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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

__________________________

FORM 10-K


☑			ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, ~~2024~~ 2025


☐			TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from ___ to ___

Commission File Number: 033-03094

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

06-0566090

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

11225 North Community House Road, Charlotte, North Carolina

28277

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)

(980) 365-7100

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None


Title of each class	Trading symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ¨ No þ

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Act. Yes ¨ No þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes þ No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer

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Accelerated filer

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Non-accelerated filer

Smaller reporting company

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Emerging growth company

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☐

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No þ

As of ~~March~~February 327, ~~2025~~2026, 3,000 shares of the registrant’s common stock were outstanding, all of which were owned indirectly by Brighthouse Financial, Inc.

REDUCED DISCLOSURE FORMAT

The registrant meets the conditions set forth in General Instruction I(1)(a) and (b) of Form 10-K and is therefore filing this Annual Report on Form 10-K with the reduced disclosure format.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE: NONE

Table of Contents

Page

Part I

Item 1.

Business

Item 1A.

Risk Factors

2122

Item 1B.

Unresolved Staff Comments

4144

Item 1C.

Cybersecurity

4144

Item 2.

Properties

4345

Item 3.

Legal Proceedings

4345

Item 4.

Mine Safety Disclosures

4345

Part II

Item 5.

Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

4346

Item 6.

[Reserved]

4346

Item 7.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

4447

Item 7A.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

5964

Item 8.

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

6368

Item 9.

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

~~155~~160

Item 9A.

Controls and Procedures

~~155~~160

Item 9B.

Other Information

~~155~~160

Item 9C.

Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections

~~155~~160

Part III

Item 10.

Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

~~156~~161

Item 11.

Executive Compensation

~~156~~161

Item 12.

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

~~156~~161

Item 13.

Certain Relationships, Related Person Transactions and Director Independence

~~156~~161

Item 14.

Principal Accountant Fees and Services

~~156~~161

Part IV

Item 15.

Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

~~157~~162

Item 16.

Form 10-K Summary

~~157~~162

Exhibit Index

~~158~~163

Signatures

~~159~~164

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Throughout this Annual Report on Form 10-K, “BLIC,” the “Company,” “we,” “our” and “us” refer to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and its subsidiaries, and “Brighthouse Life Insurance Company” refers solely to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and not to any of its subsidiaries. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (“BHF” and, together with its subsidiaries, “Brighthouse Financial”). The term “Separation” refers to the separation of a substantial portion of MetLife, Inc.’s (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, “MetLife”) former Retail segment, as well as certain portions of its former Corporate Benefit Funding segment, into a separate, publicly-traded company, Brighthouse Financial, which was completed on August 4, 2017. Actions or activity prior to the completion of the Separation described herein, including with respect to our products, relate to predecessor entities and are provided for historical context.

On November 6, 2025, BHF entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Aquarian Holdings VI L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Aquarian Parent”), Aquarian Beacon Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Aquarian Parent (“Merger Sub”), and Aquarian Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, solely for the purpose of certain provisions, pursuant to which, at the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub will merge with and into BHF, with BHF surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aquarian Parent (the “Merger”).

Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Summary of Risk Factors

This report and other oral or written statements that we make from time to time may contain information that includes or is based upon forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties. We have tried, wherever possible, to identify such statements using words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “may,” “will,” “could,” “intend,” “goal,” “target,” “guidance,” “forecast,” “preliminary,” “objective,” “continue,” “aim,” “plan,” “believe” and other words and terms of similar meaning, or that are tied to future periods, in connection with a discussion of future operating or financial performance. In particular, these include, without limitation, statements relating to future actions, prospective services or products, financial projections, future performance or results of current and anticipated services or products, sales efforts, expenses, the outcome of contingencies such as legal proceedings, as well as trends in operating and financial results. The list below is also a summary of the material risks and uncertainties that could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. You should read this summary together with the more detailed description of the risks and uncertainties in “Risk Factors.”

Any or all forward-looking statements may turn out to be wrong. They can be affected by inaccurate assumptions or by known or unknown risks and uncertainties. Many such factors will be important in determining the actual future results of BLIC. These statements are based on current expectations and the current economic environment and involve a number of risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. These statements are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements due to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. Although it is not possible to identify all of these risks and factors, they include, among others:

•BHF’s ability to complete the Merger in the timeframe or manner currently anticipated or at all, including due to a failure to obtain the regulatory approvals required for the closing of the Merger or the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the right of one or both of the parties to terminate the Merger Agreement;

•the effect of the pendency of the Merger on Brighthouse Financial’s ongoing business and operations, including disruption to business relationships, or the diversion of management’s attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities, or the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Aquarian Parent or BHF following announcement of the Merger;

•restrictions on the conduct of Brighthouse Financial’s business prior to the closing of the Merger and on Brighthouse Financial’s ability to pursue alternatives to the Merger;

•the possibility that the Merger may be more expensive to complete than anticipated, including as a result of unexpected factors or events;

•differences between actual experience and actuarial assumptions and the effectiveness of our actuarial models;

•higher risk management costs and exposure to increased market risk due to guarantees within certain of our products;

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•the effectiveness of our risk management strategy and the impacts of such strategy on volatility in our profitability measures and the negative effects on our statutory capital;

•material differences between actual outcomes and the sensitivities calculated under certain scenarios that we may utilize in connection with our risk management strategies;

•the impact of interest rates on our future universal life with secondary guarantees (“ULSG”) policyholder obligations and net income volatility;

•the potential material adverse effect of changes in accounting standards, practices or policies applicable to us~~, including changes in the accounting for long-duration contracts~~;

•loss of business and other negative impacts resulting from a downgrade or a potential downgrade in our financial strength ratings;

•the availability of reinsurance and the ability of the counterparties to our reinsurance or indemnification arrangements to perform their obligations thereunder;

•heightened competition, including with respect to service, product features, product mix, scale, price, actual or perceived financial strength, claims-paying ratings, e-business capabilities and name recognition;

•our ability to market and distribute our products through distribution channels and maintain relationships with key distribution partners;

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•any failure of third parties to provide services we need, any failure of the practices and procedures of such third parties and any inability to obtain information or assistance we need from third parties;

•Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s ability to pay dividends, as well as the ability of its subsidiaries to pay dividends to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company;

•the risks associated with climate change;

•the adverse impact of public health crises, extreme mortality events or similar occurrences on our business and the economy in general;

•the impact of adverse capital and credit market conditions, including with respect to our ability to meet liquidity needs and access capital;

•the impact of economic conditions in the capital markets and the U.S. and global economy, as well as geopolitical events, tariffs imposed or threatened by the U.S. or foreign governments, military actions or catastrophic events, on our profitability measures as well as our investment portfolio, including on realized and unrealized losses and impairments, net investment spread and net investment income;

•the financial risks that our investment portfolio is subject to, including credit risk, interest rate risk, inflation risk, market valuation risk, liquidity risk, real estate risk, derivatives risk, and other factors outside our control;

•the impact of changes in regulation and in supervisory and enforcement policies or interpretations thereof on our ~~insurance~~ business or other operations;

•the potential material negative tax impact of potential future tax legislation that could make some of our products less attractive to consumers or increase our tax liability;

•the effectiveness of our policies, procedures and processes in managing risk;

•the loss or disclosure of confidential information, damage to our reputation and impairment of our ability to conduct business effectively as a result of any failure in cyber- or other information security systems;

•whether all or any portion of the tax consequences of the Separation are not as expected, leading to material additional taxes or material adverse consequences to tax attributes that impact us; and

•other factors described in this report and from time to time in documents that we file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

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For the reasons described above, we caution you against relying on any forward-looking statements, which should also be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements included and the risks, uncertainties and other factors identified in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, particularly in the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk,” as well as in our other subsequent filings with the SEC. Further, any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which the statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as otherwise may be required by law.

Note Regarding Reliance on Statements in Our Contracts

See “Exhibit Index — Note Regarding Reliance on Statements in Our Contracts” for information regarding agreements included as exhibits to this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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PART I

Item 1. Business

Index to Business

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Our Company			56
Segment Information			56
Reinsurance Activity			56
Sales Distribution			78
Regulation			89
Competition			1921

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Our Company

We offer a range of annuity and life insurance products to individuals and deliver our products through multiple independent distribution channels and marketing arrangements with a diverse network of distribution partners. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, a Delaware corporation, is licensed to write business in all U.S. states (except New York), the District of Columbia, the Bahamas, Guam, Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company of NY (“BHNY”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, is domiciled in New York and licensed to write business only in New York.

Segment Information

We are organized into the following reportable segments: Annuities; Life; Run-off; and Corporate & Other. In addition to the discussion that follows, refer to Note 2 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding each of our segments.

Annuities

Our Annuities segment consists of a variety of variable, fixed, index-linked and income annuities designed to address contract holders’ needs for protected wealth accumulation on a tax-deferred basis, wealth transfer and income security. The “variable” and “fixed” classifications describe generally whether we or the contract holder bears the investment risk of the assets supporting the contract and determine the manner in which we earn profits from these products, as asset-based fees charged for variable products or generally as investment spreads for fixed products. Index-linked annuities allow the contract holder to participate in returns from specified equity indices and, in the case of our flagship suite of Shield® Level Annuities (“Shield,” “Shield Annuity” and “Shield Annuities”), provide a specified level of market downside protection. Income annuities provide a guaranteed monthly income for a specified period of years or for the life of the annuitant.

Life

Our Life segment consists of insurance products, including term, universal, whole and variable life products designed to address policyholders’ needs for financial security and protected wealth transfer, which may be on a tax-advantaged basis.

Run-off

Our Run-off segment consists primarily of products that are no longer actively sold and are separately managed, including ULSG, structured settlements, pension risk transfer contracts, certain company-owned life insurance policies and certain funding agreements.

Corporate & Other

Our Corporate & Other segment consists of activities related to funding agreements associated with our institutional spread margin business, excess capital not allocated to the other segments and interest expense related to our outstanding debt, as well as expenses associated with certain legal proceedings and income tax audit issues. Corporate & Other also includes long-term care business reinsured through 100% quota share reinsurance agreements. See Note 3 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on funding agreements.

Reinsurance Activity

Unaffiliated Third-Party Reinsurance

In connection with our risk management efforts and in order to provide opportunities for growth and capital management, we enter into reinsurance arrangements pursuant to which we cede certain insurance risks to unaffiliated third-party reinsurers. We cede risks to third parties in order to limit losses, minimize exposure to significant risks and provide capacity for future growth. We enter into various agreements with reinsurers that cover groups of risks, as well as individual risks. Our ceded reinsurance to third parties is primarily structured on a treaty basis as coinsurance, yearly renewable term, excess or catastrophe excess of retention insurance. These reinsurance arrangements are an important part of our risk management strategy because they permit us to spread risk and minimize the effect of losses. The extent of each risk retained by us depends on our evaluation of the specific risk, subject, in certain circumstances, to maximum retention limits based on the characteristics and relative cost of reinsurance. We also cede first dollar mortality risk under certain contracts. In addition to reinsuring mortality risk, we cede other risks, as well as specific coverages.

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Under the terms of the reinsurance agreements, the reinsurer agrees to reimburse us for the ceded amount in the event that we pay a claim. Cessions under reinsurance agreements do not discharge our obligations as the primary insurer. In the event the reinsurers do not meet their obligations under the terms of the reinsurance agreements, reinsurance recoverable balances could become uncollectible. See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business — If the counterparties to our reinsurance or indemnification arrangements or to the derivatives we use to hedge our business risks default or fail to perform, we may be exposed to risks we had sought to mitigate, which could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.”

We have historically reinsured the mortality risk on our life insurance policies primarily on an excess of retention basis or on a quota share basis. When we cede risks to a reinsurer on an excess of retention basis, we retain the liability up to a contractually specified amount and the reinsurer is responsible for indemnifying us for amounts in excess of the liability we retain, which may be subject to a cap. When we cede risks on a quota share basis, we share a portion of the risk within a contractually specified layer of reinsurance coverage. We reinsure on a facultative basis for risks with specified characteristics. On a case-by-case basis, we may retain up to $20 million per life and reinsure 100% of the risk in excess of the amount we retain. We also reinsure portions of the risk associated with certain whole life policies to a former affiliate, and we assume certain term life policies and universal life policies with secondary death benefit guarantees issued by a former affiliate. We routinely evaluate our reinsurance program and may increase or decrease our retention at any time.

Our reinsurance is diversified with a group of primarily highly rated reinsurers. We analyze recent trends in arbitration and litigation outcomes in disputes, if any, with our reinsurers and monitor ratings and the financial strength of our reinsurers. In addition, the reinsurance recoverable balance due from each reinsurer and the recoverability of such balance is evaluated as part of this overall monitoring process. We generally secure large reinsurance recoverable balances with various forms of collateral, including secured trusts, funds withheld accounts and irrevocable letters of credit.

We reinsure, through 100% quota share reinsurance agreements, certain run-off long-term care and workers’ compensation business that we originally wrote. For products in our Run-off segment other than ULSG, we have periodically engaged in reinsurance activities on an opportunistic basis.

In addition, a block of long-term care insurance business with reserves of $5.45 billion at December 31, ~~2024~~2025 is reinsured to Genworth Life Insurance Company and Genworth Life Insurance Company of New York (collectively, the “Genworth reinsurers”) who further retroceded this business to Union Fidelity Life Insurance Company (“UFLIC”), an indirect subsidiary of General Electric Company (“GE”). We acquired this block of long-term care insurance business in 2005 when our former parent acquired The Travelers Insurance Company (“Travelers”) from Citigroup, Inc. (“Citigroup”). Prior to the acquisition, Travelers agreed to reinsure a 90% quota share of its long-term care business to certain affiliates of GE, which following a spin-off became part of Genworth, and subsequently agreed to reinsure the remaining 10% quota share of such long-term care insurance business. The Genworth reinsurers established trust accounts for our benefit to secure their obligations under such arrangements requiring that they maintain qualifying collateral with an aggregate fair market value equal to at least 102% of the statutory reserves attributable to the long-term care business. Additionally, Citigroup agreed to indemnify us for losses and certain other payment obligations we might incur with respect to this block of reinsured long-term care insurance business. The financial strength rating as of December 31, ~~2024~~2025 for each of the Genworth reinsurers was C++ from A.M. Best, and Citigroup’s credit ratings were A3 from Moody’s and BBB+ from S&P.

See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business — If the counterparties to our reinsurance or indemnification arrangements or to the derivatives we use to hedge our business risks default or fail to perform, we may be exposed to risks we had sought to mitigate, which could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.” Further, as disclosed in Genworth’s filings with the SEC, UFLIC has established trust accounts for the Genworth reinsurers’ benefit to secure UFLIC’s obligations under its arrangements with them concerning this block of long-term care insurance business, and GE has also agreed, under a capital maintenance agreement, to keep sufficient capital in UFLIC to maintain UFLIC’s risk-based capital (“RBC”) above a specified minimum level.

Affiliated Reinsurance

We enter into reinsurance financing and other transactions involving the assumption and cession of insurance risks with affiliated reinsurers and ceding companies (“Affiliated Reinsurance”). Affiliated reinsurance companies are affiliated insurance companies licensed under specific provisions of insurance law of their respective jurisdictions, such as the Special Purpose Financial Captive law adopted by several states, including Delaware.

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Brighthouse Reinsurance Company of Delaware (“BRCD”), our reinsurance subsidiary, was formed to manage our capital and risk exposures and to support our term life insurance and ULSG businesses through the use of affiliated reinsurance arrangements and related reinsurance financing. BRCD is capitalized with cash and invested assets, including funds withheld, at a level we believe to be sufficient to satisfy its future cash obligations under a variety of scenarios, including a permanent level yield curve and interest rates at lower levels, consistent with National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) cash flow testing scenarios. BRCD utilizes reinsurance financing to cover the difference between the sum of the fully required statutory assets (i.e., NAIC Valuation of Life Insurance Policies Model Regulation (“Regulation XXX”) and NAIC Actuarial Guideline 38 (“Guideline AXXX”) reserves) and the target margins less cash, invested assets and funds withheld, on BRCD’s statutory statements. ~~BRCD’s admitted deferred tax asset could also serve to reduce the amount of funding required on a statutory basis under BRCD’s reinsurance financing.~~ See Notes 11 and 12 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding BRCD’s reinsurance financing.

BRCD provides certain benefits to Brighthouse Financial, including (i) enhancing our ability to hedge the interest rate risk of our reinsurance liabilities, (ii) allowing increased allocation flexibility in managing our investment portfolio and (iii) improving operating flexibility and administrative cost efficiency, however there can be no assurance that such benefits will continue to materialize. See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business — We may not be able to take credit for reinsurance, our statutory life insurance reinsurance financings may be subject to cost increases and new financings may be subject to limited market capacity” and “— Regulation — Insurance Regulation.” We also assume 100% of the living and death benefit guarantees issued in connection with certain variable annuities issued by our affiliate, New England Life Insurance Company.

Catastrophe Coverage

We have exposure to catastrophes which could contribute to significant fluctuations in our results of operations. We use excess of retention and quota share reinsurance agreements to provide greater diversification of risk and minimize exposure to larger risks. See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business — Public health crises, extreme mortality events or similar occurrences may adversely impact our business, financial condition, or results of operations, as well as the economy in general.”

Sales Distribution

We distribute our annuity and life insurance products through multiple independent distribution channels and marketing arrangements with a geographically diverse network of over 400 distribution partners. We have successfully built independent distribution relationships since 2001.

Our annuity products are distributed through national and regional broker-dealers, banks, independent financial planners, independent marketing organizations and other financial institutions and financial planners. Our life insurance products are distributed through national and regional broker-dealers, general agencies, financial advisors, brokerage general agencies, banks, financial intermediaries and online marketplaces. We believe this strategy permits us to maximize penetration of our target markets and distribution partners without incurring the fixed costs of maintaining a proprietary distribution channel and will facilitate our ability to quickly comply with evolving regulatory requirements applicable to the sale of our products.

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Regulation

Index to Regulation

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Overview			910
Insurance Regulation			910
Privacy and Cybersecurity Regulation			1415
Regulation of the Use of Artificial Intelligence			1516
Securities, Broker-Dealer and Investment Advisor Regulation			1516
Department of Labor and ERISA Considerations			1617
Standard of Conduct Regulation			1617
Federal Tax Reform			1819
Regulation of Over-the-Counter Derivatives			1920
Environmental Considerations			1920
Unclaimed Property			1921

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Overview

We, including our insurance subsidiary, BHNY, and our reinsurance subsidiary, BRCD, are primarily regulated at the state level, with some products and services also subject to federal regulation. In addition, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY are subject to regulation under the insurance holding company laws of various U.S. jurisdictions. Furthermore, some of our operations, products and services are subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), consumer protection laws, securities, broker-dealer and investment advisor regulations, and environmental and unclaimed property laws and regulations. See “Risk Factors — Regulatory and Legal Risks.”

Insurance Regulation

State insurance regulation generally aims at supervising and regulating insurers, with the goal of protecting policyholders and ensuring that insurance companies remain solvent. Insurance regulators have increasingly sought information about the potential impact of activities in holding company systems as a whole and have adopted laws and regulations enhancing “group-wide” supervision. See “— Holding Company Regulation” for information regarding an enterprise risk report.

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY are licensed and regulated in each U.S. jurisdiction where they conduct insurance business. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company is licensed to issue insurance products in all U.S. states (except New York), the District of Columbia, the Bahamas, Guam, Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. BHNY is only licensed to issue insurance products in New York. The primary regulator of an insurance company, however, is the insurance regulator in its state of domicile. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company is domiciled in Delaware and regulated by the Delaware Department of Insurance (the “Delaware DOI”), and BHNY is domiciled in New York and regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”). In addition, BRCD, which provides reinsurance to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and an affiliate, is domiciled in Delaware and regulated by the Delaware DOI.

The extent of such regulation varies, but most jurisdictions have laws and regulations governing certain financial aspects of insurers and the administration and design of their respective products, as well as the business conduct of insurers and distributors. State laws in the U.S. grant insurance regulatory authorities broad administrative powers with respect to, among other things:

•licensing companies and agents to transact business;

•calculating the value of assets to determine compliance with statutory requirements;

•mandating certain insurance benefits;

•regulating certain premium rates;

•reviewing and approving certain policy forms and rates;

•regulating unfair trade and claims practices, including through the imposition of restrictions on marketing and sales practices, distribution arrangements and payment of inducements, and identifying and paying to the states benefits and other property that are not claimed by the owners;

•regulating underwriting, advertising and marketing of insurance products, including the use of external data and information, as well as the use of certain emerging technologies;

•protecting privacy and establishing cybersecurity requirements;

•establishing statutory accounting and reserve requirements and solvency standards (including RBC);

•specifying the conditions under which a ceding company can take credit for reinsurance in its statutory financial statements (i.e., reduce its reserves by the amount of reserves ceded to a reinsurer);

•fixing maximum interest rates on insurance policy loans and minimum rates for guaranteed crediting rates on life insurance policies and annuity contracts;

•adopting and enforcing replacement, best interest, or suitability standards with respect to the sale of ~~annuities~~life ~~and~~insurance ~~other~~policies ~~insurance~~and ~~products~~annuity contracts;

•approving changes in control of insurance companies;

•restricting the payment of dividends to affiliates, as well as certain other transactions between affiliates; and

•regulating the types, amounts and valuation of investments.

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We are required to file reports, generally including detailed annual financial statements, with insurance regulatory authorities in each of the jurisdictions in which we do business, and our operations and accounts are subject to periodic examination by such authorities. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY must also file, and in many jurisdictions and for some lines of insurance obtain regulatory approval for, rules, rates and forms relating to the insurance written in the jurisdictions in which they operate.

State and federal insurance and securities regulatory authorities and other state law enforcement agencies and attorneys general from time to time may make inquiries regarding our compliance with insurance, securities and other laws and regulations regarding the conduct of our insurance and securities businesses. We cooperate with such inquiries and take corrective action when warranted. See Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Statutory Accounting, Reserves and Risk-Based Capital

The NAIC is an organization whose mission is to assist state insurance regulatory authorities in serving the public interest and achieving the insurance regulatory goals of its members, the state insurance regulatory officials. Through the NAIC, state insurance regulators establish standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and coordinate their regulatory oversight. The NAIC provides standardized insurance industry accounting and reporting guidance through its Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual. The NAIC also provides guidance for the computation of reserves through its Valuation Manual, which states have largely adopted by regulation. However, statutory accounting principles and reserve requirements continue to be established by individual state laws, regulations and permitted practices, which may differ from the guidance provided by the NAIC. Changes to accounting, reporting or reserve guidance, or modifications to any laws, regulations or permitted practices by the various states, may impact our statutory capital and surplus.

The NAIC has established RBC requirements that are used by regulators to assess the minimum amount of statutory capital and surplus needed for an insurance company to support its operations, based on its size and risk profile (referred to as “company action level RBC”). Insurers are required to maintain their capital and surplus at or above minimum levels. Companies below 100% of the company action level RBC are subject to corrective action. Regulators have discretionary authority, in connection with the continued licensing of an insurer, to limit or prohibit the insurer’s sales to policyholders if, in their judgment, the regulators determine that such insurer has not maintained the minimum surplus or capital or that the further transaction of business will be hazardous to policyholders. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY are subject to RBC requirements and other minimum statutory capital and surplus requirements imposed under the laws of Delaware and New York, respectively. RBC is based on a formula calculated by applying factors to various asset, premium, claim, expense and statutory reserve items. The formula takes into account the risk characteristics of the insurer and is calculated for NAIC reporting purposes on an annual basis. The major categories of risk involved are asset risk, insurance risk, interest rate risk, market risk and business risk~~, including equity, interest rate and expense recovery risks associated with variable annuities that contain guaranteed minimum death and living benefits~~. The RBC ratio is a method of measuring an insurance company’s capital and is based on statutory financial statements. The RBC ratio, which is the basis for determining regulatory compliance, is equal to total adjusted capital (“TAC”) divided by the applicable company action level RBC.

The RBC framework is used as an early warning regulatory tool to identify possible inadequately capitalized insurers for purposes of initiating regulatory action, and not as a means to rank insurers generally. State insurance laws provide insurance regulators the authority to require various actions by, or take various actions against, insurers whose TAC does not meet or exceed certain RBC levels. See “Risk Factors — Regulatory and Legal Risks — A decrease in the RBC ratio of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company ~~and~~or BHNY (as a result of a reduction in statutory capital and surplus or an increase in the required RBC capital charges), or a change in the rating agency proprietary capital models, could result in increased scrutiny by insurance regulators and rating agencies and could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources” and Note 12 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

The NAIC isregularly ~~currently~~reviews ~~reviewing~~statutory ~~asset-intensive reinsurance and~~accounting, inreserve March 2024, exposed a draft actuarial guideline that proposed broad changes to asset adequacy testing requirements for ceded reinsurance. The NAIC has since refined the proposal with an initial focus on large transactions and ~~transactions~~RBC ~~with~~guidance ~~related parties,~~ and ~~they~~periodically ~~determined~~makes that, for 2025, companies are required to comply with the actuarial guideline on a disclosure-only basis. The NAIC plans to review the disclosures to identify concerns with insurers’ approaches to asset adequacy testing, with the possibility of making additional changes ~~in the future that could lead~~ to ~~higher~~such ~~reserves for certain reinsurance agreements~~requirements.

In ~~March~~August ~~2024~~2025, the NAIC adopted aActuarial ~~new~~Guideline ~~principles~~LV (“AG 55”) to establish asset adequacy testing requirements that apply to U.S. life insurers ceding “asset-~~based~~intensive” ~~bond~~business ~~definition~~to offshore reinsurers. AG 55 applies to life and ~~related~~annuity ~~financial~~reinsurance ~~reporting~~treaties ~~changes~~established on or after January 1, 2016, that ~~became~~meet ~~effective~~certain asrisk and size criteria and requires the use of ~~January~~cash 1,flow ~~2025~~testing methodology in evaluating the adequacy of assets supporting ceded reserves. The new ~~guidance~~requirements ~~modifies~~are ~~the~~initially ~~classification~~effective ~~requirements~~ for ~~fixed~~year-end ~~income~~2025 ~~instruments~~reporting on a disclosure only basis, ~~which~~with ~~could~~the ~~lead~~NAIC expected to evaluate results and consider additional changes in ~~their~~the ~~measurement~~future. ~~basis~~While ~~and~~we ~~RBC~~currently ~~requirements~~do not expect AG 55 to have a material impact on our business, there can be no assurance that there will not be any material impacts in the future.

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In August ~~2018~~2025, the NAIC adopted ~~the~~amendments ~~framework~~to ~~for~~the ~~variable~~Valuation ~~annuity~~Manual ~~reserve~~establishing ~~and~~a ~~capital~~new ~~reform~~principle-based ~~(“VA~~reserving ~~Reform”),~~framework ~~which~~for ~~was~~non-variable ~~adopted by Brighthouse Financial effective December 31, 2019~~annuities. The ~~revisions,~~new ~~which~~principle-based ~~resulted~~reserving inframework ~~substantial~~for ~~changes~~non-variable inannuities ~~reserves,~~is ~~statutory~~similar ~~surplus and capital requirements, were designed~~ to ~~mitigate~~ the ~~incentive~~framework ~~for~~applicable ~~insurers~~ to ~~engage~~life ininsurance ~~captive reinsurance transactions by making improvements to Actuarial Guideline 43~~ and ~~the~~variable ~~Life Risk Based Capital C3 Market Risk (“RBC C3 Market Risk”) capital requirements~~annuities. InThe ~~August~~new ~~2022, the NAIC adopted amendments to the~~ Valuation Manual ~~that changed the~~ requirements ~~for reflecting hedge instruments in variable annuity reserves and RBC C3 Market Risk. The changes~~ became effective on ~~December~~January 311, ~~2023~~2026, ~~which~~with ~~resulted in~~ a ~~decrease~~three-year toimplementation ~~our statutory capital and surplus and an insignificant change to our combined RBC ratio as of such date~~period.

~~Further~~In ~~changes~~August 2025, the NAIC adopted amendments to VAthe ~~Reform,~~Valuation ~~including~~Manual requiring companies to use a new Generator of Economic Scenarios (“GOES”) for obtaining the economic scenarios required for principles-based reserve and RBC market risk calculations. The Valuation Manual changes ~~resulting~~became ~~from~~effective ~~work~~on ~~currently~~January ~~underway~~1, 2026, with adoption required by December 31, 2026 and the ability to phase-in the impacts over three years. The NAIC is considering additional changes to ~~find~~the aRBC ~~suitable~~market ~~replacement~~risk ~~for~~requirements to better align the ~~Economic~~overall ~~Scenario~~market ~~Generators~~risk ~~developed~~framework bywith the ~~American~~new ~~Academy~~GOES requirements. The adoption of ~~Actuaries~~the Valuation Manual changes, along with any future changes to the RBC market risk requirements, could negatively impact our statutory surplus and required capital.

In March 2024, the NAIC adopted a new principles-based bond definition and related financial reporting changes, that became effective as of January 1, 2025. The new guidance modified the classification requirements for certain fixed income instruments resulting in changes in their measurement basis and RBC requirements.

In 2023, the NAIC began updating the methodology for determining RBC on collateralized loan obligations. The NAIC is currently evaluating two alternative approaches, one which would assign risk weights based on its own modeling rather than credit ratings, and the other a principles-based framework that could be applied more broadly to all asset-backed security classes. In December 2025, the NAIC adopted a proposal to delay the effective date of any such changes to December 31, 2026.

See “Risk Factors — Regulatory and Legal Risks — Our business is highly regulated, and changes in regulation and in supervisory and enforcement policies or interpretations thereof may materially impact our capitalization or cash flows, reduce our profitability and limit our growth.”

Holding Company Regulation

Insurance holding company laws and regulations vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but generally require a controlled insurance company (i.e., insurers that are subsidiaries of insurance holding companies) to register with state regulatory authorities and to file with those authorities certain reports, including information concerning its capital structure, ownership, financial condition, certain intercompany transactions and general business operations. Most states have adopted substantially similar versions of the NAIC Insurance Holding Company System Model Act and the Insurance Holding Company System Model Regulation. Other states, including New York, have adopted modified versions, although their supporting regulation is substantially similar to the model regulation.

Insurance holding company regulations generally provide that no person, corporation or other entity may acquire control of an insurance company, or a controlling interest in any parent company of an insurance company, without the prior approval of such insurance company’s domiciliary state insurance regulator. Under the laws of both Delaware and New York, any person acquiring, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of the voting securities of an insurance company (or any holding company of the insurance company) is presumed to have acquired “control” of the company. This statutory presumption of control may be rebutted by a showing that control does not exist, in fact. The state insurance regulators, however, may find that “control” exists in circumstances in which a person owns or controls less than 10% of an insurance company’s voting securities. The laws and regulations regarding acquisition of control transactions may discourage potential acquisition proposals and may delay, deter or prevent a change of control involving us, including through unsolicited transactions.

The insurance holding company laws and regulations include a requirement that the ultimate controlling person of a U.S. insurer file an annual enterprise risk report with the lead state of the insurance holding company system identifying risks likely to have a material adverse effect upon the financial condition or liquidity of the insurer or its insurance holding company system as a whole. All of the states where Brighthouse Financial has domestic insurers have enacted this enterprise risk reporting requirement.

State insurance statutes also typically place restrictions and limitations on the amount of dividends or other distributions payable by insurance subsidiaries to their parent companies, as well as on transactions between an insurer and its affiliates. Dividends in excess of prescribed limits and transactions above a specified size between an insurer and its affiliates require the prior approval of the insurance regulator in the insurer’s state of domicile.

The Delaware Insurance Commissioner (the “Delaware Commissioner”) and the New York Superintendent of Financial Services have broad discretion in determining whether the financial condition of a stock life insurance company would support the payment of such dividends to its stockholders.

~~See Note~~ 12 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of dividend restrictions under the insurance laws of Delaware and New York, as well as the dividend restrictions under BRCD’s plan of operations.

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See Note 12 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of dividend restrictions under the insurance laws of Delaware and New York, as well as the dividend restrictions under BRCD’s plan of operations.

Group Capital Contribution

The NAIC adopted a group capital calculation tool, implemented by Brighthouse Financial in 2022, that uses an RBC aggregation methodology for all entities within an insurance holding company system. The NAIC has stated that the calculation is a tool to assist regulators in assessing group risks and capital adequacy and does not constitute a minimum capital requirement or standard; however, there is no guarantee that will be the case in the future. It is unclear how the group capital calculation will interact with existing capital requirements for insurance companies in the U.S.

Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Model Act

In 2012, the NAIC adopted the Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Model Act (“ORSA”), which has been enacted by Delaware and New York. ORSA requires that insurers maintain a risk management framework and conduct an internal own risk and solvency assessment of the insurer’s material risks in normal and stressed environments. The assessment must be documented in a confidential annual summary report, a copy of which must be made available to regulators as required or upon request.

Captive Reinsurer Regulation

During 2014, the NAIC approved a framework applicable to the use of captive insurers in connection with Regulation XXX and Guideline AXXX transactions. Among other things, the framework called for more disclosure of an insurer’s use of captives in its statutory financial statements and narrows the types of assets permitted to back statutory reserves that are required to support the insurer’s future obligations. In 2014, the NAIC implemented the framework through an actuarial guideline (“AG 48”), which requires the ceding insurer’s actuary to opine on the insurer’s reserves and to issue a qualified opinion if the framework is not followed. The requirements of AG 48 are effective in all U.S. states, and such requirements apply to policies issued and new reinsurance transactions entered into on or after January 1, 2015. In 2016, the NAIC adopted a model regulation containing similar substantive requirements to AG 48.

Federal Initiatives

Although the insurance business in the U.S. is primarily regulated by the states, federal initiatives often have an impact on our business in a variety of ways. Federal regulation of financial services, securities, derivatives and pensions, as well as legislation affecting cybersecurity, privacy, tort reform and taxation, may significantly and adversely affect the insurance business. In addition, various forms of direct and indirect federal regulation of insurance have been proposed from time to time, including proposals for the establishment of an optional federal charter for insurance companies.

Guaranty Associations and Similar Arrangements

All of the jurisdictions in which we are admitted to transact business require life insurers doing business within the jurisdiction to participate in guaranty associations, which are organized to pay contractual benefits owed pursuant to insurance policies issued by impaired, insolvent or failed insurers, or those that may become impaired, insolvent or fail, for example, following the occurrence of one or more catastrophic events. These associations levy assessments, up to prescribed limits, on all member insurers in a particular state on the basis of the proportionate share of the premiums written by member insurers in the lines of business in which the impaired, insolvent or failed insurer is engaged. Some states permit member insurers to recover assessments paid through full or partial premium tax offsets.

Over the past several years, the aggregate assessments levied against us have not been material. We have established liabilities for guaranty fund assessments that we consider adequate.

Insurance Regulatory Examinations and Other Activities

As part of their regulatory oversight process, state insurance departments conduct periodic detailed examinations of the books, records, accounts, and business practices of insurers domiciled in their states, including periodic financial examinations and market conduct examinations, some of which are currently in process. State insurance departments also have the authority to conduct examinations of non-domiciliary insurers that are licensed in their states, and such states routinely conduct examinations of us. Over the past several years, there have been no material adverse findings in connection with any examinations of us conducted by state insurance departments, although there can be no assurance that there will not be any material adverse findings in the future.

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State regulatory authorities, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”), and the SEC have conducted investigations or inquiries relating to sales or administration of individual life insurance policies, annuities or other products by Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY. These investigations have focused on the conduct of particular financial services representatives, the sale of unregistered or unsuitable products, the misuse of client assets, and sales and replacements of annuities and certain riders on such annuities. Over the past several years, these and a number of investigations of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY by other regulatory authorities were resolved for monetary payments and certain other relief, including restitution payments. We may continue to receive, and may resolve, further investigations and actions on these matters through monetary payments or other relief, including restitution payments. In addition, insurance companies’ claims payment, abandoned property and escheatment practices have received increased scrutiny from regulators.

In addition, FINRA periodically conducts routine or special examinations of Brighthouse Securities, LLC (“Brighthouse Securities”), an affiliate. These examinations focus on the regulation of Brighthouse Securities under FINRA rules and the federal securities laws. Similarly, the SEC periodically conducts routine or special examinations of Brighthouse Funds Trusts I & II (the “Trusts”), the registered funds available in certain variable products, Brighthouse Investment Advisers, LLC (“Brighthouse Advisers”), the registered ~~funds~~adviser ~~advised~~to bythe ~~Brighthouse Advisers~~Trusts, and the registered separate accounts through which Brighthouse Financial issues variable contracts. These examinations focus on the regulation of these entities under the federal securities laws. Over the past several years, there have been no material adverse findings in connection with any examinations of us conducted by FINRA or the SEC, although there can be no assurance that there will not be any material adverse findings in the future.

Policy and Contract Reserve Adequacy Analysis

Annually, we are required to conduct an analysis of the adequacy of all statutory reserves. In each case, a qualified actuary must submit an opinion which states that the statutory reserves make adequate provision, according to accepted actuarial standards of practice, for the anticipated cash flows required by the contractual obligations and related expenses of the insurance company. The adequacy of the statutory reserves is considered in light of the assets held by the insurer with respect to such reserves and related actuarial items, including, but not limited to, the investment earnings on such assets, and the consideration anticipated to be received and retained under the related policies and contracts. An insurance company may increase reserves in order to submit an opinion without qualification, which is required by the Delaware DOI and the NYDFS, and we have provided such opinions without qualifications.

Regulation of Investments

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY are subject to state laws and regulations that require diversification of investment portfolios and limit the amount of investments that an insurer may have in certain asset categories, such as below investment grade fixed income securities, real estate equity, other equity investments, and derivatives, and we have internal procedures designed to ensure that our investments comply with such laws and regulations. Failure to comply with these laws and regulations would cause investments exceeding regulatory limitations to be treated as non-admitted assets for purposes of measuring surplus and, in some instances, would require divestiture of such non-qualifying investments. ~~The NAIC periodically reviews the statutory accounting and RBC requirements for investments and makes changes from time to time.~~

In 2023, the NAIC adopted an amendment to the Purposes and Procedures Manual, under which the NAIC Structured Securities Group would begin assigning risk weights to collateralized loan obligations based on its own financial modeling rather than credit ratings. In August 2024, the NAIC adopted an amendment to the manual, requiring insurers to report the financially modeled NAIC designations for collateralized loan obligations with their year-end 2025 financial statement filings. The new remodeling requirements could impact the RBC charges associated with these investments.

NYDFS Insurance Regulation 47

In August 2022, the NYDFS amended Insurance Regulation 47 (as amended, “Regulation 47”), which implemented new requirements for certain annuity products. Certain sections of Regulation 47 became effective as of January 1, 2023, and the remainder became effective on January 1, 2024. The regulation has opened the New York market to new competitors, and ~~has~~we ~~impacted some components of our current product designs. We~~ continue to assess the impacts of these new factors on our sales in New York. See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business — Factors affecting our competitiveness may adversely affect our market share and profitability” and “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business — Brighthouse Financial may experience difficulty in marketing and distributing products through our distribution channels.”

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NYDFS Insurance Regulation 210

In March 2018, NYDFS Insurance Regulation 210: Life Insurance and Annuity Non-Guaranteed Elements took effect. The regulation establishes standards for the determination and readjustment of non-guaranteed elements (“NGE”) that may vary at the insurer’s discretion for life insurance policies and annuity contracts delivered or issued for delivery in New York. In addition, the regulation establishes guidelines for related disclosure to the NYDFS and policy owners prior to any adverse change in NGEs. The regulation applies to all individual life insurance policies, individual annuity contracts and certain group life insurance and group annuity certificates that contain NGEs. NGEs include premiums, expense charges, cost of insurance (“COI”) rates and interest credits.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Regulation

In the course of our business, we and our distributors collect and maintain customer data, including personally identifiable nonpublic financial and health information. We also collect and handle the personal information of our associates and certain third parties who distribute our products. As a result, we and the third parties who distribute our products are subject to U.S. federal and state privacy laws and regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act as well as additional regulations, ~~including~~and those described below. These laws and regulations require that we implement and maintain certain policies and procedures to safeguard this information from improper use or disclosure and that we provide notice of our practices related to the collection and disclosure of such information. Other laws and regulations require us to notify affected individuals and regulators of security breaches.

Congress and many states have enacted privacy and information security laws and regulations that impose compliance obligations applicable to our business, including obligations to protect sensitive personal and creditworthiness information, as well as limitations on the use and sharing of such information. For example, the NYDFS’s Part 500 – Cybersecurity Regulation (the “NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation”), which became effective in March 2017, requires companies to establish a cybersecurity risk management program. In November 2023, the NYDFS announced amendments to the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation. The amended NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation went into effect in phases beginning November 1, 2023 and continuing through November 1, 2025, and it includes additional and new requirements regarding certification, governance, audit requirements, technology and business continuity, security control and training requirements, and notification obligations.

In addition, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”), which became effective in January 2020, affords California residents expanded privacy protections and control over the collection, use and sharing of their personal information. The CCPA requires companies to make certain disclosures to California consumers regarding personal information, among other privacy protective measures. Failure to comply with the CCPA risks regulatory fines, and the CCPA grants a private right of action and statutory damages for anany unauthorized access and exfiltration, theft, or disclosure of certain types of personal information resulting from the Company’s violation of a duty to maintain reasonable security procedures and practices. The CCPA, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”), effective as of January 1, 2023, and its implementing regulations ~~require~~required additional investment in compliance programs and potential modifications to business processes. Further, the CCPA, as amended, ~~creates~~created the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “CPPA”) to enforce the statute as well as its regulations, and ~~imposes~~imposed new requirements relating to additional consumer rights, data minimization, and other obligations. The California legislature did not extend certain exemptions under the amended CCPA, specifically information collected in employment or business-to-business contexts, and such information therefore is now covered by the CCPA. Enforcement of the CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, began on July 1, 2023. In July 2025, the CPPA adopted regulations effective January 1, 2026, requiring certain companies to conduct data protection risk assessments for high-risk processing activities and complete annual cybersecurity audits. The regulations also implemented consumers’ rights to access and opt-out of companies’ use of automated decision-making technology.

In 2017, the NAIC adopted the Insurance Data Security Model Law, which established standards for data security and for the investigation and notification of insurance commissioners of cybersecurity events involving unauthorized access to, or the misuse of, certain nonpublic information. More than 20 U.S. states have enacted the Insurance Data Security Model Law or similar laws, and we expect more states to follow.

In June 2024, the NAIC released draft amendments to the Privacy of Consumer Financial and Health Information Regulation #672. The NAIC is working with stakeholders to receive comments on each section of the draft amendment to Model Law #672. The current draft of the amended Model Law #672 focuses on four key privacy principles: (i) third-party arrangements; (ii) the right to access, correct, and delete data; (iii) the sale of personal information; and (iv) the processing and handling of personal information. Model Law #672 is still being exposed for comment to stakeholders and could undergo additional changes.

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In July 2023, the SEC adopted the Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure Final Rule (the “Cybersecurity Final Rule”) that enhances the disclosure requirements for registered companies covering cybersecurity risk and management. The Cybersecurity Final Rule requires registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents on Form 8-K. The Cybersecurity Final Rule also requires periodic disclosures of the Company’s cybersecurity risk management processes, governance, and management’s role in overseeing such a compliance program. See “Cybersecurity” for a discussion of our cybersecurity risk management and governance framework.

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All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories also require entities to provide notification to affected residents and, in certain instances, state regulators, such as state attorneys general or state insurance commissioners, in the event of certain security breaches affecting personal information. Also, as noted above, state governments, Congress, and agencies may consider and enact additional legislation or promulgate regulations governing privacy, cybersecurity, and data breach reporting requirements. We cannot predict whether such legislation will be enacted, or what impact, if any, such legislation may have on our business practices, results of operations or financial condition.

Regulation of the Use of Artificial Intelligence

State legislatures and insurance regulators have shown increasing concern about the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and the potential for discrimination and bias in insurance practices.

In addition to certain state legislatures adopting their own regulations and guidance, in December 2023, the NAIC adopted the Model Bulletin on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers (the “Model Bulletin”) which has been adopted in more than 20 states. The Model Bulletin puts forth comprehensive guidance for the governance of AI systems that make or support decisions related to regulated insurance practices.

While we currently do not expect any of the existing regulations to have a material impact on our business, there can be no assurance that there will not be any material impacts in the future.

Other state legislatures and insurance regulators, as well as U.S. state and federal agencies, may also adopt regulations and guidance that govern the use of AI. For example, on December 11, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order establishing, among other things, a national framework for AI regulation, an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws inconsistent with the national framework, and conditional federal funding for state AI laws.

Securities, Broker-Dealer and Investment Adviser Regulation

Some of our activities in offering and selling variable insurance products, as well as certain fixed interest rate or index-linked contracts (“Securities Products”), are subject to extensive regulation under the federal securities laws administered by the SEC or state securities laws. Federal and state securities laws and regulations treat variable insurance products and certain fixed interest rate or index-linked contracts as securities that must be registered with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and distributed through broker-dealers registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). These registered broker-dealers are also FINRA members; therefore, sales of these registered products are also subject to the requirements of FINRA rules.

We utilize Brighthouse Securities to distribute our variable and registered fixed products. Brighthouse Securities is a FINRA member and a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and applicable state regulators.

We issue variable insurance products through separate accounts that are registered with the SEC as investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). Each registered separate account is generally divided into subaccounts, each of which invests in an underlying fund which is itself a registered investment company under the Investment Company Act. Our affiliate, Brighthouse Advisers, is registered as an investment adviser with the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”), and its primary business is to serve as investment adviser to certain of the registered funds that underlie our variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies. Certain variable contract separate accounts sponsored by Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY are exempt from registration under the Securities Act and the Investment Company Act but may be subject to other provisions of the federal securities laws.

Federal, state and other securities regulatory authorities, including the SEC and FINRA, may from time to time make inquiries and conduct examinations regarding our compliance with securities and other laws and regulations. We will cooperate with such inquiries and examinations and take corrective action when warranted. See “— Insurance Regulation — Insurance Regulatory Examinations and Other Activities.”

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Federal and state securities laws and regulations are primarily intended to ensure the integrity of the financial markets, to protect investors in the securities markets, and to protect investment advisory or brokerage clients, and generally grant regulatory agencies broad rulemaking and enforcement powers, including the power to limit or restrict the conduct of business for failure to comply with such laws and regulations. Our offering and selling of Securities Products, including with respect to Brighthouse Securities and Brighthouse Advisers, may be impacted by SEC regulatory initiatives impacting the industry.

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Department of Labor and ERISA Considerations

We manufacture individual retirement annuities that are subject to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Tax Code”), for third parties to sell to individuals. Also, a portion of our in-force life insurance products and annuity products are held by tax-qualified pension and retirement plans that are subject to ERISA or the Tax Code. While we currently believe manufacturers do not have as much exposure to ERISA and the Tax Code as distributors, certain activities are subject to the restrictions imposed by ERISA and the Tax Code, including restrictions on the provision of investment advice to ERISA qualified plans, plan participants and individual retirement annuity and individual retirement account (collectively, “IRAs”) owners if the investment recommendation results in fees paid to an individual advisor, the firm that employs the advisor or their affiliates. OnIn ~~April~~recent 23years, ~~2024,~~ the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final regulation updating the definition of “investment advice.,” which was subsequently stayed by judicial action. See “— Standard of Conduct Regulation — Department of Labor Fiduciary Advice Rule” for additional details regarding the status of the DOL Fiduciary Advice Rule (as defined below).

The DOL has issued a number of regulations regarding disclosure that must be provided to plan sponsors and participants. The participant disclosure regulations and the regulations which require service providers to disclose fee and other information to plan sponsors took effect in 2012. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY have taken and continue to take steps designed to ensure compliance with regulations requiring service providers to disclose fee and other information to plan sponsors.

In John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Harris Trust and Savings Bank (1993), the U.S. Supreme Court held that certain assets in excess of amounts necessary to satisfy guaranteed obligations under a participating group annuity general account contract are “plan assets.” Therefore, these assets are subject to certain fiduciary obligations under ERISA, which requires fiduciaries to perform their duties solely in the interest of participants and beneficiaries of a plan subject to Title I of ERISA (an “ERISA Plan”). DOL regulations issued thereafter provide that, if an insurer satisfies certain requirements, assets supporting a policy backed by the insurer’s general account and issued before 1999 will not constitute “plan assets.” We have taken and continue to take steps designed to ensure compliance with these regulations. An insurer issuing a new policy that is backed by its general account and is issued to or for an employee benefit plan after December 31, 1998 is generally subject to fiduciary obligations under ERISA, unless the policy is an insurance policy or contract that provides for benefits the amount of which is guaranteed by the insurer (a “guaranteed benefit policy”), in which case, the assets would not be considered “plan assets.” We have taken and continue to take steps designed to ensure that policies issued to ERISA Plans after 1998 qualify as guaranteed benefit policies.

Standard of Conduct Regulation

As a result of overlapping efforts by the DOL, the NAIC, individual states and the SEC to impose fiduciary-like requirements in connection with the sale of annuities, life insurance policies and securities, which are each discussed in more detail below, there have been a number of proposed or adopted changes to the laws and regulations that govern the conduct of our business and the firms that distribute our products. As a manufacturer of annuity and life insurance products, we do not directly distribute our products to consumers. However, regulations establishing standards of conduct in connection with the distribution and sale of these products could affect our business by imposing greater compliance, oversight, disclosure and notification requirements on our distributors or us, which may in either case increase our costs or limit distribution of our products. We cannot predict what other proposals may be made, what legislation or regulations may be introduced or enacted, or what impact any future legislation or regulations may have on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

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Department of Labor Fiduciary Advice Rule

A ~~regulatory~~technical ~~action~~amendment issued by the DOL ~~(the “Fiduciary Advice Rule”)~~, which became effective on ~~February~~July 167, ~~2021~~2020, reinstated the text of the DOL’s 1975 investment advice regulation (the “Fiduciary Advice Rule”) defining what constitutes fiduciary “investment advice.” toIn ~~ERISA~~connection ~~Plans~~with ~~and~~the ~~IRAs~~Fiduciary ~~and~~Advice ~~provides~~Rule, ~~guidance~~the ~~interpreting~~DOL ~~such~~also ~~regulation.~~issued ~~The~~a ~~guidance~~new ~~provided~~exemption, byProhibited ~~the~~Transaction ~~DOL~~Exemption 2020-02 (“PTE 2020-02”), which became effective February 16, 2021. PTE 2020-02 broadened the circumstances under which financial institutions, including insurance companies, could be considered fiduciaries under ERISA or the Tax Code. In particular, the DOL stated that a recommendation to “roll over” assets from a qualified retirement plan to an IRA or from an IRA to another IRA, could be considered fiduciary investment advice if provided by someone with an existing relationship with the ERISA Plan or an IRA owner (or in anticipation of establishing such a relationship). This guidance reversed an earlier DOL interpretation suggesting that roll over advice does not constitute investment advice giving rise to a fiduciary relationship.

The Fiduciary Advice Rule expands the definition of fiduciary “investment advice” to include, in many circumstances, providing one-time advice (including rollover advice) to ERISA Plans and IRAs, among other conduct. Under the Fiduciary Advice Rule, individuals or entities providing investment advice would be considered fiduciaries under ERISA or the Tax Code, as applicable, and would therefore be required to act solely in the interest of ERISA Plan participants or IRA beneficiaries, or risk exposure to fiduciary liability with respect to their advice. They would further be prohibited from receiving compensation for this advice, unless an exemption applied.

In connection with the Fiduciary Advice Rule, the DOL also issued an exemption, Prohibited Transaction Exemption (“PTE”) 2020-02, that allows fiduciaries to receive compensation in connection with providing investment advice, including advice with respect to roll overs, that would otherwise be prohibited as a result of their fiduciary relationship to the ERISA Plan or IRA. In order to be eligible for the exemption, among other conditions, the investment advice fiduciary is required to acknowledge its fiduciary status, refrain from putting its own interests ahead of the plan beneficiaries’ interests or making material misleading statements, act in accordance with ERISA’s “prudent person” standard of care and receive no more than reasonable compensation for the advice.

On April 23, 2024, the DOL updated the Fiduciary Advice Rule that amended the definition of an “investment advice fiduciary” under ERISA and amended related administrative PTEs, including PTE 2020-02 and PTE 84-24 (together, the “PTE Amendments”). As amended by the new Fiduciary Advice Rule, PTE 84-24 would be available exclusively to independent producer fiduciaries receiving reasonable compensation for products that are not considered securities in connection with providing investment advice, including advice with respect to roll overs, that would otherwise be prohibited as a result of a fiduciary relationship to an ERISA plan or IRA. The Fiduciary Advice Rule broadens the circumstances under which financial institutions, including insurance companies, could be considered fiduciaries to ERISA plans and IRA investors. We continue to assess the potential impacts of the Fiduciary Advice Rule and cannot currently predict whether, or the extent to which, the Fiduciary Advice Rule may impact us, including with respect to sales of our products through our independent distribution partners, changes in our compliance requirements, product offerings or compensation practices, or increase our litigation risk, any of which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. We may also need to take certain additional actions to comply with, or assist our distributors in their compliance with, the Fiduciary Advice Rule.

On July 25, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and, on July 26, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued decisions, which, together, stayed the effective date for implementation of the Fiduciary Advice Rule and the PTE Amendments. In September 2024, the DOL appealed these rulings. While we cannot predict whether the Fiduciary Advice Rule will take effect in its current form, if implemented, it could have adverse effects on sales of our products and may also lead to further changes to our product offerings and compensation practices, as well as increase our litigation risk, any of which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. We may also need to take certain additional actions to comply with, or assist our distributors in their compliance with, the regulation.

State Law Standard of Conduct Rules and Regulations

The NAIC adopted a Suitability in Annuity Transactions Regulation (the “NAIC SAT”) that includes a best interest standard on February 13, 2020 in an effort to promote harmonization across various regulators, including the SEC Regulation Best Interest. The NAIC SAT model standard requires producers to act in the best interest of the consumer when recommending annuities. A majority of states have adopted the NAIC SAT model, effective in 2021, and we expect that other states will also continue to adopt the NAIC SAT model.

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PTE 2020-02 expands the definition of fiduciary “investment advice” to include, in many circumstances, providing one-time advice (including rollover advice) to ERISA Plans and IRAs, among other conduct. Individuals or entities providing investment advice would be considered fiduciaries under ERISA or the Tax Code, as applicable, and would therefore be required to act solely in the interest of ERISA Plan participants or IRA beneficiaries, or risk exposure to fiduciary liability with respect to their advice. They would further be prohibited from receiving compensation for this advice, unless an exemption applied.

PTE 2020-02 allows fiduciaries to receive compensation in connection with providing investment advice, including advice with respect to roll overs, that would otherwise be prohibited as a result of their fiduciary relationship to the ERISA Plan or IRA. In order to be eligible for the exemption, among other conditions, the investment advice fiduciary is required to acknowledge its fiduciary status, refrain from putting its own interests ahead of the plan beneficiaries’ interests or making material misleading statements, act in accordance with ERISA’s “prudent person” standard of care and receive no more than reasonable compensation for the advice.

On April 23, 2024, the DOL updated the Fiduciary Advice Rule that amended the definition of an “investment advice fiduciary” under ERISA and amended related administrative PTEs, including PTE 2020-02 and PTE 84-24 (together, the “PTE Amendments”). PTE 84-24 allows investment advice fiduciaries, under certain circumstances, to receive compensation for selling insurance and annuity products to ERISA plans and IRAs that would otherwise be prohibited as a result of their fiduciary relationship to an ERISA plan or IRA. As amended, PTE 84-24 would be available exclusively to independent producer fiduciaries receiving reasonable compensation for products that are not considered securities in connection with providing investment advice, including advice with respect to roll overs, that would otherwise be prohibited as a result of a fiduciary relationship to an ERISA plan or IRA. The Fiduciary Advice Rule broadened the circumstances under which financial institutions, including insurance companies, could be considered fiduciaries to ERISA plans and IRA investors.

The DOL has indicated that it intends to engage in further rulemaking concerning what constitutes fiduciary “investment advice” to ERISA Plans and IRAs. While we cannot predict the outcome of that rulemaking, future regulations could have adverse effects on sales of our products and may also lead to further changes to our product offerings and compensation practices, as well as increase our litigation risk, any of which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. We may also need to take certain additional actions to comply with, or assist our distributors in their compliance with, forthcoming regulations.

State Law Standard of Conduct Rules and Regulations

The NAIC adopted a Suitability in Annuity Transactions Regulation (the “NAIC SAT”) that includes a best interest standard on February 13, 2020 in an effort to promote harmonization across various regulators, including the SEC Regulation Best Interest. The NAIC SAT model standard requires producers to act in the best interest of the consumer when recommending annuities. All jurisdictions other than the District of Columbia have adopted the NAIC SAT model, which became effective in 2021. The NAIC adopted the Best Interest Safe Harbor Guidance for NAIC SAT in December 2025.

Additionally, certain regulators have issued proposals to impose a fiduciary duty on some investment professionals, and other states may be considering similar regulations. We continue to assess the impact of these issued and proposed standards on our business, and we expect that we and our third-party distributors will need to implement additional compliance measures that could ultimately impact sales of our products.

NYDFS Insurance Regulation 187

In July 2018, the NYDFS amended Insurance Regulation 187 (as amended, “Regulation 187”), adopting a “best interest” standard for the sale of annuities and life insurance products in New York. Regulation 187 generally requires that an insurance producer or insurer consider only a consumer’s best interest, and not the financial interests of the producer or insurer, in making a recommendation as to which life insurance or annuity product a consumer should purchase. In addition, Regulation 187 imposes a best interest standard on consumer in-force transactions. We have assessed the impact to our annuity and life insurance businesses and have adopted certain changes to promote compliance with the provisions by their respective effective dates. In April 2021, the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court overturned the amendment to Regulation 187 for being unconstitutionally vague, and the NYDFS filed an appeal to the New York Court of Appeals in May 2021. On October 20, 2022, the New York Court of Appeals held that the amendment to Regulation 187 is constitutional, which leaves Regulation 187 in effect.

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SEC Rules Addressing Standards of Conduct for Broker-Dealers

On June 5, 2019, the SEC adopted a comprehensive set of rules and interpretations for broker-dealers and investment advisers, including Regulation Best Interest, which went into effect in June 2020. Among other things, this regulatory package:

•requires broker-dealers and their financial professionals to act in the best interest of retail customers when making recommendations to such customers without placing their own interests ahead of the customers’ interests, including by satisfying obligations relating to disclosure, care, mitigation of conflicts of interest, and compliance policies and procedures;

•clarifies the nature of the fiduciary obligations owed by registered investment advisers to their clients;

•imposes requirements on broker-dealers and investment advisers to deliver Form CRS relationship summaries designed to assist customers in understanding key facts regarding their relationships with their investment professionals and differences between the broker-dealer and investment adviser business models; and

•restricts broker-dealers and their financial professionals from using certain compensation practices and the terms “adviser” or “advisor.”

The intent of Regulation Best Interest is to impose an enhanced standard of care on broker-dealers and their financial professionals which is more similar to that of an investment adviser. Among other things, this requires broker-dealers to mitigate conflicts of interest arising from transaction-based financial arrangements for their employees.

Regulation Best Interest may change the way broker-dealers sell securities such as variable annuities to their retail customers as well as their associated costs. Moreover, it may impact broker-dealer sales of other annuity products that are not securities because it could be difficult for broker-dealers to differentiate their sales practices by product. In addition, individual states and their securities regulators may adopt their own enhanced conduct standards for broker-dealers that may further impact their practices, and it is uncertain to what extent they would be preempted by Regulation Best Interest.

Federal Tax Reform

On August 16, 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law by President Biden. The Inflation Reduction Act establishes a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax (the “CAMT”) for corporations whose average annual adjusted financial statement income for any consecutive three–tax year period ending after December 31, 2021 and preceding the tax year exceeds $1.0 billion. Based on guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Treasury (the “U.S. Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to date, the Company was not subject to the CAMT for the year ended December 31, 2023 and does not currently expect to be subject to the CAMT for the year ended December 31, 2024. However, the Company will continue to assess the applicability of the CAMT on an annual basis and may be subject to the CAMT in future years.

On September 12, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the U.S. Department of Treasury (the “U.S. Treasury”) issued proposed regulations ~~which~~with ~~are~~respect ~~generally~~to ~~effective~~the ~~for~~CAMT. ~~years~~On ~~ending~~September ~~after~~30, 2025, the ~~date~~IRS ofissued Notice 2025-46 and Notice 2025-49, and on February 18, 2026, the ~~proposed~~IRS ~~regulations.~~issued ~~The~~Notice 2026-7, (collectively, the “Notices”) that provide interim guidance on certain matters and signal the Treasury’s intent to partially withdraw and amend the prior proposed regulations. ~~are~~There ~~subject~~remain tosignificant ~~uncertain~~uncertainties regarding the application of the CAMT, and there can be no assurance that final regulations, if adopted, will be adopted in ~~their~~a ~~currently~~form ~~proposed~~consistent ~~form~~with the existing guidance. The Company is currently assessing the impact of the proposed regulations and the Notices, including the impact on the applicability of the CAMT.

18Based on the Company’s interpretation of guidance issued by the U.S. Treasury and the IRS to date, the Company was not subject to the CAMT for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023. However, the Company will continue to assess the applicability of the CAMT on an annual basis and may be subject to the CAMT in future years.

On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”), which includes certain changes to U.S. corporate tax provisions and extends many of the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that were set to expire at the end of 2025, was enacted. The Company does not expect the OBBBA to have a material impact on the Company.

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Regulation of Over-the-Counter Derivatives

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) includes a framework of regulation of the over-the-counter (“OTC”) derivatives markets which requires clearing of certain types of derivatives and imposes additional costs, including new reporting and margin requirements. We use derivatives to mitigate a wide range of risks in connection with our businesses, including the impact of increased benefit exposures from certain of our annuity products that offer guaranteed benefits. Our costs of risk mitigation have increased under Dodd-Frank. For example, Dodd-Frank imposes requirements for (i) the mandatory clearing of certain OTC ~~derivatives~~derivative transactions that must be cleared and settled through central clearing counterparties (“OTC-cleared”), and (ii) the mandatory exchange of margin for OTC in-scope ~~derivatives~~derivative transactions that are bilateral contracts between two counterparties (“OTC-bilateral” or “uncleared”). The initial margin requirements for OTC-bilateral ~~derivatives~~derivative transactions, which requires the collecting and posting of collateral to reduce future exposure to a given counterparty, became applicable to us in September 2021. The increased margin requirements, combined with increased capital charges for our counterparties and central clearinghouses with respect to non-cash collateral, may result in increased holdings of cash and highly liquid securities with lower yields causing a reduction in income and less favorable pricing for cleared and OTC-bilateral ~~derivatives~~derivative transactions. Centralized clearing of certain derivatives also exposes us to the risk of a default by a clearing member or clearinghouse with respect to our cleared ~~derivatives~~derivative transactions. We could be subject to higher costs of entering into ~~derivatives~~derivative transactions (including customized derivatives) and the reduced availability of customized derivatives that might result from the implementation of Dodd-Frank and comparable international derivatives regulations.

Federal banking regulators adopted rules that apply to certain qualified financial contracts, including many derivatives contracts, securities lending agreements and repurchase agreements, with certain banking institutions and certain of their affiliates. These rules, which became effective on January 1, 2019, generally require the banking institutions and their applicable affiliates to include contractual provisions in their qualified financial contracts that limit or delay certain rights of their counterparties arising in connection with the banking institution or an applicable affiliate becoming subject to a bankruptcy, insolvency, resolution or similar proceeding. Certain of our derivatives, securities lending agreements and repurchase agreements are subject to these rules, and as a result, we are subject to greater risk and more limited recovery in the event of a default by such banking institutions or their applicable affiliates.

Environmental Considerations

We hold equity interests in companies that may be subject to extensive federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations and, accordingly, could potentially be subject to environmental liabilities. Our properties routinely have environmental assessments performed with respect to real estate being acquired for investment and real property to be acquired through foreclosure. We cannot provide assurance that unexpected environmental liabilities will not arise. However, based on information currently available to us, we believe that any costs associated with compliance with environmental laws and regulations or any remediation of properties in our investment portfolio will not have a material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition. See Note 8 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion on certain limitations and interests regarding our arrangements in or with variable interest entities.

California Climate Disclosure

In October 2023, California enacted the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (“CCDAA”), or SB 253, and the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act (“CRFRA”), or SB 261. The CCDAA requires companies with annual revenues exceeding $1.0 billion that conduct business in California to report their Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions annually starting in 2026; and Scope 3 GHG emissions starting in 2027. The CRFRA applies to companies with annual revenues over $500 million that conduct business in California and requires biennial disclosure of climate-related financial risks and mitigation measures taken to address such risks. The CCDAA and CRFRA remain subject to litigation. In November 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order in U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. Randolph granting an injunction against enforcement of the CRFRA pending resolution of the appeal of the district court’s preliminary injunction denial. The injunction in U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. Randolph, however, did not extend to the CCDAA. The California Air Resources Board announced an August 10, 2026 deadline for reporting Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions under the CCDAA, which will remain in effect pending further ruling on the enforceability of the CCDAA. The Company continues to monitor the litigation.

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Unclaimed Property

We are subject to the laws and regulations of states and other jurisdictions concerning identification, reporting and escheatment of unclaimed or abandoned funds, and are subject to audit and examination for compliance with these requirements, which may result in fines or penalties. Litigation may be brought by, or on behalf of, one or more entities, seeking to recover unclaimed or abandoned funds and interest. The claimant or claimants also may allege entitlement to other damages or penalties, including for alleged false claims.

Competition

Both the annuities and the life insurance markets are very competitive, with many participants and no one company dominating the market for all products. According to the American Council of Life Insurers (Life Insurers Fact Book ~~2024~~2025), the U.S. life insurance industry is made up of ~~719~~711 companies with sales and operations across the country and U.S. territories. We compete with major, well-established stock and mutual life insurance companies and non-insurance financial services companies (e.g., banks, private equity firms, broker-dealers and asset managers) in all of our product offerings, including certain of our distributors that currently manufacture competing products or may manufacture competing products in the future. Our Annuities segment also faces competition from other financial service providers that focus on retirement products and advice. Our competitive positioning overall is focused on access to distribution channels, product features and financial strength.

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Principal competitive factors in the annuities business include product features, distribution channel relationships, ease of doing business, annual fees, investment performance, speed to market, brand recognition, technology and the financial strength ratings of the insurance company. In particular for the variable annuity business, our living benefit rider product features and the quality of our relationship management and wholesaling support are key drivers in our competitive position. In the fixed annuity business, the crediting rates and guaranteed payout product features are the primary competitive factors, while for index-linked annuities the competitiveness of the crediting methodology is the primary driver. For income annuities, the competitiveness of the lifetime income payment amount is generally the principal factor.

Principal competitive factors in the life insurance business include product and underwriting features, customer service and distribution channel relationships, price, the financial strength ratings of the insurance company, technology and financial stability. For our hybrid indexed universal life with long-term care product, product features, long-term care benefits and our underwriting process are the primary competitive factors. The principal factors for our income product are its guaranteed distributions, crediting strategies and underwriting process.

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Item 1A. Risk Factors

Index to Risk Factors

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Overview			2224
Risks Related to Our Business			22
Risks Related to the Merger			23
Economic Environment and Capital Markets-Related Risks			30
Risks Related to Our Business			24
Risks Related to Our Investment Portfolio			33
Economic Environment and Capital Markets-Related Risks			32
Regulatory and Legal Risks			36
Risks Related to Our Investment Portfolio			35
Operational Risks			38
Regulatory and Legal Risks			38
Risks Related to Our Separation from, and Continuing Relationship with, MetLife			41
Operational Risks			40
Risks Related to Our Separation from, and Continuing Relationship with, MetLife			43

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Overview

You should carefully consider the factors described below, in addition to the other information set forth in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. These risk factors are important to understanding the contents of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and our other filings with the SEC. If any of the following events occur, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected. In that event, the trading price of our securities could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment. A summary of the factors described below can be found in “Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Summary of Risk Factors.”

The materialization of any risks and uncertainties set forth below or identified in “Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Summary of Risk Factors” contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and “Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” in our other filings with the SEC or those that are presently unforeseen or that we currently believe to be immaterial could result in significant adverse effects on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. See “Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Summary of Risk Factors.”

Risks Related to the Merger

The completion of the Merger is subject to a number of conditions, many of which are largely outside the parties’ control, and, if these conditions are not satisfied or waived, the Merger may not be completed within the expected timeframe or at all

On November 6, 2025, BHF entered into the Merger Agreement, pursuant to which, at the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, Merger Sub will merge with and into BHF, and the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub will cease, with BHF continuing as the surviving corporation and as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aquarian Parent. The Merger Agreement was adopted by stockholders at the special meeting held on February 12, 2026, and the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976, as amended, has expired. The completion of the Merger remains subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain other customary conditions, including, among others, (i) receipt of required regulatory approvals from insurance regulators in Delaware, New York and Massachusetts, (ii) receipt of approval from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. of a change in control of Brighthouse Securities, LLC under FINRA Rule 1017, (iii) the absence of any judgment, order, injunction or other legal restraint prohibiting the Merger and (iv) the absence of a “Company Material Adverse Effect” or “Burdensome Condition,” as each is defined in the Merger Agreement. In addition, the obligation of each party to complete the Merger is conditioned upon, among other things, the accuracy of the representations and warranties of each party (subject to certain materiality exceptions) and material compliance by each party with its obligations, covenants and agreements under the Merger Agreement.

The Merger is expected to close in 2026. However, there can be no assurance that the conditions to completion of the Merger will be satisfied or waived on a timely basis or at all. If such conditions are not satisfied or waived, BHF may be unable to complete the Merger in the timeframe or manner currently anticipated or at all.

Failure to complete the Merger could adversely affect Brighthouse Financial’s business, results of operations or financial condition, including in the event BHF is required to pay the termination fee

If the Merger is not completed within the expected timeframe or at all, the ongoing business of Brighthouse Financial could be adversely affected and will be subject to certain risks, including, among others, the following: (i) Brighthouse Financial will have incurred, and may continue to incur, significant expenses for professional services and other transaction costs in connection with the Merger for which Brighthouse Financial will have received little or no benefit if the Merger is not completed and (ii) failure to complete the Merger may result in negative publicity or result in a negative impression of Brighthouse Financial with policyholders and other stakeholders.

Further, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Brighthouse Financial is subject to certain restrictions on the conduct of its business prior to the closing of the Merger, which may adversely affect its ability to execute certain of its business strategies. If the Merger is not completed, these risks could materially affect the business and financial results of Brighthouse Financial.

In addition, if the Merger is terminated, in certain circumstances, BHF could be required to pay a termination fee of approximately $144 million. In such circumstances, BHF may be required to use available cash that would have otherwise been available for general corporate purposes or other uses, which may materially and adversely affect its business, results of operations or financial condition, and consequently, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and liquidity.

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While the Merger is pending, Brighthouse Financial will be subject to business uncertainties and certain contractual restrictions that could adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial condition

Brighthouse Financial has expended, and continues to expend, significant management time and resources in an effort to complete the Merger, which may have a negative impact on our ongoing business and operations. Uncertainty regarding the outcome of the Merger and our future could disrupt our business relationships with our existing and potential customers, suppliers, distributors, vendors and other business partners, who may attempt to negotiate changes to existing business relationships or consider entering into business relationships with parties other than us. Uncertainty regarding the outcome of the Merger could also adversely affect our ability to recruit and retain key personnel and other associates. Furthermore, following the announcement that BHF entered into the Merger Agreement, rating agencies took certain actions relating to our financial strength ratings. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources — Rating Agencies.”

In addition, due to certain restrictions in the Merger Agreement on the conduct of business prior to completing the Merger, Brighthouse Financial may be unable (without Aquarian Parent’s prior written consent), during the pendency of the Merger, to pursue strategic transactions, undertake certain significant financing transactions and otherwise pursue other actions, even if such actions would prove beneficial, and may cause Brighthouse Financial to forego certain opportunities it might otherwise pursue.

Further, two complaints were filed and BHF received several demand letters related to BHF’s proxy statement filed with the SEC in connection with the Merger. The pendency of the Merger may lead to other litigation against BHF and its directors and officers. Such litigation could result in significant costs and divert management’s attention and resources from the closing of the Merger and our ongoing business activities.

The occurrence of any of these events, individually or in combination, could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Risks Related to Our Business

Differences between actual experience and actuarial assumptions may adversely affect our financial results, capitalization and financial condition

Our earnings significantly depend upon the extent to which our actual claims experience and benefit payments on our products are consistent with the assumptions we use in setting prices for our products and establishing liabilities for future policy benefits and claims. Such liabilities are established based on actuarial estimates of how much we will need to pay for future benefits and claims. To the extent that actual claims and benefits experience differs from the underlying assumptions we used in establishing such liabilities, we could be required to increase our liabilities. We make assumptions regarding policyholder behavior at the time of pricing, including the selection and utilization of the guaranteed options inherent within certain of our products and persistency (i.e., the probability that a policy or contract will remain in-force from one period to the next). Persistency could be adversely affected by a number of factors, including adverse economic conditions, as well as by developments affecting policyholder perception of us, including perceptions arising from any potential adverse publicity or adverse rating agency actions. The pricing of our annuity products that contain living benefit guarantees, including our variable annuity products, is also based on assumptions about utilization rates (i.e., the percentage of contracts that will utilize the benefit during the contract duration), including the timing of the first withdrawal. Differences between actual and expected benefit utilization may cause our earnings to vary. A material increase in the valuation of the liability could result to the extent that emerging and actual experience deviates from these policyholder option utilization assumptions; in certain circumstances this deviation may impair our solvency. We conduct an annual actuarial review (the “AAR”) of the key inputs into our actuarial models that rely on management judgment and update any models where we have credible evidence from actual experience, industry data or other relevant sources to seek to ensure our price-setting criteria and reserve valuation practices continue to be appropriate. If actual experience or revised future expectations, including as part of an AAR, result in future projected losses, we may be required to increase our product liabilities through a charge in the then current period, which could negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Due to the nature of the underlying risks and the uncertainty associated with the determination of liabilities for future policy benefits and claims, we cannot precisely determine the amounts which we will ultimately pay to settle these liabilities. Such amounts may vary materially from the estimated amounts, particularly when those payments may not occur until well into the future. We evaluate our liabilities periodically based on accounting requirements (which change from time to time), the assumptions and models used to establish the liabilities, as well as our actual experience. If the liabilities originally established for future benefit payments and claims prove inadequate, we will be required to increase them.

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An increase in our reserves for any of the above reasons, individually or in the aggregate, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations and our profitability measures, as well as materially impact our capitalization, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s ability to pay dividends, the ability of BHNY or BRCD to pay dividends to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and our liquidity. This could in turn impact our RBC ratios and our financial strength ratings, which are necessary to support our product sales, and, in certain circumstances, ultimately impact our solvency.

See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Policyholder Liabilities.”

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Guarantees within certain of our annuity products may decrease our earnings, decrease our capitalization, increase the volatility of our results, result in higher risk management costs and expose us to increased market risk

Certain of the variable annuity and Shield Annuity products we offer include guaranteed benefits designed to protect contract holders against significant changes in equity markets and interest rates, including guaranteed minimum death benefits and guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits. While we have guaranteed minimum accumulation benefits (“GMAB”) and guaranteed minimum income benefits (“GMIB”) in-force with respect to which we are obligated to perform, we no longer sell new products that include GMABs or GMIBs. We hold liabilities based on the value of the benefits we expect to be payable under such guarantees in excess of the contract holders’ projected account balances. As a result, any periods of significant and sustained negative or low separate account returns, increased equity volatility, or reduced interest rates could result in an increase in the valuation of our liabilities associated with these guarantees.

Additionally, we make assumptions regarding policyholder behavior at the time of pricing, including the selection and utilization of the guaranteed options inherent within our products (e.g., utilization of option to annuitize within a GMIB product). An increase in the valuation of the liability could result to the extent emerging and actual experience deviates from these policyholder persistency and option utilization assumptions. We review key actuarial assumptions used to record our variable annuity liabilities on an annual basis, including the assumptions regarding policyholder behavior. Changes to assumptions based on our AAR in future years could result in an increase in the liabilities we record for these guarantees.

Furthermore, our Shield Annuities are index-linked annuities with guarantees for a defined amount of equity loss protection and upside participation. If the separate account assets are insufficient to support the increased liabilities, we may be required to fund such separate accounts with additional assets from our general account. ToWe ~~the~~use ~~extent~~derivatives ~~policyholder~~to ~~persistency~~hedge isagainst ~~different~~equity ~~from~~index ~~what~~movements, weand ~~anticipate~~margin incalls aon ~~sustained~~such ~~period~~options ~~of equity index growth, it~~ could have a negative impact on our liquidity.

An increase in our variable annuity or Shield Annuity guarantee liabilities for any of the above reasons, individually or in the aggregate, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations and our profitability measures, as well as materially impact our capitalization, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s ability to pay dividends, the ability of BHNY or BRCD to pay dividends to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and our liquidity. This could in turn impact our RBC ratios and our financial strength ratings, which are necessary to support our product sales, and, in certain circumstances, ultimately impact our solvency.

See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Results of Operations — Annual Actuarial Review” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Overview — Financial and Economic Environment.”

Our hedging strategy may not be effective, which may result in significant volatility in our profitability measures or may negatively affect our statutory capital

Our risk management strategy seeks to mitigate the potential adverse effects of changes in capital markets, specifically equity markets and interest rates. Our risk management strategy ~~relies~~includes onproduct ~~selling~~design ~~products that provide a risk offset to each other~~strategies, hedging using derivative instruments ~~and~~, toas awell ~~lesser~~as ~~extent,~~ reinsurance. We utilize a combination of short-term and longer-term derivative instruments to have a laddered maturity of protection and reduce roll-over risk during periods of market disruption or higher volatility.

However, our hedging strategy, which is a component of our risk management strategy, may not be fully effective. In connection with our risk management strategy, we may determine to seek the approval of applicable regulatory authorities to permit us to increase our hedge limits consistent with those contemplated by the strategy. No assurance can be given that any of our requested approvals will be obtained, and, even if obtained, any such approvals may be subject to qualifications, limitations or conditions. If our capital is depleted due to adverse changes in the capital markets, such depletion may result in a need for additional capital, or the purchase of additional or more expensive hedging protection. Under our hedging strategy, period-to-period changes in the valuation of our hedges relative to the guarantee liabilities may result in significant volatility in certain of our profitability measures, which in certain circumstances could be more significant than has been the case historically.

In addition, hedging instruments we enter into may not effectively offset the costs of the guarantees within certain of our annuity products or may otherwise be insufficient in relation to our obligations. For example, in the event that derivative counterparties or central clearinghouses are unable or unwilling to honor their obligations, we would remain liable for the guaranteed benefits. Furthermore, we are subject to the risk that changes in policyholder behavior or mortality, combined with adverse market events, could produce economic losses outside the scope of our risk management strategy.25

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The cost of our hedging strategy may also be greater than anticipated if adverse market conditions were to limit the availability, and increase the costs of, the derivatives we intend to employ, and such costs may not be recovered in the pricing of the underlying products we offer.

The above factors, individually or in the aggregate, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations and our profitability measures, as well as materially impact our capitalization, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s ability to pay dividends, the ability of BHNY or BRCD to pay dividends to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and our liquidity. This could in turn impact our RBC ratios and our financial strength ratings, which are necessary to support our product sales, and, in certain circumstances, ultimately impact our solvency.

We may not have sufficient assets to meet our future ULSG policyholder obligations, and changes in interest rates may result in volatility of our profitability measures and capital

The primary market risk associated with our ULSG block is the uncertainty around the future levels of U.S. interest rates and bond yields. To help ensure we have sufficient assets to meet future ULSG policyholder obligations, we have employed an actuarial approach based upon Statutory Cash Flow Testing (“ULSG CFT”) to set our ULSG asset requirement target for BRCD, which reinsures the majority of the ULSG business that was previously written by Brighthouse Life Insurance Company. For the business retained by Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, we set our ULSG asset requirement target to equal the actuarially determined statutory reserves, which, taken together with our ULSG asset requirement target for BRCD, comprises our total ULSG asset requirement target (“ULSG Target”). Under the ULSG CFT approach, we assume that interest rates remain flat or lower than current levels, and our actuarial assumptions include a provision for adverse deviation. These underlying assumptions used in ULSG CFT include scenarios that are more conservative than those required under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), which assumes a long-term mean reversion of interest rates and best estimate actuarial assumptions without additional provisions for adverse deviation.

We seek to mitigate exposure to interest rate risk associated with these liabilities by holding invested assets and interest rate derivatives to closely match our ULSG Target in different interest rate environments.

Our ULSG Target is sensitive to the actual and future expected level of long-term U.S. interest rates. If interest rates fall, our ULSG Target will likely increase, and conversely, if interest rates rise, our ULSG Target will likely decline. We may use interest rate swaps, swaptions and interest rate forwards, among other instruments, to protect our statutory capitalization from increases in the ULSG Target in lower interest rate environments. This risk mitigation strategy may negatively impact our GAAP stockholder’s equity and net income when interest rates rise and our ULSG Target likely declines as a result, since our interest rate derivatives are measured at fair value, while our ULSG liabilities under GAAP are largely insensitive to actual fluctuations in interest rates. The ULSG liabilities under GAAP reflect changes in interest rates only when we revise our long-term assumptions due to sustained changes in the market interest rates, such as when we increased our mean reversion rate from 34.7500% to 4.0050% in the third quarter of ~~2024~~2025 following our GAAP AAR.

Our interest rate derivative instruments may not effectively offset the costs of our ULSG policyholder obligations or may otherwise be insufficient. In addition, this risk mitigation strategy may fail to adequately cover a scenario under which our obligations are higher than projected and we may be required to sell investments to cover these increased obligations. If our liquid investments are depleted, we may need to sell higher-yielding, less liquid assets or take other actions, including utilizing contingent liquidity sources or raising capital. The above factors, individually or in the aggregate, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations, or our profitability measures, as well as materially impact our capitalization, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s ability to pay dividends, the ability of BHNY or BRCD to pay dividends to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and our liquidity. This could in turn impact our RBC ratios and our financial strength ratings, which are necessary to support our product sales, and in certain circumstances could ultimately impact our solvency.

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Changes in accounting standards issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board may adversely affect our financial statements

Our financial statements are subject to the application of GAAP, which is periodically revised by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”). Accordingly, from time to time, we are required to adopt new or revised accounting standards or interpretations issued by the FASB. For example, the FASB issued an accounting standards update that resulted in significant changes to the accounting for long-duration insurance contracts (“LDTI”), which became effective on January 1, 2023. The adoption of LDTI had a significant impact on our financial statements, including total stockholder’s equity. The impact of accounting pronouncements that have been issued but not yet implemented is disclosed in our reports filed with the SEC. The required adoption of future accounting standards could adversely affect our financial statements. See Note 1 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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A downgrade or a potential downgrade in our financial strength ratings could result in a loss of business and materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations

Downgrades in our financial strength ratings or changes to our ratings outlooks could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations in many ways, including:

•reducing new sales of insurance products and annuity products;

•losing existing distributors or negatively impacting our ability to establish relationships with new distributors;

•adversely affecting our relationships with independent sales intermediaries;

•increasing the number or amount of policy surrenders and withdrawals by contract holders and policyholders;

•requiring us to reduce prices for many of our products and services to remain competitive;

•providing termination rights for the benefit of our derivative instrument counterparties;

•providing termination rights to cedents under assumed reinsurance contracts;

•adversely affecting our ability to obtain reinsurance at reasonable prices, if at all;

•subjecting us to potentially increased regulatory scrutiny;

•limiting our access to capital markets or other contingent funding sources; and

•increasing our cost of capital, which could adversely affect our liquidity.

Credit rating agencies may continue to review and adjust their ratings for the companies that they rate, including us. For example, in ~~November~~July ~~2024~~2025, ~~Fitch~~S&P revised the financial strength ~~rating~~ratings ~~outlook~~ for Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and ancertain ~~affiliate~~affiliates to ~~negative~~A from ~~stable~~A+, among other revisions. Following the announcement that BHF has entered into the Merger Agreement, rating agencies took certain actions relating to our financial strength ratings. The credit rating agencies also evaluate the insurance industry as a whole and may change our financial strength rating based on their overall view of our industry. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources — Rating Agencies” for a discussion of the actions taken by rating agencies following the announcement of the Merger and for additional information regarding our financial strength ratings, including current ratings and outlooks.

An inability to access credit facilities could result in a reduction in our liquidity and lead to downgrades in Brighthouse Financial’s credit ratings and our financial strength ratings

Brighthouse Financial had $3.2 billion of total long-term consolidated indebtedness outstanding at December 31, ~~2024~~2025, consisting of debt securities issued to its investors. BHF also has a $1.0 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility maturing April 15, 2027 (the “Revolving Credit Facility”). The right to borrow funds under the Revolving Credit Facility is subject to the fulfillment of certain conditions, including compliance with all covenants. Failure to comply with the covenants in the Revolving Credit Facility or to fulfill the conditions to borrowings, or the failure of lenders to fund their lending commitments in the amounts provided for under the terms of the Revolving Credit Facility (whether due to insolvency, illiquidity or other reasons), would restrict BHF’s ability to access the Revolving Credit Facility when needed and, consequently, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and liquidity.

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Reinsurance may not be available, affordable or adequate to protect us against losses

We use reinsurance for risk management purposes and to provide opportunities for growth and capital management. While reinsurance agreements generally bind the reinsurer for the life of the business reinsured at generally fixed pricing, market conditions beyond our control determine the availability and cost of the reinsurance protection for new business. The premium rates and other fees that we charge for our products are based, in part, on the assumption that reinsurance will be available at a certain cost. Some of our reinsurance contracts contain provisions that limit the reinsurer’s ability to increase rates on in-force business; however, some do not. We have faced a number of rate increase actions on in-force business in recent years and may face additional increases in the future. There can be no assurance that the outcome of any future rate increase actions would not have a material effect on our financial condition and results of operations. If a reinsurer raises the rates that it charges on a block of in-force business, in some instances, we will not be able to pass the increased costs on to our customers and our profitability will be negatively impacted as a result. Additionally, such a rate increase could result in our recapturing the reinsured business, which could reduce reinsurance receivables and expose us to greater risks. A premium rate increase or our recapturing reinsured business could, in each case, also result in a need to maintain additional reserves. Accordingly, we may be forced to incur additional expenses for reinsurance or may not be able to obtain sufficient reinsurance on acceptable terms, which could limit our opportunities for growth and capital management or result in an increase in the amount of risk that we retain with respect to those policies we issue. See “Business — Reinsurance Activity.”

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If the counterparties to our reinsurance or indemnification arrangements or to the derivatives we use to hedge our business risks default or fail to perform, we may be exposed to risks we had sought to mitigate, which could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations

We use reinsurance, indemnification and derivatives to mitigate our risks in various circumstances. In general, reinsurance, indemnification and derivatives do not relieve us of our direct liability to our policyholders, even when a third party is liable to us. Accordingly, we bear credit risk with respect to our reinsurers, indemnitors, counterparties and central clearinghouses. A reinsurer’s, indemnitor’s, counterparty’s or central clearinghouse’s insolvency, inability or unwillingness to make payments under the terms of reinsurance agreements, indemnity agreements or derivative agreements with us or inability or unwillingness to return collateral could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

We cede a large block of long-term care insurance business to certain affiliates of Genworth, which results in a significant concentration of reinsurance risk. The Genworth reinsurers’ obligations to us are secured by trust accounts and Citigroup has agreed to indemnify us for losses and certain other payment obligations we might incur with respect to this business. Notwithstanding these arrangements, if the Genworth reinsurers become insolvent and the amounts in the trust accounts are insufficient to pay their obligations to us, it could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. See “Business — Reinsurance Activity — Unaffiliated Third-Party Reinsurance.”

In addition, we use derivatives to hedge various business risks. We enter into a variety of OTC-bilateral and OTC-cleared derivatives, including options, forwards, interest rate, credit default and currency swaps. If our counterparties, clearing brokers or central clearinghouses fail or refuse to honor their obligations under these derivatives, our hedges of the related risk will be ineffective. Such failure could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

We may not be able to take credit for reinsurance, our statutory life insurance reinsurance financings may be subject to cost increases and new financings may be subject to limited market capacity

We currently utilize reinsurance and capital markets solutions to mitigate the capital impact of the statutory reserve requirements for several of our products, including, but not limited to, our level premium term life products subject to Regulation XXX and ULSG subject to Guideline AXXX. Our primary solution involves BRCD, our reinsurance subsidiary. See “Business — Reinsurance Activity — Affiliated Reinsurance.” BRCD obtained statutory reinsurance financing through a funding structure involving a single financing arrangement supported by a pool of highly rated third-party reinsurers. In connection with this financing arrangement, BRCD, with the explicit permission of the Delaware Commissioner, has included the value of credit-linked notes as admitted assets. See Notes 11 and 12 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a description of the financing arrangement and this associated permitted practice. The financing facility matures in 2039, and we may therefore need to refinance this facility in the future.

The NAIC adopted AG 48, which regulates the terms of captive insurer arrangements that are entered into or amended in certain ways after December 31, 2014. See “Business — Regulation — Insurance Regulation — Captive Reinsurer Regulation.” There can be no assurance that, in light of AG 48, future rules and regulations, or changes in interpretations by state insurance departments, we will be able to continue to efficiently implement these arrangements, nor can there be assurances that future capacity for these arrangements will be available in the marketplace. To the extent we cannot continue ~~to efficiently implement these arrangements, our statutory capitalization, financial condition and results of operations, as well as our competitiveness, could be adversely affected.~~

~~Factors affecting our competitiveness may adversely affect our market share and profitability~~28

We believe competition among insurance companies is based on a number of factors, including service, product features, scale, price, actual or perceived financial strength, claims-paying ratings, e-business capabilities and name recognition. We face intense competition from a large number of other insurance companies, as well as non-insurance financial services companies (e.g., banks, private equity firms, broker-dealers and asset managers). In addition, certain of our distributors also currently offer their own competing products or may offer competing products in the future. Some of our competitors offer a broader array of products, have more competitive pricing or, with respect to other insurance companies, have higher claims-paying ability and financial strength ratings. Some may also have greater financial resources with which to compete. In some circumstances, national banks that sell annuity products of life insurers may also have a pre-existing customer base for financial services products. These competitive pressures may adversely affect the persistency of our products, as well as our ability or decision to sell certain products in the future. In addition, new and disruptive technologies may present competitive risks. If, as a result of competitive factors, our ability to generate profitability consistent with our strategic goals or otherwise, we are unable to generate a sufficient return on products we sell in the future, we may stop selling such products, which could

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Factors affecting our competitiveness may adversely affect our market share and profitability

We have limited control over many of our costs. For example, we have limited control over the cost of unaffiliated third-party reinsurance, the cost of meeting changing regulatory requirements, and our cost to access capital or financing. There can be no assurance that we will be able to achieve or maintain a cost advantage over our competitors. If our cost structure increases and we are not able to achieve or maintain a cost advantage over our competitors, it could have a material adverse effect on our ability to execute our strategy, as well as on our financial condition and results of operations. If we hold substantially more capital than is needed to support financial strength ratings that are commensurate with our business strategy, over time, our competitive position could be adversely affected.

In addition, the highly regulated nature of our business, as well as the legislative or other changes affecting the regulatory environment for our business, may, over time, affect our competitive position within the annuities and life insurance industry, and within the broader financial services industry. See “— Regulatory and Legal Risks” and “Business — Regulation.”

Brighthouse Financial may experience difficulty in marketing and distributing products through our distribution channels

We distribute our products through a variety of third-party distribution channels. Our agreements with our third-party distributors may be terminated by either party with or without cause. We may periodically renegotiate the terms of these agreements, and there can be no assurance that such terms will remain acceptable to us or such third parties. If we are unable to maintain our relationships, our sales of individual insurance, annuities and investment products could decline, and our financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected. Our distributors may elect to suspend, alter, reduce or terminate their distribution relationships with us for various reasons, including changes in our distribution strategy, adverse developments in our business, adverse rating agency actions, changes in the products we offer, or concerns about market-related risks. We are also at risk that key distribution partners may merge, consolidate, change their business models in ways that affect how our products are sold, or terminate their distribution contracts with us, or that new distribution channels could emerge in the marketplace, any of which could adversely impact the effectiveness of our distribution efforts. Also, if we are unsuccessful in attracting and retaining key internal associates who conduct our business, including wholesalers, our sales could decline.

An interruption or significant change in certain key relationships could materially affect our ability to market our products and could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. In addition, we rely on a core number of our distributors to produce the majority of our sales. If one or more such distributors were to terminate its relationship with us or reduce the amount of sales which it produces for us, our results of operations could be adversely affected. An increase in bank and broker-dealer consolidation activity could increase competition for access to distributors, resulting in greater distribution expenses and an impaired ability to market our products through these channels. Consolidation of distributors or other industry changes may also increase the likelihood that distributors will try to renegotiate the terms of any existing selling agreements to terms less favorable to us.

Because our products are distributed through unaffiliated firms, we may not be able to monitor or control the manner of their distribution despite our training and compliance programs. If our products are distributed by such firms in an inappropriate manner, or to customers for whom such products are not in their best interest, we may suffer reputational and other harm to our business.

We compete with major, well-established stock and mutual life insurance companies and non-insurance financial services companies (e.g., banks, private equity firms, broker-dealers and asset managers) in all of our product offerings, and our distributors sell such competitors’ products along with our products. In addition, certain of our distributors currently offer their own competing products or may offer competing products in the future. If our distributors concentrate their efforts in selling their firm’s own products or our other competitors’ products instead of ours, our sales could be adversely impacted.29

The failure of third parties to provide various services to us, or any failure of the practices and procedures that these third parties use to provide services to us, could have a material adverse effect on our business

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A key part of our operating strategy is to leverage third parties to deliver certain services important to our business, including administrative, operational, technology, financial, investment and actuarial services. There can be no assurance that the services provided to us by third parties (or their suppliers, vendors or subcontractors) will be sufficient to meet our operational and business needs, that such third parties will continue to be able to perform their functions in a manner satisfactory to us, that the practices and procedures of such third parties will continue to enable them to adequately manage any processes they handle on our behalf, or that any remedies available under these third-party arrangements will be sufficient in the event of a dispute or nonperformance. In addition, we continue to leverage third-party service providers for certain administrative systems. There can be no assurance that in connection with any such services, including the transition to new third-party service providers in the future, or in connection with any of the services provided to us by existing third parties (or such third-party’s supplier, vendor or subcontractor), we will not incur unanticipated expenses or experience other economic or reputational harm, service delays or interruptions, or be subject to litigation or regulatory investigations and actions, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial results.

Furthermore, if a third-party provider (or such third-party’s supplier, vendor or subcontractor) fails to meet contractual obligations or requirements (e.g., compliance with applicable laws and regulations or fails to provide material information on a timely basis) or fails to provide required services due to the result of a cyberattack or other security breach, the loss of key personnel or otherwise, then, in each case, we could suffer economic and reputational harm that could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial reporting. In addition, such failures could result in the loss of key distributors, impact the accuracy of our financial reporting, or subject us to litigation or regulatory investigations and actions, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. See “— Risks Related to Our Business — Brighthouse Financial may experience difficulty in marketing and distributing products through our distribution channels” and “— Operational Risks — Any failure in our cybersecurity risk management program, as well as the occurrence of events unanticipated in Brighthouse Financial’s or our third-party service providers’ disaster recovery systems and business continuity planning, could result in a loss or disclosure of confidential information, damage to our reputation and impairment of our ability to conduct business effectively.”

Similarly, if any third-party provider (or such third-party’s supplier, vendor or subcontractor) experiences any deficiency in internal controls, determines that its practices and procedures used in providing services to us (including administering any of our policies or managing any of our investments) require review, or otherwise fails to provide services to us in accordance with appropriate standards, we could incur expenses and experience other adverse effects as a result. In such situations, we may be unable to resolve any issues on our own without assistance from the third-party provider, and we could have limited ability to influence the speed and effectiveness of that resolution.

In addition, from time to time, certain third parties have brought to our attention practices, and procedures ~~and~~used to estimate our reserves with respect to certain products they administer on our behalf that require further review. While we do not believe, based on the information made available to us to date, that any of the matters brought to our attention will require material modifications to reserves or will have a material effect on our business and financial reporting, we are reliant on our third-party service providers to provide further information and assistance with respect to those products. There can also be no assurance that such matters will not require material modifications to reserves or have a material effect on our financial condition or results of operations in the future, or that our third-party service providers will provide further information and assistance.

It may be difficult, disruptive and costly for us to replace some of our third-party providers in a timely manner if in the future they were unwilling or unable to provide us with the services we require (as a result of their financial or business conditions or otherwise), which could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial results. In addition, if a third-party provider raises the rates that it charges us for its services, we may not be able to pass the increased costs onto our customers and our profitability may be negatively impacted as a result.

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Changes in our deferred income tax assets or liabilities, including changes in our ability to realize our deferred income tax assets, could adversely affect our financial condition or results of operations

Deferred income tax represents the tax effect of the differences between the book and tax bases of assets and liabilities. Deferred income tax assets are assessed periodically by management to determine whether they are realizable. Factors in management’s determination include the performance of the business, including the ability to generate future taxable income. If, based on available information, it is more likely than not that the deferred income tax asset will not be realized, then a valuation allowance must be established with a corresponding charge to our profitability measures. Such charges could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. Significant changes in the estimates of future taxable income used in determining a valuation allowance, new information or changes in tax laws, tax regulations or interpretations of such laws or regulations could affect the value of our deferred income tax assets and may require a write-off of some of those assets. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Summary of Critical Accounting Estimates.”

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Risks associated with climate change could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Climate change could pose a systemic risk to the global financial system. Climate change could increase the frequency and severity of weather-related disasters and pandemics. Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming could impact global investment asset valuations. There is also a risk that some asset sectors could face significantly higher costs and a disorderly adjustment to asset values leading to an adverse impact on the value and future performance of investment assets as a result of climate change or regulatory or other responses. Climate change could also impact our counterparties and other third parties, including, among others, reinsurers and derivative counterparties. Increasing scrutiny and evolving expectations from investors, customers, regulators, and other stakeholders regarding climate change matters may adversely affect our reputation. The above risks could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Public health crises, extreme mortality events or similar occurrences may adversely impact our business, financial condition, or results of operations, as well as the economy in general

Public health crises, extreme mortality events or other similar occurrences could have a major impact on the global economy and the financial markets or the economies of particular countries or regions, including market volatility and disruptions to commerce, the health system, and the food supply, as well as reduced economic activity and labor shortages. In addition, a public health crisis that affected our associates or the employees of our distributors or of other companies with which we do business, including providers of third-party services, could disrupt our business operations. Furthermore, the value of our investment portfolio could be negatively impacted. See “— Risks Related to Our Investment Portfolio — Ongoing military actions, the continued threat of terrorism, climate change as well as other catastrophic events may adversely affect the value of our investment portfolio and the level of claim losses we incur.”

Economic uncertainty resulting from a public health crisis or similar event could impact sales of certain of our products, and we may decide or otherwise be required to provide relief to customers adversely affected by such an event, similar to the relief we provided in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition, our life insurance operations are exposed to the risk of catastrophic mortality, such as a pandemic or other event that causes a large number of deaths. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic and several significant influenza pandemics have occurred in the last century. The likelihood, timing, and severity of a future pandemic that may impact our policyholders cannot be predicted. Moreover, the impact of climate change could cause changes in the frequency or severity of outbreaks of certain diseases. Circumstances resulting from a public health crisis or similar event could affect the incidence of claims, utilization of benefits, lapses or surrenders of policies and payments on insurance premiums, any of which could impact the revenues and expenses associated with our products.

Consistent with industry practice and accounting standards, we establish liabilities for claims arising from a catastrophe only after assessing the probable losses arising from the event. We cannot be certain that the liabilities we have established will be adequate to cover actual claim liabilities. A catastrophic event or multiple catastrophic events could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Conversely, improvements in medical care and other developments which positively affect life expectancy can cause our assumptions with respect to longevity, which we use when we price our products, to become incorrect and, accordingly, can adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

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Brighthouse Financial could face difficulties, unforeseen liabilities, asset impairments or rating actions arising from business acquisitions or dispositions

We may engage in dispositions or acquisitions of businesses. Such activity exposes us to a number of risks arising from (i) potential difficulties achieving projected financial results, including the costs and benefits of integration or deconsolidation; (ii) unforeseen liabilities or asset impairments; (iii) the scope and duration of rights to indemnification for losses; (iv) the use of capital which could be used for other purposes; (v) rating agency reactions; (vi) regulatory requirements that could impact our operations or capital requirements; (vii) changes in statutory accounting principles or GAAP, practices or policies; and (viii) certain other risks specifically arising from activities relating to a legal entity reorganization.

Our ability to achieve certain financial benefits we anticipate from any acquisitions of businesses will depend, in part, upon our ability to successfully integrate such businesses in an efficient and effective manner. There may be liabilities or asset impairments that we fail, or are unable, to discover in the course of performing acquisition-related due diligence reviews. Furthermore, even for obligations and liabilities that we do discover during the due diligence process, neither the valuation adjustment nor the contractual protections we negotiate may be sufficient to fully protect us from losses.

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We may from time to time dispose of business or blocks of in-force business through outright sales, reinsurance transactions or by alternate means. After a disposition, we may remain liable to the acquirer or to third parties for certain losses or costs arising from the divested business or on other bases. We also may not realize the anticipated profit on a disposition or incur a loss on the disposition. In anticipation of any disposition, we may need to restructure our operations, which could disrupt such operations and affect our ability to recruit key personnel needed to operate and grow such business pending the completion of such transaction. In addition, the actions of key employees of the business to be divested could adversely affect the success of such disposition as they may be more focused on obtaining employment, or the terms of their employment, than on maximizing the value of the business to be divested. Furthermore, transition services or tax arrangements related to any such disposition could further disrupt our operations and may impose restrictions, liabilities, losses or indemnification obligations on us. Depending on its particulars, a disposition could increase our exposure to certain risks, such as by decreasing the diversification of our sources of revenue. Moreover, we may be unable to timely dissolve all contractual relationships with the divested business in the course of the proposed transaction, which may materially adversely affect our ability to realize value from the disposition. Such disposition could also adversely affect our internal controls and procedures and impair our relationships with key customers, distributors and suppliers. An interruption or significant change in certain key relationships could materially affect our ability to market our products and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Continued scrutiny and evolving expectations from investors, customers, regulators and other stakeholders regarding environmental, social and governance matters may adversely affect our reputation or otherwise adversely impact our business and results of operations

There is continued scrutiny and evolving expectations, as well as conflicting expectations, from investors, customers, regulators and other stakeholders on environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) practices and disclosures, including those related to environmental stewardship, climate change, ~~diversity,~~workplace ~~equity~~conduct and ~~inclusion,~~other ~~racial~~social ~~justice~~ and ~~workplace~~political ~~conduct~~mandates. Regulators have imposed and may continue to impose ESG-related rules and guidance, which may conflict with one another and impose additional costs on us or expose us to new or additional risks. In view of evolving regulatory expectations, investor scrutiny, and changing consumer preferences and social expectations, ESG issues can represent emerging or unforeseen risks to our long-term operating performance and financial condition. Moreover, certain organizations that provide information to investors have developed ratings for evaluating companies on their approach to different ESG matters, and unfavorable ratings of the Company or our industry may lead to negative investor sentiment and the diversion of investment to other companies or industries.

Economic Environment and Capital Markets-Related Risks

If difficult conditions in the capital markets and the U.S. economy generally persist or are perceived to persist, they may materially adversely affect our business and results of operations

Our business and results of operations are materially affected by conditions in the capital markets and the U.S. economy generally, as well as by the global economy to the extent it affects the U.S. economy. In addition, while our operations are entirely in the U.S., we have foreign investments in our general and separate accounts and, accordingly, conditions in the global capital markets can affect the value of our general account and separate account assets, as well as our financial results. Actual or perceived stressed conditions, volatility and disruptions in financial asset classes or various capital markets can have an adverse effect on us, both because we have a large and well-diversified investment portfolio and our benefit and claim liabilities are sensitive to changing market factors, including interest rates, credit spreads, equity and commodity prices, derivative prices and availability, real estate markets, foreign currency exchange rates and the returns and volatility of capital markets. In an economic downturn characterized by rapid increases in inflation, higher unemployment, lower family income, lower corporate earnings, lower business investment or lower consumer spending, the demand for our products could be adversely affected as customers are unwilling or unable to purchase them. In addition, we may experience an elevated incidence of claims, adverse utilization of benefits relative to our best estimate expectations and lapses or surrenders of policies. Furthermore, our policyholders may choose to defer paying insurance premiums or stop paying insurance premiums altogether. Such adverse changes in the economy could negatively affect our earnings and capitalization and have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, our results of operations, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s ability to pay dividends and the ability of BHNY or BRCD to pay dividends to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company. In addition, adverse economic conditions could have a material impact on our investment portfolio.

Significant market volatility in reaction to geopolitical risks, changing monetary policy, trade disputes and uncertain fiscal policy may exacerbate some of the risks we face. Increased market volatility may affect the performance of the various asset classes in which we invest, as well as separate account values.32

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markets. In an economic downturn characterized by rapid increases in inflation, higher unemployment, lower family income, lower corporate earnings, lower business investment or lower consumer spending, the demand for our products could be adversely affected as customers are unwilling or unable to purchase them. In addition, we may experience an elevated incidence of claims, adverse utilization of benefits relative to our best estimate expectations and lapses or surrenders of policies. Furthermore, our policyholders may choose to defer paying insurance premiums or stop paying insurance premiums altogether. Such adverse changes in the economy could negatively affect our earnings and capitalization and have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, our results of operations, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s ability to pay dividends and the ability of BHNY or BRCD to pay dividends to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company. In addition, adverse economic conditions could have a material impact on our investment portfolio.

Significant market volatility in reaction to the evolving and uncertain regulatory, legal and geopolitical landscape in the U.S. and abroad due to tariffs, trade disputes, changing monetary policy, uncertain fiscal policy, military conflicts and the political environment may exacerbate some of the risks we face. Increased market volatility may affect the performance of the various asset classes in which we invest, as well as separate account values. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Overview — Financial and Economic Environment.”

Extreme declines or shocks in equity markets, as well as sustained stagnation and persistent low interest rates, could cause us to incur significant capital or operating losses due to, among other reasons, the impact of guarantees related to our annuity products, including increases in liabilities, increased capital requirements, or collateral requirements. Furthermore, periods of sustained stagnation in equity and bond markets, which are characterized by multiple years of low annualized total returns impacting the growth in separate accounts or low level of U.S. interest rates, may materially increase our insurance contract liabilities due to inherent market return guarantees in these liabilities. Similarly, sustained periods of low interest rates and risk asset returns could reduce income from our investment portfolio, increase our insurance contract liabilities, and increase the cost of risk transfer measures such as hedging, causing our profit margins to erode as a result of reduced investment portfolio income and increased insurance liabilities. See also “— Risks Related to Our Business — Guarantees within certain of our annuity products may decrease our earnings, decrease our capitalization, increase the volatility of our results, result in higher risk management costs and expose us to increased market risk” and “— Risks Related to Our Business — Public health crises, extreme mortality events or similar occurrences may adversely impact our business, financial condition, or results of operations, as well as the economy in general.”

Adverse capital and credit market conditions may significantly affect our ability to meet liquidity needs and our access to capital

The capital and credit markets may be subject to periods of extreme volatility. Disruptions in capital markets could adversely affect our liquidity and credit capacity or limit our access to capital which may in the future be needed to operate our business and meet policyholder obligations.

We need liquidity to pay our operating expenses, pay interest on our indebtedness, and provide our subsidiaries with cash or collateral. Furthermore, we need liquidity to maintain our securities lending activities, ~~and~~to replace certain maturing liabilities and to post collateral for derivative transactions. Without sufficient liquidity, we could be forced to curtail our operations and limit the investments necessary to grow our business.

Our principal sources of liquidity are insurance premiums and fees paid in connection with annuity products, ~~and~~as well as cash ~~flow~~flows from our investment portfolio to the extent consisting of cash and readily marketable securities.

In the event capital markets or other conditions have an adverse impact on our capital and liquidity, or our stress-testing indicates that such conditions could have an adverse impact beyond expectations and our current resources do not satisfy our needs or regulatory requirements, we may have to seek additional financing to enhance our capital and liquidity position. The availability of additional financing will depend on a variety of factors, such as the then current market conditions, regulatory capital requirements, availability of credit to us and the financial services industry generally, our financial strength ratings and financial leverage, and the perception of our customers and lenders regarding our long- or short-term financial prospects if we incur large operating or investment losses or if the level of our business activity decreases due to a market downturn. Similarly, our access to funds may be impaired if regulatory authorities or rating agencies take negative actions against us. Our internal sources of liquidity may prove to be insufficient and, in such case, we may not be able to successfully obtain additional financing on favorable terms, or at all.

In addition, our liquidity requirements may change if, among other things, we are required to return significant amounts of cash collateral on short notice under securities lending agreements or other collateral requirements. See “— Risks Related to Our Investment Portfolio — Our investment portfolio is subject to significant financial risks both in the U.S. and global financial markets, including credit risk, interest rate risk, inflation risk, market valuation risk, liquidity risk, real estate risk, ~~derivatives risk, and other factors outside our control, the occurrence of any of which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.”~~

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derivatives risk, and other factors outside our control, the occurrence of any of which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.”

Our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows and statutory capital position could be materially adversely affected by disruptions in the financial markets, as such disruptions may limit our ability to replace, in a timely manner, maturing liabilities, satisfy regulatory capital requirements, and access the capital that may be necessary to grow our business. See “— Regulatory and Legal Risks — Our business is highly regulated, and changes in regulation and in supervisory and enforcement policies or interpretations thereof may materially impact our capitalization or cash flows, reduce our profitability and limit our growth.” As a result, we may be forced to delay raising capital, issue different types of securities than we would have otherwise, less effectively deploy such capital, issue shorter tenor securities than we prefer, or bear an unattractive cost of capital, which could decrease our profitability and significantly reduce our financial flexibility.

We are exposed to significant financial and capital markets risks which may adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and liquidity, and may cause our profitability measures to vary from period-to-period

Economic risks and other factors described below, as well as significant volatility in the markets, individually or collectively, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity or cash flows through a change in our insurance liabilities or increases in reserves for future policyholder benefits.

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Interest Rate Risk

Some of our current or anticipated future products, principally whole life, universal life, fixed, index-linked and income annuities, as well as funding agreements and structured settlements, expose us to the risk that changes in interest rates will reduce our investment margin or “net investment spread,” or the difference between the amounts that we are required to pay under the contracts in our general account and the rate of return we earn on general account investments intended to support the obligations under such contracts. Our net investment spread is a key component of our profitability measures.

Although reducing interest crediting rates can help offset decreases in net investment spreads on some products, our ability to reduce these rates is limited to the portion of our in-force product portfolio that has adjustable interest crediting rates and could also be limited by the actions of our competitors or contractually guaranteed minimum rates and may not match the timing or magnitude of changes in asset yields. As a result, a decrease in interest rates could cause our net investment spread to decrease or potentially become negative, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Policyholder Liabilities.”

An increase in interest rates could result in decreased fee revenue associated with a decline in the value of variable annuity account balances invested in fixed income funds. In addition, during periods of declining interest rates, our return on investments that do not support particular policy obligations may decrease. During periods of sustained lower interest rates, our reserves for policy liabilities may not be sufficient to meet future policy obligations and may need to be strengthened. Accordingly, declining and sustained lower interest rates may materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s ability to pay dividends and the ability of BHNY or BRCD to pay dividends to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, and significantly reduce our profitability. We may therefore have to accept a lower investment return and lower profitability or face a decline in sales and greater loss of existing contracts and related assets.

In addition, because our interest rate hedging program is primarily a risk mitigation strategy intended to reduce our risk to statutory capitalization and long-term economic exposures from sustained low levels of interest rates, this strategy will likely result in higher net income volatility due to the insensitivity of related ULSG GAAP liabilities to the change in interest rate levels. This strategy may adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. See “— Risks Related to Our Business — We may not have sufficient assets to meet our future ULSG policyholder obligations, and changes in interest rates may result in volatility of our profitability measures and capital.”

Inflation Risk

Inflation increases our expenses (including, among others, for labor and third-party services), potentially putting pressure on our profitability in the event that such additional costs cannot be passed through to policyholders. High inflation could also cause a change in consumer sentiment and behavior adversely affecting the sales of certain of our products.

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Equity Risk

We sell certain spread-based annuity products that expose us to the risk that changes in equity markets will reduce our investment margin, as higher equity markets would require us to credit more under the contracts. These products include index-linked annuities where the crediting rate is determined by reference to the performance of an underlying index. We are also exposed to equity risk related to certain guarantees found in fee-based products, such as variable annuities (as sustained lower equity markets may increase our liabilities) and certain of our businesses where fee income is earned based upon the estimated market value of the assets under management (“AUM”) in both the separate and general account. Because fees generated by such products are primarily related to the value of AUM, a decline in the equity markets could reduce our revenues as a result of the reduction in the value of the investment assets supporting those products and services.

We manage our exposures to equity risk bythrough product design strategies such as selling products or introducing product features that provide a risk offset to each other, ~~through~~ hedging, ~~and~~using toderivative ainstruments, ~~lesser~~as ~~extent~~well as reinsurance. However, such derivatives and reinsurance may become less available and, if they remain available, their price could materially increase in a period characterized by volatile equity markets.

See “— Risks Related to Our Business — Guarantees within certain of our annuity products may decrease our earnings, decrease our capitalization, increase the volatility of our results, result in higher risk management costs and expose us to increased market risk.”

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Risks Related to Our Investment Portfolio

Our investment portfolio is subject to significant financial risks both in the U.S. and global financial markets, including credit risk, interest rate risk, inflation risk, market valuation risk, liquidity risk, real estate risk, derivatives risk, and other factors outside our control, the occurrence of any of which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations

Credit Risk

Fixed income securities and mortgage loans represent a significant portion of our investment portfolio. We are also subject to the risk that the issuers or guarantors of the fixed income securities and mortgage loans in our investment portfolio may default on principal and interest payments they owe us. In addition, the underlying collateral within asset-backed securities (“ABS”), including mortgage-backed securities, may default on principal and interest payments causing an adverse change in cash flows. The occurrence of a major economic downturn, acts of corporate malfeasance, widening mortgage or credit spreads, or other events that adversely affect the issuers, guarantors or underlying collateral of these securities and mortgage loans could cause the estimated fair value of our portfolio of fixed income securities and mortgage loans and our earnings to decline and the default rate of the fixed income securities and mortgage loans in our investment portfolio to increase.

Defaults or deteriorating credit of other financial institutions could adversely affect us as we have exposure to many different industries and counterparties, and routinely execute transactions with counterparties in the financial services industry, including brokers and dealers, central clearinghouses, commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds and investment funds and other financial institutions. Many of these transactions expose us to credit risk in the event of the default of our counterparty. In addition, with respect to secured transactions, our credit risk may be exacerbated when the collateral held by us cannot be realized or is liquidated at prices not sufficient to recover the full amount of the loan or derivative exposure due to us. We also have exposure to these financial institutions in the form of unsecured debt instruments, non-redeemable and redeemable preferred securities, derivatives, joint ventures and equity investments. Any losses or impairments to the carrying value of these investments or other changes could materially and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

Interest Rate Risk

We are exposed to certain risks in a variety of interest rate environments. When interest rates are low, we may be forced to reinvest proceeds from investments that have matured or have been prepaid or sold at lower yields, which will reduce our net investment income. Moreover, borrowers may prepay or redeem the fixed income securities and commercial, agricultural or residential mortgage loans in our investment portfolio with greater frequency in order to borrow at lower market rates, thereby exacerbating this risk.

Increases in interest rates could negatively affect our profitability. In periods of rapidly increasing interest rates, we may not be able to replace, in a timely manner, the investments in our general account with higher-yielding investments needed to fund the higher crediting rates necessary to keep interest rate sensitive products competitive. In addition, as interest rates rise, policy loans, surrenders and withdrawals may increase as policyholders seek investments with higher perceived returns. This process may result in cash outflows requiring that we sell investments at a time when the prices of those investments are adversely affected by the increase in interest rates, which may result in realized investment losses. An increase in interest rates could also have a material adverse effect on the value of our investments, for example, by decreasing the estimated fair values of the fixed income securities and mortgage loans that comprise a significant portion of our investment portfolio.

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A sustained or material increase in inflation could affect our business in several ways. During inflationary periods, the value of fixed income investments may fall, which could increase realized and unrealized losses. Interest rates may increase in the future due to central bank policy responses to combat inflation, which may positively impact our business in certain respects, but could also increase the risk of a recession or an equity market downturn and could negatively impact various portions of our business, including our investment portfolio. Prolonged and elevated inflation could adversely affect the financial markets and the economy generally, and dispelling it may require governments to pursue a restrictive fiscal and monetary policy, which could constrain overall economic activity and inhibit revenue growth.

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interest rates rise, policy loans, surrenders and withdrawals may increase as policyholders seek investments with higher perceived returns. This process may result in cash outflows requiring that we sell investments at a time when the prices of those investments are adversely affected by the increase in interest rates, which may result in realized investment losses. An increase in interest rates could also have a material adverse effect on the value of our investments, for example, by decreasing the estimated fair values of the fixed income securities and mortgage loans that comprise a significant portion of our investment portfolio.

Inflation Risk

Market Valuation Risk

Market valuation risk relates to the variability in the estimated fair value of investments associated with changes in market factors. Our portfolio’s market valuation risks include the following:

•Credit Spread Risk – We are exposed to credit spread risk primarily as a result of market price volatility and investment risk associated with the fluctuation in credit spreads. Widening credit spreads may cause unrealized losses in our investment portfolio and increase losses associated with written credit protection derivatives used in replication transactions. Additionally, an increase in credit spreads relative to U.S. Treasury benchmarks can also adversely affect the cost of our borrowing if we need to access credit markets. Tightening credit spreads may reduce our investment income and cause an increase in the reported value of certain liabilities that are valued using a discount rate that reflects our own credit spread.

•Risks Related to Equity Markets – A portion of our investments are in leveraged buy-out funds and other private equity funds. The amount and timing of net investment income from such funds tends to be uneven as a result of the performance of the underlying investments. As a result, the amount of net investment income from these investments can vary substantially from period-to-period. Significant volatility could adversely impact returns and net investment income on these investments. In addition, the estimated fair value of such investments may be affected by downturns or volatility in equity or other markets.

•Risks Related to the Valuation of Securities – Fixed maturity and equity securities, as well as short-term investments that are reported at estimated fair value, represent the majority of our total cash and investments. See Note 1 to the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for more information on how we calculate fair value. During periods of market disruption, including periods of significantly rising or high interest rates, rapidly widening credit spreads or illiquidity, it may be difficult to value certain of our securities if trading becomes less frequent or market data becomes less observable. In addition, in times of financial market disruption, certain asset classes that were in active markets with significant observable data may become illiquid. In those cases, the valuation process includes inputs that are less observable and require more subjectivity and management judgment. Valuations may result in estimated fair values which vary significantly from the amount at which the investments may ultimately be sold. Further, rapidly changing and unprecedented credit and equity market conditions could materially impact the valuation of securities as reported within our consolidated financial statements and the period-to-period changes in estimated fair value could vary significantly. Decreases in the estimated fair value of securities we hold could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

•Risks Related to the Determination of Allowances and Impairments – The determination of the amount of allowances and impairments is subjective and varies by investment type, which is based on our periodic evaluation and assessment of known and inherent risks associated with the respective asset class. However, historical trends may not be indicative of future impairments or allowances.

•Gross Unrealized Losses on Fixed Maturity Securities and Related Impairment Risks – Unrealized gains or losses on fixed maturity securities classified as available-for-sale (“AFS”) securities are recognized as a component of other comprehensive income (loss) (“OCI”) and are, therefore, excluded from our profitability measures. The accumulated change in estimated fair value of these AFS securities is recognized in our profitability measures when the gain or loss is realized upon the sale of the security or in the event that the decline in estimated fair value is determined to be credit-related and impairment charges are taken.

•Defaults, Downgrades or Other Events Affecting Issuers or Guarantors of Securities and Related Impairment Risks – The occurrence of a major economic downturn, acts of corporate malfeasance, widening credit spreads, or other events that adversely affect the issuers or guarantors of securities or the underlying collateral of residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”), commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) and ABS (collectively, “Structured Securities”) could cause the estimated fair value of our fixed maturity securities portfolio and corresponding net investment income to decline and cause the default rate of the fixed maturity securities in our portfolio to increase. A ratings downgrade affecting issuers or guarantors of particular securities, or similar trends that could worsen the credit quality of issuers, such as the corporate issuers of securities in our portfolio, could also have a similar effect. Economic uncertainty can adversely affect credit quality of issuers or guarantors. Similarly, a ratings downgrade affecting a security we hold could indicate the credit quality of that security has deteriorated and could increase the capital we must hold to support that security to maintain our RBC levels. Our intent to sell or assessment of the likelihood that we would be required to sell fixed maturity securities that have declined in value may affect the level of write-downs or impairments.36

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other comprehensive income (loss) (“OCI”) and are, therefore, excluded from our profitability measures. The accumulated change in estimated fair value of these AFS securities is recognized in our profitability measures when the gain or loss is realized upon the sale of the security or in the event that the decline in estimated fair value is determined to be credit-related and impairment charges are taken.

Liquidity Risk

There may be a limited market for certain investments we hold in our investment portfolio, making them relatively illiquid. These include privately-placed fixed maturity securities, derivative instruments such as options, mortgage loans, policy loans, leveraged leases, other limited partnership interests, and real estate equity, such as real estate limited partnerships, limited liability companies and funds. In the past, even some of our very high-quality investments experienced reduced liquidity during periods of market volatility or disruption. If we were forced to sell certain of our investments during periods of market volatility or disruption, market prices may be lower than our carrying value in such investments. This could result in realized losses which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations, as well as our financial ratios, which could affect compliance with our credit instruments and rating agency capital adequacy measures. Moreover, our ability to sell assets could be limited if other market participants are seeking to sell fungible or similar assets at the same time.

Similarly, we loan blocks of our securities to third parties (primarily brokerage firms and commercial banks) through our securities lending program, including fixed maturity securities and short-term investments.

If we are required to return significant amounts of cash collateral in connection with our securities lending or otherwise need significant amounts of cash on short notice and we are forced to sell securities, we may have difficulty selling such collateral that is invested in securities in a timely manner, be forced to sell securities in a volatile or illiquid market for less than we otherwise would have been able to realize in normal market conditions, or both. In the event of a forced sale, accounting guidance requires the recognition of a loss for securities in an unrealized loss position and may require the impairment of other securities based on our ability to hold those securities, which would negatively impact our financial condition and results of operations, as well as our financial ratios, which could affect compliance with our credit instruments and rating agency capital adequacy measures. In addition, under stressful capital markets and economic conditions, liquidity broadly deteriorates, which could further restrict our ability to sell securities. Furthermore, if we decrease the amount of our securities lending activities over time, the amount of net investment income generated by these activities will also likely decline.

Real Estate Risk

A portion of our investment portfolio consists of mortgage loans on commercial, agricultural and residential real estate. Our exposure to this risk stems from various factors, including the supply and demand of leasable commercial space, creditworthiness of tenants and partners, capital markets volatility, interest rate fluctuations, agricultural prices and farm incomes. Although we manage credit risk and market valuation risk for our commercial, agricultural and residential real estate assets through geographic, property type and product type diversification and asset allocation, general economic conditions in the commercial, agricultural and residential real estate sectors will continue to influence the performance of these investments. These factors, which are beyond our control, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity or cash flows.

Mortgage loans in our portfolio also face default risk. An increase in the default rate of our mortgage loan investments or fluctuations in their performance could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

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Further, any geographic or property type concentration of the mortgage loans in our portfolio may have adverse effects on our portfolio and, consequently, on our financial condition and results of operations. Events or developments that have a negative effect on any particular geographic region or sector may have a greater adverse effect on our investment portfolio to the extent that the portfolio is concentrated. See Notes 8 and 10 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Derivative Risk

We use a variety of strategies to manage risk related to our ongoing business operations, including the use of derivatives. Our derivative counterparties’ defaults could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. In addition, ratings downgrades or financial difficulties of derivative counterparties may require us to utilize additional capital with respect to the affected businesses. Furthermore, the valuation of our derivatives could change based on changes to our valuation methodology or the discovery of errors.

Substantially all of our derivative transactions require us to pledge or receive collateral or make payments related to any decline in the net estimated fair value of such derivative transactions. The amount of collateral we may be required to pledge and the payments we may be required to make under our derivative transactions may increase under certain circumstances as a result of the requirement to pledge initial margin or variation margin for OTC-bilateral transactions. Such requirements could adversely affect our liquidity, expose us to central clearinghouse and counterparty credit risk, or increase our costs of hedging. See “Business — Regulation — Regulation of Over-the-Counter Derivatives.”

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Other Risks

We are also exposed to other risks outside of our control, including foreign currency exchange rate risk relating to the variability in currency exchange rates for non-U.S. dollar denominated investments, as well as other financial and operational risks related to using external asset management firms.

Ongoing military actions, the continued threat of terrorism, climate change as well as other catastrophic events may adversely affect the value of our investment portfolio and the level of claim losses we incur

Ongoing military actions (including the ongoing armed conflicts in Europe and the Middle East), the continued threat of terrorism, both within the U.S. and abroad, and heightened security measures in response to these types of threats, as well as climate change and other natural or man-made catastrophic events, may cause significant decline and volatility in global financial markets and result in loss of life, property damage, additional disruptions to commerce, the health system, and the food supply and reduced economic activity. The effects of climate change could cause changes in weather patterns, resulting in more severe and more frequent natural disasters such as forest fires, hurricanes, tornados, floods and storm surges. The value of assets in our investment portfolio may be adversely affected by declines in the credit and equity markets and reduced economic activity caused by the continued threat of catastrophic events. Companies in which we maintain investments may suffer losses as a result of financial, commercial or economic disruptions and such disruptions might affect the ability of those companies to pay interest or principal on their securities or mortgage loans. Catastrophic events could also disrupt our operations as well as the operations of our third-party service providers and also result in higher than anticipated claims under insurance policies that we have issued. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Policyholder Liabilities.”

Regulatory and Legal Risks

Our business is highly regulated, and changes in regulation and in supervisory and enforcement policies or interpretations thereof may materially impact our capitalization or cash flows, reduce our profitability and limit our growth

We are subject to a wide variety of insurance and other laws and regulations. We are subject to regulation by our primary Delaware state regulators as well as New York state regulators where our subsidiary, BHNY, is domiciled, along with other regulations in states in which we operate. Changes in these laws and regulations could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. See “Business — Regulation,” as supplemented by discussions of regulatory developments in our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q under the caption “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Regulatory Developments.”

In addition, we cannot predict what proposals may be made, what legislation or regulations may be introduced or enacted, or what impact any future legislation or regulations could have on our business, financial condition and results of operations, including the cost of any such compliance. Furthermore, regulatory uncertainty could create confusion among our distribution partners and customers, which could negatively impact product sales. See “Business — Regulation — Standard of Conduct Regulation” for a more detailed discussion of particular regulatory efforts by various regulators.

Changes to the laws and regulations that govern the standards of conduct that apply to the sale of our products, as well as the firms that distribute our products, could adversely affect our operations and profitability. Such changes could increase our regulatory and compliance burden, resulting in increased costs, or limit the type, amount or structure of compensation arrangements into which we may enter with certain of our associates, which could negatively impact our ability to compete with other companies, including with respect to recruiting and retaining key personnel. Additionally, our ability to react to rapidly changing economic conditions and the dynamic, competitive market for our products will depend on the continued efficacy of provisions we have incorporated into our product design allowing frequent and contemporaneous revisions of key pricing elements, as well as our ability to work collaboratively with regulators. Changes in regulatory approval processes, rules and other dynamics in the regulatory process could adversely impact our ability to react to such changing conditions.38

We cannot predict the impact that “best interest” or fiduciary standards adopted or proposed by various regulators may have on our business, financial condition or results of operations. Compliance with new or changed rules or legislation in this area may increase our regulatory burden and that of our distribution partners, require changes to our compensation practices and product offerings, and increase litigation risk, which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

In addition, we are subject to federal, state and other securities and state insurance laws and regulations which, among other things, require that we distribute certain of our products through a registered broker-dealer. The failure to comply with these laws or changes to these laws could have a material adverse effect on our operations and our profitability. Furthermore, changes in laws and regulations that affect our customers and distribution partners or their operations also may affect our

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~~business~~Changes ~~relationships~~to ~~with~~the ~~them~~laws and ~~their~~regulations ~~ability~~that govern the standards of conduct that apply to ~~purchase~~the orsale of our products, as well as the firms that distribute our products, could adversely affect our operations and profitability. Such ~~actions~~changes could increase our regulatory and compliance burden, resulting in increased costs, or limit the type, amount or structure of compensation arrangements into which we may enter with certain of our associates, which could negatively ~~affect~~impact our ~~business~~ability to compete with other companies, including with respect to recruiting and ~~results~~retaining key personnel. Additionally, our ability to react to rapidly changing economic conditions and the dynamic, competitive market for our products will depend on the continued efficacy of ~~operations~~provisions we have incorporated into our product design allowing frequent and contemporaneous revisions of key pricing elements, as well as our ability to work collaboratively with regulators. Changes in regulatory approval processes, rules and other dynamics in the regulatory process could adversely impact our ability to react to such changing conditions.

We cannot predict the impact that “best interest” or fiduciary standards may have on our business, financial condition or results of operations. Compliance with new or changed rules or legislation in this area may increase our regulatory burden and that of our distribution partners, require changes to our compensation practices and product offerings, and increase litigation risk, which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. See “Business — Regulation — Standard of Conduct Regulation — State Law Standard of Conduct Rules and Regulations.”

If our associates fail to adhere to regulatory requirements or our policies and procedures, we may be subject to penalties, restrictions or other sanctions by applicable regulators, and we may suffer reputational harm. See “Business — Regulation.”

A decrease in the RBC ratio of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company or BHNY (as a result of a reduction in statutory capital and surplus or an increase in the required RBC capital charges), or a change in the rating agency proprietary capital models, could result in increased scrutiny by insurance regulators and rating agencies and could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations

The NAIC has established model regulations that provide minimum capitalization requirements based on RBC formulas for insurance companies. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY are subject to RBC standards or other minimum statutory capital and surplus requirements imposed under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of domicile. See “Business — Regulation — Insurance Regulation — Statutory Accounting, Reserves and Risk-Based Capital.” Failure to meet these requirements could subject Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY to further examination or corrective action imposed by insurance regulators, including limitations on their ability to write additional business, increased regulatory supervision, or seizure or liquidation. Any corrective action imposed could cause a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. A decline in RBC ratios, whether or not it results in a failure to meet applicable RBC requirements, could limit Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s ability to pay dividends and the ability of BHNY to pay dividends to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, could result in a loss of customers or new business, or could influence ratings agencies to downgrade our financial strength ratings, each of which could cause a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

In any particular year, TAC amounts, and thus RBC ratios, may fluctuate depending on a variety of factors, including the amount of statutory income or losses generated by Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY (which itself is sensitive to equity market and credit market conditions), the amount of additional capital such insurer must hold to support business growth, equity and credit market conditions, the value and credit ratings of certain fixed income and equity securities in its investment portfolio, the value of certain derivative instruments ~~that do not receive hedge accounting~~, as well as changes to the RBC formulas and the interpretation of the NAIC’s instructions with respect to RBC calculation methodologies. In addition, rating agencies may implement changes to their own proprietary capital models, which differ from the RBC capital model, that have the effect of increasing or decreasing the amount of capital Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY should hold relative to the rating agencies’ expectations. Under stressed or stagnant capital markets conditions and with the aging of existing insurance liabilities, without offsets from new business, the amount of additional statutory reserves that Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY are required to hold could materially increase. This increase in reserves would decrease the capital available for use in calculating the RBC ratio of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company or BHNY. To the extent that the RBC ratio of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company or BHNY is deemed to be insufficient, we may seek to take actions either to increase the capitalization of the insurer or to reduce the capitalization requirements. If we were unable to accomplish such actions, the rating agencies could view this as a reason for a ratings downgrade.

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Changes in tax laws or interpretations of such laws could reduce our earnings and materially impact our operations by increasing our corporate taxes and making some of our products less attractive to consumers

Changes in tax laws or interpretations of such laws, ~~including in relation to the extension of expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,~~ could have a material adverse effect on our profitability and financial condition and could result in our incurring materially higher statutory taxes. Changes, including changes in tax laws, higher corporate tax rates or differences in interpretation of tax laws may adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity. In addition, current U.S. federal income tax law permits tax-deferred accumulation of income earned under life insurance and annuity products and permits exclusion from taxation of death benefits paid under life insurance contracts. Changes in tax laws that restrict these tax benefits, or declines in individual income tax rates more generally, could make our products less attractive to consumers. See “Business — Regulation — Federal Tax Reform” for a discussion of the potential impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act and the related corporate alternative minimum tax.

Legal disputes and regulatory investigations are common in our businesses and may result in significant financial losses or harm to our reputation

We face a significant risk of legal disputes and regulatory investigations in the ordinary course of operating our businesses, including the risk of class action lawsuits. Our pending legal actions and regulatory investigations include proceedings specific to us, as well as other proceedings that raise issues that are generally applicable to business practices in the industries in which we operate.

37In connection with our insurance operations, plaintiffs’ lawyers may bring or are bringing class actions and individual suits alleging, among other things, issues relating to sales or underwriting practices, claims payments and procedures, escheatment, product design, disclosure, administration, investments, denial or delay of benefits, lapse or termination of policies, COI and breaches of fiduciary or other duties to customers. Plaintiffs in class action and other lawsuits against us may seek very large or indeterminate amounts, including punitive and treble damages. Due to the vagaries of litigation, the outcome of a litigation matter and the amount or range of potential loss at particular points in time may be difficult to ascertain. Material pending litigation and other legal disputes, as well as regulatory matters affecting us and risks to our business presented by these proceedings, if any, are discussed in Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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In connection with our insurance operations, plaintiffs’ lawyers may bring or are bringing class actions and individual suits alleging, among other things, issues relating to sales or underwriting practices, claims payments and procedures, escheatment, product design, disclosure, administration, investments, denial or delay of benefits, lapse or termination of policies, cost of insurance and breaches of fiduciary or other duties to customers. Plaintiffs in class action and other lawsuits against us may seek very large or indeterminate amounts, including punitive and treble damages. Due to the vagaries of litigation, the outcome of a litigation matter and the amount or range of potential loss at particular points in time may be difficult to ascertain. Material pending litigation and other legal disputes, as well as regulatory matters affecting us and risks to our business presented by these proceedings, if any, are discussed in Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

A substantial legal liability or a significant federal, state or other regulatory action against us, as well as regulatory inquiries or investigations, could harm our reputation, result in material fines or penalties, result in significant legal costs and otherwise have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Even if we ultimately prevail in the litigation, regulatory action or investigation, our ability to attract new customers and distributors, retain our current customers and distributors, and recruit and retain personnel could be materially and adversely impacted. Regulatory inquiries and legal disputes may also cause volatility in the price of BHF securities and the securities of companies in our industry.

Current claims, litigation, unasserted claims probable of assertion, investigations and other proceedings against us, as well as any other disputes or other matters involving third parties, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. It is also possible that related or unrelated claims, litigation, unasserted claims probable of assertion, investigations and proceedings may be commenced in the future, and we could become subject to further investigations and have lawsuits filed or enforcement actions initiated against us. Increased regulatory scrutiny and any resulting investigations or proceedings in any of the jurisdictions where we operate could result in new legal actions and precedents or changes in laws, rules or regulations that could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Operational Risks

Any gaps in our policies, procedures, or processes may leave us exposed to unidentified or unanticipated risk, and our models used by our business may not operate properly and could contain errors, each of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, or results of operations

We have developed policies, procedures and processes to enable and support the ongoing review of the actual and potential risks facing the Company. Nonetheless, our policies, procedures and processes may not be fully effective in identifying and assessing such risks, leaving us exposed to unidentified or unanticipated risks. In addition, we rely on third-party providers to administer and service many of our products, and our policies, procedures and processes may not enable us to identify and assess every risk with respect to those products, especially to the extent we rely on those providers for relevant information, including detailed information regarding the holders of our products.

We use models to manage our business and evaluate the associated risk exposures. The models may not operate properly and could contain errors related to model inputs, data, assumptions, calculations, or output that may adversely impact our results of operations. In addition, these models may not fully predict future exposures, which may be significantly greater than our historical measures indicate. For example, we use actuarial models to assist us in establishing reserves for liabilities arising from our insurance policies and annuity contracts. We periodically review the effectiveness of these models, their underlying logic, and, from time to time, implement refinements to our models based on these reviews. We implement refinements after rigorous testing and validation; even after such validation and testing, our models remain subject to inherent limitations. Accordingly, no assurances can be given as to whether or when we will implement refinements to our actuarial models, and, if implemented, whether such refinements will be sufficient. Furthermore, if implemented, any such refinements could cause us to increase the reserves we hold for our insurance policy and annuity contract liabilities. If models are misused or fail to serve their intended purposes, they could produce incorrect or inappropriate results. Business decisions based on incorrect or misused model outputs or reports could have a material adverse impact on our results of operations.40

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~~implement~~We ~~more~~use ~~extensive~~models to manage our business and ~~perhaps~~evaluate ~~different~~the ~~policies~~associated risk exposures. The models may not operate properly and could contain errors related to model inputs, ~~procedures~~data, assumptions, calculations, or ~~processes~~output ~~and~~that may adversely impact our ~~risk~~results ~~management~~of ~~framework~~operations. In addition, these models may not ~~evolve~~fully atpredict future exposures, which may be significantly greater than our historical measures indicate. For example, we use actuarial models to assist us in establishing reserves for liabilities arising from our insurance policies and annuity contracts. We periodically review the ~~same~~effectiveness ~~pace~~of asthese ~~those~~models, ~~changes~~their underlying logic, and, from time to time, implement refinements to our models based on these reviews. ~~See~~We “—implement ~~Risks~~refinements ~~Related~~after rigorous testing and validation; even after such validation and testing, our models remain subject to ~~Our~~inherent ~~Business~~limitations. —Accordingly, ~~Our~~no ~~hedging~~assurances ~~strategy~~can ~~may~~be ~~not~~given as to whether or when we will implement refinements to our actuarial models, and, if implemented, whether such refinements will be ~~effective~~sufficient. Furthermore, ~~which~~if ~~may~~implemented, ~~result~~any insuch ~~significant~~refinements ~~volatility~~could incause us to increase the reserves we hold for our ~~profitability~~insurance ~~measures~~policy and annuity contract liabilities. If models are misused or ~~may~~fail ~~negatively~~to ~~affect~~serve their intended purposes, they could produce incorrect or inappropriate results. Business decisions based on incorrect or misused model outputs or reports could have a material adverse impact on our ~~statutory~~results ~~capital~~of operations.”

Other risk management models depend upon the evaluation of information regarding markets, clients, catastrophe occurrence, or other matters that are publicly available or otherwise accessible to us. This information may not always be accurate, complete, up-to-date, or properly evaluated. Furthermore, there can be no assurance that we can effectively review and monitor all risks or that all of our associates will follow our policies, procedures and processes, nor can there be any assurance that our policies, procedures and processes, or the policies, procedures and processes of third parties that administer or service our products, will enable us to accurately identify all risks and limit our exposures based on our assessments. In addition, if our business changes or the markets in which we operate evolve and new risks emerge, we may have to implement more extensive and perhaps different policies, procedures or processes and our risk management framework may not evolve at the same pace as those changes. See “— Risks Related to Our Business — Our hedging strategy may not be effective, which may result in significant volatility in our profitability measures or may negatively affect our statutory capital.”

Any failure in our cybersecurity risk management program, as well as the occurrence of events unanticipated in Brighthouse Financial’s or our third-party service providers’ disaster recovery systems and business continuity planning, could result in a loss or disclosure of confidential information, damage to our reputation and impairment of our ability to conduct business effectively

We heavily rely on communications, information systems (both internal and provided by third parties), and the internet to conduct our business. We rely on these systems throughout our business for a variety of functions, including processing new business, claims, and post-issue transactions, providing information to customers and distributors, performing actuarial analyses, managing our investments and maintaining financial records. A failure in the security of such systems or a failure to maintain the security of such systems, or the confidential information stored thereon, may result in regulatory enforcement action, harm our reputation or otherwise adversely affect our ability to conduct business, our financial condition or results of operations. In addition, our continuous technological evaluations and enhancements, including changes designed and intended to update our protective measures, may increase our risk of a breach or gap in our security, and there can be no assurance that any such efforts will be effective in preventing or limiting the impact of future cyberattacks.

We and our vendors, like other commercial entities, have been, and will likely continue to be, subject to a variety of forms of cyberattacks with the objective of gaining unauthorized access to our systems and data, or disrupting our operations. Potential attacks may include, but are not limited to, cyberattacks, phishing attacks, account takeover attempts, the introduction of computer viruses or malicious code (commonly referred to as “malware”), ransomware or other extortion tactics, denial of service attacks, credential stuffing, and other computer-related penetrations, each of which may be facilitated by the use of AI. Hardware, software or applications developed by us or received from third parties may contain exploitable vulnerabilities, bugs, or defects in design, maintenance or manufacture or other issues that could compromise information and cybersecurity. The risk of cyberattacks has also increased and may continue to increase in connection with recent geopolitical conflicts, including in Europe and the Middle East, and other geopolitical events and dynamics that may adversely disrupt or degrade our operations and may compromise our data. Malicious actors may attempt to fraudulently induce associates, customers, or other users of our systems to disclose credentials or other similar sensitive information in order to gain access to our systems or data, or that of our customers, through social engineering, phishing, mobile phone malware, and other methods.

Cybersecurity threats are rapidly evolving, and those threats and the means for obtaining access to our systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Cybersecurity threats can originate from a wide variety of sources including terrorists, nation states, financially or politically motivated actors, internal actors such as associates (through malicious or accidental acts), or third parties, such as external service providers, and the techniques used to effectuate such threats change frequently or are often not recognized until after they have been launched. The rapid evolution and increased adoption of AI technologies may intensify our cybersecurity or other information security system risks, including the deployment of AI technologies by malicious third parties and threat actors intent on finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, their use of “deep fakes,” and long-term persistent attacks that may increase in sophistication and effectiveness in the future. There is no assurance that administrative, physical and technical controls and other preventive actions taken to reduce the risk of cyberattacks and protect our information technology will prevent physical and electronic break-ins, cyberattacks or other security breaches to such computer systems. In some cases, such physical and electronic break-ins, cyberattacks or other security breaches may not be immediately detected. If we or our vendors fail to prevent, detect, address and mitigate such incidents, this may impede or interrupt our business operations and information systems, result in data loss, destruction, modification, disclosure or misuse, or loss of assets which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

A disaster such as a natural catastrophe, epidemic, pandemic, industrial accident, blackout, terrorist attack, cyberattack or war, unanticipated problems with our or our vendors’ disaster recovery systems (and the disaster recovery systems of such vendors’ suppliers, vendors or subcontractors), could cause our computer systems to be inaccessible to our associates, distributors, vendors or customers or may destroy valuable data. In addition, in the event that a significant number of our or our vendors’ managers were unavailable following a disaster, our ability to effectively conduct business could be severely compromised. These interruptions also may interfere with our suppliers’ ability to provide goods and services and our associates’ ability to perform their job responsibilities. Unanticipated problems with, or failures of, our disaster recovery systems and business continuity plans could have a material impact on our ability to conduct business and on our financial condition and results of operations.41

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A failure of our or relevant third-party (or such third-party’s supplier’s, vendor’s or subcontractor’s computer systems) computer systems could cause significant interruptions in our operations, result in a failure to maintain the security, confidentiality or privacy of sensitive data, harm our reputation, subject us to regulatory sanctions and legal claims, lead to a loss of customers and revenues, and otherwise adversely affect our business and financial results. Our cyber liability insurance may not be sufficient to protect us against all losses. See also “— Any failure to protect the confidentiality of customer, associate, or other third-party information could adversely affect our reputation and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.”

Our associates and those of our third-party service providers may take excessive risks which could negatively affect our financial condition and business

As an insurance enterprise, we are in the business of accepting certain risks. The individuals who conduct our business include executive officers and other members of management, sales intermediaries, investment professionals, product managers, and other associates, as well as associates of our various third-party service providers. Each of these individuals makes decisions and choices that may expose us to risk. These include decisions such as setting underwriting guidelines and standards, product design and pricing, determining what assets to purchase for investment and when to sell them, which business opportunities to pursue, and other decisions. Such individuals may take excessive risks regardless of the structure of our risk management framework or our compensation programs and practices, which may not effectively deter excessive risk-taking or misconduct. Similarly, our controls and procedures designed to monitor associates’ business decisions and prevent them from taking excessive risks, and to prevent associate misconduct, may not be effective. If our associates and those of our third-party service providers take excessive risks, the impact of those risks could harm our reputation and have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Any failure to protect the confidentiality of customer, ~~associates~~associate, or other third-party information could adversely affect our reputation and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations

Federal and state legislatures and various government agencies have established laws and regulations protecting the privacy and security of personal information. See “Business — Regulation — Privacy and Cybersecurity Regulation.” Our third-party service- providers and our associates have access to, and routinely process, personal information through a variety of media, including information technology systems. It is possible that an associate or third-party service provider (or their suppliers, vendors or subcontractors) could, intentionally or unintentionally, disclose or misappropriate ~~confidential~~ personal information, and there can be no assurance that our information security policies and systems in place can prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of confidential information, including ~~nonpublic~~ personal information. Additionally, our data has been and could in the future be the subject of cyberattacks, and the misappropriation or intentional or unintentional inappropriate disclosure or misuse of associate or client information has occurred and could occur in the future, including as a result of us or our third-party service providers (or their suppliers, vendors or subcontractors) failing to maintain adequate internal controls or if our associates or any of our third-party service providers fail to comply with applicable policies and procedures. Any failure or perceived failure by us to comply with our privacy policies, our privacy-related obligations to customers, associates, or other third parties, or our privacy-related legal obligations, or any compromise of security that results in the unauthorized release or transfer of sensitive information, which could include personally identifiable information or other user data, may result in governmental investigations, enforcement actions, regulatory fines, litigation and public statements against us by consumer advocacy groups or others, and could cause our customers, associates, or other third parties to lose trust in us, all of which could be costly and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. See “— Any failure in our cybersecurity risk management program, as well as the occurrence of events unanticipated in Brighthouse Financial’s or our third-party service providers’ disaster recovery systems and business continuity planning, could result in a loss or disclosure of confidential information, damage to our reputation and impairment of our ability to conduct business effectively.” In addition, compliance with complex variations in privacy and data security laws may require modifications to current business practices, including significant technology efforts that require long implementation timelines, increased costs and dedicated resources.

Furthermore, there has been increased scrutiny as well as enacted and proposed additional laws and regulations, including from state regulators, regarding the use of customer data. These laws and regulations are increasing in complexity and number, change frequently, and may be subject to interpretation by different regulators and courts. We may analyze customer data or input such data into third-party analytics in order to better manage our business. Any inquiry in connection with our analytics business practices, as well as any misuse or alleged misuse of those analytics insights, including for alleged violation of third-party privacy and intellectual property rights, or other rights, or alleged breach of contractual obligations, such as limitations on the use of data, could cause reputational harm or result in regulatory enforcement actions or litigation, and any related limitations imposed on us could have a material impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.42

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transfer of sensitive information, which could include personal information or other user data, may result in governmental investigations, enforcement actions, regulatory fines, litigation and public statements against us by consumer advocacy groups or others, and could cause our customers, associates, or other third parties to lose trust in us, all of which could be costly and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. See “— Any failure in our cybersecurity risk management program, as well as the occurrence of events unanticipated in Brighthouse Financial’s or our third-party service providers’ disaster recovery systems and business continuity planning, could result in a loss or disclosure of confidential information, damage to our reputation and impairment of our ability to conduct business effectively.” In addition, compliance with complex variations in privacy and data security laws may require modifications to current business practices, including significant technological efforts that require long implementation timelines, increased costs and dedicated resources.

Furthermore, there has been increased scrutiny as well as enacted and proposed additional laws and regulations, including from state regulators, regarding the use of personal information. These laws and regulations are increasing in complexity and number, change frequently, and may be subject to interpretation by different regulators and courts. We may analyze personal information or input such information into third-party analytics in order to better manage our business. Any inquiry in connection with our analytics business practices, as well as any misuse or alleged misuse of those analytics insights, including for alleged violation of third-party privacy and intellectual property rights, or other rights, or alleged breach of contractual obligations, such as limitations on the use of personal information, could cause reputational harm or result in regulatory enforcement actions or litigation, and any related limitations imposed on us could have a material impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Risks Related to Our Separation from, and Continuing Relationship with, MetLife

If the Separation were to fail to qualify for non-recognition treatment for federal income tax purposes, then we could be subject to significant tax liabilities

In connection with the Separation, MetLife received a private letter ruling from the IRS regarding certain significant issues under the Tax Code, as well as an opinion from its tax advisor that, subject to certain limited exceptions, the Separation qualifies for non-recognition of gain or loss to MetLife and MetLife’s shareholders pursuant to Sections 355 and 361 of the Tax Code. Notwithstanding the receipt of the private letter ruling and the tax opinion, the tax opinion is not binding on the IRS or the courts, and the IRS could determine that the Separation should be treated as a taxable transaction and, as a result, we could incur significant federal income tax liabilities, and Brighthouse Financial could have an indemnification obligation to MetLife.

Generally, taxes resulting from the failure of the Separation to qualify for non-recognition treatment for federal income tax purposes would be imposed on MetLife or MetLife’s shareholders. Under the tax separation agreement with MetLife, Inc. (the “Tax Separation Agreement”), MetLife is generally obligated to indemnify Brighthouse Financial against such taxes if the failure to qualify for tax-free treatment results from, among other things, any action or inaction that is within MetLife’s control. MetLife may dispute an indemnification obligation to Brighthouse Financial under the Tax Separation Agreement, and there can be no assurance that MetLife will be able to satisfy its indemnification obligation to Brighthouse Financial or that such indemnification will be sufficient for us in the event of nonperformance by MetLife. The failure of MetLife to fully indemnify Brighthouse Financial could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

In addition, MetLife will generally bear tax-related losses due to the failure of certain steps that were part of the Separation to qualify for their intended tax treatment. However, the IRS could seek to hold Brighthouse Financial responsible for such liabilities, and under the Tax Separation Agreement, Brighthouse Financial could be required, under certain circumstances, to indemnify MetLife and its affiliates against certain tax-related liabilities caused by those failures. If the Separation does not qualify for non-recognition treatment or if certain other steps that are part of the Separation do not qualify for their intended tax treatment, Brighthouse Financial could be required to pay material additional taxes or be obligated to indemnify MetLife, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

The Separation was also subject to tax rules regarding the treatment of certain of our tax attributes (such as the basis in our assets). In certain circumstances such rules could require us to reduce those attributes, which could materially and adversely affect our financial condition. The ultimate tax consequences to us of the Separation may not be finally determined for many years and may differ from the tax consequences that we and MetLife expected at the time of the Separation. As a result, we could be required to pay material additional taxes and to materially reduce the tax assets (or materially increase the tax liabilities) on our consolidated balance sheet. These changes could impact our available capital, ratings or cost of capital. There can be no assurance that the Tax Separation Agreement will protect us from any such consequences, or that any issue that may arise will be subject to indemnification by MetLife under the Tax Separation Agreement. As a result, our financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

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that may arise will be subject to indemnification by MetLife under the Tax Separation Agreement. As a result, our financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

Item 1C. Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Risk Management Program and Strategy

We understand the importance of maintaining a robust cybersecurity risk management program to assess, identify, and manage the material risks associated with cybersecurity threats.

Managing Cybersecurity Risks; Cybersecurity Risk Management Strategy

Our cybersecurity risk management program is integrated into the Brighthouse Financial enterprise risk management framework, and our strategy focuses on implementing effective and efficient processes, technologies, and controls to assess, identify, and manage cybersecurity risks. Our cybersecurity risk management program, which is managed at an enterprise level, is designed to be aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (“NIST Framework”), which provides standards, guidelines and best practices on managing cybersecurity risk, as well as the organization, improvement and assessment of Brighthouse Financial’s cybersecurity risk management program.

41The Chief Technology Officer of BHF (the “CTO”) has overall responsibility for our information technology program, which includes the Company’s cybersecurity risk management program. The Chief Information Security Officer of BHF (the “CISO”) is directly responsible for the Brighthouse Financial cybersecurity risk management program, which is designed to protect and preserve the integrity, confidentiality, and continued availability of the information owned by, or in the care of, Brighthouse Financial. The CTO has over 25 years of information technology experience, including systems development, technology strategy, and vendor management; the CISO has over 30 years of information technology and cybersecurity risk management program management experience. Prior to joining Brighthouse Financial, both the CTO and CISO previously served in roles that involved leading and overseeing information technology and cybersecurity risk management programs at other public companies in the financial services industry. In addition, the CTO serves on a cross-departmental, management-level risk committee that oversees Brighthouse Financial’s enterprise risks, including cybersecurity risks. This enterprise-level risk committee is informed about and monitors the prevention, mitigation, detection, and remediation of cybersecurity incidents.

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The Chief Technology Officer of BHF (the “CTO”) has overall responsibility for our information technology program, which includes the Company’s cybersecurity risk management program. The Chief Information Security Officer of BHF (the “CISO”) is directly responsible for the Brighthouse Financial cybersecurity risk management program, which is designed to protect and preserve the integrity, confidentiality, and continued availability of the information owned by, or in the care of, the Company. The CTO has over 25 years of information technology experience, including systems development, technology strategy, and vendor management; the CISO has over 30 years of information technology and cybersecurity risk management program management experience. Prior to joining Brighthouse Financial, both the CTO and CISO previously served in roles that involved leading and overseeing information technology and cybersecurity risk management programs at other public companies in the financial services industry. In addition, the CTO serves on a cross-departmental, management-level risk committee that oversees Brighthouse Financial’s enterprise risks, including cybersecurity risks. This enterprise-level risk committee is informed about and monitors the prevention, mitigation, detection, and remediation of cybersecurity incidents.

The Brighthouse Financial cybersecurity team regularly assesses the threat landscape and takes an enterprise-wide view of cybersecurity risks. We monitor issues that are internally discovered or externally reported that may affect our business, and we employ a range of tools and third-party services to effectuate our cybersecurity risk identification and assessments, including regular network and endpoint monitoring, threat and vulnerability assessments, and external penetration testing. In addition, the Brighthouse Financial cybersecurity team conducts regular reviews, conducts tabletop exercises, performs internal testing, and leverages the audits performed by our internal audit team. Brighthouse Financial also engages the services of third-party consultants to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of our controls (in alignment with the NIST Framework), to improve our security measures and strategy, and to review the Brighthouse Financial cybersecurity risk management program against the NIST Framework. The results of the most recent assessment of Brighthouse Financial cybersecurity risk management program confirmed the rigor of our cybersecurity risk management practices.

The cybersecurity team has also established company-wide policies and procedures that cover cybersecurity matters, which are designed to enable us to effectively identify, evaluate, and respond to events that have the potential to impact our business. In the event of a cybersecurity incident, Brighthouse Financial utilizes a well-defined incident response plan that is designed to coordinate the activities we take to prepare for, detect, respond to and recover from cybersecurity incidents, which include processes to triage, assess severity, escalate, contain, investigate, and remediate the incident, as well as to comply with potentially applicable legal obligations (including relevant securities laws) and mitigate brand and reputational damage. This plan includes immediate actions to mitigate the impact of the incident, as well as long-term strategies for the remediation and prevention of future incidents. In accordance with this plan, we have established a cross-departmental Brighthouse Response Team that is responsible for coordinating enterprise-wide responses to cybersecurity incidents. This Brighthouse Response Team provides reports regarding cybersecurity incidents to the enterprise-level risk committee referenced above.

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Further, associates outside of our information technology organization have a role in our cybersecurity defenses, and we encourage a corporate culture supportive of security, which we believe improves the effectiveness of our cybersecurity risk management program. Through our Security Awareness Program, our associates are provided with regular cybersecurity training and educational resources to help ensure that they remain vigilant against threats. These include frequent simulated phishing campaigns, newsletters, alerts, e-mail reminders, and a mandatory annual cybersecurity awareness training course for all associates. In addition to Company policies that we make available to all associates, our cybersecurity awareness training provides clear reporting and escalation processes in the event of suspicious activity.

Third-Party Risk Management

Brighthouse Financial processes also address the cybersecurity risks associated with the use of third-party vendors, some of which have access to our customer and associate data. We conduct security assessments of all third-party vendors that have access to our systems, our data and/or the facilities that house such systems or data. As part of our third-party risk management program, the cybersecurity risk management and third-party risk management teams collaborate to monitor our third-party vendors’ compliance with our cybersecurity standards. This approach is designed to mitigate risks related to data breaches or other security incidents originating from third parties.

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Risks from Cybersecurity Threats

Brighthouse Financial systems and our third-party vendors’ systems periodically experience directed attacks intended to lead to (i) interruptions or delays in our operations or (ii) the loss, misuse or theft of personal information and other data, including confidential information or intellectual property. Based on the information available as of the filing date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we are not aware of any cybersecurity incidents, directly or indirectly, that have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect our business, results of operations, or financial condition. For more information regarding our risks from cybersecurity threats, see “Risk Factors — Operational Risks — Any failure in our cybersecurity risk management program, as well as the occurrence of events unanticipated in Brighthouse Financial’s or our third-party service providers’ disaster recovery systems and business continuity planning, could result in a loss or disclosure of confidential information, damage to our reputation and impairment of our ability to conduct business effectively” and “Risk Factors — Operational Risks — Any failure to protect the confidentiality of customer, ~~associates~~associate, or other third-party information could adversely affect our reputation and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.”

Governance

Board of Directors - Oversight and Management Reporting

The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of ~~Brighthouse~~BHF ~~Financial, Inc.~~ (the “Audit Committee”) is primarily responsible for overseeing cybersecurity risks, and the Board of Directors of ~~Brighthouse~~BHF ~~Financial, Inc.~~ (the “Board”) is actively engaged with respect to these risks. The Audit Committee and/or the Board ~~of Directors~~ generally meet with ~~our~~the CTO and CISO on a quarterly basis to review our information technology and cybersecurity risk profile and to discuss our activities to manage the related risks, including risk assessments, mitigation strategies, areas of emerging risks, incidents, industry trends, tabletop exercises, and other areas of importance. Our board of directors also receives regular technology and cybersecurity updates. In addition to these regular meetings, we have an escalation process in place to timely inform the Board of ~~Directors of~~ any significant cybersecurity incidents, including any updates relating thereto, to ensure that the Board ~~of Directors~~'’s oversight is proactive and responsive. The Chief Compliance Officer of BHF also regularly reports to the Audit Committee and our board of directors regarding the Company’s compliance with applicable regulations relating to cybersecurity.

Item 2. Properties

Not material.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

See Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

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PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

No established public trading market exists for Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s common equity; all of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s common stock is held by Brighthouse Holdings, LLC (“BH Holdings”).

See Note 12 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of dividends paid, as well as restrictions on Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s ability to pay dividends.

Item 6. [Reserved]

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

Index to Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

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Overview			4548
Regulatory Developments			4549
Summary of Critical Accounting Estimates			4549
Non-GAAP Financial Disclosures			4852
Results of Operations			4953
Policyholder Liabilities			5459
Liquidity and Capital Resources			5559

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The following discussion may contain forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates and beliefs. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include those factors discussed below and elsewhere in this report, particularly in “Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Summary of Risk Factors” and “Risk Factors.” This Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations should also be read in conjunction with “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” and our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere herein.

Our Results of Operations discussion and analysis presents a review for the years ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024 and year-over-year comparisons between these years. Our Results of Operations discussion and analysis for the year ended December 31, ~~2023~~2024, including a review of the ~~2023~~2024 AAR and year-over-year comparisons between the years ended December 31, ~~2023~~2024 and ~~2022~~2023 can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Results of Operations” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, ~~2023~~2024, which was filed with the SEC on ~~February~~March 293, ~~2024~~2025, and such discussions are incorporated herein by reference.

Overview

We offer a range of annuity and life insurance products to individuals and deliver our products through multiple independent distribution channels and marketing arrangements with a diverse network of distribution partners. We are organized into the following reportable segments: Annuities; Life; Run-off; and Corporate & Other. See “Business — Segment Information” and Note 2 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further information regarding our segments.

Recent Developments

The Merger Agreement was adopted by stockholders at the special meeting held on February 12, 2026, and the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976, as amended, has expired. The Merger is expected to close in 2026. However, the completion of the Merger remains subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain other customary conditions, including receipt of insurance regulatory approvals. See “Risks Related to the Merger — The completion of the Merger is subject to a number of conditions, many of which are largely outside the parties’ control, and, if these conditions are not satisfied or waived, the Merger may not be completed within the expected timeframe or at all.”

Financial and Economic Environment

Our business and results of operations are materially affected by conditions in the capital markets and the economy generally. Stressed conditions, volatility and disruptions in the capital markets or financial asset classes can have an adverse effect on us. Equity market performance can affect our profitability for variable annuities, Shield Annuities and other separate account products as a result of the effects it has on product demand, revenues, expenses, reserves and our risk management effectiveness. The Federal Reserve Board (the “Federal Reserve”) decreased the target range for the federal funds rate in September, October and December 2025, as well as in September, November and December 2024, and any additional future decrease may negatively impact our business in certain respects, including our investment portfolio, by lowering the level of long-term interest rates and changing the shape of the yield curve. The level of long-term interest rates and the shape of the yield curve can have a negative effect on the profitability for variable annuities, as well as the demand for, and the profitability of, spread-based products such as fixed annuities, index-linked annuities and universal life insurance. Low interest rates and risk premium, including credit spread, affect new money rates on invested assets and the cost of product guarantees. Insurance premium growth and demand for our products is impacted by the general health of U.S. economic activity. A sustained or material increase in inflation could also affect our business in several ways. During inflationary periods, the value of fixed income investments falls which could increase realized and unrealized losses. Inflation also increases our expenses (including, among others, for labor and third-party services), potentially putting pressure on profitability if such costs cannot be passed through to policyholders in our product prices. Prolonged and elevated inflation could adversely affect the financial markets and the economy generally and dispelling it may require governments to pursue restrictive fiscal and monetary policies, which could constrain overall economic activity and inhibit revenue growth. Events involving limited liquidity, defaults, nonperformance, fraud or other adverse developments that affect financial institutions or the financial services industry generally, or concerns or rumors about events of these kinds or other similar risks, could adversely affect market-wide liquidity, which could increase the risk of a recession or an equity market downturn and

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negatively impact various portions of our business, including our investment portfolio. See “Risk Factors — Economic Environment and Capital Markets-Related Risks — If difficult conditions in the capital markets and the U.S. economy generally persist or are perceived to persist, they may materially adversely affect our business and results of operations” and “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Investment Portfolio — Our investment portfolio is subject to significant financial risks both in the U.S. and global financial markets, including credit risk, interest rate risk, inflation risk, market valuation risk, liquidity risk, real estate risk, derivatives risk, and other factors outside our control, the occurrence of any of which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.”

The above factors affect our expectations regarding future margins. We review our long-term assumptions about capital markets returns and interest rates, along with other assumptions such as contract holder behavior, as part of our AAR. As additional company specific or industry information on contract holder behavior becomes available, related assumptions may change and may potentially have a material impact on liability valuations and net income.

We continue to closely monitor political and economic conditions that might contribute to market volatility and their impact on our business operations, investment portfolio and derivatives, such as global inflation, tariffs imposed or threatened by the U.S. or foreign governments, uncertainty and instability in certain asset classes (including commercial real estate), supply chain disruptions and recent geopolitical conflicts, including in Europe and the Middle East. See “Risk Factors — Economic Environment and Capital Markets-Related Risks” and “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Investment Portfolio” for a detailed discussion of financial and economic impacts on our business, including the potential impacts of interest rate risk and inflation risk on our investments and overall business.

Regulatory Developments

We, including our insurance subsidiary, BHNY, and our reinsurance subsidiary, BRCD, are primarily regulated at the state level, with some products and services also subject to federal regulation. In addition, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and BHNY are subject to regulation under the insurance holding company laws of various U.S. jurisdictions. Furthermore, some of our operations, products and services are subject to ~~the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974~~ERISA, consumer protection laws, securities, broker-dealer and investment advisor regulations, as well as environmental and unclaimed property laws and regulations. See “Business — Regulation,” as well as “Risk Factors — Regulatory and Legal Risks.”

Summary of Critical Accounting Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to adopt accounting policies and make estimates and assumptions that affect amounts reported on the Consolidated Financial Statements.

The most critical estimates include those used in determining:

•liability for future policy benefits (“LFPB”);

•estimated fair values of market risk benefits (“MRB”);

•estimated fair values of freestanding derivatives and the recognition and estimated fair value of embedded derivatives requiring bifurcation; and

•measurement of income taxes and the valuation of deferred tax assets.

In applying our accounting policies, we make subjective and complex judgments that frequently require estimates about matters that are inherently uncertain. Many of these policies, estimates and related judgments are common in the insurance and financial services industries; others are specific to our business and operations. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

The above critical accounting estimates are described below and in Note 1 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Liability for Future Policy Benefits

The Company establishes an LFPB for income annuities, as well as non-participating term and whole life insurance. LFPBs are accrued over time as revenue is recognized based on a net premium ratio. The net premium ratio is the portion of gross premiums required to provide for all future benefits. LFPBs are established using the Company’s current assumptions of future cash flows, discounted at a rate that approximates a single A corporate bond curve. The Company generally aggregates insurance contracts into groupings by issue year, product and segment for determining the net premium ratio and related LFPBs.

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The Company reviews cash flow assumptions regularly, and, if such assumptions change significantly, LFPBs are adjusted by determining a revised net premium ratio. The revised net premium ratio is calculated as of contract inception using both actual historical experience and updated future cash flow assumptions. The recalculated net premium ratio is applied to derive a remeasurement gain or loss recognized in current period net income. The net premium ratio is also updated for the difference between actual and expected experience.

The measurement of our LFPBs can be significantly impacted by changes in assumptions for mortality, policy lapses and market interest rates. See Note 3 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the effects of changes in assumptions on the measurement of our LFPBs.

The Company establishes liabilities in addition to the account balance for secondary guarantees on universal life insurance. These liabilities are determined by estimating the expected value of death benefits payable when the account balance is projected to be zero and recognizing those benefits ratably over the contract period based on total expected assessments. The benefits used in calculating the liabilities are based on the average benefits payable over a range of scenarios. The Company also maintains a liability for profits followed by losses on ULSG, which is determined by projecting future earnings and establishing a liability to offset losses that are expected to occur in later years. The Company reviews cash flow assumptions regularly, and, if they change significantly, the liability for secondary guarantees is adjusted by a cumulative charge or credit to net income.

The measurement of our ULSG liabilities can be significantly impacted by changes in assumptions for the general account rate of return, which is driven by our assumption for long-term treasury yields, and changes in assumptions for mortality, premium persistency, lapses and withdrawals. The Company’s practice of projecting treasury yields uses a mean reversion approach that assumes that long-term interest rates are less influenced by short-term fluctuations and are only changed when sustained interim deviations are expected. As part of our ~~2024~~2025 AAR, we increased our projected long-term general account earned rate, as well as our mean reversion rate over a period of ten years, from 34.7500% to 4.0050%, which resulted in a decrease in our ULSG liabilities of $~~260~~359 million. We also updated other assumptions related to ULSG, see “— Results of Operations — Annual Actuarial Review” for more information.

See Note 3 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the effects of inputs and assumptions on the measurement of ULSG liabilities.

Market Risk Benefits

MRBs principally include guaranteed minimum benefits on variable annuity contracts, including reinsured benefits related to these guarantees.

The estimated fair value of variable annuity guarantees accounted for as MRBs is determined based on the present value of projected future benefits, less the present value of projected future fees attributable to the guarantees. At policy inception, the Company determines an attributed fee ratio by solving for a percentage of projected future rider fees to be collected from the policyholder equal to the present value of projected future guaranteed benefits. To the extent the rider fees are insufficient, the Company may also include fees related to mortality and expense charges in the attributed fee ratio, provided the total fees included in the calculation do not exceed total contract fees and assessments collected from the contract holder. The attributed fee ratio is not updated in subsequent periods.

The Company updates the estimated fair value of variable annuity guarantees in subsequent periods by projecting future benefits using capital markets inputs and actuarial assumptions, including expectations of policyholder behavior. A risk neutral valuation methodology is used to project the cash flows from the guarantees under multiple capital markets scenarios. The reported estimated fair value is then determined by taking the present value of these cash flows using a discount rate that incorporates a spread over the risk-free rate to reflect the Company’s nonperformance risk and adding a risk margin (as discussed below). For more information on the determination of estimated fair value of MRBs, see Note 10 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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The valuation of MRBs includes an adjustment for the risk that the Company fails to satisfy its obligations, which is referred to as nonperformance risk. The nonperformance risk adjustment is captured as an additional spread applied to the risk-free rate in determining the rate to discount the cash flows of the liability. The spread over the risk-free rate is based on our creditworthiness taking into consideration publicly available information relating to spreads in the secondary market for Brighthouse Financial’s debt. These observable spreads are then adjusted, as necessary, to reflect the financial strength ratings of the issuing insurance subsidiaries as compared to the credit rating of Brighthouse Financial.

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Risk margins are established to capture the non-capital markets risks of the instrument which represent the additional compensation a market participant would require to assume the risks related to the uncertainties in certain actuarial assumptions. The establishment of risk margins requires the use of significant actuarial judgment, including assumptions of the amount needed to cover the guarantees.

Actuarial assumptions are reviewed at least annually, and if they change significantly, the estimated fair value is adjusted through net income. Capital market inputs used in the measurement of variable annuity guarantees are updated quarterly through net income, except for the change attributable to the Company’s nonperformance risk, which is reported in OCI.

Market conditions, including, but not limited to, changes in interest rates, equity indices, market volatility and variations in actuarial assumptions, including policyholder behavior, mortality and risk margins related to non-capital markets inputs, as well as changes in nonperformance risk, may result in significant fluctuations in the estimated fair value of the guarantees. In ~~2024~~2025, the Company updated assumptions regarding policyholder behavior, mortality and separate account fund allocations. See Note 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the effects of changes in inputs and assumptions on the measurement of our liabilities for variable annuity guarantees.

Derivatives

We use freestanding derivative instruments to hedge various capital markets risks in our products, including: (i) certain variable annuity guarantees, which are reported as MRBs; (ii) index-linked interest credited features, which are reported as embedded derivatives; (iii) current or future changes in the fair value of our assets and liabilities; and (iv) current or future changes in cash flows. All derivatives, whether freestanding or embedded, are required to be carried on the balance sheet at fair value with changes reflected in either net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company or in OCI, depending on the type of hedge. Below is a summary of critical accounting estimates by type of derivative.

Freestanding Derivatives

The determination of the estimated fair value of freestanding derivatives, when quoted market values are not available, is based on market standard valuation methodologies and inputs that management believes are consistent with what other market participants would use when pricing such instruments. Derivative valuations can be affected by changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, financial indices, credit spreads, default risk, nonperformance risk, volatility, liquidity and changes in estimates and assumptions used in the pricing models. See Note 9 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on significant inputs into the OTC derivative pricing models and credit risk adjustment.

Embedded Derivatives in Index-Linked Annuities

The Company issues, and assumes through reinsurance, index-linked annuities, including Shield, that contain crediting rates classified as embedded derivatives. The crediting rates are measured at estimated fair value separately from the fixed annuity host contracts, which is determined using a combination of an option pricing methodology and an option-budget approach. The estimated fair value includes capital market inputs and actuarial policyholder behavior assumptions, including expectations for renewals at the end of the term period. Actuarial assumptions are reviewed at least annually, and, if they change significantly, the estimated fair value is adjusted through net income. Capital market inputs used in the measurement of crediting rate embedded derivatives are updated quarterly through net income.

Market conditions, including interest rates and implied volatilities, and variations in actuarial assumptions and risk margins, as well as changes in our nonperformance risk adjustment, may result in significant fluctuations in the estimated fair value that could have a material impact on net income. See Note 10 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for more information on the determination of estimated fair value of crediting rate embedded derivatives.

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Income Taxes

We provide for federal and state income taxes currently payable, as well as those deferred due to temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities. Our accounting for income taxes represents our best estimate of various events and transactions. Tax laws are often complex and may be subject to differing interpretations by the taxpayer and the relevant governmental taxing authorities. In establishing a provision for income tax expense, we must make judgments and interpretations about the application of tax laws. We must also make estimates about when in the future certain items will affect taxable income in the various taxing jurisdictions.

In establishing a liability for unrecognized tax benefits, assumptions may be made in determining whether, and to what extent, a tax position may be sustained. Once established, unrecognized tax benefits are adjusted when there is more information available or when events occur requiring a change.

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Valuation allowances are established against deferred tax assets, particularly those arising from carryforwards, when management determines, based on available information, that it is more likely than not that deferred income tax assets will not be realized. The realization of deferred tax assets related to carryforwards depends upon the existence of sufficient taxable income within the carryforward periods under the tax law in the applicable tax jurisdiction. Significant judgment is required in projecting future taxable income to determine whether valuation allowances should be established, as well as the amount of such allowances. See Note 1 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information relating to our determination of such valuation allowances.

We may be required to change our provision for income taxes when estimates used in determining valuation allowances on deferred tax assets significantly change, or when new information indicates the need for adjustment in valuation allowances. Additionally, future events, such as changes in tax laws, tax regulations, or interpretations of such laws or regulations, could have an impact on the provision for income tax and the effective tax rate. Any such changes could significantly affect the amounts reported in the financial statements in the year these changes occur.

See Notes 1 and 14 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements as well as “Business — Regulation — Federal Tax Reform” for additional information on our income taxes.

Non-GAAP Financial Disclosures

We present certain measures of our performance that are not calculated in accordance with GAAP. Our definitions of non-GAAP financial measures may differ from those used by other companies.

Adjusted Earnings

Adjusted earnings is a financial measure used by management to evaluate performance and facilitate comparisons to industry results. We believe the presentation of adjusted earnings, as the Company measures it for management purposes, enhances the understanding of our performance by the investor community and contract holders by highlighting the results of operations and the underlying profitability drivers of our business. Adjusted earnings should not be viewed as a substitute for net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, which is the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP. See “— Results of Operations” for a reconciliation of adjusted earnings to net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company.

Adjusted earnings, which may be positive or negative, focuses on our primary businesses by excluding the impact of market volatility, which could distort trends. Adjusted earnings was updated during the first quarter of 2025 in connection with the establishment of a trading portfolio comprised of certain fixed income securities (classified as “trading securities” under GAAP). The Company did not have trading securities prior to the first quarter of 2025.

The following items are excluded from total revenues in calculating adjusted earnings:

•Net investment gains (losses); ~~and~~

•Investment gains (losses) on trading securities measured at estimated fair value through net investment income; and

•Net derivative gains (losses), excluding earned income and amortization of premium on derivatives that are hedges of investments or that are used to replicate certain investments, but do not qualify for hedge accounting treatment (“Investment Hedge Adjustments”).

The following items are excluded from total expenses in calculating adjusted earnings:

•Change in MRBs; and

•Change in fair value of the crediting rate on experience-rated contracts and market value adjustments on institutional group annuities that are economically offset by gains (losses) on the related trading securities (“Market Value Adjustments”).

The provision for income tax related to adjusted earnings is calculated using the statutory tax rate of 21%, net of impacts related to the dividends received deduction, tax credits and current period non-recurring items.

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We present adjusted earnings in a manner consistent with management’s view of the primary business activities that drive the profitability of our core businesses. The following table illustrates how each component of adjusted earnings is calculated from the GAAP statements of operations line items:

Component of Adjusted Earnings		How Derived from GAAP (1)
(i)	Fee income	(i)	Universal life and investment-type product policy fees plus Other revenues.
(ii)	Net investment spread	(ii)	Net investment income (excluding investment gains (losses) on trading securities) plus Investment Hedge Adjustments reduced by Interest credited to policyholder account balances (excluding Market Value Adjustments) and interest on future policy benefits.
(iii)	Insurance-related activities	(iii)	Premiums less Policyholder benefits and claims, excluding interest on future policy benefits.
(iv)	Amortization of DAC and VOBA	(iv)	Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs (“DAC”) and value of business acquired (“VOBA”).
(v)	Other expenses	(v)	Other expenses.
(vi)	Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	(vi)	Tax impact of the above items, calculated using the statutory tax rate of 21%, net of impacts related to the dividends received deduction, tax credits and current period non-recurring items.

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(1)Italicized items indicate GAAP statements of operations line items.

Consistent with GAAP guidance for segment reporting, adjusted earnings is also our GAAP measure of segment performance. Accordingly, we report adjusted earnings by segment in Note 2 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Results of Operations

Annual Actuarial Review

We ~~typically~~conducted ~~conduct~~ our GAAP AAR in the third quarter of ~~each year~~2025. As part of the ~~2024~~2025 GAAP AAR, for our ULSG business, we updated assumptions regarding policyholder behavior, including mortality, premium persistency, lapses and withdrawals. In addition, we increased the long-term general account earned rate, driven by an increase in the mean reversion rate, from 34.7500% to 4.0050%. ~~Also,~~For ~~with respect to~~ our ~~ULSG~~variable annuity business, we updated assumptions regarding ~~policyholder behavior~~annuitization, ~~including~~ mortality, ~~premium~~guaranteed ~~persistency,~~principal ~~lapses~~option ~~and withdrawals. For our variable annuity business~~utilization, ~~we updated our annuitization, mortality,~~ lapses and withdrawals, as well as separate account assumptions, including fund fees and allocations. For the payout annuity business, we updated assumptions regarding mortality. For term participating and non-participating whole life insurance, we updated assumptions regarding mortality and lapses.

49We conducted our 2025 statutory AAR in the fourth quarter, the results of which will be included in Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s and BHNY’s respective 2025 annual statutory financial statements. The 2025 statutory AAR resulted in an increase to our statutory reserves; however, no contributions of capital to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company or BHNY were necessary to support their respective RBC ratios. See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business — Differences between actual experience and actuarial assumptions may adversely affect our financial results, capitalization and financial condition.”

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Consolidated Results for the Years Ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~ 2024

Unless otherwise noted, all amounts in the following discussions of our results of operations are stated before income tax except for adjusted earnings, which are presented net of income tax.

Years Ended December 31,

2024

2023

2025

2024

(In millions)

Revenues

Premiums

~~759~~682

~~811~~759

Universal life and investment-type product policy fees

1,~~601~~678

1,~~778~~601

Net investment income

5,~~100~~139

45,~~560~~100

Other revenues

~~499~~478

~~418~~499

Net investment gains (losses)

(~~298~~102)

(~~242~~298)

Net derivative gains (losses)

(31,~~688~~789)

(3,~~920~~688)

Total revenues

36,~~973~~086

3,~~405~~973

Expenses

Policyholder benefits and claims (including liability remeasurement gains (losses) of ($980) and ($233), respectively)

2,139

2,418

Policyholder benefits and claims (including liability remeasurement gains (losses) of ($273) and ($980), respectively)

1,750

2,139

Interest credited to policyholder account balances

2,~~110~~161

12,~~801~~110

Amortization of DAC and VOBA

~~550~~564

~~564~~550

Change in market risk benefits

(~~2,669~~261)

(12,~~497~~669)

Interest expense on debt

7067

Other expenses

1,~~534~~542

1,~~555~~534

Total expenses

35,~~731~~823

43,~~911~~731

Income (loss) before provision for income tax

~~242~~263

~~(1,506)~~242

Provision for income tax expense (benefit)

(1527)

(~~383~~15)

Net income (loss)

~~257~~290

~~(1,123)~~257

Less: Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests

Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

~~256~~289

~~(1,124)~~256

The components of net income (loss) were as follows:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2024		2023
	2025		2024
	(In millions)
Change in market risk benefits	$	~~2,669~~261	$	12,~~497~~669
Net investment gains (losses)	(~~298~~102)		(~~242~~298)
Net derivative gains (losses), excluding investment hedge adjustments	(3,718)		(4,025)
Investment gains (losses) on trading securities	—		—
Market value adjustments	13		(12)
Net derivative gains (losses), excluding investment hedge adjustments	(1,789)		(3,718)
Pre-tax adjusted earnings, less net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	1,575		1,275
Market value adjustments	(8)		13
Income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company before provision for income tax	241		(1,507)
Pre-tax adjusted earnings (loss), less net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	1,900		1,575
Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	(15)		(383)
Income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company before provision for income tax	262		241
Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company	$	256	$	(1,124)
Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	(27)		(15)
Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company	$	289	$	256

Change in Market Risk Benefits. The change in MRBs reflects changes in the projected value of annuity guaranteed benefits discounted at current risk-free rates, plus a nonperformance risk spread that is locked-in at policy issuance.

Net Investment Gains (Losses). Includes gains and losses on sales of investments, impairments losses and changes in allowances for credit losses.

~~Net~~Investment ~~Derivative~~ Gains (Losses), ~~Excluding~~on ~~Investment~~Trading ~~Hedge Adjustments~~Securities. WeIncludes ~~use~~gains ~~derivative instruments to minimize exposure to various market risks, including interest rates~~ and ~~equity~~losses ~~markets.~~on Intrading ~~addition,~~securities ~~the~~measured ~~crediting~~at ~~rates~~estimated ~~associated with index-linked annuities, including Shield Annuities, are classified as embedded derivatives. The change in~~ fair value ofthrough ~~derivative instruments that do not qualify for hedge accounting and embedded derivatives are recognized in~~ net ~~derivative~~investment ~~gains (losses)~~income.

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~~Market~~Net ~~Value~~Derivative Gains (Losses), Excluding Investment Hedge Adjustments. ~~Includes~~We use derivative instruments to minimize exposure to various market risks, including interest rates and equity markets. In addition, the crediting rates associated with index-linked annuities, including Shield Annuities, are classified as embedded derivatives. The change in fair value of ~~the~~derivative ~~crediting~~instruments ~~rate~~that ondo ~~experience-rated~~not ~~contracts~~qualify for hedge accounting and embedded derivatives are recognized in net derivative gains (losses).

Market Value Adjustments. Includes the change in fair value of the crediting rate on experience-rated contracts and market value adjustments on institutional group annuities that are economically offset by gains (losses) on the related trading securities.

Pre-tax Adjusted Earnings. Adjusted earnings is a financial measure used by management to evaluate performance and facilitate comparisons to industry results.

See “— Non-GAAP Financial Disclosures — Adjusted Earnings” for more information on the items described above.

Year Ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025 Compared with the Year Ended December 31, ~~2023~~ 2024

Income before provision for income tax was $~~241~~262 million ($~~256~~289 million, net of income tax), an increase of $~~1.7~~21 ~~billion~~million ($~~1.4~~33 ~~billion~~million, net of income tax) from ~~loss~~income before provision for income tax of $~~1.5~~241 ~~billion~~million ($~~1.1~~256 ~~billion~~million, net of income tax) in the prior period.

The increase in income before provision for income tax was driven by the following favorable items:

•lower losses from ~~variable~~the ~~annuity~~impact ~~guaranteed~~of ~~benefit~~interest ~~riders,~~rates ~~see~~on “—derivatives ~~Annuity~~used ~~Guaranteed~~to ~~Benefits~~manage ~~and~~interest ~~Shield~~rate ~~Annuity~~exposure ~~Liabilities~~in ~~for~~our ~~the~~ULSG ~~Years~~business, ~~Ended~~as ~~December~~long-term ~~31,~~rates ~~2024~~were ~~and~~relatively ~~2023”;~~flat in the current period and increased in the prior period;

•higher pre-tax adjusted earnings, as discussed in greater detail below.; and

~~The~~•net ~~increase~~investment ingains ~~income~~(losses) ~~before~~reflecting ~~provision~~lower ~~for~~net ~~income~~losses ~~tax~~on ~~was~~sales ~~partially~~of ~~offset~~fixed bymaturity ~~the~~securities, ~~unfavorable~~a ~~impact~~net ofdecrease ~~long-term~~in ~~interest~~impairments ~~rates~~ on ~~interest~~fixed ~~rate~~maturity ~~derivatives~~securities, ~~used~~and toa ~~manage~~gain ~~interest~~on ~~rate~~the ~~exposure~~sale inof ~~our~~a ~~ULSG~~subsidiary ~~business,~~which asowned ~~the~~certain ~~long-term~~mineral ~~interest~~rights ~~rate~~across ~~increased~~the ~~more~~U.S., inpartially ~~the~~offset ~~current~~by ~~period~~higher ~~resulting~~losses inon amortgage ~~loss~~loans ofdue ~~$557 million~~to ~~and~~an ~~increased~~increase ~~less~~ in the ~~prior~~allowance ~~period~~for ~~resulting~~credit ~~in a loss of $197 million~~losses.

The ~~provision~~increase ~~for~~in income ~~tax, calculated as a percentage of income (loss)~~ before provision for income tax, ~~resulted~~was inpartially aoffset ~~lower~~by ~~effective tax rate in~~ the ~~current~~following ~~period~~unfavorable ~~compared to the prior period. Our effective tax rate differs from the statutory tax rate primarily due to the impacts of the dividends received deduction, tax credits and current period non-recurring~~ items.:

~~Reconciliation~~•higher oflosses ~~Net~~from ~~Income~~variable ~~(Loss)~~annuity toguaranteed ~~Adjusted~~benefit ~~Earnings~~riders, see “— Annuity Guaranteed Benefits and Shield Annuity Liabilities for the Years Ended December 31, 2025 and 2024”; and

~~The~~•the ~~reconciliation~~U.S. ofdollar ~~net~~weakening ~~income~~in ~~(loss)~~the ~~attributable~~current toperiod ~~Brighthouse~~and ~~Life~~strengthening ~~Insurance~~in ~~Company~~the toprior ~~adjusted~~period, ~~earnings~~unfavorably ~~was~~impacting asforeign ~~follows:~~currency forwards and swaps.

	Years Ended December 31,
	2024		2023
	(In millions)
Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company	$	256	$	(1,124)
Add: Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	(15)		(383)
Income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company before provision for income tax	241		(1,507)
Less: Net investment gains (losses)	(298)		(242)
Less: Net derivative gains (losses), excluding investment hedge adjustments of $30 and $105, respectively	(3,718)		(4,025)
Less: Change in market risk benefits	2,669		1,497
Less: Market value adjustments	13		(12)
Pre-tax adjusted earnings, less net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	1,575		1,275
Less: Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	264		202
Adjusted earnings	$	1,311	$	1,073

The provision for income tax, calculated as a percentage of income (loss) before provision for income tax, resulted in an effective tax rate of (10)% in the current period compared to (6)% in the prior period. Our effective tax rate differs from the statutory tax rate primarily due to the impacts of the dividends received deduction, tax credits and current period non-recurring items.

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~~Consolidated~~Reconciliation ~~Results~~of ~~for~~Net ~~the~~Income ~~Years~~(Loss) ~~Ended~~to ~~December 31, 2024 and 2023 -~~ Adjusted Earnings (Loss)

The ~~components~~reconciliation of net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company to adjusted earnings ~~were~~(loss) was as follows:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2024		2023
	2025		2024
	(In millions)
Fee income	$	2,100	$	2,196
Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company	$	289	$	256
Net investment spread	2,921		2,794
Add: Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	(27)		(15)
Insurance-related activities	(1,294)		(1,525)
Income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company before provision for income tax	262		241
Amortization of DAC and VOBA	(550)		(564)
Less: Net investment gains (losses)	(102)		(298)
Other expenses	(1,601)		(1,625)
Less: Investment gains (losses) on trading securities	—		—
Less: Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	1		1
Less: Net derivative gains (losses), excluding investment hedge adjustments of $0 and $30, respectively	(1,789)		(3,718)
Pre-tax adjusted earnings, less net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	1,575		1,275
Less: Change in market risk benefits	261		2,669
Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	264		202
Less: Market value adjustments	(8)		13
Adjusted earnings	$	1,311	$	1,073
Pre-tax adjusted earnings (loss), less net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	1,900		1,575
Less: Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	316		264
Adjusted earnings (loss)	$	1,584	$	1,311

~~Year~~Consolidated Results for the Years Ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025 ~~Compared~~and ~~with~~2024 ~~the~~- ~~Year~~Adjusted ~~Ended~~Earnings ~~December 31, 2023~~(Loss)

~~Adjusted~~The ~~earnings~~components ~~were~~of ~~$1.3~~adjusted ~~billion~~earnings in(loss) ~~the~~were ~~current~~as ~~period, an increase of $238 million.~~follows:


	Years Ended December 31,
	2025		2024
	(In millions)
Fee income	$	2,156	$	2,100
Net investment spread	2,889		2,921
Insurance-related activities	(971)		(1,294)
Amortization of DAC and VOBA	(564)		(550)
Other expenses	(1,609)		(1,601)
Less: Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	1		1
Pre-tax adjusted earnings (loss), less net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	1,900		1,575
Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	316		264
Adjusted earnings (loss)	$	1,584	$	1,311

Year Ended December 31, 2025 Compared with the Year Ended December 31, 2024

Adjusted earnings were $1.6 billion in the current period, an increase of $273 million.

Key net favorable impacts were:

•lower net costs associated with insurance-related activities due to:

◦a net decrease in liability balances resulting from year-over-year changes made in connection with the AAR in our ULSG and life business and other refinements; and

◦a decrease in liability balances in our ULSG business resulting from a reinsurance premium rate increase associated with the conclusion of a reinsurance arbitration in the prior period;

partially offset by

◦anhigher ~~increase~~claims, innet ~~liability~~of ~~balances~~reinsurance, in our ~~ULSG~~life ~~business~~and ~~resulting~~ULSG ~~from a reinsurance premium rate increase associated with the conclusion of a reinsurance arbitration~~business; and

~~•higher~~◦an ~~net~~increase ~~investment~~in ~~spread~~liability ~~due~~balances ~~to:~~in our ULSG business resulting from a premium rate increase on an existing reinsurance agreement; and

~~◦higher average invested assets resulting from positive net flows in the general account;~~56

~~◦higher~~Table ~~returns~~of ~~on other limited partnerships; and~~Contents

◦•higher ~~investment~~net ~~yields~~fee ~~on our fixed~~ income ~~portfolio,~~due ~~as proceeds from maturing investments and the growth in the investment portfolio were invested at higher yields than the portfolio average;~~to:

◦lower ceded COI fees in our life and ULSG business related to the conclusion of the aforementioned reinsurance arbitration in the prior period;

partially offset by

◦~~higher~~a ~~interest~~decline ~~credited~~in tothe ~~policyholders due to higher account balances and current and prior period actuarial modeling improvements,~~ net ofCOI ~~changes~~fees ~~made~~driven inby ~~the~~our ~~current~~aging ~~period~~ in-force ~~connection~~ULSG ~~with the AAR~~business; and

•◦lower ~~other~~asset-based ~~expenses~~fees ~~due~~resulting ~~to:~~from lower average separate account balances, a portion of which is offset in other expenses.

~~◦lower~~Key ~~operational~~net ~~expenses;~~unfavorable impacts were:

◦•lower ~~legal~~net ~~reserves;~~investment ~~and~~spread due to:

◦~~lower~~higher ~~transition~~interest ~~services~~credited ~~agreement~~to ~~expenses~~policyholders due to higher account balances and prior period changes made in connection with the AAR, net of year-over-year actuarial modeling improvements in our annuity business;

◦lower yields and average invested long-term assets on our institutional spread margin business; and

◦lower returns on other limited partnerships;

partially offset by

◦higher ~~asset-based~~investment ~~variable~~yields ~~annuity~~on ~~expenses~~our ~~resulting~~fixed income portfolio, as proceeds from ~~higher~~maturing ~~average~~investments ~~separate~~and ~~account~~the ~~balances,~~growth ain ~~portion~~the ofinvestment ~~which~~portfolio iswere ~~offset~~invested inat ~~fee~~higher ~~income;~~yields ~~and~~than the portfolio average;

◦higher ~~variable~~returns ~~compensation~~on ~~expenses.~~real estate limited partnerships and limited liability companies; and

52◦higher average invested long-term assets;

~~Table~~•higher amortization of ~~Contents~~DAC and VOBA resulting primarily from changes in policyholder behavior in our annuity business net of our aging in-force life business; and

~~Key~~•higher ~~net~~other ~~unfavorable~~expenses ~~impact~~due ~~was~~to:

~~•lower~~◦higher ~~net~~operational ~~fee income due to:~~expenses;

◦higher ceded cost of insurance fees in our life and ULSG businesses related to the conclusion of the aforementioned reinsurance arbitration, as well as our aging in-force ULSG business;

partially offset by

◦~~higher~~lower reinsurance ~~fees~~expenses onin our ~~fixed~~life ~~annuity~~and ULSG business ~~resulting~~associated ~~from~~with ~~higher~~the ~~account~~conclusion ~~balances;~~of ~~and~~the aforementioned reinsurance arbitration in the prior period;

◦~~higher~~lower asset-based ~~fees~~variable annuity expenses resulting from ~~higher~~lower average separate account balances, a portion of which is offset in ~~other~~fee ~~expenses.~~income; and

~~The~~◦lower ~~provision~~transition ~~for~~services ~~income~~agreement ~~tax, calculated as a percentage of pre-tax adjusted earnings, resulted in an effective tax rate of 17% in the current period compared to 16% in the prior period~~expenses. ~~Our effective tax rate differs from the statutory tax rate primarily due to the impacts of the dividends received deduction, tax credits and current period non-recurring items.~~

~~Annuity~~The ~~Guaranteed~~provision ~~Benefits~~for income tax, calculated as a percentage of pre-tax adjusted earnings (loss), resulted in an effective tax rate of 17% in both the current period and ~~Shield~~the ~~Annuity~~prior ~~Liabilities~~period. ~~for~~Our effective tax rate differs from the ~~Years~~statutory ~~Ended~~tax ~~December~~rate 31primarily due to the impacts of the dividends received deduction, ~~2024~~tax credits and ~~2023~~current period non-recurring items.

The overall impact on income (loss) before provision for income tax from the performance of annuity guaranteed benefits and Shield annuity liabilities, which includes (i) changes in the fair value of liabilities and related reinsurance, (ii) fees net of claims and (iii) the mark-to-market of hedges, was as follows:57

	Years Ended December 31,
	2024		2023
	(In millions)
Market risk benefits mark-to-market	$	2,107	$	905
Annuity guaranteed benefit rider fees, net of claims	595		623
Ceded reinsurance	(33)		(31)
Total changes attributable to annuity guaranteed benefits	2,669		1,497
Variable annuity hedges	660		369
Shield embedded derivatives	(3,776)		(4,129)
Total	$	(447)	$	(2,263)

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Annuity Guaranteed Benefits and Shield Annuity Liabilities for the Years Ended December 31, 2025 and 2024

The overall impact on income (loss) before provision for income tax from the performance of annuity guaranteed benefits and Shield Annuity liabilities, which includes (i) changes in the fair value of liabilities and related reinsurance, (ii) fees net of claims and (iii) the mark-to-market of hedges, was as follows:


	Years Ended December 31,
	2025		2024
	(In millions)
Market risk benefits mark-to-market	$	(196)	$	2,107
Annuity guaranteed benefit rider fees, net of claims	470		595
Ceded reinsurance	(13)		(33)
Total changes attributable to annuity guaranteed benefits	261		2,669
Variable annuity and Shield hedges	1,494		660
Shield embedded derivatives	(2,980)		(3,776)
Total	$	(1,225)	$	(447)

Market Risk Benefits Mark-to-Market. Annuity guaranteed rider benefits are accounted for as MRBs. MRBs related to guaranteed rider benefits represent the current estimated fair value of the obligation to protect policyholders against the possibility that a downturn in the markets will reduce the specified benefits that can be claimed under the base annuity contract. Any periods of significant or sustained downturns in equity markets, increased equity volatility, or reduced interest rates could result in an increase in the valuation of these liabilities. An increase in these liabilities would result in a decrease to our net income (loss) available to shareholders, which could be significant.

Annuity Guaranteed Benefit Rider Fees, Net of Claims. We earn fees from the guaranteed rider benefits, which are calculated using the policyholder’s minimum return based on their initial deposit (the “Benefit Base”). Fees calculated using the Benefit Base are more stable in market downturns, compared to fees based on the account value because the Benefit Base excludes the impact of a decline in the market value of the policyholder’s account value. We use the fees directly earned from the guarantee riders to fund the reserves, future claims and costs associated with the hedges of market risks inherent in these liabilities. The future fees are included in the estimated fair value of MRB liabilities, with changes recorded in MRBs.

Variable Annuity and Shield Hedges, ~~and~~including Reinsurance. We enter into freestanding derivatives to hedge certain aspects of the annuity guaranteed benefits accounted for as MRBs and index-linked crediting rates accounted for as embedded derivatives. Generally, the same market factors that impact the estimated fair value of the annuity guaranteed benefits impact the value of the hedges, though in the opposite direction. However, the changes in value of MRBs and related hedges may not be symmetrical and the divergence could be significant due to certain factors, including unhedged risks within MRBs. We may also use reinsurance to manage our exposure related to MRBs.

Shield Embedded Derivatives. Shield Annuities provide the contract holder the ability to participate in the appreciation of certain financial markets up to a stated level, while offering protection from a portion of declines in the applicable indices or benchmark. Shield embedded derivatives represent the estimated fair value of these features. We believe that Shield Annuities provide us with a risk offset to liabilities related to guaranteed rider benefits.

53Year Ended December 31, 2025

Annuity guaranteed benefits and Shield Annuity liabilities performance was unfavorable for the year ended December 31, 2025, primarily driven by:

•favorable decreases in annuity guaranteed benefits liabilities due to increasing equity markets, partially offset by changes made in connection with the AAR and decreasing interest rates;

•favorable changes in variable annuity and Shield hedges due to increasing equity markets; and

•unfavorable changes in Shield embedded derivatives due to increasing equity markets and changes made in connection with the AAR.

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Year Ended December 31, 2024

Annuity guaranteed benefits and Shield ~~annuity~~Annuity liabilities performance was unfavorable for the year ended December 31, 2024, primarily driven by:

•favorable decreases in annuity guaranteed benefits liabilities due to increasing long-term interest rates and equity markets, as well as changes made in connection with the AAR;

•favorable changes in variable annuity and Shield hedges due to increasing equity markets, partially offset by increasing long-term interest rates; and

•unfavorable changes in Shield embedded derivatives due to increasing equity markets, partially offset by increasing long-term interest rates and changes made in connection with the AAR.

Year Ended December 31, 2023

Annuity guaranteed benefits and Shield annuity liabilities performance was unfavorable for the year ended December 31, 2023, primarily driven by:

•favorable decreases in annuity guaranteed benefits liabilities due to increasing equity markets and long-term interest rates, partially offset by changes made in connection with the AAR;

•favorable changes in variable annuity hedges due to increasing equity markets, partially offset by increasing long-term interest rates; and

•unfavorable changes in Shield embedded derivatives due to increasing equity markets.

Policyholder Liabilities

We establish, and carry as liabilities, actuarially determined amounts that are calculated to meet policy obligations or to provide for future annuity and life insurance benefit payments. Amounts for actuarial liabilities are computed and reported in the financial statements in conformity with GAAP. See “— Summary of Critical Accounting Estimates” and Notes 1, 3 and 4 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for more details on policyholder liabilities.

Due to the nature of the underlying risks and the uncertainty associated with the determination of actuarial liabilities, we cannot precisely determine the amounts that will ultimately be paid with respect to these actuarial liabilities, and the ultimate amounts may vary from the estimated amounts, particularly when payments may not occur until well into the future.

We periodically review the assumptions supporting our estimates of actuarial liabilities for future policy benefits. We revise estimates, to the extent permitted or required under GAAP, if we determine that future expected experience differs from assumptions used in the development of actuarial liabilities. We charge or credit changes in our liabilities to expenses in the period the liabilities are established or re-estimated. If the liabilities originally established for future benefit payments prove inadequate, we must increase them. Such an increase could adversely affect our earnings and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We have experienced, and will likely in the future experience, catastrophe losses and possibly acts of terrorism, as well as turbulent financial markets that may have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Moreover, the impact of climate change could cause changes in the frequency or severity of outbreaks of certain diseases. Due to their nature, we cannot predict the incidence, timing, severity or amount of losses from catastrophes, acts of terrorism or climate change, but we make broad use of catastrophic and non-catastrophic reinsurance to manage risk from these perils.

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our business and results of operations are materially affected by conditions in the global capital markets and the economy generally. Stressed conditions, volatility or disruptions in global capital markets, particular markets or financial asset classes can impact us adversely, in part because we have a large investment portfolio and our insurance liabilities and derivatives are sensitive to changing market factors. Changing conditions in the global capital markets and the economy may affect our financing costs and market interest rates for our debt issuances. For further information regarding market factors that could affect our ability to meet liquidity and capital needs, see “— Overview — Financial and Economic Environment,” as well as “Risk Factors — Economic Environment and Capital Markets-Related Risks” and “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Investment Portfolio.”

Liquidity and Capital Management

Based upon our capitalization, expectations regarding maintaining our business mix, ratings and funding sources available to us, we believe we have sufficient liquidity to meet business requirements in current market conditions and certain stress scenarios. BHF’s Board of Directors, as well as our board of directors and senior management, are directly involved in the governance of the capital management process. We continuously monitor and adjust our liquidity and capital plans in light of market conditions, as well as changing needs and opportunities.

We maintain a substantial short-term liquidity position, which was $43.05 billion and $24.60 billion at December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024, respectively. Short-term liquidity is comprised of cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments, excluding assets that are pledged or otherwise committed. Assets pledged or otherwise committed include amounts received in connection with securities lending, derivatives and assets held on deposit or in trust.

An integral part of our liquidity management includes managing our level of liquid assets, which was $46.1 billion and $43.2 billion at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Liquid assets are comprised of cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments and publicly-traded securities, excluding assets that are pledged or otherwise committed. Assets pledged or otherwise committed include amounts received in connection with securities lending, funding agreements, derivatives and assets held on deposit or in trust.59

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An integral part of our liquidity management includes managing our level of liquid assets, which was $48.3 billion and $46.1 billion at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Liquid assets are comprised of cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments and publicly-traded securities, excluding assets that are pledged or otherwise committed. Assets pledged or otherwise committed include amounts received in connection with securities lending, funding agreements, derivatives and assets held on deposit or in trust.

Rating Agencies

Financial strength ratings represent the opinion of rating agencies regarding the ability of an insurance company to pay obligations under insurance policies and contracts in accordance with their terms. The level and composition of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s and BHNY’s regulatory capital are among the many factors considered in determining their respective financial strength ratings. Each agency has its own capital adequacy evaluation methodology, and assessments are generally based on a combination of factors. Financial strength ratings are not statements of fact nor are they recommendations to purchase, hold or sell any security, contract or policy. Each rating should be evaluated independently of any other rating.

Our financial strength ratings as of the date of this filing were as follows:

A.M. Best (1)

Fitch (2)

Moody’s (3)

S&P (4)

Outlook

~~Stable~~Watch

~~Negative~~Stable

~~Stable~~Watch

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

A-

A+

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company of NY

A+

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(1)“Watch” indicates that the rating is under review with negative implications. A.M. Best’s financial strength ratings for insurance companies range from “A++ (Superior)” to “S (Suspended).”

(2)Fitch’s financial strength ratings for insurance companies range from “AAA (highest rating)” to “C (distressed).”

(3)“Watch” indicates that the rating is on review for downgrade. Moody’s financial strength ratings for insurance companies range from “Aaa (highest quality)” to “C (lowest rated).”

(4)“Watch” indicates that the rating is on CreditWatch with negative implications. S&P’s financial strength ratings for insurance companies range from “AAA (extremely strong)” to “SD (selective default)” or “D (default).”

NR = Not rated

Rating agencies ~~may~~ continue to review and adjust our ratings. ~~For~~In ~~example~~July 2025, inS&P ~~November~~revised ~~2024~~the financial strength ratings for Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and certain affiliates to A from A+, ~~Fitch~~among other revisions. Following the announcement that BHF has entered into the Merger Agreement, S&P, Moody’s and AM Best revised their outlook on our financial strength ratings, and Fitch downgraded our financial strength ratings. On November 6, 2025, S&P placed Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and certain affiliates on CreditWatch Negative. On November 7, 2025, Moody’s placed Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and certain affiliates on review for a downgrade and changed the financial strength rating ~~outlook~~outlooks for those entities to rating under review. On November 10, 2025, AM Best placed Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and certain affiliates under review with negative implications. In addition, on November 10, 2025, Fitch downgraded the financial strength ratings for Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and an affiliate to ~~negative~~A- from ~~stable~~A. See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Our Business — A downgrade or a potential downgrade in our financial strength ratings could result in a loss of business and materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations” for a description of the potential impact of a ~~potential~~ ratings downgrade.

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Sources and Uses of Liquidity and Capital

Cash Flows from Operating Activities

The principal cash inflows from our insurance activities come from insurance premiums, annuity considerations and net investment income. The principal cash outflows are the result of various annuity and life insurance products, operating expenses and income tax, as well as interest expense. The primary liquidity concern with respect to these cash flows is the risk of early contract holder and policyholder withdrawal.

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Cash Flows from Investing Activities

The principal cash inflows from our investment activities come from repayments of principal, proceeds from maturities and sales of investments, as well as settlements of freestanding derivatives. The principal cash outflows relate to purchases of investments and settlements of freestanding derivatives. We typically can have a net cash outflow from investing activities because cash inflows from insurance operations are reinvested in accordance with our Asset Liability Management (“ALM”) discipline to fund insurance liabilities. We closely monitor and manage these risks through our comprehensive investment risk management process. The primary liquidity concerns with respect to these cash flows are the risk of default by debtors and market disruption.

Cash Flows from Financing Activities

The principal cash inflows from our financing activities come from capital contributions from our parent, BH Holdings, issuances of debt, deposits of funds associated with policyholder account balances and lending of securities. The principal cash outflows come from repayments of debt, withdrawals associated with policyholder account balances and the return of securities on loan. The primary liquidity concerns with respect to these cash flows are market disruption and the risk of early policyholder withdrawal.

Primary Sources of Liquidity and Capital

In addition to the summary description of liquidity and capital sources discussed in “— Sources and Uses of Liquidity and Capital,” the following additional information is provided regarding our primary sources of liquidity and capital:

Funding Agreements

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company issues funding agreements and uses the proceeds from such issuances for spread lending purposes in connection with our institutional spread margin business or to provide additional liquidity. The institutional spread margin business is comprised of funding agreements issued in connection with the programs described in more detail below. Activity related to these programs ~~are~~is reported in the Corporate & Other segment. See “Obligations Under Funding Agreements” in Note 3 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on funding agreements.

Funding Agreement-Backed Repurchase Agreement Program

In January 2024, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company established a secured funding agreement-backed repurchase agreement program (the “FABR Program”), pursuant to which Brighthouse Life Insurance Company may enter into repurchase agreements with bank counterparties and the proceeds of the repurchase agreements are then used by a special purpose entity to purchase funding agreements from Brighthouse Life Insurance Company.

Funding Agreement-Backed Commercial Paper Program

In July 2021, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company established a funding agreement-backed commercial paper program (the “FABCP Program”) for spread lending purposes, pursuant to which a special purpose limited liability company (the “SPLLC”) may issue commercial paper and deposit the proceeds with Brighthouse Life Insurance Company under a funding agreement issued by Brighthouse Life Insurance Company to the SPLLC. The maximum aggregate principal amount permitted to be outstanding at any one time under the FABCP Program is $5.0 billion.

Funding Agreement-Backed Notes Program

In April 2021, Brighthouse Life Insurance Company established a funding agreement-backed notes program (the “FABN Program”), pursuant to which Brighthouse Life Insurance Company may issue funding agreements to a special purpose statutory trust for spread lending purposes. The maximum aggregate principal amount permitted to be outstanding at any one time under the FABN Program is $7.0 billion.

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Federal Home Loan Bank Funding Agreements

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) of Atlanta, where we maintain a secured funding agreement program, under which funding agreements may be issued.

Farmer Mac Funding Agreements

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company has a secured funding agreement program with the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation and its affiliate Farmer Mac Mortgage Securities Corporation (“Farmer Mac”) with a term ending on December 1, 2026, pursuant to which the parties may enter into funding agreements in an aggregate amount of up to $750 million.

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Information regarding funding agreements issued for spread lending purposes is as follows:

	Aggregate Principal Amount Outstanding				Issuances						Repayments
	December 31,				Years Ended December 31,
	2024		2023		2024		2023		2022		2024		2023		2022
	2025		2024		2025		2024		2023		2025		2024		2023
	(In millions)
FABR Program	$	500	$	—500	$	~~500~~—	$	—500	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
FABCP Program	2,~~962~~254		32,~~442~~962		157,~~801~~510		815,~~046~~801		128,~~682~~046		168,~~281~~218		616,~~701~~281		126,~~433~~701
FABN Program	2,~~550~~000		2,~~100~~550		~~1,150~~—		—1,150		~~550~~—		~~700~~550		~~1,350~~700		—1,350
FHLB Funding Agreements	4,~~300~~200		4,~~350~~300		21,~~150~~575		2,~~350~~150		62,~~275~~350		21,~~200~~675		12,~~900~~200		31,~~275~~900
Farmer Mac Funding Agreements	~~650~~500		~~700~~650		50250		—50		~~600~~—		~~100~~400		—100		25—
Total	$	109,~~962~~454	$	10,~~592~~962	$	199,~~651~~335	$	1019,~~396~~651	$	2010,~~107~~396	$	1910,~~281~~843	$	919,~~951~~281	$	159,~~733~~951

Fixed Maturity Securities Credit Quality — Ratings

Rating agency ratings are based on availability of applicable ratings from rating agencies on the NAIC credit rating provider list, including Moody’s, S&P, Fitch, Dominion Bond Rating Service and Kroll Bond Rating Agency. If no rating is available from a rating agency, then an internally developed rating is used.

The NAIC has methodologies to assess credit quality for certain Structured Securities comprised of non-agency RMBS, CMBS and ABS. The NAIC’s objective with these methodologies is to increase the accuracy in assessing expected losses, and to use the improved assessment to determine a more appropriate capital requirement for such Structured Securities. The methodologies reduce regulatory reliance on rating agencies and allow for greater regulatory input into the assumptions used to estimate expected losses from Structured Securities. In 2021, these methodologies were updated to only apply to those Structured Securities issued prior to 2013. We apply the NAIC methodologies to Structured Securities held by us. The NAIC’s present methodology is to evaluate Structured Securities held by insurers on an annual basis. If we acquire Structured Securities that have not been previously evaluated by the NAIC but are expected to be evaluated by the NAIC in the upcoming annual review, an internally developed designation is used until a final designation becomes available.

The following table presents total fixed maturity securities by nationally statistical rating organizations (“NRSRO”) rating and the applicable NAIC designation from the NAIC published comparison of NRSRO ratings to NAIC designations, except for certain Structured Securities, which are presented using the NAIC methodologies, as well as the percentage, based on estimated fair value that each NAIC designation is comprised of at:

		December 31, 2024										December 31, 2023
		December 31, 2025										December 31, 2024
NAIC Designation	NRSRO Rating	~~AmortizedCost~~Amortized Cost		Allowance for Credit Losses		~~UnrealizedGain~~Unrealized Gain (Loss)		Estimated Fair Value		% of Total		~~AmortizedCost~~Amortized Cost		Allowance for Credit Losses		~~UnrealizedGain~~Unrealized Gain (Loss)		Estimated Fair Value		% ~~ofTotal~~of Total
		(Dollars in millions)
1	Aaa/Aa/A	$	5556,~~975~~815	$	43	$	(43,~~619~~265)	$	5153,~~352~~547	6466.91	%	$	5655,~~330~~975	$	4	$	(34,~~540~~619)	$	5251,~~786~~352	6564.9	%
2	Baa	2826,~~127~~525		—		(21,~~592~~528)		2524,~~535~~997		3230.39		2728,~~218~~127		—		(2,~~287~~592)		2425,~~931~~535		3132.13
Subtotal investment grade		8483,~~102~~340		43		(74,~~211~~793)		7678,~~887~~544		97.20	%	8384,~~548~~102		4		(57,~~827~~211)		7776,~~717~~887		97.02	%
3	Ba	12,~~857~~027		—		(9240)		1,~~765~~987		2.25		1,~~815~~857		—		(~~120~~92)		1,~~695~~765		2.12
4	B	~~376~~319		2		(3223)		~~342~~294		0.4		~~581~~376		42		(4232)		~~535~~342		0.74
5	Caa and lower	~~147~~173		3034		(1218)		~~105~~121		0.21		~~110~~147		230		(2212)		86105		0.12
6	In or near default	8348		4323		(1011)		3014		—		7583		1143		(1210)		5230		~~0.1~~—
Subtotal below investment grade		2,~~463~~567		7559		(~~146~~92)		2,~~242~~416		23.80	%	2,~~581~~463		1775		(~~196~~146)		2,~~368~~242		32.08	%
Total fixed maturity securities		$	8685,~~565~~907	$	7962	$	(74,~~357~~885)	$	7980,~~129~~960	100.0	%	$	86,~~129~~565	$	2179	$	(67,~~023~~357)	$	8079,~~085~~129	100.0	%

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Debt Issuances

See Note 11 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for information on debt issuances.

Committed Facilities

See ~~Notes~~Note 11 ~~and 12~~ of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for information regarding our committed facilities.

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Primary Uses of Liquidity and Capital

In addition to the summarized description of liquidity and capital uses discussed in “— Sources and Uses of Liquidity and Capital,” the following additional information is provided regarding our primary uses of liquidity and capital:

Dividends Paid to BH Holdings

See Note 12 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Intercompany Liquidity Facilities

See Note 11 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for information relating to our intercompany liquidity facilities including obligations outstanding, issuances and repayments.

Insurance Liabilities

Liabilities arising from our insurance activities primarily relate to benefit payments under various annuity and life insurance products, as well as payments for policy surrenders, withdrawals and loans.

Pledged Collateral

We enter into derivatives to manage various risks relating to our ongoing business operations. We pledge collateral to, and have collateral pledged to us by, counterparties in connection with our derivatives. At ~~both~~ December 31, ~~2024~~2025, ~~and~~we ~~2023~~pledged $34 million of cash collateral to counterparties. At December 31, 2024, we did not pledge any cash collateral to counterparties. At December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024, we were obligated to return cash collateral pledged to us by counterparties of $~~796~~1.5 ~~million~~billion and $~~383~~796 million, respectively. The timing of the return of the derivatives collateral is uncertain. We also pledge collateral from time to time in connection with certain funding agreements.

We receive non-cash collateral from counterparties for derivatives, which can be sold or re-pledged subject to certain constraints, and which is not recorded on our consolidated balance sheets. The amount of this non-cash collateral at estimated fair value was $2.3.2 billion and $2.43 billion at December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024, respectively.

See Note 9 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding pledged collateral.

Securities Lending

We have a securities lending program that aims to enhance the total return on our investment portfolio, whereby securities are loaned to third parties, primarily brokerage firms and commercial banks. We obtain collateral, usually cash, from the borrower, which must be returned to the borrower when the loaned securities are returned to us. Generally, our securities lending contracts expire within twelve months of issuance. We were liable for cash collateral under our control of $3.2 billion ~~and $3.3 billion~~ at both December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023, respectively~~2024.

We receive non-cash collateral for securities lending from counterparties, which cannot be sold or re-pledged, and which is not recorded on our consolidated balance sheets. There was no non-cash collateral at both December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024.

See Note 8 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of our securities lending program.

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Contingencies, Commitments and Guarantees

We establish liabilities for litigation, regulatory and other loss contingencies when it is probable that a loss has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. See Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding contingencies.

We enter into commitments for the purpose of enhancing the total return on our investment portfolio consisting of commitments to fund partnership investments, bank credit facilities and private corporate bond investments, as well as commitments to lend funds under mortgage loan commitments. We anticipate these commitments could be invested any time over the next five years. See Notes 8 and 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding commitments.

In the normal course of our business, we have provided certain indemnities, guarantees and commitments to third parties such that we may be required to make payments now or in the future. See Note 15 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding guarantees.

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Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Risk Management

We have an integrated process for managing risk exposures, which is coordinated among our Risk Management, Finance and Investment Departments. The process is designed to assess and manage exposures on a consolidated, company-wide basis. The Brighthouse Financial Balance Sheet Committee (“BSC”) is responsible for periodically reviewing all material financial risks and, in the event risks exceed desired tolerances, informs the Finance and Risk Committee of the Board of Directors of ~~Brighthouse Financial~~BHF, ~~Inc.,~~ considers possible courses of action and determines how best to resolve or mitigate such risks. In taking such actions, the BSC considers industry best practices and the current economic environment. The BSC also reviews and approves target investment portfolios in order to align them with our liability profile and establishes guidelines and limits for various risk-taking departments, such as the Investment Department. Our Finance Department and our Investment Department, together with Risk Management, are responsible for coordinating our ALM strategies throughout the enterprise. The voting membership of the BSC is comprised of the following members of Brighthouse Financial’s senior management: Chief Executive Officer, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Head of Product Strategy and ~~Pricing~~Underwriting.

Our significant market risk management practices include, but are not limited to, the following:

Managing Interest Rate Risk

We manage interest rate risk as part of our asset and liability management strategies, which include (i) maintaining an investment portfolio that has a weighted average duration approximately equal to the duration of our estimated liability cash flow profile, and (ii) maintaining hedging programs. For certain of our liability portfolios, it is not possible to invest assets to the full liability duration, thereby creating some asset/liability mismatch. Where a liability cash flow may exceed the maturity of available assets, as is the case with certain life insurance and annuity products, we may support such liabilities with equity investments, derivatives or other mismatch mitigation strategies. Although we take measures to manage the economic risks of investing in a changing interest rate environment, we may not be able to mitigate completely the interest rate or other mismatch risk of our fixed income investments relative to our interest rate sensitive liabilities. The level of interest rates also affects our liabilities for benefits under our annuity contracts. If interest rates continue to decline, we may need to increase our reserves for future benefits under our annuity contracts, which would adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

We also employ product design and pricing strategies to mitigate the potential effects of interest rate movements. These strategies include the use of surrender charges, market value adjustment features or restrictions on withdrawals, and for certain products, the ability to reset crediting rates.

We analyze interest rate risk using various models, including multi-scenario cash flow projection models that forecast cash flows of the liabilities and their supporting investments, including derivatives. These projections involve evaluating the potential gain or loss on most of our in-force business under various increasing and decreasing interest rate environments. State insurance department regulations require that we perform some of these analyses annually as part of our review of the sufficiency of our regulatory reserves. We measure relative sensitivities of the value of our assets and liabilities to changes in key assumptions using internal models. These models reflect specific product characteristics and include assumptions based on current and anticipated experience regarding lapse, mortality and interest crediting rates. In addition, these models include asset cash flow projections reflecting interest payments, sinking fund payments, principal payments, bond calls, prepayments and defaults.

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We also use common industry metrics, such as duration and convexity, to measure the relative sensitivity of asset and liability values to changes in interest rates. In computing the duration of liabilities, we consider all policyholder guarantees and how indeterminate policy elements such as interest credits or dividends are set. Each asset portfolio has a duration target based on the liability duration and the investment objectives of that portfolio.

Managing Equity Market and Foreign Currency Risks

We manage equity market risk in a coordinated process across our Risk Management, Investment and Finance Departments primarily by (i) holding sufficient capital to permit us to absorb modest losses, which may be temporary, from changes in equity markets and interest rates, and (ii) through the use of derivatives.

We also employ product design strategies to mitigate the effect of changes in equity markets such as prioritizing products that provide a risk offset and diversification to our variable annuity products.

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Key management objectives include limiting losses, minimizing exposures to significant risks and providing additional capital capacity for future growth. The Investment and Finance Departments are also responsible for managing the exposure to foreign currency denominated investments. We use foreign currency swaps and forwards to mitigate the exposure, risk of loss and financial statement volatility associated with foreign currency denominated fixed income investments.

Market Risk - Fair Value Exposures

We ~~regularly~~have ~~analyze~~exposure to market risk through our insurance operations and general account investment activities. For purposes of this discussion, “market risk” ~~exposure~~is todefined as changes in estimated fair value resulting from changes in interest ~~rate~~rates, equity market ~~price~~prices, credit spreads and foreign currency exchange ~~rate~~rates. ~~risks~~We regularly analyze our market risk exposure. As a result of that analysis, we have determined that the estimated fair values of certain assets and liabilities are significantly exposed to changes in interest rates, and to a lesser extent, to changes in equity market prices and foreign currency exchange rates. We have exposure to market risk through our insurance operations and investment activities. For purposes of this discussion, “market risk” is defined as changes in estimated fair value resulting from changes in interest rates, equity market prices, credit spreads and foreign currency exchange rates. We may have additional financial impacts other than changes in estimated fair value~~, which are beyond the scope of this discussion~~. See “Risk Factors” for additional disclosure regarding our market risk and related sensitivities.

Interest Rates

Our fair value exposure to changes in interest rates arises most significantly from our interest rate sensitive liabilities and our holdings of fixed maturity securities, mortgage loans and derivatives that are used to support our policyholder liabilities. Our interest rate sensitive liabilities include long-term debt, policyholder account balances related to certain investment contracts and variable annuity guarantees accounted for as MRBs. Our fixed maturity securities including U.S. and foreign government bonds, securities issued by government agencies, corporate bonds, mortgage-backed and other ABS, and our commercial, agricultural and residential mortgage loans, are exposed to changes in interest rates. We also use interest rate derivatives to mitigate the exposure related to interest rate risks from our policyholder liabilities.

Equity Market

Our fair value exposure to equity market risk primarily arises from policyholder liabilities with long-term guarantees on equity performance, including crediting rates on index-linked annuities accounted for as embedded derivatives and variable annuity guarantees. In addition, we have exposure to equity markets through equity derivatives that we enter into to mitigate potential equity market exposure from our policyholder liabilities.

Foreign Currency Exchange Rates

Our fair value exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates against the U.S. dollar results from our holdings in non-U.S. dollar denominated fixed maturity securities, mortgage loans and certain liabilities. The principal currencies that create foreign currency exchange rate risk in our investment portfolios and liabilities are the Euro and the British pound. We economically hedge substantially all of our foreign currency exposure.

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Risk Measurement: Sensitivity Analysis

In the following discussion and analysis, we measure market risk related to our market sensitive assets and liabilities based on changes in interest rates, equity market prices and foreign currency exchange rates using a sensitivity analysis. This analysis estimates the potential changes in estimated fair value based on a hypothetical 100 basis point change (increase or decrease) in interest rates, or a 10% change in equity market prices or foreign currency exchange rates. We believe that these changes in market rates and prices are reasonably possible in the near-term. In performing the analysis summarized below, we used market rates as of December 31, ~~2024~~2025. We modeled the impact of changes in market rates and prices on the estimated fair values of our market sensitive assets and liabilities as follows:

•the estimated fair value of our interest rate sensitive exposures resulting from a 100 basis point change (increase or decrease) in interest rates;

•the estimated fair value of our equity positions due to a 10% change (increase or decrease) in equity market prices; and

•the U.S. dollar equivalent of estimated fair values of our foreign currency exposures due to a 10% change (increase ~~in the value of the U.S. dollar compared to the foreign currencies~~ or decrease ~~in the value of the U.S. dollar compared to the foreign currencies~~) in foreign currency exchange rates.

The sensitivity analysis is an estimate and should not be viewed as predictive of our future financial performance. Our actual losses in any particular period may vary from the amounts indicated in the table below. Limitations related to this sensitivity analysis include:

•interest sensitive liabilities do not include a significant portion of our insurance contract liabilities. Management ~~believes that the changes in the economic value of those contracts under changing interest rates would offset a significant portion of the fair value changes of interest sensitive assets;~~

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believes that the changes in the economic value of those contracts under changing interest rates would offset a significant portion of the fair value changes of interest sensitive assets;

•the market risk information is limited by the assumptions and parameters established in creating the related sensitivity analysis, including the impact of prepayment rates on mortgage loans;

•for derivatives that qualify for hedge accounting, the impact on reported earnings may be materially different from the change in market values;

•the analysis excludes limited partnership interests; and

•the model assumes that the composition of assets and liabilities remains unchanged throughout the period.

Accordingly, we use such models as tools and not as substitutes for the experience and judgment of our management.

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The potential loss in the estimated fair value of our interest rate sensitive financial instruments due to a 100 basis point increase in the yield curve by type of asset and liability was as follows at:

December 31, 2024

December 31, 2025

NotionalAmount

EstimatedFairValue (1)

100 Basis Point Increasein the YieldCurve

Notional Amount

Estimated Fair Value (1)

100 Basis Point Increase in the Yield Curve

(In millions)

Financial assets with interest rate risk

Fixed maturity securities

7980,~~129~~960

(4,~~608~~580)

Mortgage loans

21,~~343~~705

(~~860~~824)

Policy loans

1,~~646~~072

(4370)

Premiums, reinsurance and other receivables

98,~~145~~030

(~~105~~90)

Reinsurance of market risk benefits

(26)

Reinsurance of index-linked annuities and market risk benefits

(20)

Increase (decrease) in estimated fair value of assets

(5,~~642~~584)

Financial liabilities with interest rate risk (2)

Policyholder account balances

3128,~~467~~644

~~175~~173

Long-term debt

~~785~~768

5565

Other liabilities

1,~~360~~249

(6)

Embedded derivatives on index-linked annuities (3)

1112,~~540~~406

1108

(Increase) decrease in estimated fair value of liabilities

~~225~~340

Market risk benefits associated with variable annuities

7,~~250~~017

(21,~~188~~804)

Derivative instruments with interest rate risk

Interest rate contracts

~~125~~83,~~236~~364

(21,~~448~~785)

(12,~~372~~260)

Foreign currency contracts

4,~~756~~621

~~522~~254

(3220)

Equity contracts

~~146~~216,~~514~~118

~~777~~3,057

~~133~~802

Increase (decrease) in estimated fair value of derivative instruments

(1,~~271~~478)

Net change

(4,~~500~~918)

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(1)Separate account assets and liabilities, which are interest rate sensitive, are not included herein as any interest rate risk is borne by the contract holder.

(2)Excludes $3435.84 billion of liabilities at carrying value pursuant to insurance contracts reported within future policy benefits and other policy-related balances on the consolidated balance sheet at December 31, ~~2024~~2025. Management believes that the changes in the economic value of those contracts under changing interest rates would offset a significant portion of the fair value changes of interest rate sensitive assets.

(3)Embedded derivatives on index-linked annuities are recognized on the consolidated balance sheet in Policyholder account balances.

Sensitivity Summary

Sensitivity to a 100 basis point rise in interest rates ~~decreased~~increased by $~~404~~418 million, or 89% to $4.59 billion at December 31, ~~2024~~2025 from $4.95 billion at December 31, ~~2023~~2024, primarily as a result of aan ~~decrease~~increase in ~~the~~derivatives ~~estimated~~used ~~fair value of our fixed maturity securities due~~ to ~~higher~~mitigate interest ~~rates,~~rate inexposures ~~line~~from ~~with~~our ~~management~~policyholder ~~expectation~~liabilities.

Sensitivity to a 10% decrease in equity prices increased by $~~230~~403 million, or ~~267~~128% to $~~316~~719 million at December 31, ~~2024~~2025 from $86316 million at December 31, ~~2023~~2024, primarily asdue ato ~~result~~differences ofbetween ~~increase~~the ~~sales~~fair value methodologies of ~~index~~our equity-~~linked~~sensitive ~~annuities~~liabilities compared to the methodologies used to value the related derivative instruments.

As discussed above, we economically hedge substantially all of our foreign currency exposure such that sensitivity to changes in foreign currencies is minimal.

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements, Notes and Schedules

			Page
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm			6469
Financial Statements at December 31, 2024 and 2023 and for the Years Ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022:
Financial Statements at December 31, 2025 and 2024 and for the Years Ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
Consolidated Balance Sheets			6772
Consolidated Statements of Operations			6873
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)			6974
Consolidated Statements of Equity			7075
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows			7176
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1 — Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies			7378
Note 2 — Segment Information			8287
Note 3 — Insurance Liabilities			8893
Note 4 — Market Risk Benefits			9599
Note 5 — Separate Accounts			96100
Note 6 — Deferred Policy Acquisition Costs, Value of Business Acquired and Other Intangibles			98102
Note 7 — Reinsurance			99103
Note 8 — Investments			~~103~~107
Note 9 — Derivatives			~~116~~120
Note 10 — Fair Value			~~123~~127
Note 11 — Long-term and Short-term Debt			~~133~~137
Note 12 — Equity			~~134~~138
Note 13— Other Revenues and Other Expenses			138
Note 13 — Other Revenues and Other Expenses			142
Note 14 — Income Tax			~~139~~143
Note 15 — Contingencies, Commitments and Guarantees			~~142~~147
Note 16 — Related Party Transactions			~~146~~150
Note 17 — Subsequent Event			146
Financial Statement Schedules at December 31, 2025 and 2024 and for the Years Ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
Financial Statement Schedules at December 31, 2024 and 2023 and for the Years Ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022:
Schedule I — Consolidated Summary of Investments — Other Than Investments in Related Parties			152
Schedule I — Consolidated Summary of Investments — Other Than Investments in Related Parties			147
Schedule II — Condensed Financial Information (Parent Company Only)			153
Schedule II — Condensed Financial Information (Parent Company Only)			148
Schedule III — Consolidated Supplementary Insurance Information			157
Schedule III — Consolidated Supplementary Insurance Information			152
Schedule IV — Consolidated Reinsurance			159
Schedule IV — Consolidated Reinsurance			154

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the stockholders and the Board of Directors of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025, and the related notes and the schedules listed in the Index to Consolidated Financial Statements, Notes and Schedules (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current-period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Certain Assumptions Used in the Valuation of Liability for Future Policy Benefits – Refer to Notes 1 and 3 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Company has obligations under insurance contracts to pay benefits over an extended period of time. The Company establishes a liability for future policy benefits (“LFPB”) for nonparticipating traditional and limited-payment contracts and the additional insurance liabilities for universal life-type contracts with secondary guarantees.

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Management regularly reviews its cash flow assumptions supporting the estimates of these actuarial liabilities and, if such assumptions change significantly, the associated liability is adjusted. The measurement of LFPBs can be significantly impacted by changes in economic assumptions related to market interest rates and the general account rate of return and changes in assumptions for policyholder behavior including premium persistency, mortality, lapses and withdrawals.

Given the future policy benefit obligation for certain contracts is sensitive to changes in these economic and policyholder behavior assumptions and the significant uncertainty inherent in estimating these actuarial liabilities, we identified management’s evaluation of these assumptions in the valuation of certain LFPBs as a critical audit matter. This required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort, including the involvement of our actuarial specialists.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to these assumptions in the valuation of certain LFPBs included the following, among others:

•We tested the effectiveness of management’s controls over the assumption review process, including those over the selection of the significant economic and policyholder behavior assumptions.

•With the assistance of our actuarial specialists, we evaluated the appropriateness of the significant assumptions used, developed an independent estimate of the LFPBs for a sample of policies and cohorts, and compared our estimates to management’s estimates.

•We tested the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data that served as the basis for the actuarial analysis to test that the inputs to the actuarial estimate were reasonable.

•We evaluated the methods and significant assumptions used by management to identify potential bias.

•We evaluated whether the significant assumptions used were consistent with evidence obtained in other areas of the audit.

Certain Assumptions Used in the Valuation of Market Risk Benefits – Refer to Notes 1, 4, and 10 to the financial statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

Market risk benefits are measured at fair value and separately presented on the consolidated balance sheet. The Company estimates market risk benefit assets and liabilities using significant judgment including discount rate assumptions, nonperformance risk, and actuarially determined assumptions including policyholder behavior, mortality and risk margins.

Given the sensitivity of certain market risk benefits to changes in these assumptions and the significant uncertainty inherent in estimating the market risk benefits, we identified management’s evaluation of these assumptions in the valuation of certain market risk benefits as a critical audit matter. This required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort, including the involvement of our actuarial and fair value specialists.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to these assumptions in the valuation of certain market risk benefits included the following, among others:

•We tested the effectiveness of management’s controls over the assumption review process, including those over the selection of the significant assumptions related to policyholder behavior, mortality and risk margins, as well as changes in nonperformance risk.

•With the assistance of our actuarial specialists, we evaluated the appropriateness of the significant assumptions used, developed an independent estimate of the market risk benefits for a sample of policies, and compared our estimates to management’s estimates.

•We tested the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data that served as the basis for the actuarial analysis to test that the inputs to the actuarial estimate were reasonable.

•We evaluated the reasonableness of the Company’s assumptions by comparing those selected by management to those independently derived by our fair value and actuarial specialists, drawing upon standard actuarial and industry practice.

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•We evaluated the methods and assumptions used by management to identify potential bias in the determination of the market risk benefits.

•We evaluated whether the assumptions used were consistent with evidence obtained in other areas of the audit.

/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Charlotte, North Carolina

~~March~~February 327, ~~2025~~2026

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2005.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Consolidated Balance Sheets

December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024

(In millions, except share and per share data)

			2024				2023
	2025				2024
Assets
Investments:
Fixed maturity securities available-for-sale, at estimated fair value (amortized cost: $86,565 and $86,129, respectively; allowance for credit losses of $79 and $21, respectively)			$	79,129			$	80,085
Fixed maturity securities available-for-sale, at estimated fair value (amortized cost: $85,907 and $86,565, respectively; allowance for credit losses of $62 and $79, respectively)	$	80,960			$	79,129
Equity securities, at estimated fair value			32				66
Trading securities, at estimated fair value	506				—
Mortgage loans (net of allowance for credit losses of $178 and $137, respectively)			23,254				22,475
Equity securities, at estimated fair value	23				32
Policy loans			1,626				938
Mortgage loans (net of allowance for credit losses of $200 and $178, respectively)	22,726				23,254
Limited partnerships and limited liability companies			4,827				4,946
Policy loans	1,047				1,626
Short-term investments, principally at estimated fair value			1,157				574
Limited partnerships and limited liability companies	4,696				4,827
Other invested assets, principally at estimated fair value (net of allowance for credit losses of $0 and $13, respectively)			5,244				4,411
Short-term investments, principally at estimated fair value	668				1,157
Total investments			115,269				113,495
Other invested assets, principally at estimated fair value (net of allowance for credit losses of $0 and $0, respectively)	7,932				5,244
Cash and cash equivalents			4,592				3,165
Total investments	118,558				115,269
Accrued investment income			1,261				1,163
Cash and cash equivalents	5,057				4,592
Premiums, reinsurance and other receivables (net of allowance for credit losses of $3 and $3, respectively)			20,809				19,389
Accrued investment income	1,242				1,261
Deferred policy acquisition costs and value of business acquired			4,374				4,487
Premiums, reinsurance and other receivables (net of allowance for credit losses of $3 and $3, respectively)	21,238				20,809
Current income tax recoverable			51				24
Deferred policy acquisition costs and value of business acquired	4,276				4,374
Deferred income tax asset			1,823				1,833
Current income tax recoverable	62				51
Market risk benefit assets			1,092				656
Deferred income tax asset	1,389				1,823
Other assets			314				302
Market risk benefit assets	1,060				1,092
Separate account assets			79,006				81,690
Other assets	279				314
Total assets			$	228,591			$	226,204
Separate account assets	78,825				79,006
Liabilities and Equity
Total assets	$	231,986			$	228,591
Liabilities
Liabilities and Equity
Future policy benefits			$	31,085			$	32,149
Liabilities
Policyholder account balances			87,162				80,193
Future policy benefits	$	31,682			$	31,085
Market risk benefit liabilities			8,346				10,344
Policyholder account balances	87,174				87,162
Other policy-related balances			3,677				3,619
Market risk benefit liabilities	8,079				8,346
Payables for collateral under securities loaned and other transactions			3,874				3,660
Other policy-related balances	3,715				3,677
Long-term debt			833				836
Payables for collateral under securities loaned and other transactions	4,696				3,874
Other liabilities			8,460				7,772
Long-term debt	832				833
Separate account liabilities			79,006				81,690
Other liabilities	8,885				8,460
Total liabilities			222,443				220,263
Separate account liabilities	78,825				79,006
Contingencies, Commitments and Guarantees (Note 15)
Total liabilities	223,888				222,443
Equity
Contingencies, Commitments and Guarantees (Note 15)
Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s stockholder’s equity:
Equity
Common stock, par value $25,000 per share; 4,000 shares authorized; 3,000 shares issued and outstanding			75				75
Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s stockholder’s equity:
Additional paid-in capital			17,507				17,507
Common stock, par value $25,000 per share; 4,000 shares authorized; 3,000 shares issued and outstanding	75				75
Retained earnings (deficit)			(6,286)				(6,542)
Additional paid-in capital	17,607				17,507
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)			(5,163)				(5,114)
Retained earnings (deficit)	(5,997)				(6,286)
Total Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s stockholder’s equity			6,133				5,926
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)	(3,602)				(5,163)
Noncontrolling interests			15				15
Total Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s stockholder’s equity	8,083				6,133
Total equity			6,148				5,941
Noncontrolling interests	15				15
Total liabilities and equity			$	228,591			$	226,204
Total equity	8,098				6,148
Total liabilities and equity	$	231,986			$	228,591

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Consolidated Statements of Operations

For the Years Ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025, ~~2023~~2024 and ~~2022~~2023

(In millions)

2024

2023

2022

2025

2024

2023

Revenues

Premiums

~~759~~682

~~811~~759

~~641~~811

Universal life and investment-type product policy fees

1,~~601~~678

1,~~778~~601

1,~~876~~778

Net investment income

5,~~100~~139

45,~~560~~100

4,~~064~~560

Other revenues

~~499~~478

~~418~~499

~~406~~418

Net investment gains (losses)

(~~298~~102)

(~~242~~298)

(~~240~~242)

Net derivative gains (losses)

(31,~~688~~789)

(3,~~920~~688)

(~~585~~3,920)

Total revenues

36,~~973~~086

3,~~405~~973

63,~~162~~405

Expenses

Policyholder benefits and claims (including liability remeasurement gains (losses) of ($980), ($233), $137, respectively)

2,139

2,418

2,186

Policyholder benefits and claims (including liability remeasurement gains (losses) of ($273), ($980), ($233), respectively)

1,750

2,139

2,418

Interest credited to policyholder account balances

2,~~110~~161

12,~~801~~110

1,~~313~~801

Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs and value of business acquired

~~550~~564

~~564~~550

~~568~~564

Change in market risk benefits

(~~2,669~~261)

(12,~~497~~669)

(41,~~105~~497)

Other expenses

1,~~601~~609

1,~~625~~601

1,~~694~~625

Total expenses

35,~~731~~823

43,~~911~~731

14,~~656~~911

Income (loss) before provision for income tax

~~242~~263

~~(1,506)~~242

4(1,506)

Provision for income tax expense (benefit)

(1527)

(~~383~~15)

~~795~~(383)

Net income (loss)

~~257~~290

~~(1,123)~~257

3(1,~~711~~123)

Less: Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests

Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

~~256~~289

~~(1,124)~~256

3(1,~~710~~124)

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)

For the Years Ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025, ~~2023~~2024 and ~~2022~~2023

(In millions)

2024

2023

2022

2025

2024

2023

Net income (loss)

~~257~~290

~~(1,123)~~257

3(1,~~711~~123)

Other comprehensive income (loss):

Unrealized investment gains (losses), net of related offsets

(12,~~053)~~065

2(1,~~313~~053)

~~(13~~2,~~946)~~313

Unrealized gains (losses) on derivatives

~~116~~(241)

~~(284)~~116

~~308~~(284)

Changes in instrument-specific credit risk on market risk benefits

~~352~~440

~~(637)~~352

~~2,344~~(637)

Changes in discount rates on the liability for future policy benefits

~~541~~(330)

~~(376)~~541

~~4,060~~(376)

Foreign currency translation adjustments

~~(18)~~43

(18)

~~(22)~~18

Other comprehensive income (loss), before income tax

~~(62)~~1,977

~~1,034~~(62)

(71,~~256)~~034

Income tax (expense) benefit related to items of other comprehensive income (loss)

13(416)

~~(217)~~13

~~1,524~~(217)

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of income tax

~~(49)~~1,561

~~817~~(49)

~~(5,732)~~817

Comprehensive income (loss)

~~208~~1,851

~~(306)~~208

(~~2,021~~306)

Less: Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests, net of income tax

Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

~~207~~1,850

~~(307)~~207

(~~2,022~~307)

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Consolidated Statements of Equity

For the Years Ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025, ~~2023~~2024 and ~~2022~~2023

(In millions)

	CommonStock		Additional Paid-in Capital		Retained Earnings (Deficit)		Accumulated OtherComprehensiveIncome (Loss)		Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s Stockholder’s Equity		Noncontrolling Interests		TotalEquity
	Common Stock		Additional Paid-in Capital		Retained Earnings (Deficit)		Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)		Brighthouse Life Insurance Company’s Stockholder’s Equity		Noncontrolling Interests		Total Equity
Balance at December 31, 2021	$	75	$	17,773	$	(9,128)	$	(199)	$	8,521	$	15	$	8,536
Balance at December 31, 2022	$	75	$	17,773	$	(5,418)	$	(5,931)	$	6,499	$	15	$	6,514
Change in noncontrolling interests									—		(1)		(1)
Net income (loss)					3,710				3,710		1		3,711
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of income tax							(5,732)		(5,732)				(5,732)
Balance at December 31, 2022	75		17,773		(5,418)		(5,931)		6,499		15		6,514
Dividends paid to parent			(266)						(266)				(266)
Change in noncontrolling interests									—		(1)		(1)
Net income (loss)					(1,124)				(1,124)		1		(1,123)
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of income tax							817		817				817
Balance at December 31, 2023	75		17,507		(6,542)		(5,114)		5,926		15		5,941
Change in noncontrolling interests									—		(1)		(1)
Net income (loss)					256				256		1		257
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of income tax							(49)		(49)				(49)
Balance at December 31, 2024	$75	75	$17,507	~~17,507~~	$(6,286)	~~(6,286)~~	$(5,163)	~~(5,163)~~	$6,133	~~6,133~~	$15	15	$6,148	~~6,148~~
Capital contribution			100						100				100
Change in noncontrolling interests									—		(1)		(1)
Net income (loss)					289				289		1		290
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of income tax							1,561		1,561				1,561
Balance at December 31, 2025	$	75	$	17,607	$	(5,997)	$	(3,602)	$	8,083	$	15	$	8,098

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

For the Years Ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025, ~~2023~~2024 and ~~2022~~2023

(In millions)

	2024		2023		2022
	2025		2024		2023
Cash flows from operating activities
Net income (loss)	$	~~257~~290	$	~~(1,123)~~257	$	3(1,~~711~~123)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
Amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts associated with investments, net	(~~301~~304)		(~~258~~301)		(~~225~~258)
(Gains) losses on investments, net	~~267~~56		~~227~~267		~~240~~227
(Gains) losses on derivatives, net	(1,~~456~~360)		21,~~632~~456		~~162~~2,632
(Income) loss from equity method investments, net of dividends and distributions	41(25)		7641		~~109~~76
Interest credited to policyholder account balances	2,~~110~~161		12,~~801~~110		1,~~313~~801
Universal life and investment-type product policy fees	(1,~~601~~678)		(1,~~778~~601)		(1,~~876~~778)
Change in market risk benefits, net	~~(2,089)~~203		(~~888~~2,089)		(~~3,353~~888)
Change in accrued investment income	~~(117)~~145		(~~212~~117)		(~~115~~212)
Change in premiums, reinsurance and other receivables	(~~1,482~~403)		(1,~~279~~482)		(1,~~388~~279)
Change in deferred policy acquisition costs and value of business acquired, net	~~113~~98		~~155~~113		~~144~~155
Change in income tax	~~(8)~~18		(~~380~~8)		~~804~~(380)
Change in other assets	1,~~116~~094		1,~~100~~116		1,~~220~~100
Change in future policy benefits and other policy-related balances	(~~316~~215)		(62316)		(~~1,814~~62)
Change in other liabilities	~~377~~402		~~(18)~~377		~~286~~(18)
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities	~~(177)~~482		(7177)		(~~782~~7)
Cash flows from investing activities
Sales, maturities and repayments of:
Fixed maturity securities	1112,~~559~~445		511,~~922~~559		105,~~647~~922
Equity securities	46		30		50
Trading securities	44		—		—
Mortgage loans	1,518		1,206		2,075
Equity securities	26		46		30
Limited partnerships and limited liability companies	337		205		252
Mortgage loans	2,541		1,518		1,206
Limited partnerships and limited liability companies	570		337		205
Purchases of:
Fixed maturity securities	(11,~~811~~973)		(811,~~699~~811)		(158,~~720~~699)
Equity securities	(3)		(4)		(14)
Trading securities	(199)		—		—
Mortgage loans	(2,374)		(813)		(5,321)
Equity securities	(2)		(3)		(4)
Limited partnerships and limited liability companies	(299)		(453)		(814)
Mortgage loans	(2,163)		(2,374)		(813)
Cash received in connection with freestanding derivatives	12,453		5,048		4,439
Limited partnerships and limited liability companies	(278)		(299)		(453)
Cash paid in connection with freestanding derivatives	(11,856)		(5,422)		(4,270)
Cash received in connection with freestanding derivatives	16,795		12,453		5,048
Receipts on loans to affiliate	—		125		—
Cash paid in connection with freestanding derivatives	(18,258)		(11,856)		(5,422)
Issuances of loans to affiliate	—		—		(125)
Receipts on loans to affiliate	—		—		125
Net change in policy loans	~~(688)~~578		(40688)		(2940)
Net change in short-term investments	~~(572)~~513		(~~259~~572)		~~365~~(259)
Net change in other invested assets	~~(369)~~21		(~~109~~369)		(~~372~~109)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities	$	~~(2,059)~~660	$	(32,~~263~~059)	$	(83,~~837~~263)

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (continued)

For the Years Ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025, ~~2023~~2024 and ~~2022~~2023

(In millions)

	2024		2023		2022
	2025		2024		2023
Cash flows from financing activities
Policyholder account balances:
Deposits	$	2919,~~950~~746	$	2129,~~514~~950	$	3121,~~190~~514
Withdrawals	(2620,~~287~~899)		(1726,~~641~~287)		(1917,~~960~~641)
Net change in payables for collateral under securities loaned and other transactions	~~214~~822		~~(887)~~214		(~~1,706~~887)
Long-term and short-term debt issued	—		—		125
Long-term and short-term debt repaid	(2)		(2)		(127)
Long-term and short-term debt repaid	(2)		(127)		(3)
Dividends paid to parent	—		—		(266)
Dividends paid to parent	—		(266)		—
Capital contribution	100		—		—
Financing element on certain derivative instruments and other derivative related transactions, net	(~~211~~443)		91(211)		~~(178)~~91
Other, net	(1)		(1)		(1)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities	~~3,663~~(677)		23,~~683~~663		92,~~467~~683
Change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash	~~1,427~~465		~~(587)~~1,427		(~~152~~587)
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of year	34,~~165~~592		3,~~752~~165		3,~~904~~752
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of year	$	45,~~592~~057	$	34,~~165~~592	$	3,~~752~~165
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information
Net cash paid (received) for:
Interest	$	67	$	7167	$	6971
Income tax	$	—(35)	$	—	$	~~(12)~~—
Non-cash transactions:
Transfer of mortgage loans to affiliates	$	—43	$	—	$	95—
Transfer of limited partnerships and limited liability companies from affiliates	$	—43	$	—	$	99—

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements

1. Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Business

“BLIC” and the “Company” refer to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, a Delaware corporation originally incorporated in Connecticut in 1863, and its subsidiaries. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brighthouse Holdings, LLC (“BH Holdings”) and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (“BHF” and, together with its subsidiaries, “Brighthouse Financial”).

BLIC offers a range of annuity and life insurance products to individuals. The Company is organized into the following reportable segments: Annuities; Life; Run-off; and Corporate & Other.

Basis of Presentation

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) requires management to adopt accounting policies and make estimates and assumptions that affect amounts reported on the consolidated financial statements. In applying these policies and estimates, management makes subjective and complex judgments that frequently require assumptions about matters that are inherently uncertain. Many of these policies, estimates and related judgments are common in the insurance and financial services industries; others are specific to the Company’s business and operations. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

Consolidation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Brighthouse Life Insurance Company and its subsidiaries, as well as partnerships and limited liability companies (“LLC”) that the Company controls. Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

The Company uses the equity method of accounting for investments in limited partnerships and LLCs when it has more than a minor ownership interest or more than a minor influence over the investee’s operations. The Company generally recognizes its share of the investee’s earnings on a three-month lag in instances where the investee’s financial information is not sufficiently timely or when the investee’s reporting period differs from the Company’s reporting period. When the Company has virtually no influence over the investee’s operations, the investment is carried at fair value.

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Insurance Contract Obligations

The Company has obligations under insurance contracts to pay benefits over an extended period of time. The Company establishes liabilities for future obligations under long-duration insurance contracts based on the accounting model appropriate for each type of contract or contract feature. Liabilities for insurance contract benefits are generally accrued over time as revenue is recognized, or established based on the balance that accrues to the contract holder. In addition, certain insurance contracts may contain features that are required to be measured at fair value separately from the base contracts, either as a market risk benefit (“MRB”) or embedded derivative.

The discussion below provides an overview of the different accounting models for insurance contract obligations and the applicability of such models to the Company’s insurance products.

~~Liability for Future Policy Benefits~~78

The Company establishes a liability for future policy benefits (“LFPB”) for non-participating term and whole life insurance and income annuities. LFPBs are accrued over time as revenue is recognized based on a net premium ratio. The net premium ratio is the portion of gross premiums required to provide for all future benefits. LFPBs are established using the Company’s current assumptions of future cash flows, discounted at a rate that approximates a single A corporate bond curve. The Company generally aggregates insurance contracts into groupings by issue year, product and segment for determining the net premium ratio and related LFPBs.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

1. Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Liability for Future Policy Benefits

The Company reviews cash flow assumptions regularly, and if they change significantly, LFPBs are adjusted by determining a revised net premium ratio. The revised net premium ratio is calculated as of contract inception using both actual historical experience and updated future cash flow assumptions. The recalculated net premium ratio is applied to derive a remeasurement gain or loss recognized in the current period net income. For insurance policies in-force as of December 31, 2020, January 1, 2021 is considered the contract inception date. The net premium ratio is also updated quarterly for the difference between actual and expected experience.

The net premium ratio is not updated for changes in discount rate assumptions, as changes in the discount rate are updated quarterly and the impacts are reflected in other comprehensive income (loss) (“OCI”). The discount rate assumption is determined by developing a yield curve based on market observable yields for upper-medium grade fixed income instruments derived from an external index. The yield curve is applied to the expected future cash flows used in the measurement of LFPBs based on the duration characteristics of those liabilities.

The most significant cash flow assumptions used in the establishment of LFPBs are mortality, policy lapses and market interest rates. See Note 3 for more information on the effect of changes in assumptions on the measurement of LFPBs.

The Company also establishes an LFPB for participating term and whole life insurance using a net premium ratio and the Company’s current assumptions of future cash flows. Assumptions are determined at issuance of the policy and are not updated unless a premium deficiency exists. A premium deficiency exists when the LFPB plus the present value of expected future gross premiums are less than expected future benefits and expenses (based on current assumptions). When a premium deficiency exists, the Company will reduce any deferred acquisition costs and may also establish an additional liability to eliminate the deficiency. See Note 3 for more information on assumptions used in establishing LFPBs related to participating term and whole life insurance.

Policyholder Account Balances

The Company establishes a policyholder account balance liability for customer deposits on universal life insurance, universal life insurance with secondary guarantees (“ULSG”) and deferred annuity contracts. The policyholder account balance liability is equal to the sum of deposits, plus interest credited, less charges and withdrawals, excluding the impact of any applicable charge that may be incurred upon surrender. The Company also holds additional liabilities for certain product features including secondary guarantees on universal life insurance contracts and the crediting rates associated with index-linked annuities.

Additional Liabilities for ULSG

The Company establishes a liability in addition to the account balance for ULSG. These liabilities are determined by estimating the expected value of death benefits payable when the account balance is projected to be zero and recognizing those benefits ratably over the contract period based on total expected assessments. The benefits used in calculating the liabilities are based on the average benefits payable over a range of scenarios. The Company also maintains a liability for profits followed by losses on ULSG determined by projecting future earnings and establishing a liability to offset losses that are expected to occur in later years. Both ULSG liabilities are adjusted for the effects of unrealized investment gains and losses.

The Company reviews cash flow assumptions regularly, and, if they change significantly, the liability for secondary guarantees is adjusted by a cumulative charge or credit to net income. Liabilities for secondary guarantees are presented within future policy benefits with changes in the liabilities reported in policyholder benefits and claims, except for the effects of unrealized investment gains and losses, which are reported in OCI.

The most significant assumptions used in estimating liabilities for secondary guarantees are the general account rate of return, mortality, premium persistency, lapses and withdrawals. See Note 3 for more information on the effect of changes in assumptions on the measurement of liabilities for secondary guarantees.79

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

1. Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Market Risk Benefits on Annuity Guarantees

MRBs are contracts or contract features that provide protection to the policyholder from capital markets risks by transferring such risks to the Company. MRBs are required to be separated from the deferred annuity host contract and measured at fair value. The Company establishes MRB assets and liabilities for guaranteed minimum benefits on variable annuity contracts including guaranteed minimum death benefits, guaranteed minimum income benefits (“GMIB”), guaranteed minimum accumulation benefits (“GMAB”) and guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefits (“GMWB”). MRB assets are also established for reinsured benefits related to these guarantees. Certain index-linked annuity products may also have guaranteed minimum benefits classified as MRBs.

The measurement of fair value includes an adjustment for the risk that the Company fails to satisfy its obligations, which is referred to as nonperformance risk, as well as risk margin to capture the non-capital markets risks of the instrument, which represents the additional compensation a market participant would require to assume the risks related to the uncertainties in certain actuarial assumptions. MRBs are measured at estimated fair value, with changes reported in change in MRBs ~~on the consolidated statements of operations~~, except for the change due to nonperformance risk, which is reported in OCI.

See Note 4 for more information on the effect of changes in inputs and assumptions on the measurement of MRBs and Note 10 for more information on the determination of fair value of MRBs.

Embedded Derivatives on Index-Linked Annuities

The Company issues, and assumes through reinsurance, index-linked annuities which allow the policyholder to participate in returns from certain specified equity indices. The crediting rates associated with these features are classified as embedded derivatives and measured at estimated fair value, with changes in estimated fair value reported in net derivative gains (losses). These embedded derivatives are classified within policyholder account balances on the consolidated balance sheets.

Embedded derivative liabilities are required to be separated from the deferred annuity host contract and measured at fair value. The estimated fair value is determined using a combination of an option pricing model and an option-budget approach. Under this approach, the Company estimates the cost of funding the crediting rate using option pricing and establishes that cost on the balance sheet as a reduction to the initial deposit amount. The estimate of fair value includes an adjustment for nonperformance risk, as well as a risk margin.

Actuarial assumptions are reviewed at least annually, and if they change significantly, the estimated fair value is adjusted through net income. Capital market inputs used in the measurement of index-linked crediting rate embedded derivatives are updated quarterly through net income. The reduction to the initial deposit is accreted back up to the initial deposit over the estimated life of the contract. Embedded derivatives related to index-linked annuities are presented within policyholder account balances while changes in the estimated fair value are reported in net derivative gains (losses).

For more information on the determination of estimated fair value of embedded derivatives, see Note 10.

Recognition of Revenues and Deposits on Insurance Contracts

Premiums related to traditional long-duration contracts are recognized as revenues when due from policyholders. When premiums for income annuities are due over a significantly shorter period than the period over which policyholder benefits are incurred, the Company establishes a deferred profit liability (“DPL”) for the excess of the gross premium over the net premium. DPLs are amortized into net income in proportion to the amount of expected future benefit payments. Assumptions used in the measurement of the DPL are updated at the same time as the related LFPBs, with the updated estimates used to recalculate the DPL as of contract inception. The remeasurement gain or loss from updating DPLs is recognized in current period net income along with the related change in LFPBs.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

1. Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Deposits related to universal life insurance, deferred annuity contracts and investment contracts are credited to policyholder account balances. Revenues from such contracts consist of asset-based investment management fees, cost of insurance (“COI”) charges, risk charges, policy administration fees and surrender charges. These fees, which are included in universal life and investment-type product policy fees, are recognized when assessed to the contract holder, except for non-level insurance charges which are deferred by the establishment of an unearned revenue liability and amortized over the expected life of the contracts.

Premiums and policy fees are presented net of reinsurance.

Deferred Policy Acquisition Costs, Value of Business Acquired and Other Intangibles

The Company incurs significant costs in connection with acquiring new and renewal insurance business. Costs that are directly related to the successful acquisition or renewal of insurance contracts are capitalized as deferred policy acquisition costs (“DAC”). These costs mainly consist of commissions and include the portion of employees’ compensation and benefits related to time spent selling, underwriting or processing the issuance of new insurance contracts. All other acquisition-related costs are expensed as incurred.

Value of business acquired (“VOBA”) is an intangible asset resulting from a business combination that represents the excess of book value over the estimated fair value of acquired insurance, annuity and investment-type contracts in-force as of the acquisition date.

The Company amortizes DAC and VOBA in a manner that approximates a straight-line basis over the expected life of the related contracts. For life insurance contracts, amortization is based on projections of amounts of insurance in-force, while projections of policy counts are used for deferred annuity contracts and expected future benefits payments for income annuities. These assumptions are reviewed at least annually, and if they change significantly, updates are recognized through changes to future amortization. VOBA balances are tested annually to determine if the balance is deemed unrecoverable from expected future profits. All changes in DAC and VOBA balances are recorded to net income.

Periodically, the Company modifies product benefits, features, rights or coverages that occur by the exchange of an existing contract for a new contract, or by amendment, endorsement, or rider to a contract, or by election or coverage within a contract. If a modification is considered to have substantially changed the contract, the associated DAC or VOBA is written off immediately through net income and any new acquisition costs associated with the replacement contract are deferred. If the modification does not substantially change the contract, the DAC or VOBA amortization on the original contract will continue and any acquisition costs associated with the related modification are expensed.

The Company also has intangible assets representing deferred sales inducements (“DSI”), which are included in other assets, and unearned revenue liabilities, which are included in other policy-related balances. The Company defers sales inducements and unearned revenue and amortizes the balances using the same methodology and assumptions used to amortize DAC and VOBA.

Reinsurance

The Company enters into reinsurance arrangements pursuant to which it cedes certain insurance risks to unaffiliated and former related party reinsurers. Cessions under reinsurance agreements do not discharge the Company’s obligations as the primary insurer. The accounting for reinsurance arrangements depends on whether the arrangement provides indemnification against loss or liability relating to insurance risk in accordance with GAAP.

For ceded reinsurance of existing in-force blocks of insurance contracts that transfer significant insurance risk, premiums, benefits and the amortization of DAC are reported net of reinsurance ceded. Amounts recoverable from reinsurers related to incurred claims and ceded reserves are included in premiums, reinsurance and other receivables and amounts payable to reinsurers included in other liabilities.

If the Company determines that a reinsurance agreement does not expose the reinsurer to a reasonable possibility of a significant loss from insurance risk, the Company records the agreement using the deposit method of accounting. Deposits received are included in other liabilities and deposits made are included in premiums, reinsurance and other receivables. As amounts are paid or received, consistent with the underlying contracts, the deposit assets or liabilities are adjusted. Interest on such deposits is recorded as other revenues or other expenses, as appropriate.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

1. Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

The funds withheld liability represents amounts withheld by the Company in accordance with the terms of the reinsurance agreements. Under certain reinsurance agreements, the Company withholds the funds rather than transferring the underlying investments and, as a result, records a funds withheld liability in other liabilities. The Company recognizes interest on funds withheld, included in other expenses, at rates defined by the terms of the agreement which may be contractually specified or directly related to the investment portfolio.

Certain funds withheld arrangements may also contain embedded derivatives measured at fair value that are related to the investment return on the assets withheld. Embedded derivatives related to funds withheld arrangements are presented within policyholder account balances on the consolidated balance sheets, with changes in the estimated fair value reported in net derivative gains (losses).

Reinsurance arrangements may also contain features classified as MRBs, including reinsurance of guaranteed minimum benefits associated with variable annuity contracts.

The Company accounts for assumed reinsurance similar to directly written business.

Investments

Net Investment Income and Net Investment Gains (Losses)

Income from investments is reported in net investment income, unless otherwise stated herein. Gains and losses on sales of investments, impairment losses and changes in valuation allowances are reported in net investment gains (losses), unless otherwise stated herein.

Fixed Maturity Securities Available-For-Sale

~~The~~Fixed ~~Company’s fixed~~ maturity securities ~~are~~ classified as available-for-sale ~~and~~ are reported at their estimated fair value. Unrealized investment gains and losses on these securities are recorded as a separate component of OCI, net of policy-related amounts and deferred income taxes. Publicly-traded security transactions are recorded on a trade date basis, while privately-placed and bank loan security transactions are recorded on a settlement date basis. Investment gains and losses on sales are determined on a specific identification basis.

Interest income and prepayment fees are recognized when earned. Interest income is recognized using an effective yield method giving effect to amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts and is based on the estimated economic life of the securities, which for residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”), commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) and asset-backed securities (“ABS”) (collectively, “Structured Securities”) considers the estimated timing and amount of prepayments of the underlying loans. The amortization of premium and accretion of discount of fixed maturity securities also takes into consideration call and maturity dates.

Amortization of premium and accretion of discount on Structured Securities considers the estimated timing and amount of prepayments of the underlying loans. Actual prepayment experience is periodically reviewed, and effective yields are recalculated when differences arise between the originally anticipated and the actual prepayments received and currently anticipated. Prepayment assumptions for Structured Securities are estimated using inputs obtained from third-party specialists and based on management’s knowledge of the current market. For credit-sensitive Structured Securities and certain prepayment-sensitive securities, the effective yield is recalculated on a prospective basis. For all other Structured Securities, the effective yield is recalculated on a retrospective basis.

The Company regularly evaluates fixed maturity securities for declines in fair value to determine if a credit loss exists. This evaluation is based on management’s case-by-case evaluation of the underlying reasons for the decline in fair value including, but not limited to, an analysis of the gross unrealized losses by severity and financial condition of the issuer.

For fixed maturity securities in an unrealized loss position, when the Company has the intent to sell the security, or it is more likely than not that the Company will be required to sell the security before recovery, the amortized cost basis of the security is written down to fair value through net investment gains (losses).

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

1. Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

For fixed maturity securities that do not meet the aforementioned criteria, management evaluates whether the decline in estimated fair value has resulted from credit losses or other factors. If the Company determines the decline in estimated fair value is due to credit losses, the difference between the amortized cost of the security and the present value of projected future cash flows expected to be collected is recognized as an allowance through net investment gains (losses). If the estimated fair value is less than the present value of projected future cash flows expected to be collected, this portion of the allowance related to other-than-credit factors is recorded in OCI.

Once a security specific allowance for credit losses is established, the present value of cash flows expected to be collected from the security continues to be reassessed. Any changes in the security specific allowance for credit losses are recorded as a provision for (or reversal of) credit loss expense in net investment gains (losses).

Fixed maturity securities are also evaluated to determine whether any amounts have become uncollectible. When all, or a portion, of a security is deemed uncollectible, the uncollectible portion is written-off with an adjustment to amortized cost and a corresponding reduction to the allowance for credit losses.

Trading Securities

Fixed maturity securities classified as trading securities are reported at their estimated fair value. The recognition and measurement of trading securities and related interest income is consistent with the accounting for fixed maturity securities available-for-sale. Realized and unrealized investment gains (losses) are recorded in net investment income.

Mortgage Loans

Mortgage loans are stated at unpaid principal balance, adjusted for any unamortized premium or discount, and any deferred fees or expenses, and net of an allowance for credit losses. Interest income and prepayment fees are recognized when earned. Interest income is recognized using an effective yield method giving effect to amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts. The allowance for credit losses for mortgage loans represents the Company’s best estimate of expected credit losses over the remaining life of the loans and is determined using relevant available information from internal and external sources, relating to past events, current conditions, and a reasonable and supportable forecast.

Policy Loans

Policy loans are stated at unpaid principal balances. Interest income is recorded as earned using the contractual interest rate. Generally, accrued interest is capitalized on the policy’s anniversary date. Any unpaid principal and accrued interest is deducted from the cash surrender value or the death benefit prior to settlement of the insurance policy.

Limited Partnerships and LLCs

The Company uses the equity method of accounting for investments when it has more than a minor ownership interest or more than a minor influence over the investee’s operations; when the Company has virtually no influence over the investee’s operations the investment is carried at estimated fair value. The Company generally recognizes its share of the equity method investee’s earnings on a three-month lag in instances where the investee’s financial information is not sufficiently timely or when the investee’s reporting period differs from the Company’s reporting period; while distributions on investments carried at estimated fair value are recognized as earned or received.

Short-term Investments

Short-term investments include securities and other investments with remaining maturities of one year or less, but greater than three months, at the time of purchase and are stated at estimated fair value or amortized cost, which approximates estimated fair value. The Company’s short-term investments generally involve large dollar amounts that turn over quickly and have short maturities.

For the years ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025, ~~2023~~2024 and ~~2022~~2023, cash proceeds from sales, maturities and repayments of short-term investments were $12.1 billion, $1.1 billion and $~~976~~1.1 ~~million~~billion, respectively. For the years ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025, ~~2023~~2024 and ~~2022~~2023, cash payments on purchases of short-term investments were $1.76 billion, $1.47 billion and $~~611~~1.4 ~~million~~billion, respectively.

~~Other Invested Assets~~83

Other invested assets consist principally of freestanding derivatives with positive estimated fair values which are described in “— Derivatives” below.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

1. Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Other Invested Assets

Other invested assets consist principally of freestanding derivatives with positive estimated fair values which are described in “— Derivatives” below.

Securities Lending Program

Securities lending transactions whereby blocks of securities are loaned to third parties, primarily brokerage firms and commercial banks, are treated as financing arrangements and the associated liability is recorded at the amount of cash received. Income and expenses associated with securities lending transactions are reported as investment income and investment expense, respectively, in net investment income.

The Company obtains collateral at the inception of the loan, usually cash, in an amount generally equal to 102% of the estimated fair value of the securities loaned and maintains it at a level greater than or equal to 100% for the duration of the loan. The Company monitors the estimated fair value of the securities loaned on a daily basis and additional collateral is obtained as necessary throughout the duration of the loan. Securities loaned under such transactions may be sold or re-pledged by the transferee. The Company is liable to return to the counterparties the cash collateral received.

Funding Agreements

The Company established liabilities for funding agreements associated with the Company’s institutional spread margin business, which are equal to the unpaid principal balance, adjusted for any unamortized premium or discount. Liabilities related to funding agreements are reported in policyholder account balances.

Derivatives

Freestanding Derivatives

Freestanding derivatives are carried at estimated fair value on the Company’s balance sheet either as assets in other invested assets or as liabilities in other liabilities. The Company does not offset the estimated fair value amounts recognized for derivatives executed with the same counterparty under the same master netting agreement.

If a derivative is not designated or did not qualify as an accounting hedge, changes in the estimated fair value of the derivative are reported in net derivative gains (losses).

The Company generally reports cash received or paid for a derivative in the investing activity section of the statement of cash flows except for cash flows of certain derivative options with deferred premiums, which are reported in the financing activity section of the statement of cash flows.

Hedge Accounting

The Company primarily designates derivatives as a hedge of a forecasted transaction or a variability of cash flows to be received or paid related to a recognized asset or liability (cash flow hedge). When a derivative is designated as a cash flow hedge and is determined to be highly effective, changes in fair value are recorded in OCI and subsequently reclassified into the statement of operations when the Company’s earnings are affected by the variability in cash flows of the hedged item.

To qualify for hedge accounting, at the inception of the hedging relationship, the Company formally documents its risk management objective and strategy for undertaking the hedging transaction, as well as its designation of the hedge. In its hedge documentation, the Company sets forth how the hedging instrument is expected to hedge the designated risks related to the hedged item and sets forth the method that will be used to retrospectively and prospectively assess the hedging instrument’s effectiveness. A derivative designated as a hedging instrument must be assessed as being highly effective in offsetting the designated risk of the hedged item. Hedge effectiveness is formally assessed at inception and at least quarterly throughout the life of the designated hedging relationship.

The Company discontinues hedge accounting prospectively when: (i) it is determined that the derivative is no longer highly effective in offsetting changes in the estimated fair value or cash flows of a hedged item; (ii) the derivative or hedged item expires, is sold, terminated, or exercised; (iii) it is no longer probable that the hedged forecasted transaction will occur; or (iv) the derivative is de-designated as a hedging instrument.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

1. Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

When hedge accounting is discontinued the derivative is carried at its estimated fair value on the balance sheet, with changes in its estimated fair value recognized in the current period as net derivative gains (losses). The changes in estimated fair value of derivatives previously recorded in OCI related to discontinued cash flow hedges are released into the statement of operations when the Company’s earnings are affected by the variability in cash flows of the hedged item. When the hedged item matures or is sold, or the forecasted transaction is not probable of occurring, the Company immediately reclassifies any remaining balances in OCI to net derivative gains (losses).

Embedded Derivatives

The Company has index-linked annuities that are directly written or assumed through reinsurance contracts that contain embedded derivatives which are required to be separated from their host contracts and reported as derivatives. Certain funds withheld arrangements associated with reinsurance may also contain embedded derivatives. See “— Insurance Contract Obligations” and “— Reinsurance” for additional information on the accounting policies for embedded derivatives.

Fair Value

Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. In most cases, the exit price and the transaction (or entry) price will be the same at initial recognition.

In determining the estimated fair value of the Company’s investments, fair values are based on unadjusted quoted prices for identical investments in active markets that are readily and regularly obtainable. When such quoted prices are not available, fair values are based on quoted prices in markets that are not active, quoted prices for similar but not identical investments, or other observable inputs. If these inputs are not available, or observable inputs are not determinable, unobservable inputs and/or adjustments to observable inputs requiring management judgment are used to determine the estimated fair value of investments.

Separate Accounts

Separate accounts underlying the Company’s variable life and annuity contracts are reported at fair value. Assets in separate accounts supporting the contract liabilities are legally insulated from the Company’s general account liabilities. Investments in these separate accounts are directed by the contract holder and all investment performance, net of contract fees and assessments, is passed through to the contract holder. Investment performance and the corresponding amounts credited to contract holders of such separate accounts are offset in the same line on the statements of operations.

Separate accounts that do not pass all investment performance to the contract holder, including those underlying certain index-linked annuities, are combined on a line-by-line basis with the Company’s general account assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses. The accounting for investments in these separate accounts is consistent with the methodologies described herein for similar financial instruments held in the general account.

The Company receives asset-based distribution and service fees from mutual funds available to the variable life and annuity contract holders as investment options in its separate accounts. These fees are recognized in the period in which the related services are performed and are included in other revenues.

Income Tax

The Company’s income tax provision was prepared following the modified separate return method. The modified separate return method applies the Accounting Standards Codification 740 — Income Taxes (“ASC 740”) to the standalone financial statements of each member of the consolidated group as if the member were a separate taxpayer and a standalone enterprise, after providing benefits for losses. The Company’s accounting for income taxes represents management’s best estimate of various events and transactions. Current and deferred income taxes included herein and attributable to periods up until the Company’s separation from MetLife, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, “MetLife”) (“Separation”) have been allocated to the Company in a manner that is systematic, rational and consistent with the asset and liability method prescribed by ASC 740.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

1. Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Deferred tax assets and liabilities resulting from temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities are measured at the balance sheet date using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years the temporary differences are expected to reverse.

The realization of deferred tax assets depends upon the existence of sufficient taxable income within the carryback or carryforward periods under the tax law in the applicable tax jurisdiction. Valuation allowances are established when management determines, based on available information, that it is more likely than not that deferred income tax assets will not be realized. Significant judgment is required in determining whether valuation allowances should be established, as well as the amount of such allowances. When making such determination, the Company considers many factors, including the jurisdiction in which the deferred tax asset was generated, the length of time that carryforward can be utilized in the various taxing jurisdictions, future taxable income exclusive of reversing temporary differences and carryforwards, future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, taxable income in prior carryback years, tax planning strategies and the nature, frequency, and amount of cumulative financial reporting income and losses in recent years.

The Inflation Reduction Act, which was enacted in 2022, established a 15% corporate alternative minimum tax (“CAMT”) for corporations whose average annual adjusted financial statement income for any consecutive three–tax year period ending after December 31, 2021, and preceding the tax year exceeds $1.0 billion. The Company elects not to consider any future effects resulting from applicability of the CAMT when assessing the valuation allowance for regular deferred tax assets.

The Company may be required to change its provision for income taxes when estimates used in determining valuation allowances on deferred tax assets significantly change or when receipt of new information indicates the need for adjustment in valuation allowances. Additionally, the effect of changes in tax laws, tax regulations, or interpretations of such laws or regulations, is recognized in net income tax expense (benefit) in the period of change.

The Company determines whether it is more likely than not that a tax position will be sustained upon examination by the appropriate taxing authorities before any part of the benefit can be recorded on the financial statements. A tax position is measured at the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized upon settlement. Unrecognized tax benefits due to tax uncertainties that do not meet the threshold are included in other liabilities and are charged to earnings in the period that such determination is made.

The Company classifies interest recognized as interest expense and penalties recognized as a component of income tax expense.

Litigation and Other Loss Contingencies

The Company is a party to or involved in a number of legal disputes, including litigation matters, as well as disputes or other matters involving third parties (e.g., vendors, reinsurers or tax or other authorities), and are subject in the ordinary course to a number of regulatory examinations and investigations. The Company reviews relevant information with respect to litigation and other loss contingencies related to these matters and establishes liabilities when it is probable that a loss has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. Legal costs are recognized as incurred.

In matters where it is not probable, but it is reasonably possible that a loss will be incurred and the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated, such losses or range of losses are disclosed, and no accrual is made. In the absence of sufficient information to support an assessment of a reasonably possible loss or range of loss, no accrual is made and no loss or range of loss is disclosed.

Other Accounting Policies

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all highly liquid securities and other investments purchased with an original or remaining maturity of three months or less at the date of purchase to be cash equivalents. Cash equivalents are stated at estimated fair value or amortized cost, which approximates estimated fair value.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

1. Business, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

Employee Benefit Plans

Brighthouse Services, LLC ~~(“Brighthouse Services”)~~, an affiliate, sponsors qualified and non-qualified defined contribution plans, and New England Life Insurance Company (“NELICO”), an affiliate, sponsors certain frozen defined benefit pension and postretirement plans. Within its consolidated statement of operations, the Company has included expenses associated with its participants in these plans.

Adoption of New Accounting Pronouncements

Changes to GAAP are established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) in the form of accounting standards updates (“ASU”) to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. The Company considers the applicability and impact of all ASUs. Except as noted below, there were no significant ASUs adopted during the year ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025.

In ~~November~~December 2023, the FASB issued new guidance on ~~Segment~~Income ~~Reporting~~Tax Disclosures (ASU 2023-0709, ~~Segment~~Income ~~Reporting~~Taxes (Topic ~~280~~740): Improvements to ~~Reportable~~Income ~~Segment~~Tax Disclosures ~~(“ASU 2023-07”~~)). This ASU updates ~~reportable~~the ~~segment~~required ~~disclosures~~income ~~primarily~~tax ~~through enhanced~~ disclosures ~~about~~to ~~significant~~include ~~segment~~disclosure ~~expenses.~~of ~~This~~income ~~ASU~~taxes ~~does~~paid ~~not~~disaggregated ~~change~~by ~~how~~jurisdiction aand ~~company~~greater ~~identifies~~disaggregation ~~its~~of ~~operating~~information ~~segments,~~in ~~aggregates those operating segments, or applies~~ the ~~quantitative~~required ~~thresholds~~rate ~~to determine its reportable segments~~reconciliation. The Company adopted this guidance during fiscal year ~~2024~~2025 on a retrospective basis.

Future Adoption of New Accounting Pronouncements

In November 2025, the FASB issued new guidance on financial instrument credit losses (ASU 2025-08, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Purchased Loans). Under current GAAP, an allowance for credit losses for assets purchased with credit deterioration is established by grossing up the amortized cost basis of the asset, while the allowance for all other loans is recognized separately as an expense. The ASU expands the population of purchased financial instruments subject to the gross-up approach for determining the allowance for credit losses to include all purchased loans that meet certain criteria. The ASU is effective for annual and interim periods starting with fiscal year 2027. This ASU is required to be adopted prospectively for all loans acquired on or after the effective date. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance on its financial statements.

In November 2024, the FASB issued new guidance on income statement expense disclosures (ASU 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses). This ASU requires public companies to disclose additional disaggregated information about expenses in the notes to financial statements at each interim and annual reporting period. This ASU is effective for fiscal years starting January 1, 2027, and for interim periods starting January 1, 2028. This ASU is required to be adopted prospectively with the option of retrospective application. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance on its financial statements.

In December 2023, the FASB issued new guidance on Income Tax Disclosures (ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures). This ASU updates the required income tax disclosures to include disclosure of income taxes paid disaggregated by jurisdiction and greater disaggregation of information in the required rate reconciliation. This ASU is effective for fiscal years starting January 1, 2025, and will be applied on a prospective basis. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance on its financial statements.

2. Segment Information

The Company is organized into and provides its products and services through the following reportable segments: Annuities; Life; Run-off; and Corporate & Other. The Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) views and manages the business through these segments.

Annuities

The Annuities segment consists of a variety of variable, fixed, index-linked and income annuities designed to address contract holders’ needs for protected wealth accumulation on a tax-deferred basis, wealth transfer and income security.

Life

The Life segment consists of insurance products, including term, universal, whole and variable life products designed to address policyholders’ needs for financial security and protected wealth transfer, which may be on a tax-advantaged basis.

Run-off

The Run-off segment consists primarily of products that are no longer actively sold and are separately managed, including ULSG, structured settlements, pension risk transfer contracts, certain company-owned life insurance policies and certain funding agreements.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

2. Segment Information (continued)

Corporate & Other

The Corporate & Other segment consists of activities related to funding agreements associated with the Company’s institutional spread margin business, excess capital not allocated to the other segments and interest expense related to the Company’s outstanding debt, as well as expenses associated with certain legal proceedings and income tax audit issues. The Corporate & Other segment also includes long-term care business reinsured through 100% quota share reinsurance agreements.

In connection with the adoption of ASU 2023-07, the Company’s presentation of segment information has been updated for all periods.

Financial Measure and Segment Accounting Policies

The Company’s CODM is its Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”). The CEO uses adjusted earnings to evaluate segment performance and facilitate comparisons to industry results. The Company believes the presentation of adjusted earnings, as the Company measures it for management purposes, enhances the understanding of its performance by the investor community by highlighting the results of operations and the underlying profitability drivers of the business.

Adjusted earnings, which may be positive or negative, focuses on the Company’s primary businesses by excluding the impact of market volatility, which could distort trends. Adjusted earnings was updated during the first quarter of 2025 in connection with the establishment of a trading portfolio comprised of certain fixed income securities (classified as “trading securities” under GAAP). The Company did not have trading securities prior to the first quarter of 2025.

The following items are excluded from total revenues in calculating adjusted earnings:

•Net investment gains (losses); ~~and~~

•Investment gains (losses) on trading securities measured at estimated fair value through net investment income; and

The following items are excluded from total expenses in calculating adjusted earnings:

•Change in MRBs; and

The segment accounting policies are the same as those used to prepare the Company’s consolidated financial statements, except for the adjustments to calculate adjusted earnings described above. In addition, segment accounting policies include the methods of capital allocation described below.

Segment investment and capitalization targets are based on statutory oriented risk principles and metrics. Segment invested assets backing liabilities are based on net statutory liabilities plus excess capital~~. For the variable annuity business~~, ~~the excess capital held is based on the target statutory total asset requirement consistent~~ with ~~the Company’s variable annuity risk management strategy. For insurance businesses other than variable annuities,~~ excess capital ~~held~~determined is based on ~~a percentage of required~~ statutory risk-based capital (“RBC”) metrics. Assets in excess of those allocated to the Annuities, Life and Run-off segments, if any, are held in the Corporate & Other segment. Segment net investment income reflects the performance of each segment’s respective invested assets.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

2. Segment Information (continued)

The tables below provide information about the Company’s segments, including significant segment expenses, and reconciliations to Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company.

	Year Ended December 31, 2024
	Year Ended December 31, 2025
	Annuities		Life		Run-off		Corporate & Other		Total
	(In millions)
Total revenues	$	13,~~500~~230	$	~~898~~933	$	~~995~~1,275	$	~~580~~648	$	36,~~973~~086
Less: Revenues excluded from adjusted earnings (1)	(31,~~350~~707)		(2018)		(~~599~~257)		~~(47)~~91
Less: Segment expenses:
Policyholder benefits and claims	~~486~~458		~~548~~667		~~1,105~~625		—
Interest credited to policyholder account balances, excluding market value adjustments	1,~~346~~416		8592		~~243~~236		~~449~~409
Amortization of DAC and VOBA	~~497~~514		5350		—		—
Interest expense on debt	—		—		—		67
Other expenses (2)	1,~~007~~032		~~169~~180		~~165~~127		~~193~~203
Less: Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	~~291~~289		(12)		16108		(5569)
Less: Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	—		—		—		1
Adjusted earnings (loss)	$	1,~~223~~228	$	51(26)	$	65436	$	(2854)	1,~~311~~584
Adjustments for:
Net investment gains (losses)									(~~298~~102)
Net derivative gains (losses), excluding investment hedge adjustments of $30									(3,718)
Investment gains (losses) on trading securities									—
Change in market risk benefits									2,669
Net derivative gains (losses), excluding investment hedge adjustments of $0									(1,789)
Market value adjustments									13
Change in market risk benefits									261
Provision for income tax (expense) benefit									279
Market value adjustments									(8)
Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company									$	256
Provision for income tax (expense) benefit									343
Interest revenue	$	2,850	$	420	$	1,234	$	626
Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company									$	289
Interest revenue	$	3,049	$	382	$	1,152	$	556

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

2. Segment Information (continued)

	Year Ended December 31, 2023
	Year Ended December 31, 2024
	Annuities		Life		Run-off		Corporate & Other		Total
	(In millions)
Total revenues	$	~~508~~1,500	$	~~987~~898	$	~~1,404~~995	$	~~506~~580	$	3,~~405~~973
Less: Revenues excluded from adjusted earnings (1)	(3,~~932~~350)		(2620)		(~~239~~599)		(7047)
Less: Segment expenses:
Policyholder benefits and claims	~~508~~486		~~609~~548		1,~~301~~105		—
Interest credited to policyholder account balances, excluding market value adjustments	1,~~048~~346		7985		~~274~~243		~~388~~449
Amortization of DAC and VOBA	~~507~~497		5753		—		—
Interest expense on debt	—		—		—		7067
Other expenses (2)	~~997~~1,007		~~182~~169		~~167~~165		~~209~~193
Less: Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	~~257~~291		1712		~~(22)~~16		(5055)
Less: Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	—		—		—		1
Adjusted earnings (loss)	$	1,~~123~~223	$	6951	$	~~(77)~~65	$	(4228)	1,~~073~~311
Adjustments for:
Net investment gains (losses)									(~~242~~298)
Net derivative gains (losses), excluding investment hedge adjustments of $105									(4,025)
Investment gains (losses) on trading securities									—
Change in market risk benefits									1,497
Net derivative gains (losses), excluding investment hedge adjustments of $30									(3,718)
Market value adjustments									(12)
Change in market risk benefits									2,669
Provision for income tax (expense) benefit									585
Market value adjustments									13
Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company									$	(1,124)
Provision for income tax (expense) benefit									279
Interest revenue	$	2,558	$	391	$	1,141	$	575
Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company									$	256
Interest revenue	$	2,850	$	420	$	1,234	$	626

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

2. Segment Information (continued)

	Year Ended December 31, 2022
	Year Ended December 31, 2023
	Annuities		Life		Run-off		Corporate & Other		Total
	(In millions)
Total revenues	$	~~5,015~~508	$	~~959~~987	$	~~(198)~~1,404	$	~~386~~506	$	63,~~162~~405
Less: Revenues excluded from adjusted earnings (1)	~~967~~(3,932)		(2926)		(~~1,901~~239)		67(70)
Less: Segment expenses:
Policyholder benefits and claims	~~382~~508		~~790~~609		1,~~013~~301		1—
Interest credited to policyholder account balances, excluding market value adjustments	~~889~~1,048		5779		~~290~~274		~~163~~388
Amortization of DAC and VOBA	~~505~~507		6357		—		—
Interest expense on debt	—		—		—		70
Other expenses (2)	~~981~~997		~~110~~182		~~292~~167		~~241~~209
Less: Provision for income tax expense (benefit)	~~244~~257		~~(8)~~17		21(22)		(~~154~~50)
Less: Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests	—		—		—		1
Adjusted earnings (loss)	$	1,~~047~~123	$	~~(24)~~69	$	87(77)	$	(342)	1,~~107~~073
Adjustments for:
Net investment gains (losses)									(~~240~~242)
Net derivative gains (losses), excluding investment hedge adjustments of $71									(656)
Investment gains (losses) on trading securities									—
Change in market risk benefits									4,105
Net derivative gains (losses), excluding investment hedge adjustments of $105									(4,025)
Market value adjustments									86
Change in market risk benefits									1,497
Provision for income tax (expense) benefit									(692)
Market value adjustments									(12)
Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company									$	3,710
Provision for income tax (expense) benefit									585
Interest revenue	$	2,254	$	396	$	1,166	$	319
Net income (loss) attributable to Brighthouse Life Insurance Company									$	(1,124)
Interest revenue	$	2,558	$	391	$	1,141	$	575

_______________

(1)For each reportable segment, certain revenues are excluded from adjusted earnings (loss), including net investment gains (losses), investment gains (losses) on trading securities and net derivative gains (losses), excluding ~~investment~~Investment ~~hedge~~Hedge ~~adjustments~~Adjustments.

(2)Other expenses include corporate expense allocations directly attributable to each of the segments.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

2. Segment Information (continued)

Total assets by segment were as follows at:

December 31,

2024

2023

2025

2024

(In millions)

Annuities

~~160~~164,~~887~~175

~~157~~160,~~614~~887

Life

2021,~~821~~802

20,~~363~~821

Run-off

2425,~~894~~470

2624,~~849~~894

Corporate & Other

2120,~~989~~539

21,~~378~~989

Total

~~228~~231,~~591~~986

~~226~~228,~~204~~591

Total premiums, universal life and investment-type product policy fees and other revenues by major product group were as follows:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2024		2023		2022
	2025		2024		2023
	(In millions)
Annuity products	$	21,~~001~~892	$	12,~~890~~001	$	1,~~796~~890
Life insurance products	~~848~~934		~~1,110~~848		1,~~119~~110
Other products	1012		710		87
Total	$	2,~~859~~838	$	32,~~007~~859	$	23,~~923~~007

Substantially all of the Company’s premiums, universal life and investment-type product policy fees and other revenues originated in the U.S.

Revenues derived from any individual customer did not exceed 10% of premiums, universal life and investment-type product policy fees and other revenues for the years ended December 31, ~~2024~~2025, ~~2023~~2024 and ~~2022~~2023.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

3. Insurance Liabilities

Liability for Future Policy Benefits

Information regarding LFPBs for non-participating traditional and limited-payment contracts was as follows:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2024									2023									2022
	2025									2024									2023
	Term and Whole Life Insurance			Income Annuities			Structured Settlement and Pension Risk Transfer Annuities			Term and Whole Life Insurance			Income Annuities			Structured Settlement and Pension Risk Transfer Annuities			Term and Whole Life Insurance			Income Annuities			Structured Settlement and Pension Risk Transfer Annuities
	(Dollars in millions)
Present value of expected net premiums:
Balance, beginning of year	$	2,~~899~~758		$	—		$	—		$	2,~~804~~899		$	—		$	—		$	32,~~212~~804		$	—		$	—
Beginning balance at original discount rate	3,~~162~~110			—			—			3,~~146~~162			—			—			23,~~964~~146			—			—
Effect of model refinements	43			—			—			—4			—			—			~~121~~—			—			—
Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions	~~146~~(115)			—			—			~~206~~146			—			—			~~159~~206			—			—
Effect of actual variances from expected experience	8(46)			—			—			~~(17)~~8			—			—			~~114~~(17)			—			—
Adjusted beginning of year balance	32,~~320~~952			—			—			3,~~335~~320			—			—			3,~~358~~335			—			—
Issuances	6714			—			—			9367			—			—			93			—			—
Interest accrual	~~110~~102			—			—			~~108~~110			—			—			~~112~~108			—			—
Net premiums collected	(~~387~~363)			—			—			(~~374~~387)			—			—			(~~417~~374)			—			—
Ending balance at original discount rate	32,~~110~~705			—			—			3,~~162~~110			—			—			3,~~146~~162			—			—
Effect of changes in discount rate assumptions	(~~352~~243)			—			—			(~~263~~352)			—			—			(~~342~~263)			—			—
Balance, end of year	$	2,~~758~~462		$	—		$	—		$	2,~~899~~758		$	—		$	—		$	2,~~804~~899		$	—		$	—
Present value of expected future policy benefits:
Balance, beginning of year	$	5,~~385~~245		$	3,~~719~~728		$	6,~~697~~118		$	5,~~172~~385		$	3,~~469~~719		$	6,~~793~~697		$	65,~~253~~172		$	43,~~283~~469		$	106,~~171~~793
Beginning balance at original discount rate	5,~~905~~908			34,~~993~~121			76,~~085~~876			5,~~816~~905			3,~~848~~993			7,~~410~~085			5,~~682~~816			3,~~817~~848			87,~~165~~410
Effect of model refinements	102			—			—4			—10			—			—			~~134~~—			—			~~(278)~~—
Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions	~~235~~(128)			~~(23)~~18			8222			~~296~~235			—(23)			—82			~~179~~296			55—			~~(157)~~—
Effect of actual variances from expected experience	(573)			—(37)			(1029)			(155)			~~(21)~~—			(4710)			~~150~~(15)			(21)			(2347)
Adjusted beginning of year balance	65,~~145~~709			34,~~970~~102			76,~~157~~873			6,~~097~~145			3,~~827~~970			7,~~363~~157			6,~~145~~097			3,~~851~~827			7,~~707~~363
Issuances	7214			~~400~~383			—			9972			~~369~~400			—			~~101~~99			~~220~~369			—
Interest accrual	~~213~~205			~~148~~156			~~305~~293			~~211~~213			~~139~~148			~~314~~305			~~216~~211			~~144~~139			~~327~~314
Benefit payments	(~~522~~482)			(~~397~~410)			(~~586~~531)			(~~502~~522)			(~~342~~397)			(~~592~~586)			(~~646~~502)			(~~367~~342)			(~~624~~592)
Ending balance at original discount rate	5,~~908~~446			4,~~121~~231			6,~~876~~635			5,~~905~~908			34,~~993~~121			76,~~085~~876			5,~~816~~905			3,~~848~~993			7,~~410~~085
Effect of changes in discount rate assumptions	(~~663~~462)			(~~393~~284)			(~~758~~626)			(~~520~~663)			(~~274~~393)			(~~388~~758)			(~~644~~520)			(~~379~~274)			(~~617~~388)
Balance, end of year	$	54,~~245~~984		$	3,~~728~~947		$	6,~~118~~009		$	5,~~385~~245		$	3,~~719~~728		$	6,~~697~~118		$	5,~~172~~385		$	3,~~469~~719		$	6,~~793~~697
Net liability for future policy benefits, end of year	$	2,~~487~~522		$	3,~~728~~947		$	6,~~118~~009		$	2,~~486~~487		$	3,~~719~~728		$	6,~~697~~118		$	2,~~368~~486		$	3,~~469~~719		$	6,~~793~~697
Less: Reinsurance recoverable, end of year	1915			3132			5956			2419			3031			6559			3224			2530			6865
Net liability for future policy benefits, after reinsurance recoverable	$	2,~~468~~507		$	3,~~697~~915		$	65,~~059~~953		$	2,~~462~~468		$	3,~~689~~697		$	6,~~632~~059		$	2,~~336~~462		$	3,~~444~~689		$	6,~~725~~632
Weighted-average duration of liability	7.62 years			7.97 years			11.65 years			87.86 years			87.29 years			11.6 years			8.58 years			8.52 years			11.6 years
Weighted-average interest accretion rate	3.9290		%	4.0414		%	4.4647		%	3.9192		%	34.9904		%	4.46		%	3.9491		%	3.8999		%	4.4546		%
Current discount rate	5.4201		%	5.4814		%	5.6447		%	45.9442		%	45.9548		%	5.0364		%	54.2694		%	54.2795		%	5.3203		%
Gross premiums or assessments recognized during period	$	~~563~~519		$	~~485~~492		$	—		$	~~595~~563		$	~~472~~485		$	—		$	~~625~~595		$	~~243~~472		$	—
Expected future gross premiums, undiscounted	$	54,~~714~~959		$	—		$	—		$	5,~~999~~714		$	—		$	—		$	65,~~535~~999		$	—		$	—
Expected future gross premiums, discounted	$	43,~~244~~738		$	—		$	—		$	4,~~535~~244		$	—		$	—		$	4,~~875~~535		$	—		$	—
Expected future benefit payments, undiscounted	$	87,~~031~~284		$	5,~~759~~896		$	1312,~~336~~820		$	8,~~148~~031		$	5,~~616~~759		$	13,~~767~~336		$	8,~~015~~148		$	5,~~434~~616		$	1413,~~418~~767
Expected future benefit payments, discounted	$	5,~~908~~446		$	4,~~121~~231		$	6,~~876~~635		$	5,~~905~~908		$	34,~~993~~121		$	76,~~085~~876		$	5,~~816~~905		$	3,~~848~~993		$	7,~~410~~085

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(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

3. Insurance Liabilities (continued)

The measurement of LFPBs can be significantly impacted by changes in assumptions for policyholder behavior. As part of the ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024 annual actuarial reviews (“AAR”), the Company updated assumptions regarding mortality and lapses for term participating and non-participating whole life insurance. The impact from changes in assumptions is presented in effect of changes in cash flow assumptions in the table above.

Information regarding the additional insurance liabilities for universal life-type contracts with secondary guarantees was as follows:

Years Ended December 31,

2024

2023

2022

2025

2024

2023

(Dollars in millions)

Balance, beginning of year

78,~~607~~986

67,~~935~~607

76,~~168~~935

Beginning balance before the effect of unrealized gains and losses

79,~~784~~277

7,~~175~~784

67,~~731~~175

Effect of changes in cash flow assumptions

~~895~~480

52895

~~(37)~~52

Effect of actual variances from expected experience

~~167~~133

~~145~~167

~~179~~145

Adjusted beginning of year balance

89,~~846~~890

78,~~372~~846

67,~~873~~372

Interest accrual

~~406~~469

~~357~~406

~~333~~357

Net assessments collected

~~446~~480

~~414~~446

~~416~~414

Benefit payments

(~~421~~541)

(~~359~~421)

(~~447~~359)

Ending balance before the effect of unrealized gains and losses

910,~~277~~298

79,~~784~~277

7,~~175~~784

Effect of unrealized gains and losses

(~~291~~221)

(~~177~~291)

(~~240~~177)

Balance, end of year

810,~~986~~077

78,~~607~~986

67,~~935~~607

Less: Reinsurance recoverable, end of year

1,~~535~~801

1,~~438~~535

1,~~384~~438

Net additional liability, after reinsurance recoverable

78,~~451~~276

67,~~169~~451

56,~~551~~169

Weighted-average duration of liability

6.6 years

6.76 years

6.7 years

Weighted-average interest accretion rate

4.9495

4.9294

4.9092

Gross assessments recognized during period

1,~~083~~076

1,~~064~~083

1,~~070~~064

The measurement of liabilities for secondary guarantees can be significantly impacted by changes in assumptions for policyholder behavior, as well as the expected general account rate of return, which is driven by the Company’s assumption for long-term treasury yields. The Company’s practice of projecting treasury yields uses a mean reversion approach that assumes that long-term interest rates are less influenced by short-term fluctuations and are only changed when sustained interim deviations are expected. As part of the ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024 AARs, the Company updated assumptions regarding policyholder behavior, including mortality, premium persistency, lapses and withdrawals. In ~~2024~~2025, the Company also increased the long-term general account earned rate, driven by an increase in the mean reversion rate, from 34.7500% to 4.0050%. The impact from changes in assumptions, excluding the effects on the ULSG liability for profits followed by losses, is presented in effect of changes in cash flow assumptions in the table above.

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(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

3. Insurance Liabilities (continued)

A reconciliation of the net LFPBs for non-participating traditional and limited-payment contracts and the additional insurance liabilities for universal life-type contracts with secondary guarantees reported in the preceding rollforward tables to LFPBs on the consolidated balance sheets was as follows at:

	December 31,
	2024		2023
	2025		2024
	(In millions)
Liabilities reported in the preceding rollforward tables	$	2122,~~319~~555	$	2021,~~509~~319
Long-term care insurance (1)	5,~~190~~203		5,~~581~~190
ULSG liabilities, including liability for profits followed by losses	875		2,427
ULSG liabilities, including liability for profits followed by losses (2)	57		875
Participating whole life insurance (2)	2,969		2,849
Participating whole life insurance (3)	3,054		2,969
Deferred profit liabilities	~~428~~452		~~475~~428
Other	~~304~~361		~~308~~304
Total liability for future policy benefits	$	31,~~085~~682	$	3231,~~149~~085

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(1)Includes liabilities related to fully reinsured individual long-term care insurance. See Notes 2 and 7.

(2)~~Participating~~The ~~whole~~effect ~~life~~of ~~insurance~~changes ~~uses~~in anassumptions ~~interest~~for ~~assumption~~ULSG ~~based on the non-forfeiture interest rate~~liabilities, ~~ranging~~including ~~from 3.5% to 4.0%, and mortality rates guaranteed in calculating~~ the ~~cash surrender values described in such contracts, and also includes a~~ liability for ~~terminal~~profits ~~dividends.~~followed ~~Participating~~by ~~whole~~losses ~~life~~was ~~insurance~~($1.2) billion ~~represented 3% of the Company’s life insurance in-force at both December 31, 2024 and 2023, and 39% and 40% of gross traditional life insurance premiums~~ for the ~~years~~year ended December 31, ~~2024 and 2023, respectively~~2025.

90(3)Participating whole life insurance uses an interest assumption based on the non-forfeiture interest rate, ranging from 3.5% to 4.0%, and mortality rates guaranteed in calculating the cash surrender values described in such contracts, and also includes a liability for terminal dividends. Participating whole life insurance represented 3% of the Company’s life insurance in-force at both December 31, 2025 and 2024, and 38% and 39% of gross traditional life insurance premiums for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

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(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

3. Insurance Liabilities (continued)

Policyholder Account Balances

Information regarding policyholder account balances was as follows:

	Universal Life Insurance			Variable Annuities (1)			Index-linked Annuities			Fixed Rate Annuities			ULSG			Company-Owned Life Insurance (1)
	(Dollars in millions)
Year Ended December 31, 2025
Balance, beginning of year	$	2,028		$	3,667		$	48,605		$	14,665		$	4,779		$	1,166
Premiums and deposits	248			50			8,396			1,225			604			—
Surrenders and withdrawals	(62)			(554)			(7,861)			(2,835)			(29)			—
Benefit payments	(47)			(89)			(365)			(365)			(87)			(10)
Net transfers from (to) separate account	18			107			—			—			—			(524)
Interest credited	89			101			756			562			154			21
Policy charges	(199)			(18)			(39)			—			(960)			(7)
Changes related to embedded derivatives	2			—			3,102			—			—			—
Balance, end of year	$	2,077		$	3,264		$	52,594		$	13,252		$	4,461		$	646
Weighted-average crediting rate (2)	4.35		%	2.88		%	1.93		%	3.97		%	3.33		%	2.78		%
Year Ended December 31, 2024
Balance, beginning of year	$	1,980		$	4,111		$	41,627		$	14,672		$	5,052		$	653
Premiums and deposits	229			73			8,228			1,127			645			—
Surrenders and withdrawals	(56)			(616)			(5,532)			(1,356)			(23)			—
Benefit payments	(46)			(93)			(324)			(345)			(70)			(9)
Net transfers from (to) separate account	32			102			—			—			—			500
Interest credited	82			109			673			567			163			29
Policy charges	(193)			(19)			(23)			—			(988)			(7)
Changes related to embedded derivatives	—			—			3,956			—			—			—
Balance, end of year	$	2,028		$	3,667		$	48,605		$	14,665		$	4,779		$	1,166
Weighted-average crediting rate (2)	4.10		%	2.81		%	1.79		%	3.84		%	3.32		%	3.63		%
Year Ended December 31, 2023
Balance, beginning of year	$	2,100		$	4,664		$	33,897		$	14,274		$	5,307		$	641
Premiums and deposits	210			75			7,183			2,694			660			—
Surrenders and withdrawals	(129)			(647)			(3,732)			(2,405)			(23)			—
Benefit payments	(59)			(101)			(240)			(377)			(85)			(8)
Net transfers from (to) separate account	18			14			—			—			—			1
Interest credited	40			129			445			486			208			28
Policy charges	(200)			(23)			(11)			—			(1,015)			(9)
Changes related to embedded derivatives	—			—			4,085			—			—			—
Balance, end of year	$	1,980		$	4,111		$	41,627		$	14,672		$	5,052		$	653
Weighted-average crediting rate (2)	2.03		%	2.91		%	1.47		%	3.31		%	4.02		%	4.33		%
Year Ended December 31, 2022
Balance, beginning of year	$	2,134		$	4,475		$	32,000		$	11,849		$	5,569		$	646
Premiums and deposits	199			145			6,632			3,676			697			—
Surrenders and withdrawals	(49)			(453)			(2,220)			(904)			(32)			—
Benefit payments	(59)			(104)			(180)			(345)			(84)			(8)
Net transfers from (to) separate account	21			131			—			—			—			(13)
Interest credited	56			493			392			(2)			197			23
Policy charges	(202)			(23)			(8)			—			(1,040)			(7)
Changes related to embedded derivatives	—			—			(2,719)			—			—			—
Balance, end of year	$	2,100		$	4,664		$	33,897		$	14,274		$	5,307		$	641
Weighted-average crediting rate (2)	2.65		%	10.91		%	1.16		%	(0.02)		%	3.62		%	3.41		%

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(1)Includes liabilities related to separate account products where the contract holder elected a general account investment option.

(2)Excludes the effects of embedded derivatives related to index-linked crediting rates.

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(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

3. Insurance Liabilities (continued)

A reconciliation of policyholder account balances reported in the preceding rollforward table to the liability for policyholder account balances on the consolidated balance sheets was as follows at:

December 31,

2024

2023

2025

2024

(In millions)

Policyholder account balances reported in the preceding rollforward table

7476,~~910~~294

6874,~~095~~910

Funding agreements classified as investment contracts

119,~~002~~502

11,~~115~~002

Institutional group annuities

~~370~~569

—370

Other investment contract liabilities

~~880~~809

~~983~~880

Total policyholder account balances

87,~~162~~174

8087,~~193~~162

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(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

3. Insurance Liabilities (continued)

The balance of account values by range of guaranteed minimum crediting rates and the related range of difference, in basis points, between rates being credited to policyholders and the respective guaranteed minimums was as follows at:

Range of Guaranteed Minimum Crediting Rate	At Guaranteed Minimum		1 to 50 Basis Points Above		51 to 150 Basis Points Above		Greater than 150 Basis Points Above		Total
	(In millions)
December 31, 2025
Annuities (1):
Less than 2.00%	$	384	$	127	$	188	$	8,133	$	8,832
2.00% to 3.99%	6,155		497		518		327		7,497
Greater than 3.99%	740		—		—		—		740
Total	$	7,279	$	624	$	706	$	8,460	$	17,069
Life insurance (2) (3):
Less than 2.00%	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	413	$	413
2.00% to 3.99%	—		476		43		112		631
Greater than 3.99%	969		—		—		—		969
Total	$	969	$	476	$	43	$	525	$	2,013
ULSG (3):
Less than 2.00%	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
2.00% to 3.99%	965		1,279		1,496		222		3,962
Greater than 3.99%	484		—		—		—		484
Total	$	1,449	$	1,279	$	1,496	$	222	$	4,446
December 31, 2024
Annuities (1):
Less than 2.00%	$	516	$	112	$	230	$	8,749	$	9,607
2.00% to 3.99%	6,633		439		416		334		7,822
Greater than 3.99%	781		—		—		—		781
Total	$	7,930	$	551	$	646	$	9,083	$	18,210
Life insurance (2) (3):
Less than 2.00%	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	308	$	308
2.00% to 3.99%	—		471		47		128		646
Greater than 3.99%	1,020		—		—		—		1,020
Total	$	1,020	$	471	$	47	$	436	$	1,974
ULSG (3):
Less than 2.00%	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
2.00% to 3.99%	1,052		1,386		1,602		238		4,278
Greater than 3.99%	484		—		—		—		484
Total	$	1,536	$	1,386	$	1,602	$	238	$	4,762
December 31, 2023
Annuities (1):
Less than 2.00%	$	645	$	204	$	301	$	7,632	$	8,782
2.00% to 3.99%	8,125		233		201		307		8,866
Greater than 3.99%	872		—		—		—		872
Total	$	9,642	$	437	$	502	$	7,939	$	18,520
Life insurance (2) (3):
Less than 2.00%	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	236	$	236
2.00% to 3.99%	—		441		49		132		622
Greater than 3.99%	1,077		—		—		—		1,077
Total	$	1,077	$	441	$	49	$	368	$	1,935
ULSG (3):
Less than 2.00%	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
2.00% to 3.99%	1,134		1,485		1,663		254		4,536
Greater than 3.99%	506		—		—		—		506
Total	$	1,640	$	1,485	$	1,663	$	254	$	5,042

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(1)Includes policyholder account balances for fixed rate annuities and the fixed account portion of variable annuities.

(2)Includes policyholder account balances for retained asset accounts, universal life policies and the fixed account portion of universal variable life insurance policies.

(3)Amounts are gross of policy loans.

See Note 5 for information regarding net amount at risk and cash surrender values.

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(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

3. Insurance Liabilities (continued)

Obligations Under Funding Agreements

Institutional Spread Margin Business

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company has issued unsecured fixed and floating rate funding agreements to certain special purpose entities that have issued either debt securities or commercial paper for which payment of interest and principal is secured by such funding agreements. The Company had obligations outstanding under these funding agreements of $4.3 billion and $5.5 billion at ~~both~~ December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024, respectively.

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company established a secured funding agreement-backed repurchase agreement program in January 2024. Brighthouse Life Insurance Company may enter into repurchase agreements with bank counterparties and the proceeds of the repurchase agreements are then used by a special purpose entity to purchase funding agreements from Brighthouse Life Insurance Company. The Company had obligations under this program of $500 million at both December 31, 2025 and 2024.

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company has a secured funding agreement program with the Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) of Atlanta and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation and its affiliate Farmer Mac Mortgage Securities Corporation (“Farmer Mac”). Funding agreements are issued to FHLB and Farmer Mac in exchange for cash, for which these programs have been granted liens on certain assets, some of which are in their custody to collateralize the Company’s obligations under the funding agreements. Upon any event of default by the Company, the program recovery on the collateral is limited to the amount of the Company’s liabilities to FHLB and Farmer Mac, respectively. The Company had obligations outstanding under these programs of $54.07 billion and $5.10 billion at December 31, ~~2024~~2025 and ~~2023~~2024, respectively.

See Note 8 for information on invested assets pledged as collateral in connection with funding agreements.

Inactive Funding Agreement Programs

Brighthouse Life Insurance Company had obligations outstanding under inactive funding agreement programs of $25 million and $525 million at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

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Brighthouse Life Insurance Company

(An Indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Brighthouse Financial, Inc.)

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

4. Market Risk Benefits

Information regarding MRB assets and liabilities associated with variable annuities was as follows:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2024		2023		2022
	2025		2024		2023
	(Dollars in millions)
Balance, beginning of year	$	97,~~722~~250	$	9,~~997~~722	$	159,~~726~~997
Balance, beginning of year, before effect of changes in nonperformance risk	75,~~348~~236		87,~~253~~348		118,~~639~~253
Decrements	(~~180~~198)		(~~176~~180)		16(176)
Effect of changes in future expected assumptions	~~(53)~~613		~~260~~(53)		~~212~~260
Effect of actual different from expected experience	~~140~~153		~~186~~140		~~(48)~~186
Effect of changes in interest rates	~~(1,940)~~194		(~~427~~1,940)		(~~8,397~~427)
Effect of changes in fund returns	(~~973~~1,736)		(~~2,203~~973)		3(2,~~806~~203)
Issuances	(4)		(7)		(47)
Effect of changes in equity index volatility	38		75		(106)
Effect of changes in risk margin	(72)		(34)		(152)
Issuances	(4)		(4)		(7)
Aging of the block and other	970		1,496		1,224
Effect of changes in risk margin	(69)		(72)		(34)
Balance, end of year, before effect of changes in nonperformance risk	5,236		7,348		8,253
Aging of the block and other	1,202		895		1,602
Effect of changes in nonperformance risk	2,014		2,374		1,744
Balance, end of year, before effect of changes in nonperformance risk	5,429		5,236		7,348
Balance, end of year	7,250		9,722		9,997
Effect of changes in nonperformance risk	1,588		2,014		2,374
Less: Reinsurance recoverable, end of year	17		43		71
Balance, end of year	7,017		7,250		9,722
Balance, end of year, net of reinsurance (1)	$	7,233	$	9,679	$	9,926
Less: Reinsurance recoverable, end of year	8		17		43
Weighted-average attained age of contract holder	73.9 years		73.0 years		71.8 years
Balance, end of year, net of reinsurance (1)	$	7,009	$	7,233	$	9,679
Weighted-average attained age of contract holder	74.6 years		73.9 years		73.0 years

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(1)Amounts represent the sum of MRB assets and MRB liabilities presented on the consolidated balance sheets at December 31, ~~2024~~2025, ~~2023~~2024 and ~~2022~~2023, with the exception of $2110 million, $921 million and $29 million, respectively, of index-linked ~~annuities~~annuity MRBs not included in this table.

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