Global asset management and alternatives
investing leader to join world's largest natural
capital investment manager March
4
TORONTO, Feb. 6, 2024
/PRNewswire/ - Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM), the
global asset manager serving 17 million investors, today has
announced Anne Valentine Andrews
will join the firm on March 4 as
Global Head of Private Markets.
With more than 25 years of asset management and alternatives
experience, Ms. Valentine Andrews
will lead all investment teams and direct the overall strategy,
business development and growth of Manulife IM's private markets
business. She and her team will also work closely with the firm's
global product group and the business leads to drive private market
product innovation across the Institutional, Retail and Retirement
channels. Based in New York, Ms.
Valentine Andrews will report to
Paul Lorentz, President and CEO of
Manulife IM.
"We are excited to welcome Anne to our firm given her expertise
and deep alternatives background," said Mr. Lorentz. "We are
confident that her leadership will accelerate the growth of our
private markets platform and deliver more for our clients.
Individual and institutional investors alike are demanding broader
access to private markets to strengthen their portfolios, find
diverse sources of alpha, and achieve their investment goals. We're
committed to the continued expansion of our global private markets
platform to help our clients pursue attractive opportunities for
long-term returns."
Ms. Valentine Andrews joins
Manulife IM from BlackRock, where she spent the past nine years,
most recently serving as Managing Director, Global Head of
Infrastructure and Real Estate. Under her leadership, BlackRock
became a top 10 infrastructure manager and top 50 real estate
manager by AUM. At BlackRock, Ms. Valentine Andrews served on its Global Operating
Committee, Human Capital Committee, and the Equity Private Markets
Executive Committee. Prior to BlackRock, she was Co-Head and Chief
Operating Officer for the Morgan Stanley Infrastructure platform
and worked at Macquarie Bank in both Melbourne and New
York. In addition to her strong business and commercial
acumen, Ms. Valentine Andrews is an
avid supporter of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and
promoting women in the financial services industry.
"I'm delighted to join Manulife Investment Management to lead
private markets globally," said Ms. Valentine Andrews. "The firm has over a century
of strong history from its roots as an insurer and has a foundation
of world-class investment performance, risk management,
sustainability, and client-centricity. Manulife IM's ability to
manage alternative assets for clients and within its insurance
platform allows for additional scale that can create exciting
product development initiatives and co-investment
opportunities. I look forward to working alongside the team to
continue delivering for clients and to accelerate the growth this
platform is uniquely poised to capture."
Manulife IM and its general account currently manage
approximately $120 billion USD of
private markets assets1, such as private equity, private
credit, infrastructure, real estate, timberland, and agriculture,
and was recently recognized as the world's largest natural capital
investment manager.2
About Manulife Investment
Management
Manulife Investment Management is the brand for the global
wealth and asset management segment of Manulife Financial
Corporation. Our mission is to make decisions easier and lives
better by empowering investors for a better tomorrow. Serving more
than 17 million individuals, institutions, and retirement plan
members, we believe our global reach, complementary businesses, and
the strength of our parent company position us to help investors
capitalize on today's emerging global trends. We provide our
clients access to public and private investment solutions across
equities, fixed income, multi-asset, alternative, and
sustainability-linked strategies, such as natural capital, to help
them make more informed financial decisions and achieve their
investment objectives. Not all offerings are available in all
jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit
manulifeim.com.
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1 As of
Sept. 30, 2023.
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2
IPE research as of 1/29/2024. Ranking is based
on total Natural Capital AUM, which includes forestry/timberland
and agriculture/farmland AUM. Firms were
asked to provide AUM and the as of dates vary from
12/31/2022 – 12/31/2023.
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