Manulife Malaysia Equity Fund - Manulife Insurance Berhad

15. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS/CONFLICT OF
INTEREST
The Manager
Save for the transactions as disclosed below, as at the LPD, the Manager is not
aware of any existing or potential related-party-transactions involving the Fund, the
Manager, promoters, vendors and/or persons connected to them:
Name of Party
involved in the
transaction
Nature of
Transaction
Name of
Related Party
Relationship
Manulife Unit Trusts
Berhad
Payment of
management fees
to Manulife Asset
Management
(Malaysia) Sdn.
Bhd.
Manulife Asset
Management
(Malaysia) Sdn.
Bhd.
Both Manulife Unit Trusts
Berhad and Manulife
Asset Management
(Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. are
wholly owned by Manulife
Holdings Berhad
It is the Manager’s policy that all transactions with any related parties are entered into
in the normal course of business and have been established on terms and conditions
that are not materially different from that obtainable in transactions with unrelated
parties and dealings with the related parties are transacted at arm’s length basis.
The Manager has in place policies and procedures to prevent and deal with any
conflict of interest situations that may arise such as the regular disclosure of securities
dealing by all employees, directors and members of the Investment Committee to
the compliance unit for verification. In addition, there are adequate segregation
of duties to ensure proper checks and balances are in place in the areas of fund
management, sales administration and marketing. Policies and procedures are
also in place to deal with any potential conflict of interest where members of the
Investment Committee are also directors of other asset management companies.
Where conflicts of interest arise, members of the Investment Committee will abstain
from making a decision.
Subject to any legal requirement, the Manager, or any related corporation of
the Manager, or any officers or directors of any of them, may invest in the Fund.
The directors of the Manager will receive no payments from the Fund other than
distributions that they may receive as a result of investment in the Fund. No fees
other than the ones set out in this Prospectus have been paid to any promoter of
the Fund or the Manager for any purpose.
The Manager has also internal policies which regulates its employees’ securities
dealings.
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