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TORONTO, Nov. 15, 2019 /CNW/ - Three of Manulife
Investment Management funds were recognized at the Lipper Fund
Awards from Refinitiv 20191, Canada ceremony, held in Toronto last night. This is the seventh
consecutive year Manulife funds are recognized by the Lipper Fund
Awards. The winning funds were:
- Manulife Strategic Income Fund – Advisor Series, for its
10-year performance record in the Global Fixed Income category
- Manulife Yield Opportunities Fund – Advisor Series, for
its three-year performance record in the Global Fixed Income
Balanced category
- Manulife Value Balanced Fund – Advisor Series, for its
three-year performance record in the Tactical Balanced
category
The Lipper Fund Awards from Refinitiv are the highest standard
of excellence across the globe. These awards have honored funds and
fund management firms that have excelled in providing consistently
strong risk-adjusted performance relative to their peers.
"Having our funds recognized for the seventh consecutive time is
no small feat. On behalf of the Manulife Investment Management
leadership team, I'd like to congratulate Dan Janis, Terry
Carr, Alan Wicks, and their
respective teams on their wins last night," said Bernard Letendre, Head of Wealth and Asset
Management, Canada. "Helping make
decisions easier and lives better for our customers is what we
strive to do and these teams go above and beyond in their approach
to managing these funds, all for the benefit of the Canadians who
rely on them."
The Lipper Fund Awards from Refinitiv, formerly the Financial
and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, celebrate exceptional
performance throughout the professional investment community. It
recognizes the world's top funds, fund management firms, sell-side
firms, research analysts, and investor relations teams.
For more information on the detailed performance and legal
disclaimer about these funds, please visit:
https://retail.manulifeinvestmentmgmt.com/ca/en/about-us/lipper-fund-awards
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. 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 C$854 billion (USD$645
billion) in assets under management and administration as of
September 30, 20191.
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additional information, please visit our website at
manulifeinvestmentmgt.com.
1. MFC financials.
Global Wealth and Asset Management AUMA as of September 30, 2019
was C$854 billion and includes C$195 billion of assets managed on
behalf of other segments and C$140 billion of assets under
administration.
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About Manulife
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial
services group that helps people make their decisions easier and
lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, we operate as Manulife across our
offices in Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the
United States. 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 September 30, 2019, we had over $1.2 trillion (US$881
billion) in assets under management and administration, and
in the previous 12 months we made $29.8
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. We trade as 'MFC' on the Toronto, New
York, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under '945' in
Hong Kong.
2. The Lipper
Fund Awards, granted annually, highlights funds and fund companies
that have excelled in delivering consistently strong risk-adjusted
performance relative to their peers. The Lipper Fund Awards are
based on the Lipper Leader for Consistent Return rating, which is a
risk-adjusted performance measure calculated over 36, 60 and 120
months. The fund with the highest Lipper Leader for Consistent
Return (Effective Return) value in each eligible classification per
award universe wins the Lipper Fund Award. For more information,
see lipperfundawards.com. Although Lipper makes reasonable efforts
to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained
herein, the accuracy is not guaranteed by Lipper.
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SOURCE Manulife Financial Corporation