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Investment Strategies
Manulife Asset Management offers a broad range of investment strategies with investment processes driven by fundamental research. Below are some of our featured strategies.
Equity

Manulife Asset Management's equity teams focus on delivering alpha via differentiated investment processes driven by proprietary fundamental research and a long-term orientation. Each specialized investment team owns their specific investment process from research through portfolio construction.
Equity Strategies

Fixed Income

Manulife Asset Management's fixed income teams follow a disciplined philosophy and process that utilize multiple sources of alpha underpinned by a fundamental, research-driven investment approach. We have a broad offering across traditional and non-traditional market sectors, and a collaborative organizational culture to effectively leverage insights, knowledge, skills and capabilities across our global offices.
Fixed Income Strategies

Balanced

Manulife Asset Management's balanced fund invests into both Singapore equity and Singapore fixed income.
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Under the laws of Singapore, an institutional investor is: (i) a bank that is licensed under the Banking Act, Chapter 19 of Singapore; (ii) a merchant bank that is approved as a financial institution under section 28 of the Monetary Authority of Singapore Act, Chapter 186 of Singapore; (iii) a finance company that is licensed under the Finance Companies Act, Chapter 108 of Singapore; (iv) a company or society registered under the Insurance Act, Chapter 142 of Singapore as an insurer; (v) a company registered under the Trust Companies Act, Chapter 336 of Singapore; (vi) the Singapore government; (vii) a statutory body established under any Singapore statute; (viii) a pension fund or collective investment scheme; (ix) the holder of a capital markets services licence for (a) dealing in securities, (b) fund management, (c) providing custodial services for securities, (d) securities financing, or (e) trading in futures contracts; or (x) a person (other than an individual) who carries on the business of dealing in bonds with accredited investors or expert investors.

Under the laws of Singapore, a “professional investor” is: (a) any recognized exchange company, recognized clearing house, recognized exchange controller or recognized investor compensation company, or any person authorized to provide automated trading services under section 95(2) of this Ordinance; (b) any intermediary, or any other person carrying on the business of the provision of investment services and regulated under the law of any place outside Hong Kong; (c) any authorized financial institution, or any bank which is not an authorized financial institution but is regulated under the law of any place outside Hong Kong; (d) any insurer authorized under the Insurance Companies Ordinance (Cap 41), or any other person carrying on insurance business and regulated under the law of any place outside Hong Kong; (e) any scheme which- (i) is a collective investment scheme authorized under section 104 of this Ordinance; or (ii) is similarly constituted under the law of any place outside Hong Kong and, if it is regulated under the law of such place, is permitted to be operated under the law of such place, or any person by whom any such scheme is operated; (f) any registered scheme as defined in section 2(1) of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Ordinance (Cap 485), or its constituent fund as defined in section 2 of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes (General) Regulation (Cap 485 sub. leg. A), or any person who, in relation to any such registered scheme, is an approved trustee or service provider as defined in section 2(1) of that Ordinance or who is an investment manager of any such registered scheme or constituent fund; (g) any scheme which- (i) is a registered scheme as defined in section 2(1) of the Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance (Cap 426); or (ii) is an offshore scheme as defined in section 2(1) of that Ordinance and, if it is regulated under the law of the place in which it is domiciled, is permitted to be operated under the law of such place, or any person who, in relation to any such scheme, is an administrator as defined in section 2(1) of that Ordinance; (h) any government (other than a municipal government authority), any institution which performs the functions of a central bank, or any multilateral agency; (i) except for the purposes of Schedule 5 to this Ordinance, any corporation which is- (i) a wholly owned subsidiary of- (A)an intermediary, or any other person carrying on the business of the provision of investment services and regulated under the law of any place outside Hong Kong; or (B) an authorized financial institution, or any bank which is not an authorized financial institution but is regulated under the law of any place outside Hong Kong; (ii) a holding company which holds all the issued share capital of- (A) an intermediary, or any other person carrying on the business of the provision of investment services and regulated under the law of any place outside Hong Kong; or (B) an authorized financial institution, or any bank which is not an authorized financial institution but is regulated under the law of any place outside Hong Kong; or (iii) any other wholly owned subsidiary of a holding company referred to in subparagraph (ii); or (j) any person of a class which is prescribed by rules made under section 397 of this Ordinance for the purposes of this paragraph as within the meaning of this definition for the purposes of the provisions of this Ordinance, or to the extent that it is prescribed by rules so made as within the meaning of this definition for the purposes of any provision of this Ordinance

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Investment Strategies

Equity

Fixed Income

Balanced