MFC - Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC) CFO Colin Simpson Hosts NBF Annual Financial Service Conference (Transcript)
2025-03-26 14:22:01 ET
Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC)
NBF Annual Financial Service Conference
March 26, 2025 09:30 AM ET
Company Participants
Colin Simpson - Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Gabriel Dechaine - National Bank Financial
Presentation
Gabriel Dechaine
All right, welcome, everyone. I'd like to introduce to the stage Colin Simpson, Manulife's Chief Financial Officer here for the second year in a row. Thanks for -- I guess the last year wasn't that bad. So, thanks for joining us today.
Question-and-Answer Session
Q - Gabriel Dechaine
Let's start with the big picture ROE question, because every life insurance company in Canada anyway has been hiking their ROE targets. You started the trend, I guess, in Hong Kong last year. The difficulty for people like myself and others is understanding the building blocks to get from where you are and to that 18% plus. And to be simplistic, it's like -- I know you got to grow at 15% plus or whatever in Asia, but what else is there that can put some more tangibility, I guess, to that target?...
Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC) CFO Colin Simpson Hosts NBF Annual Financial Service Conference (Transcript)