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In forceLife insurers: capitalLast checked 11 November 2026

Solo capital, life insurance groups (1004)

A regulatory return listed by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), Canada.

Collects the data to calculate the solo capital ratio of the domestic parent life insurer of a group that OSFI designates as an Internationally Active Insurance Group (IAIG), with details of the calculation. Source

Official title: Solo Capital Return (1004)

The facts

Who files
OSFI's reporting requirements tables list it for: Canadian life insurers (including insurance holding companies and non-operating life companies) (selected). Source
How often
Quarterly. Source
Deadline
Quarterly filing: within 45 days. Not subject to the Late and Erroneous Filing Penalties (LEFP) framework. Source
Format
Excel. Filed through RRS using the Excel template OSFI publishes. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the OSFI: Regulatory Reporting System (RRS); Regulatory Data Hub (RDH). See how firms file with the OSFI.
Status
In forceFiled in the Regulatory Reporting System (RRS). OSFI's Data Collection Modernization initiative will replace RRS with a new platform, the Regulatory Data Hub (RDH); OSFI says the launch is now targeted for spring 2027 and asks filers to keep using RRS until then. Financial filing for insurers moves to RDH in Release 3; OSFI says more details on financial returns will come in 2027. Source
Legal basis
Group
Life insurers: capital

Templates (9)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the OSFI's code in brackets.

  • Summary calculations (S1)
  • Data - Consolidated domestic subsidiaries regulated by an authority other than OSFI (S2)
  • Data - Consolidated subsidiaries regulated by a foreign authority (S3)
  • Data - deconsolidated foreign subsidiaries (S4)
  • Data - Foreign branches (S5)
  • Data - Parental guarantees - Non-capital guarantees (S6.1)
  • Data - Parental guarantees - Capital guarantees (S6.2)
  • Commentary on material changes and drivers of Solo Capital (S7)
  • Credit rating scales (S8)

Schedules (worksheets) in osfi1004-bsif1004-life-rtn-rlv-vie-en.xlsx, named from the workbook's table of contents or schedule titles. Source

Validation rules

No published validation rules were found for this return. OSFI's reporting pages publish no validation rules for this return. Source

Public data

No published data from this return was found. No publication of data from this return was found on OSFI's reporting or open data pages. Source

Official documents (4)

The OSFI's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.