TORONTO, April 7, 2021 /CNW/ - Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW), a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company, in collaboration with Sun Life, iA Financial Group and Brookfield Annuity, today announced a group annuity buy-out transaction of CA$1.8 billion for over 6,000 members of the General Motors of Canada Company salaried pension plan who retired prior to June 1, 2020.
Marco Dickner, Retirement Risk Management Leader, Canada, at Willis Towers Watson, said "This deal is ground-breaking because it demonstrates that Canadian insurers can now effectively meet plan sponsors' needs for jumbo transactions, a milestone in the evolution of pension risk transfers in Canada."
Brent Simmons, Head of Defined Benefit Solutions at Sun Life, added "We've finally cracked the CA$1 billion mark for a single insurer in a single day with Sun Life's CA$1.1B share of the deal."