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FG, F&G Annuities & Life Inc.
Life Insurance Company of New York, we market a broad portfolio of annuities, including fixed indexed annuities, registered index-linked annuities,, multi-year guarantee annuities as well as pension risk transfer solutions, indexed universal life insurance and institutional funding agreements.
As of December 31, 2025, F&G has approximately 778,000 policyholders who count on the safety and protection of our fixed annuity and life insurance products.
We now operate in and source significant premiums from three distinct retail channels and two institutional markets versus a single channel prior to the acquisition by FNF in June 2020.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
The business in brief
read the 10-K →What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- What moves the needle
- The spread on the float and the growth in book value. What decides it: the gap between what the invested reserves earn and what is credited to policyholders, the mortality and fee margins on top, and the scale of the float against equity. Benefits exceed premiums by design, so a P&C combined ratio is the wrong lens; the risks are interest rates and reserve adequacy. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on cyclicality & demand, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
- Is it a good business?
- A life insurer is read on the spread it earns on a large float and the growth in book value, not a combined ratio: benefits exceed premiums by design, since claims fall due decades after the premium and are funded by the investment income on accumulated reserves. Book value per share has slipped about 7% a year across the record, though much of that swing is rising rates marking the bond portfolio down through other comprehensive income rather than economic loss. The float runs about 2.3× equity, the leverage that magnifies the spread. Whether the spread holds as rates move, and whether the reserves prove adequate, are what the 10-K decides, not an earnings multiple.
Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, 2021–2025
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2021’21 | 2022’22 | 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | TTMTTMMar 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||
| $4.0B | $3.4B | $4.6B | $5.7B | $5.7B | $6.0B | RevenueRevenue |
| $1.4B | $1.7B | $2.4B | $2.9B | $2.8B | $2.8B | Premiums earnedPremiums |
| $1.9B | $1.7B | $2.2B | $2.7B | $2.8B | $2.9B | Investment incomeInv. inc. |
| $1.2B | $635M | ($58M) | $639M | $265M | $534M | Net incomeNet inc. |
| 21% | 20% | — | 18% | 16% | 20% | Effective tax rateTax rate |
| Cash flow & returns | ||||||
| $1.9B | $3.2B | $5.8B | $6.0B | $4.7B | $4.5B | Operating cash flowOp. cash |
| 25% | 26% | -2% | 16% | 6% | 12% | Return on equityROE |
| 25% | 26% | −5% | — | — | 9% | Retained to equityRetained/eq |
| Balance sheet | ||||||
| $4.9B | $5.0B | $7.0B | $8.7B | $10.8B | $10.7B | Float (reserves)Float |
| $48.7B | $54.6B | $70.2B | $84.9B | $98.4B | $101.0B | Total assetsAssets |
| $1.9B | $2.5B | $3.0B | $4.7B | $2.5B | $2.3B | Cash & investmentsCash+inv |
| $5.0B | $2.4B | $3.1B | $4.0B | $4.8B | $4.6B | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | ||||||
| 105M | 115M | 124M | 131M | 132M | 139M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $11.81 | $5.52 | $-0.47 | $4.88 | $2.01 | $3.84 | EPS (diluted)EPS |
| $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.81 | — | — | $0.73 | Dividends / shareDiv/sh |
| $47.94 | $20.91 | $25.02 | $30.16 | $36.39 | $33.37 | Book value / shareBVPS |
| 4-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | +3.5%/yr | +3.5%/yr (4-yr) |
| EPS | −35.8%/yr | −35.8%/yr (4-yr) |
| Book value / share | −6.7%/yr | −6.7%/yr (4-yr) |
The record, charted
FY2021–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
Is it a good business?
- Below the cost of equityNet income $265M ÷ equity $4.8BIndustry peers: median 11%
What this means
What it earns on shareholders' capital, the underwriting result plus what the float earns invested. Durably above the ~10% cost of equity is what compounds book value.
- Investment income $2.8Bearned on investmentsNet investment income $2.8B
What this means
What the float and capital earned this year. This is the second engine: an insurer that breaks even on underwriting still wins if the float is large and invested well.
The float and book value
- Float (reserves) $10.8B2.2× equityLoss and claim reserves $10.8B, 2.2× equity
What this means
Money held against future claims and invested in the meantime. Buffett's insight was that good underwriting makes this float cost less than nothing, a pool of other people's money the owners earn on. Measured here from loss and claim reserves only; it excludes unearned premiums and funds held, so the true float is somewhat larger than shown. The larger it is against equity, the more that leverage works, for better or worse.
- the compounding scoreboardEquity $4.8B ÷ 132M shares
What this means
A life insurer is judged the way Berkshire is, by the growth in book value per share over the years as the spread on the float and the mortality and fee margins compound into equity. This is the level today; the record below shows whether it has grown. Note that reported book value swings with interest rates, which mark the bond portfolio up and down through other comprehensive income.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Low contestabilityThe moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.
AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat.
Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.
All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.
Debt maturity
the debt note, SEC EDGAR →Not how much it owes, but when it falls due, and against what. The ladder the company files, beside cash on hand and a year's owner earnings.
Bars scaled to the largest single year; “later” is everything due after 2030, shown apart since it dwarfs the years.
Maturity schedule extracted from the company’s Dec 31, 2025 annual report and reconciled to the total the table states.
Management, ownership & pay
read the proxy →From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.
| Fiscal year | Chief executive | Pay, as filed | “Actually paid” | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Mr. Blunt | $10.4M | $6.0M | $635M |
| 2023 | Mr. Blunt | $10.6M | $19.4M | ($58M) |
| 2024 | Mr. Blunt | $11.2M | $9.7M | $639M |
| 2025 | Mr. Blunt | $10.9M | $6.3M | $265M |
Both pay figures are the company’s own, from the pay-versus-performance table its proxy statement files. “As filed” is the Summary Compensation Table total: salary, bonus, and equity awards at their value on the day of grant. “Actually paid” is the SEC’s prescribed recalculation, which re-marks those equity awards to what they became as they vested; it can swing far above or below the filed figure in either direction, and negative years occur. Net income is the whole business's, as filed, for the same fiscal years.
- CEO pay ratio77:1
What the chief earns for every dollar the median employee makes, per the 2026 proxy. A high ratio alone settles nothing; some businesses are genuinely top-heavy in scarce skill. A runaway figure is where Buffett starts asking whether the board is doing its job.
What an owner would ask, FY2025
read the 10-K →- Does management own its misses?1 plain admission in this year's filing
“As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, $1,185 million and $771 million, respectively, of collateral was posted by our counterparties as they did not meet the net exposure thresholds.”verify →
The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.
Peers, Insurance — Life & Health
The same industry, side by side on the spread-and-book-value lens. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.
| Company | Revenue | ROE | Return on assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| LNCLincoln National | $18.2B | 11% | 0.4% |
| VOYAVoya Financial Inc. | $8.2B | 11% | 0.4% |
| GNWGenworth Financial Inc | $7.3B | 2% | 0.3% |
| BHFBrighthouse Financial Inc. | $6.8B | 2% | -0.0% |
| JXNJackson Financial Inc. | $6.7B | 9% | 0.3% |
| GLGlobe Life Inc. | $6.0B | 20% | 3.3% |
| FGF&G Annuities & Life Inc. | $5.7B | 16% | 0.8% |
| PRIPrimerica | $3.3B | 23% | 2.9% |
| Group median | — | 11% | 0.4% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
price / tangible bookAn insurer is worth a multiple of its tangible book value, and the multiple it deserves is set by the return it earns on that book. Type today’s price; we show what you would be paying against what F&G Annuities & Life Inc.’s record justifies.
Tangible book / share, delivered15%/yr’21→’25
The justified multiple is (return on tangible equity − growth) ÷ (cost of equity − growth). An insurer earning exactly its cost of equity is worth about one times tangible book; the premium above that prices each point of durable excess return. A higher cost of equity lowers the justified multiple for an insurer.
Enter a price above to run it.
Graham applied the same standards to financial enterprises (Intelligent Investor ch.14): the 15× multiple cap on averaged earnings, and P/E times price-to-book at most 22.5. The gate marks the bargain-hunter’s floor, not a verdict.
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Tangible book $2.0B on 132M shares, a 33% normalized return on it. The dials set the multiple such a return would justify; your price sets the multiple you are paying. It assumes the insurer keeps earning that return; an underwriting cycle, a reserve shortfall or a bad year on the float changes it, which is what the record and the 10-K are for.
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