Principal Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:PFG) Q3 2024 Earnings Conference Call October 25, 2024 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Humphrey Lee - VP, IR
Daniel Houston - Chairman, President & CEO
Deanna Strable - EVP & CFO
Amy Friedrich - President, Benefits and Protection
Christopher Littlefield - President, Retirement and Income Solutions
Kamal Bhatia - President & CEO, Principal Asset Management
Joel Pitz - Interim CFO

Conference Call Participants

Joel Hurwitz - Dowling & Partners
Suneet Kamath - Jefferies
Ryan Krueger - KBW
John Barnidge - Piper Stanley
Wilma Burdis - Raymond James
Tom Gallagher - Evercore ISI
Wes Carmichael - Autonomous Research
Elyse Greenspan - Wells Fargo
Josh Shanker - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Alex Scott - Barclays

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the Principal Financial Group Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to turn the conference call over to Humphrey Lee, Vice President of Investor Relations.

Humphrey Lee

Thank you, and good morning. Welcome to Principal Financial Group's Third Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. As always, materials related to today's call are available on our website at investors.principal.com.

Following a reading of the safe harbor provision, CEO, Dan Houston; and President and COO, Deanna Strable, will deliver some prepared remarks. We will then open the call for questions. Other members of senior management will also be available for Q&A.

Some of the comments made during this conference call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. The company does not revise or update them to reflect new information, subsequent events or changes in strategy. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied are discussed in the company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K filed by the company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Additionally, some of the comments made during this conference call may refer to non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures may be found in our earnings release, financial supplement and slide presentation.

Dan?

Daniel Houston

Thanks, Humphrey, and welcome to everyone on the call. This morning, I will discuss key milestones and highlights from the third quarter, as we execute our strategy with discipline and focus. Deanna will follow with additional details on our results, capital position and the outcome of our actuarial assumption review.