secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC (PFG)
CIK:        0001126328
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-19T20:01:21+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-26-116869
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.35
Item codes: 7.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Principal Financial reports $785.0B AUM at Sept 30; FX, markets and dispositions cut balance ~1.5%
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- Total AUM of $785.0B as of September 30, 2026, including $581.7B in Principal Asset Management - Investment Management and $166.2B in International Pension.
- Foreign currency translation, market performance, operations disposed and other non-cash-flow items had an approximate 1.5% negative impact as a percentage of beginning-period AUM in Q3 2026.
- Operations disposed AUM was negative $2.2B for the quarter, primarily from the sale of the Chile annuity business in Principal Asset Management - International Pension.
- AUM by asset manager will be repeated in the Q3 2026 financial supplement, expected on the investor relations site on or about October 26, 2026.
- Company highlights equity AUM exposure to small-, mid-cap and international products and fixed income exposure to high yield and preferred securities amid wider return dispersion.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126328/000110465926116869/0001104659-26-116869-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1126328/000110465926116869/tm2627739d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-116869

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