Strategic Equity Allocation Fund

Data updated: 2022-04-27

C000111805 — Strategic Equity Allocation Fund. Capital Appreciation / Growth Allocation · $6.98B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.

C000111805 Fund Overview

Strategic Equity Allocation Fund is a US mutual fund managed by John Hancock Funds II, categorised as Capital Appreciation / Growth Allocation. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

Type: US mutual fund
Manager: John Hancock Funds II
Category: Capital Appreciation / Growth Allocation
Assets under management: $6.98B
1-year return: 6.7%
SEC CIK: 0001331971
SEC series ID: S000036500
Share class ID: C000111805

C000111805 Investment Objective and Strategy

Strategic Equity Allocation Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by John Hancock Funds II.

Investment objective

To seek capital appreciation.

Principal investment strategy

"The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing under normal market conditions at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in U.S. and foreign equity securities of any market capitalization, including futures on indexes of equity securities. The fund's allocation to various markets and types of securities will be actively managed. The fund may invest in both developed and emerging markets. The fund's investment in equity securities will vary both with respect to types of securities and markets in response to changing market and economic trends. The fund's allocation of securities will depend on the manager's outlook for the markets and generally reflect the manager's strategic asset allocation analysis and their assessment of the relative attractiveness of a particular asset class.

When determining whether to invest in a particular market, the manager considers various factors, including economic and political conditions, potential for economic growth and possible changes in currency exchange rates. The fund also may invest in exchange-traded funds and in fixed-income securities, including, but not limited to: U.S. Treasury and agency securities as well as notes backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; U.S. Treasury futures contracts; Mortgage-backed securities, including mortgage pass-through securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs); U.S. and foreign corporate bonds; Foreign government and agency securities; and Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield securities. The foreign securities in which the fund invests may be denominated in U.S.

dollars or foreign currency. The fund may actively manage its exposure to foreign currencies through the use of foreign currency forward contracts and other currency derivatives. The fund may own foreign cash equivalents and foreign bank deposits as part of its investment strategy. The fund may invest in foreign currencies for hedging and speculative purposes. The fund may focus its investments in a particular sector or sectors of the economy. Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under ""Risks of investing Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk,"" including, but not limited to, futures and options contracts, foreign currency forward contracts and swaps, including credit default swaps and total return swaps.

The fund may engage in derivatives transactions for hedging and non-hedging purposes including, without limitation, the following purposes: to attempt to protect against possible changes in the market value of securities held or to be purchased by the fund resulting from securities markets or currency exchange rate fluctuations; to protect the fund's unrealized gains in the value of its securities; to facilitate the sale of the fund's securities for investment purposes; to manage the effective maturity or duration of the fund's securities; to establish a position in the derivatives markets as a method of gaining exposure to a particular security or market; to facilitate the repatriation of foreign currency and the settlement of purchases of foreign securities; and to increase or decrease exposure to a foreign currency or to shift exposure to foreign currency fluctuations from one country to another."

C000111805 Performance

Total returns for C000111805 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

Period	Total return
1 year	6.7%
3 years (annualised)	14.3%

C000111805 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000111805, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

1-year volatility (annualised): 11.8%

C000111805 Costs and Fees

C000111805 costs about $66 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

Net expense ratio: 0.66%
Gross expense ratio: 0.67%
Portfolio turnover: 79%
Brokerage commissions: 3.67 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000111805 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2022-02, Strategic Equity Allocation Fund had net outflows of $140.28M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

Month	Net flow
2022-02	−$964.55M
2022-01	−$185.39M
2021-12	$1.35B
2021-11	−$33.15M
2021-10	−$53.02M
2021-09	$36.54M

C000111805 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in Strategic Equity Allocation Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000111805 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official Strategic Equity Allocation Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

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Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.