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Brett Horn, CFA
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Manulife Posts Strong 1Q as Asian Market Heats Up

No-moat Manulife put in a very strong first quarter thanks to growth in its Asian wealth and asset management business and expected profit from in-force policies. The company’s return on equity improved to 13.7% from last quarter’s 10.8%. Core ROE, which nets out the effect of capital markets and acquisition costs, improved to 11.1% from 9.3% last quarter. Management uses core figures to make operational decisions, and we believe this is the more useful metric to track underlying performance. Wh...
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Manulife Financial Corporation

Manulife Financial is a provider of financial protection and wealth management products and services, including individual life insurance, group life and health insurance, long-term care insurance, pension products, annuities and mutual funds to individual and group customers in Asia, Canada and the United States. Co. also provides investment management services with respect to Co.'s general fund assets, segregated fund assets, mutual funds, and to institutional customers. Co. also offers reinsurance services, specializing in property and aviation catastrophe risk reinsurance products.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Brett Horn, CFA

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