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Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets  
Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

2.  Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

Goodwill

The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill reported in our segments were as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

Retirement

    

Principal

    

 

 

    

U.S.

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

and Income

 

Global

 

Principal

 

Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solutions

 

Investors

 

International

 

Solutions

 

Corporate

 

Consolidated

 

 

(in millions)

Balance as of January 1, 2017

 

$

57.4

 

$

242.5

 

$

664.3

 

$

56.6

 

$

 —

 

$

1,020.8

Foreign currency

 

 

 —

 

 

4.8

 

 

43.2

 

 

 —

 

 

 —

 

 

48.0

Balance as of December 31, 2017

 

 

57.4

 

 

247.3

 

 

707.5

 

 

56.6

 

 

 —

 

 

1,068.8

Goodwill from acquisitions (1)

 

 

 —

 

 

65.0

 

 

46.8

 

 

 —

 

 

2.1

 

 

113.9

Goodwill disposed (2)

 

 

 —

 

 

 —

 

 

(12.0)

 

 

 —

 

 

 —

 

 

(12.0)

Foreign currency

 

 

 —

 

 

(5.0)

 

 

(65.7)

 

 

 —

 

 

 —

 

 

(70.7)

Balance as of December 31, 2018

 

$

57.4

 

$

307.3

 

$

676.6

 

$

56.6

 

$

2.1

 

$

1,100.0


(1)

Relates to the acquisitions of: a) RobustWealth, a financial technology company, which is consolidated within our Corporate segment with the majority of the goodwill allocated to our Principal Global Investors segment; b) INTERNOS, a London-based European real estate investment manager that, upon acquisition, became Principal Real Estate Europe Limited and is consolidated within our Principal Global Investors segment; c) MetLife Afore, S.A. de C.V., which was MetLife, Inc.’s pension fund management business in Mexico and is consolidated within our Principal International segment.

(2)

Relates to sales of closed blocks of business in Mexico.

Finite Lived Intangible Assets

Amortized intangible assets primarily relate to customer relationship intangibles associated with previous acquisitions in Chile, Mexico and Hong Kong. The finite lived intangible assets that continue to be subject to amortization over a weighted average remaining expected life of 14 years were as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31, 

 

    

2018

    

2017

 

 

(in millions)

Gross carrying value

 

$

810.2

 

$

782.9

Accumulated amortization

 

 

288.4

 

 

277.7

Net carrying value

 

$

521.8

 

$

505.2

 

The amortization expense for intangible assets with finite useful lives was $53.9 million, $45.4 million and $44.5 million for 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. As of December 31, 2018, the estimated amortization expense for the next five years is as follows (in millions):

 

 

 

 

 

Year ending December 31:

    

 

 

2019

 

$

48.5

2020

 

 

48.2

2021

 

 

47.0

2022

 

 

46.3

2023

 

 

44.2

 

Indefinite Lived Intangible Assets

The net carrying amount of unamortized indefinite lived intangible assets was $793.3 million and $809.5 million as of December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively. As of both December 31, 2018 and 2017, $608.0 million relates to investment management contracts associated with our acquisition of WM Advisors, Inc. in 2006. The remaining balance primarily relates to the trade name intangible associated with our acquisition of Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Cuprum S.A. (“Cuprum”) in 2013.