AmerUs Group Announces 2001 Investor Meeting Date.

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DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2001

AmerUs Group Co. (NYSE:AMH) today announced it will hold its 2001 Investor Meeting on Tuesday, November 13, in New York City. The meeting will provide investors, analysts and other interested parties an update on the company's operations and activities following the recent acquisition of Indianapolis Life Insurance Company. The meeting will be held at:

                Inter-Continental The Barclay New York
                         111 East 48th Street
                    (East 48th Street at Lexington)
                          Astor Rooms I & II
                          New York, NY 10017
                        9 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST

The meeting will also be webcast over the Internet. Investors and interested parties who are unable to attend in person but wish to listen to the meeting on the Internet may do so at the following link:

www.amerus.com/invrel/presentationindex.htm

Interested parties wishing to attend the meeting in New York are asked to contact AmerUs Group's Investor Relations Department at [phone].

AmerUs Group Co. is an Iowa corporation located in Des Moines, Iowa, engaged through its subsidiaries in the business of marketing and distributing individual life insurance and annuity products in 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its wholly-owned subsidiaries include AmerUs Life Insurance Company, American Investors Life Insurance Company, Inc., Delta Life and Annuity Company, Financial Benefit Life Insurance Company, Indianapolis Life Insurance Company, IL Annuity and Insurance Company, Banker's Life Insurance Company of New York and Western Security Life Insurance Company.

As of June 30, 2001, AmerUs Group's total assets were $17.6 billion and shareholders' equity totaled $1,108.9 million, including accumulated other comprehensive income.