EX-99.4 5 d505815dex994.htm EX-99.4 EX-99.4

Exhibit 99.4

MANULIFE FINANCIAL CORPORATION

 

 

Proxy Voting Information

We offer you four ways to vote your shares

 

MAIL

 

 

Complete, sign, date and mail this proxy form in the envelope provided.

 

INTERNET

 

 

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Proxy Form – Annual Meeting of Common Shareholders

 

 

       Proxy Information                                                               

 

 

This proxy confers discretionary authority on the proxy named herein to vote in respect of any amendments or variations to the matters identified in the notice of meeting or any other matter which may properly come before the meeting in such manner as such proxy in his or her judgment may determine.

 

A shareholder has the right to appoint a person to represent him or her at the meeting other than the management representatives designated in this proxy. Such right may be exercised by filling in the name of the other person in the blank space provided; such other person need not be a shareholder.

 

 

       Notes

 

 

•   This proxy must be signed by a shareholder or his or her attorney duly authorized in writing. If you are an individual, please sign exactly as your shares are registered. If the shareholder is a corporation, a duly authorized officer or attorney of the corporation must sign this proxy, and if the corporation has a corporate seal, its corporate seal should be affixed.

 

•   Signatories on behalf of a trust, estate or under a power of attorney or similar authority should specify the capacity in which they sign. Documentation may be required evidencing authority.

 

•   If the shares are held by two or more persons then all those persons should sign this proxy.

 

•   This proxy should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Management Information Circular and Notice of Annual Meeting of Common Shareholders.

 

•   If not dated, this proxy is deemed to bear the date on which it was mailed on behalf of management of the Company.

 

•   For your proxy vote to be counted, this proxy must be completed and delivered in accordance with the Voting Instructions above.

 

 

 

       Request for Financial Statements                                 

  

 

If you wish to receive the financial statements and MD&A for the next year by mail, you must check the appropriate box below.

 

I wish to receive the Interim Financial Statements and MD&A                                        

I wish to receive the Annual Financial Statements and MD&A                                        

  You may also make your request online at https://ca.astfinancial.com/financialstatements. Our Company code number is 4658A.

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MANULIFE FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Annual Meeting of Common Shareholders

May 3, 2018

                        

 

 

PLEASE MARK YOUR VOTE IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS SHOWN HERE    

 

This proxy is solicited on behalf of management of Manulife Financial Corporation (the “Company”).

The undersigned shareholder of the Company hereby appoints Roy Gori, President and Chief Executive Officer, or failing him, Richard B. DeWolfe, Chairman of the Board, with full power of substitution, or instead of any of them,                                                                          , as proxy of the undersigned, to attend, vote and act for and on behalf of the undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Common Shareholders of the Company to be held at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at the Head Office of the Company, 200 Bloor Street East, International Room, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and at all adjournments thereof, and are specifically directed to vote the common shares represented by this proxy upon the following matters.

Information on the following can be found in the Management Information Circular and Notice of Annual Meeting of Common Shareholders dated March 7, 2018.

The directors and management recommend shareholders vote FOR items 1, 2 and 3 and AGAINST items 4A and 4B. Where no choice is specified, the proxyholders designated by management intend to vote FOR items 1, 2 and 3 and AGAINST items 4A and 4B.

 

 

  1.   Election of Directors

 

 

  The proposed nominees are:

 

          FOR      WITHHOLD  
   

  01

          Ronalee H. Ambrose      
   

  02

          Joseph P. Caron      
   

  03

          John M. Cassaday      
   

  04

          Susan F. Dabarno      
   

  05

          Sheila S. Fraser      
   

  06

          Roy Gori      
   

  07

          Luther S. Helms      
   

  08

          Tsun-yan Hsieh      
   

  09

          P. Thomas Jenkins      
   

  10

          Pamela O. Kimmet      
   

  11

          Donald R. Lindsay      
   

  12

          John R.V. Palmer      
   

  13

          C. James Prieur      
   

  14

          Andrea S. Rosen      
   

  15

 

 

        Lesley D. Webster

 

  

 

  

 

   

 

  2.   Appointment of Auditors

 

        

 

  FOR  

    WITHHOLD  
   
   

  Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as

  Auditors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  3.   Advisory Resolution Accepting Approach to Executive Compensation

 

    

 

  FOR  

 

 

  AGAINST  

   

  Advisory resolution accepting approach

  to executive compensation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  4.   Shareholder Proposals

 

    

 

  FOR  

 

 

  AGAINST  

 

 

  ABSTAIN  

 

  4A Shareholder Proposal No. 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  4B Shareholder Proposal No. 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Please Sign and Return this Proxy Form                       

 

  

To be valid, this proxy must be signed and received by the Company’s transfer agent, AST Trust Company (Canada), P.O. Box 721, Agincourt, Ontario, Canada, M1S 0A1, no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, May 1, 2018 or, if the meeting is adjourned, no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the second business day preceding the day to which the meeting is adjourned. This proxy revokes and supersedes all proxies of earlier dates.

Please see the Notes on the reverse side of this form for instructions on how to complete this proxy and vote your shares.

Dated this              day of                                          , 2018.

 

 

Signature of Shareholder/Authorized Officer                                                 

   

 

Name of Shareholder (Please PRINT clearly)