AmerUs Group Announces Chairman and CEO Brooks to Retire at Year-End; Godlasky to be Chairman, President and CEO.DES MOINES, Iowa “Des Moines” redirects here. For other uses, see Des Moines (disambiguation). Des Moines (pronounced /dɪˈmɔɪn/ in English, -- AmerUs Group Co. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMH AMH Abington Memorial Hospital (Abington, PA) AMH Anti-Müllerian Hormone AMH Australian Medicines Handbook AMH Automated Material Handling AMH Aviation Structural Mechanic (Hydraulics) US Navy Rating ), a leading producer of life insurance and annuity products, today announced that Roger K. Brooks, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, plans to retire from his executive position with the company effective at the end of 2005. Brooks' retirement is part of a planned succession process that began in 2003. Thomas C. Godlasky, now president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of the company, will continue as president and become chairman and chief executive officer concurrent with Brooks' retirement. Brooks, 67, joined AmerUs Group in 1959 and became president in 1972 and chief executive officer in 1974. About AmerUs Group AmerUs Group Co. is located in Des Moines, Iowa, and is engaged through its subsidiaries in the business of marketing individual life insurance and annuity products in the United States. Its major subsidiaries include: AmerUs Life Insurance Company, American Investors Life Insurance Company, Inc., Bankers Life Insurance Company of New York and Indianapolis Life Insurance Company. As of December 31, 2004, AmerUs Group's total assets were $23.2 billion and shareholders' equity totaled $1.6 billion, including accumulated other comprehensive income In 1997 the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a Statement on Financial Accounting Standards entitled “Comprehensive Income”. This statement required all income statement items to be reported either as a regular item in the income statement and or a special item as . |
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