Overview
A better financial
future starts here
Operating through two of the world’s leading and most trusted brands—Manulife and John Hancock—we draw on more than 150 years of financial stewardship to help make decisions easier and lives better for our clients.
$844 billion Assets under management and administration (CAD)
- Retirement
- Retail
- Institutional
Helping investors
realize the possibilities
We partner with institutions, financial advisors, and retirement plan sponsors to help investors pursue their long-term financial goals by understanding and managing risks and by helping them make the most of the investment possibilities around them.
- 13 Million
- Retirement plan participants and investor accounts
- 196,000
- Retirement plan sponsors
- 132,000+
- Advisor relationships
- 1,000+
- Institutional accounts
A specialist approach
We offer highly differentiated strategies across our areas of expertise—global fixed income, specialized equity, multi-asset solutions, and private markets—leveraging a heritage of risk management, fundamental research, and targeted investing. Beyond our institutional investor platform, we offer retail investors access to a network of specialized, unaffiliated asset managers from around the world.
Our unique approach leads to a culture of investment excellence and best-in-class strategies across asset classes
$708 billion
Assets under management (CAD)
- Specialized equity
- 17%
- Global fixed income
- 32%
- Private markets strategies
- 7%
- Multi-asset solutions
- 17%
- Subadvised strategies
- 27%
Researching opportunities from every perspective
The deep local expertise of our investment teams conducting fundamental research around the world is enhanced by strategic partnerships with 36 unaffiliated asset managers and our more than 30 years of experience researching, vetting, and overseeing asset managers. This ability to assess risks and opportunities from multiple perspectives provides us with a deeper level of insight and helps our clients pursue their financial goals with confidence.
Invested in creating a more sustainable future
Responsible stewardship is at the heart of our business and culture, both as an asset manager and as a steward of our clients’ capital. Across our diverse portfolio of businesses in public and private markets, we seek to be a global leader of sustainable asset management, creating long-term value for our stakeholders while helping realize a more viable trajectory for the global economy.
Our multi-pronged approach to sustainability means investors have more ways to benefit
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Integration
ESG research is integrated in our decision-making across our institutional portfolio management teams, so we can better understand the true risk/return profile of companies we invest in.
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Engagement
We use our position as a large institutional shareholder to engage constructively with companies on a variety of ESG issues with the goal of enhancing long-term shareholder value.
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Ownership
As a leading owner and operator of real assets globally, we adhere to business and investment practices that are consistent with the need to enhance the quality of the environment and our local communities.
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ESG solutions
Our strategic partnerships with leading ESG-specialist asset managers enable us to offer ESG-thematic funds across asset categories to individual investors in select markets.
Delivering financial wellness
for a better retirement
No two financial journeys are exactly the same. That’s why our personalized, data-driven approach to retirement is focused on delivering the right solution to the right customer at the right time in their financial lives. Today, thousands of businesses around the world look to our global and local retirement expertise to help their employees retire with dignity.
We provide financial guidance, advice, and investment solutions to over 7 million plan participants and members in North America and Asia
7.4 million
Retirement plan participants and members
- United States
- 39%
- Canada
- 27%
- Asia
- 34%
- $338.2B
- Assets under management and administration (CAD)¹
- 4th-largest
- U.S. provider based on number of DC plans²
- #2 provider
- In Canada (based on AUM market share)³
- #1
- Overall client satisfaction and participant enrollment experience (United States)⁴
- #1 provider
- Hong Kong (based on AUMA market share)⁵
- 225,302
- Retirement plans served globally
