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Defined Benefit
De-Risking Solutions

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BMO Insurance - Group Retirement Solutions

Discover the ways BMO Insurance - Group Retirement Solutions can help support your company’s pension de-risking strategy, allowing you to control pension costs, decrease administration efforts and protect the future security of your members’ benefits.

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Transfer Your Pension Risk

Through a customized investment strategy, we will take on your company’s longevity, market and benefit payment risks, relieving your balance sheet of pension risk and guaranteeing the future income of your members.

Reduce Administration

Our team will manage pension and benefit administration, reducing your need to train and employ pension experts, and freeing resources to focus on other areas of your business.

Provide 24/7 Member Access

Our group annuity online portal offers self-serve capabilities for your pensioners, and provides pertinent information to keep them informed of their benefit status at all times.

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Our Solutions

Our de-risking products contain customized solutions to help your company manage
and minimize the risks associated with your group pension plan.

Your pension liabilities and benefit administration are transferred to BMO Insurance. A single premium further simplifies your pension administration.


We make monthly annuity payments to your plan in exchange for a single premium. The plan continues to pay members directly, making the policy invisible to retirees.


Protect your plan specifically against longevity risk. We make monthly pension payments into the plan for the lifetime of your pensioners for a locked-in premium.


BMO Insurance - Group Retirement Solutions
Considerations: Annuity Buy-Out Annuity Buy-In Longevity Insurance
Reduce Longevity Risk Yes Yes Yes
Reduce Market Risk Yes Yes No
Reduce Benefit Administration Yes No No
Premium Type Single lump sum Single lump sum Monthly Locked-In
Payment to Pensioners Paid by GRS Paid by Plan Sponsor Paid by Plan Sponsor
Convertible No Yes, to Buy-Out No
Accounting settlement Yes No No
Member Portal Yes N/A N/A

Annuity Buy-Out

Your pension liabilities and benefit administration are transferred to BMO Insurance. A single premium further simplifies your pension administration.

Annuity Buy-In

We make monthly annuity payments to your plan in exchange for a single premium. The plan continues to pay members directly, making the policy invisible to retirees.

Longevity Insurance

Protect your plan specifically against longevity risk. We make monthly pension payments into the plan for the lifetime of your pensioners for a locked-in premium.

BMO Insurance - Group Retirement Solutions
Considerations: Annuity Buy-Out Annuity Buy-In Longevity Insurance
Reduce Longevity Risk Yes Yes Yes
Reduce Market Risk Yes Yes No
Reduce Benefit Administration Yes No No
Premium Type Single lump sum Single lump sum Monthly Locked-In
Payment to Pensioners Paid by GRS Paid by Plan Sponsor Paid by Plan Sponsor
Convertible No Yes, to Buy-Out No
Accounting settlement Yes No No
Member Portal Yes N/A N/A

Why Choose BMO Insurance?

As a leader in the pension industry and innovator in de-risking solutions, we provide life insurance and annuity expertise to companies seeking ways to limit balance sheet volatility due to their Defined Benefit pension liability.

Backed by the strength of BMO Financial Group and the investment management expertise of BMO Global Asset Management, BMO Insurance offers customized solutions, highly competitive pricing and specialized risk mitigation strategies to support your pension requirements.

Our Capabilities

  • Demonstrates commitment to being one of the top providers of group annuities (13% average annual market share), footnote 1,, footnote 2
  • Processes approximately 33,920 group annuity payments every month, for a total of $28.1M (as of July 2022)
  • Holds double Assuris coverage through two legal entities (BMO Life Assurance Company & BMO Life Insurance Company)
  • Retains strong liquidity and capital ratios: 113% LICAT Ratio (October 31, 2022); Rated “A (Excellent)” by A.M. Best Rating Services
  • Offers highly competitive pricing
  • Provides specialized risk mitigation strategies, as well as actuarial, life insurance and annuity expertise

Our People

Our team is comprised of highly talented experts in the pension industry, committed to
guiding plan sponsors through every stage of their de-risking journey.

Jerome Lamontagne, FSA, FCIA, CERA

AVP, Client Relations, GRS

Jerome is responsible for supporting all our clients' de-risking needs.

Sohaib Razvi, PPAC, BBA

Head, Client Relations & Operations, GRS

Sohaib is responsible for supporting all our clients’ de-risking needs, and ensuring a smooth transaction from start to finish.

Send an email to Quote.GroupAnnuity@bmo.com. A representative will contact you shortly about your inquiry.

Our History

As a member of the BMO Financial Group, BMO Insurance is founded on a legacy that extends back to 1817. This proven history of financial strength lets us stand behind our insurance products by offering flexible coverage options, comprehensive benefits and competitive prices. A.M. Best Rating Services gives us a Financial Strength Insurer Rating of “A(Excellent)” and Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “A”, recognizing our excellent ability to meet our obligations.

We have earned our customers' trust through the integrity of our actions: We take pride in what we do, remain committed to continuous innovation, embrace diversity and strive to improve our performance.

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Footnote 1 details Source: Life Insurance Marketing Research Association, 2017 to 2019 Canadian Pension Market Survey data

Footnote 2 details Average annual market share in the last 3 years, ending 2019.