01:56 PM EST - Manulife Financial Corporation : announced a five-cent-per-share dividend on its common shares, payable on and after December 20, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 1. Combined with its quarterly common shareholders' dividend of $0.28 per share announced on November 3, this supplementary dividend results in a total quarterly common shareholders dividend of $0.33 per share or an 18% increase. Manulife has a strong track record of delivering progressive dividend increases and is pleased to have combined the annual increase for 2021 with an accelerated annual dividend increase for 2022 by executing it one quarter earlier than the dividend increases we have announced in the past. Manulife Financial Corporation
shares T.MFC are trading up $0.42 at $24.46.
