Principal Financial CFO Deanna Strable gives the lowdown on the firm's recent $1.2 billion acquisition of Wells Fargo's retirement business.
The sale to Principal Financial reflects Wells Fargo strategy of divesting smaller business lines in the wake of its fake-accounts scandal.
Robotic process automation emerges from the back office to take on core finance tasks.
Principal Financial finds early success piloting RPA in treasury and tax.
Acquiring RobustWealth will provide Principal with automated rebalancing and other services, as well as almost $1 billion in new assets under management.
Principal Financial Group's CFO, on the job less than a year, had spent her career running businesses rather than finance teams.
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