Company: PRI
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-029882
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Company: Primerica, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 23
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 held in individual retirement accounts in the United States and Canada accounted for an estimated 74% and 64%, respectively, of total average client account assets. The Canadian counterpart to IRAs in the United States are Registered Retirement Savings Plans (“RRSPs”). RRSPs and IRAs behave similarly, providing tax advantaged treatment and enabling clients to earn income on a tax-deferred basis. Our high concentration of retirement plan accounts and our systematic savings philosophy are beneficial to us as these accounts tend to have lower redemption rates than the industry and, therefore, generate more recurring asset-based revenues.

In the United States, we also offer Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans (“ESRP”), such as 401(k) plans, primarily to small and medium-sized businesses. The ESRPs we distribute are offered by a limited number of third-party providers, including American Funds Distributors, Inc., Equitable Distributors, LLC and VOYA Financial, Inc., which together account for most of our ESRP business. In addition, we distribute 457(b) plans to governmental entities. Our licensed representatives generally provide educational and administrative services with respect to ESRPs, which include helping our ESRP clients understand the benefits of offering a tax-deferred retirement plan and assisting their employees to realize the need to save for retirement and the benefits of doing so in an ESRP.

Managed Investments. PFS Investments (dba Primerica Advisors) is a registered investment advisor in the United States, and it offers a managed investments program, Primerica Advisors Lifetime Investment Program (the “Lifetime Investment Program”), which we launched in 2017. The Lifetime Investment Program is a robust advisory offering designed for clients who have at least $25,000 of investable assets. It provides our customers access to investment models designed and managed by several unaffiliated investment advisers. PFS Investments, as sponsor and portfolio manager of the program, evaluates models for inclusion in the program and conducts ongoing due diligence of the models and unaffiliated investment advisers made available through the program. As of December 31, 2024, we used 12 unaffiliated investment advisers. Primerica Brokerage Services, Inc. (“PBSI”), a wholly owned affiliate of Primerica, is the introducing broker-dealer for customer accounts managed through the Lifetime Investment Program. Pershing LLC (“Pershing”), an unaffiliated clearing firm, provides custody, trade execution, clearing, settlement and related services through a fully disclosed clearing agreement with PBSI. 

Variable Annuities. U.S.