Principal Funds responds to the Merrill Lynch RIC Report

To support your goal of helping clients reap the benefits of attractive market environments and stay the course during challenging ones, Principal Funds has developed a piece providing insights derived from the current RIC Report. Contact your local wholesaler for a copy of Merrill Lynch RIC Report Meets Principal Funds Strategies.

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Grow Your Practice with Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP)

A business owner turns age 65 every 57 seconds.¹ Eighty seven percent of those business owners have no exit strategy and only 1 in 7 will transition to a family member.²For many business owners, selling to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) may be a very attractive option. Business owners look to their financial advisors to help them find solutions. Tapping into this $4.8 trillion³ pre-retiree business owner market can create growth opportunities for advisors while generating investable assets, estate needs, life insurance opportunities, and access to retirement plans. Principal Funds has developed a number of tools to assist financial professionals tap into this market. Contact Principal Funds at 800-787-1621 or see the flyer below for more information on the benefits of an ESOP.

¹Dancing in the End Zone: The Business Owner's Exit Planning Playbook, Patrick Ungashick, 2008
²White Horse Advisors Survey, July 2008
³Scaling the pre-retiree market, LIMRA 2010

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Global Wealth Management Advanced Education Symposium

Principal Funds will participate in the June 3-6 meeting in Miami, Florida. Our breakout presentation – Changing the Conversation: Targeting Outcomes for a More Resilient Portfolio – will help financial professionals learn to think about a new approach to portfolio construction, focused on managing risks rather than returns. Markets and investment products have evolved, and where traditional portfolio construction used to deliver diversification and sufficient returns to meet investment policy objectives, it may now present limitations. We will demonstrate our approach to portfolio construction, which specifically tackles such risks as market volatility, inflation, and income requirements. Abandoning the traditional style box approach, we'll look at a variety of investment strategies and their effectiveness, and show how alternatives can support a better approach to seeking more consistent, and less volatile, returns.

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