What smart money is saying about Jackson Financial

Position history

Between Q2 2026 and Q3 2026, 2 fund letters reported a position in Jackson Financial, with 1 buy (opened or added) and 1 sell (trimmed or exited).

Bought and Sold count moves: the same sentence published by several funds of one house in a quarter counts once.

Fund activity · 2 positions · 2 moves

• TrimmedARAR Fund

  September 2026

  “Jackson Financial: good earnings, but danger brewing Jackson continued to perform in line with expectations, but is facing a dangerous headwind that was thoroughly exposed in a 34-page short-report by QVT. The gist is that three events have collided that make Jackson Financial more fragile than it seems. In 2024 Jackson shuffled assets and obligations using a newly created Brooke Re, which would act as a reinsurer for Jackson, but in a sense has similarities to a Special Purpose Vehicle. It was created to stabilize statutory capital, allowing Jackson to free up capital and buy back shares that were terribly undervalued. It also resulted in moving something called a ‘MRB asset (or liability)’ to Brooke Re. This is an asset based on changes in the fair value of future economic benefits (using actuarial assumptions approved by regulators). One should always watch out with assets whose valuation is based on assumptions for the future (to some extent, it’s more art than science). So as Jackson has continued to report a larger share of its balance sheet covered by this, that increased fragility of its valuation. Booking assets should be a positive thing of course, but the problem is that the risks underlying those expected future profits are usually hedged away in real-time. Those hedges can create immediate cash losses, while the offsetting expected future gains remain non-cash and are reflected in the aforementioned MRB asset. As it happened, rising future profit expectations were hedged away, creating a cash loss against an assumed future gain (booked as the MRB asset) (1). On top of this, it seems Jackson/Brooke Re has misjudged policyholder behavior (and therefore future gains) 15 quarters straight, leading to QVT's belief the value of the MRB asset on which Brooke Re's apparent capital strength depends, could be significantly too optimistic (2). Lastly, an unresolved question is how an estimated 6.5 bn non-cash model-based longer termed paper asset is expected to cover shorter term cash requirements. Surely this mismatch has some repercussions on Jackson's credit rating and ability to borrow (3). To us, the report corroded an investment case that was already somewhat losing its appeal: As Jackson has also run up over 250% since we bought (~450% since I personally bought before starting the fund), our conclusion is that it has run its course and while it was still attractively priced when disregarding the above, it is now too close to 'reasonably priced'. As a stock that was nearly 10% of the ARAR portfolio and had run up 30% in the months before the QVT report, we took [the stock being down only 5% after the QVT report release] as a window to drastically reduce our position to only a token leftover:”

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• AddedARAR Fund

  June 2026

  “Jackson continues to do well Jackson has a habit of moving up and down for strange reasons. It went down over 10% on Q1 earnings earlier and made us tactically expand our position, and after it recently went up 15% on an upgrade we decided to better-size our position.”

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