"The objective is to take John Hancock funds from a second-tier fund company to a first-tier company, and we'll do it effectively overnight in this transaction," the company's President and Chief Executive Officer John D. DesPrez III, said in a Boston Globe report.
Executives reportedly said that the new deal is part of a significant expansion of the company's mutual fund unit, which will add 100 jobs and sales and other areas over the next year-and-a-half.
With roughly $86 billion in assets, GMO is a high-rated money manager with institutional and high-net-worth individual clients, which includes 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Adoption of the GMO's funds is John Hancock's sixth deal of this type over the past three years, followed by the similar agreements with Yeager, Wood & Marshall,
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