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American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. – ‘8-K’ for 8/5/20 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Wednesday, 8/5/20, at 4:40pm ET   ·   For:  8/5/20   ·   Accession #:  1039828-20-59   ·   File #:  1-31911

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 8/05/20  American Equity Inv Life Hold… Co 8-K:2,9     8/05/20   14:2.1M

Current Report   —   Form 8-K
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     31K 
 2: EX-99.1     Press Release                                       HTML     88K 
 3: EX-99.2     Financial Supplement                                HTML    472K 
10: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     53K 
12: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     13K 
 9: XML         XBRL Instance -- a2020-06x30ael8k_htm                XML     23K 
11: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      6K 
 5: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- ael-20200805_cal                XML      7K 
 6: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- ael-20200805_def                 XML     41K 
 7: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- ael-20200805_lab                      XML     84K 
 8: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- ael-20200805_pre               XML     45K 
 4: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- ael-20200805                          XSD     16K 
13: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               14±    21K 
14: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001039828-20-000059-xbrl      Zip     73K

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