{"id":524356,"date":"2023-01-16T20:18:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T20:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=524356"},"modified":"2023-01-26T20:15:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:15:53","slug":"job-cuts-not-top-of-mind-phenomenal-opportunity-in-asia-manulife-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/job-cuts-not-top-of-mind-phenomenal-opportunity-in-asia-manulife-ceo","title":{"rendered":"Job cuts not top of mind, &#8216;phenomenal opportunity&#8217; in Asia -Manulife CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Job cuts are not &#8220;top of mind&#8221; for Manulife Financial Corp (MFC.TO), Canada&#8217;s largest insurer, as it sees significant growth opportunities, fuelled particularly by Asia, CEO Roy Gori said on Monday. &#8220;We are in growth mode,&#8221; Gori told the Reuters Global Markets Forum on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum&#8217;s annual meeting in Davos, adding that his firm has been increasing headcount. &#8220;We are growing at more than double or triple the GDP in most of the markets that we operate in. That means that we&#8217;re investing organically to grow our business and &#8230; possibly looking at inorganic opportunities for growth as well.&#8221; Gori said Manulife&#8217;s U.S. and Canadian markets were stable and growing at a reasonable rate, while seeing a &#8220;phenomenal opportunity&#8221; in Asia due to the region&#8217;s expanding middle-class, despite any trade shocks that may come its way. While China&#8217;s reversal of its zero-COVID policy may pose some short-term challenges, Gori<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Job cuts are not &#8220;top of mind&#8221; for Manulife Financial Corp (MFC.TO), Canada&#8217;s largest insurer, as it sees significant growth opportunities, fuelled particularly by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}