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Great-West Lifeco announces election of Directors

Toronto, Ontario, May 3, 2018. . .  Great-West Lifeco Inc. (Lifeco or the Corporation) announced that the proposal to amend the Articles of the Corporation to increase the number of directors from 21 to 22 was passed by a 94.86% majority and that the 22 nominees listed in its Management Proxy Circular dated February 20, 2018 were elected as Directors of the Corporation at its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders held today in Toronto. The results of the vote by ballot are set out below.

Name

Votes For

% For

Votes Withheld

% Withheld

Michael R. Amend

901,465,662

99.91%

791,563

0.09%

Deborah J. Barrett

900,068,714

99.76%

2,188,514

0.24%

Marcel R. Coutu

757,084,912

83.91%

145,172,502

16.09%

André Desmarais

864,628,220

95.83%

37,628,523

4.17%      

Paul Desmarais, Jr.

762,965,450

84.56%

139,289,815

15.44%

Gary A. Doer

892,431,629

98.91%

9,825,111

1.09%

David G. Fuller

898,452,196

99.58%

3,803,561

0.42%

Claude Généreux

876,275,673

97.12%

25,981,760

2.88%

Chaviva M. Hošek

896,809,747

99.40%

5,445,892

0.60%

J. David A. Jackson

895,800,115

99.28%

6,455,649

0.72%

Elizabeth C. Lempres

899,980,903

99.75%

2,274,460

0.25%

Paula B. Madoff

899,884,723

99.74%

2,372,500

0.26%

Paul A. Mahon

901,078,753

99.87%

1,178,455

0.13%

Susan J. McArthur

898,332,279

99.56%

3,924,928

0.44%

R. Jeffrey Orr

874,522,185

96.93%

27,735,012

3.07%

Donald M. Raymond

819,561,857

90.83%

82,695,322

9.17%

T. Timothy Ryan

897,256,533

99.45%

5,000,665

0.55%

Jerome J. Selitto

899,231,715

99.66%

3,025,010

0.34%

James M. Singh

901,376,970

99.90%

880,257

0.10%

Gregory D. Tretiak

894,009,631

99.09%

8,247,597

0.91%

Siim A. Vanaselja

899,012,499

99.64%

3,244,729

0.36%

Brian E. Walsh

854,275,206

94.68%

47,982,007

5.32%

Great-West Lifeco Inc. is an international financial services holding company with interests in life insurance, health insurance, retirement and investment services, asset management and reinsurance businesses. Lifeco has operations in Canada, the United States and Europe through Great-West Life, London Life, Canada Life, Irish Life, Great-West Financial and Putnam Investments. Lifeco and its companies have approximately $1.4 trillion in consolidated assets under administration as at March 31, 2018 and are members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies. Great-West Lifeco trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the ticker symbol GWO. To learn more, visit Greatwestlifeco.com.

For more information contact:

Media Relations:
Tim Oracheski
204-946-8961
Email: media.relations@gwl.ca

Investor Relations:
Deirdre Neary
416-552-3208
Email: deirdre.neary@gwl.ca