Benjamin A. Matthews

Within each investment style, JHA employs a team approach to portfolio management. These teams have relative autonomy for making investment decisions within the strategies' objectives and client guidelines. Each investment team member specializes in an industry or group of industries. A bottom-up investment approach emphasizes detailed fundamental analysis. All portfolio managers perform research and contribute ideas, and the entire investment staff meets daily to exchange market perspectives and investment ideas.

Manulife IM-US utilizes a broad range of equity, fixed income, currency and asset allocation approaches. They manage differentiated investment processes and place an emphasis on proprietary fundamental research but may also employ quantitative analysis. The firm’s equity investment research combines quantitative and qualitative bottom-up fundamental analysis. Their fixed income management teams engage in intensive fundamental research and analysis, both top-down and bottom-up, to assess potential investment opportunities.