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MANULIFE FINANCIAL $18.16 (Toronto symbol MFC; Shares outstanding: 2.0 billion; Market cap: $37.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 3.7%; www.manulife.ca) sells life and other related forms of insurance, as well as mutual funds and investment management services. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, Manulife’s earnings per share, excluding one-time items, gained 10.3%, to $0.43 from $0.39 a year earlier. Revenue rose 16.2%, to $7.48 billion from $6.44 billion. The company continues to expand in growing Asian markets. Right now, about 40% of its insurance premiums come from that region....
GREAT-WEST LIFECO $34.22 (Toronto symbol GWO; Shares outstanding: 993.4 million; Market cap: $34.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 3.8%; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is one of Canada’s largest insurance firms. It also offers mutual funds and wealth management. Power Financial owns 67.2% of Great-West. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, Great-West’s earnings rose 4.3%, to $0.72 a share from $0.69 a year earlier. The company continues to benefit from two recent acquisitions. In 2013, it paid $1.75 billion for Irish Life, Ireland’s largest pension manager and life insurance provider. In 2015, it paid an undisclosed sum for the Irish operations of Legal & General Group plc, which provides investment and taxplanning services to wealthy individuals....
GREAT-WEST LIFECO $34.22 (Toronto symbol GWO; Shares outstanding: 993.4 million; Market cap: $34.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 3.8%; www.greatwestlifeco.com) is one of Canada’s largest insurance firms. It also offers mutual funds and wealth management. Power Financial owns 67.2% of Great-West. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, Great-West’s earnings rose 4.3%, to $0.72 a share from $0.69 a year earlier. The company continues to benefit from two recent acquisitions. In 2013, it paid $1.75 billion for Irish Life, Ireland’s largest pension manager and life insurance provider. In 2015, it paid an undisclosed sum for the Irish operations of Legal & General Group plc, which provides investment and taxplanning services to wealthy individuals....
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA $55.78 (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $67.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 5.0%, www.scotiabank.com) is considering selling all or part of its 49% stake in Thailand’s Thanachart Bank, which has a book value of $2.4 billion. Like many Asian nations, Thailand prohibits foreign firms from controlling domestic banks. Economic weakness and political uncertainty have also hurt loan demand in the country. Bank of Nova Scotia would probably use the proceeds from any sale to expand in Latin America. The bank gets around 30% of its earnings from its international operations....