Principal Financial Group, Inc. engages in the investment management offering business. The company is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa and currently employs 19,800 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2001-10-26. The firm offers businesses, individuals and institutional clients a range of financial products and services, including retirement, asset management and insurance through its diverse family of financial services companies. The firm's segments include retirement and income solutions, principal asset management, and benefits and protection. The Retirement and Income Solutions segment offers workplace savings and retirement solutions, banking, trust and custodial services, individual variable annuities, and pension risk transfer, among others. The Principal Asset Management segment provides global investment solutions to institutional, retirement, retail and high net worth investors. The Benefits and Protection segment is organized into Specialty Benefits, which provides group dental, group life insurance, group disability insurance, supplemental health products, and individual disability insurance, and life insurance.