Manulife S'pore rides high on 2016 breakthrough year
S'pore market now group's 3rd largest, thanks to bank distribution channel.
WHAT a difference 2016 has made for Canadian insurer Manulife Singapore, whose fortunes were turned around from struggling for new business market share in a highly competitive sector to now being one of the front runners.
As chief executive Naveed Irshad puts it, the Manulife Singapore growth story in the past three years is a simple and straightforward one.
Under the Canadian's watch, the company has grown 10-fold and Singapore is now the group's third largest market in Asia, after Hong Kong and Japan. In 2016, Asia contributed a third of the group'…
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