AmerUs Group Names New Independent Director.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 it has named a new independent director to its board of directors. Louis A. Holland, managing partner and chief investment officer of Holland Capital Management, L.P., has joined AmerUs Group's board effective February 10, 2005. With the appointment of Mr. Holland, the board is comprised of 14 directors, 12 of whom are independent, non-employee directors. "Lou is an excellent addition to an outstanding board--he is a strong, proven leader with tremendous experience, which further complements the existing expertise on our board," said Roger K. Brooks, chairman of AmerUs Group's board. Biographical Information Louis A. Holland serves as managing partner and chief investment officer of Holland Capital. With over 35 years of experience in the investment management industry, he oversees the management of the firm's equity and fixed income management strategies. Prior to founding Holland Capital in 1991, Mr. Holland gained early business management experience at Commonwealth Edison after playing professional football with both the Canadian Football League Canadian Football League (CFL) Major Canadian professional gridiron football organization, formed in 1958. The league's Western Conference includes teams from Edmonton, Calgary, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Winnipeg; its Eastern Conference comprises teams from and National Football League. His investment experience was augmented by 15 years at A.G. Becker Paribas Inc., where he served as a vice president specializing in asset and portfolio management for corporations, endowments, foundations, public funds, Taft/Hartley, and high net worth individuals. In 1983, he formed his prior firm, Hahn Holland & Grossman. Mr. Holland currently serves on the following boards and committees: Board of Directors, Northwestern Mutual Series Fund, Inc. and Mason Street Funds, Inc.; Packaging Corporation of America; National Association of Securities Professionals; Northwestern Memorial Healthcare Corporation; McCormick Theological Seminary McCormick Theological Seminary is one of eleven schools of theology of the Presbyterian Church (USA). It shares a campus with the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, bordering the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. , the Investment Analysts Society of Chicago, and serves as vice-chairman of the University of Wisconsin Foundation. On a national level, he is a director of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and an advisory director of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. Mr. Holland is an active member of local civic and business organizations as well. Mr. Holland earned a B.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin and attended Loyola University Chicago Beginnings and expansions Founded in 1870 as the St Ignatius College on Chicago's West Side. In 1908 the School of Law was established as the first of the professional programs. Graduate School of Business. In 1990, the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association presented him with the Distinguished Alumni Award. More recently, the National Association of Securities Professionals honored Mr. Holland with the 2004 Maynard Jackson Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has been a special guest and 20-year veteran panelist on Wall $treet Week Wall $treet Week (W$W) was a respected, long-running investment news and information TV program broadcast weekly each Friday on PBS in the United States. It had a host (or hosts) and guest experts participating in discussions on the stock market and focused on With Louis Rukeyser and Rukeyser's Wall $treet. Mr. Holland's additional media exposure includes guest appearances on the Financial News Network, CNN's Moneyline, CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. , and the Chicago Tonight show. Holland Capital, based in Chicago, Illinois, manages over $2.6 billion in equity and fixed income securities for institutional investors and to individuals. Holland Capital is also the investment advisor Investment Advisor 1. A person making investment recommendations in return for a flat fee or percentage of assets managed, known as a commission. 2. For mutual fund companies, it is the individual who has the day-to-day responsibility of investing and monitoring the cash and to the Lou Holland Growth Fund. 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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