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• Principal Financial Group, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-04

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Your first question comes from the line of Nigel Dally of Morgan Stanley. Nigel Dally – Morgan Stanley Great. Thank you. Good morning. First question, can you discuss the rationale behind the $250 million funding agreement with the Federal Home Loan Bank? Was...

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• Employees Embrace New Automated, ''Do-It-for-Me'' Retirement Services; Yet Americans Remain Overly Optimistic about the Income Their Retirement Savings Will Provide, According To Latest Principal Financial Well-Being Index

  - 2006-06-12

  DES MOINES, Iowa -- Working Americans are embracing new "do-it-for-me" automated retirement savings solutions such as automatic 401k plan enrollment, deferral step-up programs and simplified lifecycle funds. According to the latest Principal Financial Well-Being IndexSM, more than half of workers (59%) now agree that employees should be automatically enrolled into...

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• Principal reveals market timing by former managers

  - 2003-12-24

  As the mutual fund scandal continues to snowball, Principal Financial Group said Tuesday that a review of employee trading records found that two former portfolio managers engaged in market timing in their personal accounts. Also Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged a Las Vegas brokerage firm with civil...

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• Parents Strive to Help Kids Avoid College Debt Trap; Principal Financial Well-Being Index Shows Parents Want to Give More Financial Support Than They Received

  - 2003-03-13

  Business Editors DES MOINES, Iowa--BUSINESS WIRE--March 13, 2003 As many parents struggle under the burden of student loan debt, they're also working to make sure their kids don't face the same fate. However, many parents misjudge the amount of money it will take to reach that goal, according...

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• The Principal Financial Group Praised as Innovator in Collaboration

  - 2002-01-16

  Business Editors DES MOINES, Iowa--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 16, 2002 Nation's 401k Leader Makes InformationWeek Magazine's Top 25 The Principal Financial GroupR, the nation's 401k leader, has been named one of InformationWeek magazine's top "25 Innovators in Collaboration." The list represents companies leading the next stage of collaborative business,...

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• Small firms' new retirement choices

  - 1997-02-01

  Since the beginning of the new year, small business owners have been able to begin a new and supposedly simple kind of retirement plan: the Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees. But evaluating SIMPLE's pros and cons isn't necessarily easy. SIMPLE was approved by Congress in August as...

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