Introducing Manulife Investment Management: Manulife Continues Transformation Journey By Unifying Its Global Institutional, Retail and Retirement Businesses

HONG KONG, May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Marking another important milestone in the Company's transformation into the most digital, customer-centric global company in its industry, Manulife today announced it is unifying its institutional, retail and retirement wealth and asset management businesses around the world under a single, new brand: Manulife Investment Management. 

These businesses formerly operated under multiple brands and as separate units in different markets. Manulife Investment Management now brings its wealth management and investment expertise together across these three complementary business lines, and across the Americas, Asia and Europe, to better serve investors worldwide. This unified presence will provide customers and intermediaries with a more consistent, seamless entry into its various investment management businesses, including the launch of manulifeinvestmentmgt.com.

The new brand allows Manulife Investment Management to extend its strengths deeper into existing channels and markets and strategically position products and solutions to both current and future investors. It will also bring additional capabilities to customers and drive efficiencies by leveraging the scale of the global wealth and asset management business. In addition, the business will now be better positioned to organically grow assets through an amplification and awareness of the size and offerings of the firm.

"Manulife Investment Management brings the absolute best of Manulife and John Hancock's wealth and asset management offerings to our customers through a strong, unified, structure and global brand," said Paul Lorentz, President & CEO, Global Wealth and Asset Management. "Our value proposition is dependent on our commitment to our customers' success and on our investment and wealth management expertise across both public and private asset classes, coupled with a global model that can be delivered regionally."

Manulife Investment Management Around the Globe

• The retail business will use the Manulife Investment Management brand around the globe except in the U.S. where we will use John Hancock Investment Management. Over time, this will replace Manulife Asset Management in Asia and Europe, Manulife Investments in Canada, and John Hancock Investments in the United States.
  
  
• As part of Manulife Investment Management, the retirement business will use the Manulife brand around the globe except in the United States, where we will use the John Hancock brand. This will ensure we provide a consistent and more holistic approach to plan participants and plan members in each of the regions.
  
  
• The new Manulife Investment Management brand will also replace global legacy branding supporting the public markets' institutional business, including Manulife Asset Management and John Hancock Asset Management brands.
  
  
• Across the Private Markets businesses, including Hancock Natural Resource Group, Hancock Capital Management and the John Hancock Infrastructure and Real Estate brands, they will become Manulife Investment Management, with the exception of Hancock Natural Resource Group which will evolve to be more closely affiliated with the Manulife Investment Management brand.

About Manulife

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. We operate primarily as John Hancock in the United States and Manulife elsewhere. We provide financial advice, insurance, as well as wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2018, we had more than 34,000 employees, over 82,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving almost 28 million customers. As of March 31, 2019, we had over $1.1 trillion (US$849 billion) in assets under management and administration, and in the previous 12 months we made $29.4 billion in payments to our customers. Our principal operations in Asia, Canada and the United States are where we have served customers for more than 100 years. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we trade as 'MFC' on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under '945' in Hong Kong.

About Manulife Investment Management

Manulife Investment Management is the global wealth and asset management segment of Manulife Financial Corporation. We draw on more than 150 years of financial stewardship to partner with clients across our institutional, retail, and retirement businesses globally. Our specialist approach to money management includes the highly differentiated strategies of our fixed-income, specialized equity, multi-asset solutions, and private markets teams -- along with access to specialized, unaffiliated asset managers from around the world through our multimanager model ^{[1, 2]}. Our personalized, data-driven approach to retirement is focused on delivering financial wellness in retirement plans of all sizes to help plan participants and members retire with dignity.

Headquartered in Toronto, we operate as Manulife Investment Management throughout the world, with the exception of the United States, where the retail and retirement businesses operate as John Hancock Investment Management and John Hancock, respectively; and in Asia and Canada, where the retirement business operates as Manulife. Manulife Investment Management had $837 billion in assets under management and administration as of March 31, 2019 ^[3]. Not all offerings available in all jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit our website at manulifeinvestmentmgt.com.

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