For Immediate Release
July 2, 2020
TSX/NYSE/PSE: MFC SEHK: 945
Hong Kong – Manulife Hong Kong was awarded the top accolade of “Excellence” in five categories at this year’s Bloomberg Businessweek Financial Institution Awards. These awards join Manulife’s four other recent wins at the Metro Finance Greater Bay Area Insurance Awards.
The nine industry awards are testimony to Manulife’s commitment to product and service innovation and providing the best-in-class retirement and healthcare solutions to meet customers’ needs.
Damien Green, Chief Executive Officer of Manulife Hong Kong, said: “As a trusted brand in Hong Kong for 123 years, Manulife has strived to provide customers with a diverse range of innovative solutions tailored to meet their needs at different life stages. These significant accolades reflect our continued efforts to drive excellence in customer experience through digital transformation and customer-centric innovation as a winning team. Seeing strong and sustained demand for health cover and retirement protection, we will continue to provide tailored solutions to our customers so they can live every day better.”
Manulife Hong Kong was honoured with the Bloomberg Businessweek Financial Institution Awards 2020 in the following categories:
Category |
Product/Service |
Award |
Saving Plan |
La Vie 2 and ManuCentury Savings Plans |
Excellence |
Medical Care |
Manulife Supreme VHIS Flexi Plan |
Excellence |
High Net Worth (Product) |
Whole-In-One Prime Series |
Excellence |
Integrated Marketing (Product) |
Manulife Tax-Deductible Retirement Solutions |
Excellence |
MPF/Employee’s Benefit Service |
Manulife Digital Employee Benefits Services |
Excellence |
Product/Service |
Award |
Manulife Digital Employee Benefits Services |
Outstanding MPF/Employees’ Benefit Products/Service Award |
Manulife Digital MPF Services |
Most Innovative Service Award |
ManuLeisure Deferred Annuity |
Outstanding Deferred Annuity Product Award |
Manulife Tax-Deductible Retirement Solutions |
Outstanding Marketing Strategies Award |
Among these accolades are those that recognize the strength of Manulife's digital solutions, which include: ClaimSimple.hk, a one-stop online platform for eClaims, eMedical card and network doctor search; ec-Work, an innovative mobile app for easy HR administration and MPF administrative management; and BuySimple.hk, an online sales platform that enables customers to apply for Voluntary Health Insurance Scheme (VHIS) plans and apply for an MPF Tax Deductible Voluntary Contributions (TVC) account with unprecedented ease and convenience.
Manulife is the front runner in the tax-deductible retirement solutions market. Winning two prestigious industry awards – Integrated Marketing (Product) Award with “Excellence” and the Outstanding Marketing Strategies Award – for these solutions demonstrates the effectiveness of Manulife’s integrated launch campaign in raising consumer awareness, enhancing brand identity and driving business growth.
About Manulife Hong Kong
Manulife Hong Kong, through Manulife International Holdings Limited, owns Manulife (International) Limited, Manulife Investment Management (Hong Kong) Limited and Manulife Provident Funds Trust Company Limited. As a member of the Manulife group of companies, Manulife Hong Kong offers a diverse range of protection and wealth products and services to individual and corporate customers in Hong Kong and Macau.
About Manulife
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2019, we had more than 35,000 employees, over 98,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving almost 30 million customers. As of March 31, 2020, we had C$1.2 trillion (HK$6.6 trillion) in assets under management and administration, and in the previous 12 months we made C$30.4 billion in payments to our customers. Our principal operations are in Asia, Canada and the United States where we have served customers for more than 155 years. We trade as 'MFC' on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under '945' in Hong Kong.