Manulife US REIT - Annual Report 2021

MANULIFE US REIT 110 Green Dot Series - A Thought Leadership Initiative Green is the corporate colour of Manulife. MUST aspires to be the ‘Green Dot’ in Asia to drive regional investor understanding of U.S. and the real estate market. Through our Green Dot Series, MUST aims to expand its investor outreach and education through conferences, seminars and thought leadership articles to the investment community. Additionally, the Green Dot Series section on MUST’s corporate website allows investors to have easy access to an archive of previous investor outreach and education programmes, like MUST’s thought leadership articles and independent market reports. MUST Go Green In 2021, we launched our inaugural MUST Go Green (MGG), a week-long thought leadership initiative under MUST’s Green Dot Series to raise awareness of ESG. Themed ‘Rise of ESG’, the event included ESG conferences with industry experts and one-on-one meetings with ESG investors, and saw participation from over 160 analysts, media, as well as institutional and retail investors. The success of MGG raised our ESG profile with coverage from notable media agencies and analysts. Strategic Memberships and Collaboration MUST is a member of REITAS, an organisation that aims to collaboratively strengthen and promote the Singapore REIT industry through education, research and professional development. MUST supports initiatives by REITAS and SGX that drive and encourage investor and ESG best practices. The CEO is a member of the Executive Committee of REITAS since 2020. Since 2019, the CSO and Chief Investor Relations and Capital Markets Officer has been invited to lecture at the annual REIT Management Course under REITAS’ Professional Development Series. Designed to equip professionals and middle management in REITs, the course aims to deepen the understanding of investor and media relations as a discipline and the role it plays in the day- to-day operations of a REIT. For more details on our investor engagement efforts, please refer to the Investor and Media Relations section on page 71 in our Annual Report 2021. Driving Sustainable Growth Must Go Green, an ESG thought leadership conference was held in October 2021