Manulife Growth Opportunities Fund

Canadian Small or Mid Cap Equity

CANADIAN EQUITY

VOLATILITY METER

Low (1)High (25)
Volatility Meter: 25

Based on 3 year standard deviation from Globefund.com

OBJECTIVE long-term capital growth. The Fund invests primarily in high quality securities and convertible instruments of small- and mid-cap Canadian companies.

MANAGED BY MFC Global Investment Management (Canada)

SUB-ADVISORS MFC Global Investment Management (Canada)


FUND MANAGERS Ted Whitehead, CFA and Jennifer Dowty, CFA

INCEPTION DATE November 1998

TOTAL ASSETS $651.5 million


 

Top Holdings
(as at June 30, 2010)

Pacific Rubiales Energy 2.40%
Silver Wheaton 2.20%
Biovail 2.18%
Home Capital Group 2.15%
Eldorado Gold 2.07%
Crew Energy Inc 2.06%
Bankers Petroleum 2.04%
Baytex Energy Trust 1.90%
San Gold Corporation 1.88%
Iamgold Corp. 1.84%
Total 20.72%

How the fund is invested


PERFORMANCE DATA

Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Please read the Simplified Prospectus before investing. You can obtain a copy through our website at www.manulifeinvestments.ca. All rates of return are the historical annual compounded total returns including changes in share value and reinvestment of all distributions and do not take into account sales, redemption, distribution or optional charges or income taxes payable by any security holder that would have reduced returns. Mutual funds are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated.

YEAR BY YEAR RETURNS

This chart shows you the fund's annual performance and how an investment made on January 1st would have changed by December 31st.


OVERALL PAST PERFORMANCE

This graph shows how a $10,000 investment would have changed in value over time.


*For illustration purposes only. Includes mutual/pooled fund performance as indicated. Actual fund performance could be expected to vary.


ANNUAL COMPOUND RETURNS (as at June 30, 2010)

This table shows the historical annual compound total return of the fund compared with the BMO Nesbitt Burns Cdn Small Cap Index.
1 Year 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year Since Inception Date of Inception MER
Manulife Growth Opportunities Fund 32.56%  -2.80%  4.91%  10.18%  13.65%  Nov 1998 2.61 
BMO Nesbitt Burns Cdn Small Cap Index 39.10%  -5.05%  5.62%  7.52% 

Fund codes

Deferred Sales ChargeEPL488
naEPL1484
Class FEPL688
Front EndEPL588
Capped Front EndEPL388
Low LoadEPL788
naEPL1784