GENWORTH FINANCIAL INC

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements

This Annual Report on Form 10-K, including Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, contains certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as “expects,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “will,” “may” or words of similar meaning and include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the outlook for our future business and financial performance. Examples of forward-looking statements include statements we make relating to potential dividends or share repurchases; future return of capital by Enact Holdings, Inc. (“Enact Holdings”), including share repurchases, and quarterly and special dividends; the cumulative economic benefit of approved and future rate actions included in our long-term care insurance multi-yearin-force rate action plan; planned investments in and our outlook for new lines of business or new insurance and other products and services, such as those we are pursuing with our CareScout business (“CareScout”), including through our CareScout services business (“CareScout Services”) and our CareScout insurance business (“CareScout Insurance”); the timing of any future insurance offering through CareScout Insurance; future financial performance, including the expectation that quarterly adverse variances between actual and expected experience could persist resulting in future remeasurement losses in our long-term care insurance business; future financial condition and liquidity of our businesses; and statements we make regarding the outlook of the U.S. economy. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions, which are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements due to global political, economic, inflation, business, competitive, market, regulatory and other factors and risks, including but not limited to, the items identified under “Part I—Item 1A—Risk Factors.” We therefore caution the reader against relying on any forward-looking statements.

We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.