John Hancock Funds

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  Worried Mutual Fund Leaders Ask: Are We the Auto Industry of Finance?

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  April 24, 2012

  “The relationship with the advisor as opposed to the product provider has become much more important to investors,” said Boston Consulting Group's Gary Shub during his MFEA talk.

• ETF Expert: Active Management

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  March 1, 2010

  For an increasing number of investment managers who either already market ETFs or are looking to start, the pixie dust needed to get new funds off the ground is active management.

• Roth Conversion in 2010

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  October 1, 2009

  On January 1, 2010, nearly $1.4 trillion of retirement assets will become eligible to be converted to a Roth IRA. The Tax Increase Prevention...

• Beantown: Booms & Busts

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  December 1, 2008

  Boston has played a key role in American financial history since the beginnings of the nation. That role sometimes gets overlooked, partly because so much...

• Retirement income without annuities

  By Staff Writer  |  June 25, 2008

  Investors may be put off by liquidity restraints in annuities, and wary of hidden fees, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper cites a...

• John Hancock Funds' CEO Hartstein on the boomer need for LTCI

  By Staff Writer  |  May 28, 2008

  Purchasing long term care insurance would seem to be a basic strategy to guard against longevity risk. But LTCI continues to struggle with market penetration....

• IN BRIEF

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  March 1, 2008

  Fidelity Investments has reopened its 45-year-old Fidelity Magellan Fund to new investors, effective January 15. The fund had been closed to new accounts since September...

• IN BRIEF

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  December 1, 2007

  Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group says its quarterly results for the three months ended September 30 included net revenues of $571 million, net income of...

• IN BRIEF

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  March 1, 2007

  John Hancock Funds has introduced two new fund-of-funds products: the John Hancock International Allocation Portfolio and the John Hancock Lifecycle Portfolios. "Both new products demonstrate our...

• New CEO Joins John Hancock Funds

  By Staff Writer  |  June 1, 2004

  May 27, 2004 -- John Hancock Financial Services Inc. appointed James Shepherdson chairman and chief executive officer of its mutual funds unit. Shepherdson replaces Maureen Ford...