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| Revenue growth was strong at 10% from higher interest earnings and the cumulative benefit of client net inflows with average equity markets up 11% |
| Wealth Management client assets increased 15% to $816 billion driven by strong organic growth and client flows, along with higher equity markets |
| Overall, Retirement & Protection Solutions improved in the quarter, with protection sales up 22% to $79 million, primarily in higher-margin UL products |
| Retirement & Protection solutions continues to deliver good earnings and free cash flow generation |
| Our long-term care business continues to perform very well |
| Our claims experience continues to perform very well and remain in-line with our expectations |
| As you can see in our results, Ameriprise continues to benefit from the complementary strength and flexibility of our business and our talented team |
| Additionally, I’ll assess with both rate increases and benefit reduction strategies have exceeded our expectations |
| Overall, long-term performance remains very strong, and we had improvement in 1-year fixed income numbers |
| Our balance sheet fundamentals remain strong, and our diversified high-quality investment portfolio remains well positioned |
| Our assets under management and administration reached $1.2 trillion, up 12% and financials were also strong |
| We delivered record operating results in the quarter |
| Excluding unlocking and a regulatory accrual, total adjusted operating net revenue grew nicely, up 10% to $3.9 billion, and earnings were also quite strong, up 18% with EPS up considerably, an increase of 24% |
| Financial results were very strong in the quarter, and we are managing the business well through a challenging environment that is impacting the industry |
| Our complementary businesses consistently generate strong financial results |
| VA hedge effectiveness remained very strong at 94% |
| Importantly, client satisfaction remains at an excellent 4.9 out of 5 stars |
| Total client assets increased 15% to $816 billion with good client net flows of $8.9 billion in market appreciation |
| The pretax operating margin was very strong at 31.1%, excluding the regulatory accrual |
| Profitability, excluding the regulatory accrual increased 26% in the quarter with strong organic growth, the benefit of higher interest rates and continued client net inflows |
| On Slide 9, we delivered extremely strong financial results and wealth management |
| Our diversified business model benefits from significant and stable 90% free cash flow contributions across all business segments |
| With interest rates at this level, we’re able to gain meaningful spread revenues that are sustainable when the Fed does start to cut rates |
| The financial benefit from cash remains strong |
| As you know, we continue to invest to put great capabilities in advisers’ hands to drive high satisfaction and growth and deliver an exceptional experience |
| We’re using advanced analytics to deliver an even better client and adviser experience |
| This creates a significant redeployment opportunity as markets normalized for clients to put money back to work in wrap and over products on our platform |
| Revenue per adviser reached $901,000 in the quarter, up 10% from the prior year from a higher spread revenue, enhanced productivity and business growth |
| When we look at the flow rate from a client perspective, we still feel very good about the ability to bring in client flows and where we’re approaching the market, particularly as we move a bit more upmarket |
| In regard to our investment performance, we have strong short- and long-term performance across equities, fixed income and asset allocation with a nice pickup in the short-term fixed income |
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| However, consumer sentiment in the United States is declining and we may see soft economic growth in the future |
| In retail, as we know, people are still hesitant to put money to work, so gross sales were a bit weaker |
| And the 64 new recruit count was also below the prior run rate |
| Like others, we experienced pressure from global market volatility and a risk-off investor sentiment |
| As you saw in the quarter, assets under management were $587 billion, up 7%, it remains a challenging time, both in asset management and the active space in particular |
| I know when some other companies have taken reserve strengthenings under the new accounting that there has been an ongoing earnings drag in addition to the reserve charge, anything like that to consider for the variable annuity charge |
| I think people for the summer time things slowed a bit |
| We’re earning mandates in a number of areas, though LDI flows in total were down compared to a robust quarter a year ago |
| Additionally, the geopolitical climate is causing further volatility |
| We completed our annual actuarial assumption update in the quarter resulting in an unfavorable pretax impact of $104 million, primarily related to updates to persistency assumptions for variable annuities |
| Cash sweep and certificate balance ended the third quarter at $40.5 billion, down $5.8 billion from a year ago and down $1.5 billion sequentially |
| Financial advisor headcount was down in the quarter |
| Franchise retention was lower |
| G&A was down 3% adjusted for foreign exchange |
| So, as we mentioned, recruiting was a bit slower in the third quarter, but it started to bounce back towards the latter part of the quarter |
| July started a bit slower |
| The attrition really in that channel was mainly due to assistant financial advisors, which is again, the turnover there is a bit higher |
| But we saw that bounce back in September |
| We are just being very measured and cautious at this stage as we were evaluating the environment, but we do have certainly a buffer to move additional land |
| Asset management, like other active managers, was in outflows in the quarter |
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