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10 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 2006 Annual Report
At RiverSource Investments, our U.S. asset management subsidiary, we are generating strong
investment performance. We ranked number three of 67 mutual fund families for one-year
performance in the 2006 Lipper/Barron’s Fund Families Survey and further improved
three-year and longer-term track records.* Internationally, Threadneedle Investments, our
U.K.-based asset manager with $136 billion in assets under management, strengthened
longer-term track records and continued to improve its profi tability and build its retail,
institutional, hedge fund and real estate businesses.
RiverSource Annuities and RiverSource Insurance also performed well in 2006. We generated
a 46 percent increase in variable annuity sales, increased our market share in universal life and
variable universal life insurance, and retained our top ranking in variable universal life insurance.
In addition, Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance premiums increased 9 percent.
Our diversifi ed business model is serving our clients and shareholders well. Our overall
fi nancial position is strong, and we are generating excess capital. In 2006, we returned more
than $578 million to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends, and we plan to
generate and redeploy excess capital moving forward.
Our future
It’s an exciting time for Ameriprise Financial. The market opportunity is exceptional. Our
business model is extremely well-positioned to meet the fi nancial needs of the mass affl uent
and affl uent. I am confi dent we can achieve our objectives by continuing to build our
organization around our values and executing our strategy.
We’re investing substantial resources to reach more of our target clients and serve more of
them in ongoing fi nancial planning relationships. We’re enhancing advisor support with
improved tools and capabilities and strong-performing and innovative products. At the same
time, we are expanding our product distribution to capture more retail and institutional assets
200620052004
Administered Assets
Owned Assets
Managed Assets
$257
$81
$70
$408
$264 $300
$87
$77
$428
$466
$97
$69
Owned, Managed and Administered Assets
(in billions)
*
For individual RiverSource mutual fund performance as of Dec. 31, 2006, please refer to Exhibit A in our Fourth Quarter
2006 Statistical Supplement available at ir.ameriprise.com.