New business is being written on visibly better terms than the company's own recent norm, and the mix shift has just beg
The model's full reasoning — Q3 2023 call → NOWe need answer YES or NO based on transcript. Need determine if management indicates both halves: new business terms improved vs own recent norm, and reported results still mostly old terms, improvement only begun to flow. We need parse transcript. The question is about "ECONOMIC TERMS OF THE COMPANY'S NEWEST BUSINESS" stepping up meaningfully above own recent norm, and improvement only begun to flow into reported results because most business in reported numbers still written at older less favorable terms. We need look for management statements. The transcript covers Manulife Q3 2023. Topics: APE sales growth, new business value, CSM, core earnings, etc. But question specifically about terms of new business: prices, rates, fees, spreads, contract sizes, durations, profitability at which recent deals are struck. Did management indicate that new business economics have improved vs own recent norm? Possibly in context of higher interest rates benefiting new business? Let's examine. Roy Gori: "we continue to operate in a tough and uncertain environment... I see tremendous opportunities against the backdrop of higher rates and continued recovery in Asia. Manulife is uniquely positioned to capture these opportunities, given our financial strength, business and geographic diversity and a leading insurance business that will continue to benefit from higher rates." That's about future benefit, not necessarily new business terms already improved. Colin Simpson: "higher interest rates continue to benefit our net investment result through both higher expected investment earnings and higher returns on our surplus assets." That's investment income, not new business terms. Asia: APE sales increased 20%, new business CSM 16%, new business value 7%. But that's volume and profitability? New business value increased 7% while sales up 20% - margin may have declined? Actually NBV up 7% on APE up 20% implies margin down. Not step-up in terms. Canada: APE sales up 51% due to large affinity market sale. That's one-time deal? The question says NO if improvement attributed chiefly to one-time deal. So not that. US: lower sales due to high rate environment, accumulation products. No improvement. Global WAM: net outflows, performance fees. Not new business terms.
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CRL · Q2 2022 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management's comments on Safety Assessment pricing and backlog directly address both required elements: they describe current bookings and backlog at "escalating prices" and "meaningful price increases" that are already achieved on real transactions (not targets or future expectations), while noting that the reported Q2 results are still dominated by older 2022 terms and that the stronger pricing is accelerating into H2 and 2023 bookings.
ESS · Q2 2018 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management describes the loss-to-lease metric rising to 3.
CTO · Q2 2023 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...