FACTS FOR 2015Purpose

For nearly 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped clients achieve their financial goals. Our financial representatives build lifelong relationships with clients and help them plan for all of their financial security needs with confidence.

Philosophy As a mutual company with no shareholders, we focus solely and directly on our clients and seek to deliver consistent and dependable value over time.

ServicesOur financial representatives help clients meet a full spectrum of financial security needs, including wealth and income protection, education funding, retirement planning, investment advisory services, trust and private client services, estate planning and business planning.

Approach

Through a distinctive planning process, our financial representatives help clients identify their goals and develop a personalized plan using a wide range of insurance and investment solutions, including life, disability income and long-term care insurance; annuities; investments; and investment advisory products and services.

Industry Leader

• World’s Most Admired: We are among the “World’s Most Admired” life insurance companies, according to FORTUNE® magazine’s annual survey, published Feb. 19, 2015.

• Top 10 Broker-Dealer: We rank among the Top 10 independent broker-dealers as measured by total revenues by leading investment publications: Financial Advisor magazine, April 2014; Financial Planning magazine, June 2014; and Investment Advisor magazine, June 2014.

• Guidance: Our financial representative training program is recognized among the country’s best,1 helping our representatives guide you to a more secure financial future.

• Customer Satisfaction: We have a persistency rate of 96 percent for life insurance in force.

• Market Share: We are the largest direct provider of individual life insurance in the United States, ranking first in market share based on 2013 data from SNL Financial.2

• Total Dividends: We expect to pay an industry-leading total dividend of $5.5 billion in 2015.3

• Ratings: We have the highest financial strength ratings awarded to any life insurer by all four of the major rating agencies: A.M. Best Company, A++ (highest), 4/2014; Fitch Ratings, AAA (highest), 11/2014; Moody’s Investors Service, Aaa (highest), 12/2014; and Standard & Poor’s, AA+ (second highest), 7/2014. Ratings are subject to change.

720 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53202-4797 | (414) 271-1444 | www.northwesternmutual.com

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NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL FACTS FOR 2015

Social Responsibility

• We are one of the largest corporate givers in Wisconsin, donating more than $274 million to nonprofits nationwide since our foundation’s inception in 1992.

• Our philanthropic program to fight childhood cancer is helping accelerate the search for a cure to childhood cancer and providing support to kids and families facing the daily struggles of cancer – the leading cause of death by disease in children and adolescents in the United States.4 To date, we’ve funded more than 47,000 hours of research and donated $6.6 million.

• More than 1,850 Northwestern Mutual employees donated nearly 32,500 hours in 2014 to volunteer efforts.

Founded March 2, 1857

Local Offices Northwestern Mutual has more than 330 offices across the United States. To find an office in your area, check our locater at www.northwesternmutual.com.

Size $230 billion in assets. $27 billion in revenues. Ranked 110 on the 2014 FORTUNE 500 list. 4.3 million clients.

Investment Portfolio

$195 billion in fixed income, equity and other investments (including $17 billion in policy loans) in the general account and $27 billion in separate accounts.

Claims Paid $3.4 billion in life, disability income and long-term care insurance claims paid to policyowners or their beneficiaries in 2014.

Value Returned More than $5.5 billion in total dividends expected to be paid to policyowners in 2015.

Life Insurance $1.5 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, with 3.7 million people insured through 5.6 million policies.

Disability Income Insurance

497,000 people insured through 746,000 individual disability income policies. 172,000 business owners and employees insured through 12,000 group disability income policies. The company expects to pay $320 million in dividends to disability income insurance policyowners in 2015.

Long-Term Care Insurance 200,000 people insured through 214,000 policies with Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company.

Annuities $24 billion worth of annuity assets in 351,000 client contracts.

Investment Products and Services

$87 billion in assets under management. Through our subsidiaries Northwestern Mutual Investment Services and Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company, we provide a suite of investment products and services:

• Advisory programs

• Mutual funds

• Individual securities

• Personal trust services

• Brokerage services

• Retirement plans

• Variable annuities

• Fixed income management

• Cash management

• Variable life

• Discretionary investment management

Subsidiaries

Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company, long-term care insurance

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company, investment management, trust services and fee-based financial planning, limited purpose federal savings bank

Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC, broker-dealer, investment adviser, member FINRA and SIPC

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1 Training magazine’s annual “Training Top 125” list, published Feb. 10, 2015.2 Northwestern Mutual’s calculation of U.S. direct life insurance market share includes new premium sales,

renewal premium and dividend additions in the United States only.3 Northwestern Mutual’s analysis of ordinary life insurance dividends based on historical SNL data. Decisions with

respect to the determination and allocation of divisible surplus as dividends each year are left to the discretion and sound business judgment of the company’s Board of Trustees. There is no guaranteed specific method or formula for the determination or allocation of divisible surplus. Accordingly, the company’s approach is subject to change. Neither the existence nor the amount of a dividend is guaranteed on any policy in any given policy year.

4 National Cancer Institute fact sheet, May 12, 2014.

Figures as of Dec. 31, 2014, unless otherwise noted. Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, WI (life and disability insurance, annuities) and its subsidiaries.