2015 Recognition highlights

Principal Funds was recognized by Barron’s as the No. 6 fund company in the U.S. and Lipper named Principal Global Real Estate Securities Fund the best global real estate fund.

Global investment management recognition includes being named Best Asset Manager in Southeast Asia (for a fifth consecutive year) and multiple Best Fund awards from Lipper in Hong Kong and Morningstar in Mexico.

Recognition for innovation includes being named on InformationWeek’s Elite 100, as a top U.S. ­business technology innovator, and Brasilprev, our joint venture in Brazil, being recognized as one of the most innovative pension companies.

Great people want a great place to work. We continued to receive multiple best places to work awards, including recognition from Working Mother magazine and Computerworld.

And for a fourth consecutive year, we were named Pension & Investments’ Best Place to Work in Money Management.


The Principal Financial Group earned the top spot in its category in Pension and Investments’ annual survey of Best Places to Work in Money Management. Entire contents copyrighted by Crain Communications. All rights reserved.

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