Securian Financial Group said it has promoted three staffersfrom manager to director-level positions.

The St. Paul, Minn.-based provider of insurance, investment andretirement services said this week they are Laurie Fenwick, AngelaSchema and Linda Sonterre.

Fenwick has been with Securian since 1988 and is a benefitsspecialist who was promoted to director of compensation, payrolland human resources information services.

Schema joined the company in 2007 as a marketing communicationsaccount representative and has been promoted to director ofcommunications and market research.

Sonterre was hired in 1987 as an actuarial analyst andtechnician and now is director of individual annuity productdevelopment, Securian said.

“In a business like ours, where the products areintangible, our people become our product,” said Kathleen Pinkett,Securian's senior vice president of human resources and corporatedevelopment. “We believe retaining good people and developing theirpotential for expanded accountability is fundamental to oursuccess.”

Pinkett said Securian's internal promotion rate in 2012 was 85%and the employee retention rate was 96%.