TORONTO, Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Manulife Asset
Management has named R. James (Jamie)
Robertson as a senior portfolio manager to its Portfolio
Solutions Group (PSG), subject to regulatory approval. Mr.
Robertson is based in Toronto and
reports to Nathan Thooft, co-head of
PSG for North America. PSG
oversees all the multi-asset-class strategies for Manulife Asset
Management globally.
Mr. Robertson will be responsible for overseeing Manulife Asset
Management's Canadian asset allocation franchise, including
portfolio management, research and development, and
supporting product development, business development, and
trading.
"We are pleased to welcome Jamie to Manulife Asset Management,"
said Mr. Thooft. "He is a senior investment professional with a
long history of managing asset allocation portfolios. We believe
our clients and our firm will benefit from his expertise and his
leadership of Canadian portfolio management across a wide range of
multi-asset and multi-manager solutions. Jamie leads the PSG team
in Toronto and will work closely
with the other members of PSG in the
United States and Asia."
Most recently, Mr. Robertson was Chief Investment Officer with
McLean and Partners in
Calgary, where he was responsible
for driving and improving the investment performance of
multi-asset-class portfolios at one of Canada's largest private wealth management
companies, with assets of more than one
billion dollars. Prior to that, he served as Vice President,
Propriety Investments (Equities) at Manulife Financial, where he
helped increase equity holdings to more than C$800 million with exposures in all major
international markets.
He earned an MBA from Concordia University,
Montreal, and holds the Canadian Investment Manager
Designation (C.I.M.) from the Canadian Securities Institute.
About Manulife Asset Management
Manulife Asset Management is the global asset management arm of
Manulife, providing comprehensive asset management solutions for
investors. This investment expertise extends across a broad range
of public and private asset classes, as well as asset allocation
solutions. As at September 30, 2016,
assets under management for Manulife Asset Management were
approximately C$450 billion
(US$343 billion, GBP£263 billion,
EUR€305 billion).
Manulife Asset Management's public markets units have investment
expertise across a broad range of asset classes including public
equity and fixed income, and asset allocation
strategies. Offices with full investment capabilities are
located in the United States,
Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong
Kong, Singapore,
Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the
Philippines. In addition, Manulife Asset Management has a
joint venture asset management business in China, Manulife TEDA. The public markets units
of Manulife Asset Management also provide investment management
services to affiliates' retail clients through product offerings of
Manulife and John Hancock. John
Hancock Asset Management is a division of Manulife Asset
Management.
Additional information about Manulife Asset Management may be
found at ManulifeAM.com.
About Manulife
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international
financial services group providing forward-thinking solutions to
help people with their big financial decisions. We operate as
John Hancock in the United States, and Manulife elsewhere. We
provide financial advice, insurance and wealth and asset management
solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of
2015, we had approximately 34,000 employees, 63,000 agents, and
thousands of distribution partners, serving 20 million customers.
At the end of September 2016, we had
$966 billion (US$736 billion) in assets under management and
administration, and in the previous 12 months we made more than
$24.4 billion in benefits, interest
and other payments to our customers. Our principal operations are
in Asia, Canada and the
United States 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.
Follow Manulife on Twitter @ManulifeNews or visit manulife.com or
johnhancock.com.
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