Great-West Lifeco Inc. (GWO:CA) 24th Annual Financial Services Conference March 25, 2026 8:30 AM EDT
Company Participants
David Harney – President, CEO & Director
Presentation
Unknown Analyst
Okay. Welcome to day 2 of the 24th National Bank Financial Services Conference. And for your math folks, that means next year is 25. I’d like to welcome to the stage, David Harney, the Chief Executive Officer of Great-West Lifeco, and he’s been in that position since July of last year. So we’re glad to have you here and looking forward for this discussion.
David Harney
President, CEO & Director
Thanks very much.
Question-and-Answer Session
Unknown Analyst
I do have a list of questions that I prepared ahead of time, but I do want to ask about the global macro. Obviously, it’s on everybody’s minds. And what — as the CEO of Great-West Life, what describe to me the reaction and then what you start thinking of from a business standpoint?
David Harney
President, CEO & Director
Like, obviously, these events have big impacts on economies, the big impacts on customer confidence. Like all of our businesses operate within their economy. So it’s all sort of secondary effects for us.
So the main thing we’re finding in the business is just a lot of coaching with customers. They have long-term investments with us they shouldn’t get overly worried about markets or volatile situations. So most of our efforts now are coaching customers, believe in the products we have and stay the course. We don’t have influence over global events. So we focus on the day-to-day business.
Unknown Analyst
Right. So I guess the indirect impact is, of course, more relevant to you. And I’ll do the dotted line to the Empower business, which has been an inorganic success story, and an organic success story, and the messaging on