Prudential 2001 Annual Report Download - page 73

Prudential Financial, Inc.
Operating Results
The following table sets forth the International Insurance segment’s operating results for the periods indicated.
Year Ended December 31,
2001 2000 1999
(in millions)
Operating results:
Revenues(1):
International Insurance, excluding Gibraltar Life .................................................. $2,120 $1,920 $1,522
Gibraltar Life ............................................................................. 2,026 — —
4,146 1,920 1,522
Benefits and expenses:
International Insurance, excluding Gibraltar Life .................................................. 1,771 1,624 1,304
Gibraltar Life ............................................................................. 1,764 — —
3,535 1,624 1,304
Adjusted operating income ....................................................................... $ 611 $ 296 $ 218
(1) Revenues exclude realized investment gains, net of losses.
Adjusted Operating Income
2001 to 2000 Annual Comparison. Adjusted operating income increased $315 million from 2000 to 2001. Results
of Gibraltar Life, which we include in our results from April 2, 2001, the date of the reorganization, through
November 30, 2001, contributed $262 million to the increase in adjusted operating income. The International
Insurance segment reported adjusted operating income of $172 million for the fourth quarter of 2001, including $77
million from Gibraltar Life.
The $262 million adjusted operating income reported by Gibraltar Life reflected revenues of $2.026 billion and
benefits and expenses of $1.764 billion. Gibraltar Life’s revenues were comprised primarily of $1.710 billion of
premiums, policy charges and fees, and $304 million net investment income, and its benefits and expenses were
comprised primarily of $1.358 billion of policy benefits including changes in reserves and $406 million of operating
expenses. As a result of Gibraltar Life’s recent emergence from reorganization proceedings and the reduction in
benefits for in force policies, when we established Gibraltar Life’s initial liability for future policy benefits, we
assumed a higher than normal level of policy surrenders for the near term. Our surrender rate assumptions for
Gibraltar Life’s years of operations, commencing at the date of reorganization, are 6% in the first year and 4%
thereafter for paid-up policies and 2% to 38% in the first year, 3% to 14% in the second year, and 6% to 10%
thereafter for premium paying policies, although the actual surrender rates we experience may differ materially from
our assumptions. Gibraltar Life’s adjusted operating income for the initial eight-month period included in our results
benefited from gains on policy surrenders of about $56 million, including about $6 million in the three months
ended November 30, 2001. Substantially all of this contribution to adjusted operating income resulted from a high
level of surrenders due to customer response to the initial impact of policy changes introduced as part of Gibraltar
Life’s reorganization. These surrenders, which were significantly greater in the initial eight-month period than the
level we expect on an ongoing basis, are not anticipated to have a material adverse impact on future results from
Gibraltar Life. Future surrender experience in the near term may be significantly different from the levels we
assumed, and our future adjusted operating income will be sensitive to differences in actual surrender experience
from our assumptions, particularly during an initial period of about two years from the date of reorganization. We
estimate that every 1% of in force policies that surrender in excess of our assumed level would contribute $40 to
$50 million to our adjusted operating income for the period of the surrenders, and conversely that for every 1% of in
force policies that surrender below our assumed level, our reported adjusted operating income would be negatively
affected by $40 to $50 million.
Adjusted operating income, excluding the impact of the Gibraltar Life acquisition discussed above, increased $53
million, or 18%, from 2000 to 2001. Adjusted operating income for 2001 benefited $8 million from a refinement in
the methodology used to calculate reserves in our Korean operations. Excluding this item, adjusted operating
income increased $45 million, or 15%. The increase came from improved results both from our operations in
countries other than Japan and our Japanese insurance operations. Our operations in countries other than Japan
contributed adjusted operating income of $6 million for 2001, excluding the reserve refinement, compared to an
operating loss of $19 million for 2000, as increased profits from our operations in Korea and Taiwan more than
offset continued costs associated with our expansion into additional countries. Our Japanese insurance operations
reported continuing improved results, with adjusted operating income of $335 million in 2001 compared to $315
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