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Protect your personal data by keeping your Manulife customer website login password safe and change your password regularly.  Manulife will never call you or send any SMS/email asking for your Manulife customer website login password. Stay vigilant for suspicious phone calls, emails, websites, apps, etc. allegedly related to Manulife. If you receive any calls claiming to be from Manulife, authenticate the caller’s identity (e.g. full name of the advisor and his/her Insurance/MPF Intermediary License No. or full name of the Manulife customer service officer). If the caller refuses to disclose such information, please do not continue with the conversation. Also, if you notice any suspicious transaction activities in your account with Manulife, or any account that is under your name but not set up by you, please inform us immediately. If you are in doubt, please contact us at (852) 2108 1188 (HK) / (853) 8398 0383 (Macau) or by email at service_hk@manulife.com (HK & Macau) for assistance.

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Employee Choice Arrangement

Manulife MPF Employee Choice Arrangement Scheme

What is Employee Choice Arrangement?

Employee Choice Arrangement (“ECA”) aims to encourage more active management of MPF investment from employees. Upon implementation of ECA on November 1, 2012, an employee can elect to transfer the accrued benefits derived from the employee mandatory contributions made during the current employment to a Personal Account under an MPF trustee and scheme of his/her own choice in one lump sum once per calendar year. The former employment asset from the current contribution account can also be transferred to a personal account or a contribution account in one lump sum at any time.

 

However, accrued benefits derived from mandatory contributions made by an employer are non-transferable and must remain in the original scheme. Every calendar year thereafter, the employee can continue transferring accrued benefits derived from employee mandatory contributions from the past year into the same Personal Account or one held with another MPF trustee.

 

The MPF accrued benefits derived from the Personal Account are transferable to the employee's personal account or contribution account in one lump sum at any time.

Transferability of MPF accrued benefits

Transferability of MPF Assets upon implementation of ECA:

  Current Employment
(Contribution Account)
Former Employment
(Personal Account1)
Accrued Benefits derived from: Employer's Employee's Former Employment
Asset (transferred in
by employee)
Personal Account Asset2
Mandatory Contributions Not transferable2 Transferable to the
employee's personal
account once per calendar year3, 4
Transferable to the employee's personal account or contribution account at anytime in one
lump sum3, 4
Transferable to the employee's personal account or contribution account at anytime in one lump sum3, 4
Voluntary Contributions Transferability is subject to the governing rules of the original scheme2, 3, 4

 

  1. “Personal account” was called “preserved account” prior to the implementation of Employee Choice Arrangement on November 1, 2012.
  2. Transferability of the following accrued benefits remains unchanged after ECA implementation:
    - Contribution account: Derived from employer mandatory contributions and all voluntary contributions, and
    - Personal account asset.
  3. Accrued benefits will be transferred to the new scheme in a lump sum per sub-account (i.e., no partial transfer within sub-accounts). As the transfer takes time, the number of fund units shown in the employee's current MPF account on the date s/he decides to transfer may be different from that as of the date on which the fund units are redeemed. The original trustee will redeem all the fund units in the sub-account(s) on the date of redemption and transfer out the redeemed benefits.
  4. It may take 2-8 weeks to complete a transfer, depending on the nature of transfer and whether complete information is furnished.

Take control of your employee contribution

With ECA, employees can enjoy greater autonomy on their choice of MPF scheme and service provider. All transfer decisions are made by the employees alone. Employees do not need to inform their employers for such decisions or involve them in the process of transfer of MPF accrued benefits.

To learn more about Employee Choice Arrangement, please click here.


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To manage your retirement investments more efficiently, you may consolidate your MPF accrued benefits from multiple to a single personal account. With Manulife Personal Account you may enjoy special privileged rates on our management fees by way of bonus unit rebate (terms and conditions apply)

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Warning: Investment involves risks. Please refer to the MPF Scheme Brochure and Key Scheme Information Document (KSID) for details including risk factors, fees and charges of the scheme.


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For enquiries, talk to your Manulife MPF intermediary or call our member hotline on (852) 2108 1388

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Offers you a wide range of constituent funds for an investment portfolio that can be tailored to individual needs and risk appetites, backed by all-round MPF services. You can select from a comprehensive MPF platform offering 29 different constituent funds, ranging from equity funds (international, regional, single-market and sector), bond funds (international, regional and single-market), mixed assets funds (lifestyle and target date), guaranteed funds to money market fund. Besides, the Default Investment Strategy (“DIS”) is also one of the available investment choices for you as required by the legislative requirement.

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Warning: Investment involves risks. Please refer to the MPF Scheme Brochure and Key Scheme Information Document (KSID) for details including risk factors, fees and charges of the scheme.

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