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Segment Information
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment Information Segment Information
The Company’s four reporting segments are Advice & Wealth Management, Asset Management, Retirement & Protection Solutions and Corporate & Other.
The accounting policies of the segments are the same as those of the Company, except for operating adjustments defined below, the method of capital allocation, the accounting for gains (losses) from intercompany revenues and expenses and not providing for income taxes on a segment basis.
The largest source of intersegment revenues and expenses is retail distribution services, where segments are charged transfer pricing rates that approximate arm’s length market prices for distribution through the Advice & Wealth Management segment. The Advice & Wealth Management segment provides distribution services for affiliated and non-affiliated products and services. The Asset Management segment provides investment management services for the Company’s owned assets and client assets, and accordingly charges investment and advisory management fees to the other segments. All intersegment activity is eliminated in the Company’s consolidated results.
All costs related to shared services are allocated to the segments based on a rate times volume or fixed basis.
The Advice & Wealth Management segment provides financial planning and advice, as well as full-service brokerage services, primarily to retail clients through the Company’s advisors. These services are centered on long-term, personal relationships between the Company’s advisors and its clients and focus on helping clients achieve their financial goals. The Company’s advisors provide a distinctive, holistic approach to financial planning and have access to a broad selection of both affiliated and non-affiliated products to help clients meet their financial needs and goals. Banking, lending, and cash management solutions help clients establish financial flexibility while planning for both short- and long-term needs. A significant portion of revenues in this segment are fee-based and driven by the level of client assets, which is impacted by both market movements and net asset flows. The Company also earns net investment income on owned assets primarily from certificate and banking products. This segment earns revenues (distribution fees) for distributing non-affiliated products and intersegment revenues for distributing the Company’s affiliated products and services provided to its retail clients. Intersegment expenses for this segment include expenses for investment management services provided by the Asset Management segment.
The Asset Management segment provides investment management, advice and products to retail, high net worth and institutional clients on a global scale through the Columbia Threadneedle Investments® brand, which represents the combined capabilities, resources and reach of Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC (“Columbia Management”) and Threadneedle. Columbia Management primarily provides products and services in the U.S. and Threadneedle primarily provides products and services internationally. The Company offers U.S. retail clients a range of products through both unaffiliated third-party financial institutions and the Advice & Wealth Management segment. The Company provides institutional products and services through its institutional sales force. Retail products for non-U.S. investors are primarily distributed through third-party financial institutions and unaffiliated financial advisors. Retail products include U.S. mutual funds and their non-U.S. equivalents, exchange-traded funds and variable product funds underlying insurance and annuity separate accounts. Institutional asset management services are designed to meet specific client objectives and may involve a range of products, including those that focus on traditional asset classes, separately managed accounts, individually managed accounts, CLOs, hedge fund or alternative strategies, collective funds and property and infrastructure funds. CLOs, hedge fund or alternative strategies and certain private funds are often classified as alternative assets. Revenues in this segment are primarily earned as fees based on managed asset balances, which are impacted by market movements, net asset flows, asset allocation and product mix. The Company may also earn performance fees from certain accounts where investment performance meets or exceeds certain pre-identified targets. The Asset Management segment also provides intercompany asset management services for Ameriprise Financial subsidiaries. The fees for these services are reflected within the Asset Management segment results through intersegment transfer pricing. Intersegment expenses for this segment include distribution expenses for services provided by the Advice & Wealth Management and Retirement & Protection Solutions segments.
The Retirement & Protection Solutions segment includes Retirement Solutions (variable annuities and payout annuities) and Protection Solutions (life and disability income insurance). Retirement Solutions provides variable annuity products of RiverSource Life companies to individual clients. The Company provides variable annuity products through its advisors. Revenues for the Company’s variable annuity products are primarily earned as fees based on a contractholder’s benefit base, contract value, or separate account value, which is impacted by both market movements and net asset flows. The Company also earns net investment income on general account assets supporting reserves for non-life contingent payout annuities, structured variable annuities, certain guaranteed benefits and fixed investment options offered with variable annuities and on capital supporting the business. Revenues for the Company’s life contingent payout annuities are earned as premium revenue. Protection Solutions offers a variety of products to address the protection and risk management needs of the Company’s retail clients including life and DI insurance. Life and DI products are primarily provided through the Company’s advisors and these policies are issued through its RiverSource Life companies. The primary sources of revenues for Protection Solutions are premiums, fees and charges that the Company receives to assume insurance-related risk. The Company earns net investment income on owned assets supporting insurance reserves and capital supporting the business. The Company also receives fees based on the level of the RiverSource Life companies’ separate account assets supporting VUL investment options. Intersegment revenues for this segment reflect fees paid by the Asset Management segment for marketing support and other services provided in connection with the availability of variable insurance trust funds under variable annuity contracts and VUL contracts. Intersegment expenses for this segment include distribution expenses for services provided by the Advice & Wealth Management segment, as well as expenses for investment management services provided by the Asset Management segment.
The Corporate & Other segment consists of net investment income or loss on corporate level assets, including excess capital held in the Company’s subsidiaries and other unallocated equity and other revenues as well as unallocated corporate expenses. The Corporate & Other segment also includes the results of the Company’s closed blocks of long term care insurance and fixed annuity and fixed
indexed annuity business. The Corporate & Other segment also includes revenues and expenses of consolidated investment entities, which are excluded on an operating basis. Revenues for the Company’s fixed deferred annuity products are primarily earned as net investment income on the RiverSource Life companies’ general account assets supporting fixed account balances, with profitability significantly impacted by the spread between net investment income earned and interest credited on the fixed account balances.
Management uses segment adjusted operating measures in goal setting, as a basis for determining employee compensation and in evaluating performance on a basis comparable to that used by some securities analysts and investors. Consistent with GAAP accounting guidance for segment reporting, adjusted operating earnings is the Company’s measure of segment performance. Adjusted operating earnings should not be viewed as a substitute for GAAP pretax income. The Company believes the presentation of segment adjusted operating earnings, as the Company measures it for management purposes, enhances the understanding of its business by reflecting the underlying performance of its core operations and facilitating a more meaningful trend analysis. As its chief operating decision maker, (“CODM”) the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer utilizes these segment adjusted operating measures to allocate resources and assess performance.
Adjusted operating earnings is defined as adjusted operating net revenues less adjusted operating expenses. Adjusted operating net revenues and adjusted operating expenses exclude net realized investment gains or losses (net of reinsurance accrual); the market impact on non-traditional long-duration products (including variable and fixed deferred annuity contracts and UL insurance contracts), net of hedges and reinsurance accrual; mean reversion related impacts (the impact on VUL products for the difference between assumed and updated separate account investment performance on the reinsurance accrual and additional insurance benefit reserves); the market impact of hedges to offset interest rate and currency changes on unrealized gains or losses for certain investments; block transfer reinsurance transaction impacts; gain or loss on disposal of a business that is not considered discontinued operations; integration and restructuring charges; income (loss) from discontinued operations; and the impact of consolidating CIEs. The market impact on non-traditional long-duration products includes changes in market risk benefits and embedded derivative values caused by changes in financial market conditions, net of changes in economic hedge values and unhedged items including the difference between assumed and actual underlying separate account investment performance, fixed income credit exposures, transaction costs and certain policyholder contract elections. The market impact also includes certain valuation adjustments made in accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, including the impact on embedded derivative values of discounting projected benefits to reflect a current estimate of the RiverSource Life companies’ nonperformance spread.
The following tables summarize selected financial information by segment and reconcile segment totals to those reported on the consolidated financial statements:
 December 31,
20242023
(in millions)
Advice & Wealth Management$41,514 $42,983 
Asset Management7,350 7,288 
Retirement & Protection Solutions116,609 108,451 
Corporate & Other15,930 16,469 
Total assets$181,403 $175,191 
 Years Ended December 31,
202420232022
(in millions)
Adjusted operating net revenues:
Advice & Wealth Management$10,780 $9,418 $8,461 
Asset Management3,515 3,278 3,506 
Retirement & Protection Solutions3,773 3,476 3,124 
Corporate & Other454 533 479 
Elimination of segment revenues (1)
(1,443)(1,318)(1,316)
Total segment adjusted operating net revenues17,079 15,387 14,254 
Adjustments:
Net realized investment gains (losses)(21)(32)(93)
Market impact on non-traditional long-duration products3 2 (1)
Mean reversion related impacts— — (1)
Revenue attributable to consolidated investment entities203 178 99 
Total net revenues per consolidated statements of operations$17,264 $15,535 $14,258 
(1) Represents the elimination of intersegment revenues recognized for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022 in each segment as follows: Advice and Wealth Management ($935, $847 and $847, respectively); Asset Management ($96, $79 and $52, respectively); Retirement & Protection Solutions ($441, $411 and $420, respectively); and Corporate & Other ($(29), $(19) and $(3), respectively).
 Years Ended December 31,
202420232022
(in millions)
Adjusted operating earnings:
Advice & Wealth Management$3,233 $2,851 $2,192 
Asset Management920 720 844 
Retirement & Protection Solutions726 685 867 
Corporate & Other(443)(320)(306)
Total segment adjusted operating earnings4,436 3,936 3,597 
Adjustments:
Net realized investment gains (losses)(21)(32)(93)
Market impact on non-traditional long-duration products(153)(608)483 
Mean reversion related impacts1 — (1)
Integration/restructuring charges— (62)(50)
Net income (loss) attributable to consolidated investment entities4 — (5)
Pretax income per consolidated statements of operations$4,267 $3,234 $3,931 
Adjusted operating earnings includes the following significant expense categories:
Year Ended December 31, 2024
Advice & Wealth ManagementAsset ManagementRetirement & Protection SolutionsCorporate & Other
(in millions)
Expenses:
Distribution expenses$5,823 $989 $515 $(10)
Interest credited to fixed accounts— — 367 216 
Benefits, claims, losses and settlement expenses— — 927 217 
Remeasurement (gains) losses of future policy benefit reserves— — (36)(8)
Change in fair value of market risk benefits— — 684 — 
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs— 7 227 8 
Interest and debt expense38 7 45 108 
General and administrative expense1,686 1,592 318 366 
Total expenses
$7,547 $2,595 $3,047 $897 

Year Ended December 31, 2023
Advice & Wealth ManagementAsset ManagementRetirement & Protection SolutionsCorporate & Other
(in millions)
Expenses:
Distribution expenses$4,888 $925 $464 $(10)
Interest credited to fixed accounts— — 369 234 
Benefits, claims, losses and settlement expenses— — 744 236 
Remeasurement (gains) losses of future policy benefit reserves— — (19)(1)
Change in fair value of market risk benefits— — 628 — 
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs— 6 229 11 
Interest and debt expense27 7 51 97 
General and administrative expense1,652 1,620 325 286 
Total expenses
$6,567 $2,558 $2,791 $853 

Year Ended December 31, 2022
Advice & Wealth ManagementAsset ManagementRetirement & Protection SolutionsCorporate & Other
(in millions)
Expenses:
Distribution expenses$4,719 $995 $448 $(10)
Interest credited to fixed accounts— — 386 242 
Benefits, claims, losses and settlement expenses— — 469 247 
Remeasurement (gains) losses of future policy benefit reserves— — 1 — 
Change in fair value of market risk benefits— — 372 — 
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs— 9 233 10 
Interest and debt expense10 5 39 70 
General and administrative expense1,540 1,653 309 226 
Total expenses
$6,269 $2,662 $2,257 $785