AmerUs Group Announces Stock Purchase Program.Business Editors DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2001 AmerUs Group (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 ) today announced that its Board of Directors had approved a stock purchase program under which the company may purchase up to three million shares of its common stock at such times and under such market conditions as the company deems advisable. The purchases may be made in the open market or by such other means as the company determines to be appropriate, including privately negotiated purchases. The purchase program supercedes all prior purchase programs AmerUs Group Co. is an Iowa corporation located in Des Moines, Iowa “Des Moines” redirects here. For other uses, see Des Moines (disambiguation). Des Moines (pronounced /dɪˈmɔɪn/ in English, , engaged through its subsidiaries in the business of marketing and underwriting individual life insurance and annuity products in 50 states, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its subsidiaries include: AmerUs Life Insurance Company, American Investors Life Insurance Company, Inc., Banker's Life Insurance Company of New York, Delta Life and Annuity Company, Financial Benefit Life Insurance Company, IL Annuity and Insurance Company, Indianapolis Life Insurance Company 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 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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