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Rating Raised To 'A' From 'A-'; Outlook Stable</title><spcred:type xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">Research Update</spcred:type><spcred:docid xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">659044</spcred:docid><spcred:index_entry_dispcountry xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">United States</spcred:index_entry_dispcountry><spcred:index_entry_dispgics xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">Asset Management &amp; Custody Banks</spcred:index_entry_dispgics><spcred:index_entry_dispregion xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">United States</spcred:index_entry_dispregion><spcred:index_entry_dispsector xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">Global Issuers</spcred:index_entry_dispsector><spcred:index_entry_dispsector xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">Insurance</spcred:index_entry_dispsector><spcred:index_entry_disptype xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">Research Update</spcred:index_entry_disptype><spcred:index_entry_excerpt xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">On July 10, 2008, Standard&amp;Poor's Ratings Services raised its counterparty credit rating on Ameriprise Financial Inc. 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Hamilton</sdc:value></sdc:z_LAW30></sdc:deal><category>Deal Information</category><alacra:ip>Thomson Financial Mergers &amp; Acquisitions</alacra:ip></item><item><link>http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/ccbn/T1817968</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ccbn/T1817968</guid><ccbn:index_mode xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">norm</ccbn:index_mode><description>... - Sanford C. Bernstein &amp; Co. -  Analyst, Moderator Good morning, and welcome to the session with Ameriprise Financial. I'm Suneet Kamath. I cover the U.S. life space at Bernstein,  which also means I cover Ameriprise. With us today to represent Ameriprise are Jim Cracchiolo, Chairman and CEO. Also on the stage is Walter Berman, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, and Kathryn Koessel, from Investor Relations. As you may know from our research, Ameriprise is our top pick in the U.S. life space for ####, and at a high level we see three drivers of upside in the stock. First, we expect margin expansion in the Company's high multiple asset management and financial advisory segments due to the positive impact of operating leverage. Second, we expect significant redeployment of excess capital, including a strong free cash flow generation story over the next several years. And third, we feel there is tremendous value in the Company's branded advisor distribution system, which is one of the...

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We're very pleased to be here today and we're kind of excited about telling you our story.  What I'd like to do today is give you a little bit of a background after I give you the disclosures here so you can read them, and they're all in our documents just in case there are any forward-looking statements. What I'd like to do is really cover who we are as Ameriprise and over the last two years what we've been able to accomplish since we separated from American Express. This was the sixth largest spin-off in U.S. history and we pretty much had to disconnect from American Express as a one operating company to be our separate independent business. And so we want to talk about that, talk about our strategy, how we've been really focused on driving growth of the future, what we've been able to accomplish over the last two years, and really how we see the terrain moving forward, the opportunity we have in the marketplace,...

</description><ccbn:type xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Transcript</ccbn:type><ccbn:docid xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">T1747816</ccbn:docid><category>Credit &amp; Investment Research</category><alacra:ip>Thomson Street Events</alacra:ip></item><item><link>http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/ccbn/B1739843</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ccbn/B1739843</guid><ccbn:index_mode xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">norm</ccbn:index_mode><pubDate>1/24/2008 9:05:00 PM</pubDate><ccbn:name xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Ameriprise Financial, Inc.</ccbn:name><ccbn:price xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">54.0000</ccbn:price><ccbn:revision xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Edited</ccbn:revision><ccbn:storetitle xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Q4 2007 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Summary</ccbn:storetitle><ccbn:ticker xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">AMP</ccbn:ticker><ccbn:time xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">5:30pm ET</ccbn:time><title>Q4 2007 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Summary</title><description>...#Q## was another good qtr. for AMP despite some very [tougher market] conditions. www.streetevents.comContact Us ...

</description><ccbn:type xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Brief</ccbn:type><ccbn:docid xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">B1739843</ccbn:docid><category>Credit &amp; Investment Research</category><alacra:ip>Thomson Street Events</alacra:ip></item><item><link>http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/ccbn/T1739843</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ccbn/T1739843</guid><ccbn:index_mode xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">norm</ccbn:index_mode><pubDate>1/24/2008 7:05:00 PM</pubDate><ccbn:name xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Ameriprise Financial, Inc.</ccbn:name><ccbn:price xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">54.0000</ccbn:price><ccbn:revision xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Final</ccbn:revision><ccbn:storetitle xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Q4 2007 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Transcript</ccbn:storetitle><ccbn:ticker xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">AMP</ccbn:ticker><ccbn:time xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">5:30pm ET</ccbn:time><title>Q4 2007 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Transcript</title><description>...Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the fourth quarter #### earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question and answer session. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Miss Laura Gagnon, Vice President of Investor Relations. Miss Gagnon, you may begin. ...

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