Manulife Owns 31.3% of Seamark

Dow Jones, 16 May 2006Seamark Asset Management Ltd.'s president and chief executive, Stuart R. Raftus, has purchased 130,000 shares of Seamark from Seamark's chairman and chief investment officer, G. Peter Marshall, and 320,000 shares from a unit of Manulife Financial Corp., at C$8.40 a share.Seamark, a Halifax, N.S. investment management company, said that, following these transactions Marshall