Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in providing financial planning, asset management, and insurance services to individuals, businesses, and institutions. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and currently employs 13,600 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2005-09-15. The Company’s segments include Advice & Wealth Management, Asset Management, Retirement & Protection Solutions and Corporate & Other. The Advice & Wealth Management segment provides financial planning and advice, as well as full-service brokerage services, primarily to retail clients through the Company’s advisors. The Asset Management segment provides investment management, advice and products to retail, high net worth and institutional clients on a global scale through the Columbia Threadneedle Investments brand. The company provides institutional products and services through its institutional sales force. The Retirement & Protection Solutions segment includes retirement solutions (variable annuities and payout annuities) and protection solutions (life and disability income insurance). Retirement Solutions provides variable annuity products by RiverSource Life companies to individual clients.