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John Hancock Small Company Fund | Class I Shares
JOHN HANCOCK SMALL COMPANY FUND
Investment objective
The fund seeks maximum long-term total return.
Fees and expenses
This table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund.
Shareholder fees (%) (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees
John Hancock Small Company Fund
Class I Shares
Class I
Maximum front-end sales charge (load) on purchases as a % of purchase price none
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) as a % of purchase or sale price, whichever is less none
Annual fund operating expenses (%) (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
John Hancock Small Company Fund
Class I Shares
Class I
Management fee 0.90%
Other expenses [1] 0.25%
Total annual fund operating expenses 1.15%
Contractual expense reimbursement [2] (0.11%)
Total annual fund operating expenses after expense reimbursements 1.04%
[1] Other expenses have been restated to reflect current transfer agency and service fees.
[2] The adviser has contractually agreed to waive all or a portion of its management fee and reimburse or pay operating expenses of the fund to the extent necessary to maintain the fund's total operating expenses at 1.04%, excluding certain expenses such as taxes, brokerage commissions, interest, litigation and extraordinary expenses. These expense limitations shall remain in effect until June 30, 2012, and thereafter until terminated by the adviser.
Expense example
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. Please see below a hypothetical example showing the expenses of a $10,000 investment at the end of the various time frames indicated. The example assumes a 5% average annual return. The example assumes fund expenses will not change over the periods. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:
Expenses ($)
Expense Example (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
John Hancock Small Company Fund Class I Shares Class I
106 354 622 1,388
Portfolio turnover
The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 159% of the average value of its portfolio.
Principal investment strategies

Under normal circumstances, the fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in common stocks of domestic companies that are smaller or less established in terms of revenues and have market capitalizations that are less than $2.5 billion at the time of initial purchase. At any given time, the fund may own a diversified group of stocks in several industries. The fund invests mainly in common stocks, but it may also invest in exchange-traded funds to a limited extent.

The subadviser employs a relative value philosophy to analyze and select investments that have attractive valuations as well as potential catalysts that are expected to lead to accelerated earnings and cash flow growth. The subadviser evaluates broad themes and market developments that can be exploited through portfolio construction and rigorous fundamental research to identify investments that are best positioned to take advantage of impending catalysts and trends. The subadviser believes that earnings and cash flow growth are the principal drivers of investment performance, particularly when accompanied by visible, quantifiable catalysts that have not been fully recognized by the investment community.

The subadviser continuously monitors and evaluates investments held by the fund to discern changes in trends, modify investment outlooks, and adjust valuations accordingly. The subadviser attempts to mitigate excess risk through ownership of a well-diversified portfolio with broad representation across market industries and sectors. The subadviser will liquidate an investment based on several factors, including asset valuation, changes in prospective attributes and purchases of alternative investments with potentially higher returns. The subadviser generally will not sell a stock merely due to market appreciation outside the fund’s target capitalization range if it believes the company has growth potential.

Principal risks

An investment in the fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. The fund’s shares will go up and down in price, meaning that you could lose money by investing in the fund. Many factors influence a mutual fund’s performance.

Instability in the financial markets has led many governments, including the United States government, to take a number of unprecedented actions designed to support certain financial institutions and segments of the financial markets that have experienced extreme volatility and, in some cases, a lack of liquidity. Federal, state and other governments, and their regulatory agencies or self-regulatory organizations, may take actions that affect the regulation of the instruments in which the fund invests, or the issuers of such instruments, in ways that are unforeseeable. Legislation or regulation may also change the way in which the fund itself is regulated. Such legislation or regulation could limit or preclude the fund’s ability to achieve its investment objective.

Governments or their agencies may also acquire distressed assets from financial institutions and acquire ownership interests in those institutions. The implications of government ownership and disposition of these assets are unclear, and such a program may have positive or negative effects on the liquidity, valuation and performance of the fund’s portfolio holdings. Furthermore, volatile financial markets can expose the fund to greater market and liquidity risk and potential difficulty in valuing portfolio instruments held by the fund.

The fund’s main risk factors are listed below in alphabetical order. Before investing, be sure to read the additional descriptions of these risks beginning on page 5 of the prospectus.

Active management risk The subadviser’s investment strategy may fail to produce the intended result.

Equity securities risk The value of a company’s equity securities is subject to changes in the company’s financial condition, and overall market and economic conditions. The securities of value companies are subject to the risk that the companies may not overcome the adverse business developments or other factors causing their securities to be underpriced or that the market may never come to recognize their fundamental value.

Exchange-traded funds risk Owning an ETF generally reflects the risks of owning the underlying securities it is designed to track.

High portfolio turnover risk Actively trading securities can increase transaction costs (thus lowering performance) and taxable distributions.

Small company risk Stocks of smaller companies are more volatile than stocks of larger companies. For purposes of the fund’s investment policies, the market capitalization of a company is based on its market capitalization at the time the fund purchases the company’s securities. Market capitalizations of companies change over time.

Past performance

The following performance information in the bar chart and table below illustrates the variability of the fund’s returns and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in the fund’s performance from year to year. However, past performance (before and after taxes) does not indicate future results. All figures assume dividend reinvestment. Performance for the fund is updated daily, monthly and quarterly and may be obtained at our Web site: www.jhfunds.com/InstitutionalPerformance, or by calling Signature Services at 1-888-972-8696 between 8:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M., Eastern Time, on most business days.

Average annual total returns Performance of a broad-based market index is included for comparison.

After-tax returns They reflect the highest individual federal marginal income tax rates in effect as of the date provided and do not reflect any state or local taxes. Your actual after-tax returns may be different. After-tax returns are not relevant to shares held in an IRA, 401(k) or other tax-advantaged investment plan.

Performance information shown below is based on the returns of FMA Small Company Portfolio’s (predecessor fund) Investor Shares, which have been recalculated to apply the gross fees and expenses of the fund’s Class I shares, which were first offered on December 14, 2009.

Calendar year total returns — Class I (%)
Bar Chart

Year-to-date total return The fund’s total return for the three months ended March 31, 2011 was 5.75%.

Best quarter: Q3 ’09, 17.25%

Worst quarter: Q4 ’08, -19.65%

Average annual total returns (%) as of 12-31-10
Average Annual Total Returns John Hancock Small Company Fund Class I Shares
1 Year
5 Year
10 Year
before tax Class I
24.10% 6.11% 7.58%
After tax on distributions Class I
24.10% 4.89% 6.12%
After tax on distributions, with sale Class I
15.67% 4.76% 5.98%
Russell 2000 Index
26.85% 4.47% 6.33%