Manulife Financial Corp. will celebrate its 10 anniversary as a public company by contributing to the planting of 75,000 trees in Canada, the U.S. and Asia.

The action is meant to symbolize future growth to honour the employees, agents and retirees that helped shepherd Manulife through 10 years of strong growth.

Since its initial public offering in 1999, Manulife has seen its market value quadruple to $37 billion.

Funds under management and premiums & deposits has also quadrupled, and its employee and agent numbers have double.

“Since Manulife’s demutualization and listing as a public company 10 years ago, we’ve grown to be one of Canada’s largest and most international financial services companies,” says Donald Guloien, president and CEO. “We’re proud of the results we’ve achieved for our customers, policyholders and investors and believe that the current economic environment presents our company with unprecedented opportunities to build on that record and demonstrate that the best is yet to come,” he added.

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