HTD News and Press, John Hancock Tax Advantaged Dividend Income Fund of Beneficial Interest From 03/30/21

Looking at 4 funds that I picked up as we entered the bear market a year ago. I own all 4 of these funds still and have even added to some of them since those lows. Just as I was then, I'm still focused on being a long-term investor. For further details see: 4 Closed-End...

HTD is a solid CEF that will likely prove very attractive to those investors that are interested in the dividend growth strategy. The fund is heavily weighted towards utilities, which is nice because these tend to be very stable entities that slowly increase their dividends. The f...

According to a well-known English finance professor, Elroy Dimson, “risk means more things can happen than will happen.”. Uncertainty does not allow us to predict in advance the probabilities of an event, nor the potential results associated with it. In financial mar...

The Income Factory® philosophy has gained wide acceptance here on Seeking Alpha and elsewhere, but there was lots of resistance when I first introduced the concept about a decade ago. The idea that "income drives wealth" is one that goes back centuries in economics and literature...

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Markets remained quite lofty, though later in January we got some volatility to spice things up. Overall, still holding a considerable cash position to take advantage of any market correction when it comes. The broader indexes were heading higher for most of the month before pulli...

Many investors are suspicious of closed-end funds' apparently magical ability to buy assets whose "natural" yield is, for example, 6%, and pay distributions of, say, 9%. Is there some sort of alchemy at work here? Often when things seem "too good to be true," they are too good to be t...

Having strongly underperformed the wider stock market in 2020, high-dividend stocks have shown early signs of a rebound in recent weeks. Dividend cuts and suspensions have started to normalize, and the ongoing low-interest-rate environment and the recent tightening in credit spreads s...

Several of the utility/infrastructure funds in the CEF space are quite popular. They are a good fit for a CEF portfolio; providing steady income and steady appreciation due to their stability. Looking at a review of past performance, valuation, distribution and what looks potentia...

John Hancock Tax-advantaged Dividend Income Fund Notice to Shareholders - Sources of Distribution Under Section 19(a) Canada NewsWire BOSTON , Jan. 29, 2021 /CNW/ - John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund (NYSE: HTD) (the "Fund"), a closed-end fund ...