| Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC), is a Canada-based financial services group operating in 21 countries and territories worldwide. The Company is a life insurance company and the holding company of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (MLI) and John Hancock Reassurance Company, Ltd. Its international network of employees, agents and distribution partners offer financial protection and wealth management products and services to millions of clients. The Company provides asset management services to institutional customers worldwide, as well as reinsurance solutions, specializing in property and casualty retrocession. The Company operates as Manulife Financial in Canada and Asia and as John Hancock in the United States. The Company operates in five divisions: Asia Division, Canadian Division, U.S. Insurance, U.S. Wealth Management, and Reinsurance Division. In August 2011, it sold Life Retrocession business to Pacific Life Insurance Company. |