# Manulife Wealth & Asset Management

> Manulife Wealth & Asset Management is the investment, financial advice, and retirement-plan arm of Manulife Financial Corporation. It serves individuals, advisors, employers, retirement savers, and institutions through public-market strategies, private assets, multi-asset portfolios, and wealth services. Its recent playbook is unusually legible for a firm of its size: unify fragmented brands, use AI to compress research chores, buy the private-credit capability it lacked, and partner for distribution where building alone would be slower.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Toronto, Canada
- **Team size:** About 6,000 employees listed on LinkedIn, including 775+ investment professionals across 20 geographies as of March 31, 2026.
- **Products:** Public markets, Private markets, Retirement plan services, Retail and wealth solutions, AI Research Assistant
- **Notable:** Global WAM AUMA reached C$1.341 trillion including assets managed for other Manulife segments at December 31, 2025., Infrastructure Fund III closed above US$5.5 billion in 2025, exceeding its original target., Manulife Co-Investment Partners III raised US$1.1 billion in 2025 against a US$750 million target.

## Products & services

- **Public markets** — Research-led equity, fixed-income, alternative-credit, and multi-asset strategies for institutions, intermediaries, and individual investors.
- **Private markets** — Strategies spanning real estate, infrastructure, timberland, agriculture, private equity, and private credit.
- **Retirement plan services** — Plan design, administration, investments, savings, and rollover support for employers, sponsors, and retirement-plan members.
- **Retail and wealth solutions** — Mutual funds, ETFs, SMAs, CITs, model portfolios, RESPs, 529 plans, financial advice, and advisor support, with availability varying by market.
- **AI Research Assistant** — An internal platform that synthesizes financials, research, notes, transcripts, and news for public-markets teams while leaving investment decisions with portfolio managers.
- **Manulife | Comvest private credit** — A combined U.S. middle-market private-credit platform built from Comvest and Manulife's existing senior-credit team.

## Achievements

- Global WAM AUMA reached C$1.341 trillion including assets managed for other Manulife segments at December 31, 2025.
- Infrastructure Fund III closed above US$5.5 billion in 2025, exceeding its original target.
- Manulife Co-Investment Partners III raised US$1.1 billion in 2025 against a US$750 million target.
- Manulife was ranked the largest global manager of timberland equity investments in IPE Real Assets' 2026 natural-capital ranking.
- Indonesia's MAMI held an 11.9% market share and served more than 2.5 million customers at the end of 2025.
- The AI Research Assistant reached 65% adoption among public-markets investment team members by August 31, 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Manulife | Comvest Credit Partners announced a record US$5.4 billion fundraise.
- **2026-03** — Manulife WAM completed the acquisition of Schroders Indonesia and began a phased integration with MAMI.
- **2026-03** — Manulife WAM and L&G announced a multi-year global partnership across distribution, investment management, and product development.
- **2026-02** — IPE Real Assets recognized Manulife Investment Management as a leading natural-capital manager and the largest timberland equity manager.
- **2025-12** — Manulife completed its acquisition of 75% of Comvest Credit Partners and aligned it with Manulife's senior-credit team.
- **2025-10** — Infrastructure Fund III reached an oversubscribed close above US$5.5 billion.
- **2025-10** — Manulife introduced its internal AI Research Assistant for public-markets investment teams.
- **2025-04** — John Hancock Investment Management and John Hancock Retirement adopted the Manulife John Hancock brand in the United States.

## Links

- Website: https://www.manulifeim.com/en/about-us
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/manulife-wealth-asset-management
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/Manulife
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@manulife

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Last updated: 2026-08-23