10-K 1 slus10k307.htm FORM 10-K Unassociated Document




UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2006
Commission File Numbers: 2-99959, 33-29851, 33-31711, 33-41858, 33-43008, 33-58853, 333-11699, 333-77041, 333-62837, 333-45923, 333-88069, 333-39306, 333-46566, 333-82816, 333-82824, 333-111636, 333-130699, 333-130703, 333-130704, 333-133684, 333-133685, 333-133686, 333-39034, and 333-139387-01

SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware
04-2461439
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
(IRS Employer Identification No.)

One Sun Life Executive Park, Wellesley Hills, MA
02481
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)

(781) 237-6030
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
None
(Title of Class)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
None
(Title of Class)

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. £Yes RNo

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. £Yes RNo

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. RYes £No

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (Section 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. £

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of "accelerated filer and large accelerated filer" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer £ 
Accelerated filer £ 
Non-accelerated filer R 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). £Yes RNo

Registrant has no voting or non-voting common equity outstanding held by non-affiliates.

Registrant has 6,437 shares of common stock outstanding on March 27, 2007, all of which are owned by Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.

THE REGISTRANT MEETS THE CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN GENERAL INSTRUCTION I(1)(a) AND (b) OF FORM 10-K AND IS THEREFORE FILING THIS FORM WITH THE REDUCED DISCLOSURE FORMAT PERMITTED BY INSTRUCTION I(2).






SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I
 
Page
     
Item 1.
Business
3
     
Item 1A.
Risk Factors
6
     
Item 1B.
Unresolved Staff Comments
6
     
Item 2.
Properties
6
     
Item 3.
Legal Proceedings
6
     
Item 4.
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
6
     
     
Part II
   
     
Item 5.
Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
7
     
Item 6.
Selected Financial Data
7
     
Item 7.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
7
     
Item 7A.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
21
     
Item 8.
Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
23
     
Item 9.
Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
86
     
Item 9A
Controls and Procedures
86
     
Item 9B
Other Information
86
     
Part III
   
     
Item 10.
Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
87
     
Item 11.
Executive Compensation
87
     
Item 12.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
87
     
Item 13.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
87
     
Item 14.
Principal Accounting Fees and Services
87
     
     
Part IV
   
     
Item 15.
Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules
89
     

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
PART I
Item 1. Business.

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.) (the "Company") and its subsidiaries are primarily engaged in the sale of individual and group variable life insurance, individual universal life insurance, individual and group fixed and variable annuities, funding agreements, group life, group disability, and group stop loss insurance. These products are distributed through individual insurance agents, financial planners, insurance brokers and broker-dealers to both the tax qualified and non-tax-qualified markets. The Company is authorized to transact business in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition, the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Sun Life Insurance and Annuity Company of New York ("SLNY"), is authorized to transact business in the State of New York.

The Company is a stock life insurance company incorporated under the laws of Delaware. The Company is a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc. (the "Parent"). The Company is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada - U.S. Operations Holdings, Inc. ("SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings") and is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Life Financial Inc. ("SLF"), a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. SLF and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to herein as "Sun Life Financial".

As of December 31, 2004, SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings was a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada ("SLOC"). SLOC is a life insurance company incorporated in 1865 and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of SLF. On January 4, 2005, a reorganization was completed under which most of SLOC’s asset management businesses in Canada and the United States were transferred to Sun Life Financial Corp., a newly incorporated direct wholly-owned subsidiary of SLF. The Company is now an indirect subsidiary of Sun Life Financial Corp., and continues to be an indirect subsidiary of SLF.

On September 6, 2006 the Company entered into an agreement with Credit and Repackaged Securities Limited Series 2006-10 Trust (the "Trust"), whereby the Company is the sole beneficiary of the Trust. As the sole beneficiary of the Trust, the Company is required to consolidate this Trust under the requirements of Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Interpretation No. 46 (revised December 2003), "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an interpretation of ARB No. 51." Accordingly, the assets and liabilities of the Trust are included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. As of December 31, 2006, the Company recorded in its consolidated balance sheets $55.3 million of trading fixed maturities, $1.2 million of accrued investment income and $56.8 million of liabilities.

On April 19, 2005, the Company sold its interest in a consolidated variable interest entity ("VIE") and recognized a gain of $6.1 million. The Company received net cash proceeds of $17.0 million and reduced consolidated assets and liabilities by $74.5 million and $63.6 million, respectively. The Company’s net income impact for the year ended December 31, 2005 includes a net loss of $0.8 million related to this VIE.





















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

On December 31, 2004, Sun Capital Advisers LLC ("SCA"), a registered investment adviser, was distributed in the form of a dividend to the Company’s parent and became a consolidated subsidiary of SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings. As a result of this transaction, SCA is no longer the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary. As of December 31, 2004, SCA’s total assets were $8.1 million. SCA’s net income for the year ended December 31, 2004 was $1.9 million.

On June 30, 2004, the Company sold its interest in another consolidated VIE and recognized a gain of $9.7 million. The Company received net cash proceeds of $39.7 million and reduced consolidated assets and liabilities by $51.6 million and $21.9 million, respectively. The Company’s net income related to this VIE for the year ended December 31, 2004, excluding the gain on the sale, was $7.1 million.

Reinsurance

In the normal course of business, the Company reinsures portions of its life insurance, annuity and disability income exposure with both affiliated and unaffiliated companies using traditional indemnity reinsurance agreements. The Company also reinsures on a stop-loss basis with unaffiliated companies the excess minimum death benefit exposure with respect to a portion of the Company’s variable annuity business. The Company, as the ceding company, remains responsible for that portion of the policies reinsured under each of its existing agreements in the event the reinsurance companies are unable to pay their portion of any reinsured claim. To minimize its exposure to significant losses from reinsurer insolvencies, the Company evaluates the financial condition of its reinsurers and monitors concentrations of credit risk. The Company assumes certain risks for fixed annuity and fixed index annuity contracts.

Reserves

The Company has established and reported liabilities for future policy benefits in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP") in order to meet its obligations on its outstanding contracts. Liabilities for variable annuity contracts, variable life insurance and variable universal life insurance policies are considered separate account liabilities and are carried at fair value (the policyholder bears the investment risk). Universal life policies, deferred fixed annuity contracts, and funding agreements are classified as general account liabilities, and are carried at account value (the Company bears the investment risk). Account values of the contracts include deposits plus credited interest, less expenses, mortality fees and withdrawals. Reserves for individual life, group life, individual payout annuity, group payout annuity, group disability and stop loss contracts are based on mortality and morbidity tables in general use in the United States and are computed to equal amounts that, with additions from premiums to be received, and with interest on such reserves compounded annually at assumed rates, will be sufficient to meet the Company’s policy obligations.






















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Investments

The Company’s consolidated total assets were $49.0 billion at December 31, 2006; 43.0% consisted of separate account assets, 36.9% were invested in bonds and similar securities, 4.6% in mortgages, 1.4% in policy loans, 0.4% in real estate, and the remaining 13.7% in cash and other assets.

Competition

The Company is engaged in a business that is highly competitive because of the large number of stock and mutual life insurance companies and other entities marketing insurance products. A.M. Best Company, Inc. has assigned the Company and its subsidiary, SLNY, a rating of A++ (superior). Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, has assigned the Company and SLNY each a rating of AA+ (very strong). Moody’s Investor Service, Inc. has assigned the Company a rating of Aa2 (excellent).

Employees

Pursuant to an administrative service agreement between the Company and SLOC, the Company provides personnel and certain services to SLOC. The Company is reimbursed for the cost of these services. As of December 31, 2006, the Company and its subsidiaries had 2,008 employees who were employed at the Company’s principal executive office in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, as well as offices in New York, New York, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and 24 regional group sales offices throughout the United States.

Regulation and Regulatory Developments

The Company and its insurance subsidiaries are subject to supervision and regulation by the insurance authorities in each jurisdiction in which they transact business. The laws of the various jurisdictions address such issues as company licensing, overseeing trade practices, licensing agents, approving policy forms, establishing reserve requirements, establishing maximum interest rates on life insurance policy loans and minimum rates for accumulation of surrender values, prescribing the form and content of required financial statements and regulating the type and amount of investments permitted. On or before March 1st each year, the Company and its insurance subsidiaries file annual statements relating to their operations for the preceding year and their financial condition at the end of such year with state insurance regulatory authorities in each jurisdiction where they are licensed.

The annual statements include financial statements and exhibits prepared in conformity with statutory accounting principles, which differ from GAAP. The laws of the respective state insurance departments require that insurance companies domiciled in the respective state prepare their statutory financial statements in accordance with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ ("NAIC") Accounting Practices and Procedures Manual, version effective March 2006, subject to any deviation prescribed or permitted by the Insurance Commissioner of the respective state. The books and records of the Company and its insurance subsidiaries are subject to review or examination by their respective state departments of insurance at any time. Examination of their operations is conducted at periodic intervals.

Many states also regulate affiliated groups of insurers, such as the Company, SLOC and their affiliates, under insurance holding company laws. Under such laws, inter-company transfers of assets and dividend payments involving an insurance company and one or more of its affiliates, among other things, may be subject to prior notice or approval, depending on the size of such transfers and payments in relation to the financial positions of the companies involved. Under insurance guaranty fund laws in all states, insurers doing business in a given state can be assessed (up to prescribed limits) for policyholder losses incurred by another insolvent insurance company in that state. However, most of these laws provide that an assessment may be waived or deferred if it would threaten an insurer’s own financial strength and many also permit the deduction of all or a portion of any such assessment from any future premium or similar taxes.

The Company's variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies are subject to various levels of regulation under federal securities laws administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("the SEC") and under certain state securities laws. Although the federal government generally does not directly regulate the business of insurance, federal initiatives often have an impact on the business in a variety of ways.



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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Regulation and Regulatory Developments (continued)

During 2005, legislation was introduced in Congress which would provide tax incentives for individuals purchasing annuities. While no action was taken in 2005 and 2006, Congress will continue to consider this legislation in 2007.

In the 2008 fiscal year budget proposal, legislation was again introduced in Congress creating new tax-favored savings initiatives, including Lifetime Savings Accounts, Retirement Savings Accounts, and Employer Retirement Savings Accounts. Lifetime Savings Accounts, if passed as proposed, could adversely affect the sale of annuity and other tax-favored products currently offered by the Company.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

Not applicable.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.

Not applicable.

Item 2. Properties.

The Company’s home office consists of four office buildings located in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. The Company owns this facility and leases it to SLOC for lease terms not exceeding five years. The home office of SLNY consists of office space in New York, New York, and is leased from an unrelated party.

In 2004, the Company relocated certain operations from Lincoln, Rhode Island, to Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. The Company also leases property in Boston, Massachusetts. The Company is in the process of subleasing these properties.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings.

The Company and its subsidiaries are parties to pending legal proceedings, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to their business, both as a defendant and as a plaintiff. While it is not possible to predict the resolution of these proceedings, management believes, based on the information currently available to it, that the ultimate resolution of these matters will not be material to the Company's financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

Omitted pursuant to Instruction I(2)(c) to Form 10-K.


















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

PART II

Item 5. Market for Company’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

The Company is a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of the Parent and thus there is no market for its common stock. The Company paid dividends of $300.0 million and $200.0 million to the Parent in 2006 and 2005, respectively. There are legal limitations governing the extent to which the Company may pay dividends as noted and described in the consolidated financial statements contained in Item 8 (see Note 17 to the Company’s consolidated financial statements).

Item 6. Selected Financial Data.

Omitted pursuant to Instruction I(2)(a) to Form 10-K. Please refer to Item 7 for management’s narrative analysis of results of operations.

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

Pursuant to Instruction I(2)(a) to Form 10-K, the Company elects to omit Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. Below is an analysis of the results of operations explaining material changes in the Consolidated Statements of Income between the years ended December 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005.

Cautionary Statement

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 defines forward-looking statements as statements not based on historical fact and provides a safe harbor for such statements. This discussion may include forward-looking statements by the Company. These statements may relate to such topics as volume growth, market share and financial goals. It is important to understand that such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those that the statements anticipate. These risks and uncertainties may concern, among other things:

o
Heightened competition, particularly in terms of price, product features, and distribution capability, which could constrain the Company’s growth and profitability;
o
Changes in interest rates and market conditions;
o
Regulatory and legislative developments; and
o
Developments in consumer preferences and behavior patterns.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The Company’s consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP, which require the Company to make estimates and assumptions. The Company believes that of its significant accounting policies, the following may involve a higher degree of judgment and complexity.

Deferred Acquisition Costs

Acquisition costs consist of commissions, underwriting and other costs that vary with and are primarily related to the production of new business. Acquisition costs related to investment-type contracts, primarily deferred annuity and guaranteed investment contracts ("GICs") are deferred and amortized with interest in proportion to the present value of estimated gross profits to be realized over the estimated lives of the contracts. Estimated gross profits are composed of net investment income, net realized investment gains and losses, life and variable annuity fees, surrender charges, interest credited, policyholder benefits and direct variable administrative expenses.

Estimating future gross profit is a complex process requiring considerable judgment and the forecasting of events into the future based on historical information and actuarial assumptions. These assumptions are subject to an annual review process. Changes in any of the assumptions that serve to increase or decrease the estimated future gross profits will cause the amortization of deferred policy acquisition cost ("DAC") to decrease or increase, respectively, in the current period. During 2006 and 2005, changes in estimated future gross profits were driven by recent experience and expectations of future performance and are related mainly to changes in lapse assumptions, future growth rates of capital markets assumptions, and expense assumptions. These changes in assumptions resulted in an increase in DAC amortization of $143.9 million and $20.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Deferred Acquisition Costs (continued)

DAC amortization is reviewed regularly and adjusted retrospectively when the Company revises the actual profits and its estimate of future gross profits to be realized from investment-type contracts, including realized gains and losses from investments.

Although realization of DAC is not assured, the Company believes it is more likely than not that all of these costs will be realized. The amount of DAC considered realizable, however, could be reduced in the near term if the estimates of gross profits discussed above are reduced.

DAC is also adjusted for amounts relating to unrealized investment gains and losses. This adjustment, net of tax, is included with unrealized investment gains or losses that are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). DAC was increased (decreased) by $6.9 million and $(12.8) million for the unrealized losses (gains) as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively, relating to this adjustment.

Value of Business Acquired

The value of business acquired ("VOBA") represents the actuarially determined present value of projected future gross profits from the Keyport Life Insurance Company ("Keyport") policies in force at the date of the Company’s acquisition of Keyport (November 1, 2001). This amount is amortized in proportion to the projected emergence of profits over the estimated life of the purchased block of business.

VOBA is also adjusted for amounts relating to unrealized investment gains and losses. This adjustment, net of tax, is included with unrealized investment gains or losses that are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). VOBA increased (decreased) by $0.5 million and $(1.2) million for the unrealized losses (gains) at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively, relating to this adjustment.

Investments - Derivatives

The Company uses derivative financial instruments for risk management purposes to hedge against specific interest rate risk, to alter investment rate exposures arising from mismatches between assets and liabilities, and to minimize the Company’s exposure to fluctuations in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates and equity market conditions. The derivative instruments used by the Company include swaps, options and futures. The Company does not employ hedge accounting treatment. The Company believes that these derivatives provide economic hedges against the risks noted and the cost of formally documenting the effectiveness of the fair value of the hedged assets in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 133, "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities," is not justified. As a result, the unrealized gains and losses are recognized immediately in net derivative income. Changes in the level of interest rates or equity markets will cause the value of these derivatives to change and can cause quarterly fluctuations in earnings. Since the majority of the liabilities that are being hedged are not carried at fair value, the changes in the fair value of the derivatives will cause fluctuation in the reported earnings from period to period as foreign currency exchange rates, equity markets and interest rate change.

The Company issues annuity contracts and GICs that contain derivative instruments that are "embedded" in the contract. Upon issuing the contract, the embedded derivative is separated from the host contract (annuity or GIC) and is carried at fair value.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

In the normal course of business, the Company enters into transactions involving various types of financial instruments. These instruments involve credit risk and may also be subject to risk of loss due to interest rate fluctuation. The Company monitors each financial instrument individually and, when appropriate, obtains collateral or other security to minimize losses. The Company values its publicly traded fixed maturities using market prices or dealer quotes. For privately placed fixed maturities, fair values are estimated by taking into account prices for publicly traded securities of similar credit risk, maturity, repayment and liquidity characteristics. The fair values of mortgages are estimated by discounting future cash flows using current rates at which similar loans would be made to borrowers with similar credit ratings and for the same remaining maturities.




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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Fair Value of Financial Instruments (continued)

Certain of the Company’s fixed maturities are classified as trading and others as available-for-sale. The changes in fair value of trading securities are recorded as a component of net investment income. The changes in fair value of available-for-sale securities are recorded in other comprehensive income. The fair value of swaps are based on current settlement values. The current settlement values are based on dealer quotes and market prices. Fair values for options and futures are based on dealer quotes and market prices.

The Company’s ability to liquidate positions in privately placed fixed securities and mortgages could be impacted to a significant degree by the lack of an actively traded market. Although the Company believes that its estimates reasonably reflect the fair value of those instruments, its key assumptions about risk-free interest rates, risk premiums, performance of underlying collateral (if any) and other factors may not reflect those of an active market.

Policy Liabilities and Accruals

Future contract and policy benefit liabilities include amounts reserved for future policy benefits payable upon contingent events as well as liabilities for unpaid claims due as of the statement date. Such liabilities are established in amounts adequate to meet the estimated future obligations of policies in force.

Policy reserves for annuity contracts include liabilities held for group pension and payout annuity payments and liabilities held for product guarantees on variable annuity products, such as guaranteed minimum death benefits. Reserves for pension and payout annuity contracts are calculated using the best-estimate interest and decrement assumptions. Loss recognition testing is done periodically to make sure that these assumptions remain adequate. Reserves for guaranteed minimum death benefits and guaranteed minimum income benefits are calculated according to the methodology of AICPA Statement of Position 03-1, "Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Nontraditional Long-Duration Contracts and for Separate Accounts" ("SOP 03-1"), whereby the expected benefits provided by the guarantees are spread over the duration of the contract in proportion to the benefit assessments.

Policy reserves for universal life contracts are held for benefit coverages that are not fully provided for in the policy account value. These include rider coverages, conversions from group policies, and benefits provided under market conduct settlements.

Policy reserves for group life and health contracts are calculated using standard actuarial methods recognized by the American Academy of Actuaries. For the tabular reserves, discount rates are based on the Company’s earned investment yield and the morbidity and mortality tables used are standard industry tables modified to reflect the Company’s actual experience when appropriate. In particular, for the Company’s group known claim reserves, the mortality and morbidity tables for the early durations of claims are based exclusively on the Company’s experience, incorporating factors such as age at disability, sex and elimination periods. These reserves are computed at amounts that, with interest compounded annually at assumed rates, are expected to meet the Company’s future obligations.

Liabilities for unpaid claims consist of the estimated amount payable for claims reported but not yet settled and an estimate of claims incurred but not reported. The amount reported is based upon historical experience, adjusted for trends and current circumstances. Management believes that the recorded liability is sufficient to provide for the associated claims adjustment expenses. Revisions of these estimates are included in operations in the year such refinements are made.

Contractholder deposit funds consist of policy values that accrue to the holders of universal life-type contracts and investment-related products such as deferred annuities, single premium whole life policies ("SPWL") and GICs. The liabilities consist of deposits received plus interest credited, less accumulated policyholder charges, assessments, partial withdrawals and surrenders. The liabilities are not reduced by surrender charges.

Other-than-Temporary Impairments on Available-for-Sale Securities

The Company's accounting policy for impairment requires recognition of an other-than-temporary impairment write-down on a security if it is determined that the Company is unable to recover all amounts due under the contractual obligations of the security. Once an impairment charge has been recorded, the Company continues to review the other-than-temporarily impaired securities for additional impairment.

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Other-than-Temporary Impairments on Available-for-Sale Securities (continued)

The Company incurred realized losses totaling $6.3 million and $29.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively, for other-than-temporary impairments. The Company has discontinued the accrual of income on all of its holdings for issuers that are in default. Investment income would have increased by $0.6 million and $1.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively, if these holdings were performing.

Goodwill

Goodwill represents the difference between the purchase price paid and the fair value of the net assets acquired in connection with the Company’s acquisition of Keyport Life Insurance Company on November 1, 2001. Goodwill is allocated to the wealth management segment. In accordance with SFAS No. 142, "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets," goodwill is tested for impairment on an annual basis. The Company completed the required impairment tests of goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets during the second quarter of 2006 and concluded that these assets were not impaired.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Twelve-month period ended December 31, 2006 compared to the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2005:

Net Income

The Company’s net income was $78.3 million and $133.2 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Income before income taxes, minority interest share of income (loss) and cumulative effect of change in accounting principle was $76.7 million and $172.0 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The significant changes are described below.

REVENUES

Total revenues - were $1,628.5 million and $1,560.2 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The increase of $68.3 million was primarily due to the following:

Premium and annuity considerations - were $59.2 million and $52.0 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The $7.2 million increase is primarily attributed to a $2.8 million increase in group disability premiums, $1.9 million increase in group stop loss premiums, $1.7 million in group life premium and $1.1 million in annuity premiums.

Net investment income - was $1,206.1 million and $1,112.5 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Investment income, excluding the mark to market of the trading portfolio and partnership income, was $1,161.3 million and $1,133.4 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The increase of $27.9 million during 2006, as compared to 2005, was the result of a higher average investment yield of $26.1 million and an increase in average invested assets of $1.8 million. Investment income (loss) related to the changes in the market value of securities in the trading portfolio and changes in the value of the partnership investments was $44.8 million and $(20.9) million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The change in the market value of the trading portfolio is primarily related to changes in the interest rate environment.

Net derivative income - was $9.1 million and $16.5 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The change in derivatives primarily represent fair value changes of derivative instruments and the net interest received or paid on swap agreements.

All derivatives are recognized on the balance sheet at fair value. Net interest received or paid on swap agreements and changes in the fair value of derivatives are reported in current period operations as a component of net derivative income (loss). The Company believes that these derivatives provide economic hedges and the cost of formally documenting the effectiveness of the fair value of the hedged items in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 133, "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities," is not justified at this time.

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

RESULT OF OPERATIONS (Continued)

Net derivative income (continued)

The Company issues annuity contracts and, in prior years, certain funding agreements that contain a derivative instrument that is "embedded" in the contract. Upon issuing the contract, the embedded derivative is separated from the host contract (annuity contract or funding agreement) and is carried at fair value. The Company also purchases call options and futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Composite Stock Price Index ("S&P 500 Index") ("S&P", "S&P 500", and "Standard & Poor’s" are trademarks of The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. and have been licensed for use by the Company) and total return swaps to economically hedge its obligations under certain fixed index annuity contracts. Certain funding agreement contracts are highly-individualized and typically involve the issuance of foreign currency denominated contracts backed by cross currency swaps or equity-linked cross currency swaps. The combination of these swaps with interest rate swaps allows the Company to lock in U.S. dollar fixed rate payments for the life of the funding agreement.

As a component of its investment strategy and to reduce its exposure to interest rate risk, the Company utilizes interest rate swap agreements. Interest rate swap agreements are agreements to exchange with a counterparty interest rate payments of differing character (e.g., fixed-rate payments exchanged for floating-rate payments) based on an underlying principal balance (notional principal) to hedge against interest rate changes. The Company also utilizes equity and interest derivatives to hedge against stock market exposure inherent in the guaranteed minimum living and death benefit features of the Company's variable annuities.

Net derivative income for the years ended December 31 consisted of the following (in 000’s):

 
2006
 
2005
       
Net expense on swap agreements
$ (7,749)
 
$ (64,915)
Change in fair value of swap agreements
(interest rate, currency, and equity)
 
8,392
 
 
101,320
Change in fair value of options, futures and
embedded derivatives
 
8,446
 
 
(19,931)
       
Net derivative income
$ 9,089
 
$ 16,474

Net realized investment (losses) gains - were $(44.5) million and $16.9 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Sales of investments generally are made to maximize total return and take advantage of prevailing market conditions. The Company incurred write-downs of fixed maturities for other-than-temporary impairments of $6.3 million and $29.7 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Fees and other income - consist primarily of separate account fees, including mortality and expense charges earned on variable annuity balances, surrender charges and other income. Separate account fees, based on the market value of the assets in the separate accounts supporting the contracts, were $256.7 million and $242.7 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Variable product fees represented 1.29% of the average variable annuity separate account balances for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005. Average separate account assets were $19.9 billion and $18.9 billion for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Surrender charges represent revenues earned on the early withdrawal of fixed, fixed index and variable annuity policyholder balances. Surrender charges on fixed, fixed index and variable annuity surrenders generally are assessed at declining rates applied to policyholder surrenders during the first four to ten years of the contract. Total surrender charges were $25.8 million and $25.9 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Other income primarily represents fees charged for administrative service fees, cost of insurance, investment advisory services and revenue sharing. Other income was $116.1 million and $93.7 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.




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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

RESULT OF OPERATIONS (Continued)

BENEFITS AND EXPENSES

Total benefits and expenses were $1,551.8 million and $1,388.2 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The increase of $163.6 million was primarily due to the following:

Interest credited - to policyholders was $633.4 million and $637.5 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The decrease of $4.1 million was the result of a decrease in average policyholder balances of $9.2 million offset by a higher average interest credited rate of $5.1 million.

Interest expense - was $130.8 million and $123.3 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The $7.5 million increase was primarily due to the interest expense related to three $100.0 million floating demand notes issued on September 19, 2006, May 24, 2006 and June 10, 2005, respectively.

Policyholder benefits - were $157.0 million and $187.0 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The $30.0 million decrease in 2006 compared to 2005 was primarily due to a $35.0 million increase in 2005 reserves due to loss recognition related to life contingent payout annuity reserves.

Other operating expenses - were $231.4 million and $196.5 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The $34.9 million increase in 2006 compared to 2005 was primarily due to increased sales and in-force business of individual insurance and increased annuity marketing expenses.

Amortization of DAC - relates to the costs of acquiring new business, which vary with and are primarily related to the production of new business. Such acquisition costs include commissions, costs of policy issuance, and underwriting and selling expenses. Amortization expense was $391.6 million and $226.3 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The amortization expense included the effect of revisions in estimated future gross profits which aggregated $143.9 million and $20.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The most significant assumption changes for the year ended December 31, 2006 related to assumptions regarding lapses, future growth rates of capital markets assumptions and expense assumptions. Increased actual gross profits also contributed to the additional amortization of DAC for the year ended December 31, 2006.

Amortization of VOBA - relates to the actuarially-determined value of in-force business at the date that the Company acquired Keyport (November 1, 2001). This amount is amortized in proportion to the projected emergence of profits over the estimated lives of the contracts. Amortization was $7.6 million and $17.5 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The amortization expense was (decreased) increased by an unlocking adjustment of $(8.3) million and $6.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.


















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

RESULT OF OPERATIONS (Continued)

Results of Operations by Segment

The Company’s net income from operations reflects the operations of its four business segments: Wealth Management, Individual Protection, Group Protection and Corporate.

The following provides a summary of net income from operations by segment.

Wealth Management Segment

The Wealth Management Segment sells a full range of retirement-oriented insurance products that provide fixed, indexed or variable returns to policyholders. Annuities are insurance products designed to offer individuals protection against the risk of outliving their financial assets during retirement. Annuities offer a tax-deferred means of accumulating savings for retirement needs and provide a source of income in the payout period. The Company earns spread income from fixed and indexed annuities; variable annuities primarily produce fee income. This segment also markets funding agreements to both related and unrelated third parties.

The segment’s principal products are described below for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005:

Fixed Annuities - Fixed annuity products are primarily single premium deferred annuities ("SPDA"). An SPDA policyholder typically makes a single premium payment at the time of issuance. The Company obligates itself to credit interest to the policyholder's account at a rate that is guaranteed for an initial term and is reset annually thereafter, subject to a guaranteed minimum rate.

Variable Annuities - Variable annuities offer a selection of underlying investment alternatives that may satisfy a variety of policyholder risk/return objectives. Under a variable annuity, the policyholder has the opportunity to select separate account investment options (consisting of underlying mutual funds), which pass the investment risk directly to the policyholder in return for the potential of higher returns. Variable annuities also include guaranteed fixed interest options and benefits. The Company has several different variable annuity products that offer various separate account investment choices, depending on the product, and guaranteed fixed interest options.

Fixed Index Annuities - Fixed index annuities credit interest to the policyholder using a formula based upon the positive change in value of a specified equity index. The Company’s fixed index annuity products calculate interest earnings using the S&P 500 Index. The Company’s fixed index products also provide a guarantee of principal (less withdrawals) at the end of the term or surrender charge period.





















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Wealth Management Segment (continued)

Institutional Investment Contracts - Institutional investment contracts are funding agreements issued to institutional investors or to entities that in turn issue promissory notes to unrelated third parties. These contracts may contain any of a number of features including variable or fixed interest rates and fixed index options, and may be denominated in foreign currencies.

In 1997, the Company discontinued the marketing of group pension products in the United States. Although these products are not currently sold in the U.S., there continues to be a block of U.S. group retirement business in-force. A significant portion of these pension contracts are non-surrenderable, resulting in limited liquidity exposure to the Company.

On September 12, 2006, the Company entered into a Terms Agreement (the "2006-B Terms Agreement") with its affiliates Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.P. (the "Issuer III"), Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, U.L.C. (the "ULC III") and Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.L.C. (the "LLC III"), and with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated,, RBC Capital Markets Corporation and Wachovia Capital Markets (each, an "Initial Purchaser" and collectively, the "2006-B Initial Purchasers"), in connection with the offer and sale by the Issuer III of $750 million of Series 2006-1 Floating Rate Notes due 2013 ("2006-B Notes"). On September 21, 2006, the Company entered into another Terms Agreement (together with the original 2006-B Terms Agreement, the "2006-B Terms Agreements") with the same parties as the original 2006-B Terms Agreement in connection with the offer and sale by the Issuer III of a second tranche of $150 million of 2006-B Notes. The payment obligations of the Issuer III for the full $900 million of 2006-B Notes are unconditionally guaranteed by the LLC III pursuant to a guarantee (the "2006-B Secured Guarantee") dated as of September 19, 2006, and the obligations of the LLC III under the 2006-B Secured Guarantee are secured by two floating rate funding agreements issued by the Company to the LLC III, one for $750 million issued on September 19, 2006 and another for $150 million issued on September 29, 2006. Total interest credited for the funding agreements was $14.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2006.

In addition, the Company issued a $100 million floating rate demand note payable to the LLC III on September 19, 2006. The Company expensed $1.7 million for interest on this demand note for the year ended December 31, 2006.
 
The 2006-B Terms Agreements incorporate by reference the provisions of a Purchase Agreement dated as of September 5, 2006 by and among the Issuer III, the ULC III, the LLC III, the Company and all of the 2006-B Initial Purchasers. Pursuant to these incorporated provisions, the Company has agreed, among other things, to indemnify each 2006 Initial Purchaser against certain securities law liabilities related to the offering of the 2006-B Notes.

The Company has entered into an interest rate swap agreement with the LLC III with an aggregate notional amount of $900 million that effectively converts the floating rate payment obligations under the funding agreements to fixed rate obligations.

On May 17, 2006, the Company entered into a Terms Agreement (the "2006-A Terms Agreement") with its affiliates Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, L.P. (the "Issuer II"), Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, U.L.C. (the "ULC II") and Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, L.L.C. (the "LLC II"), and with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. ("Citigroup"), Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated ("Morgan Stanley"), Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and RBC Capital Markets Corporation (collectively, with Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, the "2006-A Initial Purchasers"), in connection with the offer and sale by the Issuer II of $900 million of Series 2006-1 Floating Rate Notes due 2011 (the "2006-A Notes"). The payment obligations of the Issuer II are unconditionally guaranteed by the LLC II pursuant to a guarantee (the "2006-A Secured Guarantee"), and the obligations of the LLC II under the 2006-A Secured Guarantee are secured by a $900 million floating rate funding agreement issued by the Company to the LLC II. The 2006-A Terms Agreement incorporates by reference the provisions of a Purchase Agreement dated as of May 15, 2006 by and among the Issuer II, the ULC II, the LLC II, the Company and the 2006-A Initial Purchasers. Pursuant to these incorporated provisions, the Company has agreed, among other things, to indemnify each 2006 Initial Purchaser against certain securities law liabilities related to the offering of the 2006-A Notes. Total interest credited for the funding agreement was $30.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2006.





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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Wealth Management Segment (continued)

On May 24, 2006, the Company also issued a $100 million floating rate demand note payable to the LLC II. The Company expensed $3.4 million for interest on this demand note for the year ended December 31, 2006.

The Company has entered into an interest rate swap agreement with the LLC II with an aggregate notional amount of $900 million that effectively converts the floating rate payment obligations under the funding agreement to fixed rate obligations.

On June 3, 2005, the Company entered into a Terms Agreement (the "2005 Terms Agreement") with its affiliates, Sun Life Financial Global Funding, L.P. (the "Issuer"), Sun Life Financial Global Funding, U.L.C. (the "ULC") and Sun Life Financial Global Funding, L.L.C. (the "LLC"), and with Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and RBC Capital Markets Corporation (collectively, the "2005 Initial Purchasers"), in connection with the offer and sale by the Issuer of $600 million of Series 2005-1 Floating Rate Notes due 2010 (the "First Tranche Notes").

On June 29, 2005, the Company entered into a Second Terms Agreement (the "Second 2005 Terms Agreement") with the Issuer, the ULC and the LLC, and with Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, in connection with the offer and sale by the Issuer of $300 million of Series 2005-1 Floating Rate Notes due 2010 (the "Second Tranche Notes").

The payment obligations of the Issuer under the First Tranche Notes and the Second Tranche Notes are unconditionally guaranteed by the LLC pursuant to a guarantee (the "2005 Secured Guarantee") dated as of June 10, 2005, and the obligations of the LLC under the 2005 Secured Guarantee are secured by two floating rate funding agreements issued by the Company to the LLC, one for $600 million issued June 10, 2005 and one for $300 million issued July 5, 2005. The Company issued a total of $900 million funding agreements to the LLC in connection with the First Tranche Notes and Second Tranche Notes. The Terms Agreement and the Second Terms Agreement incorporate by reference the provisions of a Purchase Agreement dated as of November 11, 2004 by and among the Issuer, the ULC, the LLC, the Company, and the 2005 Initial Purchasers. Pursuant to these incorporated provisions, the Company has agreed, among other things, to indemnify each 2005 Initial Purchaser against certain securities law liabilities related to the offering of the First Tranche Notes and the Second Tranche Notes. Total interest credited for the funding agreements associated with the First Tranche Notes and Second Tranche Notes was $49.5 million and $20.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

On June 10, 2005, the Company issued a $100 million floating rate demand note payable to the LLC. The Company expensed $5.5 million and $2.3 million for interest on the demand note for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

The Company has entered into two interest rate swap agreements with the LLC with an aggregate notional amount of $900 million that effectively convert the floating rate payment obligations under the funding agreements to fixed rate obligations.

The Company uses derivative instruments to manage the risks inherent in the contract options of many of these products.

















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Wealth Management Segment (continued)

Other - The Wealth Management Segment manages a closed block of SPWL policies, a retirement-oriented tax-advantaged life insurance product. The Company discontinued sales of the SPWL policies in response to certain tax law changes in the 1980s. The Company had SPWL policyholder balances of $1.6 billion and $1.7 billion as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

By reinsuring the SPWL product, the Company reduced net investment income by $97.0 million and $82.7 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The Company also reduced interest credited by $76.0 million and $57.5 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. In addition, the Company also increased net investment income, relating to an experience rating refund under the reinsurance agreement with SLOC, by $13.0 million and $13.1 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The liability for the SPWL policies is included in contractholder deposit funds and other policy liabilities.

The Company sells its annuity products via two affiliated distribution organizations, Sun Life Financial Distributors, Inc. and Independent Financial Marketing Group, Inc. The annuity products are also distributed through a variety of unaffiliated retail organizations including securities brokers, financial institutions, insurance agents and financial advisers. Investment options available under these products are managed by several investment managers, including Massachusetts Financial Services Company and SCA, affiliates of the Company.

On September 6, 2006, the Company entered into an agreement with Credit and Repackaged Securities Limited Series 2006-10 Trust (the "Trust") whereby the Company is the sole beneficiary of the Trust. As of December 31, 2006, total assets of the Trust were $56.6 million. As the sole beneficiary of the Trust, the Company is required to consolidate the Trust under the requirements of FASB Interpretation No. 46 (revised December 2003), "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an interpretation of ARB No. 51." Accordingly, the assets and liabilities of the Trust are included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. As of December 31, 2006, the Company recorded in its consolidated balance sheets $55.3 million of trading fixed maturities, $1.2 million of accrued investment income and $56.8 million of liabilities.

The following is a summary of operations for the Wealth Management Segment for the years ended December 31 (in 000’s):

 
2006
 
2005
       
Total Revenues
$ 1,386,626
 
$ 1,342,509
Total Expenditures
1,354,554
 
1,220,198
Pre-tax Income
32,072
 
122,311
       
Net Income
$ 39,857
 
$ 93,570
       
Total Assets
$ 41,485,295
 
$ 38,631,963

The pre-tax income was $32.1 million and $122.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The significant changes are described below.














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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Wealth Management Segment (continued)

REVENUES

Total Revenues were $1,386.6 million and $1,342.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The increase of $44.1 million was primarily due to the following:

Net investment income - was $1,069.2 million and $981.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Investment income, excluding the mark to market of the trading portfolio and partnership investments, was $1,053.6 million and $1,056.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The decrease of $3.2 million during 2006, as compared to 2005, was the result of lower average investment yield of $5.9 million offset by an increase in average invested assets of $2.7 million. Investment income (loss) related to changes in the market value of securities in the trading portfolio and changes in the value of partnership investments was $15.6 million and $(75.7) million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The change in the market value of the trading portfolio is primarily related to changes in the interest rate environment.

Net derivative income - was $5.0 million and $20.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Net derivative income for the segment for the years ended December 31, consisted of the following (in 000’s):

 
 
2006
 
 
2005
       
Net expense on swap agreements
$ (6,668)
 
$ (65,378)
Change in fair value of swap agreements
(interest rate, currency, and equity)
 
3,238
 
 
105,637
Change in fair value of options, futures and
embedded derivatives
 
8,446
 
 
(19,931)
       
Net derivative income
$ 5,016
 
$ 20,328

Realized investment (losses) gains - were $(34.6) million and $13.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The Wealth Management Segment incurred write-downs of fixed maturities for other-than-temporary impairments of $4.2 million and $29.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Fees and other income - consist primarily of separate account fees, including mortality and expense charges earned on variable annuity balances and surrender changes. Separate account fees, which are based on the market values of the assets in the separate accounts supporting the contracts, were $233.1 million and $222.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Variable product fees represented 1.50% and 1.45% of the average variable annuity separate account balances for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Average separate account assets were $15.6 billion and $15.3 billion for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Surrender charges represent revenues earned on the early withdrawal of fixed, fixed index and variable annuity policyholder balances. Surrender charges on fixed, fixed index and variable annuity surrenders generally are assessed at declining rates applied to policyholder surrenders during the first four to ten years of the contract. Total surrender charges were $25.7 million and $25.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Other income primarily represents fees charged for administrative service fees, investment advisory services and revenue sharing. Other income was $66.5 million and $58.8 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.






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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Wealth Management Segment (continued)

BENEFITS AND EXPENSES

Total benefits and expenditures were $1,354.6 million and $1,220.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The increase of $134.4 million was primarily due to the following:

Interest credited - to policyholders was $612.0 million and $620.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The decrease of $8.2 million was the result of a decrease in average policyholder balances of $12.6 million offset by a higher average interest credited rate of $4.4 million.

Interest expense - was $64.4 million and $68.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005 respectively. The $4.5 million decrease was due to lower allocated capital charges from the Corporate Segment in the amount of $12.8 million offset by $8.3 million increase in interest expense related to the three $100.0 million demand notes issued to the LLC, LLC II and LLC III, respectively.

Policyholder benefits - were $126.1 million and $160.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The $34.4 million decrease in 2006 compared to 2005 was primarily due to a $35.0 million adjustment related to loss recognition to life contingent payout annuity reserves increasing reserves for the year ended December 31, 2005.

Operating expenses - were $158.0 million and $138.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The increase of $20.0 million was primarily due to an increase in marketing expenses.

Amortization of DAC - relates to the costs of acquiring new business, which vary with and are primarily related to the production of new business. Such acquisition costs include commissions, costs of policy issuance, and underwriting and selling expenses. Amortization expense was $386.5 million and $215.1 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The amortization expense included the effect of revisions in estimated future gross profits which aggregated $150.1 million and $19.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The most significant assumption changes for the year ended December 31, 2006 related to assumptions regarding lapses, future growth rates of capital markets assumptions, and expense assumptions. Increased actual gross profits also contributed to the additional amortization of DAC for the year ended December 31, 2006.

Amortization of VOBA - was $7.6 million and $17.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The amortization expense was (decreased) increased by an unlocking adjustment of $(8.3) million and $6.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.



















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Individual Protection Segment

The Individual Protection Segment primarily markets variable life insurance products, including variable universal life ("VUL") products marketed to individuals, corporate-owned life insurance ("COLI") and bank-owned life insurance ("BOLI"). VUL products allow for flexible premiums, and the policyholders direct how the cash value is invested and bear the investment risk.

The following provides a summary of operations for the Individual Protection Segment for the years ended December 31
(in 000’s):

 
2006
 
2005
       
Total Revenues
$ 101,447
 
$ 74,535
Total Expenditures
95,815
 
70,991
Pre-tax Income
5,632
 
3,544
       
Net Income
$ 3,801
 
$ 2,443
       
Total Assets
$ 5,784,705
 
$ 6,005,424

Total revenues were $101.4 million and $74.5 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The $26.9 million increase in revenues in 2006 as compared to 2005, was primarily due to a $17.0 million increase in fee income and a $12.9 million increase in net investment income, offset by a decrease in net realized investment gain of $3.1 million. The increase in fee income was primarily attributed to increase in loads from sales, cost of insurance and mortality and expense charges which were primarily due to growth in the in-force business for the BOLI product. The increase in net investment income was primarily due to increase in interest income on bonds and higher investment income allocation from the Corporate Segment.

Total expenses were $95.8 million and $71.0 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The $24.8 million increase was primarily due to a $24.4 million increase in other operating expenses, a $4.1 million increase in interest credited and a $2.8 million increase in interest expense, offset by a decrease of $6.2 million in DAC amortization. The change in operating expenses was primarily attributable to increased sales and growth in the in-force business, and an increase in premium tax of $9.4 million largely offsetting the increase in loads.

Group Protection Segment

The Group Protection Segment markets and administers group life insurance, group stop loss insurance, and group short-term and group long-term disability insurance products to small and mid-size employers. This segment operates only in the State of New York through the Company’s subsidiary, SLNY.

The following provides a summary of operations for the Group Protection Segment for the years ended December 31 (in 000’s):

 
2006
 
2005
       
Total Revenues
$ 39,833
 
$ 32,604
Total Expenditures
35,356
 
32,333
Pre-tax Income
4,477
 
271
       
Net Income
$ 2,910
 
$ 176
       
Total Assets
$ 78,838
 
$ 55,319

The Group Protection Segment had pre-tax income of $4.5 million and $0.3 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Group Protection Segment (continued)

Total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2006 increased by $7.2 million as compared to the year ended December 31, 2005. The increase was due to increased in-force business in group disability, group stop loss and group life insurance, with premium increases of $2.8 million, $1.9 million and $1.7 million, respectively, as well as an increase in net investment income of $0.9 million.

Total expenditures in 2006 increased by $3.0 million in comparison with 2005. The expense increase resulted primarily from an increase in policyowner benefits in the group health insurance line of business associated with the increased premiums.

Corporate Segment

The Corporate Segment consists of the unallocated capital of the Company, its consolidated investment in a VIE, its debt financing, and items not otherwise attributable to the other segments.

The following provides a summary of operations for the Corporate Segment for the years ended December 31 (in 000’s):

 
2006
 
2005
       
Total Revenues
$ 100,567
 
$ 110,537
Total Expenditures
66,068
 
64,636
Pre-tax Income
34,499
 
45,901
       
Net Income
$ 31,724
 
$ 36,963
       
Total Assets
$ 1,633,710
 
$ 1,314,140

The Corporate Segment had pre-tax income of $34.5 million and $45.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The $11.4 million decrease in pretax income was primarily attributed to a $10.5 million decrease in realized gains on the sale of investments, a $9.0 million increase in interest expense due primarily to lower interest allocation to the Company’s operating segments and an $8.3 million decrease in investment income related to lower earnings in venture capital and other alternative investments. Those changes were partially offset by a $7.9 million increase in derivative income and a $7.5 million decrease in other operating expense.




















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

This discussion covers market risk associated with investment portfolios that support the Company’s general account liabilities. This discussion does not cover market risk associated with those investment portfolios that support separate account products. For those products, the policyholder, rather than the Company, assumes market risk.

General

The assets of the general account are available to support general account liabilities. For purposes of managing these assets in relation to these liabilities, the Company segments these assets by product or by groups of products. The Company manages each segment’s assets based on an investment policy statement that it has established for that segment. The policy statement covers the segment’s liability characteristics and liquidity requirements, provides cash flow estimates, and sets targets for asset mix, duration and quality. Each quarter, investment and business unit managers review these policies to ensure that the policies remain appropriate, taking into account each segment’s liability characteristics. The Company’s general account is primarily exposed to the following market risks: credit risk, interest rate risk, equity risk, and foreign currency exchange risk.

Credit Risk

The Company’s management believes that its stringent underwriting standards and practices have resulted in high-quality portfolios that have the effect of limiting credit risk. It is the Company’s practice not to purchase below-investment-grade fixed income securities. Also, as a matter of investment policy, the Company manages foreign exchange and equity risk within tolerance bands. The Company does hold real estate and equity options in its portfolios.
































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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Interest rate risk

The Company’s fixed interest rate liabilities are primarily supported by well-diversified portfolios of fixed interest investments. They are also supported by holdings of real estate and floating rate notes. All of these interest-bearing investments can include publicly issued and privately placed bonds and commercial mortgage loans. Public bonds can include Treasury bonds, corporate bonds and money market instruments. The Company’s fixed income portfolios also hold securitized assets, including mortgage backed and asset backed securities. These securities are subject to the same standards applied to other portfolio investments, including relative value criteria and diversification guidelines. As a result of commercial mortgage securitization transactions involving assets formerly owned by the Company, the Company has retained subordinated interest certificates and interest-only certificates.

Changes in the level of domestic interest rates affect the market value of fixed interest assets and liabilities. Segments whose liabilities mainly arise from the sale of products containing interest rate guarantees for certain terms are sensitive to changes in interest rates. In these segments, the Company uses ‘‘immunization’’ strategies, which are specifically designed to minimize loss from wide fluctuations in interest rates. The Company supports these strategies using analytical and modeling software acquired from outside vendors.

Significant features of the Company’s immunization models include:

o
An economic or market value basis for both assets and liabilities;
o
An option pricing methodology;
o
The use of effective duration and convexity to measure interest rate sensitivity; and
o
The use of key rate durations to estimate interest rate exposure at different points of the yield curve and to estimate the exposure to non-parallel shifts in the yield curve.

The Company’s Interest Rate Risk Committee meets monthly. After reviewing duration analyses, market conditions and forecasts, the committee develops specific asset management strategies for its interest-sensitive portfolios. These strategies may involve managing to achieve small intentional mismatches, either in terms of total effective duration or for certain key rate durations, between liabilities and related assets of particular segments. The Company manages these mismatches to a narrow tolerance.

Asset strategies may include the use of interest rate futures, options or swaps to adjust the duration profiles for particular portfolios. All derivative transactions are conducted under written operating guidelines and are marked to market. Total positions and exposures are reported to the Company’s board of directors on a quarterly basis. The counterparties to hedging transactions are highly rated financial institutions and are highly diversified. Accordingly, the risk of the Company incurring losses related to such credit exposures is considered remote.

Fixed interest liabilities held in the Company’s general account and non-unitized separate accounts at December 31, 2006 had a fair value of $18,163.5 million. Fixed income investments supporting those liabilities had a fair value of $19,350.1 million at that date. The Company performed a sensitivity analysis on these interest-sensitive liabilities and assets on December 31, 2006. The analysis showed that if there were an immediate decrease of 100 basis points in interest rates, the fair value of the liabilities would show a net increase of $644.8 million and the corresponding assets would show a net increase of $651.7 million.

By comparison, fixed interest liabilities held in the Company’s general account and non-unitized separate accounts at December 31, 2005 had a fair value of $17,131.1 million. Fixed income investments supporting those liabilities had a fair value of $18,195.8 million at that date. The Company performed a sensitivity analysis on these interest-sensitive liabilities and assets on December 31, 2005. The analysis showed that if there were an immediate decrease of 100 basis points in interest rates, the fair value of the liabilities would show a net increase of $662.9 million and the corresponding assets would show a net increase of $669.0 million.

The Company produced these estimates using computer models. Since these models reflect assumptions about the future, they contain an element of uncertainty. For example, the models contain assumptions about future policyholder behavior and asset cash flows. Actual policyholder behavior and asset cash flows could differ from what the models show. As a result, the models’ estimates of duration and market values may not reflect what actually would occur. The models are further limited by the fact that they do not provide for the possibility that management action could be taken to mitigate adverse results.



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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Interest rate risk (continued)

Based on its processes for analyzing and managing interest rate risk, the Company’s management believes its exposure to interest rate changes will not materially affect its near-term financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Equity and foreign currency exchange risk

Certain of the Company’s GIC products, previously marketed overseas, introduced exposure to equity and foreign currency exchange risk. This is in addition to the traditional interest rate risk discussed previously. All of this exposure has been hedged through interest rate, currency and equity swaps. The terms of each GIC, such as interest rate, interest payment dates, maturity and redemption dates and currency denomination, are identical to the terms of the swaps. The GIC (liability) is swapped back to a U.S. dollar fixed liability through the requisite derivative contracts. All foreign currency is swapped back to fixed U.S. dollars, all floating rate payments are swapped to fixed rate payments, and any equity returns that the Company is required to pay (receive) on the GIC are received from (paid to) the swap counterparty. These interest rate, equity-linked and currency exchange swaps hedge the Company’s exposure to interest, equity and foreign currency risks.

The Company utilizes put options and futures on the S&P 500 Index and other indices to hedge against stock market exposure inherent in the guaranteed minimum death and living benefit features contained within some of its variable annuity products. At December 31, 2006 and 2005, the fair value of these options was $16.4 million and $29.4 million, respectively. The Company has performed a sensitivity analysis on the effect of equity market changes and has determined that a 10% increase in the equity market would decrease the market value of the options by $6.1 million and $12.1 million at December 31, 2006, and 2005, respectively. A decrease in the equity market of 10% would increase the market value by $10.3 million and $22.8 at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

At December 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005, the Company had $3.9 billion and $3.5 billion, respectively, in fixed index annuity liabilities that provide customers with contractually guaranteed participation in price appreciation of the S&P 500 Index. The Company purchases S&P 500 Index options and futures to hedge the risk associated with the price appreciation component of its fixed index annuity liabilities.

The Company manages the equity risk inherent in its assets relative to the equity risk inherent in its fixed index annuity liabilities by conducting detailed computer simulations that model its S&P 500 Index derivatives and its fixed index annuity liabilities under stress-test scenarios in which both the index level and the index option implied volatility are varied through a wide range. Implied volatility is a value derived from standard option valuation models representing an implicit forecast of the standard deviation of the returns on the underlying asset over the life of the option or future. The fair values of S&P 500 Index linked securities, derivatives and annuities are produced using standard derivative valuation techniques. The derivative portfolios are constructed to maintain acceptable interest margins under a variety of possible future S&P 500 Index levels and option or future cost environments. In order to achieve this objective and limit its exposure to equity price risk, the Company measures and manages these exposures using methods based on the fair value of assets and the price appreciation component of related liabilities. The Company uses derivatives, including futures, options and total return swaps, to hedge its net exposure to fluctuations in the S&P 500 Index.

Based upon the information and assumptions the Company used in its stress-test scenarios at December 31, 2006 and 2005, management estimates that if the S&P 500 Index increases by 10%, the net fair value of its assets and liabilities described above would increase net assets by approximately $33.0 million and $10.5 million, respectively. If the S&P 500 Index decreases by 10%, management estimates that the net fair value of its assets and liabilities will increase net assets by approximately $3.7 million and decrease net assets by $0.1 million, respectively.

The simulations do not consider the effects of other changes in market conditions that could accompany changes in the equity option and futures markets, including the effects of changes in implied dividend yields, interest rates, and fixed index annuity policy surrenders.


Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Financial statements in the form required by Regulation S-X are set forth below.


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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31,

   
 
2006
   
 
2005
   
 
2004
                 
Revenues:
               
   Premiums and annuity considerations
$
59,192
 
$
51,982
 
$
58,820
   Net investment income
 
1,206,081
   
1,112,529
   
1,134,257
   Net derivative income (loss)
 
9,089
   
16,474
   
(98,419)
   Net realized investment (losses) gains
 
(44,511)
   
16,925
   
96,074
   Fee and other income
 
398,622
   
362,275
   
357,011
                 
Total revenues
 
1,628,473
   
1,560,185
   
1,547,743
                 
Benefits and expenses:
               
   Interest credited
 
633,405
   
637,502
   
673,442
   Interest expense
 
130,802
   
123,279
   
128,522
   Policyowner benefits
 
156,970
   
187,013
   
141,377
   Amortization of deferred acquisition costs ("DAC") and
      value of business acquired ("VOBA")
 
 
399,182
   
 
243,821
   
 
82,876
   Other operating expenses
 
231,434
   
196,543
   
214,495
                 
Total benefits and expenses
 
1,551,793
   
1,388,158
   
1,240,712
                 
Income before income tax (benefit) expense, minority
   interest and cumulative effect of change in accounting
   principles
 


76,680
   


172,027
   


307,031
                 
Income tax (benefit) expense:
               
   Federal
 
(1,717)
   
40,091
   
71,352
   State
 
105
   
(2)
   
(98)
   Income tax (benefit) expense
 
(1,612)
   
40,089
   
71,254
                 
Income before minority interest and cumulative
               
   effect of change in accounting principles
 
78,292
   
131,938
   
235,777
                 
Minority interest share of (loss) income
 
-
   
(1,214)
   
5,561
                 
Income before cumulative effect of change in
   accounting principles
 

78,292
   

133,152
   

230,216
                 
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principles, net of
   tax benefit of $4,814 in 2004
 
 
-
   
 
-
   
 
(8,940)
                 
Net income
$
78,292
 
$
133,152
 
$
221,276






The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands except per share data)

ASSETS
 
December 31, 2006
 
December 31, 2005
Investments
       
Available-for-sale fixed maturities at fair value (amortized cost of
    $13,623,450 and $15,620,827 in 2006 and 2005, respectively)
 
$
13,637,973
 
$
 
15,677,148
Trading fixed maturities at fair value (amortized cost of $3,838,732 and
    $1,982,762 in 2006 and 2005, respectively)
 
3,856,053
 
1,984,848
Subordinated note from affiliate held-to-maturity (fair value of $630,751
    and $645,755 in 2006 and 2005, respectively)
 
600,000
 
 
600,000
Mortgage loans
 
2,273,176
 
1,739,370
Derivative instruments - receivable
 
653,854
 
487,947
Limited partnerships
 
193,728
 
222,148
Real estate
 
186,891
 
170,510
Policy loans
 
709,626
 
701,769
Other invested assets
 
950,226
 
554,917
Cash and cash equivalents
 
578,080
 
347,654
Total investments and cash
 
23,639,607
 
22,486,311
         
Accrued investment income
 
291,218
 
261,507
Deferred policy acquisition costs
 
1,234,206
 
1,341,377
Value of business acquired
 
47,744
 
53,670
Deferred federal income taxes
 
3,597
 
4,360
Goodwill
 
701,451
 
701,451
Receivable for investments sold
 
33,241
 
79,860
Reinsurance receivable
 
1,817,999
 
1,860,680
Other assets
 
153,230
 
122,239
Separate account assets
 
21,060,255
 
19,095,391
         
Total assets
$
48,982,548
$
46,006,846
         
LIABILITIES
       
         
Contractholder deposit funds and other policy liabilities
$
19,428,625
$
18,668,578
Future contract and policy benefits
 
750,112
 
768,297
Payable for investments purchased
 
218,465
 
248,733
Accrued expenses and taxes
 
144,695
 
150,318
Debt payable to affiliates
 
1,325,000
 
1,125,000
Partnership capital securities
 
607,826
 
607,826
Reinsurance payable to affiliate
 
1,605,626
 
1,652,517
Derivative instruments - payable
 
160,504
 
197,765
Other liabilities
 
1,178,086
 
766,657
Separate account liabilities
 
21,060,255
 
19,095,391
         
Total liabilities
 
46,479,194
 
43,281,082
         
Commitments and contingencies - Note 19
       
         
STOCKHOLDER’S EQUITY
       
         
Common stock, $1,000 par value - 10,000 shares authorized; 6,437 shares
issued and outstanding in 2006 and 2005
 
$
6,437
 
$
 
6,437
Additional paid-in capital
 
2,143,408
 
2,138,880
Accumulated other comprehensive income
 
14,030
 
19,260
Retained earnings
 
339,479
 
561,187
         
Total stockholder’s equity
 
2,503,354
 
2,725,764
         
Total liabilities and stockholder’s equity
$
48,982,548
$
46,006,846




The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31,

   
 
2006
   
 
2005
   
 
2004
                 
Net income
$
78,292
 
$
 133,152
 
$
221,276 
                 
Other comprehensive loss:
               
   Net change in unrealized holding (losses) gains on
       available-for sale securities, net of tax and policyholder
       amounts (1)
 
(46,229)
 
 
 
(79,814)
   
 
23,103 
   Minimum pension liability adjustment, net of tax (2)
 
326
   
(1,842)
   
-
   Reclassification adjustments of realized investment losses
       (gains) into net income, net of tax (3)
 
40,673
   
 
(79,722)
   
 
(70,146)
                 
Other comprehensive loss
 
(5,230)
   
(161,378)
   
(47,043)
                 
Comprehensive income (loss)
$
73,062
 
$
 (28,226)
 
$
174,233 


(1)  
Net of tax (benefit) expense of $(25.5) million, $(43.0) million and $12.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
(2)  
Net of tax (expense) benefit of $(0.2) million and $1.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
(3)  
Net of tax benefit (expense) of $ 21.9 million, $(42.9) million and $(37.8) million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.



























The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDER’S EQUITY
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31,

         
Accumulated
       
     
Additional
 
Other
     
Total
 
Common
 
Paid-In
 
Comprehensive
 
Retained
 
Stockholder’s
 
Stock
 
Capital
 
Income
 
Earnings
 
Equity
                   
Balance at December 31, 2003
$ 6,437
 
$ 2,071,888
 
$ 227,681
 
$ 563,335
 
$ 2,869,341
                   
   Net income
-
 
-
 
-
 
221,276
 
221,276
   Additional paid-in-capital
   
60,000
         
60,000
   Dividends
           
(156,576)
 
(156,576)
   Other comprehensive loss
-
 
-
 
(47,043)
 
-
 
(47,043)
                   
Balance at December 31, 2004
$ 6,437
 
$ 2,131,888
 
$ 180,638
 
$ 628,035
 
$ 2,946,998
                   
   Net income
-
 
-
 
-
 
133,152
 
133,152
   Additional paid-in-capital
-
 
6,992
 
-
 
-
 
6,992
   Dividends
-
 
-
 
-
 
(200,000)
 
(200,000)
   Other comprehensive loss
-
 
-
 
(161,378)
 
-
 
(161,378)
                   
Balance at December 31, 2005
$ 6,437
 
$ 2,138,880
 
$ 19,260
 
$ 561,187
 
$ 2,725,764
                   
   Net income
-
 
-
 
-
 
78,292
 
78,292
   Additional paid-in-capital
-
 
4,528
 
-
 
-
 
4,528
   Dividends
-
 
-
 
-
 
(300,000)
 
(300,000)
   Other comprehensive loss
-
 
-
 
(5,230)
 
-
 
(5,230)
                   
Balance at December 31, 2006
$ 6,437
 
$ 2,143,408
 
$ 14,030
 
$ 339,479
 
$ 2,503,354























The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31,

   
 
2006
   
 
2005
   
 
2004
                 
Cash Flows From Operating Activities:
               
Net income from operations
$
78,292
 
$
133,152
 
$
221,276
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided
               
       by (used in) operating activities:
               
Minority interest share (loss) income
 
-
   
(1,214)
   
5,561
Net amortization of premiums on investments
 
58,379
   
60,195
   
82,123
Amortization of DAC and VOBA
 
399,182
   
243,821
   
82,876
Depreciation and amortization
 
4,608
   
3,985
   
3,025
Non cash derivative activity
 
(17,315)
   
(93,478)
   
(18,690)
Net realized losses (gains) on investments
 
44,511
   
(16,925)
   
(96,074)
Net (gains) losses on trading investments
 
(15,235)
   
80,324
   
7,237
Net change in unrealized and undistributed (gains) in
private equity limited partnerships
 
 
(29,120)
   
 
(48,244)
   
 
(58,981)
Interest credited to contractholder deposits
 
633,405
   
637,502
   
671,101
Deferred federal income taxes
 
4,180
   
22,047
   
72,648
Cumulative effect of change in accounting principles, net of
tax
 
 
-
   
 
-
   
 
8,940
Changes in assets and liabilities:
               
  DAC additions
 
(262,895)
   
(261,917)
   
(346,996)
  Accrued investment income
 
(29,711)
   
17,916
   
5,545
  Future contract and policy benefits
 
(6,619)
   
25,123
   
(42,530)
  Other, net
 
96,793
   
155,865
   
211,882
Net (purchases) sales of trading fixed maturities
 
(1,866,153)
   
(651,921)
   
27,801
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities
 
(907,698)
   
306,231
   
836,744
                 
Cash Flows From Investing Activities:
               
  Sales, maturities and repayments of:
               
     Available-for-sale fixed maturities
 
5,872,190
   
5,685,008
   
10,472,377
     Mortgage loans
 
248,264
   
117,438
   
205,740
     Real estate
 
-
   
947
   
-
     Net cash from disposition of subsidiary
 
-
   
17,040
   
39,687
     Other invested assets
 
184,646
   
483,700
   
144,145
  Purchases of:
               
     Available-for-sale fixed maturities
 
(4,002,244)
   
(5,269,211)
   
(10,367,260)
     Mortgage loans
 
(780,592)
   
(390,376)
   
(698,776)
     Real estate
 
(20,619)
   
(6,648)
   
(86,743)
     Other invested assets
 
(489,493)
   
(171,539)
   
(910,784)
  Net changes in other investing activities
 
399,514
   
(239,910)
   
728,637
  Net change in policy loans
 
(7,857)
   
(5,464)
   
(3,418)
  Net change in short-term investments
 
-
   
(4,576)
   
705
                 
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
$
1,403,809
 
$
216,409
 
$
(475,690)





The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31,

   
 
2006
   
 
2005
   
 
2004
                 
Cash Flows From Financing Activities:
               
Additions to contractholder deposit funds
$
3,520,138
 
$
2,720,141
 
$
2,552,431
Withdrawals from contractholder deposit funds
 
(3,690,351)
   
(3,404,468)
   
(2,867,815)
Net cash of Sun Capital Advisers LLC
 
-
   
-
   
(2,910)
Debt proceeds 
 
200,000
   
100,000
   
-
Dividends paid to stockholder
 
(300,000)
   
(150,600)
   
(150,000)
Additional capital contributed
 
-
   
-
   
60,000
Other, net
 
4,528
   
6,992
   
42,004
Net cash used in financing activities
 
(265,685)
   
(727,935)
   
(366,290)
                 
Net change in cash and cash equivalents
 
230,426
   
(205,295)
   
(5,236)
                 
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year
 
347,654
   
552,949
   
558,185
                 
Cash and cash equivalents, end of year
$
578,080
 
$
347,654
 
$
552,949
                 
Supplemental Cash Flow Information
               
Interest paid
$
130,686
 
$
122,474
 
$
120,195


Supplemental Schedule of non-cash investing and financing activities

In 2005, the Company declared and paid $200.0 million in dividends to its direct parent, Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings Inc. (the "Parent"), consisting of $150.6 million in cash and $49.4 million in notes. In 2004, the Company declared and paid cash dividends in the amount of $150.0 million and transferred via dividend its ownership of Sun Capital Advisers LLC. valued at $6.6 million to its indirect parent, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada - U.S. Operations Holdings, Inc..

On April 19, 2005, the Company sold its interest in a consolidated variable interest entity ("VIE"). As a result of the sale, bonds decreased by $42.5 million, short-term investments decreased by $28.5 million, investment income due and accrued decreased by $0.3 million, other invested assets decreased by $3.2 million, other liabilities decreased by $26.1 million, deferred tax liability decreased by $3.9 million, and notes payable decreased by $33.5 million.

On December 31, 2004, the Company distributed through a dividend to the Parent its interest in Sun Capital Advisers LLC. As a result of the dividend, other assets decreased by $5.2 million, other liabilities decreased by $0.9 million, and accrued expenses and taxes decreased by $0.6 million in a non-cash transaction.

On June 30, 2004, the Company sold its interest in another consolidated VIE. As a result of the sale, bonds decreased by $51.0 million, other liabilities decreased by $11.1 million, deferred tax liability decreased by $3.8 million, notes payable decreased by $7.0 million, and other invested assets decreased by $0.6 million.








The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

GENERAL

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.) (the "Company") and its subsidiaries are primarily engaged in the sale of individual and group variable life insurance, individual universal life insurance, individual and group fixed and variable annuities, funding agreements, group life, group disability, and group stop loss insurance. These products are distributed through individual insurance agents, financial planners, insurance brokers and broker-dealers to both the tax qualified and non-tax-qualified markets. The Company is authorized to transact business in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition, the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Sun Life Insurance and Annuity Company of New York ("SLNY"), is authorized to transact business in the State of New York.

The Company is a stock life insurance company incorporated under the laws of Delaware. The Company is a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of the Parent. The Company is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada - U.S. Operations Holdings, Inc. ("SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings") and is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Life Financial Inc. ("SLF"), a reporting company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. SLF and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to herein as "Sun Life Financial."

As of December 31, 2004, SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings was a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada ("SLOC"). SLOC is a life insurance company incorporated in 1865 and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of SLF. On January 4, 2005, a reorganization was completed under which most of SLOC’s asset management businesses in Canada and the United States were transferred to Sun Life Financial Corp., a newly incorporated wholly-owned direct subsidiary of SLF. The Company is now an indirect subsidiary of Sun Life Financial Corp., and continues to be an indirect subsidiary of SLF.

On April 19, 2005, the Company sold its interest in a consolidated variable interest entity ("VIE") and recognized a gain of $6.1 million. The Company received net cash proceeds of $17.0 million and reduced consolidated assets and liabilities by $74.5 million and $63.6 million, respectively. The Company’s net income for the year ended December 31, 2005 included a net loss of $0.8 million related to this VIE.

On December 31, 2004, Sun Capital Advisers LLC ("SCA"), a registered investment adviser, was distributed in the form of a dividend to the Parent and became a consolidated subsidiary of the SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings. As a result of this transaction, SCA is no longer the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary. As of December 31, 2004, SCA’s total assets were $8.1 million. SCA’s net income was $1.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2004.

On June 30, 2004, the Company sold its interest in another consolidated VIE and recognized a gain of $9.7 million. The Company received net cash proceeds of $39.7 million and reduced consolidated assets and liabilities by $51.6 million and $21.9 million, respectively. The Company’s net income related to this VIE for the year ended December 31, 2004, excluding the gain on the sale, was $7.1 million.













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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") for stock life insurance companies.

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2006, the Company directly or indirectly owned all of the outstanding shares or members interest of SLNY, which issues individual fixed and variable annuity contracts, group life, long-term disability and stop loss insurance, and individual life insurance in New York; Independence Life and Annuity Company, a life insurance company that sold variable and whole life insurance products; Clarendon Insurance Agency, Inc., a register broker-dealer; Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) SPE 97-I, Inc., organized for the purpose of engaging in activities incidental to securitizing mortgage loans; Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings General Partner LLC (the "General Partner"), the sole general partner of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Limited Partnership I; SLF Private Placement Investment Company I, LLC; Sun Parkaire Landing LLC; 7101 France Avenue Manager, LLC; Sun MetroNorth, LLC; and SLNY Private Placement Investment Company I, LLC. During 2005, Sun Benefit Services Company, Inc., an inactive subsidiary, was dissolved.

The General Partner is the sole general partner in Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Limited Partnership I (the "Partnership") and, as a result, the Partnership is consolidated with the results of the Company. The Partnership was established to purchase subordinated debentures issued by the Parent and to issue partnership capital securities to an affiliated business trust, Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Capital Trust I (the "Capital Trust").

On September 6, 2006 the Company entered into an agreement with Credit and Repackaged Securities Limited Series 2006-10 Trust (the "Trust"), whereby the Company is the sole beneficiary of the Trust. As the sole beneficiary of the Trust, the Company is required to consolidate the Trust under the requirements of Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Interpretation No. 46 (revised December 2003), "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an interpretation of ARB No. 51." Accordingly, the assets and liabilities of the Trust are included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. As of December 31, 2006, the Company recorded in its consolidated balance sheets $55.3 million of trading fixed maturities, $1.2 million of accrued investment income and $56.8 million of liabilities.

In addition, the Company had consolidated a certain interest in a VIE. The consolidation of the VIE required the Company to report its minority interest relating to the equity ownership not controlled by the Company. The Company’s interest in the VIE was sold on April 19, 2005.

The Company has a greater than or equal to 20% involvement in five VIEs at December 31, 2006. The Company is a creditor in three trusts and two limited liability companies that were used to finance commercial mortgages, franchise receivables and equipment used in utility generation. The Company’s maximum exposure to loss related to all of these VIEs is the investments’ carrying value, which was $30.1 million and $40.2 million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The notes relating to the VIE’s mature between July 2007 and October 2024. See Note 4 for additional information with respect to leveraged leases which is not included above.

All intercompany transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.












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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)

USE OF ESTIMATES

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The most significant estimates are those used in determining the fair value of financial instruments, goodwill, DAC, VOBA, the liabilities for future contract and policyholder benefits and other-than-temporary impairments of investments. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

In the normal course of business, the Company enters into transactions involving various types of financial instruments, including cash equivalents, fixed maturity investments, mortgage loans, equity securities, derivative financial instruments, debt, loan commitments and financial guarantees. These instruments involve credit risk and also may be subject to risk of loss due to interest rate fluctuation. The Company evaluates and monitors each financial instrument individually and, when appropriate, obtains collateral or other security to minimize losses.

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

Cash and cash equivalents primarily include cash, commercial paper, money market investments and short-term bank participations. All such investments have maturities of three months or less when purchased and are considered cash equivalents for purposes of reporting cash flows.

INVESTMENTS

The Company accounts for its investments in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 115, "Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities." At the time of purchase, fixed maturity securities are classified based on the Company’s intent as either held-to-maturity, trading or available-for-sale. In order for the security to be classified as held-to-maturity, the Company must have positive intent and ability to hold the securities to maturity. Securities held-to-maturity are stated at cost, adjusted for amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts. Securities that are bought and held principally for the purpose of selling them in the near term are classified as trading. Trading securities are carried at aggregate fair value with changes in unrealized gains or losses reported as a component of net investment income. Securities that do not meet the held-to-maturity or trading criterion are classified as available-for-sale. Included with available-for-sale fixed maturities are mortgage-backed securities in the To Be Announced form ("TBA"). The Company records TBA purchases on the trade date and the corresponding payable is recorded as an outstanding liability in the payable for investments purchased until the settlement date of the transaction. Available-for-sale securities are carried at fair value with the unrealized gains or losses reported in other comprehensive income.

Fair values for publicly traded securities are obtained from external market quotations. For privately-placed fixed maturities, fair values are estimated by taking into account prices for publicly-traded securities of similar credit risk, maturities repayment and liquidity characteristics. All security transactions are recorded on a trade date basis.












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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)

INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

The Company's accounting policy for impairment requires recognition of an other-than-temporary impairment write-down on a security if it is determined that the Company will be unable to recover all amounts due under the contractual obligation of the security. Once an impairment charge has been recorded, the Company continues to review the other-than-temporarily impaired security for additional impairment, if necessary. Other-than-temporary impairments are reported as a component of net realized investment gains (losses).

Mortgage loans are stated at unpaid principal balances, net of provisions for estimated losses. Mortgage loans acquired at a premium or discount are carried at amortized values net of provisions for estimated losses. Mortgage loans, which include primarily commercial first mortgages, are diversified by property type and geographic area throughout the United States. Mortgage loans are collateralized by the related properties and generally are no more than 75% of the property’s value at the time that the original loan is made.

A loan is recognized as impaired when it is probable that the principal or interest is not collectible in accordance with the contractual terms of the loan. Measurement of impairment is based on the lower of the present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the loan's effective interest rate, or on the loan's observable market price. A specific valuation allowance is established if the fair value of the impaired loan is less than the recorded amount. Loans are also charged against the allowance when determined to be uncollectible. The allowance is based on a continuing review of the loan portfolio, past loss experience and current economic conditions, which may affect the borrower's ability to pay. While management believes that it uses the best information available to establish the allowance, future adjustments to the allowance may become necessary if economic conditions differ from the assumptions used in making the evaluation.

Real estate investments are held for the production of income or are held-for-sale. Real estate investments held for the production of income are carried at the lower of cost adjusted for accumulated depreciation or fair value. Depreciation of buildings and improvements is calculated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of the property, generally 40 to 50 years. Real estate investments held-for-sale are primarily acquired through foreclosure of mortgage loans. The cost of real estate that has been acquired through foreclosure is the estimated fair value less estimated costs to dispose at the time of foreclosure. Real estate investments are diversified by property type and geographic area throughout the United States.

Policy loans are carried at the amount of outstanding principal balance. Policy loans are collateralized by the related insurance policy and do not exceed the net cash surrender value of such policy.

Investments in private equity limited partnerships are accounted for by the equity method of accounting.

The Company uses derivative financial instruments including swaps, options and futures as a means of hedging exposure to interest rate, currency and equity price risk. Derivatives are carried at fair value and changes in fair value are recorded as a component of derivative income.

Realized gains and losses on the sales of investments are recognized in operations at the date of sale and are determined using the average cost method. When an impairment of a specific available-for-sale investment is determined to be other-than-temporary, a realized investment loss is recorded. Changes in the provision for estimated losses on mortgage loans and real estate are included in net realized investment gains and losses.

Interest income is recorded on the accrual basis. Investments are placed in a non-accrual status when management believes that the borrower's financial condition, after giving consideration to economic and business conditions and collection efforts, is such that collection of principal and interest is doubtful. When an investment is placed in non-accrual status, all interest previously accrued is reversed against current period interest income. Interest accruals are resumed on such investments only when the investments have performed on a sustained basis for a reasonable period of time and when, in the judgment of management, the investments are estimated to be fully collectible as to both principal and interest.


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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)

DEFERRED POLICY ACQUISITION COSTS

Acquisition costs consist of commissions, underwriting and other costs, which vary with and are primarily related to the production of new business. Acquisition costs related to investment-type contracts, primarily deferred annuity and guaranteed investment contracts ("GICs"), and universal and variable life products are deferred and amortized with interest in proportion to the present value of estimated gross profits to be realized over the estimated lives of the contracts. Estimated gross profits are composed of net investment income, net realized investment gains and losses, life and variable annuity fees, surrender charges, interest credited, policyholder benefits and direct variable administrative expenses. This amortization is reviewed regularly and adjusted, as appropriate, retrospectively when the Company records actual profits and revises its estimate of future gross profits to be realized from this group of products, including realized gains and losses from investments.

Although realization of DAC is not assured, the Company believes it is more likely than not that all of these costs will be realized. The amount of DAC considered realizable, however, could be reduced in the near term if the estimates of gross profits or total revenues discussed above are reduced.

DAC is also adjusted for amounts relating to unrealized investment gains and losses. This adjustment, net of tax, is included with unrealized investment gains or losses that are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). DAC was increased (decreased) by $6.9 million and $(12.8) million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively, to reflect unrealized losses and (gains).

VALUE OF BUSINESS ACQUIRED

VOBA represents the actuarially-determined present value of projected future gross profits from policies in force at the date of their acquisition. This amount is amortized in proportion to the projected emergence of profits over the estimated life of the purchased block of business.

VOBA is also adjusted for amounts relating to unrealized investment gains and losses. This adjustment, net of tax, is included with unrealized investment gains or losses that are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). VOBA was increased (decreased) by $0.5 million and $(1.2) million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively, to account for unrealized investment losses and (gains).

GOODWILL

Goodwill represents the difference between the purchase price paid and the fair value of the net assets acquired in connection with the acquisition of Keyport Life Insurance Company ("Keyport") on November 1, 2001. In accordance with SFAS No. 142, "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets," goodwill is tested for impairment on an annual basis. The Company completed the required impairment tests of goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets during the second quarter of 2006 and concluded that these assets were not impaired.

OTHER ASSETS

Property, equipment, leasehold improvements and capitalized software costs that are included in other assets are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization are calculated using the straight-line or accelerated method over the estimated useful lives of the related assets, which generally range from 3 to 10 years.

Amortization of leasehold improvements is calculated using the straight-line method over the lesser of the term of the leases or the estimated useful life of the improvements. Intangible assets are also included in other assets.

Intangible assets acquired primarily consist of state insurance licenses that are not subject to amortization and of intangible assets related to product rights that have a weighted-average useful life of 7 years.


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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)

POLICY LIABILITIES AND ACCRUALS

Future contract and policy benefit liabilities include amounts reserved for future policy benefits payable upon contingent events as well as liabilities for unpaid claims due as of the statement date. Such liabilities are established in amounts adequate to meet the estimated future obligations of policies in force.

Policy reserves for annuity contracts include liabilities held for group pension and payout annuity payments and liabilities held for product guarantees on variable annuity products, such as guaranteed minimum death benefits. Reserves for pension and payout annuity contracts are calculated using the best-estimate interest and decrement assumptions that were set at the time that loss recognition testing resulted in additional reserves. Loss recognition testing is done periodically to make sure that these assumptions remain adequate. Reserves for guaranteed minimum death benefits and guaranteed minimum income benefits are calculated according to the methodology of AICPA Statement of Position 03-1, "Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Nontraditional Long-Duration Contracts and for Separate Accounts" ("SOP 03-1"), whereby the expected benefits provided by the guarantees are spread over the duration of the contract in proportion to the benefit assessments.

Policy reserves for universal life contracts are held for benefit coverages that are not fully provided for in the policy account value. These include rider coverages, conversions from group policies, and benefits provided under market conduct settlements.

Policy reserves for group life and health contracts are calculated using standard actuarial methods recognized by the American Academy of Actuaries. For the tabular reserves, discount rates are based on the Company’s earned investment yield and the morbidity and mortality tables used are standard industry tables modified to reflect the Company’s actual experience when appropriate. In particular, for the Company’s group known claim reserves, the mortality and morbidity tables for the early durations of claims are based exclusively on the Company’s experience, incorporating factors such as age at disability, sex and elimination period. These reserves are computed at amounts that, with interest compounded annually at assumed rates, are expected to meet the Company’s future obligations.

Liabilities for unpaid claims consist of the estimated amount payable for claims reported but not yet settled and an estimate of claims incurred but not reported. The amount reported is based upon historical experience, adjusted for trends and current circumstances. Management believes that the recorded liability is sufficient to provide for the associated claims adjustment expenses. Revisions of these estimates are included in operations in the year such refinements are made.

Contractholder deposit funds consist of policy values that accrue to the holders of universal life-type contracts and investment-related products such as deferred annuities, single premium whole life policies ("SPWL") and GICs. The liabilities consist of deposits received plus interest credited, less accumulated policyholder charges, assessments, partial withdrawals and surrenders. The liabilities are not reduced by surrender charges.

REVENUE AND EXPENSES

Premiums for traditional individual life products are considered earned revenue when due. Premiums related to group life, group stop loss and group disability insurance are recognized as earned revenue pro-rata over the contract period. The unexpired portion of these premiums is recorded as unearned premiums. Revenue from universal life-type products and investment-related products includes charges for the cost of insurance (mortality), initiation and administration of the policy and surrender charges. Revenue is recognized when the charges are assessed except that any portion of an assessment that relates to services to be provided in future years is deferred and recognized over the period during which the services are provided.

Benefits and expenses related to traditional life, annuity and disability contracts, including group policies, are recognized when incurred in a manner designed to match them with related premium revenue and to spread income recognition over the expected life of the policy. For universal life-type and investment-type contracts, expenses include interest credited to policyholders’ accounts and death benefits in excess of account values, which are recognized as incurred.

Fees from investment advisory services are recognized as revenues when the services are provided.

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)

INCOME TAXES

For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, the Company participated in a consolidated federal income tax return with SLC - US Ops Holdings and other affiliates.

Deferred income taxes are generally recognized when assets and liabilities have different values for financial statement and tax reporting purposes, and for other temporary taxable and deductible differences as defined by SFAS No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes." These differences primarily relate from policy reserves, policy acquisition expenses and unrealized gains or losses on investments.

SEPARATE ACCOUNTS 

The Company has established separate accounts applicable to various classes of contracts providing for variable benefits. Separate account assets are subject to general account claims only to the extent the value of such assets exceeds the separate account liabilities. Contracts for which funds are invested in separate accounts include variable life insurance and individual and group qualified and non-qualified variable annuity contracts. Investment income and changes in mutual fund asset values are allocated to policyholders and therefore do not affect the operating results of the Company. Assets held in the separate accounts are carried at fair value and the investment risk of such securities is retained by the contractholder. The Company earns separate account fees for providing administrative services and bearing the mortality risks related to these contracts. The activity of the separate accounts is not reflected in the consolidated financial statements except for: (1) the fees the Company receives, which are assessed periodically and recognized as revenue when assessed; and (2) the activity related to the guaranteed minimum death benefit ("GMDB"), guaranteed minimum income benefit (‘GMIB’), guaranteed minimum accumulation benefit ("GMAB") and guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit (‘GMWB’) which is reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes.

ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

New and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

On September 29, 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 158, "Employers' Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans," which amends SFAS No. 87 and SFAS No. 106 to require recognition of the overfunded or underfunded status of pension and other postretirement benefit plans on the balance sheet. Under SFAS No. 158, gains and losses, prior service costs and credits, and any remaining transition amounts under SFAS No. 87 and SFAS No. 106 that have not yet been recognized through net periodic benefit cost will be recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax effects, until they are amortized as a component of net periodic cost. The measurement date is required to be the company's fiscal year end. SFAS No. 158 is effective for publicly-held companies for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2006, except for the measurement date provisions, which are effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2008. See Note 9 with respect to the effects of adoption of SFAS No. 158 on the Company.

In September 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") Staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin ("SAB") No. 108, "Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements" ("SAB No. 108"), which addresses how the effects of prior year uncorrected financial statement misstatements should be considered in current year financial statements. SAB No. 108 requires registrants to quantify misstatements using both balance sheet and income statement approaches and to evaluate whether either approach results in quantifying an error that is material in light of relative quantitative and qualitative factors. The requirements of SAB No. 108 are effective for annual financial statements covering the first fiscal year ending after November 15, 2006. The Company’s adoption of SAB No. 108 during the year ended December 31, 2006 had no impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.




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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)

ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS (CONTINUED)

New and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements (continued)

In November of 2005, the FASB issued FASB Staff Position ("FSP") 115-1 and 124-1 "The Meaning of Other-Than-Temporary Impairments and its Application to Certain Investments." This FSP is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2005. The FSP addresses the determination as to when an investment is considered impaired, whether that impairment is other than temporary, and the measurement of the impairment loss. The statement also includes accounting guidance for periods subsequent to the recognition of an other-than-temporary impairment and requires certain disclosures about unrealized losses that have not been recognized as other-than-temporary impairments. Adoption of this FSP did not impact the methodology used by the Company to determine and measure impaired investments. See disclosure in Note 4.

In May of 2005, the FASB issued SFAS No. 154, "Accounting Changes and Error Corrections - a replacement of APB Opinion No. 20 and FASB Statement No. 3" ("SFAS No. 154"). This statement is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005. SFAS No. 154 changes the requirements for the accounting and reporting of a change in accounting principle and applies to all voluntary changes in accounting principle. The statement eliminates the requirement in APB 20 to include the cumulative effect of a change in accounting in the income statement in the period of change and requires retrospective applications to prior periods’ financial statements of changes in accounting principle, unless it is impracticable to determine either the specific period effects or the cumulative effect of the change. SFAS No. 154 applies to changes required by new accounting pronouncements only when the pronouncement does not include specific transition guidance. The adoption of SFAS No. 154 did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

On January 1, 2004, the Company adopted SOP 03-1. The major provisions of SOP 03-1 that affect the Company require:

o
Establishment of reserves primarily related to death benefit and income benefit guarantees provided under variable annuity contracts;
o
Deferral of sales inducements that meet certain criteria, and amortization using the same method used for DAC; and
o
Reporting and measuring the Company’s interest in its separate accounts as investments.

See Footnote 12 for additional information regarding the impact of adoption of SOP 03-1.

Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted

In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, "The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities" ("SFAS No. 159"), which permits entities to choose to measure many financial instruments and certain other items at fair value. The objective is to improve financial reporting by providing entities with the opportunity to mitigate volatility in reporting earnings caused by measuring related assets and liabilities differently without having to apply complex hedge accounting provisions. SFAS No. 159 is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 and all interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted as of the beginning of a fiscal year that begins on or before November 15, 2007, provided the entity also elects to apply the provisions of SFAS No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements." The Company is currently evaluating the impact, if any, that SFAS No. 159 may have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, "Fair Value Measurements" ("SFAS No. 157"), which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 and all interim periods within those fiscal years. Earlier application is permitted provided that the reporting entity has not yet issued interim or annual financial statements for that fiscal year. The Company is currently evaluating the impact, if any, that SFAS No. 157 may have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In June 2006, the FASB issued Interpretation No. 48, "Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes - an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109" ("FIN 48").
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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)

ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS (CONTINUED)

Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted (continued)

FIN 48 prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return, and provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. FIN 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. The Company is currently assessing the impact, if any, of FIN 48 on its consolidated financial statements.

In March 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 156, "Accounting for Servicing of Financial Assets" ("SFAS No. 156"), an amendment to SFAS No. 140. SFAS No. 156 requires all separately recognized servicing assets and liabilities to be initially measured at fair value and permits entities to choose to either subsequently measure servicing rights at fair value and report changes in fair value in earnings, or amortize servicing rights in proportion to, and over the estimated net servicing income or loss and assess the rights for impairment or the need for an increased obligation. The option to subsequently measure servicing rights at fair value will allow entities which utilize derivative instruments to hedge their servicing rights to account for such hedging relationships at fair value and avoid the complications of hedge accounting under SFAS No. 133. SFAS No. 156 is effective for fiscal years beginning after September 15, 2006. Earlier application is permitted provided that the reporting entity has not yet issued interim or annual financial statements for that fiscal year. The adoption of this statement will not have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.

In February 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 155, "Accounting for Certain Hybrid Instruments" ("SFAS No. 155"), an amendment to SFAS No. 133 and SFAS No. 140. Among other things, SFAS No. 155: (i) permits fair value remeasurement for any hybrid financial instrument that contains an embedded derivative that otherwise would require bifurcation; (ii) clarifies which interest-only strips and principal-only strips are not subject to the requirements of SFAS No. 133; (iii) establishes a requirement to evaluate interests in securitized financial assets to identify interests that are freestanding derivatives or that are hybrid financial instruments that contain an embedded derivative requiring bifurcation; (iv) clarifies that concentrations of credit risk in the form of subordination are not embedded derivatives; and (v) amends SFAS No. 140 to eliminate the prohibition on a qualifying special-purpose entity from holding a derivative financial instrument that pertains to a beneficial interest other than another derivative financial instrument. SFAS No. 155 is effective for all financial instruments acquired, issued, or subject to a remeasurement (new basis) event occurring after the beginning of an entity’s first fiscal year beginning after September 15, 2006. At initial application of SFAS No. 155, the fair value election provided for in paragraph 4(c) may be applied for hybrid financial instruments that were bifurcated under paragraph 12 of SFAS No. 133 prior to the initial application of SFAS No. 155.

In January 2007, the FASB provided a scope exception under SFAS No. 155 for securitized interests that only contain an embedded derivative that is tied to the prepayment risk of the underlying prepayable financial assets, and for which the investor does not control the right to accelerate the settlement. If a securitized interest contains any other embedded derivative (for example, an inverse floater), then it would be subject to the bifurcation tests in SFAS No. 133, as would securities purchased at a significant premium. Following the issuance of the scope exception by the FASB, changes in the market value of the Company’s investment securities would continue to be made through other comprehensive income, a component of stockholders’ equity. The Company does not expect that the January 1, 2007 adoption of SFAS No. 155 will have a material impact on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows. However, to the extent that certain of the Company’s future investments in securitized financial assets do not meet the scope exception adopted by the FASB, the Company’s future results of operations may exhibit volatility if such investments are required to be bifurcated or marked to market value in their entirety through the income statement, depending on the election made by the Company.

In September of 2005, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (the "AICPA") issued Statement of Position 05-1, "Accounting by Insurance Enterprises for Deferred Acquisition Costs in Connection with Modifications or Exchanges of Insurance Contracts" ("SOP 05-1"). SOP 05-1 provides guidance on accounting by insurance companies for DAC on internal replacements other than those specifically described in SFAS No. 97, "Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Long-Duration Contracts and for Realized Gains and Losses from the Sale of Investments." SOP 05-1 is effective for internal replacements occurring in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. The adoption of SOP 05-1 is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.
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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

2. MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS AND DISPOSITIONS

On September 6, 2006, the Company entered into an agreement with the Trust, whereby the Company is the sole beneficiary of the Trust. As of December 31, 2006, total assets of the Trust were $56.6 million. As the sole beneficiary of the Trust, the Company is required to consolidate this Trust under the requirements of FASB Interpretation No. 46 (revised December 2003), "Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an interpretation of ARB No. 51." Accordingly, the assets and liabilities of the Trust are included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. As of December 31, 2006, the Company recorded in its consolidated balance sheets $55.3 million of trading fixed maturities, $1.2 million of accrued investment income and $56.8 million of liabilities.

On April 19, 2005, the Company sold its interest in a consolidated VIE and recognized a gain of $6.1 million. The Company received net cash proceeds of $17.0 million and reduced consolidated assets and liabilities by $74.5 million and $63.6 million, respectively. The Company’s net income for the year ended December 31, 2005 includes a net loss of $0.8 million related to this VIE.

On December 31, 2004, SCA, a registered investment adviser and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, was distributed in the form of a dividend to the Parent and became a consolidated subsidiary of SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings. As a result of this transaction, SCA is no longer the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary. As of December 31, 2004, SCA’s net assets were $8.1 million. SCA’s net income for the year ended December 31, 2004 was $1.9 million.

On June 30, 2004, the Company sold its interest in another consolidated VIE and recognized a gain of $9.7 million. The Company received net cash proceeds of $39.7 and reduced consolidated assets and liabilities by $51.6 million and $21.9 million, respectively. The Company’s net income for the year ended December 31, 2004 includes net income of $7.1 million related to this VIE.

3. SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES

Below is a summary of affiliated transactions for those affiliates that are not consolidated within the Company.

The Company and its subsidiaries have administrative services agreements with SLOC which provides that SLOC will furnish, as requested, certain services and facilities on a cost-reimbursement basis. Expenses under these agreements amounted to approximately $9.4 million, $11.3 million and $24.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

In accordance with an administrative service agreement between the Company and SLOC, the Company provides personnel and certain services to SLOC, as requested. Reimbursements under this agreement, which are recorded as a reduction of other operating expenses, were approximately $212.4 million, $170.4 million and $136.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

The Company has an administrative service agreement with Sun Life Information Services Canada, Inc. ("SLISC") under which SLISC provides administrative and support services to the Company in connection with the Company’s insurance and annuity business. Expenses under this agreement amounted to approximately $10.7 million and $5.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. There were no expenses incurred for the year ended December 31, 2004.

The Company has a service agreement with Sun Life Information Services Ireland Limited ("SLISIL") under which SLISIL provides various insurance related and information systems services to the Company. Expenses under this agreement amounted to approximately $19.6 million, $13.9 million and $10.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.









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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

3. SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES (CONTINUED)

The Company has an administrative services agreement with SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings under which the Company provides administrative and investor services with respect to certain open-end management investment companies for which an affiliate, Massachusetts Financial Services Company ("MFS"), serves as the investment adviser, and which are offered to certain of the Company’s separate accounts established in connection with the variable annuity contracts issued by the Company. Amounts received under this agreement amounted to approximately $22.6 million, $23.4 million and $22.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

The Company leases office space to SLOC under lease agreements with terms expiring in December 31, 2009 and options to extend the terms for each of twelve successive five-year terms at fair market value of the fixed rent for the term which is then ending. Rent received by the Company under the leases amounted to approximately $10.6 million, $10.6 million, and $11.8 million in 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Rental income is reported as a component of net investment income.

As more fully described in Note 8, the Company has been involved in several reinsurance transactions with SLOC.

In 2006, the Company declared and paid $300.0 million in cash dividends to the Parent. In 2005, the Company declared and paid $200.0 million in dividends to the Parent, consisting of $150.6 million in cash and $49.4 million in notes. In 2004, the Company declared and paid cash dividends in the amount of $150.0 million and transferred via dividend its ownership of SCA valued at $6.6 million to its indirect parent, SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings.

On December 31, 2004, the Company received a $60.0 million capital contribution from its indirect parent, SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings.

In 2004, the employees of the Company became participants in a restricted share unit ("RSU") plan with its indirect parent, SLF. Under the RSU plan, participants are granted units that are equivalent to one common share of SLF stock and have a fair market value of a common share of SLF stock on the date of grant. RSUs earn dividend equivalents in the form of additional RSUs at the same rate as the dividends on common shares of SLF stock. The redemption value, upon vesting, is the fair market value of an equal number of common shares of SLF stock. The Company incurred expenses of $7.3 million, $7.0 million and $4.1 million relating to RSUs for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

In 2006, the Company recorded a tax benefit of $4.5 million through paid-in-capital for SLF stock options issued to employees of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2006. In 2005, the Company recorded a tax benefit of $7.0 million through paid-in-capital for stock options issued to employees of the Company during 2001 through 2005. The $7.0 million tax benefit is comprised of a $2.5 million tax benefit on expenses accrued at its indirect parent, SLF, and a $4.5 million adjustment to record the excess tax benefit over the recorded book expense for stock options exercised.
















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

3. SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES (CONTINUED)

At December 31, 2006, the Company had $460.0 million in promissory notes maturing June 30, 2012 issued to an affiliate, Sun Life (Hungary) Group Financing Limited Liability Company ("Sun Life (Hungary) LLC"). The Company pays interest semi-annually to Sun Life (Hungary) LLC. The Company expensed $26.5 million for interest on these promissory notes for each of the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The proceeds of the notes were used to purchase fixed-rate government and corporate bonds.

At December 31, 2006 and 2005, the Company had $565.0 million of surplus notes issued to Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Finance, Inc., an affiliate of the Company. The Company expensed $42.6 million for interest on these surplus notes for each of the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

At December 31, 2006 and 2005, the Company, through the Partnership, had $600 million of 8.526% partnership capital securities issued to the Capital Trust. The Company expensed $51.2 million for interest on these partnership capital securities for each of the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

At December 31, 2006 and 2005, the Company, through the Partnership, owned $600 million of 8.526% subordinated notes issued by the Parent. Interest earned on these notes was $51.2 million for each of the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

The Company purchased a total of $140.0 million in promissory notes from MFS in 2004 and 2003. Interest earned for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 was $4.2 million and $4.0 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2005, the Company sold and transferred these notes to affiliates. On December 31, 2005, the Company sold notes with a par value of $90.0 million to an affiliate, Sun Life (Hungary) LLC, and recognized a loss of $3.3 million. On September 23, 2005, the Company transferred notes with a par value of $50.0 million to the Parent as a dividend. The Company recognized a loss of $0.6 million on the transfer of these notes to the Parent.

During the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, the Company paid $24.3 million, $23.2 million and $35.0 million, respectively, in commission fees to an affiliate, Sun Life Financial Distributors, Inc., ("SLFD"). The Company also has an agreement with SLFD and the Parent whereby the Parent provides expense reimbursements to the Company for administrative services provided by the Company to SLFD. The Company received reimbursement of $3.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2006 related to this agreement. In addition, the Company received fee income for administrative services provided to SLFD of $7.1 million and $5.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

During the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, the Company paid $20.1 million, $25.1 million and $45.1 million, respectively, in commission fees to Independent Financial Marketing Group, Inc., an affiliate.
















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

3. SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES (CONTINUED)

The Company has an administrative services agreement with SCA under which the Company provides administrative services with respect to certain open-end management investment companies for which SCA serves as the investment adviser, and which are offered to certain of the Company’s separate accounts established in connection with the variable contracts issued by the Company. Amounts received under this agreement amounted to approximately $1.5 million and $2.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2006 and 2005. SCA was a consolidated entity of the Company through December 31, 2004.

The Company paid $14.9 million and $16.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005 in investment management services fees to SCA, an affiliate and registered investment adviser.

On September 12, 2006, the Company entered into a Terms Agreement (the "2006-B Terms Agreement") with its affiliates Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.P. (the "Issuer III"), Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, U.L.C. (the "ULC III") and Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.L.C. (the "LLC III"), and with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, RBC Capital Markets Corporation and Wachovia Capital Markets (each, an "Initial Purchaser" and collectively, the "2006-B Initial Purchasers"), in connection with the offer and sale by the Issuer III of $750 million of Series 2006-1 Floating Rate Notes due 2013 ("2006-B Notes"). On September 21, 2006, the Company entered into another Terms Agreement (together with the original 2006-B Terms Agreement, the "2006-B Terms Agreements") with the same parties as the original 2006-B Terms Agreement in connection with the offer and sale by the Issuer III of a second tranche of $150 million of 2006-B Notes. The payment obligations of the Issuer III for the full $900 million of 2006-B Notes are unconditionally guaranteed by the LLC III pursuant to a guarantee (the "2006-B Secured Guarantee") dated as of September 19, 2006, and the obligations of the LLC III under the 2006-B Secured Guarantee are secured by two floating rate funding agreements issued by the Company to the LLC III, one for $750 million issued on September 19, 2006 and another for $150 million issued on September 29, 2006. Total interest credited for the funding agreements was $14.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2006.

The 2006-B Terms Agreements incorporate by reference the provisions of a Purchase Agreement dated as of September 5, 2006 by and among the Issuer III, the ULC III, the LLC III, the Company and all of the 2006-B Initial Purchasers. Pursuant to these incorporated provisions, the Company has agreed, among other things, to indemnify each 2006 Initial Purchaser against certain securities law liabilities related to the offering of the 2006-B Notes.

In addition, the Company issued a $100 million floating rate demand note payable to the LLC III on September 19, 2006. The Company expensed $1.7 million for interest on this demand note for the year ended December 31, 2006.

The Company has entered into an interest rate swap agreement with the LLC III with an aggregate notional amount of $900 million that effectively converts the floating rate payment obligations under the funding agreements to fixed rate obligations.

On May 17, 2006, the Company entered into a Terms Agreement (the "2006-A Terms Agreement") with its affiliates Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, L.P. (the "Issuer II"), Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, U.L.C. (the "ULC II") and Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, L.L.C. (the "LLC II"), and with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. ("Citigroup"), Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated ("Morgan Stanley"), Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and RBC Capital Markets Corporation (collectively, with Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, the "2006-A Initial Purchasers"), in connection with the offer and sale by the Issuer II of $900 million of Series 2006-1 Floating Rate Notes due 2011 (the "2006-A Notes"). The payment obligations of the Issuer II are unconditionally guaranteed by the LLC II pursuant to a guarantee (the "2006-A Secured Guarantee"), and the obligations of the LLC II under the 2006-A Secured Guarantee are secured by a $900 million floating rate funding agreement issued by the Company to the LLC II. The 2006-A Terms Agreement incorporates by reference the provisions of a Purchase Agreement dated as of May 15, 2006 by and among the Issuer II, the ULC II, the LLC II, the Company and the 2006-A Initial Purchasers. Pursuant to these incorporated provisions, the Company has agreed, among other things, to indemnify each 2006 Initial Purchaser against certain securities law liabilities related to the offering of the 2006-A Notes. Total interest credited for the funding agreement was $30.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2006.


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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

3. SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES (CONTINUED)

On May 24, 2006, the Company also issued a $100 million floating rate demand note payable to the LLC II. The Company expensed $3.4 million for interest on this demand note for the year ended December 31, 2006.

The Company has entered into an interest rate swap agreement with the LLC II with an aggregate notional amount of $900 million that effectively converts the floating rate payment obligations under the funding agreement to fixed rate obligations. The net interest payable under this swap agreement was $0.2 million at December 31, 2006.

On June 3, 2005, the Company entered into a Terms Agreement (the "2005 Terms Agreement") with its affiliates, Sun Life Financial Global Funding, L.P. (the "Issuer"), Sun Life Financial Global Funding, U.L.C. (the "ULC") and Sun Life Financial Global Funding, L.L.C. (the "LLC"), and with Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and RBC Capital Markets Corporation (collectively, the "2005 Initial Purchasers"), in connection with the offer and sale by the Issuer of $600 million of Series 2005-1 Floating Rate Notes due 2010 (the "First Tranche Notes").

On June 29, 2005, the Company entered into a Second Terms Agreement (the "Second 2005 Terms Agreement") with the Issuer, the ULC and the LLC, and with Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, in connection with the offer and sale by the Issuer of $300 million of Series 2005-1 Floating Rate Notes due 2010 (the "Second Tranche Notes").

The payment obligations of the Issuer under the First Tranche Notes and the Second Tranche Notes are unconditionally guaranteed by the LLC pursuant to a guarantee (the "2005 Secured Guarantee") dated as of June 10, 2005, and the obligations of the LLC under the 2005 Secured Guarantee are secured by two floating rate funding agreements issued by the Company to the LLC, one for $600 million issued on June 10, 2005 and one for $300 million issued on July 5, 2005. The Company issued a total of $900 million funding agreements to the LLC in connection with the First Tranche Notes and Second Tranche Notes. The Terms Agreement and the Second Terms Agreement incorporate by reference the provisions of a Purchase Agreement dated as of November 11, 2004 by and among the Issuer, the ULC, the LLC, the Company, and the 2005 Initial Purchasers. Pursuant to these incorporated provisions, the Company has agreed, among other things, to indemnify each 2005 Initial Purchaser against certain securities law liabilities related to the offering of the First Tranche Notes and the Second Tranche Notes.

Total interest credited for the funding agreements associated with the First Tranche Notes and Second Tranche Notes was $49.5 million and $20.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

On June 10, 2005, the Company issued a $100 million floating rate demand note payable to the LLC. The Company expensed $5.5 million and $2.3 million for interest on the demand note for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

The Company has entered into two interest rate swap agreements with the LLC with an aggregate notional amount of $900 million that effectively convert the floating rate payment obligations under the funding agreements to fixed rate obligations. The net interest (payable) receivable under these swap agreements was $(0.5) million and $0.1 million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.













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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

3. SIGNIFICANT TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES (CONTINUED)

Management believes inter-company revenues and expenses are calculated on a reasonable basis; however, these amounts may not necessarily be indicative of the costs that would be incurred if the Company operated on a stand-alone basis.

The following table lists the details of notes due to affiliates at December 31, 2006 (in 000’s):

Payees
Type
Rate
Maturity
Principal
Interest
Expense
           
Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Finance, Inc.
Surplus
8.625%
11/06/2027
$ 250,000
$ 21,563
Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Finance, Inc.
Surplus
6.150%
12/15/2027
150,000
9,225
Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Finance, Inc.
Surplus
7.250%
12/15/2015
150,000
10,875
Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Finance, Inc.
Surplus
6.125%
12/15/2015
7,500
459
Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Finance, Inc.
Surplus
6.150%
12/15/2027
7,500
461
Sun Life (Hungary) LLC
Promissory
5.760%
06/30/2012
380,000
21,888
Sun Life (Hungary) LLC
Promissory
5.710%
06/30/2012
80,000
4,568
Sun Life Financial Global Funding I, L.L.C.
Demand
Libor plus 0.35%
07/6/2010
100,000
5,518
Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, L.L.C.
Demand
Libor plus 0.26%
07/6/2011
100,000
3,428
Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.L.C.
Demand
Libor plus 0.35%
10/6/2013
100,000
1,660
       
$ 1,325,000
$ 79,645




























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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS

Fixed Maturities
The amortized cost and fair value of fixed maturities at December 31, 2006, was as follows:

   
Gross
Gross
 
 
Amortized
Unrealized
Unrealized
Fair
 
Cost
Gains
Losses
Value
Available-for-sale fixed maturities:
       
Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities
$ 4,415,712
$ 38,390
$ (58,980)
$ 4,395,122
Foreign Government & Agency Securities
79,319
3,512
(283)
82,548
States & Political Subdivisions
495
32
-
527
U.S. Treasury & Agency Securities
307,580
2,637
(4,027)
306,190
         
Corporate securities:
       
Basic Industry
204,355
4,217
(3,182)
205,390
Capital Goods
520,338
11,507
(3,973)
527,872
Communications
1,163,026
20,149
(24,077)
1,159,098
Consumer Cyclical
1,051,633
10,127
(28,599)
1,033,161
Consumer Noncyclical
364,459
7,847
(2,302)
370,004
Energy
350,930
6,226
(3,547)
353,609
Finance
3,201,774
43,217
(33,235)
3,211,756
Industrial Other
228,442
7,446
(629)
235,259
Technology
22,779
357
(852)
22,284
Transportation
307,542
10,418
(5,458)
312,502
Utilities
1,405,066
35,310
(17,725)
1,422,651
Total Corporate
8,820,344
156,821
(123,579)
8,853,586
         
Total available-for-sale fixed maturities
$ 13,623,450
$ 201,392
$ (186,869)
$ 13,637,973
         
Held-to-maturity fixed maturities:
       
Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.,
       
8.526% subordinated debt, due 2027
$ 600,000
$ 30,751
$ -
$ 630,751
         
Total held-to-maturity fixed maturities
$ 600,000
$ 30,751
$ -
$ 630,751
         
 
Amortized
Gross
Gross
 
 
Cost
Gains
Losses
Fair Value
Trading fixed maturities:
       
Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities
$ 353,571
$ 3,851
$ (3,479)
$ 353,943
Foreign Government & Agency Securities
40,274
710
(152)
40,832
U.S. Treasury & Agency Securities
796
10
-
806
         
Corporate securities:
       
Basic Industry
8,237
596
-
8,833
Capital Goods
71,060
540
-
71,600
Communications
735,753
5,378
(5,077)
736,054
Consumer Cyclical
279,856
2,628
(3,550)
278,934
Consumer Noncyclical
159,221
633
(901)
158,953
Energy
20,620
2,388
-
23,008
Finance
1,742,731
14,625
(7,385)
1,749,971
Industrial Other
55,950
405
(839)
55,516
Transportation
48,887
1,873
(672)
50,088
Utilities
321,776
7,476
(1,737)
327,515
Total Corporate
3,444,091
36,542
(20,161)
3,460,472
         
Total trading fixed maturities
$ 3,838,732
$ 41,113
$ (23,792)
$ 3,856,053

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)
The amortized cost and fair value of fixed maturities at December 31, 2005, was as follows:

   
Gross
Gross
 
 
Amortized
Unrealized
Unrealized
Fair
 
Cost
Gains
Losses
Value
Available-for-sale fixed maturities:
       
Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities
$ 5,234,792
$ 40,958
$ (74,124)
$ 5,201,626
Foreign Government & Agency Securities
86,360
2,965
(64)
89,261
States & Political Subdivisions
742
24
-
766
U.S. Treasury & Agency Securities
449,877
4,773
(4,286)
450,364
         
Corporate securities:
       
Basic Industry
228,782
6,192
(3,384)
231,590
Capital Goods
602,974
20,310
(4,507)
618,777
Communications
1,285,638
32,582
(24,476)
1,293,744
Consumer Cyclical
1,321,417
16,741
(62,470)
1,275,687
Consumer Noncyclical
548,636
16,985
(6,206)
559,415
Energy
445,207
15,281
(2,225)
458,264
Finance
3,167,168
50,719
(28,844)
3,189,043
Industrial Other
246,421
9,913
(1,029)
255,305
Technology
49,288
853
(1,127)
49,014
Transportation
409,812
17,786
(7,739)
419,859
Utilities
1,543,713
54,264
(13,544)
1,584,433
Total Corporate
9,849,056
241,626
(155,551)
9,935,131
         
Total available-for-sale fixed maturities
$ 15,620,827
$ 290,346
$ (234,025)
$ 15,677,148
         
Held-to-maturity fixed maturities:
       
Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.,
       
8.526% subordinated debt, due 2027
$ 600,000
$ 45,755
$ -
$ 645,755
         
Total held-to-maturity fixed maturities
$ 600,000
$ 45,755
$ -
$ 645,755
         
 
Amortized
Gross
Gross
 
 
Cost
Gains
Losses
Fair Value
Trading fixed maturities:
       
Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities
$ 209,548
$ 1,915
$ (3,776)
$ 207,687
Foreign Government & Agency Securities
19,516
-
(136)
19,380
         
Corporate securities:
       
Basic Industry
8,649
783
-
9,432
Capital Goods
15,651
751
-
16,402
Communications
343,647
3,607
(8,542)
338,712
Consumer Cyclical
246,522
2,615
(6,160)
242,977
Consumer Noncyclical
84,411
712
(2,370)
82,753
Energy
27,675
3,187
-
30,862
Finance
713,043
13,996
(8,285)
718,754
Industrial Other
47,464
798
(928)
47,334
Technology
3,801
82
-
3,883
Transportation
60,950
2,588
(4,696)
58,842
Utilities
201,885
8,244
(2,299)
207,830
Total Corporate
1,753,698
37,363
(33,280)
1,757,781
         
Total trading fixed maturities
$ 1,982,762
$ 39,278
$ (37,192)
$ 1,984,848


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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004
 
4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

The amortized cost and estimated fair value by maturity periods for fixed maturity investments are shown below. Actual maturities may differ from contractual maturities on asset-backed securities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties.

       
December 31, 2006
       
Amortized Cost
Fair Value
Maturities of available-for-sale fixed securities:
   
 
Due in one year or less
$ 410,397
$ 410,402
 
Due after one year through five years
2,206,629
2,226,776
 
Due after five years through ten years
3,807,300
3,791,183
 
Due after ten years
   
2,783,412
2,814,491
          Subtotal - Maturities available-for-sale
 
9,207,738
9,242,852
Asset-backed securities
 
4,415,712
4,395,121
          Total Available-for-sale
 
$ 13,623,450
$ 13,637,973
       
Maturities of trading fixed securities:
   
 
Due in one year or less
$ 138,476
$ 138,797
 
Due after one year through five years
1,342,987
1,345,899
 
Due after five years through ten years
1,757,081
1,764,447
 
Due after ten years
246,617
252,968
 
Subtotal - Maturities of trading
3,485,161
3,502,111
Asset-backed securities
353,571
353,942
 
Total Trading
$ 3,838,732
$ 3,856,053
       
Maturities of held-to-maturity fixed securities:
   
 
Due after ten years
$ 600,000
$ 630,751

Gross gains of $39.2 million, $61.0 million and $152.5 million and gross losses of $92.3 million, $38.9 million and $45.4 million were realized on the sale of fixed maturities for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

Fixed maturities with an amortized cost of approximately $12.0 million and $10.9 million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively, were on deposit with federal and state governmental authorities as required by law.












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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

As of December 31, 2006 and 2005, 96.5% and 94.7%, respectively, of the Company's fixed maturities were investment grade. Investment grade securities are those that are rated "BBB" or better by nationally recognized statistical rating organizations. During 2006, 2005 and 2004, the Company incurred realized losses totaling $6.3 million, $29.7 million and $32.5 million, respectively, for other-than-temporary impairment of value of some of its fixed maturities after determining that not all of the unrealized losses were temporary in nature.

The Company has discontinued accruing income on all of its holdings for issuers that are in default. The termination of accrual accounting on these holdings reduced previously accrued income by $0.6 million, $1.7 million and $7.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The fair market value of these investments was $24.4 million and $29.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. As of December 31, 2006, the Company did not have any holding for issuers that were in default.

The following table provides the fair value and gross unrealized losses of the Company’s available-for-sale fixed maturities investments, which were deemed to be temporarily impaired, aggregated by investment category, industry sector and length of time that individual securities have been in an unrealized loss position, at December 31, 2006:

 
 
Less Than Twelve Months
 
Twelve Months Or More
 
Total
Corporate Securities
           
 
 
Fair
Value
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
 
Fair Value
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
 
Fair
Value
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
   Basic Industry
$ 7,750
$ (109)
$ 43,426
$ (3,073)
$ 51,176
$ (3,182)
   Capital Goods
50,624
(399)
108,017
(3,574)
158,641
(3,973)
   Communications
228,260
(4,389)
292,442
(19,688)
520,702
(24,077)
   Consumer Cyclical
175,557
(3,380)
514,067
(25,219)
689,624
(28,599)
   Consumer Noncyclical
138,379
(942)
33,801
(1,360)
172,180
(2,302)
   Energy
75,777
(1,357)
43,064
(2,190)
118,841
(3,547)
   Finance
482,642
(5,525)
874,370
(27,710)
1,357,012
(33,235)
   Industrial Other
14,092
(15)
11,214
(614)
25,306
(629)
   Technology
-
-
13,938
(852)
13,938
(852)
   Transportation
30,905
(207)
111,423
(5,251)
142,328
(5,458)
   Utilities
252,419
(3,303)
429,194
(14,422)
681,613
(17,725)
             
Total Corporate
1,456,405
(19,626)
2,474,956
(103,953)
3,931,361
(123,579)
             
Non-Corporate
           
   Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities
912,875
(5,565)
1,978,436
(53,415)
2,891,311
(58,980)
   Foreign Government & Agency Securities
-
-
13,865
(283)
13,865
(283)
   U.S. Treasury & Agency Securities
147,386
(2,026)
86,591
(2,001)
233,977
(4,027)
             
Total Non-Corporate
1,060,261
(7,591)
2,078,892
(55,699)
3,139,153
(63,290)
             
Grand Total
$2,516,666
$(27,217)
$ 4,553,848
$(159,652)
$7,070,514
$ (186,869)









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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

The following table provides the fair value and gross unrealized losses of the Company’s available-for-sale fixed maturities investments, which were deemed to be temporarily impaired, aggregated by investment category, industry sector and length of time that individual securities have been in an unrealized loss position, at December 31, 2005:

 
 
Less Than Twelve Months
 
Twelve Months Or More
 
Total
Corporate Securities
           
 
 
Fair
Value
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
 
Fair Value
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
 
Fair
Value
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
   Basic Industry
$ 62,351
$ (1,334)
$ 47,710
$ (2,050)
$ 110,061
$ (3,384)
   Capital Goods
37,622
(476)
172,069
(4,031)
209,691
(4,507)
   Communications
207,469
(12,291)
284,749
(12,185)
492,218
(24,476)
   Consumer Cyclical
475,628
(31,554)
352,308
(30,916)
827,936
(62,470)
   Consumer Noncyclical
82,655
(3,602)
116,271
(2,604)
198,926
(6,206)
   Energy
44,087
(739)
56,103
(1,486)
100,190
(2,225)
   Finance
754,646
(13,576)
685,785
(15,268)
1,440,431
(28,844)
   Industrial Other
12,450
(535)
17,657
(494)
30,107
(1,029)
   Technology
18,971
(829)
6,703
(298)
25,674
(1,127)
   Transportation
64,664
(2,987)
95,889
(4,752)
160,553
(7,739)
   Utilities
138,031
(3,438)
444,299
(10,106)
582,330
(13,544)
             
Total Corporate
1,898,574
(71,361)
2,279,543
(84,190)
4,178,117
(155,551)
             
Non-Corporate
           
   Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities
1,965,773
(43,011)
1,240,823
(31,113)
3,206,596
(74,124)
   Foreign Government & Agency Securities
1,002
(3)
19,118
(61)
20,120
(64)
   U.S. Treasury & Agency Securities
56,051
(633)
216,469
(3,653)
272,520
(4,286)
             
Total Non-Corporate
2,022,826
(43,647)
1,476,410
(34,827)
3,499,236
(78,474)
             
Grand Total
$ 3,921,400
$ (115,008)
$ 3,755,953
$ (119,017)
$ 7,677,353
$ (234,025)

The Company has a comprehensive process in place to identify potential problem securities that could have an impairment that is other-than-temporary. At the end of each quarter, all securities with an unrealized loss are reviewed. An analysis is undertaken to determine whether this decline in market value is other-than-temporary. The Company’s process focuses on issuer operating performance and overall industry and market conditions. Any deterioration in operating performance is assessed relative to the impact on financial ratios including leverage and coverage measures specific to an industry and relative to any investment covenants.














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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

The Company’s analysis also assesses each issuer's ability to service its debts in a timely fashion, the length of time the security has been in an unrealized loss position, rating agency actions, and any other key developments as well as the Company’s ability and intention, if any, to dispose of its position prior to the fair value increasing so as to allow recovery of the Company’s cost. The Company has a Credit Committee that includes members from its investment, finance and actuarial functions. The committee meets and reviews the results of the Company’s impairment analysis on a quarterly basis.

The following table provides the number of securities with gross unrealized losses, which were deemed to be temporarily impaired, at December 31, 2006 (not in thousands):

 

Number of
Securities Less
Than Twelve
Months

Number of
Securities Twelve
Months Or More



Total Number of
Securities
Corporate Securities
     
       
   Basic Industry
2
12
14
   Capital Goods
9
15
24
   Communications
22
64
86
   Consumer Cyclical
28
57
85
   Consumer Noncyclical
14
10
24
   Energy
13
15
28
   Finance
80
137
217
   Industrial Other
3
2
5
   Technology
-
3
3
   Transportation
8
47
55
   Utilities
39
55
94
       
Total Corporate
218
417
635
       
Non-Corporate
     
   Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities
368
741
1,109
   Foreign Government & Agency Securities
-
3
3
   U.S. Treasury & Agency Securities
10
25
35
       
Total Non-Corporate
378
769
1,147
       
Grand Total
596
1,186
1,782














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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

The following table provides the number of securities with gross unrealized losses, which were deemed to be temporarily impaired, at December 31, 2005 (not in thousands):

 

Number of
Securities Less
Than Twelve
Months

Number of
Securities Twelve
Months Or More



Total Number of
Securities
Corporate Securities
     
       
   Basic Industry
17
7
24
   Capital Goods
6
18
24
   Communications
46
44
90
   Consumer Cyclical
71
40
111
   Consumer Noncyclical
23
18
41
   Energy
9
14
23
   Finance
113
81
194
   Industrial Other
1
6
7
   Technology
2
1
3
   Transportation
17
43
60
   Utilities
32
42
74
       
Total Corporate
337
314
651
       
Non-Corporate
     
   Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities
696
353
1,049
   Foreign Government & Agency Securities
1
2
3
   U.S. Treasury & Agency Securities
16
32
48
       
Total Non-Corporate
713
387
1,100
       
Grand Total
1,050
701
1,751

The Company has made funding commitments of private placement bonds into the future. The outstanding funding commitments for these private placement bonds amounted to $4.1 million at December 31, 2006. There were no outstanding funding commitments for private placement bonds at December 31, 2005.

The Company had unfunded commitments with respect to funding of limited partnerships of approximately $53.3 million and $71.3 million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Mortgage Loans and Real Estate

The Company invests in commercial first mortgage loans and real estate throughout the United States. Investments are diversified by property type and geographic area. Mortgage loans are collateralized by the related properties and generally are no more than 75% of the property’s value at the time that the original loan is made.







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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

Mortgage Loans and Real Estate (continued)

The carrying value of mortgage loans and real estate investments, net of applicable reserves and accumulated depreciation, was as follows:

     
December 31,
     
2006
2005
       
Total mortgage loans
 
$ 2,273,176
$ 1,739,370
         
Real estate:
       
 
Held for production of income
186,891
170,510
Total real estate
 
$ 186,891
$ 170,510

Accumulated depreciation on real estate was $27.2 million and $23.0 million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

The Company monitors the condition of the mortgage loans in its portfolio. In those cases where mortgages have been restructured, values are impaired or values are impaired but mortgages are performing, appropriate allowances for losses have been made. The Company has impaired mortgage loans and impaired-but-performing mortgage loans totaling $3.9 million and $6.3 million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Activity for the investment valuation allowances was as follows:

 
Balance at
   
Balance at
 
January 1,
Additions
Subtractions
December 31,
2006
       
Mortgage loans
$ 6,272
$  400
$ ( 2,744)
$ 3,928 
         
2005
       
Mortgage loans
$ 7,646
$  800
$ (2,174)
$  6,272

Mortgage loans and real estate investments comprise the following property types and geographic regions at December 31:

 
2006
2005
Property Type:
   
Office building
$ 864,486
$ 703,927
Residential
115,822
87,874
Retail
998,291
751,041
Industrial/warehouse
310,346
264,567
Other
175,050
108,743
Valuation allowances
(3,928)
(6,272)
Total
$ 2,460,067
$ 1,909,880




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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4.  INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

 
2006
2005
Geographic region:
   
     
Alaska
$ 3,041
$ -
Alabama
7,824
8,070
Arizona
56,964
48,113
Arkansas
474
-
California
179,502
144,829
Colorado
32,294
33,238
Connecticut
15,016
30,026
Delaware
20,445
15,194
Florida
264,316
140,592
Georgia
86,510
80,802
Idaho
2,635
-
Illinois
47,777
23,118
Indiana
23,471
19,950
Iowa
364
-
Kansas
6,089
-
Kentucky
32,000
25,623
Louisiana
38,314
32,186
Maine
12,508
-
Maryland
58,318
64,724
Massachusetts
141,485
142,421
Michigan
15,522
6,799
Minnesota
40,259
53,157
Missouri
88,348
34,567
Mississippi
770
-
Montana
483
-
Nebraska
12,615
7,948
Nevada
7,304
7,509
New Hampshire
961
-
New Jersey
44,003
36,042
New Mexico
10,097
7,386
New York
313,204
240,390
North Carolina
44,866
43,111
North Dakota
2,150
-
Ohio
145,692
128,525
Oklahoma
4,900
-
Oregon
23,910
11,968
Pennsylvania
136,091
118,709
South Carolina
31,688
-
South Dakota
977
-
Tennessee
41,161
32,430
Texas
295,284
211,889
Utah
30,710
29,718
Virginia
16,825
17,386
Washington
77,525
73,326
West Virginia
4,874
-
Wisconsin
18,663
19,494
All other
25,766
26,912
Valuation allowances
(3,928)
(6,272)
Total
 
$ 2,460,067
$ 1,909,880




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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

At December 31, 2006, scheduled mortgage loan maturities were as follows:

   
2007
$ 31,619
2008
41,168
2009
42,433
2010
53,443
2011
150,548
Thereafter
1,953,965
Total
$ 2,273,176

Actual maturities could differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to prepay obligations with or without prepayment penalties and loans may be refinanced.

The Company has made funding commitments of mortgage loans on real estate and other loans into the future. The outstanding funding commitments for these mortgages amount to $99.0 million and $115.8 million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

During 2004, the Company sold commercial mortgage loans in securitization transactions. The mortgages were primarily sold to qualified special purpose entities that were established for the purpose of purchasing the assets and issuing trust certificates. In these transactions, the Company retained investment tranches, which are considered available-for-sale securities, in addition to servicing rights. The securitizations are structured so that investors have no recourse to the Company’s other assets for failure of debtors to pay when due. The value of the Company’s retained interests are subject to credit and interest rate risk on the transferred financial assets. The Company recognized pre-tax gains of $3.0 million for its 2004 securitization transaction. The Company did not sell any commercial mortgage loans in securitization transactions in 2005 or 2006.

The tranches retained through the 2004 securitization were considered interest only strips ("I/O"). Key economic assumptions used in measuring the retained interests at the date of securitization resulting from securitizations completed during the year ended December 31, 2004 were as follows:

 
Exeter I/O
Fairfield I/O
Prepayment speed
-
-
Weighted average life in years
5.72-5.92
2.89-8.74
Expected credit losses
-
-
Residual cash flows discount rate
4.80%-4.84%
4.43%-5.28%
Treasury rate interpolated for average life
3.35%-3.39%
3.18%-4.03%
Spread over treasuries
1.45%
1.25%
Duration in years
6.64-10.14
1.45-4.92












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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

Key economic assumptions and the sensitivity of the current fair value of cash flows in those assumptions at December 31, 2006 were as follows:

 
Exeter I/O
Fairfield I/O
Amortized cost of retained
   
    Interests
$ 646
$ 275
Fair value of retained interests
674
109
Weighted average life in years
4.06 - 7.56
0.93
     
Expected Credit Losses
   
Fair value of retained interest as a result of a
.20% of adverse change
 
674
 
109
Fair value of retained interest as a result of a
.30% of adverse change
 
674
 
109
     
Residual Cash flows Discount Rate
 
Fair value of retained interest as a result of a 10%
of adverse change
 
672
 
109
Fair value of retained interest as a result of a 20%
of adverse change
 
670
 
109

The outstanding principal amount of the securitized commercial mortgage loans was $849.6 million at December 31, 2006, none of which were 60 days or more past due. There were no net credit losses incurred relating to the securitized commercial mortgage loans at the dates of securitization through December 31, 2006.


























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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

Key economic assumptions and the sensitivity of the current fair value of cash flows in those assumptions at December 31, 2006 were as follows in regards to tranches retained for securitizations completed between the years 2000 and 2003:

 
Commercial Mortgages
Amortized cost of retained
 
    Interests
$ 23,063
Fair value of retained interests
23,819
Weighted average life in years
2.98 - 13.73
   
Expected Credit Losses
 
Fair value of retained interest as a result of a
.20% of adverse change
 
23,532
Fair value of retained interest as a result of a
.30% of adverse change
 
23,406
   
Residual Cash flows Discount Rate
Fair value of retained interest as a result of a 10%
of adverse change
 
23,074
Fair value of retained interest as a result of a 20%
of adverse change
 
22,362

The outstanding principal amount of the securitized commercial mortgage loans was $872.8 million at December 31, 2006, none of which were 60 days or more past due. There were no net credit losses incurred relating to the securitized commercial mortgage loans at the date of securitization through December 31, 2006.

Securities Lending

The Company is engaged in certain securities lending transactions, which require the borrower to provide collateral on a daily basis, in amounts in excess of 102% of the fair value of the applicable securities loaned. The Company maintains effective control over all loaned securities and, therefore, continues to report such loaned securities as fixed maturities in its consolidated balance sheet.

Cash collateral received on securities lending transactions is reflected in other invested assets with an offsetting liability recognized in other liabilities for the obligation to return the collateral. The fair value of collateral held and included in other invested assets was $895.3 million and $495.7 million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Fees earned on securities lending transactions were $2.3 million, $1.9 million and $1.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

Leveraged Leases

The Company is a lessor in a leveraged lease agreement entered into on October 21, 1994, under which equipment having an estimated economic life of 25-40 years was originally leased through a VIE for a term of 9.78 years. During 2001, the lease term was extended until 2010. The Company's equity investment in this VIE represented 8.33% of the partnership that provided 22.9% of the purchase price of the equipment. The balance of the purchase price was furnished by third-party long-term debt financing, collateralized by the equipment, and is non-recourse to the Company. At the end of the lease term, the master lessee may exercise a fixed price purchase option to purchase the equipment. The leveraged lease is included as a part of other invested assets.






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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

Leveraged Leases (continued)

The Company's net investment in the leveraged lease is composed of the following elements:

 
Year ended December 31,
 
2006
 
2005
Lease contract receivable
$ 18,631
 
$ 25,914
Less: non-recourse debt
-
 
(1,410)
Net Receivable
18,631
 
24,504
Estimated value of leased assets
20,795
 
21,420
Less: unearned and deferred income
(6,506)
 
(9,178)
Investment in leveraged leases
32,920
 
36,746
Less: fees
(113)
 
(138)
Net investment in leveraged leases
$ 32,807
 
$ 36,608

Derivatives

The Company uses derivative financial instruments for risk management purposes to hedge against specific interest rate risk, to alter investment rate exposures arising from mismatches between assets and liabilities, and to minimize the Company's exposure to fluctuations in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates and general market conditions. The Company does not hold or issue any derivative instruments for trading purposes.

As a component of its investment strategy and to reduce its exposure to interest rate risk, the Company utilizes interest rate swap agreements. Interest rate swap agreements are agreements to exchange with a counter-party interest rate payments of differing character (e.g., fixed-rate payments exchanged for variable-rate payments) based on an underlying principal balance (notional principal) as an economic hedge against interest rate changes. No cash is exchanged at the outset of the contract and no principal payments are made by either party. A single net payment is usually made by one counter-party at each interest payment date. The net payment is recorded as a component of derivative income (loss). Because the underlying principal is not exchanged, the Company's maximum exposure to counter-party credit risk is the difference in payments exchanged. The fair value of swap agreements is included with derivative instruments - receivable (positive position) or derivative instruments - payable (negative position) in the accompanying balance sheet.

The Company utilizes payer swaptions to hedge exposure to interest rate risk. Swaptions give the buyer the option to enter into an interest rate swap per the terms of the original swaption agreement. A premium is paid on settlement date and no further cash transactions occur until the positions expire. The swaptions have a physical settlement at expiration for which an interest rate swap becomes effective. Swaptions are carried at fair value which is included in derivative instruments - receivable (positive position) in the accompanying balance sheet and the change in value is offset to derivative income.

The Company utilizes over-the-counter ("OTC") put options and exchange traded futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Composite Stock Price Index ("S&P 500 Index") ("S&P", "S&P 500", and "Standard & Poor's" are trademarks of The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. and have been licensed for use by the Company) and other indexes to hedge against stock market exposure inherent in the GMDB and living benefit features of the Company's variable annuities. The Company also purchases OTC call options on the S&P 500 Index to economically hedge its obligation under certain fixed annuity contracts. Options are carried at fair value and are included with derivative instruments - receivable in the Company’s balance sheet.

Standard & Poor’s indexed futures contracts are entered into for purposes of hedging fixed index products. The interest credited on these 1, 5, 7 and 10 year term products is based on the changes in the S&P 500 Index. On trade date, an initial cash margin is exchanged. Daily cash is exchanged to settle the daily variation margin and the offset is recorded in derivative income.

The Company issues annuity contracts that contain a derivative instrument that is "embedded" in the contract. Upon issuing the contract, the embedded derivative is separated from the host contract (annuity contract) and is carried at fair value.

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

From 2000 through 2002, the Company marketed GICs to unrelated third parties. Each transaction is highly-individualized but typically involves the issuance of foreign currency denominated contracts backed by cross currency swaps or equity-linked cross currency swaps. The combination of the currency swaps with interest rate swaps allows the Company to lock in U.S. dollar fixed rate payments for the life of the contract.

Included in derivative gains (losses) are gains (losses) on the translation of foreign currency denominated GIC liabilities of $(90.2) million, $197.1 million and $(83.3) million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

Beginning in 2005, the Company marketed GICs to unrelated third parties and entered into funding agreements and interest rate swaps as part of this guaranteed investment program. The interest rate swaps allow the Company to lock in U.S. dollar fixed rate payments for the life of the contracts.

The Company does not employ hedge accounting. The Company believes that its derivatives provide economic hedges and the cost of formally documenting hedge effectiveness in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No.133, "Accounting for Derivative Instruments," is not justified. As a result, all changes in the fair value of derivatives are recorded in the current period operations as a component of derivative income.

Net derivative income (loss) for the years ended December 31 consisted of the following:

   
2006
   
2005
   
2004
Net expense on swap agreements
$
(7,749)
 
$
(64,915)
 
$
(62,514)
Change in fair value of swap agreements
(interest rate, currency, and equity)
 
 
8,392
   
 
101,320
   
 
(43,977)
Change in fair value of options, futures and
embedded derivatives
 
 
8,446
   
 
(19,931)
   
 
8,072
Net derivative income (losses)
$
9,089
 
$
16,474
 
$
(98,419)

The Company is required to pledge and receive collateral for open derivative contracts. The amount of collateral required is determined by agreed upon thresholds with the counter-parties. The Company currently pledges cash and U.S. Treasury bonds to satisfy this collateral requirement. At December 31, 2006 and 2005, $43.0 million and $35.6 million, respectively, of fixed maturities were pledged as collateral and are included with fixed maturities.

The Company’s underlying notional or principal amounts associated with open derivatives positions were as follows for the years ended December 31:

 
2006
 
Notional
Fair Value
 
Principal
Asset (Liability)
 
Amounts
 
         
Interest rate swaps
 
$10,759,984
 
$ (84,860)
Currency swaps
 
488,377
 
169,618
Equity swaps
 
172,329
 
52,664
Currency forwards
 
3,570
 
2,493
Futures
 
1,008,792
 
(2,313)
Swaptions
 
1,500,000
 
1,428
S&P 500 index call options
 
4,166,184
 
337,441
S&P 500 index put options
 
1,103,502
 
16,879
         
Total
 
$19,202,738
 
$ 493,350

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

4. INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED)

 
2005
 
Notional
Fair Value
 
Principal
Asset (Liability)
 
Amounts
 
         
Interest rate swaps
 
$ 6,764,984
 
$ (115,333)
Currency swaps
 
534,916
 
116,070
Equity swaps
 
181,334
 
29,463
Currency forwards
 
2,571
 
(2,079)
Credit Default Swaps
 
10,000
 
(3)
Futures
 
745,009
 
(1,724)
Swaptions
 
2,500,000
 
8,979
S&P 500 index call options
 
3,410,279
 
225,243
S&P 500 index put options
 
1,160,202
 
29,566
         
Total
 
$ 15,309,295
 
$ 290,182 

5. NET REALIZED INVESTMENT GAINS AND LOSSES

Net realized investment (losses) gains consisted of the following for the years ended December 31:

   
2006
2005
2004
         
Fixed maturities
 
$ (53,120)
$ 21,873
$ 108,603
Equity securities
519
(6)
3,375
Mortgage and other loans
1,543
614
 858
Real estate
 
-
318
-
Other invested assets
(19)
12,741
(1,601)
Other than temporary declines
(6,329)
(29,707)
(32,494)
Sales on previously impaired assets
12,895
11,092
17,333
       
 
Total
$ (44,511)
$ 16,925
$ 96,074
 
6. NET INVESTMENT INCOME

Net investment income consisted of the following for the years ended December 31:

   
2006
2005
2004
       
Fixed maturities
$ 991,738
$ 921,803
$ 1,030,973
Mortgage and other loans
135,515
103,253
83,986
Real estate
 
10,460
11,047
11,615
Policy loans
 
44,516
37,595
42,821
Other
38,858
55,245
(19,715)
 
Gross investment income
1,221,087
1,128,943
1,149,680
Less: Investment expenses
15,006
16,414
15,423
 
Net investment income
$ 1,206,081
$ 1,112,529
$ 1,134,257

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

7. FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

SFAS No. 107, "Disclosure about Fair Value of Financial Instruments," excludes certain insurance liabilities and other non-financial instruments from its disclosure requirements. The fair value amounts presented herein do not include the expected interest margin (interest earnings over interest credited) to be earned in the future on investment-type products or other intangible items. Accordingly, the aggregate fair value amounts presented herein do not necessarily represent the underlying value to the Company. Likewise, care should be exercised in deriving conclusions about the Company's business or financial condition based on the fair value information presented herein.

The following table presents the carrying amounts and estimated fair values of the Company's financial instruments at December 31:

     
2006
 
2005
     
Carrying
Estimated
 
Carrying
Estimated
     
Amount
Fair Value
 
Amount
Fair Value
Financial assets:
         
 
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 578,080
$ 578,080
 
$ 347,654
$ 347,654
 
Fixed maturities
18,094,026
18,124,777
 
18,261,996
18,307,751
 
Equity securities
15,895
15,895
 
15,427
15,427
 
Mortgages
2,273,176
2,267,327
 
1,739,370
1,790,629
 
Derivatives instruments -receivables
653,854
653,854
 
487,947
487,947
 
Policy loans
709,626
709,626
 
701,769
701,769
 
Separate accounts
21,060,255
21,060,255
 
19,095,391
19,095,391
             
Financial liabilities:
         
 
Contractholder deposit funds and
other policy liabilities
19,428,625
18,051,332
 
18,668,578
17,449,961
 
Derivative instruments - payables
160,504
160,504
 
197,765
197,765
 
Long-term debt to affiliates
1,325,000
1,370,223
 
1,125,000
1,178,918
 
Partnership capital securities
607,826
630,751
 
607,826
645,755
 
Separate accounts
21,060,255
21,060,255
 
19,095,391
19,095,391

The following methods and assumptions were used by the Company in determining the estimated fair value of its financial instruments:

Interest receivable on the above financial instruments is stated at carrying value which approximates fair value.

Cash and cash equivalents: The fair values of cash and cash equivalents are estimated to be cost plus accrued interest.

Fixed maturities, short term investments and equity securities: The fair values of short-term bonds are estimated to be amortized cost. The fair values of publicly-traded fixed maturities are based upon market prices or dealer quotes. For privately-placed fixed maturities, fair values are estimated by taking into account prices for publicly-traded securities of similar credit risk, maturity, repayment and liquidity characteristics. The fair value of equity securities are based on quoted market prices. Equity securities are included as a component of other invested assets.

Mortgage: The fair values of mortgage and other loans are estimated by discounting future cash flows using current rates at which similar loans would be made to borrowers with similar credit ratings and for the same remaining maturities.

Derivative instruments, receivables and payables: The fair values of swaps are based on current settlement values. The current settlement values are based on dealer quotes and market prices. Fair values for options and futures are based on dealer quotes and market prices.

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

7. FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (CONTINUED)

Policy loans: Policy loans are stated at unpaid principal balances, which approximate fair value.

Separate accounts, assets and liabilities: The estimated fair value of assets held in separate accounts is based on quoted market prices. The fair value of liabilities related to separate accounts is the amount payable on demand, which excludes surrender charges.

Contractholder deposit funds and other policy liabilities: The fair values of the Company's general account insurance reserves and contractholder deposits under investment-type contracts (insurance, annuity and pension contracts that do not involve mortality or morbidity risks) are estimated using discounted cash flow analyses or surrender values based on interest rates currently being offered for similar contracts with maturities consistent with those remaining for all contracts being valued. Those contracts that are deemed to have short-term guarantees have a carrying amount equal to the estimated market value. The fair values of other deposits with future maturity dates are estimated using discounted cash flows. The fair values of S&P 500 Index and other equity linked embedded derivatives are produced using standard derivative valuation techniques. GMABs or GMWBs are considered to be derivatives under SFAS No. 133, "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities," and are included in contractholder deposit funds. The fair value of the embedded derivatives is calculated stochastically using risk neutral scenarios over a fifty-year projection. Policyholder assumptions are based on experience studies and industry standards.

Long term debt: The fair value of notes payable and other borrowings are estimated using discounted cash flow analyses based upon the Company's current incremental borrowing rates for similar types of borrowings.

8. REINSURANCE

Reinsurance ceded contracts do not relieve the Company from its obligations to policyholders. The Company remains liable to its policyholders for the portion reinsured to the extent that any reinsurer does not meet the obligations assumed under the reinsurance agreement. To minimize its exposure to significant losses from reinsurer insolvencies, the Company regularly evaluates the financial condition of its reinsurers and monitors concentrations of credit risk. Management believes that any liability from this contingency is unlikely. A brief discussion of the Company’s reinsurance agreements by segment follows (see Note 15 for segmented information).

Wealth Management Segment

The Wealth Management Segment manages a closed block of SPWL insurance policies, a retirement-oriented tax-advantaged life insurance product. The Company discontinued sales of SPWL’s in response to certain tax law changes in the 1980s. The Company had SPWL policyholder balances of approximately $1.6 billion and $1.7 billion as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. On December 31, 2003, this entire block of business was reinsured on a funds withheld basis with SLOC, an affiliate.

By reinsuring the SPWL policies, the Company reduced net investment income by $97.0 million, $82.7 million and $91.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The reduction of net investment income resulting from interest paid on funds withheld includes the impact from net investment income, net derivative (loss) income and net realized investment gains. The Company also reduced interest credited by $76.0 million, $57.5 million and $79.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively. In addition, the Company also increased net investment income, relating to an experience rating refund under the reinsurance agreement with SLOC, by $13.0 million, $13.1 and $13.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The liability for the SPWL policies is included in contractholder deposit funds and other policy liabilities.

Individual Protection Segment

The Company has agreements with SLOC and several unrelated companies, which provide for reinsurance of portions of the net-amount-at-risk under certain individual variable universal life, individual private placement variable universal life, bank owned life insurance ("BOLI"), and corporate owned life insurance ("COLI") policies. These amounts are reinsured on either a monthly renewable or a yearly renewable term basis. Fee income was reduced by $37.8 million, $33.3 million and $28.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively, to account for these agreements.

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

8. REINSURANCE (CONTINUED)

Individual Protection Segment (continued)

Effective October 1, 2004, the Company no longer acts as the reinsurer of risk under the lapse protection benefit for certain universal life contracts issued by SLOC.

Group Protection Segment

The Company, through its affiliate SLNY, had an agreement with SLOC whereby SLOC reinsured the mortality risks of SLNY’s group life insurance contracts. Under this agreement, certain death benefits were reinsured on a yearly-renewable term basis. The agreement provided that SLOC would reinsure mortality risks in excess of $50,000 per claim for group life contracts ceded by SLNY. The treaty was commuted effective December 31, 2004.

The Company, through its affiliate SLNY, had an agreement with SLOC whereby SLOC reinsured morbidity risks of a block of SLNY’s group long-term disability contracts. The treaty was commuted effective December 31, 2004.

The Company, through its affiliate SLNY, has an agreement with an unrelated company whereby the unrelated company reinsures the mortality risks of the Company’s group life contracts. Under this agreement, certain group life mortality benefits are reinsured on a yearly-renewable term basis. The agreement provides that the unrelated company will reinsure amounts above $0.7 million per claim for group life contracts ceded by the Company.

The Company, through its affiliate SLNY, has an agreement with an unrelated company whereby the unrelated company reinsures the morbidity risks of SLNY’s group stop loss contracts. Under this agreement, certain stop loss benefits are reinsured on a yearly- renewable term basis. The agreement provides that the unrelated company will reinsure specific claims for amounts above $1.0 million per claim for stop loss contracts ceded by SLNY. The retention limit was raised to $1.5 million for policies sold or renewed on or after January 1, 2006.

The Company, through its affiliate SLNY, has an agreement with an unrelated company whereby the unrelated company reinsures the morbidity risks of SLNY’s group long-term disability contracts. Under this agreement, certain long-term disability benefits are reinsured on a yearly-renewable term basis. The agreement provides that the unrelated company will reinsure amounts in excess of $4,000 per claim per month for long-term disability contracts ceded by SLNY. The retention limit was raised to $9,000 per claim per month for claims incurred or after January 1, 2006.

The Company, through its affiliate SLNY, has an agreement with an unrelated company whereby the unrelated company reinsures 100% of the risks on a quota share basis for certain specific group life and disability policies.

The effects of reinsurance were as follows:

   
For the Years Ended December 31,
       
2006
2005
2004
Premiums and annuity considerations:
     
 
Direct
     
$ 61,713
$ 54,915
$ 62,939
 
Ceded
     
2,521
2,933
4,119
Net premiums and annuity considerations:
$ 59,192
$ 51,982
$ 58,820
               
Policyowner benefits:
     
 
Direct
     
$ 197,872
$ 225,936
$ 170,381
 
Ceded
     
40,902
38,923
29,004
Net policyowner benefits:
$ 156,970
$ 187,013
$ 141,377

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

9. RETIREMENT PLANS

The Company sponsors three non-contributory defined benefit pension plans for its employees and certain affiliated employees. These plans are the staff qualified pension plan ("retirement plan"), the agent qualified pension plan ("agent pension plan") and the staff nonqualified pension plan ("UBF plan"). Expenses are allocated to participating companies based in a manner consistent with the allocation of employee compensation expenses. The Company's funding policies for the two qualified pension plans are to contribute amounts which at least satisfy the minimum amount required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Most qualified pension plan assets consist of separate accounts of SLOC or other insurance company contracts.

Prior to 2006, the Company participated in the UBF plan which was sponsored by SLOC and expensed the portion of the plan cost that was allocated to the Company. Effective January 1, 2006, the plan was divided, with the Company taking over the pension benefit obligation ("PBO") and the associated unrecognized gain/loss and prior service cost/credit. The Company has included the allocated PBO in a separate line in the PBO reconciliation, and accounted for the plan as the Company’s own from that point forward.

The Company uses a measurement date of September 30 for its pension and other post retirement benefit plans.

The Company amended the retirement plan effective January 1, 2006, including the following relating to the retirement plan:

(a) To provide that no one shall become a participant in the plan after December 31, 2005;

(b) To freeze accruals under the plan as of December 31, 2005 for all participants except (i) those participants (x) who are at least age 50 and whose age plus service on January 1, 2006 equals or exceeds 60 and (y) who in 2005 choose to continue their participation in the plan, (ii) those participants who are receiving on December 31, 2005 severance or termination payments and (iii) those participants who are receiving on December 31, 2005 amounts paid under the Long Term Disability plan sponsored by the Company;.

Due to the retirement plan changes, a $1.9 million curtailment charge was recognized in 2005.

Other post retirement benefit plans have been amended effective January 1, 2006, as follows:

To provide retiree medical coverage where the retiree pays the entire cost of coverage equal to the cost paid by active employees unless the participant is a retiree as of December 31, 2005, a "grandfathered employee" or a "Rule 75 employee."

A grandfathered employee shall mean an active employee (i) who retires on or after January 1,2006 and (ii) who as of January 1, 2006 is at least age 55 with 15 or more years of service and whose age plus service is at least 75.

A Rule 75 employee shall mean an active employee (i) who is not a grandfathered employee, ii) who retires on or after January 1, 2006, and (iii) who when they retire are at least age 55 with 15 or more years of service and whose age plus service is at least 75.

For grandfathered employees and Rule 75 employees, retiree medical coverage is provided at reduced cost.

On September 29, 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 158, "Employers' Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans" ("SFAS No. 158"), which amends SFAS No. 87 and SFAS No. 106 to require recognition of the overfunded or underfunded status of pension and other postretirement benefit plans on the balance sheet. Under SFAS No. 158, gains and losses, prior service costs and credits, and any remaining transition amounts under SFAS No. 87 and SFAS No. 106 that have not yet been recognized through net periodic benefit cost will be recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax effects, until they are amortized as a component of net periodic cost. The measurement date -- the date at which the benefit obligation and plan assets are measured -- is required to be the Company's fiscal year end. SFAS No. 158 is effective for publicly-held companies for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2006, except for the measurement date provisions, which are effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2008. The Company has adopted the balance sheet recognition provisions of SFAS No. 158 at December 31, 2006 and will adopt the year end measurement date in 2008. The Company recognized a liability of $2.3 million as a result of adoption of SFAS No. 158. The statement does not affect the results of operations.

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

9. RETIREMENT PLANS (CONTINUED)

The following table sets forth the change in the retirement plan, agent pension plan and UBF plan projected benefit obligations and assets, as well as such plans’ funded status at December 31:

   
2006
2005
Change in projected benefit obligation:
   
Projected benefit obligation at beginning of year
$ 229,545
$ 215,439
Other (uninsured benefit plan split)
28,118
-
Service cost
6,024
10,948
Interest cost
15,064
13,839
Actuarial loss (gain)
(9,862)
17,780
Benefits paid
(7,509)
(6,105)
Plan amendments
-
2,344
Curtailment loss (gain)
-
(24,700)
Projected benefit obligation at end of year
$ 261,380
$ 229,545
     
Change in fair value of plan assets:
   
Fair value of plan assets at beginning of year
$ 252,096
$ 233,551
Contributions
(496)
(1,250)
Actual return on plan assets
25,621
25,900
Benefits paid
(7,509)
(6,105)
Fair value of plan assets at end of year
$ 269,712
$ 252,096
Information on the funded status of the plan:
   
Funded status
$ 8,332
$ 22,551
Unrecognized net actuarial loss
-
7,802
Unrecognized transition obligation
-
(10,392)
Unrecognized prior service cost
-
3,945
4th quarter contribution
(1,108)
(1,550)
Prepaid benefit cost
$ 7,224
$ 22,356

The accumulated benefit obligation for the retirement plan, agent pension plan and UBF plan at December 31, 2006 and 2005 was $249.4 million and $222.4 million, respectively.














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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

9. RETIREMENT PLANS (CONTINUED)

Amounts recognized in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets consist of the following as of December 31:

 
2006
2005
Other assets
$ 38,345
$ 26,600
Other liabilities
(31,121)
(4,245)
 
$ 7,224
$ 22,355

Amounts recognized in the Company’s Consolidated Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ("AOCI") consist of the following:

 
2006
   
Net actuarial gain
$ (1,923)
Prior service cost
3,564
Transition asset
(8,299)
 
$ (6,658)

Amounts included in the Company’s AOCI for the following periods:

 



December 31, 2005
December 31, 2006
(before the
adoption of
statement 158)



December 31, 2006
       
Additional Minimum Liability included in
AOCI

$ 2,834

$ -

$ -
Amount included in AOCI after the adoption
of SFAS No. 158

$ -

$ -

$ (6,658)

The retirement plan and agent pension plan were overfunded at December 31, 2006. The funded status of the UBF plan as of December 31, 2006 was as follows:

 
2006
   
Plan assets
$ -
Less: Projected benefit obligations
27,209
Funded status
$ (27,209)
   
Accumulated benefit obligation
$ 24,084











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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

9. RETIREMENT PLANS (CONTINUED)

The agent pension plan was overfunded at December 31, 2005. The funded status of the retirement plan as of December 31, 2005 was as follows:

 
2005
   
Plan assets
$ 211,612
Less: Projected benefit obligations
219,802
Funded status
$ ( 8,190)
   
Accumulated benefit obligation
$ 212,630

The following table sets forth the components of the net periodic benefit cost and the Company’s share of net periodic benefit costs for the retirement plan, agent pension plan and UBF plan for the years ended December 31:

   
2006
2005
2004
         
Components of net periodic benefit cost:
     
Service cost
$ 6,024
$ 10,948
$ 9,873
Interest cost
15,065
13,839
12,118
Expected return on plan assets
(21,672)
(20,092)
(17,704)
Amortization of transition obligation asset
(2,093)
(3,051)
(3,051)
Amortization of prior service cost
266
855
855
Curtailment loss
-
1,856
-
Recognized net actuarial loss
437
1,918
3,140
Net periodic benefit (benefit) cost
$ (1,973)
$ 6,273
$ 5,231
The Company’s share of net periodic benefit (benefit)
cost
$ (1,973)
$ 4,116
$ 4,272

Prior to becoming the plan sponsor of the UBF plan, the cost recognized for the Company’s participation in the UBF plan was $2.9 million and $1.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

The estimated amounts that will be amortized from AOCI into net periodic benefit costs in 2007 are as follows:

Actuarial gain
$ (70)
Prior service cost
266
Transition asset
(2,093)
Total
$ (1,897)

Assumptions

Weighted average assumptions used to determine benefit obligations were as follows:

 
Pension Benefits
 
2006
2005
2004
Discount rate
6.0%
5.8%
6.2%
Rate of compensation increase
4.0%
4.0%
4.0%

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

9. RETIREMENT PLANS (CONTINUED)

Weighted average assumptions used to determine net periodic benefit cost were as follows:

 
Pension Benefits
 
2006
2005
2004
       
Discount rate
5.8%
6.2%
6.1%
Expected long term return on plan assets
8.75%
8.75%
8.75%
Rate of compensation increase
4.0%
4.0%
4.0%


The Company relies on historical market returns from Ibbotson Associates (1926-2006) to determine its overall long term rate of return on asset assumption. Applying Ibbotson’s annualized market returns of 12.3% stock, 5.8% bonds and 3.8% cash to the Company’s target allocation results in an expected return consistent with the one used by the Company for purposes of determining the benefit obligation.

Plan Assets

The asset allocation for the Company’s retirement plan and agent pension plan assets for 2006 and 2005 measurement, and the target allocation for 2007, by asset category, are as follows:

 
Target Allocation
Percentage of Plan Assets
Asset Category
2007
2006
2005
       
Equity Securities
60%
63%
61%
Debt Securities
25%
27%
30%
Commercial Mortgages
15%
10%
9%
Other
-%
-%
-%
Total
100%
100%
100%

The target allocations were established to reflect the Company’s investment risk posture and to achieve the desired level of return commensurate with the needs of the fund. The target ranges are based upon a three to five year time horizon and may be changed as circumstances warrant.

The portfolio of investments should, over a period of time, earn a gross annualized rate of return that:
1)
exceeds the assumed actuarial rate;
2)
exceeds the return of customized index created by combining benchmark returns in appropriate weightings based on an average asset mix of funds; and
3)
generates a real rate of return of at least 3% after inflation, and sufficient income or liquidity to pay retirement benefits on a timely basis.

Cash Flow

Due to the over funded status of the retirement plan and the agent pension plan, the Company will not be making contributions to the plan in 2007. The Company will be making a contribution of $1.1 million to the UBF plan in 2007.





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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

9. RETIREMENT PLANS (CONTINUED)

The Company has estimated the following future benefit payments for the years 2007 through 2016:

 
Pension
Benefits
2007
7,852
2008
8,438
2009
8,936
2010
9,447
2011
10,035
2012 to 2016
69,668

Savings and Investment Plan

The Company sponsors and participates in a savings account that qualifies under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code (the "401(k) Plan") for which substantially all employees of at least age 21 are eligible to participate at date of hire. Under the 401(k) Plan, the Company matches, up to specified amounts, employee contributions to the plan.

On September 21, 2005, the Board of Directors of the Company approved amendments to the 401(k) Plan, including the following.


Effective January 1, 2006, the 401(k) Plan also includes a retirement investment account that qualifies under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (the "RIA"). The Company contributes a percentage of participant’s eligible compensation as determined per the following chart based on the sum of the participant’s age and service on January 1 of the applicable plan year-

Age Plus Service
Company Contribution
Less than 40
3%
At least 40 but less than 55
5%
At least 55
7%

For RIA participants who are at least age 40 on January 1, 2006 and whose age plus service on January 1, 2006 equals or exceeds 45, the Company also contributes to the RIA from January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2015, a percentage of the participant’s eligible compensation as determined per the following chart based on the participant’s age and service on January 1, 2006 -

 
Service
Age
Less than 5 years
5 or more years
At least 40 but less than 43
3.0%
5.0%
At least 43 but less than 45
3.5%
5.5%
At least 45
4.5%
6.5%

For RIA participants who did not become participants in the retirement plan before January 1, 2006, the Company made a one-time RIA contribution in January 2006 based on the applicable percentage from the first chart above as of January 1, 2006 and their eligible compensation paid during the period beginning on their hire date and ending on December 31, 2005.





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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

9. RETIREMENT PLANS (CONTINUED)

The amount of the 2006 employer contributions under the 401(k) Plan by the Company and its affiliates was $16.3 million. Amounts are allocated to affiliates based on their respective employees’ contributions. The Company’s portion of the expense was $10.8 million, $4.6 million and $2.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The Company’s 2005 contribution includes a $1.6 million accrued retroactive adjustment related to the board approved amendments to the 401(k) Plan. This retroactive adjustment was funded in 2006.


Other Post-Retirement Benefit Plans

The Company sponsors a post-retirement benefit pension plan for its employees and certain affiliates employees providing certain health, dental and life insurance benefits ("post-retirement benefits") for retired employees and dependents (the "Retirement Plan"). Expenses are allocated to participating companies based on the number of participants. Substantially all employees of the participating companies may become eligible for these benefits if they reach normal retirement age while working for the Company, or retire early upon satisfying an alternate age plus service condition. Life insurance benefits are generally set at a fixed amount.

The following table sets forth the change in the Retirement Plan’s obligations and assets, as well as the plan’s funded status at December 31:

Change in benefit obligation:
2006
2005
     
Benefit obligation at beginning of year
$ 51,300
$ 48,453
Service cost
1,311
1,333
Interest cost
2,967
2,994
Actuarial (gain) loss
(7,220)
4,596
Benefits paid
(2,756)
(2,884)
Federal Subsidy
250
-
Plan Amendments
-
(3,192)
Benefit obligation at end of year
$ 45,852
$ 51,300
     
Change in fair value of plan assets:
   
Fair value of plan assets at beginning of year
$ -
$ -
Employer contributions
2,756
2,884
Benefits paid
(2,756)
(2,884)
Fair value of plan assets at end of year
$ -
$ -
     
Information on the funded status of the plan:
   
Funded Status
$ (45,852)
$ (51,301)
Unrecognized net actuarial loss
-
22,741
4th quarter contribution
600
686
Unrecognized prior service cost
-
(5,609)
Accrued benefit cost
$ (45,252)
$ (33,483)




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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

9. RETIREMENT PLANS (CONTINUED)

Amounts recognized in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets Consist of the following:

 
2006
2005
     
Other liabilities
$ (45,252)
$ (33,483)


Amounts recognized in the Company’s AOCI consist of the following:

 
2006
   
Net actuarial loss
$ 14,070
Prior service credit
(5,080)
Transition liability
$ 8,990

Amounts included in the Company’s AOCI for the following periods:

 


December 31, 2005
December 31, 2006
(before the adoption
of statement 158)


December 31, 2006
       
Additional Minimum Liability included in
AOCI
 
$ -
 
$ -
 
$ -
Amount included in AOCI after the adoption
of SFAS No. 158
 
$ -
 
$ -
 
$ 8,990

The following table sets forth the components of the net periodic post-retirement benefit costs and the Company’s allocated share for the year ended December 31:

   
2006
2005
Components of net periodic benefit cost
   
Service cost
$ 1,311
$ 1,333
Interest cost
2,967
2,994
Amortization of prior service cost
(529)
(241)
Recognized net actuarial loss
1,450
1,273
Net periodic benefit cost
$ 5,199
$ 5,359
     
The Company’s share of net periodic benefit cost
$ 4,501
$ 4,947









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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

9. RETIREMENT PLANS (CONTINUED)

The estimated amounts that will be amortized from AOCI into net periodic benefit costs in 2007 are as follows:

Actuarial (gain)/loss
$ 912
Prior service (credit)/cost
(529)
   
Total
$ 383

Assumptions

Weighted average assumptions used to determine benefit obligations were as follows:

 
Other Benefits
 
2006
2005
2004
Discount Rate
6.0%
5.8%
6.2%
Rate of Compensation increase
4.0%
4.0%
4.0%

Weighted average assumptions used to determine net cost for the years ended December 31 were as follows:

 
Other Benefits
 
2006
2005
2004
Discount rate
5.8%
6.2%
6.1%
Rate of compensation increase
4.0%
4.0%
4.0%


























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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

9. RETIREMENT PLANS (CONTINUED)

In order to measure the post-retirement benefit obligation for 2006, the Company assumed a 10% annual rate of increase in the per capita cost of covered health care benefits. In addition, medical cost inflation is assumed to be 9% in 2007 and assumed to decrease gradually to 5.00% for 2011 and remain at that level thereafter. Assumed healthcare cost trend rates have a significant effect on the amounts reported for the health care plans. A one-percentage point change in assumed health care cost trend rates would have the following effect:

 
1- Percentage-Point
 
1- Percentage-Point
 
Increase
 
Decrease
Effect on Post retirement benefit obligation
$ 4,100
 
$ (3,674)
       
Effect on total of service and interest cost
$ 357
 
$ (335)

The Company has estimated the following future benefit payments for the years 2007 through 2016:

 
Other Benefits
Expected
Federal
Subsidy
2007
$ 3,074
$ 238
2008
3,186
247
2009
3,300
254
2010
3,386
256
2011
3,416
257
2012 to 2016
$ 17,914
$ 1,214


























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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

10. FEDERAL INCOME TAXES

In June 2006, the FASB issued FIN 48. FIN 48 establishes a comprehensive reporting model which addresses how a business entity should recognize, measure, present and disclose uncertain tax positions that the entity has taken or plans to take on a tax return. FIN 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. The Company is currently assessing the impact, if any, of FIN 48 on its consolidated financial statements.

The Company will file a consolidated return with SLC -U.S. Ops Holdings for the year ended December 31, 2006, as the Company did for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004. The Company’s subsidiary, SLNY, will file a stand-alone federal income tax return for the year ended December 31, 2006 as it did for the years 2005 and 2004. A summary of the components of federal income tax expense (benefit) in the Company’s consolidated statements of income for the years ended December 31 is as follows:

   
2006
 
2005
 
2004
Federal income tax (benefit) expense:
           
  Current
 
$ (5,897)
 
$ 11,239
 
$ (5,331)
  Deferred
 
4,180
 
28,852
 
76,683
             
Total federal income tax (benefit) expense
 
$ (1,717)
 
$ 40,091
 
$ 71,352

Federal income taxes attributable to the Company’s consolidated operations are different from the amounts determined by multiplying income before federal income taxes by the statutory federal income tax rate at 35%. The Company's effective rate differed from the statutory federal income tax rate as follows:

   
2006
 
2005
 
2004
             
Federal income tax expense at statutory rate
 
$ 26,838
 
$ 60,210
 
$ 107,446
Low income housing credit
 
(6,225)
 
(5,947)
 
(6,021)
Separate account dividend received deduction
 
(13,090)
 
(10,150)
 
(10,500)
Prior year items, including settlements
 
(8,396)
 
(2,802)
 
(17,351)
Other items
 
(844)
 
(1,220)
 
(2,222)
             
Federal income tax (benefit) expense
 
$ (1,717)
 
$ 40,091
 
$ 71,352

The deferred income tax asset (liability) represents the tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities used for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. The components of the Company's deferred tax assets and (liabilities) as of December 31 were as follows:

   
2006
 
2005
Deferred tax assets:
       
    Actuarial liabilities
 
$ 128,848
 
$ 250,818
    Net operating loss
 
7,954
 
-
    Investments, net
 
146,116
 
40,866
    Other
 
-
 
281
Total deferred tax assets
 
282,918
 
291,965
         
Deferred tax liabilities:
       
    Deferred policy acquisition costs
 
(250,469)
 
(287,605)
    Other
 
(28,852)
 
-
Total deferred tax liabilities
 
(279,321)
 
(287,605)
         
Net deferred tax asset
 
$ 3,597
 
$ 4,360



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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

10. FEDERAL INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED)

The Company makes payments under certain tax sharing agreements as if it were filing as a separate company. The Company made income tax payments of $22.7 million in 2006 and received income tax refunds of $32.0 million in 2005. The Company did not have any net income tax payments for 2004. At December 31, 2006, the Company has $8.0 million of tax benefit on operating loss carryforwards that begin to expire in 2017.

The Company’s federal income tax returns are routinely audited by the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"), and provisions are made in the consolidated financial statements in anticipation of the results of these audits. In August of 2006 the Company was issued a Revenue Agent’s Report for the tax years 2001 and 2002. The IRS is currently conducting a federal income tax audit of the Company for the tax years 2003 and 2004. In the Company’s opinion, adequate tax liabilities have been established for all years and any adjustments that might be required for the years under audit will not have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. However, the amounts of these tax liabilities are estimates and could be revised in the future.

11. LIABILITY FOR UNPAID CLAIMS AND CLAIMS ADJUSTMENT EXPENSES

Activity in the liability for unpaid claims and claims adjustment expenses, included within future contract and policy benefits, related to the Company’s group life, group disability insurance and stop loss products is summarized below:

 
 
2006
 
 
2005
       
Balance at January 1
$ 33,141
 
$ 32,571
Less reinsurance recoverable
(5,886)
 
(6,381)
Net balance at January 1
27,255
 
26,190
Incurred related to:
     
 
Current year
26,644
 
23,881
 
Prior years
(1,294)
 
(3,143)
Total incurred
25,350
 
20,738
Paid losses related to:
     
 
Current year
(14,881)
 
(13,860)
 
Prior years
(6,941)
 
(5,813)
Total paid
(21,822)
 
(19,673)
         
Balance at December 31
36,689
 
33,141
Less reinsurance recoverable
(5,906)
 
(5,886)
       
Net balance at December 31
$ 30,783
 
$ 27,255

The Company regularly updates its estimates of liabilities for unpaid claims and claims adjustment expenses as new information becomes available and events occur which may impact the resolution of unsettled claims. Changes in prior estimates are recorded in results of operations in the year such changes are made.

As a result of changes in estimates of insured events in prior years, the liability for unpaid claims and claims adjustment expense decreased by $1,294 and $3,143 in 2006 and 2005, respectively. The favorable development experienced in both years was driven mainly by better than expected loss experience in group life.



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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

12. LIABILITIES FOR CONTRACT GUARANTEES

On January 1, 2004, the Company adopted the AICPA’s SOP 03-1. The major provisions of SOP 03-1 that affect the Company require:

o
Establishment of reserves primarily related to death benefit and income benefit guarantees provided under variable annuity contracts;
o
Deferral of sales inducements that meet certain criteria, and amortization using the same method used for DAC; and
o
Reporting and measuring the Company’s interest in its separate accounts as investments.

The cumulative effect, reported after tax and net of related effects on DAC, upon adoption of SOP 03-1 at January 1, 2004, decreased net income and stockholder’s equity by $8.9 million and reduced accumulated other comprehensive income by $2.1 million. The decrease in net income was comprised of an increase in future contract and policy benefits (primarily for variable annuity contracts) of $46.7 million, pretax, an increase in DAC of $29.5 million, pretax, and the recognition of the unrealized gain on investments in separate accounts of $3.5 million, pretax.

The Company offers various guarantees to certain policyholders including a return of no less than (a) total deposits made on the contract adjusted for any customer withdrawals, (b) total deposits made on the contract adjusted for any customer withdrawals plus a minimum return, or (c) the highest contract value on a specified anniversary date minus any customer withdrawals following the contract anniversary. These guarantees include benefits that are payable in the event of death, upon annuitization, or at specified dates during the accumulation period of an annuity.

The table below represents information regarding the Company’s variable annuity contracts with guarantees at December 31, 2006:

 
Benefit Type
 
Account Balance
Net Amount
at Risk 1
Average
Attained Age
Minimum Death
$ 16,848,818
$ 1,612,783
66.4
Minimum Income
$ 387,699
$ 56,526
60.0
Minimum Accumulation or
Withdrawal
$ 3,068,060
$ 41
61.9

The table below represents information regarding the Company’s variable annuity contracts with guarantees at December 31, 2005:

 
Benefit Type
 
Account Balance
Net Amount
at Risk 1
Average
Attained Age
Minimum Death
$ 16,316,183
$ 2,126,214
66.1
Minimum Income
$ 385,378
$ 68,802
59.3
Minimum Accumulation or
Withdrawal

$ 1,669,284

$ 182

61.2


1 Net amount at risk represents the difference between guaranteed benefits and account balance.









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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

12. LIABILITIES FOR CONTRACT GUARANTEES (CONTINUED)

The following roll-forward summarizes the reserve for the GMDB’s and GMIB’s at December 31, 2006:

 
Guaranteed
Minimum
Death Benefit
 
Guaranteed
Minimum
Income Benefit
 


Total
Balance at January 1, 2006
$ 41,749
 
$ 3,000
 
$ 44,749
           
Benefit Ratio Change /
  Assumption Changes
(6,594)
 
(925)
 
(7,519)
Incurred guaranteed benefits
51,255
 
383
 
51,638
Paid guaranteed benefits
(49,242)
 
(1,153)
 
(50,395)
Interest
2,755
 
143
 
2,898
         
 
Balance at December 31, 2006
$ 39,923
 
$ 1,448
 
$ 41,371

The following roll-forward summarizes the reserve for the GMDB’s and GMIB’s at December 31, 2005:

 
Guaranteed
Minimum
Death Benefit
 
Guaranteed
Minimum
Income Benefit
 
 
 
Total
Balance at January 1, 2005
$ 28,313
 
$ 2,422
 
$ 30,735
           
Benefit Ratio Change /
  Assumption Changes

15,205
 

(172)
 

15,033
Incurred guaranteed benefits
35,559
 
560
 
36,119
Paid guaranteed benefits
(39,308)
 
-
 
(39,308)
Interest
1,980
 
190
 
2,170
           
Balance at December 31, 2005
$  41,749
 
$ 3,000
 
$ 44,749




















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

12. LIABILITIES FOR CONTRACT GUARANTEES (CONTINUED)

The liability for death and income benefit guarantees is established equal to a benefit ratio multiplied by the cumulative contract charges earned, plus accrued interest less contract benefit payments. The benefit ratio is calculated as the estimated present value of all expected contract benefits divided by the present value of all expected contract charges. The benefit ratio may be in excess of 100%. For guarantees in the event of death, benefits represent the current guaranteed minimum death payments in excess of the current account balance. For guarantees at annuitization, benefits represent the present value of the minimum guaranteed annuity benefits in excess of the current account balance.

Projected benefits and assessments used in determining the liability for guarantees are developed using models and stochastic scenarios that are also used in the development of estimated expected future gross profits. Underlying assumptions for the liability related to income benefits include assumed future annuitization elections based upon factors such as eligibility conditions and the annuitant’s attained age.

The liability for guarantees is re-evaluated regularly, and adjustments are made to the liability balance through a charge or credit to policyholder benefits.

GMAB’s or GMWB’s are considered to be derivatives under SFAS No. 133, "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities," and are recorded at fair value through earnings. The fair value of the embedded derivatives is calculated stochastically using risk neutral scenarios over a fifty-year projection. Policyholder assumptions are based on experience studies and industry standards. The GMAB’s or GMWB’s constituted an asset in the amount of $8.4 million and $0.2 million at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

Sales Inducements

The Company currently offers enhanced or bonus crediting rates to policyholders on certain of its annuity products. Effective January 1, 2004, upon adoption of SOP 03-1, the expenses associated with offering a bonus are deferred and amortized over the life of the related contract in a pattern consistent with the amortization of DAC. Previously some bonuses were deferred and amortized while others were expensed.























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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

13. DEFERRED POLICY ACQUISITION COSTS (DAC)

The changes in DAC for the years ended December 31 were as follows:

   
2006
 
2005
Balance at January 1
 
$ 1,341,377
 
$ 1,147,181
Acquisition costs deferred
 
264,648
 
261,058
Amortized to expense during the year
 
(391,585)
 
(226,355)
Adjustment for unrealized investment losses during the year
 
19,766
 
159,493
Balance at December 31
 
$ 1,234,206
 
$ 1,341,377

14. VALUE OF BUSINESS ACQUIRED (VOBA)

The changes in VOBA for the years ended December 31 were as follows:

   
2006
 
2005
Balance at January 1
 
$ 53,670
 
$ 24,130
Amortized to expense during the year
 
(7,597)
 
(17,467)
Adjustment for unrealized investment losses during the year
 
1,671
 
47,007
Balance at December 31
 
$ 47,744
 
$ 53,670
 
15. SEGMENT INFORMATION

As described below, the Company conducts business principally in three operating segments and maintains a Corporate Segment to provide for the capital needs of the three operating segments and to engage in other financing related activities. Each segment is defined consistently with the way results are evaluated by the chief operating decision-maker.

Net investment income is allocated based on segmented assets by line of business. Allocations of operating expenses among segments are made using both standard rates and actual expenses incurred. Management evaluates the results of the operating segments on an after-tax basis. The Company does not depend on one or a few customers, brokers or agents for a significant portion of its operations.

Effective January 1, 2006, the Company adopted a new capital allocation methodology for measurement of segment operating results to more closely align with rating agency standards. The changes impact the amount of capital and income on capital that is allocated to the Wealth Management, Individual Protection and Group Protection segments from the Corporate segment.

Wealth Management

The Wealth Management Segment markets, sells and administers individual and group variable annuity products, individual and group fixed annuity products and other retirement benefit products, and funding agreements. These contracts may contain any of a number of features including variable or fixed interest rates and equity index options and may be denominated in foreign currencies. The Company uses derivative instruments to manage the risks inherent in the contract options. Additionally, the Company consolidates the Trust as a component of the Wealth Management Segment.




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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

15. SEGMENT INFORMATION (CONTINUED)

Individual Protection

The Individual Protection Segment markets, sells and administers a variety of life insurance products sold to individuals and corporate owners of life insurance. The products include whole life, universal life and variable life products.

Group Protection

The Group Protection Segment markets, sells and administers group life, long-term disability, short-term disability and stop loss insurance to small and mid-size employers in the State of New York through the Company’s subsidiary, SLNY.

Corporate

The Corporate Segment includes the unallocated capital of the Company, its debt financing, certain consolidated investments in VIEs, and items not otherwise attributable to the other segments.


The following amounts pertain to the various business segments:

 
Year ended December 31, 2006
   
         
 
       
 
Wealth
 
Individual
 
Group
 
 
   
 
Management
 
Protection
 
Protection
 
Corporate
 
Totals
                   
Total revenues
$ 1,386,626
 
$ 101,447
 
$ 39,833
 
$ 100,567
 
$ 1,628,473
Total expenditures
1,354,554
 
95,815
 
35,356
 
66,068
 
1,551,793
Income before income tax
expense
 
32,072
 
 
5,632
 
 
4,477
 
 
34,499
 
 
76,680
                   
Net income
39,857
 
3,801
 
2,910
 
31,724
 
78,292
                   
Total assets
$ 41,485,295
 
$ 5,784,705
 
$ 78,838
 
$1,633,710
 
$ 48,982,548


















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

15. SEGMENT INFORMATION (CONTINUED)

The following amounts pertain to the various business segments:


 
Year ended December 31, 2005
   
                   
 
Wealth
 
Individual
 
Group
 
 
   
 
Management
 
Protection
 
Protection
 
Corporate
 
Totals
                   
Total revenues
$ 1,342,509
 
$ 74,535
 
$ 32,604
 
$ 110,537
 
$ 1,560,185
Total expenditures
1,220,198
 
70,991
 
32,333
 
64,636
 
1,388,158
Income before income tax
expense and minority
interest


122,311
 


3,544
 


271
 


45,901
 


172,027
                   
Net income
93,570
 
2,443
 
176
 
36,963
 
133,152
                   
Total assets
$ 38,631,963
 
$ 6,005,424
 
$ 55,319
 
$1,314,140
 
$ 46,006,846
                   
       
 
Year ended December 31, 2004
   
                   
 
Wealth
 
Individual
 
Group
 
 
   
 
Management
 
Protection
 
Protection
 
Corporate
 
Totals
                   
Total revenues
$ 1,284,873
 
$ 65,366
 
$ 34,908
 
$ 162,596
 
$ 1,547,743
Total expenditures
1,054,852
 
60,785
 
31,605
 
93,470
 
1,240,712
Income before income tax
expense, minority interest
and cumulative effect of
change in accounting
principle




230,021
 




4,581
 




3,303
 




69,126
 




307,031
                   
Net income
166,309
 
3,118
 
2,147
 
49,702
 
221,276
                   
Total assets
$ 40,961,145
 
$ 4,111,638
 
$ 53,131
 
$1,561,629
 
$ 46,687,543














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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

15. SEGMENT INFORMATION (CONTINUED

As described earlier, effective January 1, 2006, the Company adopted a new capital allocation methodology for measurement of segment operating results to be more closely aligned with rating agency standards. The following provides a summary of the amounts allocated from the Corporate segment to the other segments related to the allocation of income on capital for the years presented:

Year ended December 31, 2006
 
 
Wealth
 
Individual
 
Group
       
 
Management
 
Protection
 
Protection
 
Corporate
 
Totals
Income (loss)
before income
tax expense and
minority interest



$



38,474
 



$



5,397
 



$



775
 



$



(44,646)
 



$



-
                             
Year ended December 31, 2005
                             
 
Wealth
 
Individual
 
Group
       
 
Management
 
Protection
 
Protection
 
Corporate
 
Totals
Income (loss)
before income
tax expense and
minority interest



$



37,108
 



$



1,429
 



$



62
 



$



(38,899)
 



$



-
 
Year ended December 31, 2004
                             
 
Wealth
 
Individual
 
Group
       
 
Management
 
Protection
 
Protection
 
Corporate
 
Totals
Income (loss)
before income
tax expense and
minority interest



$



31,482
 



$



1,015
 



$



277
 



$


(32,774)
 



$



-

16. REGULATORY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

The Company and its insurance subsidiaries are required to file annual statements with state regulatory authorities prepared on a statutory accounting basis prescribed or permitted by such authorities. Statutory surplus differs from stockholder's equity reported in accordance with GAAP primarily because policy acquisition costs are expensed when incurred, policy liabilities are based on different assumptions, investments are valued differently, post-retirement benefit costs are based on different assumptions, and deferred income taxes are calculated differently. The Company’s statutory financials are not prepared on a consolidated basis.

At December 31, the Company and its insurance subsidiaries’ combined statutory capital and surplus, and net income were as follows:

 
 
 
Unaudited for the Years ended December 31,
 
 
2006
 
2005
 
2004
       
Statutory capital and surplus
$ 1,610,425
$ 1,778,241
$ 1,822,812
Statutory net income
123,305
140,827
249,010


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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

17. DIVIDEND RESTRICTIONS

The Company’s and its insurance company subsidiaries’ ability to pay dividends is subject to certain statutory restrictions. Delaware, New York, and Rhode Island have enacted laws governing the payment of dividends to stockholders by domestic insurers.

Pursuant to Delaware's statute, the maximum amount of dividends and other distributions that a domestic insurer may pay in any twelve-month period without prior approval of the Delaware Commissioner of Insurance is limited to the greater of (i) ten percent of its statutory surplus as of the preceding December 31, or (ii) the individual company's statutory net gain from operations for the preceding calendar year. Any dividends to be paid by an insurer from a source other than statutory surplus, whether or not in excess of the aforementioned threshold, would also require the prior approval of the Delaware Commissioner of Insurance. The Company is permitted to pay dividends up to a maximum of $171.2 million in 2007 without prior approval from the Delaware Commissioner of Insurance.

In 2006, the Company’s board of directors approved and the Company paid $300.0 million in dividends to the Parent with the prior approval of the Delaware Commissioner of Insurance. In 2005, the Company’s board of directors approved and the Company paid $200.0 million in dividends to the Parent, consisting of $150.6 million in cash and $49.4 million in notes. In 2004, the Company’s board of Directors approved and the Company paid $150.0 million of cash dividends to the Parent. On December 31, 2004, SCA was distributed in the form of a dividend of $6.6 million to the Parent and became a consolidated subsidiary of SLC - U.S. Ops Holdings.

New York law permits a domestic stock life insurance company to distribute a dividend to its shareholders without prior notice to the New York Superintendent of Insurance, where the aggregate amount of such dividends in any calendar year does not exceed the lesser of: (i) ten percent of its surplus to policyholders as of the immediately preceding calendar year; or (ii) its net gain from operations for the immediately preceding calendar year, not including realized capital gains. No dividends were paid by SLNY during 2006, 2005 or 2004.

Rhode Island law requires prior regulatory approval for any dividend where the amount of such dividend paid during the preceding twelve-month period would exceed the lesser of (i) ten percent of the insurance company’s surplus as of the December 31 next preceding, or (ii) its net gain from operations, not including realized capital gains, for the immediately preceding calendar year, excluding pro rata distributions of any class of the insurance company’s own securities. No dividends were paid by Independence Life during 2006, 2005 or 2004.




















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

18. COMPONENTS OF ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

The components of accumulated other comprehensive income as of December 31 were as follows:

 
2006
 
2005
 
2004
Unrealized gains on available-for-sale
securities
 
$ 38,400
 
 
$ 56,493
 
 
$ 485,553
Reserve allocation
(9,346)
 
(22,039)
 
-
Minimum pension liability adjustment
(1,516)
 
(2,834)
 
-
DAC allocation
(2,719)
 
(12,842)
 
(172,945)
VOBA allocation
470
 
(1,201)
 
(48,208)
Tax effect and other
(11,259)
 
1,683
 
(83,762)
           
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
$ 14,030
 
$ 19,260
 
$ 180,638

19. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Regulatory and Industry Developments

Unfavorable economic conditions may contribute to an increase in the number of insurance companies that are under regulatory supervision. This may result in an increase in mandatory assessments by state guaranty funds or voluntary payments by solvent insurance companies to cover losses to policyholders of insolvent or rehabilitated companies. Under insurance guaranty fund laws in each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, insurers licensed to do business can be assessed by state insurance guaranty associations for certain obligations of insolvent insurance companies to policyholders and claimants. Most of these laws do provide, however, that an assessment may be excused or deferred if it would threaten an insurer's solvency and further provide annual limits on such assessments. Part of the assessments paid by the Company pursuant to these laws may be used as credits for a portion of the associated premium taxes.

Litigation

The Company is not aware of any contingent liabilities arising from litigation, income taxes and other matters that could have a material effect upon the financial condition, results of operations or cash flows of the Company.



















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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands)
For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004

19. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (CONTINUED)

Indemnities

In the normal course of its business, the Company has entered into agreements that include indemnities in favor of third parties, such as contracts with advisors and consultants, outsourcing agreements, underwriting and agency agreements, information technology agreements, distribution agreements and service agreements. The Company has also agreed to indemnify its directors and certain of its officers and employees in accordance with the Company’s by-laws. The Company believes any potential liability under these agreements is neither probable nor estimatable. Therefore, the Company has not recorded any associated liability.

Lease Commitments

The Company leases various facilities and equipment under operating leases with terms of up to six years. As of December 31, 2006, minimum future lease payments under such leases were as follows:

2007
$ 5,421
2008
2,554
2009
1,472
2010
1,072
2011
1,031
      Total
$ 11,550

Total rental expense for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004 was $7.6 million, $8.5 million and $16.3 million, respectively.

The Company has four noncancelable sublease agreements that expire on March 31, 2008. As of December 31, 2006, the minimum future lease payments under the sublease agreements were as follows:

2007
$ 1,887
2008
293
      Total
$ 2,180

20. SUBSEQUENT EVENT

On March 21, 2007, the Parent notified the Partnership that it would redeem the $600 million of 8.526% subordinated debentures and the Partnership notified the Capital Trust, the holders of the $600 million of 8.526% partnership capital securities, that it will use the proceeds from the redemption of the subordinated debentures to redeem the partnership capital securities.













84




REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholder of
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.)
Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.) and subsidiaries (the "Company") as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, stockholder’s equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2006.  Our audits also included the financial statement schedules listed in the Index at Item 15. These financial statements and financial statement schedules are the responsibility of the Company's management.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements and financial statement schedules based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.  The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.  Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting.  Accordingly, we express no such opinion.  An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.) and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2006, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also, in our opinion, such financial statement schedules, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, present fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.

As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, effective January 1, 2004, the Company adopted the provisions of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Statement of Position 03-1, "Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises for Certain Nontraditional Long-Duration Contracts and for Separate Accounts."

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Boston, Massachusetts
March 27, 2007




















85



SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data (Continued).

Supplementary financial information as required by Item 302(a) of Regulation S-K is provided below.

Quarterly Financial Data (Unaudited)

The following is a tabulation of the unaudited quarterly results of operations (in 000’s):

     
2006
   
 
March 31
 
June 30
 
September 30
 
December 31
               
Premiums and other revenue
$ 106,585
 
$ 114,599
 
$ 119,807
 
$ 116,823
Net investment income and net realized gains
368,031
 
349,513
 
152,142
 
300,973
Total revenues
474,616
 
464,112
 
271,949
 
417,796
               
Policyholder and other expenses
382,629
 
358,071
 
362,691
 
448,402
Income (loss) before taxes
91,987
 
106,041
 
(90,742)
 
(30,606)
Net income (loss)
$ 63,661
 
$ 72,968
 
$ (47,961)
 
$ (10,376)
               
     
2005
   
 
March 31
 
June 30
 
September 30
 
December 31
               
Premiums and other revenue
$ 101,962
 
$ 102,715
 
$ 105,248
 
$ 104,332
Net investment income and net realized
             
Net investment income and net realized gains
301,503
 
181,720
 
387,965
 
274,740
Total revenues
403,465
 
284,435
 
493,213
 
379,072
               
Policyholder and other expenses
348,571
 
294,456
 
341,563
 
403,568
Income (loss) before taxes
54,894
 
(10,021)
 
151,650
 
(24,496)
Net income (loss)
$ 35,050
 
$ 3,800
 
$ 103,274
 
$ (8,972)

Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

None.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.

The Company's management, including the Company's principal executive officer and principal financial officer, have evaluated the Company's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and concluded that they were effective as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation. There has been no change in the Company's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) that occurred during the quarter ended December 31, 2006 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting. 

Item 9B. Other Information.

None.






86



SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

PART III

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.

Omitted pursuant to Instruction I(2)(c) to Form 10-K.

Item 11. Executive Compensation.

Omitted pursuant to Instruction I(2)(c) to Form 10-K.

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.

Omitted pursuant to Instruction I(2)(c) to Form 10-K.

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.

Omitted pursuant to Instruction I(2)(c) to Form 10-K.

Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services.

For the fiscal years ended December 31, the fees billed to the Company by its external auditors, Deloitte & Touche LLP, for professional services were as follows (in 000’s):

Nature of Services
2006
 
2005
Audit Fees
$ 6,203
 
$ 3,827
Audit-Related Fees
966
 
137
Tax Fees
-
 
-
All Other Fees
39
 
-
       
Total
$ 7,208
 
$ 3,964

Audit Fees

Audit Fees are for professional services rendered by the external auditors for the audit of the Company’s annual consolidated financial statements and review of consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Form 10-Q’s, as well as for services normally provided in connection with statutory and regulatory filings for the last two fiscal years.

Audit-Related Fees

Audit-Related Fees are for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of the Company’s annual consolidated financial statements and are not reported under the Audit Fees category above. These services consisted of employee benefit plan audits, internal control reviews and agreed-upon procedures engagements.

Tax Fees

Tax Fees are for tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning. These services consist of tax compliance, including the review of original and amended tax returns, assistance with questions regarding tax audits and refund claims, tax advice in connection with acquisitions and tax planning and advisory services relating to domestic and international taxation. There were no Tax Fees billed in each of the last two fiscal years by the Company’s external auditors.

All Other Fees

In 2006, the Company paid $39,000 for benchmarking services. Other than such fees, there were no other fees billed in each of the last two fiscal years for products and services provided by the Company’s external auditors other than the Audit Fees and Audit-Related Fees described above.

87



SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Audit Committee Approval

The Company adopted SLF’s "Policy restricting the use of external auditors" (the "Policy") requiring audit committee pre-approval of services provided by the Company’s external auditors, a copy of which is set out below. All professional services rendered by the external auditors to the Company have been approved by the Company’s Audit Committee in accordance with the Policy in affect at the relevant time. None of the services described in the table above were approved by the Audit Committee pursuant to paragraph (c)(7)(i)(C) of SEC Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X.

Policy restricting the use of  external auditors*

Introduction and purpose
This policy governs all proposals by the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries to engage, as a service provider, the Corporation’s external auditor or any of its affiliates, related businesses or associated persons as defined in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (S-O Act) (collectively referred to as the External Auditor).

Scope and application
This Policy applies to SLF Canada, SLF U.S., SLF Asia, M.F.S., SLF U.K, Enterprise Services and the Corporate Office, including each of the operating subsidiaries, Business Units or other divisions within those Business Groups or Units. This Policy does not currently apply to the Corporation’s joint ventures.

Policy
The External Auditor will normally be engaged to provide audit and audit-related services, including advisory services related to the External Auditor’s audit and audit-related work such as advice pertaining to internal audit, tax, actuarial valuation, risk management, and regulatory and compliance matters, subject to the prohibitions contained in the S-O Act and in any other applicable laws, regulations or rules. Prohibitions are set out in Appendix A.

Each engagement of the External Auditor to provide services will require the approval in advance of the Audit and Conduct Review Committees of Sun Life Financial Inc. and/or Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, as applicable, and the audit committee of any affected subsidiary that is itself directly subject to the S-O Act. The Audit and Conduct Review Committee may establish procedures regarding the approval process, which will be co-ordinated by the Corporation’s Senior Vice-President, Finance.

The Corporation and its subsidiaries will not employ or appoint as chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, chief operating officer, general counsel, chief accounting officer, controller, director of internal audit, director of financial reporting, treasurer, appointed actuary or any equivalent position within the Corporation or subsidiary, any person who was, at any time during the previous two years, employed by the External Auditor and who provided any services to the Corporation or any subsidiary.

Personnel of the Corporation and its subsidiaries employed in the key financial reporting oversight roles described in Appendix B shall not use the External Auditor to prepare either their personal tax returns or those of their dependents.

The Corporation’s Senior Vice-President, Finance is responsible for the application and interpretation of this policy, and should be consulted in any case where there is uncertainty regarding whether a proposed service is, or is not, an audit or audit-related service. He/she will revise the Appendices as required, from time to time, to reflect changes in applicable laws, regulations, rules or management roles.

Appendix A - Prohibition on Services
The External Auditor is prohibited from providing the following services:

a)
bookkeeping or other services related to the accounting records or financial statements;
b)
financial information systems design and implementation;
c)
appraisal or valuation services, fairness opinions, or contribution in-kind reports;
d)
actuarial services;
e)
internal audit outsourcing services;
f)
management functions or human resources;
g)
broker or dealer, investment adviser, or investment banking services;
h)
legal services and expert services unrelated to the audit;
i)
any service for which no fee is payable unless a specific result is obtained (contingent fees or commissions);
j)
any non-audit tax services that recommend the Corporation engage in confidential transactions or aggressive tax position transactions, as defined by the U.S. Public Company Accountability Oversight Board; and
k)
any other service that governing regulators or professional bodies determine to be impermissible.

88



SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)

Appendix B - Key Financial Reporting Oversight Roles
The incumbents in the following financial reporting oversight roles are not permitted to use the Corporation’s external auditors to prepare either their personal tax returns or those of their dependents:

§  
Chief Executive Officer
§  
Chief Operating Officer
§  
President
§  
Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer
§  
Executive Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer
§  
Senior Vice-President, Finance
§  
Senior Vice-President and Chief Actuary
§  
Vice-President and Chief Accountant
§  
Vice-President and Chief Auditor
§  
Vice-President, Corporate Capital
§  
Vice-President, Tax
§  
Assistant Vice-President, Financial Reporting Standards

The comparable positions in subsidiaries are similarly prohibited from using the Corporation’s external auditors for either their own or their dependents’ personal tax returns.

* In this policy, the term "Corporation" refers to Sun Life Financial Inc.

PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.

(a)(1) Financial statements (set forth in Item 8):

- Consolidated Statements of Income for each of the three years ended December 31, 2006, December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2004.
 
- Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2006 and December 31, 2005.
 
- Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for each of the three years ended December 31, 2006, December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2004.
 
- Consolidated Statements of Stockholder’s Equity for each of the three years ended December 31, 2006, December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2004.
 
- Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for each of the three years ended December 31, 2006, December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2004.
 
- Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
- Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
 
- Supplementary financial information.

(a)(2) Financial statement schedules (set forth below):

- Schedule I - Summary of Investments, Other than Investments in Related Parties.
 
- Schedule III - Supplementary Insurance Information.
 
- Schedule IV - Reinsurance.

Financial statement schedules not included in this Form 10-K have been omitted because the required information either is not applicable or is presented in the consolidated financial statements or notes thereto.

89



SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
SCHEDULE I
SUMMARY OF INVESTMENTS, OTHER THAN INVESTMENTS IN RELATED PARTIES
DECEMBER 31, 2006
(in 000’s)

           
Balance sheet
   
Cost
 
Value
 
Amount
Available-for-sale fixed maturities:
           
Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities
 
$ 4,415,712
 
$ 4,395,122
 
$ 4,395,122
Foreign Government & Agency Securities
 
79,319
 
82,548
 
82,548
States & Political Subdivisions
 
495
 
527
 
527
U.S. Treasury & Agency Securities
 
307,580
 
306,190
 
306,190
Total Non-Corporate
 
4,803,106
 
4,784,387
 
4,784,387
             
Corporate securities:
           
Basic Industry
 
204,355
 
205,390
 
205,390
Capital Goods
 
520,338
 
527,872
 
527,872
Communications
 
1,163,026
 
1,159,098
 
1,159,098
Consumer Cyclical
 
1,051,633
 
1,033,161
 
1,033,161
Consumer Noncyclical
 
364,459
 
370,004
 
370,004
Energy
 
350,930
 
353,609
 
353,609
Finance
 
3,201,774
 
3,211,756
 
3,211,756
Industrial Other
 
228,442
 
235,259
 
235,259
Technology
 
22,779
 
22,284
 
22,284
Transportation
 
307,542
 
312,502
 
312,502
Utilities
 
1,405,066
 
1,422,651
 
1,422,651
Total Corporate
 
8,820,344
 
8,853,586
 
8,853,586
Total available-for-sale fixed maturities
 
$ 13,623,450
 
$ 13,637,973
 
$ 13,637,973
             
Trading fixed maturities:
           
Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities
 
$ 353,571
 
$ 353,943
 
$ 353,943
Foreign Government & Agency Securities
 
40,274
 
40,832
 
40,832
U.S. Treasury & Agency Securities
 
796
 
806
 
806
Total Non-Corporate
 
394,641
 
395,581
 
395,581
             
Corporate securities:
           
Basic Industry
 
8,237
 
8,833
 
8,833
Capital Goods
 
71,060
 
71,600
 
71,600
Communications
 
735,753
 
736,054
 
736,054
Consumer Cyclical
 
279,856
 
278,934
 
278,934
Consumer Noncyclical
 
159,221
 
158,953
 
158,953
Energy
 
20,620
 
23,008
 
23,008
Finance
 
1,742,731
 
1,749,971
 
1,749,971
Industrial Other
 
55,950
 
55,516
 
55,516
Transportation
 
48,887
 
50,088
 
50,088
Utilities
 
321,776
 
327,515
 
327,515
Total Corporate
 
3,444,091
 
3,460,472
 
3,460,472
Total trading fixed maturities
 
$ 3,838,732
 
$ 3,856,053
 
$ 3,856,053
             
Mortgage loans on real estate
 
$ 2,273,176
 
$ 2,267,327
 
$ 2,273,176
Real estate
 
186,891
 
186,891
 
186,891
Derivative instruments
 
653,854
 
653,854
 
653,854
Limited partnerships
 
193,728
 
193,728
 
193,728
Other invested assets
 
950,226
 
950,226
 
950,226
Policy loans
 
709,626
 
709,626
 
709,626
      Total investments
 
$ 22,429,683
 
$ 22,455,678
 
$ 22,461,527

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
SCHEDULE III
SUPPLEMENTARY INSURANCE INFORMATION
(in 000’s)

 
 
 
Segment
 
 
Deferred
Acquisition Costs
Future Policy
Benefits, Losses,
Claims and Loss
Expenses
 
Other Policy
Claims and
Benefits Payable(1)
       
Wealth Management
     
2006
$ 1,126,222
$ 19,508,867
$ 17,572
2005
1,264,276
18,864,933
19,027
       
Group Protection
     
2006
$ -
$ 41,184
$ 4,141
2005
-
36,552
3,434
       
Individual Protection
     
2006
$ 107,984
$ 628,684
$ 10,827
2005
77,101
535,390
3,385
       
Corporate
     
2006
$ -
$ -
$ -
2005
-
-
-






Segment



Net Investment
Income (Loss)
(2)


Benefits,
Claims, Losses
and Settlement
Expenses
Amortization of
Deferred
Acquisition Costs
And Value of
Business
Acquired



Interest and
Other Operating
Expenses
         
Wealth Management
       
2006
$ 1,069,209
$ 738,096
$ 394,060
$ 222,398
2005
981,092
780,718
232,540
206,940
2004
1,010,069
774,653
78,696
201,503
         
Group Protection
       
2006
$ 3,139
$ 25,482
$ -
$ 9,874
2005
2,253
20,690
-
11,643
2004
1.794
21,955
-
9,650
         
Individual Protection
       
2006
$ 33,721
$ 26,798
$ 5,122
$ 63,896
2005
20,862
23,107
11,281
36,603
2004
15,659
18,211
4,180
38,394
         
Corporate
       
2006
$ 100,012
$ -
$ -
$ 66 068
2005
108,322
-
-
64,636
2004
106,735
-
-
93,470

(1) Other claims and benefits are included in Future Policy Benefits, Losses, Claims and Loss Expenses.

(2) Net investment income is allocated based on segmented assets by line of business.

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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.)
SCHEDULE IV
REINSURANCE
(in 000’s)

     
Ceded to
   
 
Gross
 
Other
 
Net
 
Amount
 
Companies
 
Amount
           
2006
         
Life Insurance in Force
$ 43,852,486
 
$ 26,730,547
 
$ 17,121,939
 
         
Premiums
         
   Life Insurance
$ 45,771
 
$ 2,049
 
$ 43,722
   Accident and Health
15,942
 
472
 
15,470
Total Premiums
$ 61,713
 
$ 2,521
 
$ 59,192
           
2005
         
Life Insurance in Force
$ 39,084,669
 
$ 24,151,998
 
$ 14,932,671
 
         
Premiums
         
   Life Insurance
$ 42,119
 
$ 906
 
$ 41,213
   Accident and Health
12,796
 
2,027
 
10,769
Total Premiums
$ 54,915
 
$ 2,933
 
$ 51,982
           
2004
         
Life Insurance in Force
$ 35,423,849
 
$ 22,577,926
 
$ 12,845,923
 
         
Premiums
         
   Life Insurance
$ 47,015
 
$ 1,921
 
$ 45,094
   Accident and Health
15,924
 
2,198
 
13,726
Total Premiums
$ 62,939
 
$ 4,119
 
$ 58,820

























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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules (continued).

(a)(3) Exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K:

Exhibit No.

3.1
Certificate of Incorporation, as amended through March 24, 2004, (Incorporated by reference to Registrant's Form 10-K, File No. 333-82824, filed on March 29, 2004);
   
3.2
By-laws, as amended March 19, 2004 (Incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 10-K, File No. 33-82824, filed on March 29, 2004)
   
4.1
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 333-83256, filed on February 22, 2002)
   
4.2
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 333-83364, filed on February 25, 2002)
   
4.3
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to the to Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 333-74844, filed on December 10, 2001)
   
4.4
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No 33-41628, filed on April 28, 1998)
   
4.5
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 9 to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 33-41628, filed on March 2, 1998)
   
4.6
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 333-83362, filed on February 25, 2002)
   
4.7
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. No. 333-37907, filed on October 14, 1997)
   
4.8
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 333-41438, filed on September 25, 2000)
   
4.9
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. No. 333-05227, filed on April 10, 1998)






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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules (continued).

(a)(3) Exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K (continued):

4.10
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 333-30844, filed on June 9, 2000)
   
4.12
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 333-82957, filed September 29, 1999)
   
4.13
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 333-31248, filed June 14, 2000)
   
4.14
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 333-74972, filed on December 12, 2001)
   
4.15
Specimen Certificate to be issued in connection with Flexible Payment Combination Fixed/Variable Annuity Contract (Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 9 to the Registration Statement of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Variable Account F on Form N-4, File No. 33-29852, filed on April 16, 1998)
   
4.16
Group Contract Form No. DIA(1); Certificate Form No. DIA(1)/CERT; and Individual Contract Form No. DIA(1)/IND (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement of Keyport Life Insurance Company on Form S-1, File No. 333-13609, filed on or about February 7, 1997)
   
4.17
Group Contract Form No. MVA(1) and Certificate Form No. VA(1)/CERT (Incorporated by reference to Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement of Keyport Life Insurance Company on Form S-1, File No. 333-1783, filed on August 2, 1996)
   
10.1
Terms Agreement, dated as of June 3, 2005, by and among Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Sun Life Financial Global Funding, L.P., Sun Life Financial Global Funding, U.L.C., Sun Life Financial Global Funding, L.L.C., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, and RBC Capital Markets Corporation (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on June 9, 2005)
   
10.2
Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 11, 2004, by and among Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Sun Life Financial Global Funding, L.P., Sun Life Financial Global Funding, U.L.C., Sun Life Financial Global Funding, L.L.C., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, and RBC Capital Markets Corporation (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on June 9, 2005)








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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules (continued).

(a)(3) Exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K (continued):

10.3
Terms Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2005, by and among Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Sun Life Financial Global Funding, L.P., Sun Life Financial Global Funding, U.L.C., Sun Life Financial Global Funding, L.L.C., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse First Boston LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, and RBC Capital Markets Corporation (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on July 6, 2005)
   
10.4
Terms Agreement, dated as of May 17, 2006, by and among Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, L.P., Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, U.L.C., Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, L.L.C., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, and RBC Capital Markets Corporation (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 25, 2006)
   
10.5
Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 17, 2006, by and among Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, L.P., Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, U.L.C., Sun Life Financial Global Funding II, L.L.C., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, and RBC Capital Markets Corporation (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 25, 2006)
   
10.6
Terms Agreement, dated as of September 12, 2006, by and among Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.P., Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, U.L.C., Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.L.C., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, RBC Capital Markets Corporation and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on September 15, 2006)
   
10.7
Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 5, 2006, by and among Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.P., Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, U.L.C., Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.L.C., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, RBC Capital Markets Corporation and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on September 15, 2006)
   
10.8
Terms Agreement, dated as of September 21, 2006, by and among Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.P., Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, U.L.C., Sun Life Financial Global Funding III, L.L.C., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Banc of America Securities LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, RBC Capital Markets Corporation and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC (Incorporated herein by reference to Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on September 26, 2006)
14
Omitted pursuant to Instruction I(2)(c) to Form 10-K
   
21
Omitted pursuant to Instruction I(2)(b) to Form 10-K
   
23.1
Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
   
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SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA (U.S.)
(A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc.

Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules (continued).

(a)(3) Exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K (continued):

31.1
Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
   
31.2
Certification pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
   
32.1
Certification pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
   
32.2
Certification pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

(b) Exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K:

See Item 15(a)(3) above.

(c) Financial statements required by Regulation S-X which are excluded from the annual report to shareholders by Rule 14a-3(b):

Other than the financial statement schedules set forth in Item 15(a)(2) above, no other financial statement schedules are required to be filed.































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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.)
(Registrant)
   
By:
/s/ Robert C. Salipante
 
Robert C. Salipante
 
President
   
Date:
March 27, 2007

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

/s/ Robert C. Salipante
 
President and Director
 
March 27, 2007
Robert C. Salipante
 
(Principal Executive Officer)
   
         
/s/ Ronald H. Friesen
 
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
 
March 27, 2007
Ronald H. Friesen
 
and Treasurer and Director
   
   
(Principal Financial Officer)
   
         
/s/ Michael K. Moran
 
Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
 
March 27, 2007
Michael K. Moran
 
and Controller
   
   
(Chief Accounting Officer)
   
         
/s/ Donald A. Stewart
 
Director
 
March 27, 2007
Donald A. Stewart
       
         
/s/ Thomas A. Bogart
 
Director
 
March 27, 2007
Thomas A. Bogart
       
         
/s/ Scott M. Davis
 
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
 
March 27, 2007
Scott M. Davis
 
and Director
   
         
/s/ Mary Fay
 
Senior Vice President and General Manager,
 
March 27, 2007
Mary Fay
 
Annuities and Director
   
         
/s/ Richard P. McKenney
 
Director
 
March 27, 2007
Richard P. McKenney
       
         













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Supplemental Information to be Furnished With Reports Filed
Pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act by Registrants Which Have Not Registered
Securities Pursuant to Section 12 of the Act

The registrant is wholly-owned by Sun Life of Canada (U.S.) Holdings, Inc. and does not send annual reports or proxy material to its sole security holder.




















































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