Sun Life Financial News

The Boston Celtics and Sun Life Financial are set to announce a new sponsorship deal Tuesday.

MetLife Inc., following other major variable annuity providers, plans to trim its VA offerings in an effort to decrease its risk and increase profitability.

Among Canadians who expect to work past 65, 61% say they plan to work because they need to, 39% say it's because they want to.

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On 5/28/12, Sun Life Financial Inc will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.36, payable on 6/29/12. As a percentage of SLF's recent stock price of $21.42, this dividend works out to approximately 1.68%. Click here to find out which 9 other Canadian stocks going ex-dividend you should know about, at DividendChannel.com>> Below is a ... (more)

SUN Life Grepa Financial Inc., the joint venture company of Sun Life Financial and the Yuchengco Group that has an exclusive "bancassurance alliance" with the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., collected in excess of P1 billion in total premiums in the first quarter of this year, a growth of 48 percent year-on-year. "We are delighted with the progress ... (more)

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Dividend stocks are more attractive to investors these days, due to the decline in interest rates and with the recent reduction in the tax rate on most dividends.

Sun Life CEO Dean Connor's efforts to reposition the life insurer continue, as it appears he is contemplating a sale of the company's U.K. business.

Canadian financial services firm Sun Life Financial plans to sell its British life insurance unit to avoid tough new capital requirements for European insurers, Sky News reported on Tuesday.

Uninsured medical expenses are a major factor in about half of all personal bankruptcies and home foreclosures in the United States.

Long-term care insurance can be a valuable tool for making sure you don't deplete your assets in retirement.

Canada's main stock index turned positive by mid-morning on Friday as constructive North American data helped to offset political uncertainty in Greece, negative economic surprises from China and shock trading losses at JPMorgan Chase.

Beauty-products maker Coty Inc. is raising its buyout offer for direct-seller Avon Products Inc.

The firm currently has a $24.00 target price on the stock, down from their previous target price of $26.00. Shares of Sun Life Financial opened at 22.56 on Friday.

The analysts wrote, "SLF reported GAAP EPS of $1.22, well ahead of our $0.69 estimate and consensus of $0.78, owing to better-than-expected impact from both equity markets and interest rates.

Toronto's main stock index looked set to edge higher at the open on Thursday, after hitting a 2012 low on Wednesday, as healthier U.S. jobless claims data helped offset weaker-than-expected Chinese trade numbers.

Strong markets pushed Sun Life Financial Inc profit up 56 percent in the first quarter, topping analysts' estimates and driving Sun Life shares higher, while smaller rival Industrial Alliance sold off after disappointing results.

Insurer Sun Life Financial Inc. reported first-quarter profits of $686-million Thursday, up from $438-million a year ago.