| Average Annual Total Returns As of 10/31/2009 | Average Annual Total Returns As of 9/30/2009 | ||||||||||
| Investment Option Subaccounts | Inception Date | YTD % | 1 Year % | 3 Years % | 5 Years % | 10 Years % | Since Inception % | 1 Year % | 5 Years % | 10 Yrs/Since Inception % | |
| Balanced: | |||||||||||
| AST Advanced Strategies | 03/20/06 | 18.34 | 15.68 | -2.31 | N/A | N/A | -0.68 | 0.08 | N/A | -0.33 | |
| AST First Trust Balanced Target | 03/20/06 | 18.33 | 17.80 | -4.77 | N/A | N/A | -3.00 | 0.90 | N/A | -2.31 | |
| AST First Trust Capital Appreciation Target | 03/20/06 | 19.14 | 16.21 | -6.92 | N/A | N/A | -5.02 | -3.13 | N/A | -4.17 | |
| AST Shroders Multi-Asset World Strategies | 01/02/97 | 21.91 | 20.13 | -1.99 | 2.06 | 1.87 | 4.53 | 2.94 | 2.32 | 2.14 | |
| AST UBS Dynamic Alpha | 05/05/93 | 14.85 | 5.48 | -0.29 | 3.74 | 1.80 | 5.63 | -1.26 | 4.29 | 2.40 | |
| Conservative Balanced | 04/17/89 | 14.86 | 14.36 | -0.86 | 2.53 | 2.32 | 4.56 | 2.75 | 2.85 | 2.56 | |
| Flexible Managed | 04/17/89 | 13.67 | 12.26 | -2.51 | 2.25 | 1.86 | 4.68 | -0.33 | 2.59 | 2.14 | |
| Asset Allocation Profile: | |||||||||||
| AST CLS Growth Asset Allocation | 11/19/07 | 19.58 | 15.65 | N/A | N/A | N/A | -5.76 | -0.38 | N/A | -5.04 | |
| AST CLS M oderate Asset Allocation | 11/19/07 | 17.90 | 15.63 | N/A | N/A | N/A | -7.63 | 2.72 | N/A | -7.31 | |
| AST T. Rowe Price Asset Allocation | 01/04/94 | 18.19 | 16.49 | -1.61 | 2.83 | 2.77 | 6.35 | 2.46 | 3.36 | 3.18 | |
| SP Balanced Asset Allocation | 09/22/00 | 17.62 | 16.53 | -1.98 | 2.86 | N/A | 1.85 | 2.62 | 3.38 | 1.95 | |
| SP Conservative Asset Allocation | 09/22/00 | 16.24 | 17.92 | 1.03 | 3.84 | N/A | 3.35 | 7.14 | 4.22 | 3.43 | |
| SP Growth Asset Allocation | 09/22/00 | 18.59 | 14.21 | -5.20 | 1.68 | N/A | -0.08 | -2.25 | 2.36 | 0.09 | |
| Money Market: | |||||||||||
| Money Market 7-Day Current Net Yield as of 10/31/2009:-0.20% | 04/17/89 | 0.18 | 0.44 | 2.71 | 2.93 | 2.76 | 4.00 | 0.66 | 2.96 | 2.81 | |