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Principal Financial Group Company Source Reference Guide

A source-led guide to Principal Financial Group's official reporting, entity boundary, disclosure periods, and company reference cards.

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Life and health
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Principal Financial Group
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Principal Financial Group needs an entity-specific source guide. Principal combines retirement, workplace benefits, investment management, and international pensions, making metric-denominator discipline especially important across AUM, AUA, insurance capital, and segment earnings. The canonical company surface is the Principal Financial Group profile, while the references archive is the source-card record.

The qualified pack contains 4 cards across 4 source categories and 2 source owners or independently maintained paths. Its latest recorded reporting period is FY2025, year ended 2025-12-31. Those counts describe evidence coverage, not a score or a claim that every source measures the same thing.

Article Intelligence

  • Primary company: Principal Financial Group.
  • Canonical legal or group name: Principal Financial Group, Inc.
  • Entity type: Listed United States retirement, benefits, insurance, and asset-management group.
  • Home jurisdiction: United States.
  • Latest recorded report period: FY2025, year ended 2025-12-31.
  • Source-pack depth: 4 cards, 4 categories, and 2 owners or paths.
  • Canonical company archive: Principal Financial Group references.

Why This Source Map Is Distinct

Principal's FY2025 release, 10-K, annual-report library, and SEC path provide current group, segment, capital, and asset-management evidence. Together, the cards establish a route from identity and business scope to periodic reporting and capital, regulatory, ratings, exchange, or profile context. They do not merge those source types into one universal measure.

Reading The Source Categories

1. Full-Year and Fourth Quarter 2025 Results / full-year results

Owner: Principal Financial Group. Category: Full-Year and Fourth Quarter 2025 Results / full-year results. Reporting period: FY2025 and Q4 2025. Entity scope: Principal Financial Group consolidated and named segments. Evidence: Net income attributable to PFG was USD 1.185 billion, non-GAAP operating earnings USD 1.866 billion, AUM USD 781 billion, AUA USD 1.815 trillion, and Principal Life RBC 406%. Caution: HTTP 200 official release reviewed. AUM is included in AUA; operating earnings are non-GAAP; RBC belongs to Principal Life.

2. 2025 Form 10-K Filing Detail / annual report

Owner: Principal Financial Group. Category: 2025 Form 10-K Filing Detail / annual report. Reporting period: FY2025, filed 2026-02-18. Entity scope: Principal Financial Group consolidated registrant. Evidence: The filing provides audited statements, segment data, insurance and asset-management risks, capital, and legal-entity context. Caution: HTTP 200 official filing page reviewed. Preserve GAAP and non-GAAP distinctions.

3. Proxy and Annual Reports Library / reporting library

Owner: Principal Financial Group. Category: Proxy and Annual Reports Library / reporting library. Reporting period: 2025 annual report and 2026 proxy. Entity scope: Principal Financial Group parent and consolidated reporting. Evidence: The library provides a stable 2025 annual-report path and separates the proxy governance period. Caution: HTTP 200 official library reviewed. Do not use proxy-period governance dates as financial reporting dates.

4. Principal Financial Group Filing Record / regulatory filing

Owner: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Category: Principal Financial Group Filing Record / regulatory filing. Reporting period: 2025 Form 10-K filed 2026. Entity scope: Principal Financial Group, Inc. registrant. Evidence: The SEC path independently supports the registrant and annual filing period. Caution: HTTP 200 regulator path reviewed. Exclude current security data.

Reporting Periods And Company-Specific Facts

The source cards above contain the pack's principal numerical evidence from Full-Year and Fourth Quarter 2025 Results / full-year results, Proxy and Annual Reports Library / reporting library. Each fact remains inside its complete reporting-period and entity-scope record rather than being detached into a current-value table. Units, currencies, denominators, statutory or non-statutory labels, and issuer-defined terminology must remain exactly as the applicable card records them.

Period discipline matters here. A current profile page, an annual report, a regulatory return, a ratings page, and an exchange record can all be valid while answering different questions. The source date and reviewed date do not replace the underlying reporting period, and group totals cannot be moved to a subsidiary or business line without explicit support.

Entity Boundary

Use Principal Financial Group, Inc. as the listed parent and consolidated group. Principal Life Insurance Company, Principal Global Investors, international pension businesses, and other subsidiaries remain separate legal, regulated, and segment scopes. Assets under management are included within assets under administration and must not be added together. Principal Life's RBC ratio is not a parent solvency ratio. The guide therefore keeps the parent, consolidated group, operating insurers, brands, branches, joint ventures, and non-insurance businesses separate whenever the dossier identifies those distinctions.

What The Pack Can And Cannot Establish

The pack can establish source ownership, source category, accepted URL, reporting period, reviewed date, and the entity or segment scope stated on each card. It can also support the company-specific facts recorded in the dossier when their labels, units, currencies, denominators, and periods are preserved.

It cannot establish current security value, relative ranking, product suitability, available underwriting capacity, present pricing, placement terms, private treaty terms, or a standalone conclusion about solvency. Issuer-defined measures remain tied to the issuer's methodology and are not automatically comparable with similarly named measures from another insurer.

How To Use This Map

Start with the source category that matches the question. Use annual or full-year reporting for period-specific group facts, regulatory material for the named regulatory perimeter, ratings material for the named rated entity and opinion type, and exchange or corporate-profile material only for identity and public-record context. Then confirm the card's period, entity scope, unit, and caution before carrying any fact into another editorial surface.

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Source Limitations

Public corporate, regulatory, exchange, filing, and ratings materials remain periodic and purpose-specific. They do not provide private underwriting files, policy terms, current placement information, or a complete view of every subsidiary. The entity and source-specific cautions recorded above remain controlling.

Reader Note

This article is editorial reference material. It is not a recommendation about an insurer, policy, product, security, rating, jurisdiction, or market. Readers making financial, insurance, legal, regulatory, underwriting, pricing, placement, or risk-management decisions should use current primary documents and appropriate professional review.

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