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Westland Gate Capital LLC is an investment advisory firm that believes capital can be a powerful force for positive change. Westland Gate Capital is based in Boston, MA. The private company's investment clients aim to grow their capital while improving their communities, while their business clients operate with a mission to provide products and services in ways that respect the economic, environmental, health, and social well-being of their communities. Westland Gate Capital offers investment advisory services to empower their institutional clients to unlock the potential of their capital to affect positive social and environmental change by designing thoughtful and responsible public market strategies and by managing impact private market strategies. Additionally, the company provides portfolio support and management services for institutional impact investors.

Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC (Manulife IM (US)) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1968 and is a subsidiary of John Hancock Subsidiaries LLC, ultimately held by Manulife Financial Corp. (NYSE, TSX: MFC), a Canadian-based financial services firm. Manulife IM-US manages assets for a variety of institutional and other types of clients, such as public and private pension funds, foundations, mandatory provident funds outside the US, financial institutions, investment trusts, separately managed account clients, and high net-worth individuals. The firm also manages registered funds, which includes UCITS, US and Canadian open- and closed-end mutual funds and privately offered unregistered investment funds.

Boston-based John Hancock Advisers, Inc. (JHA) is the mutual fund affiliate of John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. and manages the John Hancock family of retail and institutional mutual funds, as well as separate equity portfolios for private accounts and retirement plans for individual and institutional investors. In 2003, Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX, NYSE: MFC) and John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: JHF) announced that they would merge and would thus create a leading global insurance franchise. The combined company will market products and services under multiple brands including John Hancock in the US and Manulife in Canada and the US.