Stock Report: Principal Financial Group Inc. (PFG) Report Updated: Jun 17, 2013 | Print This Page

Principal Financial Group, Inc. provides retirement savings, investment, and insurance products and services. The company’s Retirement and Investor Services segment provides retirement savings and related investment products and services, including a portfolio of asset accumulation products and services primarily to small and medium-sized businesses and individuals in the United States. This segment offers products and services to businesses for defined contribution pension plans, including 401(k) and 403(b) plans, defined benefit pension plans, nonqualified executive benefit plans, and employee stock ownership plan consulting services, as well as annuities, mutual funds, and bank products and services to the employees of its business customers and other individuals. Its Principal Global Investors segment provides a range of equity, fixed income, and real estate investments, as well as currency management, asset allocation, stable value management, and other structured investment strategies. The company’s Principal International segment offers retirement products and services, annuities, mutual funds, institutional asset management, and life insurance accumulation products in Brazil, Chile, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Mexico, and southeast Asia. Its U.S. Insurance Solutions segment provides individual life insurance, as well as specialty benefits in the United States. This segment’s individual life insurance products include universal and variable universal life insurance and traditional life insurance; and specialty benefit products comprise group dental and vision insurance, individual and group disability insurance, and group life insurance, as well as fee-for-service claims administration and wellness services. Principal Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 1879 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.