John Hancock Multifactor Media and Communications ETF

C000210183 Fund Overview

John Hancock Multifactor Media and Communications ETF is a US ETF managed by John Hancock Exchange-Traded Fund Trust, categorised as Global (incl. US) Blend / Core Communication Services Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

• Type: US ETF
• Manager: John Hancock Exchange-Traded Fund Trust
• Category: Global (incl. US) Blend / Core Communication Services Equity
• Assets under management: $14.55M
• 1-year return: -29.6%
• SEC CIK: 0001478482
• SEC series ID: S000064927
• Share class ID: C000210183

C000210183 Investment Objective and Strategy

John Hancock Multifactor Media and Communications ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by John Hancock Exchange-Traded Fund Trust.

Investment objective

To seek to provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the John Hancock Dimensional Media and Communications Index (the Index).

Principal investment strategy

The fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in securities that compose the funds Index. The Index is developed and maintained by Dimensional Fund Advisors LP and is designed to comprise securities in the media and communications sector within the U.S. Universe whose market capitalizations are larger than that of the 1001st largest U.S. company at the time of reconstitution. Stocks that compose the Index include those that may be considered medium or smaller capitalization company stocks. The selection and weighting of securities in the Index involves a rules-based process that may sometimes be referred to as multifactor investing, factor-based investing, strategic beta, or smart beta. Securities are classified according to their market capitalization, relative price, and profitability.

Weights for individual securities are then determined by adjusting their free-float adjusted market capitalization weight within the universe of eligible securities so that securities with smaller market capitalizations, lower relative price and higher profitability generally receive an increased weight relative to their unadjusted weight, and vice versa. This process can be summarized as follows: Adjustments for market capitalization : Securities within the eligible universe are assigned into one of three groups based on size, with the intent of increasing the weights of securities with smaller market capitalizations within the eligible universe and decreasing weights of securities with larger market capitalizations within the eligible universe. Securities in the smallest market capitalization group will have their free-float market capitalization increased by an adjustment factor.

Securities in the middle group will have their free-float market capitalization increased by a lesser adjustment factor. Securities in the group with the largest market capitalization will receive the lowest adjustment factor of the three groups. Adjustments for relative price and profitability : Securities are assigned to a relative price group and to a profitability group. Relative price adjustment factors are assigned with the intent of increasing the weights of securities with lower relative prices and decreasing the weights of securities with higher relative prices. Similarly, profitability adjustment factors are assigned with the intent of increasing the weights of securities with higher profitability and decreasing the weights of securities with lower profitability. Securities are then weighted after taking into account their free-float, size, relative price and profitability adjustments, subject to a cap of 6% on a single company at the time of reconstitution.

The Index is reconstituted and rebalanced on a semiannual basis. The media and communications sector is composed of companies in areas such as the creation, development or provision of media, communications, telecommunications, or internet backbone (i.e., the physical data routes that carry internet traffic between computer systems) services or technology. The U.S. Universe is defined as a free float-adjusted market-capitalization-weighted portfolio of U.S. operating companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NYSE American LLC, NASDAQ Global Market, or such other securities exchanges deemed appropriate in accordance with the rules-based methodology that is maintained by Dimensional Fund Advisors LP. This means that the market-capitalization of a particular company within the eligible universe of stocks is adjusted to exclude the share capital of a company that is not considered freely available for trading in the public equity markets.

The fund, using an indexing investment approach, attempts to approximate the investment performance of the Index by investing in a portfolio of securities that generally replicates the Index. The fund may concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent that the Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries. The fund is non-diversified, which means that it may invest in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund and may invest more of its assets in the securities of a single issuer.

C000210183 Performance

Total returns for C000210183 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

C000210183 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000210183, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

• 1-year volatility (annualised): 19.8%

C000210183 Costs and Fees

C000210183 costs about $40 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

• Net expense ratio: 0.40%
• Gross expense ratio: 0.95%
• Portfolio turnover: 17%
• Brokerage commissions: 0.42 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000210183 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2022-07, John Hancock Multifactor Media and Communications ETF had net outflows of $10.42M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

C000210183 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in John Hancock Multifactor Media and Communications ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000210183 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official John Hancock Multifactor Media and Communications ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2022-08-25
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2021-08-25
• Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2020-09-08
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-09-28
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-06-28
• Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2022-03-31
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2022-06-29
• Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2021-07-01

Related Funds

Related funds tracked on ABC INVEST:

• John Hancock Multifactor Mid Cap ETF (JHMM)
• John Hancock Core Bond ETF (JHCR)
• John Hancock Multifactor Large Cap ETF (JHML)
• John Hancock Multifactor Emerging Markets ETF (JHEM)
• John Hancock Multifactor Developed International ETF (JHMD)

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.