In the media
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Kevin Headland, Senior Investment Strategist at Manulife Investment Management, weighs in on recent market performance in an interview with The Canadian Press. “Global economic growth remains fairly stagnant and therefore that’s a pretty good proxy for the demand of oil,” said Kevin. “So if we have extra supply in the near-term, demand is not going to necessarily reduce that excess supply.”
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A minefield of mounting leverage in the market: Patrick Blais, managing director and senior portfolio manager at Manulife Investment Management and co-head of the Fundamental Equity Team sits down with Morningstar to discuss the risks he sees building within the global financial system.
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Frances Donald, Managing Director, Global Chief Economist, and Global Head of Macroeconomic Strategy at Manulife Investment Management, weighed in on how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting market performance. “You have no choice to follow for example the SARS epidemic, which slowed growth in China and the Asian region,” said Frances, in an interview with Bloomberg. “The market has no choice but pricing a probability that it becomes the outcome again.”
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Frances Donald, Managing Director, Global Chief Economist, and Global Head of Macroeconomic Strategy at Manulife Investment Management, joined the Down to Business podcast. Frances spoke to host Emily Jackson about the economic outlook for the year ahead.
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How value investing helps investors weather volatility - Alan Wicks and Jonathan Popper, both senior portfolio managers with Manulife’s value equity team, are featured on Advisor.ca.
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Frances Donald, Managing Director, Global Chief Economist, and Global Head of Macroeconomic Strategy at Manulife Investment Management, offered her view of the Bank of Canada’s interest rate decision. “The more that we hear from Bank of Canada the less they seem willing” to cut rates, said Frances.
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Wealth Professional features Manulife Investment Management’s 2020 Global Macro Outlook, and picks up commentary from Frances Donald, Global Chief Economist and Head of Macroeconomic Strategy. “There’re good reasons to believe that if any easing does indeed materialize, the Bank of Canada will be doing so reluctantly; after all, wage and price pressures remain sizable. From an inflation perspective, Canada is one of the few major developed-market economies to have hit its target,” said Frances.
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In an interview with The Canadian Press, Macan Nia, Senior Investment Strategist at Manulife Investment Management, said the S&P/TSX Composite Index should gain at least 10% for the year, pushing it to about 19,000 points while outpacing U.S. markets. "That is our base case,” he added, “and there's potential risk to the upside."
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Margaret Childe, Director of ESG Research and Integration at Manulife Investment Management, shared her perspective on climate change at the Reuters Breakingviews Predictions 2020 session.
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Margaret Childe, Director of ESG Research and Integration at Manulife Investment Management, speaks to Benefits and Pensions Monitor about how an integrated ESG approach can help produce better outcomes.
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