Great-West Life Assurance Company
Address:
Great-West Life Assurance Company
100 Osborne Street North
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3C 3A5
Toll Free: 1-800-665-0551
Phone: 204-946-1190
Fax: 204-946-7838
Web Address: www.gwl.ca
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The Great-West Life Assurance Company is recognized as a leading financial services provider. It is through financial contributions and volunteer work of the staff and advisers that the company builds strong communities like their Key to Giving program, which provides financial support to health-based, non-profit organizations.
The members of the company can be assured that they receive the necessary individual products such as life, disability, critical illness, health and dental insurance, and services such as retirement and investment planning. One of their most interesting products within retirement and investment planning is the Residential Mortgage by which customers are offered tailored products by the team’s mortgage planning specialists. Mortgage life insurance enables you to add life insurance to your mortgage.
If launching a small, medium or large business, Great-West offers a variety of group benefits for your company, such as health and dental care, wellness and disability, life benefits, international benefit plans, accidental death and dismemberment benefits. The International Benefit Plan offers members the opportunity to insure their employees when in the U.S. or oversees, or employees from a foreign country. In addition, Great-West Life’s members enjoy the largest network of group retirement services advisers across Canada.
Citizens living in Canada and the U.S. all have the opportunity to benefit from Great West Life’s services.
LSM Great-West Policy Reviews
- Great-West Life's Term Life Policies: Coverage for All Children
The children’s life insurance rider is available in multiples of $2,500, up to $25,000. It covers all children—natural, adopted or step-children of the insured up to age 25.
- Great-West Life's Disability Pans: Professional, Boss Plus, Competitor and Protector
Great-West Life has four disability plans. Their Professional plan is high-end disability insurance geared toward professionals, business owners and key employees.
- Great savings with Great-West Life's Universal Life Plan
A very attractive feature of Great-West Life’s plan (like the Canada Life plan) is that it qualifies for their Astra program.
LSM Great-West Policy News
- Great West Life's Child Critical Illness Plan 09/18/2009
Great West Life has a unique Citical Illness insurance plan for children -- Child Oasis.
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