JXN - Leadership updates

Jackson Financial Inc.1 (NYSE:JXN) (Jackson®) and PPM America, Inc. (PPM), an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Jackson, announced today that after nearly 20 years of service, Craig Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer of PPM, intends to retire on December 31, 2025. While a search is conducted for his successor, Smith will begin to transition his day-to-day leadership responsibilities of PPM to Chris Raub, President, Jackson National Life Insurance Company (JNLIC), who will serve as the interim leader of PPM following Smith's retirement. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251008934243/en/ "I am deeply appr

Jackson Financial Inc.1 (NYSE:JXN) (Jackson®) announced today that Lin Sun has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary. Sun joins the company with broad financial industry knowledge and extensive actuarial expertise. In this role, she has oversight of the organization's Actuarial department, with responsibility for valuation, pricing and other actuarial functions. Sun succeeds Steve Binioris, who was recently appointed to serve as the company's Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer. She assumed the role on June 16 and reports to Don Cummings, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Jackson. "Our team is delighted to welcome Lin to Jackson," said Cummin

PPM America, Inc. (PPM) today announced the addition of a seasoned emerging market (EM) debt team from Western Asset Management. The team includes Mark Hughes, senior managing director, portfolio manager and co-head of EM debt, Kevin Ritter, senior managing director, portfolio manager and co-head of EM debt, Matthew Graves, managing director and portfolio manager/analyst and Kevin Zhang, vice president and analyst. The team averages 22 years of investment experience and have worked together for nearly a decade with portfolio managers having worked together since 2009. "We are excited to expand our capabilities in emerging market debt," said Jeff Seaver, PPM's Head of Global Distribution.