IDS LIFE FLEXIBLE PAYMENT MARKET VALUE ANNUITY
POS AM, 1996-04-03
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                SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                      Washington, D.C. 20549

                             FORM S-1
                  POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 8
              TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 33-28976

                               Under

                    The Securities Act of 1933


                    IDS Life Insurance Company             
        (Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

                           Minnesota                       
  (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

                                63
___________________________________________________________________
      (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)

                            41-0823832
___________________________________________________________________
               (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

             IDS Tower 10, Minneapolis, MN 55440-0010
                          (612) 671-3131
___________________________________________________________________
   (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
      area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)

                    Bruce Kohn, Counsel
                    IDS Life Insurance Company
          IDS Tower 10, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440-0010
                          (612) 671-2221                    
     (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
            including area code, of agent for service)

It is proposed that this filing become effective on April 30, 1996.

If any of the Securities being registered on this Form are to be
offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under
the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. [X]
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                              Calculation of Registration Fee
  <S>                    <C>            <C>                      <C>                   <C>        
                                                                 Proposed  
  Title of each class                   Proposed                 maximum                
  of securities to be    Amount to be   maximum offering         aggregate offering    Amount of
  registered             registered     price per unit           price                 registration fee
  Interests in a group   N/A
  market value annuity  
  contract and individual
  market value annuity
  contracts for non-tax
  benefitted purchases.
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                    IDS LIFE ACCOUNT MGA
   GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL MARKET VALUE ANNUITY CONTRACTS ISSUED BY
                    IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

                       Cross-Reference Sheet
                    Pursuant to Regulation S-K
                            Item 501(b)

Form S-1 Item Number and Caption             Location in Prospectus
<S>                                               <C>
1.  Forepart of the Registration
    Statement and Outside Front
    Cover Page of Prospectus......................Outside Front Cover

2.  Inside Front and Outside Back
    Cover Pages of Prospectus.....................Table of Contents
                                                  (inside front cover)

3.  Summary Information, Risk Factors
    and Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
    Charges.......................................Summary or, as to ratio
                                                  of earnings to fixed
                                                  charges, Not Applicable

4.  Use of Proceeds...............................Investments by IDS Life

5.  Determination of Offering Price...............Not Applicable

6.  Dilution......................................Not Applicable

7.  Selling Security Holders......................Not Applicable

8.  Plan of Distribution..........................Distribution of Contracts

9.  Description of Securities to Be
    Registered....................................Description of Contracts

10. Interests of Named Experts and
    Counsel.......................................Not Applicable

11. Information with Respect to the
    Registrant....................................The Company;
                                                  Directors and Executive
                                                  Officers of the Registrant;
                                                  Executive Compensation;
                                                  Security Ownership of
                                                  Management;
                                                  Legal Proceedings and
                                                  Opinion; and
                                                  Financial Statements

12. Disclosure of Commission Position
    on Indemnification for Securities
    Act Liabilities...............................See Item 14 in Part II
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                              PART I.

                INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Attached hereto and made a part hereof is the Prospectus.
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IDS Life Single Payment Market Value Annuity
Prospectus, April 30, 1996

This prospectus describes interests in a group market value annuity
contract and individual market value annuity contracts (Guaranteed
Term Annuities and Preferred Choice Annuities) offered by IDS Life
Insurance Company (IDS Life) to the general public for non-tax
benefitted purchases.  With respect to the group contract, eligible
individuals include members of the general public.
    
Participation in a group contract will be accounted for separately
by the issuance of a certificate showing your interest under the
group contract.  Participation in an individual contract is shown
by the issuance of an individual annuity contract.  The certificate
and the individual contract are both referred to as the "Contract."

In addition, IDS Life may offer these Contracts in the following
tax benefitted programs: (1) plans qualified under Section 401(a),
401(k) or 403(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(the Code); (2) annuity purchase plans adopted by public school
systems and certain tax-exempt organizations pursuant to Section
403(b) of the Code; (3) individual retirement annuities established
by persons, eligible under Section 408 of the Code (IRA); (4)
contracts purchased by the U.S. Government, the government of any
state or political subdivision thereof, or by any agency or
instrumentality (within the meaning of Section 414(d) of the Code),
for use in satisfying its obligation to provide a benefit under a
governmental plan; and (5) deferred compensation plans under
Section 457 of the Code.

A minimum purchase payment of at least $5,000 must accompany the
application for a Contract.  No additional payment is permitted
under a Contract.  The Accumulation Value will be guaranteed by the
general assets of IDS Life.  IDS Life generally intends to invest
funds received in relation to Contracts in a variety of debt
instruments having price durations which tend to match the
applicable Contract.

IDS Life Account MGA
Group and Individual Market
Value Annuity Contracts

Sold by:
IDS Life Insurance Company
IDS Tower 10
Minneapolis, MN 55440-0010
Telephone: 800-422-3542

THESE SECURITIES MAY BE SUBJECT TO A SUBSTANTIAL SURRENDER CHARGE
AND/OR MARKET VALUE ADJUSTMENT IF NOT HELD TO THE RENEWAL DATE
WHICH COULD RESULT IN YOUR RECEIPT OF LESS THAN YOUR ORIGINAL
PURCHASE PAYMENT.

FOR RENEWAL GUARANTEE PERIODS, THE RENEWAL INTEREST RATE WILL BE
DECLARED BY IDS LIFE BASED ON VARIOUS FACTORS.  IT MAY BE HIGHER OR
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THE MINIMUM GUARANTEED RENEWAL INTEREST RATE IS 3 PERCENT.

THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR HAS THE COMMISSION PASSED
UPON THE ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS.  ANY
REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.

IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY IS NOT A BANK AND THE SECURITIES IT
OFFERS ARE NOT BACKED OR GUARANTEED BY ANY BANK, NOR ARE THEY
INSURED BY THE FDIC.

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Table of Contents                                           Page

Summary...................................................     

Glossary of Special Terms.................................     

Description of Contracts..................................     
General...................................................     
Application and Purchase Payment..........................     
Right to Cancel...........................................     
Guarantee Periods.........................................     
Surrenders................................................     
Surrender Charge..........................................     
Market Value Adjustment...................................     
Premium Taxes.............................................     
Death Benefit Prior to Settlement.........................     
Statement.................................................   
Electing the Settlement Date and Form of Annuity..........   

Investments by IDS Life...................................

Amendment of Contracts....................................   

Distribution of Contracts.................................   

Assignment of Contracts...................................   

Federal Tax Considerations................................   

The Company...............................................   
Business..................................................   
Selected Financial Data...................................   
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Consolidated 
Financial Condition and Results of Operations.............   
Reserves..................................................   
Investments...............................................   
Competition...............................................   
Employees.................................................   
Properties................................................   
State Regulation..........................................   

Directors and Executive Officers..........................   

Executive Compensation....................................   

Security Ownership of Management..........................   

Legal Proceedings and Opinion.............................   

Experts...................................................   

Appendix A (Partial Surrender Illustration)...............   

Appendix B (Market Value Adjustment Illustration).........   

IDS Life Financial Information............................   
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Summary

IDS Life is offering group and individual market value annuities to
the general public for non-tax benefitted and tax benefitted
purchases.  IDS Life is a wholly owned subsidiary of American
Express Financial Corporation, which itself is a wholly owned
subsidiary of American Express Company.  As described in this
prospectus, market value annuity Contracts have a guaranteed
interest rate that is credited to the purchase payment when it is
held to the end of the Guarantee Period (the Renewal Date). 
Surrenders before the Renewal Date are subject to a Market Value
Adjustment and a surrender charge (if applicable).

When a payment is made under an application, the applicant selects
a Guarantee Period from among those then offered by IDS Life. 
During this Guarantee Period, the purchase payment earns interest
at the applicable guaranteed interest rate as established by IDS
Life.  Interest is credited on a daily basis and the interest
credited earns interest at the applicable guaranteed interest rate
as established by IDS Life. (See Guarantee Periods page  ).

At the end of each Guarantee Period, a renewal Guarantee Period of
one year will begin, unless the Owner elects a different duration. 
The Owner must elect the length of a renewal Guarantee Period
during the 30 days before the end of the previous Guarantee Period. 
Failure to make an election will result in an automatic renewal for
a period of one year.  As of the first day of each renewal
Guarantee Period the renewal value will earn interest at the then
applicable renewal guaranteed interest rate and the interest
credited will earn interest at the then applicable renewal
guaranteed interest rate. (See Guarantee Periods page  ).

Subject to certain restrictions, partial or total surrenders are
permitted.  We may defer payment of any surrender for a period up
to six months from the date we receive notice of surrender or the
period permitted by state law, if less.  A deferral of payment will
not be for a period greater than seven days except under
extraordinary circumstances.  We will pay annual interest of at
least 3 percent of any amounts deferred for more than thirty days
during such period if we choose to exercise this deferral right.
(See Surrenders page  ).

Surrenders may be subject to a surrender charge and/or a Market
Value Adjustment.  Before the eighth Contract anniversary, a
surrender charge beginning at a maximum of 8 percent will be
assessed if you surrender.  No surrender charge will be applied for
any surrenders after the eighth Contract anniversary or if the
surrender occurs on the last day of a Guarantee Period.  We will
waive the surrender charge in certain instances. (See Surrender
Charge page  ).

A Market Value Adjustment will be applied when the surrender occurs
before the Renewal Date.  No Market Value Adjustment will be
applied to any surrender effective as of the end of a Guarantee
Period.  The Market Adjusted Value will reflect the relationship, 
at the time of surrender, between the rate we then are crediting on
purchase payments to new Contracts with the same durations as the 
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time remaining in the Guarantee Period, and the guaranteed interest
rate applicable to that Contract.  Generally, significant factors
affecting the amount of the Market Value Adjustment are the level
of interest rates on investments that are similar to those
supporting current Contract purchase payments and the time
remaining to the end of the Guarantee Period.  The Market Adjusted
Value is sensitive, therefore, to changes in Current Interest
Rates.  The level of the Market Value Adjustment is dependent on
the Current Interest Rate at the time of surrender.  The Market
Value Adjustment may increase or decrease the value of this
investment before the Renewal Date.  It is possible that the amount
you receive on surrender would be less than your original purchase
payment if interest rates increase.  Also, if interest rates
decrease, the amount you receive on surrender may be more than your
original purchase payment and accrued interest.  The Market
Adjusted Value also affects settlements under an annuity payment
plan. (See Market Value Adjustment page  ).

We reserve the right to deduct applicable premium taxes from the
Accumulation Value of the Contract.  State premium taxes range from
0 to 3.5 percent of the gross purchase payments.  (See Premium
Taxes page __).

The Contract provides for a guaranteed death benefit.  In the event
of the death of the Annuitant or Owner prior to the Settlement
Date, IDS Life will pay to the Owner or beneficiary the death
benefit in lieu of any other payment under the Contract.  The
amount of the death benefit will equal the Accumulation Value. (See
Death Benefit Prior to Settlement page  ).

On the Settlement Date specified by the Owner, IDS Life will pay
the Owner a lump sum payment or start to pay a series of payments. 
A series of payments may be elected under certain Annuity Plans.
(See Electing the Settlement Date and Form of Annuity page  ).

Glossary of Special Terms

In this prospectus "we" "us" and "IDS Life" refer to IDS Life
Insurance Company and "you" and "yours" refer to an Owner who has
been issued a Contract.

In addition, as used in this prospectus, the following terms have
the indicated meanings:

Accumulation Value - The value of the purchase payment plus
interest credited, adjusted for any surrenders.

Annuitant - The person on whose life monthly annuity payments
depend.

Cash Surrender Value - The Market Adjusted Value less any
applicable surrender charge.

Contract Anniversary - The same day and month as the Contract Date
each year that the Contract remains in force.

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Contract Date - The effective date of the Contract as designated in
the Contract.

Current Interest Rate - The applicable interest rate contained in a
schedule of rates established by us from time to time for various
Guarantee Periods.

Initial Guarantee Period - The period during which the Initial
Guarantee Rate will be credited.

Initial Guarantee Rate - The rate of interest credited to the
purchase payment during the Initial Guarantee Period.

Market Adjusted Value - The Accumulation Value adjusted by the
Market Adjusted Value formula, on any date before the end of the
Guarantee Period.

Market Value Adjustment - The Market Adjusted Value minus the
Accumulation Value.

Owner - The person or entity to whom the annuity Contract is
issued.

Renewal Date - The first day of a Renewal Guarantee Period.  It
will always be on a Contract Anniversary.

Renewal Guarantee Period - A Renewal Guarantee Period will begin at
the end of each Guarantee Period.

Renewal Guarantee Rate - The rate of interest credited to the
Renewal Value during the Renewal Guarantee Period.

Renewal Value - The accumulation value at the end of the current
Guarantee Period.

Settlement - The application of the Market Adjusted Value of the
Contract to provide annuity payments.

Settlement Date - The date on which annuity payments are to begin.

Written Request - A request in writing signed by you and delivered
to us at our Home Office.

Description of Contracts

General

This prospectus describes interests in market value annuities
offered by IDS Life for non-tax benefitted purchases.  In addition,
IDS Life may offer the Contracts in the following tax benefitted 
programs: (1) Section 401(a), 401(k) and 403(a) Plans; (2) Section
403(b) Plans; (3) IRAs; (4) certain governmental plans; and (5)
deferred compensation plans.

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As described in this prospectus, the Contracts have a guaranteed
interest rate that is credited to a purchase payment in the
Contract when the purchase payment is held to its Renewal Date. 
Surrenders prior to the Renewal Date are subject to a Market Value
Adjustment and a surrender charge (if applicable).

Application and Purchase Payment

To apply for a Contract, you must complete an application and make
a minimum purchase payment of $5,000.  For individuals age 75 and
younger, the maximum purchase payment is $1,000,000 without prior
approval.  For individuals age 76 to 85, it is $500,000.  If you
purchase the Contract to fund a tax benefitted plan, that plan's
limit on contributions also will apply.

We will return an improperly completed application, along with the
corresponding purchase payment, five days after we receive it if
the application has not, by that time, been properly completed.

A payment is credited to a Contract on the date we receive a
properly completed application along with the purchase payment. 
Interest is earned the next day.  IDS Life then issues a Contract
and confirms the purchase payment in writing.

Right to Cancel

State or Federal law may give you the right to cancel the Contract
within a specific period of time after receipt of the Contract and
receive a refund of the entire purchase payment.  For revocation to
be effective, mailing or delivery of notice of cancellation must be
made in writing to our Home Office at IDS Tower 10, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota 55440-0010.

Guarantee Periods

The Owner selects the duration of the Guarantee Period from among
those durations we offer.  As of the date of this prospectus,  we
are offering Guarantee Periods with annual durations from one to 10
years; however, the Guarantee Periods we offer in the future could
be different.  The duration selected will determine the guaranteed
interest rate and the purchase payment (less surrenders made and
less applicable premium taxes, if any) will earn interest at this
guaranteed interest rate during the entire Guarantee Period.  All
interest earned will be credited daily; this compounding effect is
reflected in the guaranteed interest rate.

Below is an illustration of how we will credit interest during the
Guarantee Period.  For the purpose of this example, we have made
the assumptions as indicated.

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Example of Guaranteed Rate of Accumulation

Beginning Account Value: $50,000
Guaranteed Period: 10 years
Guaranteed Rate: 5 percent Annual Effective Rate

           Interest Credited
           to the Account             Cumulative Interest
Year       During Year                Credited to the Account

 1         $2,500.00                  $ 2,500.00
 2          2,625.00                    5,125.00
 3          2,756.25                    7,881.25
 4          2,894.06                   10,775.31
 5          3,038.77                   13,814.08
 6          3,190.70                   17,004.78
 7          3,350.24                   20,355.02
 8          3,517.75                   23,872.77
 9          3,693.64                   27,566.41
10          3,878.32                   31,444.73

Guaranteed Accumulation Value at the end of 10 years is: 
$50,000 + $31,444.73 =  $81,444.73

Note:  This example assumes no surrenders of any amount during the
entire ten-year period.  A Market Value Adjustment applies and a
surrender charge may apply to any interim surrender. (See
Surrenders).  The hypothetical interest rates are illustrative only
and are not intended to predict future interest rates to be
declared under the Contract.  Actual interest rates declared for
any given time may be more or less than those shown.

Renewal Guarantee Periods - At the end of any Guarantee Period, a
Renewal Guarantee Period will begin.  We will notify you in writing
about the Renewal Guarantee Periods available before the Renewal
Date.  This written notification will not specify the interest rate
for the Renewal Value.  You may elect in writing, during the 30-day
period before the end of the Guarantee Period, a Renewal Guarantee
Period of a different duration from among those we offer at that
time.  If no election is made, we will automatically apply the 
Renewal Value to a Guarantee Period of one year.  In no event may
Renewal Guarantee Periods extend beyond the Settlement Date then in
effect for the Contract.  For example, if the Annuitant is age 62
at the end of a Guarantee Period and the Settlement Date for the
Annuitant is age 65, a three-year Guarantee Period is the maximum
Guarantee Period that may be selected under the Contract.  The
Renewal Value will then earn interest at a guaranteed interest rate
that we have declared for such duration. We may declare new
schedules of guaranteed interest rates as frequently as daily.

At the beginning of any Renewal Guarantee Period, the Renewal Value
will be the Accumulation Value at the end of the Guarantee Period
just ending.  The Renewal Value is guaranteed by our general
assets.  This amount will earn interest for the Renewal Guarantee 
Period at the then applicable guaranteed interest rate for the
period selected, that may be higher or lower than the previous
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At your Written Request, we will notify you of the Renewal
Guarantee Rates for the periods then available.  You also may call
us to inquire about Renewal Guarantee Rates.

Establishment of Guaranteed Interest Rates - The guaranteed
interest rate for a chosen Guarantee Period will be known at the
time a purchase payment is received or an Accumulation Value is
renewed.  We will send a confirmation that will show the amount and
the applicable guaranteed interest rate.  The minimum guaranteed
interest rate for Renewal Values is 3 percent per year.  The rate
on Renewal Values will be equal to or greater than the rate
credited on new comparable purchase payments at that time.
   
IDS Life has no specific formula for determining the rate of
interest that it will declare as guaranteed interest rates in the
future.  We will declare the guaranteed interest rates from time to
time based on our analysis of current market conditions. (See
Investments by IDS Life).  In addition, IDS Life also may consider
various other factors in determining guaranteed interest rates for
a given period, including regulatory and tax requirements; sales
commission and administrative expenses we bear; general economic
trends; and competitive factors.  IDS Life management will make the
final determination as to the guaranteed interest rates to be
declared.  We cannot predict nor can we guarantee future guaranteed
interest rates above the 3 percent rate.
    
Surrenders

General - Subject to certain tax law and retirement plan
restrictions noted below, total and partial surrenders may be made
under a Contract at any time.
   
In the case of all surrenders, the Accumulation Value will be
reduced by the amount surrendered on the surrender date and that
amount will be payable to the Owner.  The Accumulation Value also
will be reduced by any applicable surrender charge and either
reduced or increased by any Market Value Adjustment applicable to
the surrender.  IDS Life will, on request, inform you of the amount
payable in a total or partial surrender.  Any total or partial
surrender may be subject to tax and tax penalties.  Surrenders from
certain tax benefitted Contracts also may be subject to 20 percent
income tax withholding. (See Federal Tax Considerations.)
    
Tax-Sheltered Annuities - The Code imposes certain restrictions on
an Owner's right to receive early distributions attributable to
salary reduction contributions from a Contract purchased for a
retirement plan qualified under Section 403(b) of the Code as a
Tax-Sheltered Annuity (TSA).

Distributions attributable to salary reduction contributions made
after Dec. 31, 1988, plus the earnings on them, or to transfers or
rollovers of such amounts from other contracts may be made from the
TSA contract only if the Owner has attained age 59-1/2, has become
disabled as defined in the Code, has separated from the service of
the employer that purchased the Contract or has died. 

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Additionally, if the Owner should encounter a financial hardship
(within the meaning of the Code), he or she may receive a
distribution of all Contract values attributable to salary
reduction contributions made after Dec. 31, 1988, but not of the
earnings on them.
   
Even though a distribution may be permitted under these rules
(e.g., for hardship or after separation from service), it may
nonetheless be subject to a 10 percent IRS penalty tax (in addition
to income tax) as a premature distribution and to 20 percent income
tax withholding. (See Federal Tax Considerations.)
    
These restrictions do not apply to transfers of Contract value to
another TSA investment vehicle available through the employer.

Partial Surrenders - The minimum amount you may surrender is $250. 
You cannot make a partial surrender if it would reduce the
Accumulation Value of your annuity to less than $2,000.

You may request the net check amount you wish to receive.  We will
determine how much Accumulation Value needs to be surrendered to
yield the net check amount after any applicable Market Value
Adjustments and surrender charge deductions.

A partial surrender request not exceeding $50,000 may be made by
telephone.  We have the authority to honor any telephone partial
surrender request believed to be authentic and will use reasonable
procedures to confirm that they are.  This includes asking
identifying questions and tape recording calls.  As long as
reasonable procedures are followed, neither IDS Life nor its
affiliates will be liable for any loss resulting from fraudulent
requests.  At times when the volume of telephone requests is 
unusually high, we will take special measures to ensure that your
call is answered as promptly as possible.  A telephone surrender
request will not be allowed within 30 days of a phoned-in address
change.

Total Surrenders - We will compute the value of your Contract at
the close of business after we receive your request for a complete
surrender.  We may ask you to return the Contract.

Payment on Surrender - We may defer payment of any partial or total
surrender for a period not exceeding 6 months from the date we
receive your notice of surrender or the period permitted by state
insurance law, if less.  Only under extraordinary circumstances
will we defer a surrender payment more than 7 days, and if we defer
payment for more than 30 days, we will pay annual interest of at 
least 3 percent on the amount deferred.  While all circumstances
under which we could defer payment upon surrender may not be
foreseeable at this time, such circumstances could include, for
example, our inability to liquidate assets due to a general
financial crisis.  If we intend to withhold payment more than 30
days, we will notify you in writing.

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Surrender Charge

A surrender charge may be assessed on any total or partial
surrender taken prior to the eighth Contract anniversary unless the
surrender occurs on the last day of a Guarantee Period.  The amount
of the surrender charge will be based on the length of the
Guarantee Period.  The table below shows the maximum amount of the
surrender charge.

Surrender Charge Percentage

Guarantee Period     Contract Years as measured from the beginning
                     of a Guarantee Period                        

                     1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8

     1 Year          1%
     2 Years         2     1%
     3 Years         3     2     1%
     4 Years         4     3     2     1%
     5 Years         5     4     3     2     1%
     6 Years         6     5     4     3     2     1%
     7 Years         7     6     5     4     3     2     1%
     8 Years         8     7     6     5     4     3     2     1%
     9 Years         8     7     6     5     4     3     2     1
    10 Years         8     7     6     5     4     3     2     1

For Renewal Guarantee Periods, the surrender charge will be based
on the lesser of:

o     the length of the new Guarantee Period, or
o     the number of years remaining until the eighth Contract
      anniversary.

For example, if a Contract Owner chose an Initial Guarantee Period
of 5 years and later a Renewal Guarantee Period of 4 years, the
surrender charge percentages would be:

Contract Year     Surrender Charge 

     1                  5%
     2                  4
     3                  3
     4                  2
     5                  1*
     6                  3
     7                  2
     8                  1
     9+                 0

    *0% on last day of 5th Contract year.

There will never be any surrender charges after the eighth Contract
anniversary.

Also, after the first Contract anniversary, surrender charges will
not apply to surrenders of amounts totalling up to 10 percent of
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Surrender Charge Calculation - If there is a surrender charge, it
is calculated as:

(A minus B) multiplied by P

where: A = Market Adjusted Value surrendered
       B = 10 percent of Accumulation Value on last Contract
           anniversary not already taken as a partial surrender
           this Contract year.
       P = applicable surrender charge percentage

For an illustration of a partial surrender and applicable surrender
charges, see Appendix A.

Waiver of Surrender Charge - There will be no surrender charge:

o    on the last day of a Guarantee Period;
o    after the eighth Contract anniversary;
o    after the first Contract anniversary for surrenders of amounts
     totalling up to 10 percent of the Contract Accumulation Value
     as of the last Contract anniversary; 
o    upon the death of the Annuitant or Owner; or
o    upon the application of the Market Adjusted Value to provide
     annuity payments under an annuity payment plan (if
     such application occurs on a Renewal Date, there will be no
     surrender charge or Market Value Adjustment, and the full
     Accumulation Value will be applied under an annuity payment
     plan).

In some cases, such as when an employer makes this annuity
available to employees, we may expect to incur lower sales and
administrative expenses or perform fewer services due to the size
of the group, the average contribution and the use of group
enrollment procedures.  Then we may be able to reduce or eliminate
surrender charges.  However, we expect this to occur infrequently.

Market Value Adjustment

The Accumulation Value, including the interest credited, is
guaranteed if the Contract is held until the end of the Guarantee
Period.  However, a Market Value Adjustment will be applied if a
surrender occurs prior to the end of the Guarantee Period.  The
Market Adjusted Value also affects Settlements under an annuity
payment plan.

The Market Adjusted Value is your Accumulation Value (purchase
payment plus interest credited minus surrenders and surrender
charges) adjusted by a formula.  The Market Adjusted Value reflects
the relationship between the guaranteed interest rate on your
Contract and the interest rate we are crediting on new contracts
with Guarantee Periods that are the same as the time remaining in
your Guarantee Period.

The Market Adjusted Value is sensitive to changes in Current
Interest Rates.  The difference between your Accumulation Value and
Market Adjusted Value on any day will depend on our current 
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schedule of guaranteed interest rates on that day, the time
remaining in your Guarantee Period and your guaranteed interest
rate.

Your Market Adjusted Value may be more or less than your
Accumulation Value.  If your guaranteed interest rate is lower than
the Current Interest Rate, your Market Adjusted Value probably will
be lower than your Accumulation Value.  If your guaranteed interest
rate is higher than the Current Interest Rate, your Market Adjusted
Value probably will be higher than your Accumulation Value.

For example, assume you bought a Contract with a Guarantee Period
of 10 years and a guaranteed interest rate of 4.5 percent annually. 
Assume that after 3 years you decide to surrender your Contract
(you have 7 years left in your Guarantee Period).  If the Current
Interest Rate we are offering on new Contracts with 7-year
Guarantee Periods is 5 percent, your Market Adjusted Value will be
lower than your Accumulation Value.  On the other hand, if the
Current Interest Rate we are then offering on new Contracts with
7-year Guarantee Periods is 4 percent, your Market Adjusted Value
will be higher than your Accumulation Value.

Market Adjusted Value Formula:

Market Adjusted Value  =      (Renewal Value)    
                           (1 + ic + .0025)(N + t)

Renewal Value -- The Accumulation Value at the end of the current
                 Guarantee Period

ic            -- The Current Interest Rate offered for new Contract
                 sales and renewals for the number of years
                 remaining in the Guarantee Period

N             -- The number of complete Contract years to the end
                 of the current Guarantee Period

t             -- The fraction of the Contract year remaining to the
                 end of the Contract year (for example, if 180 days
                 remain in a 365 day year, t would be .493)

The current guaranteed interest rate (ic) is declared by us
periodically.  It is the rate which we are then paying on purchase
payments and renewals paid under this class of Contracts for
Guarantee Period durations equaling the remaining Guarantee Period
duration of the Contract to which the formula is being applied.  If
the remaining Guarantee Period is a number of complete years, the
specific complete year guarantee rate will be used.  If the
remaining Guarantee Period is less than 1 year, the one year
guarantee rate will be used.  If the remaining Guarantee Period is
a number of complete years plus fractional years, the rate will be
determined by straight line interpolation between the two years'
rates.  For example, if the remaining Guarantee Period duration is
8.5 years, and the current guaranteed interest rate for 8 years is
4 percent and for 9 years is 5 percent, IDS Life will use a
guaranteed interest rate of 4.5 percent.

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Market Value Adjustment Formula:

Market Value Adjustment = Market Adjusted Value less
                          Accumulation Value

For an illustration showing an upward and downward adjustment, see
Appendix B.

Premium Taxes

We reserve the right to deduct an amount from the Accumulation
Value of the Contract at the time that any applicable premium taxes
not previously deducted are payable.  If a tax is payable at the
time of the purchase payment and we choose to not deduct it at that
time, we further reserve the right to deduct it at a later date.
Current premium taxes range in an amount up to 3.5 percent
depending on jurisdiction.

Death Benefit Prior to Settlement

If the Annuitant or Owner dies before the Settlement Date, the
death benefit payable to the beneficiary will equal the
Accumulation Value.

If your Spouse is Sole Beneficiary or Co-Owner - If you, as Owner
or Co-Owner, die before the Settlement Date and your spouse is the
only beneficiary or Co-Owner, your spouse may keep the annuity as
Owner.  To do this, your spouse must, within 60 days after we
receive proof of death, give us written instructions to keep the
Contract in force.

Section 401(k) Plans, Section 403(b) Plans (TSAs), Section 457
Plans, Custodial and Trusteed Plans, and IRAs - If the Contract is
purchased under a Section 401(k) plan, Section 403(b) plan, Section
457 plan, custodial or trusteed plan or for an IRA and we receive
proof of the annuitant's death before the Settlement Date, we will
pay the beneficiary the death benefit described above.  If the
annuitant dies before reaching age 70-1/2 and the spouse is the
only beneficiary, the spouse may keep the annuity in force until
the date on which the annuitant would have reached 70-1/2.  To do
this, the spouse must, within 60 days after we receive proof of
death, give us written instructions to keep the Contract in force.

Paying the Beneficiary - Unless you have given us other written
instructions, we will pay the beneficiary in a single payment.  The
beneficiary may elect to receive this payment at any time within 5
years after the date of death.  Payment from a tax benefitted
Contract (except an IRA) made to a surviving spouse instead of
being directly rolled over to an IRA may be subject to 20 percent
income tax withholding.  We may make payments under any payment
plan available under this Contract if:

o  the beneficiary asks us in writing within 60 days after we
   receive proof of death;

o  payments begin no later than one year after death; and
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o  the payment period does not extend beyond the beneficiary's life
   or life expectancy.
   
We will determine the Accumulation Value at the next close of
business after our death claim requirements are fulfilled.  We will
mail payment to the beneficiary within seven days after our death
claim requirements are fulfilled.

Statement

Prior to the Settlement Date, at least annually, we will send a
statement showing a summary of the Contract.

Electing the Settlement Date and Form of Annuity

Upon processing your application we will establish the settlement
date to the maximum age or date as specified below.  You can also
select a date within the maximum limits.  This date can be aligned
with your actual retirement from a job, or it can be a different
future date, depending on your needs and goals and on certain
restrictions.  You can also change the date, provided you send us
written instructions at least 30 days before annuity payouts begin.
    
The Settlement Date cannot be later than the later of:

o  the Contract anniversary nearest the Annuitant's 85th birthday;
   or

o  the 10th Contract anniversary.

Annuity Payments - The first payment will be made as of the
Settlement Date.  Once annuity payments have started for an
Annuitant, no surrender of the annuity benefit can be made for the
purpose of receiving a lump sum in lieu of payments.

Death After Settlement Date - If you or the Annuitant dies after
the Settlement Date, the amount payable to the beneficiary, if any,
will continue as provided in the annuity payment plan then in
effect.

Annuity Plans - There are different ways to receive annuity
payments.  We call these plans.  You may select one of these plans, 
or another payment arrangement to which we agree, by giving us
written notice at least 30 days before the Settlement Date.

The Market Adjusted Value (less applicable premium taxes, if any)
may be applied on the Settlement Date under any of the annuity
plans described below, but in the absence of an election, the
Market Adjusted Value will be applied on the Settlement Date under
Plan B to provide a life annuity with 120 monthly payments certain.

If the amount to be applied to an annuity plan is not at least
$2,000 or if payments are to be made to other than a natural
person, we have the right to make a lump sum payment of the Cash
Surrender Value.  If a lump sum payment is made from a tax
benefitted Contract (except an IRA), 20 percent income tax
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o    Plan A - This provides monthly annuity payments for the
     lifetime of the Annuitant.  No payments will be made after the
     Annuitant dies.

o    Plan B - This provides monthly annuity payments for the
     lifetime of the Annuitant with a guarantee by us that payments
     will be made for a period of at least 5, 10 or 15 years.  You
     must select the period.

o    Plan C - This provides monthly annuity payments for the
     lifetime of the Annuitant with a guarantee by us that payments
     will be made for a certain number of months.  We determine the
     number of months by dividing the Market Adjusted Value applied
     under this plan by the amount of the monthly annuity payment. 

o    Plan D - We call this a Joint and Survivor life annuity. 
     Monthly payments will be paid for the lifetime of the
     Annuitant and a joint annuitant.  When either the Annuitant or
     joint annuitant dies we will continue to make monthly payments
     for the lifetime of the survivor.  No payments will be paid
     after the death of both the Annuitant and joint annuitant.

o    Plan E - This provides monthly fixed dollar annuity payments
     for a period of years.  The period of years may be no less
     than 10 nor more than 30.

The Contract provides for annuity payment plans on a fixed basis
only.  The amount of each annuity payment will not change during
the annuity payment period.  The amount of the annuity payment will
depend on:

- --    the Market Adjusted Value (less any applicable premium tax
      not previously deducted) on the date;

- --    the annuity table we are then using for annuity settlements
      (never less than the table guaranteed in the Contract);

- --    the Annuitant's age; and

- --    the annuity payment plan selected.

The tables for Plans A, B, C and D are based on the "1983
Individual Annuitant Mortality Table A" and an assumed rate of 4
percent per year.  The table for Plan E is based on an interest
rate of 4 percent.  IDS Life may, at our discretion, if mortality
appears more favorable and interest rates justify, apply other
tables that will result in higher monthly payments.

Restrictions for Some Tax Benefitted Plans - If your annuity was
purchased under a Section 401(k) plan, custodial or trusteed plan,
Section 457 plan, Section 403(b) plan (TSA), or as an IRA, you must
select a payment plan that provides for payments:

o  during the life of the Annuitant;

o  during the joint lives of the Annuitant and beneficiary;
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o  for a period not exceeding the life expectancy of the Annuitant;
   or

o  for a period not exceeding the joint life expectancies of the
   Annuitant and beneficiary.

Reference also must be made to the terms of the tax benefitted plan
and applicable law for any limitations or restrictions on the
Settlement Date or annuity payment plan that may be selected.

Investments by IDS Life

Assets of IDS Life must be invested in accordance with requirements
established by applicable state laws regarding the nature and
quality of investments that may be made by life insurance companies
and the percentage of their assets that may be committed to any
particular type of investment.  In general, these laws permit
investments, within specified limits and subject to certain
qualifications, in federal, state, and municipal obligations,
corporate bonds, preferred and common stocks, real estate
mortgages, real estate and certain other investments.  All claims
by purchasers of the Contracts, and other general account products,
will be funded by the general account.

IDS Life intends to construct and manage the investment portfolio
using a strategy known as "immunization."  Immunization seeks to
lock in a defined return on the pool of assets versus the pool of
liabilities over a specified time horizon.  Since the return on the
assets versus the liabilities is locked in, it is "immune" to any
potential fluctuations in interest rates during the given time. 
Immunization is achieved by constructing a portfolio of assets with
a price sensitivity to interest rate changes (i.e., price duration)
that is essentially equal to the price duration of the
corresponding portfolio of liabilities.  Portfolio immunization
provides flexibility and efficiency to IDS Life in creating and
managing the asset portfolio, while still assuring safety and
soundness for funding liability obligations.

IDS Life's investment strategy will incorporate the use of a
variety of debt instruments having price durations tending to match
the applicable guaranteed interest periods.  These instruments
include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:

     o    Securities issued by the U.S. government or its
          agencies or instrumentalities, which issues may or may
          not be guaranteed by the U.S. government;

     o    Debt securities that have an investment grade, at the
          time of purchase, within the four highest grades
          assigned by the nationally recognized rating agencies;

     o    Debt instruments that are unrated, but which are deemed
          by IDS Life to have an investment quality within the
          four highest grades;

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     o    Other debt instruments, which are rated below
          investment grade, limited to 10 percent of assets at
          the time of purchase; and

     o    Real estate mortgages, limited to 30 percent of
          portfolio assets at the time of acquisition.

In addition, options and futures contracts on fixed income
securities will be used from time to time to achieve and maintain
appropriate investment and liquidity characteristics on the overall
asset portfolio.

While this information generally describes our investment strategy,
we are not obligated to follow any particular strategy except as
may be required by Federal law and Minnesota and other state
insurance laws.

Amendment of Contracts

We reserve the right to amend the Contracts to meet the
requirements of applicable federal or state laws or regulations. 
We will notify you in writing of any such amendments.

Distribution of Contracts

IDS Life is the principal underwriter for the Contracts.  IDS Life
is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (1934 Act) as a broker-dealer and
is a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, 
Inc.  IDS Life may enter into Distribution Agreements with certain
broker-dealers registered under the 1934 Act.  IDS Life will pay a
maximum commission of 5 percent for the sale of a Contract.  In the
future, we may pay a commission on an election of a subsequent
Guarantee Period by an Owner.

Assignment of Contracts

You may change ownership of your annuity at any time by filing a
change of ownership with us at our home office.  No change of
ownership will be binding upon us until we receive and record it. 
We take no responsibility for the validity of the change.  If you
have a tax-benefitted plan, the Contract may not be sold, assigned,
transferred, discounted or pledged as collateral for a loan or as
security for the performance of an obligation or for any other
purpose to any person other than IDS Life; provided, however, that
if the Owner is a trust or custodian, or an employer acting in a
similar capacity, ownership of a Contract may be transferred to the
Annuitant.

The value of any part of a non-tax benefitted annuity contract
assigned or pledged is taxed like a cash withdrawal to the extent
allocable to investment in annuity contracts after Aug. 13, 1982.

Transfer of a non-tax benefitted annuity Contract to another person
without adequate consideration is considered a gift and the
transfer will be considered a surrender of the Contract for federal
income tax purposes.  The income in the Contract will be taxed to 
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the transferor who may be subject to the 10 percent IRS penalty tax
for early withdrawal.  The transferee's investment in the annuity
will be the value of the annuity at the time of the transfer. 
Consult with your tax advisor before taking any action.

Federal Tax Considerations

Under current law, there is no liability for federal income tax on
any increase in the annuity's value until payments are made (except
for change of ownership discussed above in "Assignment of
Contracts").  However, since federal tax consequences cannot always
be anticipated, you should consult a tax advisor if you have any
questions about the taxation of your annuity Contract.

You are not taxed on your investment in the Contract.  Your
investment in the Contract generally includes purchase payments
made into the Contract with after-tax dollars.  If the investment
in the Contract was made by you or on your behalf with pre-tax
dollars as part of a tax benefitted retirement plan, such amounts
are not considered to be part of your investment in the Contract
and will be taxed when paid to you.

If you surrender part or all of your Contract before the date on
which you have decided to begin to receive annuity payments, you
will be taxed on the payments which you receive, to the extent that
the value of your Contract exceeds your investment in the Contract,
and you may have to pay an IRS penalty tax for early withdrawal.

If you begin receiving annuity payments under a non-tax benefitted
annuity Contract, a portion of each payment will be subject to tax
and a portion of each payment will be considered to be part of your
investment in the Contract and will not be taxed.  All amounts
received after your investment in the annuity is recovered will be
subject to tax.  If you begin receiving payments from a tax
benefitted annuity, for example an IRA, Section 403(b) plan, or
Section 457 plan, all of the payments generally will be subject to
taxation except to the extent that the contributions were made with
after-tax dollars.

Unlike life insurance proceeds, the death benefit under an annuity
contract is not tax exempt.  The gain, if any, is taxable as
ordinary income to the beneficiary in the year(s) he or she
receives the payments.

Tax law requires that all non-qualified deferred annuity contracts
issued by the same company to the same contract owner during a
calendar year are to be treated as a single, unified contract.  The
amount of income included and taxed in a distribution (or a
transaction deemed a distribution under tax law) taken from any one
of such contracts is determined by summing all such contracts.

The income earned on an annuity contract held by such entities as
corporations, partnerships or trusts generally will be treated as
ordinary income received during that year.

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You may have to pay a 10 percent IRS penalty tax on any amount
includible in your ordinary income.  This penalty will not apply to
any amount received:

o  after you reach age 59-1/2;

o  because of your death;

o  because you become disabled (as defined in the Code);

o  if the distribution is part of a series of substantially equal
   periodic payments over your life or life expectancy (or joint
   lives or life expectancies of you and your designated
   beneficiary); or

o  if it is allocable to an investment before Aug. 14, 1982 (except
   for Contracts in tax benefitted plans).

These are the major exceptions to the 10 percent IRS penalty tax. 
Additional exceptions may apply depending upon whether or not the
annuity is tax benefitted.

For tax benefitted Contracts, other penalties apply if you
surrender an annuity bought under your plan before the plan
specifies that payments can be made under the plan.

If you receive all or part of the Contract value from a tax
benefitted annuity (except an IRA), mandatory 20 percent income tax
withholding generally will be imposed at the time the payment is
made.  In addition, federal income tax and the 10 percent IRS
penalty tax for early withdrawals may apply to amounts properly
includible in income.  This mandatory 20 percent income tax
withholding will not be imposed if:

o  instead of receiving the payment, you elect to have the payment
   rolled over directly to an IRA or another eligible plan;

o  the payment is one of a series of substantially equal periodic
   payments, made at least annually, over your life or life
   expectancy (or joint lives or life expectancies of you and your
   designated beneficiary) or made over a period of 10 years or
   more; or

o  the payment is a minimum distribution required under the Code.

These are the major exceptions to the mandatory 20 percent income
tax withholding.  Payments made to a surviving spouse instead of
being directly rolled over to an IRA may be subject to 20 percent
income tax withholding.  For taxable distributions that are not
subject to the mandatory 20 percent withholding, federal income tax
will be withheld from the taxable part of your distribution unless
you elect otherwise.  State withholding also may be imposed on
taxable distributions.

You will receive a tax statement for any year that you receive a
taxable distribution from your annuity Contract.

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The Contract is intended to qualify as an annuity for federal
income tax purposes.  To that end, the provisions of the Contract
are to be interpreted to ensure or maintain such tax qualification,
notwithstanding any other provisions of the Contract.  We reserve
the right to amend the Contract to reflect any clarifications that
may be needed or are appropriate to maintain such qualification or 
to conform the Contract to any applicable changes in the tax
qualification requirements.  We will send you a copy of any such
amendments.

Our discussion of federal tax laws is based upon our understanding
of these laws as they are currently interpreted.  Either federal
tax laws or current interpretations of them may change.  You are
urged to consult your tax advisor concerning your specific
circumstances.

The Company

Business

IDS Life is a stock insurance company organized in 1957 under the
laws of the State of Minnesota.  IDS Life is a wholly owned
subsidiary of American Express Financial Corporation, which is a
wholly owned subsidiary of American Express Company.  IDS Life acts
as a direct writer of insurance policies and annuities and as the
investment manager of various investment companies.  IDS Life is
licensed to write life insurance and annuity contracts in 49 states
and the District of Columbia.  The headquarters of IDS Life is IDS
Tower 10, Minneapolis, MN 55440-0010.

Selected Financial Data

The following selected financial data for IDS Life and its
subsidiaries should be read in conjunction with the consolidated
financial statements and notes included in the prospectus beginning
on page __. 
   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                       Years ended Dec. 31, (thousands)
                                          1995           1994           1993          1992          1991
<S>                                <C>            <C>            <C>           <C>           <C>      
Premiums                           $   161,530    $   144,640    $   127,245   $   114,379   $   102,338
Net investment income                1,907,309      1,781,873      1,783,219     1,616,821     1,422,866
Net realized loss on investments        (4,898)        (4,282)        (6,737)       (3,710)       (5,837)
Other                                  472,035        384,105        304,344       240,959       198,344
Total revenues                       2,535,976      2,306,336      2,208,071     1,968,449     1,717,711
Income before income taxes             560,782        512,512        412,726       315,821       259,467
Net income                         $   364,940    $   336,169    $   270,079   $   211,170   $   182,037
Total assets                       $42,900,078    $35,747,543    $33,057,753   $27,295,773   $22,558,809
</TABLE>
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Consolidated Financial
Condition and Results of Operations

Results of Operations

1995 Compared to 1994:  

Consolidated net income increased 8.6 percent to $365 million in
1995, compared to $336 million in 1994.  Earnings growth resulted
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contractholder charges partially offset by a slight decrease in
investment margins.  These increases reflect higher average
insurance and annuities in force during 1995.  Investment margins
were below prior year levels primarily due to higher interest
credited rates during the first two quarters of 1995.

Consolidated income before income taxes totaled $561 million in
1995, compared with $513 million in 1994.  In 1995, $125 million
was from the life, disability income, health and long-term care
insurance segment, compared with $123 million in 1994.  In 1995, 
$440 million was from the annuity segment, compared with $394
million in 1994.  There was a $4.9 million net realized loss on 
investments in 1995, compared with a net realized loss on
investments of $4.3 million in 1994.

Total premiums received decreased to $5.0 billion in 1995, compared
with $5.7 billion in 1994.  This decrease is primarily due to a
decrease in sales of variable annuities, reflecting very strong
sales of variable products during 1994.

Total revenues increased to $2.5 billion in 1995, compared with
$2.3 billion in 1994.  The increase is primarily due to increases
in net investment income, policyholder and contractholder charges,
and management fees.  Net investment income, the largest component
of revenues, increased from the prior year, reflecting an increase
in investments owned.

Policyholder and contractholder charges, which consist primarily of
cost of insurance charges on universal life-type policies,
increased 16 percent to $256 million in 1995, compared with $220
million in 1994.  This increase reflects higher total life
insurance in force which grew 13 percent to $59.4 billion at
December 31, 1995.

Management and other fees increased 32 percent to $216 million in
1995, compared with $164 million in 1994.  This is primarily due to
an increase in separate account assets, which grew 38 percent to
$15 billion at December 31, 1995, due to market appreciation and
sales.  The Company provides investment management services for the
mutual funds used as investment options for variable annuities and
variable life insurance.  The Company also receives a mortality and
expense risk fee from the separate accounts.

Total benefits and expenses increased to $2.0 billion in 1995.  The
largest component of expenses, interest credited to policyholder
accounts for universal life-type insurance and investment
contracts, increased to $1.3 billion.  This was due to higher
aggregate amounts in force and an increase in average interest
credited rates.

1994 Compared to 1993:  

Consolidated net income increased 24 percent to $336 million in
1994, compared to $270 million in 1993.  Earnings growth resulted
primarily from increases in spread income, policyholder and
contractholder charges, and management fees.  These increases
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1994.  For the full year, investment margins were comparable to
1993 levels, although investment margins for the fourth quarter of
1994 were below prior year levels.

Consolidated income before income taxes totaled $513 million in
1994, compared with $413 million in 1993.  In 1994, $123 million
was from the life, disability income, health and long-term care
insurance segment, compared with $104 million in 1993.  In 1994,
$394 million was from the annuity segment, compared with $315
million in 1993.  There was a $4.3 million net realized loss on
investments in 1994, compared with a net realized loss on
investments of $6.7 million in 1993.   

Total premiums received increased to $5.7 billion in 1994, compared
with $5.3 billion in 1993.  This increase is primarily due to
continued strong sales of variable annuities.  In addition, the
Company reported small increases in its fixed single premium
deferred annuity line.  Universal life-type insurance and variable
universal life insurance premiums received also increased from the
prior year.

Total revenues increased to $2.3 billion in 1994, compared with
$2.2 billion in 1993.  The increase is primarily due to increases
in policyholder and contractholder charges, and management fees. 
Net investment income, the largest component of revenues, was
basically unchanged from the prior year, reflecting a slight
increase in investments owned offset by a decrease in the rate
earned on those investments.

Policyholder and contractholder charges, which consist primarily of
cost of insurance charges on universal life-type policies,
increased 19 percent to $220 million in 1994, compared with $184
million in 1993.  This increase reflects higher total life
insurance in force which grew 14 percent to $52.7 billion at
December 31, 1994.

Management and other fees increased 37 percent to $164 million in
1994, compared with $120 million in 1993.  This is primarily due to
an increase in separate account assets, which grew 21 percent to
$11 billion at December 31, 1994, resulting from strong sales of
variable products.  The Company provides investment management
services for the mutual funds used as investment options for
variable annuities and variable life insurance.  The Company also
receives a mortality and expense risk fee from the separate
accounts.
    
Total benefits and expenses decreased slightly to $1.8 billion in
1994.  The largest component of expenses, interest credited to
policyholder accounts for universal life-type insurance and
investment contracts, decreased to $1.2 billion.  This is primarily
due to a decrease in interest credited rates, partially offset by
higher aggregate amounts in force.

Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs increased to $280
million in 1994, compared with $212 million in 1993.  This increase
is a result of a higher level of amortizable deferred costs and a
high level of surrenders as a result of an exchange plan announced
during the first quarter of 1994 and completed prior to the end of
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Other insurance and operating expenses, which include non-
capitalized commissions and indirect selling expenses, direct and
indirect operating expenses, premium taxes and guaranty association
expenses, decreased to $210 million in 1994, compared with $242
million in 1993.  This decrease primarily reflects a decrease in
amounts accrued for future guaranty association assessments.

Risk Management

The Company primarily invests in fixed income securities over a
broad range of maturities for the purpose of providing fixed
annuity clients with a competitive rate of return on their
investments while minimizing risk, and to provide a dependable and
targeted spread between the interest rate earned on investments and
the interest rate credited to clients' accounts.  The Company does
not invest in securities to generate trading profits.

The Company has an investment committee that holds regularly
scheduled meetings and, when necessary, special meetings.  At these
meetings, the committee reviews models projecting different
interest rate scenarios and their impact on profitability.  The
objective of the committee is to structure the investment security
portfolio based upon the type and behavior of products in the
liability portfolio so as to achieve targeted levels of
profitability.

Rates credited to clients' accounts are generally reset at shorter
intervals than the maturity of underlying investments.  Therefore,
margins may be negatively impacted by increases in the general
level of interest rates.  Part of the committee's strategy includes
the purchase of some types of derivatives, such as interest rate
caps, for hedging purposes.  These derivatives protect margins by
increasing investment returns if there is a sudden and severe rise
in interest rates, thereby mitigating the impact of an increase in
rates credited to clients' accounts.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The liquidity requirements of the Company are met by funds provided
from operations and investment activity.  The primary components of
the funds provided are premiums, investment income, proceeds from
sales of investments as well as maturities and periodic repayments
of investment principal.

The primary uses of funds are policy benefits, commissions and
operating expenses, policy loans, dividends and investment
purchases.

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The Company has available lines of credit with three banks
aggregating $100 million, which are used strictly as short-term
sources of funds.  Borrowings outstanding under the agreements were
$nil at December 31, 1995.  At December 31, 1995, outstanding
reverse repurchase agreements totalled $103 million.

At December 31, 1995, investments in fixed maturities comprised 86
percent of the Company's total invested assets.  Of the fixed
maturity portfolio, approximately 43 percent is invested in GNMA,
FNMA and FHLMC mortgage-backed securities which are considered
AAA/Aaa quality.  

At December 31, 1995, approximately 9.2 percent of the Company's
investments in fixed maturities were below investment grade bonds. 
These investments may be subject to a higher degree of risk than
the high-rated issues because of the borrower's generally greater
sensitivity to adverse economic conditions, such as recession or
increasing interest rates, and in certain instances, the lack of an
active secondary market.  Expected returns on below investment
grade bonds reflect consideration of such factors.  The Company has
identified those fixed maturities for which a decline in fair value
is determined to be other than temporary, and has written them down
to fair value with a charge to earnings.

At December 31, 1995, net unrealized appreciation on fixed
maturities held to maturity included $667 million of gross
unrealized appreciation and $47 million of gross unrealized
depreciation.  Net unrealized appreciation on fixed maturities
available for sale included $398 million of gross unrealized
appreciation and $28 million of gross unrealized depreciation.

At December 31, 1995, the Company had an allowance for losses for
mortgage loans totaling $37 million and for real estate investments
totaling $4.7 million.

The economy and other factors have caused an increase in the number
of insurance companies that are under regulatory supervision.  This
circumstance has resulted in an increase in assessments by state 
guaranty associations to cover losses to policyholders of insolvent
or rehabilitated companies.  Some assessments can be partially
recovered through a reduction in future premium taxes in certain
states.  The Company established an asset for guaranty association
assessments from those states allowing a reduction in future
premium taxes over a reasonable period of time.  The asset will be
amortized as future premium taxes are reduced.  The Company has
also estimated the potential effect of future assessments on the
Company's financial position and results of operations and has
established a reserve for such potential assessments.

In the first quarter of 1996, the Company paid a $40 million
dividend to its parent.  In 1995, dividends paid to its parent were
$180 million. 

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has established
risk-based capital standards to determine the capital requirements
of a life insurance company based upon the risks inherent in its
operations.  These standards require the computation of a risk-
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based capital amount which is then compared to a company's actual
total adjusted capital.  The computation involves applying factors
to various statutory financial data to address four primary risks:
asset default, adverse insurance experience, interest rate risk and
external events.  These standards provide for regulatory attention
when the percentage of total adjusted capital to authorized control
level risk-based capital is below certain levels.  As of December
31, 1995, the Company's total adjusted capital was well in excess
of the levels requiring regulatory attention.

Segment Information

The Company's operations consist of two business segments:
Individual and group life, disability income, long-term care and
health insurance; and fixed and variable annuity products designed
for individuals, pension plans, small businesses and employer-
sponsored groups.  The Company is not dependent upon any single
customer and no single customer accounted for more than 10 percent
of revenue in 1995, 1994 or 1993.  Additionally, no single
distributor accounted for more than 10 percent of premiums received
in 1995, 1994 or 1993.  (See Note 10, Segment information, in the
"Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements".)

Reinsurance

Reinsurance arrangements are used to reduce exposure to large
losses.  The maximum amount of risk retained by the Company on any
one life is $750,000 of life and waiver of premium benefits plus
$50,000 of accidental death benefits.  The excesses are reinsured
with other life insurance companies.  At December 31, 1995,
traditional life and universal life-type insurance in force
aggregated $59.7 billion, of which $3.8 billion was reinsured. 
    
Reserves

In accordance with the insurance laws and regulations under which
IDS Life operates, it is obligated to carry on its books, as
liabilities, actuarially determined reserves to meet its
obligations on its outstanding life and health insurance policies
and annuity contracts.  Reserves for policies and contracts are
based on mortality and morbidity tables in general use in the
United States.  These reserves are computed amounts that, with
additions from premiums to be received, and with interest on such
reserves compounded annually at assumed rates, will be sufficient
to meet IDS Life's policy obligations at their maturities or in the
event of an insured's death.  In the accompanying financial
statements these reserves are determined in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles. (See Note 1, Liabilities
for future policy benefits, in the "Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements.")
   
Investments

Of IDS Life's consolidated total investments of $25.3 billion at
Dec. 31, 1995, 39 percent was invested in mortgage-backed
securities, 46 percent in corporate and other bonds, 12 percent in
primary mortgage loans on real estate, 1.7 percent in policy loans
and the remaining 1.3 percent in other investments.<PAGE>
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Competition

IDS Life is engaged in a business that is highly competitive due to
the large number of stock and mutual life insurance companies and
other entities marketing insurance products.  There are over 2,600
stock, mutual and other types of insurers in the life insurance
business.  Best's Insurance Reports, Life-Health edition, 1995,
assigned IDS Life one of its highest classifications, A+
(Superior).

Employees

As of Dec. 31, 1995, IDS Life and its subsidiaries had 234
employees; including 180 employed at the home office in
Minneapolis, MN, and 54 employed at IDS Life Insurance Company of
New York located in Albany, NY.  
    
Properties

IDS Life occupies office space in Minneapolis, MN, which is rented
by its parent, American Express Financial Corporation.  IDS Life
reimburses American Express Financial Corporation for rent based on
direct and indirect allocation methods.  Facilities occupied by IDS
Life and its subsidiaries are believed to be adequate for the
purposes for which they are used and are well maintained.

State Regulation

IDS Life is subject to the laws of the State of Minnesota governing
insurance companies and to the regulations of the Minnesota
Department of Commerce.  An annual statement in the prescribed form
is filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce each year
covering IDS Life's operation for the preceding year and its
financial condition at the end of such year.  Regulation by the
Minnesota Department of Commerce includes periodic examination to
determine IDS Life's contract liabilities and reserves so that the
Minnesota Department of Commerce may certify that these items are
correct.  IDS Life's books and accounts are subject to review by
the Minnesota Department of Commerce at all times.  Such regulation
does not, however, involve any supervision of the account's
management or IDS Life's investment practices or policies.  In
addition, IDS Life is subject to regulation under the insurance
laws of other jurisdictions in which it operates.  A full
examination of IDS Life's operations is conducted periodically by
the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Under insurance guaranty fund laws, in most states, insurers doing
business therein can be assessed up to prescribed limits for
policyholder losses incurred by insolvent companies.  Most of these
laws do provide, however, that an assessment may be excused or
deferred if it would threaten an insurer's own financial strength.

Directors and Executive Officers*

The members of the Board of Directors and the principal executive
officers of IDS Life, together with the principal occupation of
each during the last five years, are as follows:<PAGE>
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Directors

David R. Hubers
Born in 1943

Director since September 1989; president and chief executive
officer, AEFC, since August 1993, and director since January 1984. 
Senior vice president, Finance and chief financial officer, AEFC,
from January 1984 to August 1993.

Richard W. Kling
Born in 1940

Director since February 1984; president since March 1994. 
Executive vice president, Marketing and Products from January 1988
to March 1994.  Senior vice president, AEFC, since May 1994. 
Director of IDS Life Series Fund, Inc. and member of the board of
managers of IDS Life Variable Annuity Funds A and B.

Paul F. Kolkman
Born in 1946

Director since May 1984; executive vice president since March 1994;
vice president, Finance from May 1984 to March 1994; vice
president, AEFC, since January 1987.

Janis E. Miller
Born in 1951

Director and executive vice president, Variable Assets since March
1994; vice president, AEFC, since June 1990.  Director of IDS Life
Series Fund, Inc. and member of the board of managers of IDS Life
Variable Annuity Funds A and B.

James A. Mitchell
Born in 1941

Chairman of the board since March 1994; director since July 1984;
chief executive officer since November 1986; president from July
1984 to March 1994; executive vice president, AEFC, since March
1994; director, AEFC, since July 1984; senior vice president, AEFC,
from July 1984 to March 1994.

Barry J. Murphy
Born in 1951

Director and executive vice president, Client Service, since March
1994; senior vice president, AEFC, since May 1994; senior vice
president, Travel Related Services (TRS), a subsidiary of American
Express Company, from July 1992 to April 1994; vice president, TRS,
from November 1989 to July 1992.

Stuart A. Sedlacek
Born in 1957

Director and executive vice president, Assured Assets since March
1994; vice president, AEFC, since September 1988.
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Melinda S. Urion
Born in 1953

Director and controller since September 1991; executive vice
president since March 1994; vice president and treasurer from
September 1991 to March 1994; senior vice president, chief
financial officer and director, AEFC, since November 1995;
corporate controller, AEFC, from April 1994 to November 1995; vice
president, AEFC, from September 1991 to November 1995; chief
accounting officer, AEFC, from July 1988 to September 1991.

Officers Other Than Directors

Timothy V. Bechtold
Born in 1953

Vice president, Risk Management Products, since February 1995. 
Vice president, Insurance Product Development, from May 1989 to
February 1995.  Vice president, Risk Management Products, AEFC,
since March 1995.

David J. Berry
Born in 1944

Vice president since October 1989.

Alan R. Dakay
Born in 1952

Vice president, Institutional Insurance Marketing, since 
September 1991.  Vice President, Institutional Products Group,
AEFC, since March 1995; vice president, Institutional Insurance
Marketing, AEFC, from May 1990 to March 1995.

Robert M. Elconin
Born in 1957

Vice president since March 1994.  Vice president, Government
Relations, AEFC, since April 1994; Legal counsel, IDS Life and AEFC
from October 1989 to March 1994.

Morris Goodwin Jr.
Born in 1951

Vice president and treasurer since March 1994; vice president and
corporate treasurer, AEFC, since July 1989.

Lorraine R. Hart
Born in 1951

Vice president, Investments, since March 1992; member of the
investment committee.  Vice president, Insurance Investments, AEFC,
since October 1989.

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James M. Jensen
Born in 1955

Vice president, Insurance Product Development, since February 1995;
Actuary, Insurance Product Development, since June 1979.

Ryan R. Larson
Born in 1950

Vice president since August 1995.  Vice president, Annuity Product
Development, from September 1983 to August 1995.  Vice president,
IPG Product Development, AEFC, since July 1989.

James R. Palmer
Born in 1945

Vice president, Taxes, since May 1989.  Vice president, Taxes,
AEFC, since June 1995.  Vice president, Insurance Operations, AEFC,
from February 1987 to June 1995.

F. Dale Simmons
Born in 1937

Vice president, Real Estate Loan Management, since November 1993. 
Vice president, senior portfolio manager, Insurance Investments,
AEFC, since August 1990.  

William A. Stoltzmann
Born in 1948

Vice president, general counsel and secretary since 1985; vice
president and assistant general counsel, AEFC, since November 1985.

*The address for all of the directors and principal officers is: 
IDS Tower 10, Minneapolis, MN  55440-0010.

Executive Compensation 

Executive officers of IDS Life also may serve one or more
affiliated companies.  The following table reflects cash
compensation paid to the five most highly compensated executive
officers as a group for services rendered in 1995 to IDS Life and
its affiliates.  The table also shows the total cash compensation
paid to all executive officers of IDS Life, as a group, who were
executive officers at any time during 1995.

Name of individual                                    Cash
or number in group     Position held                  compensation
Five most highly compensated
executive officers as a group:                        $2,386,534

James A. Mitchell        Chairman of the Board and
                          Chief Executive Officer

Richard W. Kling         President

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Barry J. Murphy          Exec. Vice President,
                          Client Service

Stuart A. Sedlacek       Exec. Vice President,
                          Assured Assets

Lorraine R. Hart         Vice President,
                          Investments

All executive officers
as a group (18)                                       $4,996,584
    
Security Ownership of Management

IDS Life's directors and officers do not beneficially own any
outstanding shares of stock of IDS Life.  All of the outstanding
shares of stock of IDS Life are beneficially owned by its parent,
American Express Financial Corporation.  The percentage of shares
of American Express Financial Corporation owned by any director,
and by all directors and officers of IDS Life as a group, does not
exceed one percent of the class outstanding.

Legal Proceedings and Opinion

Legal matters in connection with federal laws and regulations
affecting the issue and sale of the Contracts described in this
prospectus and the organization of IDS Life, its authority to issue
Contracts under Minnesota law and the validity of the forms of the
Contracts under Minnesota law have been passed on by the General
Counsel of IDS Life.

Experts
   
The consolidated financial statements of IDS Life Insurance Company
at December 31, 1995, and 1994, and for each of the three years in
the period ended December 31, 1995, appearing in this Prospectus
and Registration Statement have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP,
independent auditors, as set forth in their reports thereon
appearing elsewhere herein and in the Registration Statement, and
are included in reliance upon such reports given upon the authority
of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.
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Appendix A

Partial Surrender Illustration

Involving a Surrender Charge and a Market Value Adjustment

Annuity Assumptions:
Single Payment       $10,000 
Guarantee Period     10 Years
Guarantee Rate (ig)  4.5 percent effective 
                     annual yield

                           End of Contract year
Contract       Surrender   Accumulation Values
  year         Charge %     if no surrenders   
    1             8%           $10,450.00
    2             7            $10,920.25
    3             6            $11,411.66
    4             5            $11,925.19
    5             4            $12,461.82
    6             3            $13,022.60
    7             2            $13,608.62
    8             1            $14,221.01
    9             0            $14,860.95
   10             0            $15,529.69

Partial Surrender Assumptions:

On the first day of your 4th Contract year you request a partial
surrender of:

Example I  - $2,000 of your Accumulation Value
Example II - A $2,000 net surrender check

You may surrender 10 percent of $11,411.66 (end of 3rd Contract
year Accumulation Value) without surrender charge but subject to a
Market Value Adjustment -- this is $1,141.17

The excess Market Adjusted Value surrendered is subject to both a 5
percent (4th Contract year) surrender charge and a Market Value
Adjustment.

The current rate (ic) for applicable new sales and renewals = 4
percent

The number of full years left in your Guarantee Period (N) = 7

The number of fractional years left in your Guarantee Period (t) =
0
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Example I - $2,000 of Accumulation Value Surrendered

What Will Be Your Market Value Adjustment Amount?

The Market Adjusted Value of your $2,000 partial surrender will be:

     Renewal Value of Accumulation Value Surrendered
                (1 + ic + .0025)(N+t)  

     =  $2,000 (1 + ig)7
        (1 + ic + .0025)7

     =  $2,000 (1.045)7
           (1.0425)7

     =  $2,033.82 

The Market Value Adjustment = the Market Adjusted Value surrendered
less the Accumulation Value surrendered

     $2,033.82  -  $2,000  =  $33.82

(NOTE:  This Market Value Adjustment is Positive.  In Other Cases
The Market Value Adjustment May Be Negative.)

What Will Be Your Surrender Charge Amount?

The surrender charge will be 5 percent multiplied by the excess of
the Market Adjusted Value over the Accumulation Value that may be
surrendered without surrender charge:

($2,033.82 - $1,141.17) x .05 = $44.63

What Net Amount Will You Receive?

Your Contract's Accumulation Value will decrease by $2,000 and we
will send you a check for:

Accumulation Value surrendered    $2,000.00
Plus Market Value Adjustment          33.82
Less surrender charge                (44.63)     
Net surrender amount              $1,989.19

Example II - $2,000 Net Surrender Check Requested

What Will Be The Accumulation Value Surrendered?

Tell us if you want a specific net surrender check amount.  We will
work backwards using an involved formula to determine how much
Accumulation Value must be surrendered to result in a net check to
you for a specific amount.  For a $2,000 net check to you, the
formula results in $2,011.20 of Accumulation Value to be
surrendered.
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What Will Be Your Market Value Adjustment Amount?

The Market Adjusted Value is:

     Renewal Value of Accumulation Value Surrendered
                (1 + ic + .0025)(N+t)

     =  $2,011.20 (1 + ig)7
         (1 + ic + .0025)7

     =  $2,011.20 (1.045)7
            (1.0425)7

     =  $2,045.21

The Market Value Adjustment = the Market Adjusted Value surrendered
less the Accumulation Value surrendered

     $2,045.21 - $2,011.20 = $34.00

(NOTE:  This Market Value Adjustment is Positive.  In Other Cases
The Market Value Adjustment May Be Negative.)

What Will Be Your Surrender Charge Amount?

The surrender charge will be 5 percent multiplied by the excess of
the Market Adjusted Value over the Accumulation Value that may be
surrendered without surrender charge:

     ($2,045.21 - $1,141.17) x .05  =  $45.20

What Net Amount Will You Receive?

Your Contract's Accumulation Value will decrease by $2,011.20 and
we will send you a check for:

Accumulation Value surrendered      $2,011.20
Plus Market Value Adjustment            34.00
Less surrender charge                  (45.20)     
Net surrender amount                $2,000.00

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Appendix B

Market Value Adjustment Illustration

Annuity Assumptions:
Single Payment       $50,000
Guarantee Period     10 Years
Guarantee Rate       4.5 percent effective annual yield

Market Adjustment Assumptions: These examples show how the Market
Value Adjustment may affect your Contract values.  The surrenders
in these examples occur one year after the Contract date.  There
are no previous surrenders.

The Accumulation Value at the end of one year is $52,250.  If there
aren't any surrenders, the Renewal Value at the end of the 10 year
Guarantee Period will be $77,648.47.

The Market Value Adjustment is based on the rate we are crediting
(at the time of your surrender) on new Contracts with the same
length Guarantee Period as the time remaining in your Guarantee
Period.  After one year, you have 9 years left of your 10 year
Guarantee Period.

Example I shows a downward Market Value Adjustment.  Example II
shows an upward Market Value Adjustment.  These examples do not
show the surrender charge (if any) which would be calculated
separately after the Market Value Adjustment.  Surrender charge
calculations are shown in Appendix A.

Market Adjusted Value Formula:

     Market Adjusted  =     (Renewal Value)     
     Value                (1 + ic + .0025)(N+t)

Renewal Value    -- The Accumulation Value at the end of the
                    current Guarantee Period

ic               -- The Current Interest Rate offered for new
                    Contract sales and renewals for the number of
                    years remaining in the Guarantee Period

N                -- The number of complete Contract years to the
                    end of the current Guarantee Period

t                -- The fraction of the Contract year remaining to
                    the end of the Contract year

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Example I - Downward Market Value Adjustment

A surrender results in a downward Market Value Adjustment when
interest rates have increased.  Assume after 1 year, we are now 
crediting 5 percent for a new Contract with a 9 year Guarantee
Period.  If you fully surrender, the Market Adjusted Value would
be:

         Renewal Value    
       (1 + ic + .0025)(N+t) 

     =     $77,648.47     
       (1 + .05 + .0025)9 

     = $48,993

The Market Value Adjustment is a $3,257 reduction of the
Accumulation Value:

     ($3,257)  =  $48,993  -  $52,250

If you surrendered half of your Contract instead of all, the Market
Adjusted Value of the surrendered portion would be one-half that of
the full surrender:

                      $38,824.24    
$24,496.50  =     (1 + .05 + .0025)9

Example II - Upward Market Value Adjustment

A surrender results in an upward Market Value Adjustment when
interest rates have decreased.  Assume after 1 year, we are now
crediting 4 percent for a new Contract with a 9 year guarantee
period.  If you fully surrender, the Market Adjusted Value would
be:

         Renewal Value                    
       (1 + ic + .0025)(N+t)

=         $77,648.47       
       (1 + .04 + .0025)9

=    $53,388.58

The Market Value Adjustment is a $1,138.58 increase of the
Accumulation Value:

$1,138.58  =  $53,388.50  -  $52,250

If you surrendered half of your Contract instead of all, the Market
Adjusted Value of the surrendered portion would be one-half that of
the full surrender:

                   $38,824.24      
$26,694.29  =  (1 + .04 + .0025)9

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IDS Life Financial Information

The financial statements shown below are those of the insurance
company and not those of any other entity.  They are included in
the prospectus for the purpose of informing investors as to the
financial condition of the insurance company and its ability to
carry out its obligations under its variable contracts.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

                                                           Dec. 31,           Dec. 31,
ASSETS                                                       1995               1994  
                                                                   (thousands)
<S>                                                      <C>                 <C>
Investments:
Fixed maturities:
Held to maturity, at amortized cost (Fair value:
1995, $11,878,377; 1994 $10,694,800)                     $11,257,591         $11,269,861
Available for sale, at fair value (Amortized cost:
1995, $10,146,136; 1994 $8,459,128)                       10,516,212           8,017,555
Mortgage loans on real estate
(Fair value: 1995, $3,184,666; 1994, $2,342,520)           2,945,495           2,400,514
Policy loans                                                 424,019             381,912
Other investments                                            146,894              51,795

Total investments                                         25,290,211          22,121,637

Cash and cash equivalents                                     72,147             267,774
Receivables:
Reinsurance                                                  114,387              80,304
Amounts due from brokers                                           -               7,933
Other accounts receivable                                     33,667              49,745
Premiums due                                                   5,441               1,594

Total receivables                                            153,495             139,576

Accrued investment income                                    348,008             317,510
Deferred policy acquisition costs                          2,025,725           1,865,324
Deferred income taxes                                              -             124,061
Other assets                                                  36,410              30,426
Separate account assets                                   14,974,082          10,881,235

Total assets                                             $42,900,078         $35,747,543
                                                          ==========          ==========
/TABLE
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IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (continued)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           Dec. 31,           Dec. 31,
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDER'S EQUITY                         1995               1994  
                                                                   (thousands)
<S>                                                      <C>                 <C>
Liabilities:
Fixed annuities--future policy benefits                  $21,404,836         $19,361,979
Universal life-type insurance--future policy benefits      3,076,847           2,896,100
Traditional life insurance--future policy benefits           209,249             206,754
Disability income, health and long-term care
insurance--future policy benefits                            327,157             244,077
Policy claims and other policyholders' funds                  56,323              50,068
Deferred income taxes                                        112,904                  -
Amounts due to brokers                                       121,618             226,737
Other liabilities                                            285,354             291,902
Separate account liabilities                              14,974,082          10,881,235

Total liabilities                                         40,568,370          34,158,852

Stockholder's equity:
Capital stock, $30 par value per share;
100,000 shares authorized, issued and outstanding              3,000               3,000
Additional paid-in capital                                   278,814             222,000
Net unrealized gain (loss) on investments                    230,129            (275,708)
Retained earnings                                          1,819,765           1,639,399

Total stockholder's equity                                 2,331,708           1,588,691

Total liabilities and stockholder's equity               $42,900,078         $35,747,543
                                                          ==========          ==========

Commitments and contingencies (Note 6)

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
                                                              Years ended Dec. 31,
                                                      1995           1994           1993  
                                                                      (thousands)
<S>                                                <C>           <C>            <C>
Revenues:
Premiums:
Traditional life insurance                         $   50,193    $   48,184     $   48,137
Disability income and long-term care insurance        111,337        96,456         79,108

Total premiums                                        161,530       144,640        127,245

Policyholder and contractholder charges               256,454       219,936        184,205
Management and other fees                             215,581       164,169        120,139
Net investment income                               1,907,309     1,781,873      1,783,219
Net realized loss on investments                       (4,898)       (4,282)        (6,737)

Total revenues                                      2,535,976     2,306,336      2,208,071

Benefits and expenses:
Death and other benefits - Traditional life
insurance                                              29,528        28,263         32,136
Death and other benefits - Universal life-type
insurance and investment contracts                     71,691        52,027         49,692
Death and other benefits - Disability income,
health and long-term care insurance                    16,259        13,393         13,148

Increase (decrease) in liabilities for future
policy benefits:
Traditional life insurance                             (1,315)       (3,229)        (4,513)
Disability income, health and
long-term care insurance                               51,279        37,912         32,528

Interest credited on universal life-type
insurance and investment contracts                  1,315,989     1,174,985      1,218,647
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs     280,121       280,372        211,733
Other insurance and operating expenses                211,642       210,101        241,974

Total benefits and expenses                         1,975,194     1,793,824      1,795,345

Income before income taxes                            560,782       512,512        412,726

Income taxes                                          195,842       176,343        142,647

Net income                                         $  364,940    $  336,169     $  270,079
                                                    =========     =========      =========

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDER'S EQUITY
Three years ended December 31, 1995 (thousands)

                                               Additional    Net Unrealized
                                    Capital     Paid-In      Gain (Loss) on    Retained
                                     Stock       Capital      Investments      Earnings        Total  
<S>                                  <C>        <C>            <C>           <C>           <C>
Balance, December 31, 1992           $3,000     $ 22,000       $    214      $1,223,151    $1,248,365
Net income                                                                      270,079       270,079
Change in net unrealized
gain (loss) on  investments               -            -           (100)              -          (100)
Capital contribution from parent          -      200,000              -               -       200,000
Cash dividends                            -            -              -         (25,000)      (25,000)

Balance, December 31, 1993            3,000      222,000            114       1,468,230     1,693,344
Net income                                -            -              -         336,169       336,169
Change in net unrealized
gain (loss) on investments                -            -       (275,822)              -      (275,822)
Cash dividends                            -            -              -        (165,000)     (165,000)

Balance, December 31, 1994            3,000      222,000       (275,708)      1,639,399     1,588,691
Net income                                -            -              -         364,940       364,940
Change in net unrealized
gain (loss) on investments                -            -        505,837               -       505,837
Capital contribution from parent          -       56,814              -               -        56,814
Loss on reinsurance transaction
with affiliate                            -            -              -          (4,574)       (4,574)
Cash dividends                            -            -              -        (180,000)     (180,000)

Balance, December 31, 1995           $3,000     $278,814       $230,129      $1,819,765    $2,331,708
                                     ======     ========       ========      ==========    ==========

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
                                                                Years ended Dec. 31,
                                                        1995           1994           1993  
                                                                      (thousands)
<S>                                                 <C>           <C>            <C>
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income                                          $   364,940   $   336,169    $  270,079
Adjustments to reconcile net income to
net cash provided by operating activities:
Policy loan issuances, excluding universal
life-type insurance:                                    (46,011)      (37,110)      (35,886)
Policy loan repayments, excluding universal
life-type insurance                                      36,416        33,384        29,557
Change in reinsurance receivable                        (34,083)      (25,006)      (55,298)
Change in other accounts receivable                      16,078       (28,286)       (1,364)
Change in accrued investment income                     (30,498)      (10,333)      (22,057)
Change in deferred policy acquisition costs, net       (196,963)     (192,768)     (211,509)
Change in liabilities for future policy
benefits for traditional life, disability income,
health and long-term care insurance                      85,575        55,354        79,695
Change in policy claims and other policyholders' funds    6,255         5,552        (5,383)
Change in deferred income taxes                         (33,810)      (19,176)      (44,237)
Change in other liabilities                              (6,548)         (122)       56,515
Amortization of premium (accretion
of discount), net                                       (22,528)       30,921       (27,438)
Net loss on investments                                   4,898         4,282         6,737
Premiums related to universal life--type insurance      465,631       409,035       397,883
Surrenders and death benefits related to
universal life--type insurance                         (306,600)     (290,427)     (255,133)
Interest credited to account balances related
to universal life--type insurance                       162,222       150,955       156,885
Policyholder and contractholder charges, non-cash      (140,506)     (126,918)     (115,140)
Other, net                                                    2        (8,974)       (1,907)

Net cash provided by operating activities           $   324,470   $   286,532    $  221,999
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IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (continued)
                                                               Years ended Dec. 31,
                                                         1995          1994          1993  
                                                                      (thousands)

Cash flows from investing activities:
Fixed maturities held to maturity:
Purchases                                           $(1,007,208)  $  (879,740)   $        -
Maturities, sinking fund payments and calls             538,219     1,651,762             -
Sales                                                   332,154        58,001             -
Fixed maturities available for sale:
Purchases                                            (2,452,181)   (2,763,278)            -
Maturities, sinking fund payments and calls             861,545     1,234,401             -
Sales                                                   136,825       374,564             -
Fixed maturities:
Purchases                                                     -             -    (6,548,852)
Maturities, sinking fund payments and calls                   -             -     3,934,055
Sales                                                         -             -       487,983
Other investments, excluding policy loans:
Purchases                                              (823,131)     (634,807)     (553,694)
Sales                                                   160,521       243,862       123,352
Change in amounts due from brokers                        7,933        (2,214)       14,483
Change in amounts due to brokers                       (105,119)     (124,749)       92,832

Net cash used in investing activities                (2,350,442)     (842,198)   (2,449,841)

Cash flows from financing activities:
Activity related to investment contracts:
Considerations received                               3,723,894     3,157,778     2,843,668
Surrenders and death benefits                        (2,834,804)   (3,311,965)   (1,765,869)
Interest credited to account balances                 1,153,767     1,024,031     1,071,917
Policy loan issuances, universal
life-type insurance                                     (84,700)      (78,239)      (70,304)
Policy loan repayments, universal
life-type insurance                                      52,188        50,554        46,148
Capital contribution from parent                              -             -       200,000
Cash dividend to parent                                (180,000)     (165,000)      (25,000)

Net cash provided by financing activities             1,830,345       677,159     2,300,560

Net (decrease) increase in cash and
cash equivalents                                       (195,627)      121,493        72,718

Cash and cash equivalents at
beginning of year                                       267,774       146,281        73,563

Cash and cash equivalents at
end of year                                         $    72,147   $   267,774    $  146,281
                                                     ==========    ==========    ==========

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
</TABLE>
<PAGE>
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IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
($ thousands)

1. Summary of significant accounting policies

Nature of business

IDS Life Insurance Company (the Company) is a stock life insurance
company organized under the laws of the State of Minnesota.  The
Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Express Financial
Corporation, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Express
Company.  The Company serves residents of all states except New
York.  IDS Life Insurance Company of New York is a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Company and serves New York State residents.  The
Company also wholly owns American Enterprise Life Insurance
Company, American Centurion Life Assurance Company (ACLAC), and
American Partners Life Insurance Company.

The Company's principal products are deferred annuities and
universal life insurance, which are issued primarily to
individuals.  It offers single premium and annual premium deferred
annuities on both a fixed and variable dollar basis.  Immediate
annuities are offered as well.  The Company's insurance products
include universal life (fixed and variable), whole life, single
premium life and term products (including waiver of premium and
accidental death benefits).  The Company also markets disability
income and long-term care insurance.

The Company's principal annuity product in terms of amount in force
is the fixed deferred annuity.  The annuity contract guarantees a
minimum interest rate during the accumulation period (the time
before annuity payments begin), although the Company normally pays
a higher rate reflective of current market rates.  The fixed
annuity provides for a surrender charge during the first seven to
ten years after a purchase payment is made.  The Company has also
adopted a practice whereby the higher current rate is guaranteed
for a specified period.  The Company also offers a variable annuity
product under the name Flexible Annuity.  This is a fixed/variable
annuity offering the purchasers a choice among mutual funds with
portfolios of equities, bonds, managed assets and/or short-term
securities, and the Company's general account, as the underlying
investment vehicles.  With respect to funds applied to the variable
portion of the annuity, the purchaser, rather than the Company,
assumes the investment risks and receives the rewards inherent in
the ownership of the underlying investment.  The Flexible Annuity
provides for a surrender charge during the first six years after a
purchase payment is made.

The Company's principal insurance product is the flexible-premium,
adjustable-benefit universal life insurance policy.  In this type
of insurance policy, each premium payment accumulates interest in 
a cash value account.  The policyholder has access to the cash
surrender value in whole or in part after the first year.  The size
of the cash value of the fund can also be controlled by the
policyholder by increasing or decreasing premiums, subject only to 
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1. Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

maintaining a required minimum to keep the policy in force. 
Monthly deductions from the cash value of the policy are made for
the cost of insurance, expense charges and any policy riders.

Basis of presentation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the
accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, IDS Life
Insurance Company of New York, American Enterprise Life Insurance
Company, American Centurion Life Assurance Company and American
Partners Life Insurance Company.  All material intercompany
accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been
prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles which vary in certain respects from reporting practices
prescribed or permitted by state insurance regulatory authorities.

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with
generally accepted accounting principles requires management to
make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of
assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and
liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the
reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting
period.  Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Investments

Fixed maturities that the Company has both the positive intent and
the ability to hold to maturity are classified as held to maturity
and carried at amortized cost.  All other fixed maturities and all
marketable equity securities are classified as available for sale
and carried at fair value.  Unrealized gains and losses on
securities classified as available for sale are carried as a
separate component of stockholder's equity.

Management determines the appropriate classification of fixed
maturities at the time of purchase and reevaluates the
classification at each balance sheet date.

Mortgage loans on real estate are carried principally at the unpaid
principal balances of the related loans.  Policy loans are carried
at the aggregate of the unpaid loan balances which do not exceed
the cash surrender values of the related policies.  Other
investments include interest rate caps, equity securities and real
estate investments.  When evidence indicates a decline, which is
other than temporary, in the underlying value or earning power of
individual investments, such investments are written down to the
fair value by a charge to income.  Equity securities are carried 
at market value and the related net unrealized appreciation or
depreciation is reported as a credit or charge to stockholder's
equity.

Realized investment gain or loss is determined on an identified
cost basis.<PAGE>
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1. Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

Prepayments are anticipated on certain investments in mortgage-
backed securities in determining the constant effective yield used
to recognize interest income.  Prepayment estimates are based on
information received from brokers who deal in mortgage-backed
securities.

Statement of cash flows

The Company considers investments with a maturity at the date of
their acquisition of three months or less to be cash equivalents. 
These securities are carried principally at amortized cost which
approximates fair value.

Supplementary information to the consolidated statement of cash
flows for the years ended Dec. 31 is summarized as follows:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                        1995             1994             1993  
<S>                                   <C>              <C>              <C>
Cash paid during the year for:
Income taxes                          $191,011         $226,365         $188,204
Interest on borrowings                   5,524            1,553            2,661
</TABLE>

Recognition of profits on fixed annuity contracts and insurance
policies

The Company issues single premium deferred annuity contracts that
provide for a service fee (surrender charge) at annually decreasing
rates upon withdrawal of the annuity accumulation value by the
contract owner.  No sales fee is deducted from the contract
considerations received on these contracts ("no load" annuities). 
All of the Company's single premium deferred annuity contracts
provide for crediting the contract owners' accumulations at
specified rates of interest. Such rates are revised by the Company
from time to time based on changes in the market investment yield
rates for fixed-income securities.

Profits on single premium deferred annuities and installment
annuities are recognized by the Company over the lives of the
contracts and represent the excess of investment income earned from
investment of contract considerations over interest credited  to
contract owners and other expenses.

The retrospective deposit method is used in accounting for
universal life-type insurance.  This method recognizes profits over
the lives of the policies in proportion to the estimated gross
profits expected to be realized.

Premiums on traditional life, disability income, health and long-
term care insurance policies are recognized as revenue when
collected or due, and related benefits and expenses are associated
with premium revenue in a manner that results in recognition of
profits over the lives of the insurance policies.  This association
is accomplished by means of the provision for future policy
benefits and the deferral and subsequent amortization of policy
acquisition costs.<PAGE>
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1. Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

Deferred policy acquisition costs

The costs of acquiring new business, principally sales
compensation, policy issue costs, underwriting and certain sales
expenses, have been deferred on insurance and annuity contracts.  
The deferred acquisition costs for single premium deferred
annuities and installment annuities are amortized based upon
surrender charge revenue and a portion of the excess of investment
income earned from investment of the contract considerations over
the interest credited to contract owners.  The costs for universal
life-type insurance are amortized over the lives of the policies as
a percentage of the estimated gross profits expected to be realized
on the policies.  For traditional life, disability income, health
and long-term care insurance policies, the costs are amortized over
an appropriate period in proportion to premium revenue.

Liabilities for future policy benefits

Liabilities for universal life-type insurance, single premium
deferred annuities and installment annuities are accumulation
values.

Liabilities for fixed annuities in a benefit status are based on
the Progressive Annuity Table with interest at 5 percent, the 1971
Individual Annuity Table with interest at 7 percent or 8.25
percent, or the 1983a Table with various interest rates ranging
from 5.5 percent to 9.5 percent, depending on year of issue.

Liabilities for future benefits on traditional life insurance have
been computed principally by the net level premium method, based on
anticipated rates of mortality (approximating the 1965-1970 Select
and Ultimate Basic Table for policies issued after 1980 and the
1955-1960 Select and Ultimate Basic Table for policies issued prior
to 1981 and the 1975-1980 Select and Ultimate Basic Table for term
insurance policies issued after 1984), policy persistency derived
from Company experience data (first year rates ranging from
approximately 70 percent to 90 percent and increasing rates 
thereafter), and estimated future investment yields of 4 percent
for policies issued before 1974 and 5.25 percent for policies
issued from 1974 to 1980.  Cash value plans issued in 1980 and
later assume future investment rates that grade from 9.5 percent to
5 percent over 20 years.  Term insurance issued from 1981 to 1984
assumes an 8 percent level investment rate, term insurance issued
from 1985-1993 assumes investment rates that grade from 10 percent
to 6 percent over 20 years and term insurance issued after 1993
assumes investment rates that grade from 8 percent to 6.5 percent
over 7 years.

Liabilities for future disability income policy benefits have been
computed principally by the net level premium method, based on the
1964 Commissioners Disability Table with the 1958 Commissioners 
Standard Ordinary Mortality Table at 3 percent interest for persons
disabled in 1980 and prior, 8 percent interest for persons disabled
from 1981 to 1991, 7 percent interest for persons disabled in 1992
and 6 percent interest for persons disabled after 1992.
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1. Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

Liabilities for future benefits on long-term care insurance have
been computed principally by the net level premium method, using
morbidity rates based on the 1985 National Nursing Home Survey and
mortality rates based on the 1983a Table.  The interest rate basis
is 9.5 percent grading to 7 percent over ten years for policies
issued from 1989 to 1992, 7.75 percent grading to 7 percent over
four years for policies issued after 1992, 8 percent for claims
incurred in 1989 to 1991, 7 percent for claims incurred in 1992 and
6 percent for claims incurred after 1992.

Reinsurance

The maximum amount of life insurance risk retained by the Company
on any one life is $750 of life and waiver of premium benefits plus
$50 of accidental death benefits.  The maximum amount of disability
income risk retained by the Company on any one life is $6 of
monthly benefit for benefit periods longer than three years.  The
excesses are reinsured with other life insurance companies on a
yearly renewable term basis.  Graded premium whole life and long-
term care policies are primarily reinsured on a coinsurance basis.

Federal income taxes

The Company's taxable income is included in the consolidated
federal income tax return of American Express Company.  The Company
provides for income taxes on a separate return basis, except that,
under an agreement between American Express Financial Corporation
and American Express Company, tax benefit is recognized for losses
to the extent they can be used on the consolidated tax return.  It
is the policy of American Express Financial Corporation to
reimburse a subsidiary for any tax benefit.  

Included in other liabilities at Dec. 31, 1995 is $13,415 payable
to American Express Financial Corporation for federal income taxes. 
Included in other receivables at Dec. 31, 1994 is $22,034
receivable from American Express Financial Corporation for federal
income taxes.

Separate account business

The separate account assets and liabilities represent funds held
for the exclusive benefit of the variable annuity and variable life
insurance contract owners.  The Company receives investment
management and mortality and expense assurance fees from the
variable annuity and variable life insurance mutual funds and
separate accounts.  The Company also deducts a monthly cost of
insurance charge and receives a minimum death benefit guarantee fee
and issue and administrative fee from the variable life insurance
separate accounts.

The Company makes contractual mortality assurances to the variable
annuity contract owners that the net assets of the separate
accounts will not be affected by future variations in the actual
life expectancy experience of the annuitants and the beneficiaries
from the mortality assumptions implicit in the annuity contracts. 
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1. Summary of significant accounting policies (continued)

The Company makes periodic fund transfers to, or withdrawals from,
the separate accounts for such actuarial adjustments for variable 
annuities that are in the benefit payment period.  The Company
guarantees, for the variable life insurance policyholders, the
contractual insurance rate and that the death benefit will never be
less than the death benefit at the date of issuance.

Accounting changes

The Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) SFAS No. 121,
"Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets and for Long-
Lived Assets to Be Disposed Of," is effective January 1, 1996.  The
new rule is not expected to have a material impact on the Company's
results of operations or financial condition.

The Company's adoption of SFAS No. 114 as of January 1, 1995 is
discussed in Note 2.

The Company adopted SFAS No. 115, "Accounting for Certain
Investments in Debt and Equity Securities."  The effect of adopting
the new rule was to increase stockholder's equity by approximately
$181 million, net of tax, as of January 1, 1994, but the adoption
had no impact on the Company's net income.

Reclassification

Certain 1994 and 1993 amounts have been reclassified to conform to
the 1995 presentation.

2. Investments

Fair values of investments in fixed maturities represent quoted
market prices and estimated values when quoted prices are not
available.  Estimated values are determined by established
procedures involving, among other things, review of market indices,
price levels of current offerings of comparable issues, price
estimates and market data from independent brokers and financial
files.

Net realized gain (loss) on investments for the years ended Dec. 31
is summarized as follows:

                           1995            1994             1993  
Fixed maturities         $  9,973        $(1,575)         $ 20,583
Mortgage loans            (13,259)        (3,013)          (25,056)
Other investments          (1,612)           306            (2,264)
                         $ (4,898)       $(4,282)         $ (6,737)

Changes in net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of
investments for the years ended Dec. 31 are summarized as follows:

                             1995            1994          1993  
Fixed maturities:
Held to maturity           $1,195,847    $(1,329,740)    $     --
Available for sale            811,649       (720,449)          --
Investment securities              --             --      323,060
Equity securities               3,118         (2,917)        (156)<PAGE>
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2. Investments (continued)

The amortized cost, gross unrealized gains and losses and fair
values of investments in fixed maturities and equity securities at
Dec. 31, 1995 are as follows:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                   Gross         Gross
                                    Amortized    Unrealized    Unrealized     Fair
Held to maturity                       Cost        Gains         Losses       Value
<S>                                <C>            <C>           <C>        <C>
U.S. Government agency
obligations                        $    64,523    $  3,919      $    --    $    68,442
State and municipal obligations         11,936         362           32         12,266
Corporate bonds and obligations      8,921,431     620,327       36,786      9,504,972
Mortgage-backed securities           2,259,701      42,684        9,688      2,292,697
                                   $11,257,591    $667,292      $46,506    $11,878,377

                                                   Gross         Gross
                                    Amortized    Unrealized    Unrealized     Fair
Available for sale                     Cost        Gains         Losses       Value

U.S. Government agency
obligations                        $    84,082    $  3,248      $    50    $    87,280
State and municipal obligations         11,020       1,476           --         12,496
Corporate bonds and obligations      2,514,308     186,596        3,451      2,697,453
Mortgage-backed securities           7,536,726     206,288       24,031      7,718,983
Total fixed maturities              10,146,136     397,608       27,532     10,516,212
Equity securities                        3,156         361           --          3,517
                                   $10,149,292    $397,969      $27,532    $10,519,729
</TABLE>
        
The amortized cost, gross unrealized gains and losses and fair
values of investments in fixed maturities and equity securities at
Dec. 31, 1994 are as follows:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                   Gross         Gross
                                    Amortized    Unrealized    Unrealized     Fair
Held to maturity                       Cost        Gains         Losses       Value
<S>                                <C>            <C>         <C>         <C>
U.S. Government agency
obligations                        $    21,500    $     43    $  4,372    $    17,171
State and municipal obligations          9,687         132          --          9,819
Corporate bonds and obligations      8,806,707     100,468     459,568      8,447,607
Mortgage-backed securities           2,431,967      10,630     222,394      2,220,203
                                   $11,269,861    $111,273    $686,334    $10,694,800

                                                   Gross         Gross
                                    Amortized    Unrealized    Unrealized     Fair
Available for sale                     Cost        Gains         Losses       Value

U.S. Government agency
obligations                        $  128,093     $    756    $  1,517    $   127,332
State and municipal obligations        11,008          702          --         11,710
Corporate bonds and obligations     1,142,321       24,166       7,478      1,159,009
Mortgage-backed securities          7,177,706        9,514     467,716      6,719,504
Total fixed maturities              8,459,128       35,138     476,711      8,017,555
Equity securities                       4,663           --       2,757          1,906
                                   $8,463,791     $ 35,138    $479,468    $ 8,019,461
</TABLE>

The amortized cost and fair value of investments in fixed
maturities at Dec. 31, 1995 by contractual maturity are shown
below.  Expected maturities will differ from contractual maturities
because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations
with or without call or prepayment penalties.
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2. Investments (continued)

                                     Amortized             Fair
Held to maturity                        Cost               Value
Due in one year or less            $   268,363          $   272,808
Due from one to five years           1,692,030            1,783,047
Due from five to ten years           5,467,302            5,833,309
Due in more than ten years           1,570,195            1,696,516
Mortgage-backed securities           2,259,701            2,292,697
                                   $11,257,591          $11,878,377

                                     Amortized             Fair
Available for sale                      Cost               Value

Due in one year or less            $   118,996          $   120,019
Due from one to five years             849,800              913,175
Due from five to ten years           1,301,191            1,397,237
Due in more than ten years             339,423              366,798
Mortgage-backed securities           7,536,726            7,718,983
                                   $10,146,136          $10,516,212

During the year ended Dec. 31, 1995, fixed maturities classified as
held to maturity were sold with proceeds of $332,154 and gross
realized gains and losses on such sales were $14,366 and $15,720,
respectively.  The sale of these fixed maturities was due to
significant deterioration in the issuers' creditworthiness.  As a
result of adopting the FASB Special Report, "A Guide to
Implementation of Statement 115 on Accounting for Certain
Investments in Debt and Equity Securities," the Company
reclassified securities with a book value of $91,760 and net
unrealized gains of $881 from held to maturity to available for
sale in December 1995.
        
In addition, fixed maturities available for sale were sold during
1995 with proceeds of $136,825 and gross realized gains and losses
on such sales were $nil and $5,781, respectively.
        
During the year ended Dec. 31, 1994, fixed maturities classified as
held to maturity were sold with proceeds of $58,001 and gross
realized gains and losses on such sales were $226 and $3,515,
respectively.  The sale of these fixed maturities was due to 
significant deterioration in the issuers' creditworthiness.
        
In addition, fixed maturities available for sale were sold during
1994 with proceeds of $374,564 and gross realized gains and losses
on such sales were $1,861 and $7,602, respectively.
        
At Dec. 31, 1995, bonds carried at $12,761 were on deposit with
various states as required by law.
        
Net investment income for the years ended Dec. 31 is summarized as
follows:
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2. Investments (continued)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                      1995             1994           1993  
<S>                                <C>             <C>            <C>
Interest on fixed maturities       $1,656,136      $1,556,756     $1,589,802
Interest on mortgage loans            232,827         196,521        175,063
Other investment income                35,936          38,366         29,345
Interest on cash equivalents            5,363           6,872          2,137
                                    1,930,262       1,798,515      1,796,347
Less investment expenses               22,953          16,642         13,128
                                   $1,907,309      $1,781,873     $1,783,219
</TABLE>

At Dec. 31, 1995, investments in fixed maturities comprised 86
percent of the Company's total invested assets.  These securities
are rated by Moody's and Standard & Poor's (S&P), except for
securities carried at approximately $2.3 billion which are rated by
American Express Financial Corporation internal analysts using
criteria similar to Moody's and S&P.  A summary of investments in
fixed maturities, at amortized cost, by rating on Dec. 31 is as
follows:

     Rating                    1995               1994  

Aaa/AAA                    $ 9,907,664        $ 9,708,047
Aaa/AA                           3,112                 --
Aa/AA                          279,403            242,914
Aa/A                           154,846            119,952
A/A                          3,104,122          2,567,947
A/BBB                          871,782            725,755
Baa/BBB                      4,417,654          3,849,188
Baa/BB                         657,633            796,063
Below investment grade       2,007,511          1,719,123
                           $21,403,727        $19,728,989
        
At Dec. 31, 1995, 95 percent of the securities rated Aaa/AAA are
GNMA, FNMA and FHLMC mortgage-backed securities.  No holdings of
any other issuer are greater than 1 percent of the Company's  total
investments in fixed maturities.
        
At Dec. 31, 1995, approximately 11.6 percent of the Company's
invested assets were mortgage loans on real estate.  Summaries of
mortgage loans by region of the United States and by type of real
estate at Dec. 31, 1995 and 1994 are as follows:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                               Dec. 31, 1995                   Dec. 31, 1994       
                          On Balance    Commitments      On Balance     Commitments
      Region                Sheet       to Purchase        Sheet        to Purchase
<S>                      <C>            <C>             <C>             <C>
East North Central       $  720,185     $  67,206       $  581,142      $ 62,291
West North Central          303,113        34,411          257,996         7,590
South Atlantic              732,529       111,967          597,896        63,010
Middle Atlantic             508,634        37,079          408,940        34,478
New England                 244,816        40,452          209,867        23,087
Pacific                     168,272        23,161          138,900            --
West South Central           61,860        27,978           50,854            --
East South Central           58,462        10,122           67,503            --
Mountain                    184,964        16,774          122,668        18,750
                          2,982,835       369,150        2,435,766       209,206
Less allowance
for losses                   37,340            --           35,252            --
                         $2,945,495      $369,150       $2,400,514      $209,206
<PAGE>
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2. Investments (continued)

                               Dec. 31, 1995                   Dec. 31, 1994       
                          On Balance    Commitments      On Balance     Commitments
  Property type             Sheet       to Purchase        Sheet        to Purchase
Apartments               $1,038,446      $ 84,978       $  904,012      $ 56,964
Department/retail stores    985,660       134,538          802,522        88,325
Office buildings            464,381        62,664          321,761        21,691
Industrial buildings        255,469        22,721          232,962        18,827
Nursing/retirement homes     80,864         4,378           89,304         4,649
Mixed Use                    53,169            --               --            --
Hotels/motels                31,335        48,816           32,666            --
Medical buildings            57,772         2,495           36,490        15,651
Other                        15,739         8,560           16,049         3,099
                          2,982,835       369,150        2,435,766       209,206
Less allowance
for losses                   37,340            --           35,252            --
                         $2,945,495      $369,150       $2,400,514      $209,206
</TABLE>

Mortgage loan fundings are restricted by state insurance regulatory
authorities to 80 percent or less of the market value of the real
estate at the time of origination of the loan.  The Company holds
the mortgage document, which gives the right to take possession of
the property if the borrower fails to perform according to the
terms of the agreement.  The fair value of the mortgage loans is
determined by a discounted cash flow analysis using mortgage
interest rates currently offered for mortgages of similar
maturities.  Commitments to purchase mortgages are made in the
ordinary course of business.  The fair value of the mortgage
commitments is $nil.

As of January 1, 1995, the Company adopted Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 114, "Accounting by Creditors for
Impairment of a Loan" (SFAS No. 114), as amended by Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 118, "Accounting by Creditors
for Impairment of a Loan - Income Recognition and Disclosures". 
The adoption of the new rules did not have a material impact on the
Company's results of operations or financial condition.
        
SFAS No. 114 applies to all loans except for smaller-balance
homogeneous loans, that are collectively evaluated for impairment.  
Impairment is measured as the excess of the loan's recorded
investment over its present value of expected principal and
interest payments discounted at the loan's effective interest rate,
or the fair value of collateral.  The amount of the impairment is
recorded as a reserve for investment losses.
        
Based on management's judgment as to the ultimate collectibility of
principal, interest payments received are either recognized as
income or applied to the recorded investment in the loan until it
has been recovered.  Once the recorded investment has been
recovered, any additional payments are recognized as interest
income.
        
The reserve for investment losses is maintained at a level that
management believes is adequate to absorb estimated credit losses
in the portfolio.  The level of the reserve account is determined
based on several factors, including historical experience, expected
future principal and interest payments, estimated collateral
values, and current and anticipated economic and political
conditions.  Management regularly evaluates the adequacy of the
reserve for investment losses.
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2. Investments (continued)

At Dec. 31, 1995, the Company's recorded investment in impaired
loans was $83,874 with a reserve of $19,307.  During the year, the
average recorded investment in impaired loans was $74,567.

The Company recognized $5,014 of interest income related to
impaired loans for the year ended Dec. 31, 1995. 
        
The following table presents changes in the reserve for investment
losses related to all loans:

                                              1995  

Balance, January 1                          $35,252

Provision for investment losses              15,900
Sales of related loans                       (6,600)
Loan payoffs                                 (5,300)
Other                                        (1,912)

Balance, Dec. 31                            $37,340

At Dec. 31, 1995, the Company had commitments to purchase real
estate investments for $54,897.  Commitments to purchase real
estate investments are made in the ordinary course of
business.  The fair value of these commitments is $nil.
        
3. Income taxes

The Company qualifies as a life insurance company for federal
income tax purposes.  As such, the Company is subject to the
Internal Revenue Code provisions applicable to life insurance
companies.
        
Income tax expense consists of the following:

                                 1995          1994          1993 
Federal income taxes:
Current                         $218,040     $186,508     $180,558
Deferred                         (33,810)     (19,175)     (44,237)
                                 184,230      167,333      136,321

State income taxes-current        11,612        9,010        6,326
Income tax expense              $195,842     $176,343     $142,647

Increases (decreases) to the federal tax provision applicable to
pretax income based on the statutory rate are attributable to:

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3. Income taxes (continued)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                 1995                  1994                 1993     
                          Provision    Rate     Provision   Rate     Provision   Rate
<S>                       <C>          <C>      <C>         <C>      <C>         <C>
Federal income
taxes based on
the statutory rate        $196,274     35.0%    $179,379    35.0%    $144,454    35.0%
Increases (decreases)
are attributable to:
Tax-excluded interest
and dividend income         (8,524)    (1.5)      (9,939)   (2.0)     (11,002)   (2.7)
Other, net                  (3,520)    (0.6)      (2,107)   (0.4)       2,869     0.7
Federal income taxes      $184,230     32.9%    $167,333    32.6%    $136,321    33.0%
</TABLE>

A portion of life insurance company income earned prior to 1984 was
not subject to current taxation but was accumulated, for tax
purposes, in a policyholders' surplus account.  At Dec. 31, 1995,
the Company had a policyholders' surplus account balance of
$20,114.  The policyholder's surplus account balance increased in
1995 due to the acquisition of ACLAC.  The policyholders' surplus
account is only taxable if dividends to the stockholder exceed the
stockholder's surplus account or if the Company is liquidated. 
Deferred income taxes of $7,040 have not been established because
no distributions of such amounts are contemplated.
        
Significant components of the Company's deferred tax assets and
liabilities as of Dec. 31 are as follows:

                                       1995             1994  
Deferred tax assets:
Policy reserves                      $ 600,176        $533,433
Investments                                 --         116,736
Life insurance guarantee
fund assessment reserve                 26,785          32,235
Total deferred tax assets              626,961         682,404

Deferred tax liabilities:
Derred policy acquisition costs        590,762         553,722
Investments                            146,805              --
Other                                    2,298           4,621
Total deferred tax
liabilities                            739,865         558,343
Net deferred tax assets
(liabilities)                        $(112,904)       $124,061

The Company is required to establish a valuation allowance for any
portion of the deferred tax assets that management believes will
not be realized.  In the opinion of management, it is more
likely than not that the Company will realize the benefit of the
deferred tax assets, and, therefore, no such valuation allowance
has been established.
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4. Stockholder's equity

During 1995, the Company received a $39,700 capital contribution
from its parent, American Express Financial Corporation, in the
form of investments in fixed maturities and mortgage loans.  In 
addition, effective January 1, 1995, the Company began 
consolidating the financial results of ACLAC.  This change
reflected the transfer of ownership of ACLAC from Amex Life
Assurance Company (Amex Life), a former affiliate, to the Company
prior to the sale of Amex Life to an unaffiliated third party on
October 2, 1995.  This transfer of ownership to the Company has
been reflected as a capital contribution of $17,114 in the
accompanying financial statements.  The effect of this change in
reporting entity was not significant and prior periods have not
been restated.
        
As discussed in Note 5, the Company entered into a reinsurance
agreement with Amex Life during 1995.  As a result of this
transaction, a loss of $4,574 was realized and reported as a
direct charge to retained earnings.
        
Retained earnings available for distribution as dividends to the
parent are limited to the Company's surplus as determined in
accordance with accounting practices prescribed by state
insurance regulatory authorities.  Statutory unassigned surplus
aggregated $1,103,993 as of Dec. 31, 1995 and $1,020,981 as of Dec.
31, 1994 (see Note 3 with respect to the income tax effect of
certain distributions).  In addition, any dividend distributions in
1996 in excess of approximately $290,988 would require approval of
the Department of Commerce of the State of Minnesota.
        
Statutory net income for the years ended Dec. 31 and capital and
surplus as of Dec. 31 are summarized as follows:

                                    1995         1994        1993  

Statutory net income            $  326,799   $  294,699  $  275,015
Statutory capital and surplus    1,398,649    1,261,958   1,157,022

Dividends paid to American Express Financial Corporation were
$180,000 in 1995, $165,000 in 1994, and $25,000 in 1993.

5. Related party transactions

The Company has loaned funds to American Express Financial
Corporation under two loan agreements.  The balance of the first
loan was $25,800 and $40,000 at Dec. 31, 1995 and 1994,
respectively.  This loan can be increased to a maximum of $75,000
and pays interest at a rate equal to the preceding month's
effective new money rate for the Company's permanent investments. 
It is collateralized by equities valued at $122,978 at Dec. 31,
1995.  The second loan was used to fund the construction of the IDS
Operations Center.  This loan was paid off during 1994.  The loan
was secured by a first lien on the IDS Operations Center property
and had an interest rate of 9.89 percent.  The Company also had a
loan to an affiliate which was used to fund construction of the IDS
Learning Center.  This loan was sold to the American Express        
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5. Related party transactions (continued)

Financial Corporation during 1994.  The loan was secured by a first
lien on the IDS Learning Center property and had an interest rate
of 9.82 percent.  Interest income on the above loans totaled
$1,371, $2,894 and $11,116 in 1995, 1994 and 1993, respectively.

The Company purchased a five year secured note from an affiliated
company which had an outstanding balance of $19,444 and $23,333 at
Dec. 31, 1995 and 1994, respectively.  The note bears a fixed rate
of 8.42 percent.  Interest income on the above note totaled $1,937,
$2,278 and $2,605 in 1995, 1994 and 1993, respectively.
    
The Company has a reinsurance agreement whereby it assumed 100
percent of a block of single premium life insurance business from
Amex Life.  The accompanying consolidated balance sheets at Dec.
31, 1995 and 1994 include $764,663 and $765,366, respectively, of
future policy benefits related to this agreement.

The Company has a reinsurance agreement to cede 50 percent of its
long-term care insurance business to Amex Life. The accompanying
consolidated balance sheets at Dec. 31, 1995 and 1994 include
$95,484 and $65,123, respectively, of reinsurance receivables
related to this agreement.  Premiums ceded amounted to $25,553,
$20,360 and $16,230 and reinsurance recovered from reinsurers
amounted to $760, $62 and $404 for the years ended Dec. 31, 1995,
1994 and 1993, respectively.
        
The Company has a reinsurance agreement to assume deferred annuity
contracts from Amex Life.  At October 1, 1995 a $803,618 block of 
deferred annuities and $28,327 of deferred policy acquisition costs
were transferred to the Company.  The accompanying consolidated
balance sheet at Dec. 31, 1995 includes $828,298 of future policy
benefits related to this agreement.
        
Until July 1, 1995 the Company participated in the IDS Retirement
Plan of American Express Financial Corporation which covered all
permanent employees age 21 and over who had met certain employment
requirements.  Effective July 1, 1995, the IDS Retirement Plan was
merged with American Express Company's American Express Retirement
Plan, which simultaneously was amended to include a cash balance
formula and a lump sum distribution option.  Employer contributions
to the plan are based on participants' age, years of service
and total compensation for the year.  Funding of retirement costs
for this plan complies with the applicable minimum funding
requirements specified by ERISA.  The Company's share of the total
net periodic pension cost was $nil in 1995, 1994 and 1993.
        
The Company also participates in defined contribution pension plans
of American Express Company which cover all employees who have met
certain employment requirements.  Company contributions to the
plans are a percent of either each employee's eligible compensation
or basic contributions.  Costs of these plans charged to operations
in 1995, 1994 and 1993 were $815, $957 and $2,008, respectively.
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5. Related party transactions (continued)

The Company participates in defined benefit health care plans of
American Express Financial Corporation that provide health care and
life insurance benefits to retired employees and retired financial
advisors.  The plans include participant contributions and service
related eligibility requirements.  Upon retirement, such employees
are considered to have been employees of American Express Financial
Corporation.  American Express Financial Corporation expenses these
benefits and allocates the expenses to its subsidiaries. 
Accordingly, costs of such benefits to the Company are included in
employee compensation and benefits and cannot be identified on a
separate company basis.  At Dec. 31, 1995 and 1994, the total
accumulated post retirement benefit obligation has been recorded as
a liability by American Express Financial Corporation.
        
Charges by American Express Financial Corporation for use of joint
facilities, marketing services and other services aggregated
$377,139, $335,183, and $243,346 for 1995, 1994 and 1993,
respectively.  Certain of these costs are included in deferred
policy acquisition costs.  In addition, the Company rents its home
office space from American Express Financial Corporation on an
annual renewable basis. 

6. Commitments and contingencies

At Dec. 31, 1995 and 1994, traditional life insurance and universal
life-type insurance in force aggregated $59,683,532 and
$52,666,567, respectively, of which  $3,771,204 and $3,246,608
were reinsured at the respective year ends.  The Company also
reinsures a portion of the risks assumed under disability income
policies. Under the agreements, premiums ceded to reinsurers
amounted to $29,146, $29,489 and $28,276 and reinsurance recovered
from reinsurers amounted to $5,756, $5,505, and $3,345 for the
years ended Dec. 31, 1995, 1994 and 1993.
        
Reinsurance contracts do not relieve the Company from its primary
obligation to policyholders.
        
The Company is a defendant in various lawsuits, none of which, in
the opinion of Company counsel, will result in a material
liability.

The IRS has completed its audit of the Company's 1987 through 1989
tax years.  The Company is currently contesting one issue at the
IRS Appeals Level.  Management does not believe there will be a 
material impact as a result of this audit.

7. Lines of credit

The Company has available lines of credit with three banks
aggregating $100,000 at 40 to 80 basis points over the banks' cost
of funds or equal to the prime rate, depending on which line of
credit agreement is used.  Borrowings outstanding under these
agreements were $nil at Dec. 31, 1995 and 1994, respectively.

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8. Derivative financial instruments
        
The Company enters into transactions involving derivative financial
instruments to manage its exposure to interest rate risk, including
hedging specific transactions.  The Company manages risks
associated with these instruments as described below.  The Company
does not hold derivative instruments for trading purposes.

Market risk is the possibility that the value of the derivative
financial instruments will change due to fluctuations in a factor
from which the instrument derives its value, primarily an interest 
rate.  The Company is not impacted by market risk related to
derivatives held for non-trading purposes beyond that inherent in
cash market transactions.  Derivatives held for purposes other than
trading are largely used to manage risk and, therefore, the cash
flow and income effects of the derivatives are inverse to the
effects of the underlying transactions. 
        
Credit risk is the possibility that the counterparty will not
fulfill the terms of the contract.  The Company monitors credit
exposure related to derivative financial instruments through
established approval procedures, including setting concentration
limits by counterparty and industry, and requiring collateral,
where appropriate.  A vast majority of the Company's counterparties
are rated A or better by Moody's and Standard & Poor's.
        
The notional or contract amount of a derivative financial 
instrument is generally used to calculate the cash flows that are
received or paid over the life of the agreement.  Notional
amounts are not recorded on the balance sheet.  Notional amounts
far exceed the related credit exposure.
        
Credit exposure related to interest rate caps is measured by the
replacement cost of the contracts.   The replacement cost
represents the fair value of the instruments.  Financial futures
contracts are settled in cash daily.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                         Notional     Carrying       Fair      Total Credit
Dec. 31, 1995             Amount        Value        Value       Exposure  
<S>                     <C>           <C>            <C>          <C>
Assets:
Interest rate caps      $5,100,000    $26,680        $ 8,366      $ 8,366

Dec. 31, 1994
Assets:
Financial futures
contracts               $  159,800    $ 2,072        $ 2,072      $    --
Interest rate caps       4,400,000     29,054         42,365       42,365
                        $4,559,800    $31,126        $44,437      $42,365
</TABLE>

The fair values of derivative financial instruments are based on
market values, dealer quotes or pricing models.  The financial
futures contracts expired in 1995.  The interest rate caps expire
on various dates from 1996 to 2000.
        
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8. Derivative financial instruments (continued)

Financial futures contracts and interest rate caps are used
principally to manage the Company's exposure to rising interest
rates.  These instruments are used primarily to protect the margin
between interest rates earned on investments and the interest rates
credited to related annuity contract holders.
        
Changes in the fair value of financial futures contracts are
accounted for as adjustments to the carrying amount of the hedged
investments and amortized over the remaining lives of such
investments.  The cost of interest rate caps is amortized to
interest expense over the life of the contracts and payments
received as a result of these agreements are recorded as a
reduction of interest expense when realized.  The amortized cost of
interest rate cap contracts is included in other investments.

9. Fair values of financial instruments

The Company discloses fair value information for most on- and
off-balance sheet financial instruments for which it is practical
to estimate that value.  Fair values of life insurance obligations,
receivables and all non-financial instruments, such as deferred
acquisition costs are excluded.  Off-balance sheet intangible
assets, such as the value of the field force, are also excluded. 
Management believes the value of excluded assets is significant. 
The fair value of the Company, therefore, cannot be estimated by
aggregating the amounts presented.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                        1995                           1994        
                              Carrying         Fair          Carrying         Fair
Financial Assets                Value          Value           Value          Value
<S>                         <C>             <C>            <C>            <C>
Investments:
Fixed maturities (Note 2):
Held to maturity            $11,257,591     $11,878,377    $11,269,861    $10,694,800
Available for sale           10,516,212      10,516,212      8,017,555      8,017,555
Mortgage loans on
real estate (Note 2)          2,945,495       3,184,666      2,400,514      2,342,520
Other:
Equity securities (Note 2)        3,517           3,517          1,906          1,906
Derivative financial
instruments (Note 8)             26,680           8,366         31,126         44,437
Other                            52,182          52,182             --             --
Cash and cash
equivalents (Note 1)             72,147          72,147        267,774        267,774
Separate account assets
(Note 1)                     14,974,082      14,974,082     10,881,235     10,881,235

Financial Liabilities
Future policy benefits
for fixed annuities          20,259,265      19,603,114     18,325,870     17,651,897
Separate account
liabilities                  14,208,619      13,665,636     10,398,861      9,943,672
</TABLE>

At Dec. 31, 1995 and 1994, the carrying amount and fair value of
future policy benefits for fixed annuities exclude life
insurance-related contracts carried at $1,070,598 and $971,897,
respectively, and policy loans of $74,973 and $64,212,
respectively.  The fair value of these benefits is based on the
status of the annuities at Dec. 31, 1995 and 1994.  The fair value
of deferred annuities is estimated as the carrying amount less any 
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9. Fair values of financial instruments (continued)

applicable surrender charges and related loans.  The fair value for
annuities in non-life contingent payout status is estimated as the
present value of projected benefit payments at rates appropriate
for contracts issued in 1995 and 1994. 

At Dec. 31, 1995 and 1994, the fair value of liabilities related to
separate accounts is estimated as the carrying amount less any
applicable surrender charges and less variable insurance contracts
carried at $765,463 and $482,374, respectively. 

10. Segment information

The Company's operations consist of two business segments; first,
individual and group life insurance, disability income, health and
long-term care insurance, and second, annuity products designed for
individuals, pension plans, small businesses and employer-sponsored
groups.  The consolidated condensed statements of income for the
years ended Dec. 31, 1995, 1994 and 1993 and total assets at Dec.
31, 1995, 1994 and 1993 by segment are summarized as follows:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                         1995             1994           1993  
<S>                                 <C>              <C>             <C>
Net investment income:
Life, disability income, health
and long-term care insurance        $   256,242      $   247,047     $   250,224
Annuities                             1,651,067        1,534,826       1,532,995
                                    $ 1,907,309      $ 1,781,873     $ 1,783,219
Premiums, charges and fees:
Life, disability income, health
and long-term care insurance        $   384,008      $   335,375     $   287,713
Annuities                               249,557          193,370         143,876
                                    $   633,565      $   528,745     $   431,589
Income before income taxes:
Life, disability income, health
and long-term care insurance        $   125,402      $   122,677     $   104,127
Annuities                               440,278          394,117         315,336
Net loss on investments                  (4,898)          (4,282)         (6,737)
                                    $   560,782      $   512,512     $   412,726
Total assets:
Life, disability income, health
and long-term care insurance        $ 6,195,870      $ 5,269,188     $ 4,810,145
Annuities                            36,704,208       30,478,355      28,247,608
                                    $42,900,078      $35,747,543     $33,057,753
</TABLE>

Allocations of net investment income and certain general expenses
are based on various assumptions and estimates.
        
Assets are not individually identifiable by segment and have been 
allocated principally based on the amount of future policy benefits
by segment.

Capital expenditures and depreciation expense are not material, and
consequently, are not reported.
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Report of Independent Auditors

The Board of Directors
IDS Life Insurance Company

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of IDS
Life Insurance Company (a wholly owned subsidiary of American
Express Financial Corporation) as of December 31, 1995 and 1994,
and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholder's
equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period
ended December 31, 1995.  These financial statements are the
responsibility of the Company's management.  Our responsibility is
to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our
audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted
auditing standards.  Those standards require that we plan and
perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
financial statements are free of material misstatement.  An audit
includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the
amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.  An audit also
includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant
estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audits
provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. 

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present
fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial
position of IDS Life Insurance Company at December 31, 1995 and
1994, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash
flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31,
1995, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. 

As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements,
the Company changed its method of accounting for certain
investments in debt and equity securities in 1994.



February 2, 1996
Minneapolis, Minnesota




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                             PART II.

              INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 13.  Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

     The expenses of the issuance and distribution of the interests
in the IDS Life Account MGA of IDS Life Insurance Company to be
registered, other than commissions on sales of the Contracts, are
to be borne by the registrant.

Item 14.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers

     Section 300.083 of Minnesota Law provides in part that a
corporation organized under such law shall have power to indemnify
anyone made, or threatened to be made, a party to a threatened,
pending or completed proceeding, whether civil or criminal,
administrative or investigative, because he is or was a director or
officer of the corporation, or served as a director or officer of
another corporation at the request of the corporation. 
Indemnification in such a proceeding may extend to judgments,
penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement, as well as to
reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees and disbursements. 
In a civil proceeding, there can be no indemnification under the
statute, unless it appears that the person seeking indemnification
has acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to
be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation and
its shareholders and unless such person has received no improper
personal benefit; in a criminal proceeding, the person seeking
indemnification must also have no reasonable cause to believe his
conduct was unlawful.

     Article IX of the By-laws of the IDS Life Insurance Company
requires the IDS Life Insurance Company to indemnify directors and
officers to the extent indemnification is permitted as stated by
the preceding paragraph, and contains substantially the same
language as the above-mentioned Section 300.083.

     Article IX, paragraph (2), of the By-laws of the IDS Life
Insurance Company provides as follows:

     "Section 2.  The Corporation shall indemnify any person who
was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party, by reason of
the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent
of this Corporation, or is or was serving at the direction of the
Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise,
to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding,
wherever brought, to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of
the State of Minnesota, as now existing or hereafter amended,
provided that this Article shall not indemnify or protect any such
director, officer, employee or agent against any liability to the
Corporation or its security holders to which he would otherwise be
subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith, or gross
negligence, in the performance of his duties or by reason of his
reckless disregard of his obligations and duties."

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     The parent company of IDS Life Insurance Company maintains an
insurance policy which affords liability coverage to directors and
officers of the IDS Life Insurance Company while acting in that
capacity.  IDS Life Insurance Company pays its proportionate share
of the premiums for the policy.

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and
controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in
the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by
the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer
or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense
of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director,
officer or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in
the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.

Item 15.  Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

          None

Item 16.  Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

(a)  Exhibits

     3.1  Copy of Certificate of Incorporation of IDS Life
          Insurance Company filed electronically as Exhibit 3.1 to
          Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to Registration Statement
          No. 33-28976 is incorporated herein by reference.

     3.2  Copy of the Amended By-laws of IDS Life Insurance Company
          filed electronically as Exhibit 3.2 to Post-Effective
          Amendment No. 5 to Registration Statement No. 33-28976 is
          incorporated herein by reference.

     3.3  Copy of Resolution of the Board of Directors of IDS Life
          Insurance Company, dated May 5, 1989, establishing IDS
          Life Account MGA filed electronically as Exhibit 3.3 to
          Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to Registration Statement
          No. 33-28976 is incorporated herein by reference.

     4.1  Copy of Group Annuity Contract, Form 30363C, filed
          electronically as Exhibit 4.1 to Post-Effective Amendment
          No. 5 to Registration Statement No. 33-28976 is
          incorporated herein by reference.

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     4.2  Copy of Group Annuity Certificate, Form 30360C, filed
          electronically as Exhibit 4.2 to Post-Effective Amendment
          No. 5 to Registration Statement No. 33-28976 is
          incorporated herein by reference.

     4.3  Copy of Endorsement No. 30340C-GP to the Group Annuity
          Contract filed electronically as Exhibit 4.3 to Post-
          Effective Amendment No. 5 to Registration Statement No.
          33-28976 is incorporated herein by reference.

     4.4  Copy of Endorsement No. 30340C to the Group Annuity
          Certificate filed electronically as Exhibit 4.4 to Post-
          Effective Amendment No. 5 to Registration Statement No.
          33-28976 is incorporated herein by reference.

     5.   Copy of Opinion of Counsel regarding legality of
          Contracts, dated Oct. 3, 1990, filed electronically as
          Exhibit 5 to Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to
          Registration Statement No. 33-28976 is incorporated
          herein by reference.

     22.  Copy of List of Subsidiaries is filed electronically
          herewith.

     24.  Consent of Independent Auditors is filed electronically
          herewith.

     25.  Power of Attorney, dated April 1, 1996 is filed
          electronically herewith.

(b)  Financial Statement Schedules 

     27.1  Schedule I   - Consolidated Summary of Investments Other
                          than Investments in Related Parties
           Schedule III - Supplementary Insurance Information
           Schedule IV  - Reinsurance
           Schedule V   - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

           Report of Independent Auditors dated February 2, 1996.

     All other schedules to the consolidated financial statements
     required by Article 7 of Regulation S-X are not required under
     the related instructions or are inapplicable and, therefore,
     have been omitted.

     27.2  Financial Data Schedule is filed electronically
           herewith.

Item 17.  Undertakings

A.  The Registrant undertakes: (a) to file, during any period in
which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to
this registration statement: (i) to include any prospectus required
by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, (ii) to reflect
in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective
date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-
effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
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forth in the Registration Statement, (iii) to include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to
such information in the Registration Statement, (b) that, for the
purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
1933, each such post-effective amendment may be deemed to be a new 
Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein
and the offering of such securities at that time may be deemed to
be the initial bona fide offering thereof, (c) that all post-
effective amendments will comply with the applicable forms, rules
and regulations of the Commission in effect at the time such post-
effective amendments are filed, and (d) to remove from registration
by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being
registered which will remain at the termination of the offering.

B.  The Registrant represents that it is relying upon the no-action
assurance given to the American Council of Life Insurance (pub.
avail. Nov. 28, 1988).  Further, the Registrant represents that it
has complied with the provisions of paragraphs (1) - (4) of the no-
action letter.
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                            SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, IDS
Life Insurance Company has duly caused this Registration Statement
to be signed on behalf of the Registrant by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized in this City of Minneapolis, and State of
Minnesota on the 3rd day of April, 1996.


                                   IDS Life Insurance Company
                                           (Registrant)

                                   By IDS Life Insurance Company  

                                   By /s/ James A. Mitchell*      
                                          James A. Mitchell


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities indicated on the 3rd day of April, 1996.

Signature                          Title

/s/ James A. Mitchell*             Chairman of the Board
    James A. Mitchell              and Chief Executive
                                   Officer

/s/ Richard W. Kling*              Director and President           
    Richard W. Kling      

/s/ David R. Hubers*               Director
    David R. Hubers

/s/ Paul F. Kolkman*               Director and Executive Vice
    Paul F. Kolkman                President

/s/ Janis E. Miller*               Director and Executive Vice 
    Janis E. Miller                President, Variable Assets

/s/ Barry J. Murphy*               Director and Executive Vice
    Barry J. Murphy                President, Client Service
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Signature                          Title

/s/ Stuart A. Sedlacek*            Director and Executive Vice 
    Stuart A. Sedlacek             President, Assured Assets 

/s/ Melinda S. Urion*              Director, Exective Vice
    Melinda S. Urion               President and Controller


*Signed pursuant to Power of Attorney dated April 1, 1996, filed
electronically herewith for IDS Life Insurance Company (IDS Life
Account MGA).

By:



                           
     Mary Ellyn Minenko   
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IDS Life Account MGA
IDS Life Single Payment Market Value Annuity
Registration No. 33-28976

                           EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit 22.  Copy of List of Subsidiaries is filed electronically
             herewith.

Exhibit 24.  Consent of Independent Auditors is filed
             electronically herewith.

Exhibit 25.  Power of Attorney, dated April 1, 1996 is filed
             electronically herewith.

Exhibit 27.1  Financial Statement Schedules and Report of
              Independent Auditors is filed electronically
              herewith.

Exhibit 27.2  Financial Data Schedule is filed electronically
              herewith.
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LIST OF SUBSIDIARIES

o     American Centurion Life Assurance Company
o     American Enterprise Life Insurance Company
o     American Partners Life Insurance Company
o     IDS Life Insurance Company of New York

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                  Consent of Independent Auditors


We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption "Experts"
and to the use of our reports dated February 2, 1996 with respect
to the consolidated financial statements and schedules of IDS Life
Insurance Company included in Post-Effective Amendment No. 8 to the
Registration Statement (Form S-1 No. 33-28976) and related
Prospectus of IDS Life Account MGA for the registration of market
value adjusted annuity interests to be offered by IDS Life
Insurance Company. 


Minneapolis, Minnesota
April 2, 1996

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               IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
                    POWER OF ATTORNEY

City of Minneapolis

State of Minnesota

     Each of the undersigned, as directors of the below listed
unit investment trusts that previously have filed registration
statements and amendments thereto pursuant to the requirements of
the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940
with the Securities and Exchange Commission:
<TABLE>
<S>                                                     <C>             <C>

                                                        1933 Act        1940 Act
                                                        Reg. Number     Reg. Number
IDS Life Variable Account 10
  IDS Life Flexible Portfolio Annuity                   33-62407        811-07355
IDS Life Accounts F, IZ, JZ, G, H, N, KZ, LZ and MZ
  IDS Life Flexible Annuity                             33-4173         811-3217
IDS Life Accounts F, IZ, JZ, G, H, N, KZ, LZ and MZ
  IDS Life Variable and Combination
  Retirement Annuities                                  2-73114         811-3217
IDS Life Accounts F, IZ, JZ, G, H, N, KZ, LZ and MZ
  IDS Life Employee Benefit Annuity                     33-52518        811-3217
IDS Life Accounts F, IZ, JZ, G, H, N, KZ, LZ and MZ
  IDS Life Group Variable Annuity Contract              33-47302        811-3217
IDS Life Insurance Company
  IDS Life Group Variable Annuity Contract   
  (Fixed Account)                                       33-48701           N/A
IDS Life Insurance Company
  IDS Life Single Payment Market Value Annuity          33-28976           N/A
IDS Life Insurance Company
  IDS Life Flexible Payment Market Value Annuity        33-50968           N/A
IDS Life Variable Life Separate Account
  Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance Policy       33-11165        811-4298
IDS Life Variable Life Separate Account
  IDS Life Single Premium Variable Life                 2-97637         811-4298
IDS Life Variable Account for Smith Barney 
  LifeVest Single Premium Variable Life                 33-5210         811-4652
IDS Life Account SBS
  IDS Life Symphony Annuity                             33-40779        812-7731
IDS Life Account RE
  IDS Life Real Estate Variable Annuity                 33-13375           N/A
IDS Life Variable Annuity Fund A                        2-29081         811-1653
IDS Life Variable Annuity Fund B                        2-47430         811-1674
</TABLE>
hereby constitutes and appoints William A. Stoltzmann, Mary Ellyn
Minenko, Eileen J. Newhouse and Timothy S. Meehan or any one of
them, as her or his attorney-in-fact and agent, to sign for her or
him in her or his name, place and stead any and all filings,
applications (including applications for exemptive relief),
periodic reports, registration statements (with all exhibits and
other documents required or desirable in connection therewith)
other documents, and amendments thereto and to file such filings,
applications, periodic reports, registration statements other 
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documents, and amendments thereto with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and any necessary states, and grants to any or all of
them the full power and authority to do and perform each and every
act required or necessary in connection therewith.

     Dated the 1st day of April, 1996.



/s/ David R. Hubers                             March 21, 1996
    David R. Hubers
    Director


/s/ Richard W. Kling                            March 21, 1996
    Richard W. Kling
    Director and President


/s/ Paul F. Kolkman                             March 21, 1996
    Paul F. Kolkman
    Director and Executive Vice
    President


/s/ Janis E. Miller                             March 25, 1996
    Janis E. Miller
    Director and Executive Vice
    President, Variable Assets


/s/ James A. Mitchell                           March 25, 1996
    James A. Mitchell
    Director, Chairman of the
    Board and Chief Executive Officer


/s/ Barry J. Murphy                             April 1, 1996
    Barry J. Murphy
    Director and Executive Vice
    President, Client Service


/s/ Stuart A. Sedlacek                          March 27, 1996
    Stuart A. Sedlacek
    Director and Executive Vice
    President, Assured Assets


/s/ Melinda S. Urion                            March 29, 1996
    Melinda S. Urion
    Director, Executive Vice
    President and Controller

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
SCHEDULE I - CONSOLIDATED SUMMARY OF INVESTMENTS
OTHER THAN INVESTMENTS IN RELATED PARTIES ($ thousands)
AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1995


Column A                                      Column B          Column C          Column D

Type of Investment                              Cost              Value       Amount at which
                                                                               shown in the
                                                                               balance sheet
<S>                                          <C>               <C>              <C>
Fixed maturities:
    Held to maturity:                                 
        United States Government and                                    
          government agencies and                                 
          authorities (a)                    $ 1,237,093       $ 1,253,115      $ 1,237,093
        States, municipalities and
           political subdivisions                 11,936            12,266           11,936
        All other corporate bonds             10,008,562        10,612,996       10,008,562
              Total held to maturity          11,257,591        11,878,377       11,257,591
                                    
    Available for sale:                               
        United States Government and                                    
          government agencies and                                 
          authorities (b)                      4,092,563         4,176,080        4,176,080
        States, municipalities and
           political subdivisions                 11,020            12,496           12,496
        All other corporate bonds              6,042,553         6,327,636        6,327,636
              Total available for sale        10,146,136        10,516,212       10,516,212
                                    
Mortgage loans on real estate                  2,945,495         XXXXXXXXX        2,945,495
Policy loans                                     424,019         XXXXXXXXX          424,019
Other investments                                146,894         XXXXXXXXX          146,894
                                    
              Total investments              $24,920,135       $ XXXXXXXXX      $25,290,211
                                    
(a) - Includes mortgage-backed securities with a cost and market value of $1,172,570 and
      $1,184,673, respectively.                                    
(b) - Includes mortgage-backed securities with a cost and market value of $4,008,481 and
      $4,088,800, respectively.
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
SCHEDULE III - SUPPLEMENTARY INSURANCE INFORMATION ($ thousands)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1995

Column A               Column B          Column C          Column D          Column E           Column F          Column G

Segment                Deferred          Future            Unearned          Other policy        Premium            Net
                        policy           policy            premiums           claims and         revenue         investment
                      acquisition       benefits,                              benefits                            income
                         cost            losses,                               payable
                                       claims and
                                          loss
                                        expenses

<S>                  <C>               <C>               <C>                  <C>                <C>            <C>
Annuities            $1,227,169        $21,404,836       $      -             $28,191            $      -       $1,651,067

Life, DI,
Long-term Care and
Health Insurance        798,556          3,613,253              -              28,132             161,530          256,242

Total                $2,025,725        $25,018,089       $      -             $56,323            $161,530       $1,907,309

                       Column H          Column I          Column J          Column K

                       Benefits,       Amortization          Other           Premiums
                        claims,        of deferred         operating         written
                      losses and         policy             expenses
                      settlement       acquisition
                       expenses           costs

Annuities            $    2,693        $   189,626       $166,191              N/A

Life, DI,
Long-term Care and
Health Insurance        164,749             90,495         45,451              N/A

Total                $  167,442        $   280,121       $211,642              N/A

</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
SCHEDULE III - SUPPLEMENTARY INSURANCE INFORMATION ($ thousands)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994

Column A               Column B          Column C          Column D          Column E           Column F          Column G

Segment                Deferred           Future           Unearned         Other policy        Premium              Net
                        policy            policy           premiums          claims and         revenue           investment
                     acquisition         benefits,                            benefits                              income
                         cost             losses,                              payable
                                        claims and
                                           loss
                                         expenses

<S>                   <C>              <C>               <C>                  <C>             <C>                <C>
Annuities             $1,150,585       $19,361,979       $      -             $23,888         $      -           $1,534,826

Life, DI,
Long-term Care and
Health Insurance         714,739         3,346,931              -              26,180          144,640              247,047

Total                 $1,865,324       $22,708,910       $      -             $50,068         $144,640           $1,781,873

                       Column H          Column I          Column J          Column K

                       Benefits,       Amortization          Other           Premiums
                        claims,        of deferred         operating         written
                      losses and         policy             expenses
                      settlement       acquisition
                       expenses           costs

Annuities             $   (5,762)      $   194,060       $131,515              N/A

Life, DI,
Long-term Care and
Health Insurance         134,128            86,312         78,586              N/A

Total                 $  128,366       $   280,372       $210,101              N/A

</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
SCHEDULE III - SUPPLEMENTARY INSURANCE INFORMATION ($ thousands)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1993

Column A               Column B          Column C          Column D          Column E           Column F

Segment                Deferred           Future           Unearned        Other policy         Premium
                        policy            policy           premiums         claims and          revenue
                     acquisition         benefits,                           benefits
                         cost             losses,                             payable
                                        claims and
                                           loss
                                          expenses
<S>                   <C>              <C>                <C>                <C>               <C>
Annuities             $1,008,378       $18,492,135        $      -           $ 21,508          $      -

Life, DI,
Long-term Care and
Health Insurance         644,006         3,148,932               -             23,008           127,245

Total                 $1,652,384       $21,641,067        $      -           $ 44,516          $127,245

                       Column G          Column H          Column I          Column J          Column K

                          Net            Benefits,       Amortization          Other           Premiums
                      investment          claims,        of deferred         operating         written
                        income          losses and         policy             expenses
                                        settlement       acquisition
                                         expenses           costs

Annuities             $1,532,995       $     3,656        $139,602           $122,999            N/A

Life, DI,
Long-term Care and
Health Insurance         250,224           119,335          72,131            118,975            N/A

Total                 $1,783,219       $   122,991        $211,733           $241,974            N/A

</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
SCHEDULE IV - REINSURANCE ($ thousands)
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1995, 1994 AND 1993

Column A                         Column B          Column C          Column D         Column E       Column F

                               Gross amount      Ceded to other    Assumed from          Net        % of amount
                                                   companies      other companies       Amount     assumed to net

<S>                            <C>                <C>               <C>               <C>             <C>
For the year ended
  December 31, 1995

Life insurance in force        $57,895,180        $3,771,204        $1,788,352        $55,912,328      3.20%

Premiums:
  Life insurance               $    53,089        $    2,648        $     (248)       $    50,193     -0.49%
  DI & health insurance            137,016            25,679                --            111,337      0.00%
Total premiums                 $   190,105        $   28,327        $     (248)       $   161,530     -0.15%

For the year ended
  December 31, 1994

Life insurance in force        $50,814,651        $3,246,608        $1,851,916        $49,419,959      3.75%

Premiums:
  Life insurance               $    51,219        $    3,354        $      319        $    48,184      0.66%
  DI & health insurance            114,049            17,593                --             96,456      0.00%
Total premiums                 $   165,268        $   20,947        $      319        $   144,640      0.22%

For the year ended
  December 31, 1993

Life insurance in force        $44,188,493        $3,038,426        $1,937,022        $43,087,089      4.50%

Premiums:
  Life insurance               $    51,764        $    3,627        $       --        $    48,137      0.00%
  DI & health insurance             96,250            17,142                --             79,108      0.00%
Total premiums                 $   148,014        $   20,769        $       --        $   127,245      0.00%

</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>                                                                     
IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
SCHEDULE V - VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS ($ thousands)
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1995, 1994 AND 1993

          Column A                  Column B          Column C                          Column D            Column E

                                                      Additions
                                                      ---------
                                   Balance at                          Charged to
        Description                Beginning          Charged to     Other Accounts-   Deductions-       Balance at End
                                   of Period       Costs & Expenses     Describe       Describe *          of Period
<S>                                 <C>                <C>                 <C>          <C>                 <C>
For the year ended
  December 31, 1995
- -------------------------
Reserve for Mortgage Loans          $35,252             $ 1,088            $0           ($1,000)            $37,340
Reserve for Other Investments       $ 7,515            ($ 2,802)           $0            $    0             $ 4,713

For the year ended
  December 31, 1994
- -------------------------
Reserve for Mortgage Loans          $35,020             $   232            $0            $    0             $35,252
Reserve for Fixed Maturities        $22,777            ($16,777)           $0            $6,000             $     0
Reserve for Other Investments       $10,700            ($ 3,185)           $0            $    0             $ 7,515

For the year ended
  December 31, 1993
- -------------------------
Reserve for Mortgage Loans          $23,595             $13,635            $0            $2,210             $35,020
Reserve for Fixed Maturities        $37,899            ($15,122)           $0                               $22,777
Reserve for Other Investments       $12,834            ($ 4,344)           $0           ($2,210)            $10,700

* 1995 amount represents a reserve on mortgage loans which were transferred from an affiliate.  1994 amount represents
  a direct writedown of the related investments in fixed maturities.  1993 amounts represent transfers between reserve accounts.

</TABLE>
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                 Report of Independent Auditors


The Board of Directors
IDS Life Insurance Company



We have audited the consolidated financial statements of IDS
Life Insurance Company as of December 31, 1995 and 1994, and
for each of the three years in the period ended December 31,
1995, and have issued our report thereon dated February 2,
1996 (included elsewhere in this Registration Statement).

Our audits also included the financial statements schedules
listed in Item 16(b) of this Registration Statement.  These
schedules are the responsibility of the Company's
management.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion
based on our audits.

In our opinion, the financial statement schedules referred
to above, when considered in relation to the basic financial
statements taken as a whole, present fairly, in all material
respects, the information set forth therein.



                     /s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Minneapolis, Minnesota
February 2, 1996

WARNING: THE EDGAR SYSTEM ENCOUNTERED ERROR(S) WHILE PROCESSING THIS SCHEDULE.

<TABLE> <S> <C>

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<CIK>                                        0000768836
<NAME>                       IDS Life Insurance Company
<MULTIPLIER>                                       1000
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<PERIOD-START>              JAN-01-1994     JAN-01-1995
<PERIOD-END>                DEC-31-1994     DEC-31-1995
<PERIOD-TYPE>                      YEAR            YEAR
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<DEFERRED-ACQUISITION>          1865324         2025725
<TOTAL-ASSETS>                 35747543        42900078
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<POLICY-OTHER>                        0               0
<POLICY-HOLDER-FUNDS>             50068           56323
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<COMMON>                           3000            3000
                 0               0
                           0               0
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<TOTAL-LIABILITY-AND-EQUITY>   35747543        42900078
                       144640          161530
<INVESTMENT-INCOME>             1781873         1907309
<INVESTMENT-GAINS>               (4282)          (4898)
<OTHER-INCOME>                   384105          472035
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<UNDERWRITING-AMORTIZATION>      280372          280121
<UNDERWRITING-OTHER>             210101          211642
<INCOME-PRETAX>                  512512          560782
<INCOME-TAX>                     176343          195842
<INCOME-CONTINUING>              336169          364940
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<EXTRAORDINARY>                       0               0
<CHANGES>                             0               0
<NET-INCOME>                     336169          364940
<EPS-PRIMARY>                         0               0
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<RESERVE-OPEN>                    20636           23228
<PROVISION-CURRENT>               93683          117478
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