Brighthouse Financial Inc

We are one of the largest providers of annuity and life insurance products in the U.S. through multiple independent distribution channels and marketing arrangements with a diverse network of distribution partners. We are organized into three segments: (i) Annuities, (ii) Life and (iii) Run-off, which consists of products that are no longer actively sold and are separately managed. In addition, we report certain of our results of operations in Corporate & Other. See “Business — Segments and Corporate & Other” and Note 3 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further information regarding our segments and Corporate & Other.

Net income (loss) available to shareholders and adjusted earnings, a non-GAAP financial measure, were as follows:

(1)We use the term “net income (loss) available to shareholders” to refer to “net income (loss) available to Brighthouse Financial, Inc.’s common shareholders” throughout the results of operations discussions.

For the year ended December 31, 2023, we had net loss available to shareholders of $1.2 billion and adjusted earnings of $969 million compared to net income available to shareholders of $3.8 billion and adjusted earnings of $1.2 billion for the year ended December 31, 2022. Net loss available to shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2023 primarily reflects net unfavorable changes in the estimated fair value of our variable annuity guaranteed benefit riders due to market factors, net losses on sales of fixed maturity securities and an unfavorable change in the estimated fair value of freestanding interest rate derivatives we use to hedge our ULSG business resulting from increasing long-term interest rates. These unfavorable impacts were partially offset by favorable pre-tax adjusted earnings.

See “— Non-GAAP and Other Financial Disclosures.” See “— Results of Operations” for a detailed discussion of our results.