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Financial services company

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
Type Public company

Traded every bit

NYSE: AMP
South&P 500 Alphabetize component
Manufacture Fiscal services
Founded 1894; 128 years ago  (1894)
Founder John Tappan and J.R Ridgway
Headquarters

Ameriprise Financial Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.

Area served

Worldwide

Key people

James Thousand. Cracchiolo, Chairman & CEO
Walter S. Berman, CFO
Jeff Noddle, director
Lon R. Greenberg, director
Products Investments
Services
  • Wealth management
  • Asset direction
  • Brokerage firm
  • Insurance
  • Fiscal planner
Revenue Decrease US$eleven.9 billion
(2020)

Net income

Decrease US$one.5 billion
(2020)
AUM Increase US$921 billion
(March 31, 2021)
Total assets Increase United states$165.ix billion
(2020)
Total equity Increase The states$v.9 billion
(2020)

Number of employees

12,300 (2020)
Subsidiaries Columbia Threadneedle Investments
RiverSource Life Insurance Company
Website www.ameriprise.com
Footnotes / references
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Ameriprise Financial, Inc. is a diversified financial services company and bank belongings company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[1] It provides financial planning products and services, including wealth management, asset management, insurance, annuities, and manor planning.[1]

In 2019, over 85% of the company's revenues came from wealth management.[1]

The visitor's primary subsidiaries include Ameriprise Financial Services, RiverSource Life Insurance Company, and Columbia Threadneedle Investments, its global nugget management make, and a provider of investments to institutional and retail clients.

Ameriprise was formerly a sectionalisation of American Express, which completed the corporate spin-off of the company in September 2005.

The company is ranked 245th on the Fortune 500.[2] It is on the list of largest banks in the Us. It is also the ninth largest independent banker-dealer based on assets under management.[3] It is one of the largest fiscal planning companies in the United States and is among the 25 largest asset managers in the world.[ane] It is ranked 8th in long-term mutual fund avails in the U.S., quaternary in retail funds in the U.K., and 27th in global avails under direction.

Electric current operations [edit]

The company specializes in retirement-related financial planning for relatively well-off clients. The company offers variable annuities and life and disability insurance. It also operates Ameriprise Banking concern, FSB which offers a variety of consumer banking and lending products and personal trust and related services. Since 2015, its asset management arm operates under the name Columbia Threadneedle Investments. The company uses three chief brands for its businesses in the U.s.: Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Management and RiverSource. The Threadneedle brand is used for its international asset managing director's products. Ameriprise Financial Services, a financial planning and retail distribution subsidiary, is a registered broker-dealer and registered investment adviser. It has an integrated model of comprehensive and personalized fiscal planning, diversified product manufacturing and affiliated and unaffiliated distribution through its network of financial advisors and registered representatives. The retail products and services that use the Ameriprise Financial brand include those that the company provides through its affiliated advisors (e.g., financial planning, investment informational accounts, retail brokerage services and banking products) and products and services that it markets directly to consumers).[1] RiverSource is the brand for the company'southward annuities products and for the protection products issued by the RiverSource Life companies, including life and disability income insurance products.[1]

Columbia Threadneedle Investments [edit]

Ameriprise advisors [edit]

Ameriprise Fiscal has more than 9,700 branded advisors, the 5th largest branded advisor force in the U.S.[1]

History [edit]

In 1894, John Tappan founded Investors Syndicate in Minneapolis.[4]

In 1925, West Declension businessman J. R. Ridgway merged his investment firm with Investors Syndicate, and took over as president.[4]

In 1937, upon the death of so 50-year-onetime J. R. Ridgway from leukemia, 23-year-old J. R. Ridgway, Sr. was appointed president.[four]

In 1940, Investors Syndicate introduced one of the outset common funds, the Investors Common Fund, giving clients new investing options and 2 advantages: diversification and professional management. By the 1960s, Investors Mutual Fund was the largest balanced mutual fund in the world.[4]

In 1949, Investors Syndicate changed its name to Investors Diversified Services, Inc. (IDS).[4]

In 1958, IDS founded the Investors Syndicate Life Insurance and Annuity Company (now known every bit RiverSource Life Insurance Visitor).[4]

In 1974, the IDS Middle (now IDS Center) is opened in downtown Minneapolis as the company'due south headquarters.[iv]

In 1979, the Ridgway family sold the final of its ownership involvement. IDS became a wholly owned subsidiary of Alleghany Corporation pursuant to a merger.[4]

In 1984, American Express acquired IDS Fiscal Services from Alleghany Corporation.[4]

In 1986, IDS caused Wisconsin Employers Casualty Company of Dark-green Bay, Wisconsin and renamed it IDS Property Casualty Insurance Company.[4]

In 1994, IDS reached $100 billion in assets.[four]

Effective January 1, 1995, IDS changed its name to American Express Financial Corporation, doing concern every bit American Limited Fiscal Advisors (AEFA).[five]

In October 2003, AEFA acquired London-based Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings.[4] [6]

In September 2005, American Express completed the corporate spin-off of AEFA every bit Ameriprise Financial, Inc., a public visitor.[4] [7]

In September 2006, the company launched Ameriprise Bank, FSB.[4] [8]

In February 2008, Threadneedle acquired Invesco Perpetual's total service defined contribution alimony business with total avails of £470 one thousand thousand.[ix]

In 2009, Ameriprise caused Standard Chartered Bank's World Express Funds investment funds concern, providing Threadneedle with an established Luxembourg-based SICAV platform with over U.s.$2.38 billion worth assets nether management.[10]

In August 2011, Threadneedle appear the conquering of the £viii billion in investment assets of LV=.[11] [12]

In Nov 2008, the company acquired H&R Block Financial Advisors for $315 one thousand thousand, and the asset direction house J. & W. Seligman & Co. for $400 million.[13]

During the Great Recession, the company declined an investment by the U.s. Section of the Treasury under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.[four] [xiv]

In May 2010, Ameriprise Financial acquired Columbia Management, the long-term asset direction business of Bank of America, for $1 billion.[15]

On April 25, 2011, Ameriprise announced that it was trying to notice an "appropriate buyer" for Securities America Financial Corporation to allow its registered representatives to focus on growth opportunities.[16] In Nov 2011, Ameriprise completed the auction of Securities America to Ladenburg Thalmann Fiscal Services for $150 million in cash and potential future payments.[17] Securities America traced its roots to Financial Dynamics, an insurance marketing arrangement founded in 1984 by Steve Wild that had between 10,000 and 12,000 affiliated independent insurance agents. In 1993, Fiscal Dynamics created Securities America, an independent securities broker/dealer, to apply its insurance sales force to offer investment direction, fiscal advice and fiscal planning through a national network of contained financial advisors. In 1998, Securities America was acquired past American Limited and was transferred to Ameriprise every bit function of the corporate spin-off in September 2005. In 2009, Securities America acquired Brecek & Young Advisors, a California-based broker/dealer.[18] Securities America received the inaugural Practitioner Idea Leadership Award from the Retirement Income Industry Association in 2011.[xix]

In January 2012, the company opened services to individuals in India with United states of america$40,000 equivalent minimum income.[twenty] Ameriprise also established an insurance brokerage entity in India that was licensed to bargain in insurance products by India'south Insurance Regulatory and Evolution Authority (IRDA). Ameriprise Bharat established offices in Delhi, Gurgaon, Greater Noida, Mumbai & Pune. In May 2014, Ameriprise close downward the nascent financial planning partition in Bharat, citing poor prospects for fee-based advisory services.[21]

In January 2013, the company completed the conversion of its federal savings bank subsidiary, Ameriprise Bank, FSB, to a limited powers national trust bank, which conversion included changing the name of this subsidiary to Ameriprise National Trust Banking company.[22]

In 2015, Threadneedle rebranded equally Columbia Threadneedle.[23]

In 2017, the company acquired Investment Professionals, Inc.[24]

In 2019, the company sold Ameriprise Automobile & Habitation Insurance to American Family Insurance for $ane.05 billion.[25] [26]

Criticism and controversy [edit]

In 2003, Securities America was fined $5.4 million for letting a broker work under a false name in its Orlando office and allegedly make artificial investments.[27]

In July 2005, New Hampshire reached a $7.4 million settlement with Ameriprise Financial Advisors, alleging the company had violated the law past rewarding their financial advisers for recommending underperforming in-house mutual funds to clients.[28]

In December 2005, Ameriprise agreed to pay a $12.3 million to settle NASD charges relating to favorable treatment allegedly given to some common funds in exchange for brokerage business.[29]

In December 2005, the visitor agreed to pay $15 one thousand thousand to settle charges of market place timing past the U.S. Securities and Commutation Committee.[thirty] The Minnesota Department of Commerce levied $2 one thousand thousand in fines for similar marketplace timing violations and the National Association of Securities Dealers fined Ameriprise an boosted $12.iii million for unsuitable share sales.[31] Ameriprise had not revealed which funds were timed, or the names of the people involved and the exact nature of the disciplinary action taken. Morningstar, Inc. temporarily reduced the stewardship grade for Ameriprise's funds, although it did not bear upon the fund's overall star ratings from that firm.[32]

In September 2006, Securities America reached a $xvi.3 one thousand thousand settlement with a group of ExxonMobil retirees for failing to supervise an associated broker.[33]

In December 2006, a NASD mediation panel awarded $9.3 million to three retired American Airlines pilots confronting Securities America and a formerly associated banker for allegedly mishandling their savings.[34] [35]

Also in December 2006, the company settled charges regarding a lost laptop containing customer information.[36]

On July 11, 2007, the NASD fined Securities America $375,000 for improperly sharing directed brokerage commissions from a common fund company with a former Securities America broker.[37]

In September 2008, the visitor agreed to pay equally much as $33 million to embrace investor losses in the Reserve Primary Fund.[38]

On July 10, 2009, the company agreed to pay $17.iii meg after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an enforcement action against the company for receiving millions of dollars in undisclosed revenue sharing as a condition for selling certain existent estate investment trusts (REITs) to its brokerage customers earlier the spinoff from American Express.[39] [twoscore]

On April 15, 2011, Securities America, Inc. (SAI) and its belongings company, Securities America Financial Corporation, entered into settlement agreements related to the sale of private placement securities issued by Medical Capital and Provident Royalties that resulted in a $118 million pre-tax accuse in the first quarter of 2011. The charge is in add-on to a $40 million pre-taxation charge in the 4th quarter of 2010.[41]

In Apr 2008, the visitor agreed to pay New Hampshire $3.8 million to settle allegations that its Portsmouth agents forged clients' signatures to cut corners and increase their income.[42]

In Oct 2010, Michael Loscalso, a branch director in Due west Conshohocken, Pennsylvania who earned $260,000 per twelvemonth, sued the visitor after being fired, allegedly for raising serious allegations about the firm's oversight of brokers.[43]

In October 2014, a one-time Ameriprise adviser in Plymouth, Minnesota admitted to stealing $i million from customer accounts, which she spent at Victoria'southward Surreptitious, on Caribbean cruises, salon visits and donations to a local Catholic Church.[44]

In March 2015, the company paid $27.5 million to settle a lawsuit that information technology charged its own employees high fees in funds in its 401(k) program.[45]

In December 2016, the company settled with the U.Southward. Department of Labor, agreeing to pay $128,200 in back wages for discriminating against xx blackness employees by paying them less than similarly situated white workers.[46]

In February 2018, the company paid $230,000 to settle allegations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it put customers into college fee funds.[47]

In August 2018, the company paid $iv.5 1000000 to settle charges that it failed to safeguard retail investor assets from theft past its representatives after 5 Ameriprise representatives committed fraudulent acts, including forging customer documents and stole more $1 meg in customer funds over a four-yr period.[48]

References [edit]

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  17. ^ "Ladenburg Thalmann Completes Securities America Conquering" (Press release). Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services. November vii, 2011.
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  35. ^ "Ameriprise unit is ordered to pay up to $nine.3 million to 3 investors". Los Angeles Times. Bloomberg News. December 28, 2006.
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  40. ^ Grayson, Katharine (July 10, 2009). "Ameriprise pays $17.3M to settle SEC charge". American City Business Journals.
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  42. ^ "Ameriprise to pay country $3.8m over practices". New Hampshire Business Review. April 25, 2008.
  43. ^ Kelly, Bruce (February 28, 2011). "Ex-Ameriprise manager: I got fired for flagging violations". InvestmentNews.
  44. ^ Furst, Randy (October 18, 2014). "Quondam Ameriprise adviser from Plymouth admits to swindling $1 meg from clients". Star Tribune.
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  46. ^ Hughlett, Mike (December 8, 2016). "Ameriprise settles discrimination charges by U.Southward. Section of Labor". Star Tribune.
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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Ameriprise Investor Relations
  • A small group of historical corporate records of IDS are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society.
  • FINRA Brokercheck Page
  • JD Power ranking of online brokers
  • Business organisation data for Ameriprise Financial, Inc.:
    • Google Finance
    • Yahoo! Finance
    • Bloomberg
    • SEC filings

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