Genworth Financial Receives Ratings Upgrade From S&P

“This upgrade from S&P reflects the substantial improvements we’ve made in our leverage and liquidity profile, including through the retirement of over $2 billion of debt in 2021,” said Daniel Sheehan, Genworth’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer. “We entered 2022 with enhanced financial flexibility and a clear path to shareholder value creation. Given our strong liquidity and expected future cash flows, we plan to retire the remainder of our 2024 debt this year. This would bring total holding company debt to below our target of $1 billion and enable Genworth to evaluate returning capital to shareholders as part of a balanced capital allocation strategy.”

The Insurer Financial Strength ratings of Genworth’s life insurance subsidiaries, Genworth Life Insurance Company and Genworth Life Insurance Company of New York and Genworth Life and Annuity Insurance Company were unaffected by this ratings action.

Additional information regarding the rating changes can be found in the full report issued by S&P on March 11.

About Genworth Financial

Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW) is a Fortune 500 provider of products, services and solutions that help families address the financial challenges of aging. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, we apply our nearly 150 years of experience each day to helping people navigate caregiving options and fund their long term care needs. Genworth is also the parent company of publicly traded Enact Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACT), a leading U.S. mortgage insurance provider. For more information on Genworth, please visit https://www.genworth.com/. From time to time Enact separately releases financial and other information about its operations. This information can be found at https://ir.enactmi.com/.