fortitude Re funds withheld embedded derivative.

Our net income experiences ongoing volatility as a result of the reinsurance agreements and gives rise to a funds withheld payable that contains an embedded derivative. However, this net income volatility is almost entirely offset with a corresponding change in OCI, which reflects the fair value change from the investment portfolio supporting the funds withheld payable, which is primarily available-for-sale securities, resulting in minimal impact to our comprehensive income (loss) and equity attributable to Corebridge. The Company has also elected the fair value option on the acquisition of certain new fixed maturity securities, helping reduce the mismatch over time. VALIC’s modco agreement with Fortitude Re was recaptured effective January 1, 2025, resulting in a $45 million charge to pre-tax earnings. As of December 31, 2025, $24.1 billion of reserves had been ceded to Fortitude Re.

For additional information on our reinsurance agreements with Fortitude Re, see Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Embedded Derivatives for Fixed Index Annuity, Registered Index-Linked Annuity and Index Universal Life Products

Fixed index annuity and registered index-linked annuity contracts contain index interest credits which are accounted for as embedded derivatives and our index universal life insurance products also contain embedded derivatives. In contrast to fixed index annuity contracts, registered index-linked annuity contract owners also accept limited exposure to negative index interest credits in return for higher potential positive index credits. Policyholders may elect to rebalance among the various crediting strategies within the product at specified renewal dates. At the end of each index term, we generally have the opportunity to re-price the index component by establishing different participation rates or caps on index credited rates. The index-linked interest credited features of these products results in the recognition of an embedded derivative that is required to be bifurcated from the host contract and carried at fair value with changes in the fair value of the liabilities recorded in Net realized gains (losses). Option pricing models are used to estimate fair value, taking into account assumptions for future index growth rates, volatility of the index, future interest rates and our ability to adjust the participation rates and caps on index-linked interest credited features.

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The following table summarizes the fair values of the embedded derivatives for fixed index annuity, registered index-linked annuity and index universal life products:

Our Strategic Partnership with Blackstone

In 2021, we entered into a long-term asset management relationship with Blackstone. As of December 31, 2025, Blackstone managed approximately $71.2 billion in book value of assets in our investment portfolio.

For additional information on our Strategic Partnership with Blackstone, see “Investments” below.

Our Investment Management Agreements with BlackRock

Since April 2022, we entered into investment management agreements with BlackRock and its investment advisory affiliates. As of December 31, 2025, BlackRock managed approximately $91.9 billion in book value of assets in our investment portfolio, consisting of liquid fixed income and certain private placement assets.

For additional information on our Investment Management Agreements with BlackRock, see “Investments” below.

See “Business—Investment Management—Our Investment Management Agreements with BlackRock.”

Fair Value Option Bond Securities

We elect the fair value option on certain bond securities. When the fair value option is elected, the realized and unrealized gains and losses on these securities are reported in net investment income.

The following table shows the net investment income reported on fair value option bond securities:

Actuarial Assumption Changes

Most of the fixed annuities, fixed index annuities, registered index-linked annuities, variable annuities and universal life insurance products we offer maintain policyholder deposits that are reported as liabilities and classified within either separate account liabilities or policyholder contract deposits. Our products and riders also impact liabilities for future policyholder benefits and unearned revenues and assets for DAC and DSI. The valuation of these assets and liabilities (other than deposits) is based on differing accounting methods depending on the product, each of which requires numerous assumptions and considerable judgment. The accounting guidance applied in the valuation of these assets and liabilities includes, but is not limited to, the following: (i) traditional life and limited pay insurance products for which actual experience is reflected in the liability and assumptions are reviewed and updated at least annually, if necessary, with the recognition and parenthetical presentation of any resulting re-measurement gain or loss in policyholder benefits (except for discount rate changes) in the income statement; (ii) certain product guarantees for which benefit liabilities are accrued over the life of the contract in proportion to actual and future expected policy assessments; (iii) certain product guarantees reported as market risk benefits or index-linked interest credited features accounted for as embedded derivatives which are carried at fair value; and (iv) unearned revenue and assets for DAC, VOBA and DSI which are amortized on a constant level basis over the expected term of the related contracts using assumptions consistent with those used in estimating the related liability for future policy benefits, or any other related balances, for those corresponding contracts, as applicable.

At least annually, typically in the third quarter, we conduct a comprehensive review of the underlying assumptions within our actuarially determined assets and liabilities. These assumptions include, but are not limited to, policyholder behavior, mortality, expenses, investment returns and policy crediting rates. Changes in assumptions can result in a significant change to the carrying value of product liabilities and assets and, consequently, the impact could be material to earnings in the period of the change.

For further details of our accounting policies and related judgments pertaining to assumption updates, see “Significant Reinsurance Agreements and Update of Actuarial Assumptions and Models”, herein and “Accounting Policies and Pronouncements—Critical Accounting Estimates—Market Risk Benefits, Valuation of Embedded Derivatives for Fixed Index Annuity, Registered Index-Linked Annuity and Index Universal Life Products, Guaranteed Benefit Features of Variable Annuity, Fixed Annuity and Fixed Index Annuity Products, and Future Policy Benefits for Life, Accident and Health Insurance Contracts.”

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COREBRIDGE’S MACROECONOMIC, INDUSTRY AND REGULATORY TRENDS

Our business is affected by industry and economic factors such as changes in interest rates and credit spreads; geopolitical tensions; credit and equity market conditions; currency exchange rates; regulation; tax policy; competition; trade disputes with other countries, including the effect of sanctions and trade restrictions, such as tariffs and trade barriers imposed by the U.S. government and any countermeasures by other governments in response to such tariffs; and general economic, market and political conditions. We continued to operate under market conditions in 2025 and 2024 characterized by factors such as higher interest rates, inflationary pressures, an uneven global economic recovery and global trade tensions. Responses by central banks and monetary authorities with respect to inflation, growth concerns and other macroeconomic factors have also affected global exchange rates and volatility.

Below is a discussion of certain industry and economic factors impacting our business:

Equity Markets

Our financial results are impacted by the performance of equity markets, which impacts the performance of our alternative investment portfolio, fee income, MRBs and embedded derivatives. For instance, in our Group Retirement variable annuity separate accounts, mutual fund assets and brokerage and advisory assets, we generally earn fee income based on the account value, which fluctuates with the equity markets as a significant amount of these assets are invested in equity funds. The impact of equity market returns, both increases and decreases, is reflected in our results due to the impact on the account value and the fair values of equity-exposed securities in our investment portfolio.

Our hedging costs could also be significantly impacted by changes in the level of equity markets as rebalancing and option costs are tied to the equity market volatility.

For additional information see “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to Market Conditions—We are exposed to risk from equity market declines or volatility.”

Market and other economic factors may result in increased credit impairments, downgrades and losses across single or numerous asset classes due to lower collateral values or deteriorating cash flow and profitability by borrowers could lead to higher defaults on our investment portfolio, especially in geographic, industry or investment sectors where we have higher concentrations of exposure, such as real estate related borrowings. These factors can also cause widening of credit spreads which could reduce investment asset valuations, decrease fee income and increase statutory capital requirements, as well as reduce the availability of investments that are attractive from a risk-adjusted perspective.

For additional information see “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to Market Conditions—Our business is highly dependent on economic and capital market conditions.”

Alternative investments include private equity funds which are generally reported on a one-quarter lag. Accordingly, changes in valuations driven by equity market conditions during the fourth quarter of 2025 may impact the private equity investments in the alternative investments portfolio in the first quarter of 2026.

Impact of Changes in the Interest Rate Environment

A rising interest rate environment benefits our spread income as we reinvest cash flows from existing business at higher rates and should have a positive impact on sales of spread-based products.

As of December 31, 2025, new investments continue to have higher yields than the yield on maturities and redemptions that we are experiencing in our existing portfolios. We actively manage our exposure to the interest rate environment through portfolio construction and asset-liability management, including spread management strategies for our investment-oriented products and economic hedging of interest rate risk from guarantee features in our variable annuities, but we may not be able to fully mitigate our interest rate risk by matching exposure of our assets relative to our liabilities.

Fluctuations in interest rates may result in changes to certain statutory reserve or capital requirements that are based on formulas or models that consider interest rates or prescribed interest rates, such as asset adequacy testing. Rising interest rates can have a mixed impact on statutory financials due to higher surrender activity, particularly for fixed annuities, offset by potentially lower reserves for other products under various statutory reserving frameworks.

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Annuity Sales and Surrenders

Rising interest rates could create the potential for increased sales but could also drive higher surrenders relative to what we have historically experienced. Fixed annuities have surrender charge periods, generally in the three-to-seven-year range. Fixed index annuities have surrender charge periods, generally in the five-to-ten-year range, and within our Group Retirement segment, certain of our fixed investment options are subject to other withdrawal restrictions, which may help mitigate increased early surrenders in a rising rate environment. In addition, older contracts that have higher minimum interest rates and continue to be attractive to contract holders have driven better than expected persistency in fixed annuities, although the liabilities for such contracts have continued to decrease over time in amount and as a percentage of the total annuity portfolio. We closely monitor surrenders of fixed annuities as contracts with lower minimum interest rates come out of the surrender charge period.

Reinvestment and Spread Management

We actively monitor fixed income markets, including the level of interest rates, credit spreads and the shape of the yield curve. We also frequently review our interest rate assumptions and actively manage the crediting rates used for new and in-force business. Business strategies continue to evolve and we attempt to maintain profitability of the overall business in light of the interest rate environment. A rising interest rate environment results in improved yields on new investments and improves margins for our business while also making certain products, such as fixed annuities, more attractive to potential customers. However, the rising rate environment has resulted in lower values on general and separate account assets, mutual fund assets and brokerage and advisory assets that hold investments in fixed income assets.

For investment-oriented products, including universal life insurance, and variable, fixed, fixed index and registered index-linked annuities in each of our operating and reportable segments, our spread management strategies include disciplined pricing and product design for new business, modifying or limiting the sale of products that do not achieve targeted spreads, using asset-liability management to match assets to liabilities to the extent practicable and actively managing crediting rates to help mitigate some of the pressure on investment spreads. Renewal crediting rate management is guided by specific contract provisions designed to allow crediting rates to be reset at pre-established intervals and subject to minimum crediting rate guarantees. We expect to continue to adjust crediting rates on in-force business, as appropriate, to be responsive to changing rate environments. As interest rates rise, we may need to raise crediting rates on in-force business for competitive and other reasons, potentially offsetting a portion of the additional investment income resulting from investing in a higher interest rate environment.

Of the aggregate fixed account values of our Individual Retirement and Group Retirement annuity products, 40% and 47% were crediting at the contractual minimum guaranteed interest rate at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. In the universal life insurance products in our Life Insurance business, 59% and 59% of the account values were crediting at the contractual minimum guaranteed interest rate at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. These businesses continue to focus on pricing discipline and strategies to manage the minimum guaranteed interest crediting rates offered on new sales in the context of regulatory requirements and competitive positioning.

For additional information on our investment and asset-liability management strategies, see “Investments” below.

Regulatory Environment

The insurance and financial services industries are generally subject to close regulatory scrutiny and supervision. Our operations are subject to regulation by a number of different types of domestic and international regulatory authorities, including securities, derivatives and investment advisory regulators. Our insurance subsidiaries are subject to regulation and supervision by the states and jurisdictions in which they do business.

We expect that the domestic and international regulations applicable to us and our regulated entities will continue to evolve for the foreseeable future.

For example, on April 25, 2024, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) published a final rule in the Federal Register updating the definition for when a person is an “investment advice fiduciary” for purposes of transactions with ERISA qualified plans, related plan participants and IRAs. The DOL also published changes with respect to existing prohibited transactions exemptions (“PTEs”) relating to such advice, including PTE 84-24 and PTE 2020-02. Orders staying the rule’s September 23, 2024 effective date were issued by the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Texas and the Northern District of Texas on July 25, 2024 and July 26, 2024, respectively, in connection with separate lawsuits challenging the rule. On December 20, 2024, DOL filed a consolidated opening brief, appealing these two orders to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Since filing this appeal, DOL has asked the Fifth Circuit to hold the case in abeyance on multiple occasions. The matter is currently stayed and we are actively monitoring the progress of the litigation while continuing to evaluate potential impact of the DOL rule to our business.

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In February 2025, the NAIC announced the creation of a new Risk-Based Capital Model Governance (EX) Task Force as part of its efforts to update and strengthen the governance framework around risk-based capital requirements. The task force will consider changes to risk-based capital formulas used by insurance companies as a measure of solvency and conduct a gap-analysis to identify areas for improvement. In an interim meeting, the task force exposed a set of risk-based capital guiding principles and is seeking feedback. The work of the task force is ongoing and could result in changes to risk-based capital requirements and calculations in the future, which could affect our capital planning, investment strategies, reporting obligations and permitted disclosures. We are actively monitoring developments associated with this NAIC initiative and its potential impacts on our life insurance subsidiaries.

In June 2025, the Life Actuarial Task Force adopted updates to actuarial guidelines intended to enhance asset adequacy analysis for asset-intensive, life insurance and annuity reinsurance treaties above certain thresholds, and on August 13, 2025, the NAIC Executive and Plenary adopted such guidelines, referred to as Actuarial Guideline LV (“AG 55”). The updated guidelines are designed as a testing and disclosure regime with the first AG 55 reports due in April 2026. The NAIC plans to review the disclosures to identify any concerns with insurers’ approaches to asset adequacy testing, with the possibility of making additional changes that could lead to higher reserves for certain reinsurance agreements. We are actively monitoring developments associated with this NAIC initiative, which may be applicable to certain transactions that involve our life insurance subsidiaries acting as cedants. In July 2025, the NAIC also determined to reorganize a task force, the Invested Assets (E) Task Force, for the purpose of better understanding investment products with characteristics that pose unique risks to insurers and developing investment-related solvency policy changes. The task force became effective in January 2026. The task force’s work covered results in changes to accounting policies and risk-based capital requirements, and we will continue to monitor developments that may be relevant to our life insurance subsidiaries.

For information regarding our regulation and supervision by different regulatory authorities in the United States and abroad, see “Business—Regulation—U.S. Regulation” and “Business—Regulation—International Regulation.”

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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Key Operating Metrics

NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES

Throughout this MD&A, we present our financial condition and results of operations in the way we believe will be most meaningful and representative of our business results. Some of the measurements we use are “non-GAAP financial measures” under SEC rules and regulations. We believe presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures allows for a deeper understanding of the profitability drivers of our business, results of operations, financial condition and liquidity. These measures should be considered supplementary to our results of operations and financial condition that are presented in accordance with GAAP and should not be viewed as a substitute for GAAP measures. The non-GAAP financial measures we present may not be comparable to similarly named measures reported by other companies. Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures for future periods are not provided as we do not currently have sufficient data to accurately estimate the variables and individual adjustments for such reconciliations.

Adjusted revenues exclude Net realized gains (losses) except for gains (losses) related to the disposition of real estate investments, revenues from businesses exited through reinsurance, and income from non-operating litigation settlements (included in Other income for GAAP purposes).

The following table presents a reconciliation of Total revenues to Adjusted revenues:

*Represents all Net realized gains and losses except gains (losses) related to the disposition of real estate investments and earned income (periodic settlements and changes in settlement accruals) on derivative instruments used for non-qualifying (economic) hedging or for asset replication. Earned income for non-qualifying (economic) hedging or for asset replication is reclassified from Net realized gains and losses to specific APTOI line items (e.g., net investment income and interest credited to policyholder account balances) based on the economic risk being hedged.

Adjusted pre-tax operating income (“APTOI”) is derived by excluding the items set forth below from income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit). These items generally fall into one or more of the following broad categories: legacy matters having no relevance to our current businesses or operating performance; adjustments to enhance transparency to the underlying economics of transactions; and recording adjustments to APTOI that we believe to be common in our industry. We believe the adjustments to pre-tax income are useful for gaining an understanding of our overall results of operations.

APTOI excludes the impact of the following items:

FORTITUDE RE RELATED ADJUSTMENTS:

The modified coinsurance (“modco”) reinsurance agreements with Fortitude Re transfer the economics of the invested assets supporting the reinsurance agreements to Fortitude Re. Accordingly, the net investment income on Fortitude Re funds withheld assets and the net realized gains (losses) on Fortitude Re funds withheld assets are excluded from APTOI. Similarly, changes in the Fortitude Re funds withheld embedded derivative are also excluded from APTOI.

The ongoing results associated with the reinsurance agreement with Fortitude Re have been excluded from APTOI as these are not indicative of our ongoing business operations.

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INVESTMENT RELATED ADJUSTMENTS:

APTOI excludes “Net realized gains (losses)”, except for gains (losses) related to the disposition of real estate investments. Net realized gains (losses), except for gains (losses) related to the disposition of real estate investments, are excluded as the timing of sales on invested assets or changes in allowances depend largely on market credit cycles and can vary considerably across periods. In addition, changes in interest rates may create opportunistic scenarios to buy or sell invested assets. Our derivative results, including those used to economically hedge insurance liabilities, or those recognized as embedded derivatives at fair value, are also included in Net realized gains (losses) and are similarly excluded from APTOI except earned income (periodic settlements and changes in settlement accruals) on derivative instruments used for non-qualifying (economic) hedges or for asset replication. Earned income on such economic hedges is reclassified from Net realized gains and losses to specific APTOI line items based on the economic risk being hedged (e.g., Net investment income and Interest credited to policyholder account balances).

MARKET RISK BENEFIT ADJUSTMENTS:

Certain of our variable annuity, fixed annuity and fixed index annuity contracts contain GMWBs and/or GMDBs which are accounted for as MRBs. Changes in the fair value of these MRBs (excluding changes related to our own credit risk), including certain rider fees attributed to the MRBs are excluded from APTOI. MRBs related to the variable annuity business subject to the reinsurance agreements with CSLR are reported in the “Businesses exited through reinsurance” line item.

BUSINESSES EXITED THROUGH REINSURANCE:

Represents the results of businesses that have been or will be economically exited through reinsurance. This includes MRBs, along with changes in the fair value of derivatives used to hedge MRBs which are recorded through “Change in the fair value of MRBs, net.” The results of operations from these businesses have been excluded from APTOI as they are not indicative of our ongoing business operations.

OTHER ADJUSTMENTS:

Other adjustments represent all other adjustments that are excluded from APTOI and includes the net pre-tax operating income (losses) from noncontrolling interests related to consolidated investment entities. The excluded adjustments include, as applicable:

•restructuring and other costs related to initiatives designed to reduce operating expenses, improve efficiency and simplify our organization;

•non-recurring costs associated with the implementation of non-ordinary course legal or regulatory changes or changes to accounting principles;

•separation costs;

•non-operating litigation reserves and settlements;

•loss (gain) on extinguishment of debt, if any;

•losses from the impairment of goodwill, if any; and

•income and loss from divested or run-off business, if any.

Adjusted after-tax operating income available to common shareholders (“Adjusted After-tax Operating Income” or “AATOI”) is derived by excluding the tax effected APTOI adjustments described above and preferred stock dividends, as well as the following tax items from net income attributable to us:

•reclassifications of disproportionate tax effects from AOCI, changes in uncertain tax positions and other tax items related to legacy matters having no relevance to our current businesses or operating performance; and

•deferred income tax valuation allowance releases and charges.

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The following tables present a reconciliation of pre-tax income (loss)/net income (loss) available to Corebridge common shareholders to adjusted pre-tax operating income (loss)/adjusted after-tax operating income (loss) available to Corebridge common shareholders:

*Includes all net realized gains and losses except earned income (periodic settlements and changes in settlement accruals) on derivative instruments used for non-qualifying (economic) hedging or for asset replication. Additionally, gains (losses) related to the disposition of real estate investments are also excluded from this adjustment.

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The following table presents a reconciliation of the GAAP tax rate to the adjusted tax rate:

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Adjusted Book Value Available to Corebridge Common Shareholders is derived by excluding preferred stock as well as AOCI, adjusted for the cumulative unrealized gains and losses related to Fortitude Re’s funds withheld assets. We believe this measure is useful to investors as it eliminates the asymmetrical impact resulting from changes in fair value of our available-for-sale securities portfolio for which there is largely no offsetting impact for certain related insurance liabilities that are not recorded at fair value with changes in fair value recorded through OCI. It also eliminates asymmetrical impacts where our own credit non-performance risk is recorded through OCI. In addition, we adjust for the cumulative unrealized gains and losses related to Fortitude Re’s funds withheld assets since these fair value movements are economically transferred to Fortitude Re.

The following table presents the reconciliation of Book value per common share to Adjusted book value per common share:

Adjusted Return on Average Equity Available to Common Shareholders (“Adjusted ROAE”) is derived by dividing AATOI by average Adjusted Book Value available to Common Shareholders and is used by management to evaluate our recurring profitability and evaluate trends in our business. We believe this measure is useful to investors as it eliminates the asymmetrical impact resulting from changes in fair value of our available-for-sale securities portfolio for which there is largely no offsetting impact for certain related insurance liabilities that are not recorded at fair value with changes in fair value recorded through OCI. It also eliminates asymmetrical impacts where our own credit non-performance risk is recorded through OCI. In addition, we adjust for the cumulative unrealized gains and losses related to Fortitude Re’s funds withheld assets since these fair value movements are economically transferred to Fortitude Re.

The following table presents the reconciliation of Adjusted ROAE available to common shareholder’s:

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Premiums and deposits is a non-GAAP financial measure that includes direct and assumed premiums received and earned on traditional life insurance policies and life-contingent payout annuities, as well as deposits received on universal life insurance, investment-type annuity contracts and GICs. We believe the measure of premiums and deposits is useful in understanding customer demand for our products, evolving product trends and our sales performance period over period.

The following table presents the premiums and deposits:

(a)Other principally consists of ceded premiums, in order to reflect gross premiums and deposits.

(b)Excludes client deposits into advisory and brokerage accounts of $3.1 billion, $3.1 billion and $2.4 billion for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

(c)Includes inflows related to in-plan mutual funds of $3.1 billion, $3.1 billion and $3.2 billion for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

Net investment income (APTOI basis) is the sum of base portfolio income and variable investment income. We believe that presenting net investment income on an APTOI basis is useful for gaining an understanding of the main drivers of investment income.

The following table presents a reconciliation of net investment income (net income basis) to net investment income (APTOI basis):

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KEY OPERATING METRICS

Assets Under Management and Administration

Assets Under Management (“AUM”) include assets in the general and separate accounts of our subsidiaries that support liabilities and surplus related to our life and annuity insurance products.

Assets Under Administration (“AUA”) include Group Retirement mutual fund assets and other third-party assets that we sell or administer and the notional value of SVW contracts.

Assets Under Management and Administration (“AUMA”) is the cumulative amount of AUM and AUA.

The following table presents a summary of our AUMA:

* The December 31, 2023 AUMA excludes $181 million of assets that were reclassified to Assets held-for-sale in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

Fee and Spread income and Underwriting Margin

Fee income is defined as policy fees plus advisory fees plus other fee income. For our Institutional Markets segment, its SVW products generate fee income.

Spread income is defined as net investment income less interest credited to policyholder account balances, exclusive of amortization of deferred sales inducement assets. Spread income is comprised of both base spread income and variable investment income. For our Institutional Markets segment, its structured settlements, PRT and GIC products generate spread income, which includes premiums, net investment income, less interest credited and policyholder benefits and excludes the annual assumption update.

Underwriting margin for our Life Insurance segment includes premiums, policy fees, other income, net investment income, less interest credited to policyholder account balances and policyholder benefits and excludes the annual assumption update. For our Institutional Markets segment, its Corporate Markets products generate underwriting margin, which includes premiums, net investment income, policy and advisory fee income, less interest credited and policyholder benefits and excludes the annual assumption update.

Base portfolio income includes interest, dividends and foreclosed real estate income, net of investment expenses and non-qualifying (economic) hedges.

Variable investment income includes call and tender income from make-whole payments on commercial mortgage loan prepayments, changes in market value of investments accounted for under the fair value option, interest received on defaulted investments (other than foreclosed real estate), income from alternative investments and other miscellaneous investment income, including income of certain partnership entities that are required to be consolidated. Alternative investments include private equity funds which are generally reported on a one-quarter lag.

Base spread income means base portfolio income less interest credited to policyholder account balances, excluding the amortization of deferred sales inducement assets.

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Base net investment spread means base yield less cost of funds, excluding the amortization of deferred sales inducement assets.

Base yield means the returns from base portfolio income including accretion and impacts from holding cash and short-term investments.

The following table presents a summary of our spread income, fee income and underwriting margin:

Net Investment Income (APTOI Basis)

The following table presents a summary of our four insurance operating businesses’ net investment income on an APTOI basis:

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Net Flows

Net flows for annuity products in Individual Retirement and Group Retirement represent premiums and deposits less death, surrender and other withdrawal benefits. Net flows for mutual funds represent deposits less withdrawals. For Group Retirement, client deposits into advisory and brokerage accounts less total client withdrawals from advisory and brokerage accounts are not included in net flows.

The following table presents a summary of our Net Flows:

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Consolidated Results of Operations

The following section provides a comparative discussion of our consolidated results of operations on a reported basis for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023. For factors that relate primarily to a specific business, see “— Business Segment Operations.”

For a comparative discussion regarding Corebridge’s results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024 and the year ended December 31, 2023 see the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 (the “2024 Form 10-K ”).

The following table presents certain balance sheet data:

Financial Highlights

2025 to 2024 Net Income Comparison

Income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit)

We recorded pre-tax loss of $541 million in the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to pre-tax income of $2.8 billion in the year ended December 31, 2024. The change in pre-tax income was primarily due to:

•higher net realized losses of $2.1 billion primarily driven by higher losses from Fortitude Re related balances and higher losses from derivatives and index-linked interest credited embedded derivatives, net of related hedges;

•higher policyholder benefits of $1.5 billion primarily on new pension risk transfer business;

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•higher interest credited to policyholder account balances of $693 million primarily due to higher crediting rates and higher sales activity in fixed and fixed index annuities and registered index-linked annuities and growing GIC business;

•higher unfavorable change in the fair value of market risk benefits, net of $711 million primarily driven by impacts of lower interest rates and higher equity markets compared to the prior year, partially offset by the impact of the reinsurance agreement with CSLR; and

•lower net gain on divestitures of $245 million primarily from the gain on the sale of AIG Life U.K. in 2024.

Partially offset by:

•higher premiums of $1.3 billion primarily on new pension risk transfer business; and

•higher net investment income of $896 million primarily driven by higher base portfolio and variable investment income.

Income tax expense (benefit)

For the year ended December 31, 2025, there was an income tax benefit of $151 million on loss from operations, resulting in an effective tax rate on loss from operations of 27.9%.

Adjusted pre-tax operating income

The following table presents total Corebridge’s adjusted pre-tax operating income:

*Net realized gains (losses) includes the gains (losses) related to the disposition of real estate investments.

2025 to 2024 APTOI Comparison

APTOI decreased $201 million, primarily due to:

•higher policyholder benefits of $1.5 billion primarily on new pension risk transfer business; and

•higher interest credited to policyholder account balances of $813 million primarily due to higher crediting rates and higher sales activity in fixed and fixed index annuities and registered index-linked annuities and continued growth in our GIC business.

Partially offset by:

•higher premiums of $1.3 billion primarily on new pension risk transfer business; and

•higher net investment income of $1.0 billion primarily driven by higher base portfolio income and higher variable investment income.

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Business Segment Operations

Our business operations consist of five reportable segments:

•Individual Retirement – consists of fixed annuities, fixed index annuities and registered index-linked annuities.

•Group Retirement – consists of recordkeeping, plan administrative and compliance services, financial planning and advisory solutions offered in-plan, along with proprietary and limited non-proprietary annuities, advisory and brokerage products offered out-of-plan.

•Life Insurance – consists of term and universal life insurance products in the United States. The International Life business issued individual and group life insurance in the United Kingdom. On October 31, 2023 Corebridge completed the sale of Laya and on April 8, 2024, Corebridge completed the sale of AIG Life U.K.

•Institutional Markets – consists of SVW products, structured settlement and PRT annuities, GICs and Corporate Markets products that include corporate- and bank-owned life insurance (“COLI-BOLI”), private placement variable universal life and private placement variable annuities products.

•Corporate and Other – consists primarily of:

–corporate expenses not attributable to our other segments;

–interest expense on financial debt;

–results of our consolidated investment entities;

–institutional asset management business, which includes managing assets for non-consolidated affiliates;

–results of our legacy insurance lines ceded to Fortitude Re; and

–results of our individual variable annuity business that is reinsured to CSLR.

The closing with respect to the AGL Reinsurance Agreement occurred on August 1, 2025. Accordingly, retrospectively, effective in the third quarter of 2025, our individual variable annuity business previously reported in the Individual Retirement segment, is now included within Corporate and Other, consistent with how the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) assesses its performance and allocates its resources. Prior periods presented herein have been recast to conform to the new segment presentation. Additionally, the results of operations from the variable annuity business have been excluded from Adjusted Pre-Tax Operating Income (“APTOI”) as they are not indicative of our ongoing business operations.

The following tables summarize adjusted pre-tax operating income (loss) from our segments:

See Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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DISCUSSION OF SEGMENT RESULTS

Individual Retirement

Individual Retirement Results

*Includes advisory fee income from registered investment services, 12b-1 fees (i.e., marketing and distribution fee income), and other asset management fee income.

Individual Retirement Sources of Earnings

The following table presents the sources of earnings of the Individual Retirement segment. We believe providing APTOI using this view is useful for gaining an understanding of our overall results of operations and the significant drivers of our earnings:

(a)Excludes amortization of DSI of $37 million, $41 million and $45 million for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 respectively.

(b)Other represents advisory fee expenses.

Financial Highlights

2025 to 2024 APTOI Comparison

APTOI decreased $157 million, primarily due to:

•higher amortization of DAC and DSI of $66 million driven by growth in the business;

•higher non-deferrable insurance commissions of $40 million primarily due to continued growth in the fixed and fixed index annuity business;

•higher policyholder benefits, net of premiums, of $37 million due to prior year benefit from model refinements related to immediate annuities; and

•lower spread income of $28 million primarily driven by lower base spread income of $52 million, primarily due to the negative impact of 2024 Federal Reserve rate actions partially offset by general account growth and asset optimization, partially offset by higher variable investment income of $24 million to higher alternative and yield enhancement income.

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Partially offset by:

•higher fee income of $43 million, primarily due to higher GMWB fees from fixed and fixed index annuity growth.

2024 to 2023 APTOI Comparison

APTOI increased $145 million, primarily due to:

•higher spread income of $210 million primarily driven by higher base spread income of $156 million due to improved base yields and growth in invested assets driven by higher sales and higher variable investment income of $54 million due to higher alternative income; and

•higher fee income of $57 million, primarily due to higher GMWB fees from fixed and fixed index annuity growth and higher surrender charge fee income mostly from an increase in fixed index annuity surrenders.

Partially offset by:

•higher amortization of DAC and DSI of $45 million due to growth in fixed and fixed index annuity business; and

•higher non-deferrable insurance commissions of $21 million primarily due to continued growth in the fixed index annuity business.

AUMA

The following table presents Individual Retirement AUMA:

2025 to 2024 AUMA Comparison

AUMA increased $14.7 billion primarily due to positive net flows and lower interest rates resulting in unrealized gains from fixed maturities securities.

2024 to 2023 AUMA Comparison

AUMA increased $10.9 billion primarily due to positive general account net flows.

Spread and Fee Income

The following table presents Individual Retirement spread and fee income:

*Excludes amortization of DSI assets of $37 million, $41 million and $45 million for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

The following table presents Individual Retirement net investment spread:

*Includes returns from base portfolio including accretion and income (loss) from certain other invested assets.

2025 to 2024 Comparison

See “Financial Highlights.”

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