John Hancock Preferred Income Fund
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund is a closed ended balanced mutual fund launched and managed by John Hancock Investment Management LLC. It is co-managed by John Hancock Asset Management. The fund invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. It seeks to invest in securities of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in preferred value stocks of companies, convertible preferred securities, and investment grade fixed-income securities rated investment grade or higher by Moody's or Standard & Poor's. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hybrid Preferred Securities Index and Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. John Hancock Preferred Income Fund was formed on August 27, 2002 and is domiciled in the United States.
| Name | Cumulative Return | Ann. Return | Ann. Vol | Sharpe | Max DD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund | -13.4% | -13.4% | 10.9% | -1.58 | -14.0% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.
Name | YTD | 1D | 5D | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y | 2Y | 3Y | 5Y | MAX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund | -9.0% | -0.9% | -1.1% | -11.1% | -13.3% | -8.1% | -13.4% | -6.1% | 9.4% | 0.1% | 6.1% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.
Name | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund | 8.0%* | 3.7% | -7.1% | 30.9% | -18.8% | -18.2% | 38.4% | 18.4% | 25.4% | 9.8% | -11.5% | 24.4% | 5.9% | 9.9% | 13.8% | -4.8% | 30.9% | -7.0% | 13.2% | -15.8% | 8.4% | 15.0% | 6.6% | -9.0% |
* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.
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Name | Ann. α | β MKT | β SMB | β HML | β RMW | β CMA | β UMD | β iHML | R² | Obs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HPIUS John Hancock Preferred Income Fund | -10.1% | 0.43** | 0.05 | -0.01 | -0.01 | 0.04 | -0.04 | -0.02 | 0.40 | 226 |
ETF performance based on market prices. US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund is a closed ended balanced mutual fund launched and managed by John Hancock Investment Management LLC. It is co-managed by John Hancock Asset Management. The fund invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. It seeks to invest in securities of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in preferred value stocks of companies, convertible preferred securities, and investment grade fixed-income securities rated investment grade or higher by Moody's or Standard & Poor's. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hybrid Preferred Securities Index and Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. John Hancock Preferred Income Fund was formed on August 27, 2002 and is domiciled in the United States.
MethodologyExpense ratio and its components from the prospectus fee table, else the SEC annual shareholder report, else market data. Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 7/31/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 7/31/2026. Summary may be from an older prospectus.
Not scored — HPI’s holdings don’t clear the coverage floor for composite factor scores.
None of the selected metrics are scored for HPI — switch the picker to All, or add metrics under Metrics (top right).
Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Fixed Income Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 7/31/2026.
Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. The long book is 162% of net assets, so shares are of the long book rather than of the fund - it is levered by 62%.
Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
182 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings)
| # | Name | Ticker | Weight % | Sector | Industry | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wells Fargo and Company | WFC | 2.78 | Financials | Multinational Banks | USA |
| 2 | Bank of America | BAC | 2.70 | Financials | Multinational Banks | USA |
| 3 | Athene Holding | - | 2.26 | - | - | USA |
| 4 | Vistra | VST | 2.23 | Utilities | Merchant Power | USA |
| 5 | Energy Transfer LP | - | 2.06 | - | - | USA |
| 6 | Venture Global LNG | - | 2.02 | - | - | USA |
| 7 | Athene Holding | - | 1.94 | - | - | USA |
| 8 | Citizens Financial Group | CFG | 1.84 | Financials | Nat'l & Regional Banks | USA |
| 9 | CMS Energy | CMS | 1.83 | Utilities | Regulated Utilities | USA |
| 10 | Telephone and Data Systems | TDS | 1.82 | Communication | Telecommunications | USA |
Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Fixed Income Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026.
One sub-card per benchmark: the market primary, then the style secondary — the gap between them is the style sleeve itself. Both anchors are Sparkline-inferred (market from asset class and region, style from the holdings size-and-style map), not the fund's official prospectus benchmark. Solid blue dot marks the fund; the shaded band spans the reference set's 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median (band follows the Peer Universe selector). Active Share compares the fund's book with the benchmark's, share for share; Tracking Error is the annualized daily deviation over the trailing two years (ruler runs to just past the universe's 95th percentile, or past the fund's own figure where that is larger); Benchmark Correlation is the plain daily correlation over the trailing year. Hover the labels for full definitions.
Metric | HPI John Hancock Preferred Income Fund | Peer Group 54 funds | Peer Asset Class 2,838 funds |
|---|---|---|---|
YTD Return | -9.04% | -1.32%7 | -2.33%3 |
1Y Return | -13.39% | -1.24%4 | -1.51%1 |
3Y Return (Ann.) | 9.39% | 8.98%58 | 4.80%93 |
5Y Return (Ann.) | 0.13% | 0.88%32 | 0.27%48 |
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper | - | - | - |
Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (87 share classes across 54 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.
Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.
| Fund | Peer Group | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HPF John Hancock Preferred Income Fund II Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 72 | - | - | - | - |
| 2 | HPS John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 71 | - | - | - | - |
| 3 | FLC Flaherty & Crumrine Total Return Fund Incorporated Allocation - Conservative | Allocation - Conservative | 64 | - | - | - | - |
| 4 | FFC Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred and Income Securities Fund Incorporated Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 62 | - | - | - | - |
| 5 | DFP Flaherty & Crumrine Dynamic Preferred and Income Fund Incorporated Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 61 | - | - | - | - |
| 6 | PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred and Income Opportunity Fund Incorporated Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 61 | - | - | - | - |
| 7 | PFD Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred and Income Fund Incorporated Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 58 | - | - | - | - |
| 8 | NPFD Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred & Income Fund Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 58 | - | - | - | - |
| 9 | PSF Cohen & Steers Select Preferred & Income Fund, Inc. Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 56 | - | - | - | - |
| 10 | FPF First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund Preferred Stock | Preferred Stock | 55 | - | - | - | - |
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MethodologyRows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days). Fama-French Similarity = 1/(1+d), where d is the Euclidean distance between factor betas (market, size, value, profitability, investment, momentum, intangible value) from up to three years of daily returns (min 378 daily observations and regression R² of at least 0.25); 1.00 = identical loadings.