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Segment assets under management were a record $69.3 billion as of Dec. 31, 2012, compared to $52.8 |
billion as of Dec. 31, 2011. This includes a record $9.3 billion of net cash flows for the full year, or 18 percent of |
beginning of the year assets under management. |
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U.S. Insurance Solutions |
Segment operating earnings for fourth quarter 2012 were $59.4 million, compared to $52.8 million for |
the same period in 2011. Individual Life earnings were $27.8 million in the fourth quarter 2012 compared to $27.2 |
million in fourth quarter 2011. Specialty Benefits earnings were $31.6 million in fourth quarter 2012, up 23 |
percent from $25.6 million in the same period a year ago primarily due to favorable claims experience in the |
current quarter. |
Segment operating revenues for fourth quarter 2012 were $779.7 million compared to $737.9 million |
for the same period a year ago. |
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Corporate |
Operating losses for fourth quarter 2012 were $39.1 million compared to operating losses of $43.1 million |
in fourth quarter 2011. The fourth quarter 2011 was negatively impacted from an active credit strategy on excess |
capital at the holding company, which was wound down in 2012. |
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Forward looking and cautionary statements |
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements as to operating |
earnings, net income available to common stockholders, net cash flows, realized and unrealized gains and losses, |
capital and liquidity positions, sales and earnings trends, and management's beliefs, expectations, goals and |
opinions. The company does not undertake to update these statements, which are based on a number of |
assumptions concerning future conditions that may ultimately prove to be inaccurate. Future events and their |
effects on the company may not be those anticipated, and actual results may differ materially from the results |
anticipated in these forward-looking statements. The risks, uncertainties and factors that could cause or contribute |
to such material differences are discussed in the company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. |
31, 2011, and in the company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended Sept.30, 2012, filed by the |
company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as updated or supplemented from time to time in |
subsequent filings. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation: adverse capital and credit market |
conditions may significantly affect the company’s ability to meet liquidity needs, access to capital and cost of |
capital; continued difficult conditions in the global capital markets and the economy generally; continued volatility |
or further declines in the equity markets; changes in interest rates or credit spreads; the company’s investment |
portfolio is subject to several risks that may diminish the value of its invested assets and the investment returns |
credited to customers; the company’s valuation of securities may include methodologies, estimations and |
assumptions that are subject to differing interpretations; the determination of the amount of allowances and |
impairments taken on the company’s investments requires estimations and assumptions that are subject to differing |
interpretations; gross unrealized losses may be realized or result in future impairments; competition from |
companies that may have greater financial resources, broader arrays of products, higher ratings and stronger |
financial performance; a downgrade in the company’s financial strength or credit ratings; inability to attract and |
retain sales representatives and develop new distribution sources; international business risks; the company’s |
actual experience could differ significantly from its pricing and reserving assumptions; the company’s ability to |
pay stockholder dividends and meet its obligations may be constrained by the limitations on dividends or |
distributions Iowa insurance laws impose on Principal Life; the pattern of amortizing the company’s DPAC and |
other actuarial balances on its universal life-type insurance contracts, participating life insurance policies and |
certain investment contracts may change; the company may need to fund deficiencies in its “Closed Block” assets |
that support participating ordinary life insurance policies that had a dividend scale in force at the time of Principal |
Life’s 1998 conversion into a stock life insurance company; the company’s reinsurers could default on their |
obligations or increase their rates; risks arising from the company's ability to obtain regulatory approval and |
consummate the acquisition of A.F.P. Cuprum S.A. and from other acquisitions of businesses; changes in laws, |
regulations or accounting standards; a computer system failure or security breach could disrupt the company’s |
business, and damage its reputation; results of litigation and regulatory investigations; from time to time the |
company may become subject to tax audits, tax litigation or similar proceedings, and as a result it may owe |
additional taxes, interest and penalties in amounts that may be material; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange |