Manulife Investments Launches New Multifactor ETF Sub-Advised by Dimensional Fund Advisors Canada ULC

Manulife today announced that a new Manulife Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) has closed its initial offering of units and will begin trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange today. Manulife Investments will offer a new multifactor ETF sub-advised by Dimensional Fund Advisors Canada ULC and DFA Australia Limited.

The index that this ETF is designed to track was developed by Dimensional, a pioneer of multifactor investing, using their time-tested multifactor approach and taking into account efficient implementation of this strategy into an index, using Dimensional's proprietary Index Memory technique.