AMERIPRISE CERTIFICATE COMPANY
                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

City of Minneapolis

State of Minnesota

Each of the undersigned as an officer of Ameriprise Certificate Company, a
face-amount certificate company registered under the Investment Company Act of
1940, hereby constitutes and appoints William F. (Ted) Truscott, Scott R.
Plummer, and Christopher O. Petersen or any one of them, as his attorney-in-fact
and agent, to sign for him in his name, place and stead any and all registration
statements and amendments thereto (with all exhibits and other documents
required or desirable in connection therewith) that may be prepared from time to
time in connection with said Company's existing or future face-amount
certificate products - whether pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act of 1933, the Investment Company Act of 1940 or otherwise - and periodic and
other reports, and amendments thereto, including those on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q
and Form 8-K, as required pursuant to provisions of applicable federal
securities laws, and any necessary or appropriate filings with states or other
jurisdictions, and grants to any or all of them the full power and authority to
do and perform each and every act required or necessary or appropriate in
connection with such signatures or filings.

Signed on this 19th day of February, 2008


/s/ Brian J. McGrane
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Brian J. McGrane


/s/ David K. Stewart
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David K. Stewart