Sun Life Financial Services of Canada Inc. today announced the company’s stock ticker symbol will change to “SLF,” effective at the start of trading November 14, 2002, on the Toronto, New York and Philippine stock exchanges.

Sun Life says the change will have no effect on the publicly traded company and no impact on securities issued under its name.

“At the time of the Ccmpany’s initial public offering in March 2000, the ‘SLF’ ticker symbol was not available. Now that it is available, it makes sense to align our ticker symbol more closely with our brand,” said Donald Stewart, chairman and CEO, in a news release.