HTD News and Press, John Hancock Tax Advantaged Dividend Income Fund of Beneficial Interest From 06/14/22

I had put a lot of my cash to work in the month of May as equities hit new lows for the year. The S&P 500 briefly joined the Nasdaq in bear territory but swiftly bounced out of the technical bear market of a 20% decline. While I'm lighter on my cash allocation, the cash pile w...

Investing is simple: you just need to find quality titles, buy those titles at the lowest possible price, and keep them for the long term. Easy to say but not to do, at least for me, because I rank these steps in increasing order of difficulty. In this article I will describe, fro...

I have recently sold my position in KMF to lock in the gains. Energy could continue higher, and this fund is still at an enticing discount. I have moved this capital to BDJ, ETG and HTD, as I believe these are also compelling investments. For further details see: KMF: Ta...

Investing conservatively is how the aging investor population needs to approach the stock market. The reality is once you have mastered something or have a strategy to follow, the process can feel relatively slow, dull, and boring. With bonds currently in a bear market, we need to...

My financial assets are divided into three distinct income portfolios, which I named with the Florentine sobriquets of Cupolone, Giotto and Masaccio. The first two, Cupolone and Giotto, contain securities paying monthly distributions and are focused on CEFs, ETFs, and ETNs. Masacc...

JOHN HANCOCK ANNOUNCES PORTFOLIO MANAGER CHANGES FOR JOHN HANCOCK CLOSED-END FUNDS Canada NewsWire BOSTON , April 28, 2022 /CNW/ - John Hancock Investment Management LLC (the "Adviser") today announced changes to the portfolio management teams for John Ha...

While primarily focused on CEFs, my investment portfolio also includes ETFs/ETNs and some individual stocks in order to broaden the range of sectors covered. It currently consists of 32 securities, divided into three distinct groups, each with a different investment strategy. Afte...

It was another head-scratcher of a week as the mad rush out of bonds and into equities continued to power the major-market ETFs ever closer to break-even on the year. But with everything disrupting the new world order, from Russia-to-China, from oil prices-to-food prices, from 25 bp-t...

JOHN HANCOCK TAX-ADVANTAGED DIVIDEND INCOME FUND - NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS - SOURCES OF DISTRIBUTION UNDER SECTION 19(a) Canada NewsWire BOSTON , March 31, 2022 /CNW/ - John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund (NYSE: HTD) (the "Fund"), a closed-end...

I've added three different positions that presented a reasonably attractive opportunity. Two of the three positions have less exposure to the global markets but have been hit with broader volatility just the same. Every month, I add to my positions or buy new positions in my portf...