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Intact Financial Corporation has announced:

that, after having taken into account all elections received before the December 15, 2017, 5:00 p.m. (ET) conversion deadline, with respect to the Non-cumulative Rate Reset Class A Shares Series 1 of IFC (the “Series 1 Preferred Shares”) tendered for conversion on December 31, 2017 into Non-cumulative Floating Rate Class A Shares Series 2 of IFC (the “Series 2 Preferred Shares”), the holders of Series 1 Preferred Shares are not entitled to convert their shares. There were 181,136 Series 1 Preferred Shares tendered for conversion, which is fewer than the 1,000,000 Series 1 Preferred Shares required for the ability to proceed with the conversion, in accordance with the terms of the Series 1 Preferred Shares.

There are 10,000,000 Series 1 Preferred Shares listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) under the symbol IFC.PR.A. The annual dividend rate for the Series 1 Preferred Shares for the five-year period from and including December 31, 2017 to but excluding December 31, 2022, will be 3.396%, as determined in accordance with the terms of the Series 1 Preferred Shares.

Subject to certain conditions described in IFC’s prospectus dated July 5, 2011, IFC may redeem the Series 1 Preferred Shares, in whole or in part, on December 31, 2022 and on December 31 every five years thereafter.

For more information on the terms of, and risks associated with an investment in, the Series 1 Preferred Shares, see IFC’s prospectus dated July 5, 2011 which is available on www.sedar.com.

It will be recalled that IFC.PR.A will reset at 3.396% effective December 31, 2017, and I recommended against conversion.

IFC.PR.A is a FixedReset, 4.20%+172, that commenced trading 2011-7-12 after being announced 2011-6-22. The issue is tracked by HIMIPref™ and has been assigned to the FixedReset subindex.

As this issue is not NVCC compliant and it is an insurance issue, it is analyzed as having a Deemed Retraction. Note that I am less certain with respect to this decision than I am with life insurers – it is by no means assured that property and casualty insurers will be treated the same as life insurers once all the regulatory dust settles.

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