 Shares of Lincoln Financial Group LNC, -0.15 rallied 4.0 in premarket trading Friday, after the insurer announced an agreement with Resolution Life subsidiary Security Life of Denver Insurance Co., to reinsure about 9.4 billion of executive benefit and universal life reserves. Lincoln said it expects proceeds of 1.2 billion from the deal, with 900 million of the proceeds earmarked for share repurchases to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2022. 