Great West Lifestyles

Great-West Lifeco Inc. (Lifeco) is a financial services holding company in the life insurance, health insurance, asset management, investment and retirement savings and reinsurance businesses. They own The Great-West Life Assurance Company, London Life Insurance Company, Canada Life Assurance and Putnam Investments.

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• On Valentine’s day 2014, we loved GWO at $30.50 and one year later, it has reached our revised target of $36.90. Our affection was rewarded with an attractive 4% dividend and a 21% gain.

• HIGH VALUATION IN GREAT WEST LIFE AT $36.90 (GWO-T, $CAD 36.84) FULL POSITION

• TOTAL RETURN (no dividends): +25.2%

PURPLE CHIPS TARGET: $37.00 POSITION SIZE: FULL (5.0%) P/E: 13.9X DIV: $1.30 (3.5%) MKT CAP: $36.7B Debt: $7.5B RETURN ON CAPITAL: N/A EARNINGS YIELD: 8.1% 5 YR EPS Growth rate*:8.3% P/E/G Ratio: 1.68 EPS: $2.58 2016 EST.: $3.02 2017 EST.: $3.23

*Blended growth rate= 2/3 historical (5yrs), 1/3 forward.