Manulife Financial Corporation has announced (although not yet on their website):
that after having taken into account all election notices received by the September 4, 2018 deadline for conversion of its currently outstanding 8,000,000 Non-cumulative Rate Reset Class 1 Shares Series 13 (the “Series 13 Preferred Shares”) (TSX: MFC.PR.K) into Non-cumulative Floating Rate Class 1 Shares Series 14 of Manulife (the “Series 14 Preferred Shares”), the holders of Series 13 Preferred Shares are not entitled to convert their Series 13 Preferred Shares into Series 14 Preferred Shares. There were 140,179 Series 13 Preferred Shares elected for conversion, which is less than the minimum one million shares required to give effect to conversions into Series 14 Preferred Shares.
As announced by Manulife on August 21, 2018, after September 19, 2018, holders of Series 13 Preferred Shares will be entitled to receive fixed rate non-cumulative preferential cash dividends on a quarterly basis, as and when declared by the Board of Directors of Manulife and subject to the provisions of the Insurance Companies Act (Canada). The dividend rate for the five-year period commencing on September 20, 2018, and ending on September 19, 2023, will be 4.41400% per annum or $0.275875 per share per quarter, being equal to the sum of the five-year Government of Canada bond yield as at August 21, 2018, plus 2.22%, as determined in accordance with the terms of the Series 13 Preferred Shares.
Subject to certain conditions described in the prospectus supplement dated June 17, 2013 relating to the issuance of the Series 13 Preferred Shares, Manulife may redeem the Series 13 Preferred Shares, in whole or in part, on September 19, 2023 and on September 19 every five years thereafter.
It will be recalled that MFC.PR.K will reset at 4.414% effective September 19.
MFC.PR.K is a FixedReset, 3.80%+222, that commenced trading 2013-6-21 after being announced 2013-6-17. The announcement of extension has been previously reported. The issue is tracked by HIMIPref™ and is assigned to the FixedReset subindex. Since it is an insurance holding company issue without a NVCC clause, a Deemed Maturity at par as of 2025-1-31 has been added to the redemption schedule as is my normal practice.
I previously recommended against conversion.
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