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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 1998
1933 Act File No. 33-19738
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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FORM N-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 11
TOTAL RETURN VARIABLE ACCOUNT
(Exact Name of Registrant)
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.)
(Name of Insurance Company)
One Sun Life Executive Park, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts 02181 (617)
237-6030
(Address of Insurance Company's Principal Executive Offices)
Stephen E. Cavan, Massachusetts Financial Services Company,
500 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
With Copies of Communications to:
Bonnie S. Angus, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.)
One Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02117
APPROXIMATE DATE OF PROPOSED PUBLIC OFFERING:
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)
|_| immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
|X| on March 6, 1998 pursuant to paragraph (b)
|_| 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(i)
|_| on [date] pursuant to paragraph (a)(i)
|_| 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii)
|_| on [date] pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii) of rule 485.
If appropriate, check the following box:
|_| this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a
previously filed post-effective amendment
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The following item is herein incorporated by reference to those items filed by
the Money Market Variable Account (File No. 2-79141) in Post-Effective
Amendment No. 23, filed with the SEC via EDGAR on March 6, 1998:
Part C, Item 24(b)
