Manulife Financial is launching five new segregated funds designed to offer investors a broader range of options to suit their investment styles.
The funds are part of Manulife’s Insured Portfolio Funds, and are available through the firm’s network of advisors.
“These funds offer Canadians a wider range of options to match their own personal style and approach to investing,” said Bruce Gordon, Manulife executive vice president of Canadian Operations.
The funds include:
- Manulife Dollar-Cost Averaging Guaranteed Investment Fund
- Manulife Tax-Managed Growth Asset Allocation Guaranteed Investment Fund
- Manulife AIC Advantage II Guaranteed Investment Fund
- Manulife AIC American Focused Guaranteed Investment Fund
- Manulife E&P International Equity Guaranteed Investment Fund(Seamark).
Along with the five new funds, effective January 31, Manulife will also offer for a limited time, a 100% maturity guarantee for funds featured in its GIF encore Series 1 lineup.
Manulife Insured Portfolio Funds offer a full death-benefit guarantee options, a 75% maturity guarantee and reset choices, while also allowing investors to select from a broad range of more than 60 funds from 15 fund managers.
The five new funds offer a range of strategies, including asset allocation and dollar-cost averaging to ease clients back into markets and allow them to take advantage of diversification and swings in market values.