Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC) delivered second-quarter 2024 core earnings of 66 cents per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 3.1%. The bottom line improved 6.4% year over year. Core earnings of $1.3 billion (C$1.7 billion) increased 8.3% year over year. The improvement was driven by continued business growth momentum and updates to actuarial methods and assumptions in the second half of 2023, higher fee income from favorable market impacts and positive net flows, a favorable tax true-u ...