TORONTO – Phil Witherington, Chief Financial Officer of Manulife, will speak at the Barclays Americas Select Franchise Conference on Thursday, May 14, 2020. The virtual fireside chat is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. EST (2:00 p.m. BST).

Interested parties may access the live webcast through www.manulife.com/en/investors/presentations. An archived version of the replay will be available at the same location the day after the live event for six months.

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 $1.2 trillion (US$0.8 trillion) in assets under management and administration, and in the previous 12 months we made $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.

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Adrienne O’Neill

Manulife

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