- CEO
- Vibha Hamsi Coburn
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Multi-line insurance
- Address
- Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
- IPO Date
- Aug 30, 1984
- Business
- Manulife Holdings Berhad is a Malaysia-based investment holding company and a subsidiary of Canada-based Manulife Financial Corporation that provides comprehensive life insurance, health protection, wealth management, and investment solutions to individual, high-net-worth, and corporate clients across Malaysia. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the company operates primarily through its key subsidiaries, including Manulife Insurance Berhad, Manulife Investment Management (M) Berhad, and Manulife Insurance Labuan Limited. The company offers a diverse portfolio of financial products and services, including individual and group life insurance policies, comprising whole life, term life, endowment, and universal life plans; health and medical insurance solutions, featuring comprehensive hospitalization coverage, medical riders, and multistage critical illness plans such as Manulife MultiCI Enrich, Manulife Health Saver Enrich, and the youth-focused Manulife MediShield; wealth accumulation and retirement planning services, encompassing conventional and Shariah-compliant unit trust funds, private retirement schemes, and specialized investment portfolios across domestic and global equities, fixed income, real assets, and technology themes; high-net-worth offshore wealth solutions, including foreign-currency indexed universal life products; and employee benefit schemes for commercial enterprises. Manulife Holdings Berhad distributes its products through a multi-channel network consisting of tied agency representatives, financial advisers, institutional brokers, and bancassurance alliances. In recent developments, the group has actively advanced its growth strategy centered on health, longevity, and wealth management, extending its long-term bancassurance partnership with Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad for an additional fifteen years and establishing a distribution collaboration with Bank of China (Malaysia) Berhad for the Manulife Global Multi-Asset Diversified Income Fund. Furthermore, the company has expanded its product ecosystem with the launch of the USD Indexed Universal Life plan through its Labuan operations, the introduction of the Singapore Equity Fund and the Shariah Dynamic Leaders Fund, and the rollout of enhanced critical illness and healthcare riders designed to address early prevention, treatment, and long-term recovery needs.