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Headquartered in Toronto and Montreal, the Manulife Fundamental Equity Team has been managing portfolios for over a decade and today oversees around CAD$17.3 billion¹ in retail and institutional assets under management.
Explore performance highlights, market insights, and portfolio positioning from Manulife Fundamental Equity Team for October 2025.
Patrick Blais, head of the Manulife Fundamental Equity Team, senior portfolio manager, explains how his team evaluates cash flow resilience during economic stress—highlighting why the most exposed companies can sometimes offer the most compelling opportunities when risk is already priced in.
With a core investment style and a bottom-up process, the team focuses on fundamentals and uncovering the best ideas at attractive valuations.
The team believes tangible cash flows are the real driver of economic value. It employs a proprietary method of calculating economic earnings and relies on tangible cash flows to identify quality companies at a reasonable price.
The team employs dynamic portfolio construction by actively managing stock positions based on changes to fundamentals and tangible cash flow yield.
In some cases, differentiation can be exemplified by those that show consistency. The Manulife Fundamental Equity Team adheres to a repeatable framework focused on identifying companies with strong capital efficiency and tangible cash flow, which has yielded strong results and led to multiple FundGrade A+ Awards for 2025 fund performance.
Patrick Blais, head of the Manulife Fundamental Equity Team, senior portfolio manager, breaks down how shifting tariffs and trade policies are reshaping the Canadian economy and what investors can do about it. Find out how his team’s disciplined approach helps manage risk through a focus on cash flows, valuations, and business quality.
Markets are in constant evolution. The goal of our Fundamental Equity Team is to block out this noise and bring the focus back to what truly matters: the fundamentals. By zeroing in on a company's tangible cash flows, the team focuses on sustainable businesses with an ability to generate recurring income.
Tangible cash flows are at the heart of the team’s investment process. By relying on a unique approach to security selection, the team monitors quality, sustainability, and valuation metrics with the goal of selecting the market's best cash creators. This allows the team to remain nimble, act swiftly in response to market ups and downs, and build high-conviction portfolios of roughly 40 names designed to weather multiple market environments.
"We don’t want to get caught up in stories. Stories drive the market and that’s why they’re mispriced."
Patrick Blais, Head of Fundamental Equity Team, Senior Portfolio Manager
Relying on a unique approach to security selection
By analyzing a decade’s worth of financial statements across hundreds of publicly traded companies, the team seeks to determine a company’s ability to generate recurring and predictable future cash flows. By evaluating a company’s historical tangible cash flows, the team essentially measures the quality of a business. This is critical to enuring portfolio constituents are sustainable companies focused on consistent cash generation and growth potential.
Highlighting the team's three-pronged approach
The team takes its analysis one step further, essentially turning publicly available information into proprietary data. In doing so, it focuses on:
Deconstructing financials to arrive at tangible cash flow
Through dynamic portfolio construction, the team seeks to maximize tangible cash flow by following the best opportunities, wherever they may be. This can involve:
Buying and selling activity based on tangible cash flow yield
The team goes above and beyond a traditional approach in its search for tangible cash flows, spending weeks and months analyzing more than 10 years of financial statements. Discover what Patrick Blais has to say about the role of cash flow in the team’s process.
The Fundamental Equity Team believes ESG and sustainability analysis could be both a risk mitigator and a potential alpha generator. It’s the belief of the team that active engagement efforts can help companies understand the needs of investors in ways that can improve transparency and sustainability profiles.
Union of experienced investment and ESG teams
Blending active management with sustainable insight
Active ownership—rights and responsibilities
Seeking to enhance value for investors while instilling resilience across investments
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1 As of December 31, 2025. AUM stated in Canadian dollars.
Portfolio managers may use some or all of the techniques described. No investment strategy or risk management technique can guarantee returns or eliminate risk in any market environment. Characteristics, guidelines, and constraints are for illustrative purposes only. They may change at any time and may differ for a specific account.
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