Corebridge signals $2.55B individual retirement base spread income outlook for 2026 while accelerating digital investments

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• As we turn to 2027, I would look at 2027 guidance to be in the upper half of our guidance as opposed to the lower half in 2026.

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• Our legacy liabilities comprised approximately 1% of the balance sheet.

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• Operating expenses expected to grow approximately 4% to 5% or $60 million in operating GOE before the full benefits of these strategic investments begin to be realized.

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• It's too early to tell what the take-up rate has given us, a couple of weeks in, but we feel quite comfortable that we've met all of our usual approach to risk manage the portfolio.

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• Our adjusted ROE was 12.5%, an increase of 140 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2024.

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• We grew Institutional Markets sales by 24%, overall, led by pension risk transfers and guaranteed investment contracts to drive both current and future earnings growth...In 2025, Corebridge executed the industry's largest variable annuity reinsurance transaction to date.

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• We reported adjusted pretax operating income of $760 million or operating EPS of $1.22, representing a 15% year-over-year increase.

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• That business, by its nature, is lumpy...but we feel we have a value proposition that's differentiated in the market, and we continue to be quite optimistic about its future.

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• we feel comfortable with the risk return profile of our business.

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• We expect to meet our key financial targets for adjusted ROE, capital return and run rate EPS growth, though at the lower end of our targeted range of 10% to 15%.

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• We were able, over the course, to adjust the investment allocation, which gave us the flexibility to reduce these macro hedges, and that's what kind of reduced our sensitivity.

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• We expect to grow our total sources of income for the year on the strength of our favorable demographic trends, a competitive and diverse product suite and industry-leading distribution.

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• The business is in transition from spread business to fee business and that takes some time. We think there's another 12 to 24 months in that transition while we hit the trough there in terms of overall revenue, and then we'll start to increase.

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• We estimate that overall base spread income for the Individual Retirement business will be in the ZIP code of $2.55 billion for 2026.

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• Corebridge had a strong year in 2025. Earnings per share were up 4% year-over-year. Return on average equity was up 20 basis points and capital returned to our shareholders was up 13%.

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• Identified a $30 billion opportunity from expanding Wealth Management through IRA rollovers, enhancing adviser force, and upgrading digital capabilities

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• Sensitivity to short-term interest rate movements is now down nearly 75% since mid-2024. An additional 25 basis points reduction in SOFR will impact operating earnings by $20 million to $25 million on a go-forward basis.

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