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Manulife's agents of change

As a financial services company, Manulife's interface with the general public is through their financial advisers, or so-called agents. However, much planning, development, training and other activities take place in the background under the leadership of capable managers, before customers choose an investment and tick a box on our Mandatory Provident Fund sheet.

To prepare talented young people for the management pipeline, Manulife regularly takes in trainees to its structured programme, which runs alongside other graduate programmes such as the actuarial student and the investment division rotation programmes.

"Manulife started the management training programme more than 10 years ago, to groom talented managers who are committed, passionate and capable of developing a fast-track career. We try to take three to five corporate trainees each year, and we do it consistently d