Manulife Targets 15% Yearly Profit Growth

Bloomberg, Patricia Cheng, 3 October 2006Manulife Financial Corp. said it expects profit to grow 15 percent a year, driven mainly by Asia, the fastest-growing region for Canada's biggest insurer."Our growth is sustainable because we are in a bunch of economies that are growing themselves very quickly and in these countries we are expanding," said Chief Executive Officer Dominic D'Alessandro in an