Investment Options
Choose your investment approach
With RiverSource® variable universal life insurance, you can choose the investment strategy that best suits your needs. We offer many opportunities for you to accumulate assets for the future, including participating in the equities market to take advantage of growth opportunities.
You can customize your own portfolio or select a fund of funds, helping drive investment performance with strong, focused and flexible strategies from RiverSource. Your financial professional can help you choose an approach and build a portfolio that fits your investment objectives, risk tolerance and time horizon.
Design your own portfolio
With variable universal life insurance from RiverSource, you can design a portfolio that fits your own investment style. We offer a wide range of more than 70 subaccounts from well-known fund families. These investment choices range from conservative to aggressive. You can also choose a fixed account with a guaranteed minimum rate of return. All guarantees are based on the continued claims-paying ability of the issuing company and do not apply to the performance of the variable subaccounts, which will vary with market conditions.
Choose an advice-embedded solution
You may prefer to simplify your financial life so you can spend less time and energy managing your assets and more on realizing your dreams. Then choose between two advice-embedded solutions, which use a sophisticated approach to investing that helps take the emotion out of the decision-making process. These solutions help you stay invested for the long term and provide you with the opportunity for more consistent results over time:
- Portfolio Navigator — Disciplined. Diversified. Dynamic.®
Portfolio Navigator is a powerful investing tool to help drive the performance of your RiverSource® variable universal life (VUL) insurance. Portfolio Navigator offers five professionally designed and managed "funds of funds" for your VUL investment option. With Portfolio Navigator, you can rely on expert investment analysis, portfolio construction and ongoing monitoring, helping to keep you on track to reach your goals and dreams for retirement.
Portfolio Navigator can help optimize the performance of your VUL policy with an approach that is:
- Disciplined. Benefit from in-depth fund research and analysis by industry professionals who consider both qualitative and quantitative factors.
- Diversified. Have the potential for more consistent performance over time to help weather the market's ups and downs
- Dynamic. Take advantage of ongoing and sophisticated portfolio management that is responsive to market risks and opportunities.
The Portfolio Navigator funds are sold exclusively as underlying investments options of variable annuity and life insurance products offered by RiverSource Life Insurance Company and RiverSource Life Insurance Co. of New York (collectively, RiverSource Life). The funds are managed by Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, an affiliate of RiverSource Life. RiverSource Life, Columbia Management and their affiliates may receive revenue related to assets allocated to the funds. Prior to allocating contract or policy values to a subaccount that invests in one of the funds, you should read the description in the applicable variable product and fund prospectus.
A fund underlying your policy in which a subaccount invests may have a name, portfolio manager, objectives, strategies and characteristics that are the same or substantially similar to those of a publicly traded retail mutual fund. Despite these similarities, an underlying fund is not the same as any publicly traded retail mutual fund. Each underlying fund will have its own unique portfolio holdings, fees, operating expenses and operating results. The results of each underlying fund may differ significantly from any publicly traded retail mutual fund.