Iowa Insurance Companies to Host Des Moines Insurance Conference June 22

Agenda and webcast details for the 2017 Des Moines Insurance Conference are now available. Participating companies include Aegon AEG, American Equity Investment Life Holding Company AEL, EMC Insurance Group Inc. EMCI, FBL Financial Group, Inc. FFG and Principal Financial Group PFG. The conference will be held at FBL Financial Group's headquarters located at 5400 University Avenue, West Des Moines, IA on Thursday, June 22, 2017 with presentations beginning at 8:00 a.m. CT.

The program includes individual company fireside chats with Q&A sessions, as well as special guest speaker Nick Gerhart, Chief Administrative Officer – FBL Financial Group, Inc., former Insurance Commissioner of the State of Iowa. The event is hosted in partnership with the CFA Society Iowa.

Note, United Fire Group UFCS had planned to participate, but now is no longer able to given a scheduling conflict.

Parties interested in listening to the presentations live may access the webcast on the website of each participating company or by visiting https://tinyurl.com/y7c4chet. Archived presentations will be available by end of day, Friday, June 23.

The agenda follows. All times shown are in Central Time.

8:00 a.m.		FBL Financial Group, Inc. FFG
		Jim Brannen, Chief Executive Officer
		Don Seibel, Chief Financial Officer
		Ray Wasilewski, Chief Operating Officer – Life Companies
		www.fblfinancial.com
8:40 a.m.		Aegon AEG
		Louise Costikyan, Head of Competitive Analysis - Transamerica
		www.aegon.com/en/home/investors/
9:40 a.m.		EMC Insurance Group Inc. EMCI
		Bruce Kelley, President & Chief Executive Officer
		Scott Jean, Executive Vice President for Finance and Analytics
		Mick Lovell, Executive Vice President for Corporate Development
		www.emcins.com/ir
10:20 a.m.		Principal Financial Group, Inc. PFG
		Nora Everett, President – Retirement and Income Solutions
		Amy Friedrich, President – U.S. Insurance Solutions
		http://www.principal.com/investor
11:00 a.m.		American Equity Investment Life Holding Company AEL
		John Matovina, Chief Executive Officer
		Ted Johnson, Chief Financial Officer
		Ron Grensteiner, President, American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company
		Jeff Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer
		http://www.american-equity.com/
11:40 a.m.		Guest speaker Nick Gerhart, Chief Administrative Officer – FBL Financial Group, Inc., former Insurance Commissioner of the State of Iowa (no webcast available)

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