500 Index Trust

500 INDEX TRUST

Investment Objective

To approximate the aggregate total return of a broad-based U.S. domestic equity market index.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 5% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund seeks to approximate the aggregate total return of a broad-based U.S. domestic equity market index. To pursue this goal, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) at the time of investment in (a) the common stocks that are included in the S&P 500 Index and (b) securities (which may or may not be included in the S&P 500 Index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. The subadviser may determine that the fund’s investments in certain instruments, such as index futures, total return swaps and exchanged-traded funds (“ETFs”) have similar economic characteristics as securities that are in the S&P 500 Index. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalizations of companies included in the S&P 500 Index ranged from $1.5 billion to $425.9 billion.

An index is an unmanaged group of securities whose overall performance is used as an investment benchmark. Indexes may track broad investment markets, such as the global equity market, or more narrow investment markets, such as the U.S. small cap equity market. In contrast to actively managed funds, which seek to outperform their respective benchmark indexes through research and analysis, index funds seek to mirror the performance of their target indexes, minimizing performance differences over time. The fund attempts to match the performance of the S&P 500 Index by: (a) holding all, or a representative sample, of the securities that comprise that index and/or (b) by holding securities (which may or may not be included in the index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. However, an index fund has operating expenses and transaction costs, while a market index does not. Therefore, the fund, while it attempts to track its target index closely, typically will be unable to match the performance of the index exactly. The composition of an index changes from time to time, and the subadviser will reflect those changes in the composition of the fund’s portfolio as soon as practicable.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund may invest in futures contracts and Depositary Receipts. The fund may invest in derivatives (investments whose value is based on securities, indexes or currencies).

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Index management risk Certain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

S&P 500 Index risk An investment in the fund involves risks similar to the risks of investing directly in the equity securities included in the S&P 500 Index.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 15.89% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -22.00% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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500 Index Trust B

500 INDEX TRUST B

Investment Objective

To approximate the aggregate total return of a broad-based U.S. domestic equity market index.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 10% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund seeks to approximate the aggregate total return of a broad-based U.S. domestic equity market index. To pursue this goal, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) at the time of investment in (a) the common stocks that are included in the S&P 500 Index and (b) securities (which may or may not be included in the S&P 500 Index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. The subadviser may determine that the fund’s investments in certain instruments, such as index futures, total return swaps and exchanged-traded funds ("ETFs") have similar economic characteristics as securities that are in the S&P 500 Index. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalizations of companies included in the S&P 500 Index ranged from $1.5 billion to $425.9 billion.

An index is an unmanaged group of securities whose overall performance is used as an investment benchmark. Indexes may track broad investment markets, such as the global equity market, or more narrow investment markets, such as the U.S. small cap equity market. In contrast to actively managed funds, which seek to outperform their respective benchmark indexes through research and analysis, index funds are passively managed funds that seek to mirror the performance of their target indexes, minimizing performance differences over time. The fund attempts to match the performance of the S&P 500 Index by: (a) holding all, or a representative sample, of the securities that comprise that index and/or (b) by holding securities (which may or may not be included in the index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. However, an index fund has operating expenses and transaction costs, while a market index does not. Therefore, the fund, while it attempts to track its target index closely, typically will be unable to match the performance of the index exactly. The composition of an index changes from time to time, and the subadviser will reflect those changes in the composition of the fund’s portfolio as soon as practicable.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund may invest in futures contracts and Depositary Receipts. The fund may invest in derivatives (investments whose value is based on securities, indexes or currencies).

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Index management risk Certain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

S&P 500 Index risk An investment in the fund involves risks similar to the risks of investing directly in the equity securities included in the S&P 500 Index.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. For periods prior to the inception date of the fund, performance shown is the actual performance of the sole share class of the fund’s predecessor fund. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 15.85% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -22.11% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Active Bond Trust

ACTIVE BOND TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek income and capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 53% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in a diversified mix of debt securities and instruments. The fund seeks to invest its assets in debt securities and instruments with an average duration of between 4 to 6 years, however, there is no limit on the fund’s average maturity.

Eligible investments include, but are not limited to:

• U.S. Treasury and agency securities;

• Asset-backed securities and mortgage-backed securities both investment grade and non-investment grade, including mortgage pass-through securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) and collateralized mortgage obligations ("CMOs");

• Corporate bonds, both U.S. and foreign; and without any limit on credit quality; and

• Foreign government and agency securities.

Each subadviser uses proprietary research and economic and industry analysis to identify specific bonds, bond sectors and industries that are attractively priced. Due to this process, the fund may have a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and may affect performance results.

The foreign securities in which the fund invests may be denominated in U.S. dollars or foreign currency.

The fund employs a multi-manager approach with two subadvisers, Declaration Management & Research LLC (“Declaration”) and John Hancock Asset Management a division of Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC (“John Hancock Asset Management”), each of which employs its own investment approach and independently manages its portion of the fund. The fund will be rebalanced periodically so that the subadvisers manage the following portions of the fund:

50%* Declaration

50%* John Hancock Asset Management

*Percentages are approximate. Since the fund is only rebalanced periodically, the actual portion of the fund managed by each subadviser will vary.

This allocation methodology may change in the future.

Declaration

Declaration uses a combination of proprietary research and quantitative tools and seeks to identify bonds and bond sectors that are attractively priced based upon market fundamentals and technical factors. Declaration opportunistically emphasizes bonds with yields in excess of U.S. Treasury securities.

This portion of the fund normally has no more than 10% of its total assets in high yield bonds (“junk bonds”) and normally invests in foreign securities only if U.S. dollar-denominated. This portion of the fund normally has an average credit rating of “A” or “AA.”

John Hancock Asset Management

John Hancock Asset Management uses proprietary research to identify specific bond sectors, industries and bonds that are attractively priced. John Hancock Asset Management tries to anticipate shifts in the business cycle, using economic and industry analysis to determine which sectors and industries might benefit over the next 12 months.

This portion of the fund normally has no more than 25% of its total assets in high yield bonds (sometimes referred to as “junk bonds”) and may invest in both U.S. dollar-denominated and foreign currency-denominated foreign securities. This portion of the fund normally has an average credit rating of “A” or “AA.”

The fund may invest in asset-backed securities rated, at the time of purchase, less than A (but not rated lower than B by S&P or Moody’s). Under normal circumstances, no more than 15% of the total assets of the portion of the fund managed by John Hancock Asset Management will be invested in asset-backed securities rated lower than A by both rating agencies.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information about the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including entering into futures contracts, options, swaps, swaptions, and TBA mortgage contracts.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

• Swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, settlement risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation, and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving swaps.

• Swaptions Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving swaptions.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Inverse interest-only securities Inverse interest-only securities that are mortgage-backed securities are subject to the same risks as other mortgage-backed securities. In addition, the coupon on an inverse interest-only security can be extremely sensitive to changes in prevailing interest rates.

TBA mortgage contracts TBA mortgage contracts involve a risk of loss if the value of the underlying security to be purchased declines prior to delivery date. The yield obtained for such securities may be higher or lower than yields available in the market on delivery date.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. For periods prior to the inception of the fund, performance shown for each share class is the actual performance of the sole share class of the fund’s predecessor fund. This pre-inception performance for each of the Series I and Series II share classes has not been adjusted to reflect the Rule 12b-1 fees of that class and would be lower if it did. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 9.92% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -5.96% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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All Cap Core Trust

ALL CAP CORE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 219% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests in common stocks and other equity securities within all asset classes (small-, mid- and large-cap) of those included in the Russell 3000 Index ($5 million to $425.9 billion as of February 28, 2011).

The fund may invest in all types of equity securities including common stocks, preferred stocks, convertible securities and depositary receipts for such securities. These securities may be listed on securities exchanges, traded in various over-the-counter markets or have no organized markets. The fund may also invest in U.S. government securities.

The subadviser pursues an actively managed, quantitative investment process. The subadviser’s investment philosophy is based on three central tenets:

• Securities have an intrinsic value from which they deviate over time. The subadviser believes that the best way to measure a security’s fair value is relative to its peers within its own industry.

• Finding attractive companies with long-term potential requires a consideration of both growth and value attributes. Technical analysis further enhances the stock selection process, helping to identify timely market opportunities.

• Quantitative investment models provide an improved framework for selecting mis-priced stocks in an unbiased, consistent and repeatable manner.

The subadviser blends fundamental equity analysis and quantitative investment theory into a disciplined and systematic process. This technique minimizes subjectivity and allows the team to analyze the broadest possible universe of stocks. The subadviser’s proprietary U.S. stock evaluation model, the Quantitative Investment Model, incorporates valuation and growth investment parameters and is used to select securities. The subadviser believes that combining techniques used by fundamental value investors with extensive growth and earnings analysis minimizes investment style bias and ultimately produces a “pure” stock selection process that seeks to add value in any market environment. The subadviser also incorporates technical analysis to capture short-term price changes and market responsiveness to new information.

The subadviser extensively screens the Russell 3000 Index universe using multiple investment parameters to identify what the subadviser believes are the most and least attractive securities. Expected returns are generated for each stock relative to its own industry. Securities are then selected based on expected returns, risk control constraints and anticipated transaction costs.

By applying a rigorous portfolio construction process, the subadviser targets excess return levels similar to traditional managers, while holding a significantly more diversified basket of stocks. Non-linear market impact assumptions are also incorporated into the process to maximize the trade-off between the anticipated pickup from trading and the costs associated with making these trades.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

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

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index is a blend of the Russell 1000 Growth Index from inception through December 31, 2002 and the Russell 3000 Index for periods after January 1, 2003.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 17.59% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: - 24.41% (Quarter ended 3/31/2001)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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All Cap Value Trust

ALL CAP VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 75% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund primarily purchases equity securities of U.S. and multinational companies in all capitalization ranges that the subadviser believes are undervalued. The fund will invest at least 50% of its net assets in equity securities of large, seasoned companies with market capitalizations at the time of purchase that fall within the market capitalization range of the Russell 1000 Index ($221 million to $425.9 billion as of February 28, 2011). This range varies daily. The fund may invest the remainder of its assets in mid-sized and small company securities.

Equity securities may include common stocks, preferred stock, convertible securities, warrants, and similar instruments. The fund invests in companies that appear underpriced according to certain financial measurements of their intrinsic worth or business prospects (such as price-to-earnings or price-to-book ratios).

In selecting investments, the subadviser attempts to invest in securities selling at reasonable prices in relation to its assessment of their potential value. While there is the risk that an investment may never reach what the subadviser thinks is its full value, or may go down in value, the subadviser’s emphasis on large, seasoned company value stocks may limit the fund’s downside risk. This is because value stocks are believed to be underpriced, and large, seasoned company stocks tend to be issued by more established companies and are less volatile than mid-sized or small company stock. Although small companies may present greater risks than larger companies, they also may present higher potential for attractive long-term returns. The subadviser generally sells a stock when it thinks it seems less likely to benefit from the current market and economic environment, shows deteriorating fundamentals, or has reached the subadviser valuation target.

The fund may not invest more than 10% of its net assets in foreign securities, including securities in emerging markets countries. The subadviser does not consider American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and securities of companies domiciled outside the U.S. but that are traded in the United States to be subject to this limitation.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 16.35% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -23.92% (Quarter ended 9/30/2002)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Alpha Opportunities Trust

ALPHA OPPORTUNITIES TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term total return.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 185% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund employs a “multiple sleeve structure,” which means the fund has several components that are managed separately in different styles. The fund seeks to obtain its objective by combining these different component styles in a single fund.

For each component “sleeve,” the subadviser has a distinct investment philosophy and analytical process to identify specific securities for purchase or sale based on internal, proprietary research. Each component sleeve tends to be flexible, opportunistic, and total return-oriented such that the aggregate portfolio represents a wide range of investment philosophies, companies, industries and market capitalizations. Investment personnel for each component sleeve have complete discretion and responsibility for selection and portfolio construction decisions within their specific sleeve.

The subadviser is responsible for selecting styles or approaches for component sleeves with a focus on combining complementary investment styles, monitoring the risk profile, strategically rebalancing the portfolio, and maintaining a consistent fund profile. In choosing prospective investments, the subadviser analyzes a number of factors, such as business environment, management quality, balance sheet, income statement, anticipated earnings, expected growth rates, revenues, dividends and other related measures of value.

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 65% of its total assets in equity and equity-related securities, including common stock, preferred stock, depositary receipts (including American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”) and Global Depositary Receipts), index-related securities (including exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”)), real estate investment structures (including REITs), convertible securities, preferred stock, private placements, convertible preferred stock, rights, and warrants. The fund may invest in listed and unlisted domestic and foreign equity and equity-related securities or instruments. These equity and equity-related instruments may include equity securities of, or options linked to, emerging market issuers or indexes.

The fund may invest up to 35% of its total assets in the securities of foreign issuers and non-dollar securities, including companies that conduct their principal business activities in emerging markets or whose securities are traded principally on exchanges in emerging markets.

The fund may also invest in fixed-income securities, fixed-income related instruments, and cash and cash equivalents. These fixed-income securities may include non-investment-grade instruments.

The fund may invest in over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives, including but not limited to futures, forward contracts, swaps, options, options on futures, swaptions, structured notes, and market access products, to reduce risk and enhance potential income.

The fund may invest in initial public offerings (“IPOs”). The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Foreign currency swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency swaps.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

• Swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, settlement risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation, and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving swaps.

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

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Real estate securities risk Investing in securities of companies in the real estate industry subjects a fund to the risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 18.66% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -12.97% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American Asset Allocation Trust

AMERICAN ASSET ALLOCATION TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to provide high total return (including income and capital gains) consistent with preservation of capital over the long term.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a feeder fund, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of the master fund (or “turns over” its portfolio). A master fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the master fund and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the master fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 46% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of its master fund, the Asset Allocation Fund ^(SM) , a series of American Funds Insurance Series. The master fund invests in a diversified portfolio of common stocks and other equity securities, bonds and other intermediate and long-term debt securities, and money market instruments (debt securities maturing in one year or less). Although the fund focuses on investments in medium to larger capitalization companies, the fund’s investments are not limited to a particular capitalization size. In addition, the master fund may invest up to 25% of its debt assets in lower quality debt securities (rated Ba1 or below and BB+ or below by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations designated by the fund’s investment adviser or unrated but determined to be of equivalent quality by the fund’s investment adviser). Such securities are sometimes referred to as "junk bonds."

In seeking to pursue its investment objective, the fund varies its mix of equity securities, debt securities and money market instruments. Under normal market conditions, the master fund’s investment adviser expects (but is not required) to maintain an investment mix falling within the following ranges: 40% — 80% in equity securities, 20% — 50% in debt securities and 0% — 40% in money market instruments. The proportion of equities, debt and money market securities held by the master fund will vary with market conditions and the investment adviser’s assessment of their relative attractiveness as investment opportunities. The master fund may invest up to 15% of its assets in common stocks and other equity securities of issuers domiciled outside the U.S. and up to 5% of its assets in debt securities of issuers domiciled outside the U.S.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Asset allocation risk Although asset allocation among different asset categories generally limits risk and exposure to any one category, the risk remains that the adviser may favor an asset category that performs poorly relative to the other asset categories.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Income stock risk Income provided by the fund may be affected by changes in the dividend polices of the companies in which the fund invests and the capital resources available for such payments at such companies.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. The performance of the fund’s oldest share class, for periods prior to its inception, is the performance of the master fund share class in which the fund invests, adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the fund’s oldest class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 60% of the S&P 500 Index and 40% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 12.04% (Quarter ended 6/30/2003) Worst Quarter: -16.41% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American Blue Chip Income and Growth Trust

AMERICAN BLUE CHIP INCOME AND GROWTH TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to produce income exceeding the average yield on U.S. stocks generally (as represented by the average yield on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Composite Index) and to provide an opportunity for growth of principal consistent with sound common stock investing.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a feeder fund, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of the master fund (or “turns over” its portfolio). A master fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the master fund and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the master fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 22% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of its master fund, the Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund ^(SM) , a series of American Funds Insurance Series. The master fund invests primarily in dividend-paying common stocks of larger, more established companies domiciled in the United States with market capitalizations of $4 billion and above. The master fund also ordinarily invests at least 90% of its equity assets in the stock of companies whose debt securities are rated at least investment grade. The master fund may also invest up to 10% of its assets in equity securities of larger companies domiciled outside United States, so long as they are listed or traded in the U.S. The master fund will invest, under normal market conditions, at least 90% of equity assets in the stock of companies whose debt securities are rated at least investment grade. The fund invests, under normal market conditions, at least 90% of its assets in equity securities. The fund is designed for investors seeking both income and capital appreciation.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Income stock risk Income provided by the fund may be affected by changes in the dividend polices of the companies in which the fund invests and the capital resources available for such payments at such companies.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. The performance of the fund’s oldest share class, for periods prior to its inception, is the performance of the master fund share class in which the fund invests, adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the fund’s oldest class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 16.95% (Quarter ended 6/30/2003) Worst Quarter: -21.34% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American Bond Trust

AMERICAN BOND TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to maximize current income and preserve capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a feeder fund, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of the master fund (or “turns over” its portfolio). A master fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the master fund and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the master fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 187% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of its master fund, the Bond Fund ^(SM) , a series of American Funds Insurance Series. Normally, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in bonds and other debt securities. The fund will invest at least 65% of its assets in investment-grade debt securities (rated Baa3 or better or BBB- or better by Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (NRSROs) designated by the fund’s investment adviser or unrated but determined to be of equivalent quality by the fund’s investment adviser), including cash and cash equivalents, including securities issued and guaranteed by the U.S. and other governments, and securities backed by mortgage and other assets. The fund may invest up to 35% of its assets in debt securities rated Ba1 or below and BB+ or below by NRSROs, or unrated but determined by the fund’s investment adviser to be of equivalent quality. Such securities are sometimes referred to as “junk bonds.” The fund may invest in debt securities of issuers domiciled outside the United States. The fund may also invest up to 20% of its assets in preferred stocks, including convertible and nonconvertible preferred stocks. The fund is designed for investors seeking income and more price stability than stocks, and capital preservation over the long term.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

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

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. The performance of the fund’s oldest share class, for periods prior to its inception, is the performance of the master fund share class in which the fund invests, adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the fund’s oldest class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 5.83% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -5.68% (Quarter ended 9/30/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American Fundamental Holdings Trust

AMERICAN FUNDAMENTAL HOLDINGS TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 6% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests in other funds and other investment companies (collectively, “Underlying Funds”) as well as other types of investments as described below.

The fund currently invests primarily in four Underlying Funds of the American Funds Insurance Series»: Bond Fund, Growth Fund, Growth-Income Fund, and International Fund. The fund is permitted to invest in six other Underlying Funds of the American Funds Insurance Series: Asset Allocation Fund, Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund, Global Growth Fund, Global Small Capitalization Fund, High-Income Bond Fund, and New World Fund as well as other Underlying Funds. When purchasing shares of the American Funds Insurance Series, the fund only purchases Class 1 shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The fund is authorized to invest without limitation in other Underlying Funds and in other types of investments. The fund may purchase any Underlying Funds except other JHVIT funds of funds and the following JHVIT feeder funds: the American Asset Allocation Trust, American Blue Chip Income and Growth Trust, American Bond Trust, American Global Growth Trust, American Global Small Capitalization Trust, American Growth Trust, American Growth-Income Trust, American High-Income Bond Trust, American International Trust and American New World Trust. When purchasing shares of other JHVIT Funds, the fund only purchases NAV shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The Underlying Funds as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of these funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of these funds focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may invest in exchange traded funds (“ETFs”). The fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions.The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information about the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest- rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of dispropor- tionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high- yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12- 1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 65% of the S&P 500 Index and 35% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 13.51% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -16.17% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American Global Diversification Trust

AMERICAN GLOBAL DIVERSIFICATION TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 6% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests in other funds and other investment companies (collectively, “Underlying Funds”) as well as other types of investments as described below. Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest a significant portion of its assets in securities, which include securities held by the Underlying Funds of issuers that are located outside of the U.S.

The fund currently invests primarily in five Underlying Funds of the American Funds Insurance Series^®: Bond Fund, Global Growth Fund, Global Small Capitalization Fund, High-Income Bond Fund, and New World Fund. The fund is permitted to invest in five other Underlying Funds of the American Funds Insurance Series: Asset Allocation Fund, Growth Fund, International Fund, Growth-Income Fund, and Blue Chip Income and Growth Fund as well as other Underlying Funds as described below. When purchasing shares of the American Funds Insurance Series, the fund only purchases Class 1 shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The fund is authorized to invest without limitation in other Underlying Funds and in other types of investments. The fund may purchase any Underlying Funds except other JHVIT funds of funds and the following JHVIT feeder funds: American Asset Allocation Trust, American Blue Chip Income and Growth Trust, American Bond Trust, American Global Growth Trust, American Global Small Capitalization Trust, American Growth Trust, American Growth-Income Trust, American High-Income Bond Trust, American International Trust and American New World Trust. When purchasing shares of other JHVIT Funds the fund only purchases NAV shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The Underlying Funds as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of the funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the funds in which the fund invests focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may also invest in exchange traded funds (ETFs), and in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest- rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 65% of the MSCI World Index and 35% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 18.04% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -17.95% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American Global Growth Trust

AMERICAN GLOBAL GROWTH TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to make the shareholders’ investment grow over time.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a feeder fund, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of the master fund (or “turns over” its portfolio). A master fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the master fund and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the master fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of its master fund, the Global Growth Fund ^(SM) , a series of American Funds Insurance Series. The Global Growth Fund invests primarily in common stocks of companies located around the world that the adviser believes have potential for growth. The Global Growth Fund may invest a portion of its assets in common stocks and other securities of companies in emerging market countries and expects to be invested in numerous countries around the world.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk.”

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. The performance of the fund’s oldest share class, for periods prior to its inception, is the performance of the master fund share class in which the fund invests, adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the fund’s oldest class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 22.00% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -20.54% (Quarter ended 9/30/2001)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American Global Small Capitalization Trust

AMERICAN GLOBAL SMALL CAPITALIZATION TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to make the shareholders’ investment grow over time.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a feeder fund, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of the master fund (or “turns over” its portfolio). A master fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the master fund and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the master fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 47% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of its master fund, the Global Small Capitalization Fund ^(SM) , a series of American Funds Insurance Series. Under normal circumstances, the Global Small Capitalization Fund invests primarily in stocks of smaller companies located around the world. Normally, the Global Small Capitalization Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in growth-oriented common stocks and other equity securities (such as preferred stocks, convertible preferred stocks and convertible bonds) of companies with small market capitalizations, measured at the time of purchase.

The Global Small Capitalization Fund’s holdings of small capitalization stocks may fall below the 80% threshold due to subsequent market movements. The adviser currently defines “small market capitalization” companies to be companies with market capitalizations of $3.5 billion or less. The adviser has periodically reevaluated and adjusted this definition and may continue to do so in the future.

Under normal circumstances, the Global Small Capitalization Fund invests a significant portion of its assets outside the United States. The fund may also invest a portion of its assets in common stocks and other securities of companies in emerging market countries. The fund expects to be invested in numerous countries around the world.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. The performance of the fund’s oldest share class, for periods prior to its inception, is the performance of the master fund share class in which the fund invests, adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the fund’s oldest class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 29.18% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -31.38% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American Growth Trust

AMERICAN GROWTH TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to make the shareholders’ investment grow.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a feeder fund, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of the master fund (or “turns over” its portfolio). A master fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the master fund and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the master fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 28% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of its master fund, the Growth Fund ^(SM), a series of American Funds Insurance Series. The Growth Fund invests primarily in common stocks and seeks to invest in companies that appear to offer superior opportunities for growth of capital. The Growth Fund may also invest a portion of its assets in common stocks and other securities of issuers domiciled outside the U.S.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. The performance of the fund’s oldest share class, for periods prior to its inception, is the performance of the master fund share class in which the fund invests, adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the fund’s oldest class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 22.60% (Quarter ended 12/31/2001) Worst Quarter: -27.27% (Quarter ended 09/30/2001)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American Growth-Income Trust

AMERICAN GROWTH-INCOME TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to make the shareholders’ investments grow and to provide the shareholder with income over time.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a feeder fund, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of the master fund (or “turns over” its portfolio). A master fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the master fund and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the master fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 22% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of its master fund, the Growth-Income Fund ^(SM), a series of American Funds Insurance Series. The Growth-Income Fund invests primarily in common stocks or other securities which demonstrate the potential for appreciation and/or dividends. Although the Growth-Income Fund focuses on investments in medium to larger capitalization companies, its investments are not limited to a particular capitalization size. The Growth-Income Fund may invest up to 15% of its assets, at the time of purchase, in securities of issuers domiciled outside the U.S. The Growth-Income Fund is designed for investors seeking both capital appreciation and income.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Income stock risk Income provided by the fund may be affected by changes in the dividend polices of the companies in which the fund invests and the capital resources available for such payments at such companies.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. The performance of the fund’s oldest share class, for periods prior to its inception, is the performance of the master fund share class in which the fund invests, adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the fund’s oldest class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 16.83% (Quarter ended 06/30/2003) Worst Quarter: -22.05% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American High-Income Bond Trust

AMERICAN HIGH-INCOME BOND TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to provide a high level of current income and,

secondarily, capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a feeder fund, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of the master fund (or “turns over” its portfolio). A master fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the master fund and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the master fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 54% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of its master fund, the High-Income Bond Fund ^(SM) , a series of American Funds Insurance Series. The High-Income Bond Fund invests primarily in higher yielding and generally lower quality debt securities (rated Ba1 or below or BB+ or below by NRSROs designated by the master fund’s investment adviser or unrated but determined by the master fund’s investment adviser to be of equivalent quality), including corporate loan obligations. Such securities are sometimes referred to as “junk bonds.” The fund may also invest a portion of its assets in securities of issuers domiciled outside the United States.

The High-Income Bond Fund is designed for investors seeking a high level of current income and who are able to tolerate greater credit risk and price fluctuations than funds investing in higher quality debt securities.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. The performance of the fund’s oldest share class, for periods prior to its inception, is the performance of the master fund share class in which the fund invests, adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the fund’s oldest class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 15.92% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -16.26% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American International Trust

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to make the shareholders’ investment grow over time.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a feeder fund, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of the master fund (or “turns over” its portfolio). A master fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the master fund and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the master fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 25% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of its master fund, the International Fund ^(SM), a series of American Funds Insurance Series. The International Fund invests primarily in common stocks of companies located outside the United States that the adviser believes have the potential for growth. The fund normally invests a portion of its assets in common stocks and other securities of companies in emerging market countries.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. The performance of the fund’s oldest share class, for periods prior to its inception, is the performance of the master fund share class in which the fund invests, adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the fund’s oldest class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 24.34% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -20.99% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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American New World Trust

AMERICAN NEW WORLD TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to make the shareholders’ investment grow over time.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a feeder fund, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of the master fund (or “turns over” its portfolio). A master fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the master fund and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the master fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 18% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests all of its assets in Class 1 shares of its master fund, the New World Fund ^®, a series of American Funds Insurance Series. The New World Fund invests primarily in stocks of companies with significant exposure to countries with developing economies and/or markets that the adviser believes have potential of providing capital appreciation.

The New World Fund may also invest in debt securities of issuers, including issuers of lower rated bonds (rated Ba1 or below and BB+ or below by NRSROs designated by the fund’s investment adviser or unrated but determined to be of equivalent quality by the fund’s adviser), with exposure to these countries. Bonds rated Ba1 or below or BB+ or below are sometimes referred to as “junk bonds.”

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 35% of its assets in equity and debt securities of issuers primarily based in qualified countries that have developing economies and/or markets.

The New World Fund may invest in equity securities of any company, regardless of where it is based, if the New World Fund’s investment adviser determines that a significant portion of the company’s assets or revenues (generally 20% or more) is attributable to developing countries. In addition, the New World Fund may invest up to 25% of its assets in nonconvertible debt securities of issuers, including issuers of lower rated bonds (“junk bonds”) and government bonds, primarily based in qualified countries or that have a significant portion of their assets or revenues attributable to developing countries. The New World Fund may also, to a limited extent, invest in securities of issuers based in nonqualified developing countries.

In determining whether a country is qualified, the New World Fund will consider such factors as the country’s per capita gross domestic product; the percentage of the country’s economy that is industrialized; market capital as a percentage of gross domestic product; the overall regulatory environment; the presence of government regulation limiting or banning foreign ownership; and restrictions on repatriation of initial capital, dividends, interest and/or capital gains. The New World Fund’s investment adviser will maintain a list of qualified countries and securities in which the fund may invest. Qualified developing countries in which the fund may invest currently include, but are not limited to, Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Oman, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russian Federation, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. The performance of the fund’s oldest share class, for periods prior to its inception, is the performance of the master fund share class in which the fund invests, adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the fund’s oldest class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 23.90% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -22.35% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Balanced Trust

BALANCED TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 35% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests in both equity and fixed-income securities. The fund employs growth, value and core approaches to allocate its assets among stocks of small, medium and large-capitalization companies in both the U.S. and foreign countries. The fund may purchase a variety of fixed income securities, including investment grade and below investment grade debt securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) with maturities that range from short to longer term, as well as cash. Under normal market conditions, 55-75% of the fund will be invested in equity securities and 25-45% of the fund will be invested in fixed-income securities.

The precise mix of equity and fixed-income securities will depend on the subadviser’s outlook for the markets and generally reflect the subadviser’s long-term, strategic asset allocation analysis. The subadviser anticipates that adjustments to the targeted asset allocation will result primarily from changes to its outlook for the global and domestic economies, industry sectors and financial markets, and its assessment of the relative attractiveness of each asset class.

Equity Allocation

The fund will allocate its assets between U.S. and foreign equity securities of small, medium and large-capitalization companies by employing growth, value and core approaches to selecting securities.

The fund may invest in common stocks of large, blue-chip growth companies. These are firms that, in the view of the subadviser, are well established in their industries and have the potential for above average earnings growth. The subadviser focuses on companies with leading market positions, seasoned management, and strong financial fundamentals.

The fund may also invest in common stocks of large, well-established companies paying above-average dividends by employing a value approach to investing. The subadviser’s in-house research team seeks companies that appear to be undervalued by various measures and may be temporarily out of favor but have good prospects for capital appreciation and dividend growth.

The fund may invest in common stocks of mid and small capitalization companies using both growth and value approaches to investing. Mid capitalization growth stock selection is based on a combination of bottom-up analysis (focusing on selecting stocks based on the individual attributes of a company) and top-down analysis (focusing on industry sectors that are likely to generate the best returns) in an effort to identify companies with superior long-term appreciation prospects. Mid capitalization value stock selection seeks to identify mid capitalization companies whose stock prices do not appear to reflect their underlying values

Stocks of small capitalization companies may include emerging growth companies that offer the possibility of accelerating earnings growth. Based on quantitative models and fundamental research, a portion of the fund’s small capitalization portfolio is constructed using “bottom up” analysis taking into consideration stock characteristics, such as projected earnings and sales growth rates, valuation, use of capital resources, and earnings quality (i.e., the ability of reported earnings to reflect the company’s true earnings, as well as the usefulness of reported earnings to predict future earnings).

The fund may invest in stocks outside of the U.S. and will diversify broadly among developed and emerging countries throughout the world. Up to 40% of the fund’s total allocation to equity securities may be invested in foreign equity securities (in either developed or emerging markets). The subadviser’s team of analysts seeks to identify companies capable of achieving and sustaining above-average, long-term earnings growth. Present or anticipated earnings, cash flow, or book value, and valuation factors often influence the allocations among large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies. Foreign stocks may also be selected using a value approach to investing or by identifying a favorable combination of company fundamentals and valuation, providing exposure to both growth and value approaches to investing.

While the subadviser invests with an awareness of the global economic backdrop and our outlook for industry sectors and individual countries, bottom-up analysis is the focus of our decision-making. Country and sector allocations are driven primarily by individual stock selection and secondarily by top-down analysis. The fund may limit investments in markets that appear to have poor overall prospects.

The fund may invest in other equity-related securities or instruments, including but not limited to preferred stocks, depositary receipts, convertible securities, rights, and warrants. These equity-related instruments may include equity securities of, or derivatives linked to, emerging market issuers or indexes. The fund may invest in IPOs.

The fund may sell equity securities for a variety of reasons, such as to effect a change in asset allocation, secure gains, limit losses, or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities.

Fixed-Income Allocation

The fund’s fixed-income securities may include short, intermediate and long-term investment-grade corporate, U.S. government and agency obligations, mortgage-related and asset-backed securities, non-investment grade bonds (junk bonds), bank loans (loan participations and assignments), collateralized mortgage obligations, and foreign debt securities. Within this broad structure, investment decisions reflect the subadviser’s outlook on interest rates and the economy, industry and issuer conditions, and the prices and yields of the various securities. The fund’s fixed-income securities may also include cash and cash equivalents, and derivatives related to interest rates, currencies and fixed-income securities. Within the fund’s total allocation to fixed-income securities, up to 30% may be invested in below-investment grade holdings, up to 30% may be invested in foreign currency- denominated foreign debt securities, and up to 30% may be invested in debt obligations of emerging market countries and securities of companies located in emerging markets.

When selecting fixed-income or fixed-income related securities or instruments, the subadviser relies primarily on sector analysis and credit research. Sector analysis involves dividing the whole market into sectors and then studying the performance of each sector individually so that sectors can be compared to each other or to the market as a whole. Credit research focuses on both quantitative and qualitative criteria established by the subadviser such as fundamentals of the issuer, the characteristics of the securities, state of the industry, and prospects for the issuer and industry to evaluate the credit risks associated with fixed-income securities.

The fund may sell fixed-income holdings for a variety of reasons, such as to adjust the portfolio’s average maturity, duration, or credit quality or to shift assets into higher yielding securities or different sectors.

The fund may use derivative instruments as a means of gaining market exposure to either equity or fixed-income. Derivatives may be used to obtain long or short exposure to a particular security, asset class, region, industry, currency, interest rates, commodity (with the prior approval of the Adviser’s Complex Securities Committee), or index, or to other securities, groups of securities, or events. The fund may invest in over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives, including but not limited to futures, forward contracts, swaps, options, options on futures, swaptions (rights to enter into swaps), structured notes, and market access products. For purposes of the fund’s investment policies, derivative instruments will be classified as equity- or fixed-income related instruments based upon the characteristics of the derivative instrument and the underlying asset on which the derivative is based.

The fund may invest in a particular equity or fixed-income asset class by purchasing shares of exchange traded funds (ETFs) or other mutual funds that concentrate their investments in that asset class, provided the investment is consistent with the fund’s investment program and policies. Such an investment could allow the fund to obtain the benefits of a more diversified portfolio than might otherwise be available by direct investments in the asset class. Any such investments will subject the fund to the risks of the particular asset class.

The fund holds a certain portion of its assets in money market reserves which can consist of shares of the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund (or any other internal T. Rowe Price money market fund), as well as U.S.-dollar and foreign currency-denominated money market securities, including repurchase agreements, in the two highest rating categories, maturing in one year or less. The fund may invest reserves in U.S. dollars and foreign currencies.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

In pursuing its investment objective, the fund’s management has the discretion to purchase some securities that do not meet its normal investment criteria, as described above, when it perceives an unusual opportunity for gain. These special situations might arise when the fund’s management believes a security could increase in value for a variety of reasons, including a change in management, an extraordinary corporate event, a new product introduction or a favorable competitive development.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in foreign currency forward contracts and futures contracts.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Real estate securities risk Investing in securities of companies in the real estate industry subjects a fund to the risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 52% of the Russell 3000 Index, 35% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and 13% of the MSCI EAFE Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 9.43% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -7.21% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Blue Chip Growth Trust

BLUE CHIP GROWTH TRUST

Investment Objective

To provide long-term growth of capital.

Current income is a secondary objective.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 44% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in the common stocks of large and medium-sized blue chip growth companies. These are firms that, in the subadviser’s view, are well established in their industries and have the potential for above-average earnings growth.

In identifying blue chip companies, the subadviser generally considers the following characteristics:

Leading market positions. Blue chip companies often have leading market positions that are expected to be maintained or enhanced over time. Strong positions, particularly in growing industries, can give a company pricing flexibility as well as the potential for good unit sales. These factors, in turn, can lead to higher earnings growth and greater share price appreciation.

Seasoned management teams. Seasoned management teams with a track record of providing superior financial results are important for a company’s long-term growth prospects. The subadviser’s analysts will evaluate the depth and breadth of a company’s management experience.

Strong financial fundamentals. Companies should demonstrate faster earnings growth than their competitors and the market in general; high profit margins relative to competitors; strong cash flow; a healthy balance sheet with relatively low debt; and a high return on equity with a comparatively low dividend payout ratio.

The subadviser evaluates the growth prospects of companies and the industries in which they operate. The subadviser seeks to identify companies with strong market franchises in industries that appear to be strategically poised for long-term growth. This investment approach reflects the subadviser’s belief that the combination of solid company fundamentals (with emphasis on the potential for above-average growth in earnings or operating cash flow) along with a positive industry outlook will ultimately reward investors with strong investment performance. Some of the companies the subadviser targets will have good prospects for dividend growth.

While most of the assets of the fund are invested in U.S. common stocks, the fund may also purchase other types of securities, including (i) U.S. and foreign currency-denominated foreign securities (up to 20% of its net assets) including American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), (ii) convertible stocks, warrants and bonds, and (iii) may invest in futures and options. Investments in convertible securities, preferred stocks and debt securities are limited to 25% of total assets.

The fund may invest in debt securities of any type without regard to quality or rating. Such securities would be issued by companies which meet the investment criteria for the fund but may include non-investment-grade debt securities (“junk bonds”). The fund will not purchase a non-investment-grade debt security if, immediately after such purchase, the fund would have more than 5% of its total assets invested in such securities.

The fund’s debt securities may include privately negotiated notes or loans, including loan participations and assignments (“bank loans”). These investments will only be made in companies, municipalities or entities that meet the fund’s investment criteria. Direct investments in bank loans may be illiquid and holding a loan could expose the fund to the risks of being a direct lender. Since the fund invests primarily in equity securities, the risks associated with fixed-income securities will not affect the fund as much as they would a fund that invests more of its assets in fixed-income securities.

The fund holds a certain portion of its assets in money market reserves which can consist of shares of the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund (or any other internal T. Rowe Price money market fund) as well as U.S. dollar- and foreign currency-denominated money market securities, including repurchase agreements, in the two highest rating categories, maturing in one year or less. The fund may invest reserves in U.S. dollars and foreign currencies.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in hybrid instruments. Hybrid instruments are a type of high-risk derivative which can combine the characteristics of securities, futures and options. Such securities may bear interest or pay dividends at below (or even relatively nominal) rates.

The fund may sell securities for a variety of reasons such as to secure gains, limit losses or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities.

In pursuing the fund’s investment objective, the subadviser has the discretion to purchase some securities that do not meet its normal investment criteria, as described above, when it perceives an unusual opportunity for gain. These special situations might arise when the subadviser believes a security could increase in value for a variety of reasons including a change in management, an extraordinary corporate event, a new product introduction or a favorable competitive development.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 17.43% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -24.87% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Bond Trust

BOND TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek income and capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 99% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in a diversified mix of debt securities and instruments. The fund seeks to invest its assets in debt securities and instruments with an average duration of between 4 to 6 years, however, there is no limit on the fund’s average maturity.

Eligible investments include, but are not limited to:

• U.S. Treasury and agency securities as well as notes backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,

• Mortgage-backed securities, including mortgage pass-through securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) and collateralized mortgage obligations (“CMOs”)

• U.S. and foreign corporate bonds, and

• Foreign government and agency securities.

The subadviser uses proprietary research and economic and industry analysis to identify specific bonds, bond sectors and industries that are attractively priced. Due to this process, the fund may have a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio which may affect performance results.

The foreign securities in which the fund invests may be denominated in U.S. dollars or foreign currency.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic trans-actions risk” including, but not limited to, U.S. Treasury futures and options, index derivatives, credit default swaps and forwards.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 2.97% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -1.32% (Quarter ended 12/31/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Capital Appreciation Trust

CAPITAL APPRECIATION TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 77% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 65% of its total assets in equity and equity-related securities of companies, at the time of investment, that exceed $1 billion in market capitalization and that the subadviser believes have above-average growth prospects. These companies are generally medium- to large-capitalization companies.

The subadviser follows a highly disciplined investment selection and management process that seeks to identify companies that show superior absolute and relative earnings growth and also are attractively valued. The subadviser looks for companies that experience some or all of the following: (i) above-average revenue and earnings per share growth, (ii) strong market position, (iii) improving profitability and distinctive attributes such as unique marketing ability, (iv) strong research and development and productive new product flow, and (v) financial strength. Such companies generally trade at high prices relative to their current earnings. Earnings predictability and confidence in earnings forecasts are important parts of the selection process.

Securities in which the fund invests have historically been more volatile than the S&P 500 Index. Also, companies that have an earnings growth rate higher than that of the average S&P 500 company tend to reinvest their earnings rather than distribute them. Therefore, the fund is not likely to receive significant dividend income on its securities.

In addition to common stocks, nonconvertible preferred stock and convertible securities, equity-related securities in which the fund invests include: (i) American Depositary Receipts (ADRs); (ii) warrants and rights that can be exercised to obtain stock; (iii) investments in various types of business ventures, including partnerships and joint ventures; (iv) real estate investment trusts (REITs); and (v) initial public offerings (IPOs) and similar securities. (Convertible securities are securities — like bonds, corporate notes and preferred stocks — that the fund can convert into the company’s common stock, cash value of common stock, or some other equity security.)

In addition to the principal strategies discussed above, the fund may also use the following investment strategies to attempt to increase the fund’s return or protect its assets if market conditions warrant:

• The fund may make short sales of a security including short sales “against the box.”

• The fund may invest up to 20% of the fund’s total assets in foreign equity securities. (For purposes of this 20% limit, ADRs and other similar receipts or shares traded in U.S. markets are not considered to be foreign securities.)

• The fund may invest in U.S. government securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or by an agency or instrumentality of the U.S. government.

• The fund may invest in mortgage-related securities issued or guaranteed by U.S. governmental entities, including collateralized mortgage obligations, multi-class pass through securities and stripped mortgage-backed securities.

• The fund may invest in fixed-income securities rated investment grade. These include corporate debt and other debt obligations of U.S. and foreign issuers. The fund may invest in obligations that are not rated, but that the subadviser believes are of comparable quality to these obligations.

• The fund may invest in repurchase agreements.

The subadviser considers selling or reducing a stock position when, in the opinion of the subadviser, the stock has experienced a fundamental disappointment in earnings, it has reached an intermediate price objective and its outlook no longer seems sufficiently promising, a relatively more attractive stock emerges or the stock has experienced adverse price movement.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Real estate securities risk Investing in securities of companies in the real estate industry subjects a fund to the risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 16.38% (Quarter ended 12/31/2001) Worst Quarter: -20.87% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Capital Appreciation Value Trust

CAPITAL APPRECIATION VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 62% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests primarily in common stocks of established U.S. companies that have above-average potential for capital growth. Common stocks typically constitute at least 50% of the fund’s total assets. The remaining assets are generally invested in other securities, including convertible securities, corporate and government debt, foreign securities, futures and options. The fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in foreign securities.

The fund’s common stocks generally fall into one of two categories: the larger category comprises long-term core holdings whose prices when purchased by the fund are considered low in terms of company assets, earnings, or other factors; the smaller category comprises opportunistic investments whose prices the subadviser expects to rise in the short term but not necessarily over the long term. Since the subadviser attempts to prevent losses as well as achieve gains, the subadviser typically uses a value approach in selecting investments. The subadviser’s in-house research team seeks to identify companies that seem undervalued by various measures, such as price/book value, and may be temporarily out of favor but are believed to have good prospects for capital appreciation. The subadviser may establish relatively large positions in companies it finds particularly attractive.

The fund’s approach differs from that of many other funds. In addition, the subadviser searches for the best risk/reward values among all types of securities. The portion of the fund invested in a particular type of security, such as common stocks, results largely from case-by-case investment decisions, and the size of the fund’s cash reserve may reflect the subadviser’s ability to find companies that meet valuation criteria rather than its market outlook.

Debt and convertible securities may be purchased to gain additional exposure to a company or for their income or other features; maturity and quality are not necessarily major considerations in determining whether to purchase a particular security. The fund’s investments in non-investment grade debt securities and loans are limited to 15% of total assets. The fund may also purchase other securities, including bank debt, loan participations and assignments and futures and options.

The fund holds a certain portion of its assets in money market reserves which can consist of shares of the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund (or any other internal T. Rowe Price money market fund) as well as U.S. dollar and foreign currency-denominated money market securities, including repurchase agreements, in the two highest rating categories, maturing in one year or less.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in hybrid instruments. Hybrid instruments are a type of high-risk derivative which can combine the characteristics of securities, futures and options. Such securities may bear interest or pay dividends at below (or even relatively nominal) rates.

The fund may sell securities for a variety of reasons such as to secure gains, limit losses or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities.

In pursuing the fund’s investment objective, the subadviser has the discretion to purchase some securities that do not meet its normal investment criteria, as described above, when it perceives an unusual opportunity for gain. These special situations might arise when the subadviser believes a security could increase in value for a variety of reasons including a change in management, an extraordinary corporate event, a new product introduction or a favorable competitive development.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in futures contracts and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 17.59% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -7.34% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Core Allocation Plus Trust

CORE ALLOCATION PLUS TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek total return, consisting of long-term capital appreciation and current income.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 132% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests in equity and fixed-income securities of issuers located within and outside the U.S. The fund will allocate its assets between fixed-income securities, which may include investment-grade and below-investment-grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term, and equity securities based upon the subadviser’s targeted asset mix, which may change over time.

Under normal circumstances, the targeted asset mix may range between 75%-50% equity instruments and 50%-25% fixed-income instruments and will generally reflect the subadviser’s long-term, strategic asset allocation analysis. The subadviser anticipates that adjustments to the targeted asset allocation will result primarily from changes to its outlook for the global and domestic economies, industry sectors and financial markets and, to a lesser extent, its opinion of the relative attractiveness of each asset class.

When selecting particular equity or equity-related securities or instruments, the subadviser relies primarily on proprietary fundamental analysis. Fundamental analysis involves the assessment of a company through such factors as its business environment, management, balance sheet, income statement, anticipated earnings, revenues and other related measures of value.

When selecting fixed-income or fixed-income-related securities or instruments, the subadviser relies primarily on sector analysis and credit research. Sector analysis focuses on the differences in yields among security types, issuers and industry sectors. Credit research focuses on both quantitative and qualitative criteria established by the subadviser.

The fund may invest in listed and unlisted domestic and foreign equity and equity-related securities or instruments, including, but not limited to, common stock, preferred stock, depositary receipts (including American Depositary Receipts and Global Depositary Receipts), index-related securities (including exchange-traded funds (ETFs)), real estate investment structures (including real estate investment trusts (REITs)), convertible securities, preferred stock, convertible preferred stock, rights, warrants, derivatives linked to equity securities or indexes, and other similar equity equivalents. These equity and equity-related instruments may include equity securities of, or derivatives linked to emerging market issuers or indexes.

The fund may also invest in fixed-income securities, fixed-income-related instruments, and cash and cash equivalents, including, but not limited to, government, agency, supranational, mortgage-backed, corporate, asset-backed, cash equivalents, and other fixed-income securities, as well as derivatives such as interest rate futures and interest rate swaps, currency forwards and fixed-income securities and instruments. These debt obligations may include non-investment-grade and emerging market debt issues.

Derivatives may be used to obtain long or short exposure to a particular security, asset class, region, industry, currency, commodity (with the prior approval of the Adviser’s Complex Securities Committee) or index, or to other securities, groups of securities or events. Derivatives may be used to transfer value added in one strategy to a market exposure other than the benchmark of that strategy. The fund may invest in over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives, including, but not limited to, futures, forward contracts, interest rate and credit default swaps, options, options on futures, swaptions, structured notes and market access products such as warrants and zero strike options. For purposes of the fund’s investment policies, derivative instruments will be classified as equity- or fixed-income-related instruments based upon the characteristics of the derivative instrument and the underlying asset to which the derivative is linked.

The fund may invest in initial public offerings (IPOs). The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher-than-average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Foreign currency swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency swaps.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

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

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Real estate securities risk Investing in securities of companies in the real estate industry subjects a fund to the risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 70% of the MSCI World Index and 30% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 14.50% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -15.88% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Core Allocation Trust

CORE ALLOCATION TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or "turns over" its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 19% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests in other funds and other investment companies (collectively, “Underlying Funds”) as well as other types of investments as described below. The fund may invest a substantial portion of its assets in the Core Allocation Plus Trust, a fund of JHVIT, but is authorized to invest without limitation in other Underlying Funds and in other types of investments as described below.

The fund may purchase shares of any Underlying Fund except other JHVIT funds of funds and the following JHVIT feeder funds: the American Asset Allocation Trust, American Blue Chip Income and Growth Trust, American Bond Trust, American Global Growth Trust, American Global Small Capitalization Trust, American Growth Trust, American Growth-Income Trust, American High-Income Bond Trust, American International Trust and American New World Trust. When purchasing shares of other JHVIT funds, the fund only purchases Class NAV shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The Underlying Funds as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of the Underlying Funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the Underlying Funds in which the fund invests focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities ("commonly known as "junk bonds") with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income Underlying Funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may invest in exchange traded funds (ETFs) and in the securities of other investment companies and make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds" below. The fund may also engage in short selling.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its adviser’s allocation decisions with respect to Underlying Funds and the investments and investment decisions made by the Underlying Funds’ subadvisers.

The fund anticipates that the fund’s allocation through the Underlying Funds to equity, fixed-income, and foreign securities will generally be within the following ranges, however, the fund reserves the right to invest outside these ranges at any time:

• equity securities: 50% to 75%

• fixed-income securities: 25% to 50%

• foreign securities: 0% to 100%

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under "Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic trans- actions risk" including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 70% of the MSCI World Index and 30% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 9.48% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -7.65% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Core Balanced Strategy Trust

CORE BALANCED STRATEGY TRUST

Investment Objective

Seeks long term growth of capital. Current income is also a consideration.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 20% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests principally in other funds (“Underlying Funds”) but may also invest in other types of investments as noted below. Under normal market conditions, the fund invests approximately 50% of its net assets in Underlying Funds that invest primarily in equity securities and approximately 50% of its net assets in Underlying Funds that invest primarily in fixed-income securities, although variations in these target percentages are permitted as noted below.

Underlying Funds eligible for purchase by the fund include the following index funds: 500 Index Trust, the Mid Cap Index Trust, the Small Cap Index Trust, the International Equity Index Trust A and the Total Bond Market Trust A. The fund may, however, invest in other JHVIT funds and other investment companies, including exchange traded funds ("ETFs").

The equity Underlying Funds in which the fund may invest as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of the Underlying Funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. The fixed-income Underlying Funds in which the fund invests focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade debt securities and below investment grade debt securities (“junk bonds”) with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income Underlying Fund holds various types of debt instruments, such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

Variations in the target percentage allocations between the two types of Underlying Funds (fixed-income and equity) are permitted up to 10% in either direction. For example, based on its investment allocation of approximately 50% of assets in fixed- income securities and 50% of assets in equity securities, the fund may have a fixed-income/equity allocation of 60%/40% or 40%/60%. Variations beyond the permissible deviation range of 10% are not permitted except that, in light of market or economic conditions, the subadviser may determine that the normal percentage limitations should be exceeded to protect the fund.

Within the prescribed percentage allocations, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific Underlying Funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific Underlying Funds or rebalanced the Underlying Funds. To maintain target allocation in the Underlying Funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its Underlying Funds that most deviate from target.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to Underlying Funds and the investment decisions made by the Underlying Funds’ subadvisers. The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in which it invests.

The fund may also invest in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments of the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund purchases only NAV shares of the Underlying Funds that are JHVIT funds. (NAV shares are not subject to any Rule 12b-1 fees).

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under "Additional Information About the Funds' Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk" including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 52% of the Russell 3000 Index, 35% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and 13% MSCI EAFE Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 7.59% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -4.48% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Core Balanced Trust

CORE BALANCED TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 8% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests in other funds and other investment companies (collectively, "Underlying Funds") as well as other types of investments as described below. The fund may invest a substantial portion of its assets in the Balanced Trust, a fund of JHVIT, but is authorized to invest without limitation in other Underlying Funds and in other types of investments.

The fund may purchase shares of any Underlying Fund except other JHVIT funds of funds and the following JHVIT feeder funds: the American Asset Allocation Trust, American Blue Chip Income and Growth Trust, American Bond Trust, American Global Growth Trust, American Global Small Capitalization Trust, American Growth Trust, American Growth-Income Trust, American High-Income Bond Trust, American International Trust and American New World Trust. When purchasing shares of other JHVIT funds, the fund only purchases Class NAV shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The Underlying Funds as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of the Underlying Funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the Underlying Funds in which the fund invests focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities (commonly known as "junk bonds") with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income Underlying Funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may invest in exchange traded funds ("ETFs") and make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See "Other PermittedInvestments by the Funds of Funds” below. The fund may also engage in short selling.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its adviser’s allocation decisions with respect to Underlying Funds and the investments and investment decisions made by the Underlying Funds' subadvisers.

The fund’s allocation through the Underlying Funds to equity, fixed-income, and foreign securities will generally be within the following ranges, however, the fund reserves the right to invest outside these ranges at any time:

• equity securities: 55% to 75%

• fixed-income securities: 25% to 45%

• foreign securities: 0% to 100%

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under "Additional Information About the Funds' Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk" including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre- inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 52% of the Russell 3000 Index, 35% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and 13% MSCI EAFE Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 9.28% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -7.10% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Core Bond Trust

CORE BOND TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek total return consisting of income and capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 562% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in a broad range of investment-grade debt securities, including U.S. government obligations, corporate bonds, mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities and money market instruments.

The fund invests in debt securities that the subadviser believes offer attractive yields and are undervalued relative to issues of similar credit quality and interest rate sensitivity. The fund may also invest in unrated bonds that the subadviser believes are comparable to investment-grade debt securities.

Under normal market conditions, the subadviser expects to maintain an effective duration within 10% (in either direction) of the duration of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the duration of this index as of February 28, 2011 was 4.57 years).

The fund may invest:

• Up to 25% of total assets in asset-backed securities, other than mortgage-backed securities;

• Up to 20% of total assets in dollar-denominated obligations of foreign issuers; and

• Up to 10% of total assets in stripped mortgage-backed securities.

As part of a mortgage-backed securities investment strategy, the fund may enter into dollar rolls. The fund may also enter into reverse repurchase agreements to enhance return.

The fund's investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

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

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 4.52% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -1.24% (Quarter ended 12/31/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Core Disciplined Diversification Trust

CORE DISCIPLINED DIVERSIFICATION TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was. of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests in other funds and other investment companies (collectively, “Underlying Funds”) as well as other types of investments as described below. The fund may invest a substantial portion of its assets in the Disciplined Diversification Trust, a und of JHVIT, but is authorized to invest without limitation in other Underlying Funds and in other types of investments as described below.

The fund may purchase shares of any Underlying Fund except other JHVIT funds of funds and the following JHVIT feeder funds: the American Asset Allocation Trust, American Blue Chip Income and Growth Trust, American Bond Trust, American Global Growth Trust, American Global Small Capitalization Trust, American Growth Trust, American Growth-Income Trust, American High-Income Bond Trust, American International Trust and American New World Trust. When purchasing shares of other JHVIT funds, the fund only purchases Class NAV shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The Underlying Funds as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of the Underlying Funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the Underlying Funds in which the fund invests focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income Underlying Funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may invest in exchange traded funds (ETFs) and in the securities of other investment companies and make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed- end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds” below. The fund may also engage in short selling.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its adviser’s allocation decisions with respect to Underlying Funds and the investments and investment decisions made by the Underlying Funds’ subadvisers.

The fund anticipates that the fund’s allocation through the Underlying Funds to equity, fixed-income, and foreign securities will generally be within the following ranges, however, the fund reserves the right to invest outside these ranges at any time:

• equity securities: 60% to 80%

• fixed-income securities: 20% to 40%

• foreign securities: 0% to 100%

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic trans- actions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest- rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchangetraded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high- yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 70% of the MSCI World Index and 30% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 10.53% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -7.56% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Core Diversified Growth & Income Trust

CORE DIVERSIFIED GROWTH & INCOME TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long term growth of capital and income.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 27% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests in other funds and other investment companies (“Underlying Funds”) as well as other types of investments as described below. Under normal market conditions, the fund will generally invest between 65% and 75% of its assets in equity securities, which include securities held by the underlying funds, and between 25% and 35% of its assets in fixed income securities, which include securities held by the underlying funds.

The fund may invest in other funds including index funds and funds of the American Funds Insurance Series^® (the “AFIS Funds”). When purchasing shares of the AFIS Funds, the fund only purchases Class 1 shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The fund is authorized to invest without limitation in Underlying Funds and in other types of investments as described below. The fund may purchase any Underlying Funds except other funds of funds and JHVIT feeder funds.

The Underlying Funds as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities). Each of the funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the funds in which the fund invests focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds, government issued, domestic and international securities. Index funds typically seek to approximate the aggregate total return of a market index and an investment in an index fund involves risks similar to the risks of investing directly in the securities in the index.

The fund may also invest in exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund bears its own expenses, and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b 1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b 1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 70% of the S&P 500 Index and 30% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 15.64% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -7.47% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Core Fundamental Holdings Trust

CORE FUNDAMENTAL HOLDINGS TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 3% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests in other funds and other investment companies (collectively,"Underlying Funds") as well as other types of investments as described below.

The fund may invest a substantial portion of its assets in Underlying Funds that are series of the American Funds Insurance Series but is authorized to invest without limitation in other Underlying Funds and in other types of investments as described below.

The fund may purchase shares of any Underlying Fund except other JHVIT funds of funds and the following JHVIT feeder funds: the American Asset Allocation Trust, American Blue Chip Income and Growth Trust, American Bond Trust, American Global Growth Trust, American Global Small Capitalization Trust, American Growth Trust, American Growth-Income Trust, American High-Income Bond Trust, American International Trust and American New World Trust. When purchasing shares of other JHVIT funds, the fund only purchases Class NAV shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The Underlying Funds as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of the Underlying Funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the Underlying Funds in which the fund invests focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities (commonly known as "junk bonds") with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income Underlying Funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may invest in exchange traded funds (ETFs) and in the securities of other investment companies and make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See "Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds" below. The fund may also engage in short selling.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to Underlying Funds and the investments and investment decisions made by the Underlying Funds' subadvisers. The fund anticipates that the fund’s allocation through the Underlying Funds to equity, fixed-income, and foreign securities will generally be within the following ranges, however, the fund reserves the right to invest outside these ranges at any time:

• equity securities: 50% to 75%

• fixed-income securities: 25% to 50%

• foreign securities: 0% to 40%

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under "Additional Information About the Funds' Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk" including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts,interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as "junk bonds") are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default thanhigher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 60% of the S&P 500 Index and 40% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 8.35% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -5.97% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Core Global Diversification Trust

CORE GLOBAL DIVERSIFICATION TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 10% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests in other funds and other investment companies (collectively, “Underlying Funds”) as well as other types of investments as described below. Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest a significant portion of its assets, directly or indirectly through Underlying Funds, in securities that are located outside the U.S.

The fund may invest a substantial portion of its assets in Underlying Funds that are series of the American Funds Insurance Series but is authorized to invest without limitation in other Underlying Funds and in other types of investments.

The fund may purchase shares of any Underlying Fund except other JHVIT funds of funds and the following JHVIT feeder funds: the American Asset Allocation Trust, American Blue Chip Income and Growth Trust, American Bond Trust, American Global Growth Trust, American Global Small Capitalization Trust, American Growth Trust, American Growth-Income Trust, American High-Income Bond Trust, American International Trust and American New World Trust. When purchasing shares of other JHVIT funds, the fund only purchases NAV Class shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The Underlying Funds as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of the Underlying Funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the Underlying Funds in which the fund invests focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities (“commonly known as “junk bonds”) with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income Underlying Funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may invest in exchange traded funds (ETFs) and in the securities of other investment companies and make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds” below. The fund may also engage in short selling.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to Underlying Funds and the investments and investment decisions made by the Underlying Funds’ subadvisers.

The fund anticipates that the fund’s allocation through the Underlying Funds to equity, fixed-income, and foreign securities will generally be within the following ranges, however, the fund reserves the right to invest outside these ranges at any time:

• equity securities: 50% to 75%

• fixed-income securities: 25% to 50%

• foreign securities: 40% or more

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 65% of the MSCI World Index and 35% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 10.66% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: - 7.44% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Core Strategy Trust

CORE STRATEGY TRUST

Investment Objective

Seeks long term growth of capital. Current income is also a consideration.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 15% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests in other funds of JHVIT and other investment companies (including exchange traded funds) (“Underlying Funds”) as well as other types of investments, see “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund invests approximately 70% of its total assets in equity securities and Underlying Funds which invest primarily in equity securities (“Equity Investments”) and approximately 30% of its total assets in fixed income securities and Underlying Funds which invest primarily in fixed income securities (“Fixed Income Investments”).

The fund may also invest in various Underlying Funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of the Underlying Funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the Underlying Funds in which the fund invests focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income Underlying Funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

Variations in the target percentage allocations between Equity Investments and Fixed Income Investments are permitted up to 10% in either direction. For example, based on its investment allocation of approximately 70% of assets in Equity Investments and 30% of assets in Fixed Income Investments, the fund may have an equity/fixed income allocation of 20%/80% or 40%/60%. Variations beyond the permissible deviation range of 10% are not permitted except that, in light of market or economic conditions, the subadviser may determine that the normal percentage limitations should be exceeded to protect the fund or to achieve the fund’s objective.

The fund is monitored daily. To maintain target allocations in the Underlying Funds, daily cash flow for the fund will be directed to the Underlying Fund that most deviates from target. Quarterly, the subadviser may also rebalance the fund’s Underlying Funds to maintain target allocations. The subadviser may from time to time adjust the percent of assets invested in any specific Underlying Fund held by the fund. Such adjustments may be made to increase or decrease the fund’s holdings of particular asset classes, such as common stocks of foreign issuers, or to adjust portfolio quality or the duration of fixed income securities. Adjustments may also be made to increase or reduce the percent of the fund’s assets subject to the management of a particular Underlying Fund subadviser. In addition, changes may be made to reflect fundamental changes in the investment environment.

The fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies including exchange traded funds (ETFs) and may invest directly in other type of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to Underlying Funds and the investment decisions made by the Underlying Funds’ subadvisers. The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the Underlying Funds in which it invests.

When purchasing shares of other JHVIT funds, the fund only purchases Class NAV shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets.Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange traded options.

Index management risk Certain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high- yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index is comprised of 70% S&P 500 Index and 30% Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 13.17% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: - 14.86% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Currency Strategies Trust

CURRENCY STRATEGIES TRUST

Investment Objective

The fund seeks to achieve total return from investments in currency markets.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. Because the fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover to report.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, at least 80% of the value of the fund’s net assets, including borrowings for investment purposes, if any, will be exposed to currency through currency forwards and other currency transactions, such as spot currency transactions and currency options. The fund’s assets that are not used to purchase currency forwards and other currency instruments will be invested in investment grade debt securities. The fund seeks to achieve positive absolute returns through the income produced by the debt securities and any net gains resulting from fluctuations in the values of currencies relative to the U.S. dollar. (Net losses on currency transactions will reduce positive absolute returns.)

Investment grade debt securities are securities that are rated in one of the four highest rating categories as determined by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization, such as Standard & Poor’s Corporation (“S&P”), Fitch Investors Service, Inc. (“Fitch”) or Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”), or are unrated securities determined by the subadviser to be of comparable quality to investment grade securities. Investment grade securities are rated (from highest to lowest quality) as AAA, AA, A or BBB by S&P and Fitch or as Aaa, Aa, A or Baa by Moody’s. Investment grade debt securities include U.S. government securities, including U.S. Treasuries and cash equivalents.

In pursuing its investment goal, the fund may enter into derivative currency transactions, including currency forwards, cross currency forwards and options on currencies. The fund’s derivative transactions will typically be fully collateralized on a net basis. The fund’s investments in derivative currency transactions may result in net short exposure to a particular currency that is not offset by a long position in another currency. The fund may use derivatives for many purposes, including for hedging, and as a substitute for direct investment in securities or other assets.

The fund may be exposed to currencies of both developed and emerging market countries that, in the subadviser’s opinion, have liquid currency markets. The fund employs an active currency strategy that seeks to deliver returns (or alpha) that is not correlated to the movements of the securities markets. The subadviser’s investment process is systematic and based on fundamental analysis. The subadviser seeks to exploit factors that drive the relative value of currency markets and to take advantage of the effects of changes in short-term and long-term interest rates, capital flows, trade flows and supply/demand pressures.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use various hedging,and other strategic transactions described under “Additional Information about the Funds’ Principal Risks – Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk.” The risks of currency derivative transactions is further described under “Additional Information about the Fund’s Principal Risks – Currency Risk.”

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Past performance

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because this class of the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Disciplined Diversification Trust

DISCIPLINED DIVERSIFICATION TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek total return consisting of capital appreciation and current income.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 5% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests primarily in equity securities and fixed-income securities of domestic and international issuers, including equities of issuers in emerging markets, in accordance with the following range of allocations:

	Target Allocation	Range of Allocation
Equity Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	70%	65%-75%
Fixed-Income Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	30%	25%-35%

Equity securities will include securities of small, medium, and large size companies. The fund will target weights efficiently to achieve a higher exposure to small and value companies relative to the market. Increased exposure to small and value companies may be achieved by decreasing the allocation of the fund’s assets to large growth companies relative to their weight in the universe in which the fund normally invests.

For its fixed income investments, the fund is eligible to invest in a variety of fixed income securities which may be issued by domestic or foreign issuers and may be denominated in U.S. dollars or foreign currencies. They include, but are not limited to:

• Debt securities issued by the U.S. Treasury which are direct obligations of the U.S. government, including bills, notes and bonds.

• U.S. government agency obligations issued or guaranteed by U.S. government-sponsored instrumentalities and federal agencies, which have different levels of credit support.

• Nonconvertible corporate debt securities (e.g., bonds and debentures), which are issued by companies whose commercial paper is rated Prime-1 by Moody’s or A1 or better by S&P or F1 or better by Fitch and dollar-denominated obligations of foreign issuers issued in the U.S. If the issuer’s commercial paper is unrated, then the debt security would have to be rated at least AA by S&P or Aa2 by Moody’s or AA by Fitch. If there is neither a commercial paper rating nor a rating of the debt security, then the subadviser must determine that the debt security is of comparable quality to equivalent issues of the same issuer rated at least AA by S&P or Fitch or Aa2 by Moody’s.

• Obligations of U.S. banks and savings and loan associations and dollar-denominated obligations of U.S. subsidiaries and branches of foreign banks, such as certificates of deposit (including marketable variable rate certificates of deposit) and bankers’ acceptances. Bank certificates of deposit will only be acquired from banks having assets in excess of $1 billion.

• Commercial paper rated, at the time of purchase, A1 or better by S&P or Prime-1 by Moody’s or F1 or better by Fitch, or, if unrated, issued by a corporation having an outstanding unsecured debt issue rated Aaa by Moody’s or AAA by S&P or AAA by Fitch.

•Repurchase Agreements: instruments through which the fund purchase securities (“underlying securities”) from a bank or a registered U.S. government securities dealer, with an agreement by the seller to repurchase the securities at an agreed price, plus interest at a specified rate.

• Bills, notes, bonds and other debt securities issued or guaranteed by foreign governments, or their agencies and instrumentalities.

• Debt securities of supranational organizations such as the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Economic Community and the World Bank, which are chartered to promote economic development.

• Debt securities of foreign issuers rated AA or better by S&P or Aa2 or better by Moody’s or AA or better by Fitch.

• Debt securities of domestic or foreign issuers denominated in U.S. dollars but not trading in the U.S.

The fund may invest in registered or unregistered money market funds affiliated or unaffiliated with the fund’s subadviser. Investments in money market funds may involve a duplication of certain fees and expenses.

The fund is not required to invest in all eligible categories of securities described above and may invest in any combination of such categories of securities. Fixed-income securities may have fixed, variable, or floating rates of interest, including rates of interest that vary inversely at a multiple of a designated or floating rate, or that vary according to change in relative values of currencies.

The fund may also enter into forward currency contracts to facilitate the settlement of equity purchases of foreign securities, repatriation of foreign currency balances or exchange of one foreign currency to another currency.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index is comprised of 70% MSCI World Index and 30% Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 16.97% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: - 7.30% (Quarter ended 3/31/2009)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Emerging Markets Value Trust

EMERGING MARKETS VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 21% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in companies associated with emerging markets designated from time to time by the subadviser.

The fund seeks long-term capital growth through investment primarily in emerging market equity securities. The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in companies associated with emerging markets, including frontier markets (emerging market countries at an earlier stage of development), authorized for investment by the subadviser (“Approved Markets”) from time to time. The fund invests its assets primarily in Approved Markets equity securities listed on bona fide securities exchanges or actively traded on over-the-counter markets. (Approved Market Securities are defined below.) These exchanges may be either within or outside the issuer’s domicile country. The securities may be listed or traded in the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), European Depositary Receipts (EDRs), Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), Non-Voting Depositary Receipts (NVDRs) or other similar securities, including dual listed securities.

The fund seeks to purchase emerging market equity securities that are deemed by the subadviser to be value stocks at the timeof purchase. The subadviser believes securities are considered value stocks primarily because they have a high book value in relation to their market value. In assessing value, the subadviser may consider additional factors, such as price-to-cash flow or price-to-earnings ratios, as well as economic conditions and developments in the issuer’s industry. The criteria the subadviser uses for assessing value are subject to change from time to time.

The fund will also seek to purchase emerging market equity securities across all market capitalizations, and specifically those which are deemed by the subadviser to be value stocks at the time of purchase, as described in the paragraph above. The fund may not invest in certain eligible companies or Approved Markets described above or achieve approximate market weights because of constraints imposed within Approved Markets, restrictions on purchases by foreigners and the fund’s policy to invest no more than 25% of its total assets in any one industry at the time of purchase.

The fund also may invest up to 10% of its total assets in shares of other investment companies that invest in one or more Approved Markets, although it tends to do so only where access to those markets is otherwise significantly limited. In some Approved Markets it may be necessary or advisable for the fund to establish a wholly owned subsidiary or trust for the purpose of investing in the local markets.

In determining what countries are eligible markets for the fund, the subadviser may consider various factors, including without limitation, the data, analysis and classification of countries published or disseminated by the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, FTSE International, Morgan Stanley Capital International, Citigroup and the Heritage Foundation. Approved emerging markets may not include all emerging markets classified by such entities. In determining whether to approve markets for investment, the subadviser takes into account, among other things, market liquidity, relative availability of investor information, government regulation, including fiscal and foreign exchange repatriation rules and the availability of other access to these markets for the fund and other affiliated funds.

The fund may use derivatives such as futures contracts and options on futures contracts to gain market exposure on uninvested cash pending investment in securities or to maintain liquidity to pay redemptions. The fund may enter into futures contracts and options on futures contracts for Approved Market or other equity market securities and indices, including those of the United States. The fund may also enter into forward currency contracts to facilitate the settlement of equity purchases of foreign securities, repatriation of foreign currency balances or exchange of one foreign currency to another currency.

The fund’s policy of seeking broad market diversification means the subadviser will not utilize “fundamental” securities research techniques in identifying securities selections. Changes in the composition and relative ranking (in terms of book-to-market ratio) of the stocks which are eligible for purchase by the fund take place with every trade when the securities markets are open for trading due primarily to price fluctuations of such securities. On a periodic basis, the subadviser will identify value stocks that are eligible for investment and re-evaluate eligible value stocks no less than semiannually.

The fund does not seek current income as an investment objective, and investments will not be based upon an issuer’s dividend payment policy or record. However, many of the companies whose securities will be held by the fund do pay dividends. It is anticipated, therefore, that the fund will receive dividend income.

Approved Markets

As of the date of this prospectus, the fund is authorized to invest in the countries listed below. The subadviser will determine in its discretion when and whether to invest in countries that have been authorized, depending on a number of factors, such as asset growth in the fund and characteristics of each country’s markets. The subadviser also may authorize other countries for investment in the future, in addition to the countries listed below. Also, the fund may continue to hold investments in countries that are not currently authorized for investment, but had been authorized for investment in the past. Emerging markets approved for investment may include countries in an earlier stage of development that are sometimes referred to as frontier markets.

• Brazil

• Chile

• China

• Czech Republic

• Hungary

• India

• Indonesia

• Malaysia

• Mexico

• Philippines

• Poland

• Russia

• South Africa

• South Korea

• Taiwan

• Thailand

• Turkey

Approved Market Securities

“Approved Market Securities” are defined as securities that are associated with an Approved Market, and include, among others: (a) securities of companies that are organized under the laws of, or maintain their principal place of business in, an Approved Market; (b) securities for which the principal trading market is in an Approved Market; (c) securities issued or guaranteed by the government of an Approved Market country, its agencies or instrumentalities, or the central bank of such country; (d) securities denominated in an Approved Market currency issued by companies to finance operations in Approved Markets; (e) securities of companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues or profits from goods produced or sold, investments made or services performed in Approved Markets or have at least 50% of their assets in Approved Markets; (f) Approved Market equity securities in the form of depositary shares; (g) securities of pooled investment vehicles that invest primarily in Approved Markets securities or derivative instruments that derive their value from Approved Market securities; or (h) securities included in the fund’s benchmark index. Securities of Approved Markets may include securities of companies that have characteristics and business relationships common to companies in other countries. As a result, the value of the securities of such companies may reflect economic and market forces in such other countries as well as in the Approved Markets. The subadviser, however, will select only those companies which, in its view, have sufficiently strong exposure to economic and market forces in Approved Markets. For example, the subadviser may invest in companies organized and located in the United States or other countries outside of Approved Markets, including companies having their entire production facilities outside of Approved Markets, when such companies meet the definition of Approved Market Securities.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange traded options.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 49.54% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: - 27.57% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Equity-Income Trust

EQUITY-INCOME TRUST

Investment Objective

To provide substantial dividend income and also long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 14% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities, with at least 65% in common stocks of well-established companies paying above-average dividends. The fund employs a “value” approach and invests in stocks and other securities that appear to be temporarily undervalued by various measures and may be temporarily out of favor but have good prospects for capital appreciation and dividend growth.

Under normal market conditions, substantial dividend income means that the yield on the fund’s portfolio securities generally exceeds the yield on the fund’s benchmark. The subadviser believes that income can contribute significantly to total return over time and expects the fund’s yield to exceed that of the S&P 500 Index. Dividends can also help reduce the fund’s volatility during periods of market turbulence and help offset losses when stock prices are falling.

The fund will generally consider companies with one or more of the following characteristics:

• established operating histories;

• above-average dividend yield relative to the S&P 500 Index;

• low price/earnings ratios relative to the S&P 500 Index;

• sound balance sheets and other positive financial characteristics; and

• low stock price relative to a company’s underlying value, as measured by assets, cash flow or business franchises.

The fund may also purchase other types of securities in keeping with its objective, including:

• U.S. dollar-and foreign currency-denominated foreign securities including American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) (up to 25% of total assets);

• preferred stocks;

• convertible stocks, bonds, and warrants;

• futures and options; and

• bank debt, loan participations and assignments.

The fund may invest in fixed-income securities without regard to quality or rating, including up to 10% in non-investment grade fixed-income securities (“junk bonds”). The fund’s fixed-income investments may include privately negotiated notes or loans, including loan participations and assignments (“bank loans”). These investments will only be made in companies, municipalities or entities that meet the fund’s investment criteria. Direct investments in bank loans may be illiquid and holding a loan could expose the fund to the risks of being a direct lender. Since the fund invests primarily in equity securities, the risks associated with fixed income securities will not effect the fund as much as they would a fund that invests more of its assets in fixed- income securities.

The fund holds a certain portion of its assets in money market reserves which can consist of shares of the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund (or any other internal T. Rowe Price money market fund) as well as U.S. dollar- and foreign currency- denominated money market securities, including repurchase agreements, in the two highest rating categories, maturing in one year or less. The fund may invest reserves in U.S. dollars and foreign currencies.

The fund may sell securities for a variety of reasons such as to secure gains, limit losses or redeploy assets into more promisingopportunities.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in hybrid instruments. Hybrid instruments are a type of high-risk derivative which can combine the characteristics of securities, futures and options. Such securities may bear interest or pay dividends at below market (or even relatively nominal) rates.

In pursuing the fund’s investment objective, the subadviser has the discretion to purchase some securities that do not meet its normal investment criteria, as described above, when it perceives an unusual opportunity for gain. These special situations might arise when the subadviser believes a security could increase in value for a variety of reasons including a change in management, an extraordinary corporate event, a new product introduction or a favorable competitive development.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange traded options.

Hybrid instrument risk Hybrid instruments are potentially more volatile and carry greater market risk than traditional debt instruments. Hybrid instruments may bear interest or pay preferred dividends at below market rates and may be illiquid.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high- yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 19.64% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -22.37% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Financial Services Trust

FINANCIAL SERVICES TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 15% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in companies that, at the time of investment, are principally engaged in financial services, and the fund invests primarily in common stocks of financial services companies.

A company is “principally engaged” in financial services if it owns financial services-related assets constituting at least 50% of the value of its total assets, or if at least 50% of its revenues are derived from its provision of financial services. Companies in the financial services industry include commercial banks, industrial banks, savings institutions, finance companies, diversified financial services companies, investment banking firms, securities brokerage houses, investment advisory companies, leasing companies, insurance companies and companies providing similar services. The fund may also invest in other equity securities and in foreign and fixed-income securities.

The subadviser uses the Davis Investment Discipline in managing the fund’s portfolio. The subadviser conducts extensive research to try to identify companies with durable business models that can be purchased at attractive valuations relative to their intrinsic value. The subadviser emphasizes individual stock selection and believes that the ability to evaluate management is critical. The subadviser routinely visits managers at their places of business in order to gain insight into the relative value of different businesses. Such research, however rigorous, involves predictions and forecasts that are inherently uncertain.

The subadviser has developed the following list of characteristics that it believes help companies to create shareholder value over the long term and manage risk. While few companies possess all of these characteristics at any given time, the subadviser seeks to invest in companies that demonstrate a majority, or an appropriate mix of these characteristics, although there is no guarantee that it will be successful in doing so.

• Proven track record

• Significant alignment of interest in business

• Strong balance sheet

• Low cost structure

• High returns on capital

• Non-obsolescent products/services

• Dominant or growing market share

• Global presence and brand names

• Intelligent application of capital

The subadviser’s goal is to invest in companies for the long term. The subadviser considers selling a company if it believes the stock’s market price exceeds its estimates of intrinsic value, or if the ratio of the risks and rewards of continuing to own the company is no longer attractive.

The fund may engage in active and frequent trading to achieve its principal investment strategies which will increase transaction costs.

The fund concentrates (that is, invests at least 25% or more) its investments in securities of companies engaged in the financial services industries, a comparatively narrow segment of the economy, and may therefore experience greater volatility than funds investing in a broader range of industries. Moreover, a fund which concentrates its investments in a particular sector is particularly susceptible to the impact of market, economic, regulatory and other factors affecting that sector.

The fund is non-diversified, which means that it may invest its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Non-diversified risk Overall risk can be reduced by investing in securities from a diversified pool of issuers and is increased by investing in securities of a small number of issuers. Investments in a non-diversified fund may magnify the fund’s losses from adverse events affecting a particular issuer.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 27.71% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -27.18% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Franklin Templeton Founding Allocation Trust

FRANKLIN TEMPLETON FOUNDING ALLOCATION TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 5% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests in other funds and in other investment companies (collectively, “Underlying Funds”) as well as other types of investments as described below.

The fund currently invests primarily in three JHVIT Underlying Funds: Global Trust, Income Trust and Mutual Shares Trust. However, it is also authorized to invest without limitation in other Underlying Funds including exchange traded funds and in other types of investments.

The fund may purchase any funds except other JHVIT funds of funds and the JHVIT American Feeder Funds. When purchasing shares of other JHVIT funds, the fund only purchases Class NAV shares (which are not subject to Rule 12b-1 fees).

The fund may invest in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships, described under “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund is monitored daily. To maintain target allocations in the Underlying Funds, daily cash flow for the fund will be directed to its Underlying Funds that most deviate from its target allocation. Quarterly, the subadviser may also rebalance the fund’s Underlying Funds to maintain target allocations.

The fund may at any time invest any percentage of its assets in any of the different investments described above. The subadviser may from time to time adjust the percentage of assets invested in any specific investment held by the fund. Such adjustments may be made, for example, to increase or decrease the fund’s holdings of particular asset classes, to adjust portfolio quality or the duration of fixed income securities or to increase or reduce the percent of the fund’s assets subject to the management of a particular Underlying Fund subadviser. In addition, changes may be made to reflect fundamental changes in the investment environment.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its adviser’s allocation decisions with respect to its investments and the investment decisions made by the adviser or subadviser to an investment company or similar entity in which the fund invests.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 70% of the S&P 500 Index and 30% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series II:

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Best Quarter: 17.54% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -18.01% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Fundamental Value Trust

FUNDAMENTAL VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 16% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests primarily in common stocks of U.S. companies with market capitalizations of at least $10 billion. The fund may also invest in companies with smaller capitalizations.

The subadviser uses the Davis Investment Discipline in managing the fund’s portfolio. The Davis Investment Discipline involves conducting extensive research to try to identify companies with durable business models that can be purchased at attractive valuations relative to their intrinsic value. The subadviser emphasizes individual stock selection and believes that the ability to evaluate management is critical. The subadviser routinely visits managers at their places of business in order to gain insight into the relative value of different businesses. Such research, however rigorous, involves predictions and forecasts that are inherently uncertain.

The subadviser has developed the following list of characteristics that it believes help companies to create shareholder value over the long term and manage risk. While few companies possess all of these characteristics at any given time, the subadviser seeks to invest in companies that demonstrate a majority, or an appropriate mix of these characteristics, although there is no guarantee that it will be successful in doing so.

•Proven track record

•Significant alignment of interest in business

•Strong balance sheet

•Low cost structure

•High returns on capital

•Non-obsolescent products/services

•Dominant or growing market share

•Global presence and brand names

•Intelligent application of capital

The subadviser’s goal is to invest in companies for the long term. The subadviser considers selling a security if it believes the stock’s market price exceeds its estimates of intrinsic value, or if the ratio of the risks and rewards of continuing to own the stock is no longer attractive.

The fund may invest up to 20% of total assets in foreign securities and up to 20% of total assets in fixed-income securities.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 20.60% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -24.81% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Global Trust

GLOBAL TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 8% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests primarily in the equity securities of companies located throughout the world, including emerging markets.

Depending upon current market conditions, the fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in debt securities of companies and governments located anywhere in the world. Debt securities represent the obligation of the issuer to repay a loan of money to it, and generally pay interest to the holder. Bonds, notes and debentures are examples of debt securities. The fund also invests in depositary receipts. Equity securities may include common stocks, preferred stocks and convertible securities. The fund may lend certain of its portfolio securities to qualified banks and broker dealers.

When choosing equity investments for the fund, the subadviser applies a “bottom up,” value-oriented, long-term approach, focusing on the market price of a company’s securities relative to the subadviser’s evaluation of the company’s long-term earnings, asset value and cash flow potential. The subadviser also considers a company’s price/earnings ratio, price/cash flow ratio, profit margins and liquidation value.

The fund may use various derivative strategies to help to protect its assets, implement a cash or tax management strategy or enhance its returns. No more than 5% of the fund’s total assets may be invested in, or exposed to, options and swaps agreements (as measured at the time of investment).

The fund may invest in equity-linked notes, the value of which is tied to a single stock or a basket of stocks.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest- rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Equity-linked notes are subject to risks similar to those related to investing in the underlying securities. An equity- linked note is dependent on the individual credit of the note’s issuer. Equity-linked notes often are privately placed and may not be rated. The secondary market for equity-linked notes may be limited.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

• Swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, settlement risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation, and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving swaps.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 19.16% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -19.79% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Global Bond Trust

GLOBAL BOND TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek maximum total return, consistent with preservation of capital and prudent investment management.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 394% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in fixed-income instruments that are economically tied to at least three countries (one of which may be the United States), which may be represented by futures contracts (including related options) with respect to such securities, and options on such securities. These fixed-income instruments may be denominated in foreign currencies or in U.S. dollars, which may be represented by forwards or derivatives, such as options, futures contracts, or swap agreements.

In selecting securities for the fund, the subadviser utilizes economic forecasting, interest rate anticipation, credit and call risk analysis, foreign currency exchange rate forecasting, and other security selection techniques. The proportion of the fund’s assets committed to investment in securities with particular characteristics (such as maturity, type and coupon rate) will vary based on the subadviser’s outlook for the U.S. and foreign economies, the financial markets, and other factors.

The types of fixed-income securities in which the fund may invest include the following securities which, unless otherwise noted, may be issued by domestic or foreign issuers and may be denominated in U.S. dollars or foreign currencies:

• securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or government-sponsored enterprises;

• corporate debt securities of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers, including convertible securities and corporate commercial paper;

• mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities;

• inflation-indexed bonds issued by both governments and corporations;

• structured notes, including hybrid or “indexed” securities and event-linked bonds;

• loan participations and assignments;

• delayed funding loans and revolving credit facilities;

• bank certificates of deposit, fixed time deposits and bankers’ acceptances;

• debt securities issued by states or local governments and their agencies, authorities and other government-sponsored enterprises;

• repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements;

• obligations of non-U.S. governments or their subdivisions, agencies and government-sponsored enterprises; and

• obligations of international agencies or supranational entities.

Fixed-income securities may have fixed, variable, or floating rates of interest, including rates of interest that vary inversely at a multiple of a designated or floating rate, or that vary according to change in relative values of currencies.

Depending on the subadviser’s current opinion as to the proper allocation of assets among domestic and foreign issuers, investments instruments that are economically tied to foreign (non-U.S.) countries will normally be at 25% of the fund’s net assets. The fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in securities and instruments that are economically tied to emerging market countries. The fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in fixed-income securities that are rated below investment grade but rated B or higher by Moody’s or equivalently rated by S&P or Fitch, or, if unrated, determined by the subadviser to be of comparable quality. The fund may invest in baskets of foreign currencies (such as the euro) and directly in currencies. The average portfolio duration of this fund normally varies within two years (plus or minus) of the duration of the benchmark index.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in preferred stocks.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

The fund may make short sales of a security including short sales “against the box.”

The fund is non-diversified, which means that it may invest its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund.

The fund may:

• purchase and sell options on domestic and foreign securities, securities indexes and currencies,

• purchase and sell futures and options on futures,

• purchase and sell currency or securities on a forward basis, and

• enter into interest rate, index, equity, total return, currency, and credit default swap agreements.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest- rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Foreign currency swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency swaps.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Inverse floating rate securities Liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, issuer risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving inverse floating rate securities.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of dispropor- tionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

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

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high- yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Non-diversified risk Overall risk can be reduced by investing in securities from a diversified pool of issuers and is increased by investing in securities of a small number of issuers. Investments in a non-diversified fund may magnify the fund’s losses from adverse events affecting a particular issuer.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 11.03% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -9.49% (Quarter ended 9/30/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Growth Equity Trust

GROWTH EQUITY TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to maximize long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 86% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of large-capitalization growth companies traded in the U.S. These include some of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. The term “growth company” denotes companies with the prospect of strong earnings, revenue or cash flow growth.

The subadviser’s stock selection focuses on companies that are likely to demonstrate superior earnings, revenue or cash flow growth relative to their Industry peers. The fund will normally invest in approximately 40 to 80 companies.

The subadviser considers large-capitalization companies to be those with market capitalizations of at least $3 billion at the time of investment. The fund may invest in common stock of companies of all sizes, including small-capitalization companies. Investments in companies with market capitalization below $3 billion will normally comprise less than 20% of the fund.

The subadviser compares the fund’s economic sector weightings to a Large Cap Growth Equity index, such as the Russell 1000 Growth Index. To help control risk, extreme overweighting and underweighting of the fund as compared to the major sectors of such a benchmark are avoided. The subadviser favors companies with attractive fundamentals, such as strong revenue, earnings or cash flow growth. Companies with sustainable competitive advantages, potential price or business catalysts, including earnings surprise or market expansion, and disciplined management with shareholder focus are emphasized. The subadviser also seeks to capture the capital appreciation sometimes associated with high-performing companies identified early in their growth cycles. For emerging companies lacking demonstrated financial results, the strength of the company’s business model, management team and competitive position are given greater analytical emphasis.

The fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in foreign securities. These include U.S. dollar-denominated securities of foreign issuers and securities of foreign issuers that are traded in the U.S. Currently, the subadviser intends to invest only in U.S. dollar-denominated securities of foreign issuers or ADRs.

The subadviser considers the sale of specific common stock when fundamentals deteriorate, when a stock reaches or surpasses its price target or when better opportunities are perceived in alternative stocks.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Under normal market conditions, the fund will stay fully invested in cash and stocks. The fund may, however, temporarily depart from its principal investment strategies by making short-term investments in cash equivalents in response to adverse market, economic or political conditions. This may result in the fund’s not achieving its investment objective.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk.”

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 16.01% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -13.88% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Health Sciences Trust

HEALTH SCIENCES TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 38% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in common stocks of companies engaged, at the time of investment, in the research, development, production, or distribution of products or services related to health care, medicine, or the life sciences (collectively termed “health sciences”).

While the fund may invest in companies of any size, the majority of its assets are expected to be invested in large- and mid- capitalization companies.

The subadviser’s portfolio managers divide the health sciences sector into four main areas: pharmaceuticals, health care services companies, medical products and devices providers, and biotechnology firms. Their allocation among these four areas will vary depending on the relative potential within each area and the outlook for the overall health sciences sector. While most assets will be invested in U.S. common stocks, the fund may purchase other securities, including foreign securities, futures, and options in keeping with its objective. In addition, the fund writes call and put options primarily as a means of generating additional income. Normally, the fund will own the securities on which it writes these options. The premium income received by writing covered calls can help reduce but not eliminate portfolio volatility.

The fund concentrates its investments (invests more than 25% of its total assets) in securities of companies in the health sciences sector, a comparatively narrow segment of the economy, and therefore may experience greater volatility than funds investing in a broader range of industries.

In managing the fund, the subadviser uses a fundamental, bottom-up analysis that seeks to identify high quality companies and the most compelling investment opportunities. In general, the fund will follow a growth investment strategy, seeking companies whose earnings are expected to grow faster than inflation and the economy in general. When stock valuations seem unusually high, however, a “value” approach, which gives preference to seemingly undervalued companies, may be emphasized.

The fund may invest up to 35% of its total assets in foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and may have exposure to foreign currencies through its investment in these securities, its direct holdings of foreign currencies or through its use of foreign currency exchange contracts for the purchase or sale of a fixed quantity of a foreign currency at a future date.

In pursuing its investment objective, the fund’s management has the discretion to purchase some securities that do not meet its normal investment criteria, as described above, when it perceives an unusual opportunity for gain. These special situations might arise when the fund’s management believes a security could increase in value for a variety of reasons including a change in management, an extraordinary corporate event, or a new product introduction or a favorable competitive development.

The fund holds a certain portion of its assets in money market reserves which can consist of shares of the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund (or any other internal T. Rowe Price money market fund) as well as U.S. dollar and foreign currency-denominated money market securities, including repurchase agreements, in the two highest rating categories, maturing in one year or less.

The fund may sell securities for a variety of reasons such as to secure gains, limit losses or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including entering into option transactions.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors. Health sciences companies may be subject to additional risks, such as increased competition within the sector, changes in legislation or government regulations affecting the sector, and product liabilities.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium company risk The prices of medium company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 18.13% (Quarter ended 6/30/2003) Worst Quarter: -19.64% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Heritage Trust

HERITAGE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital growth.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 174% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests in common stocks of companies that are medium-sized and smaller at the time of purchase, but the fund may purchase other types of securities as well.

In managing the fund, the subadviser looks for stocks of medium-sized and smaller companies it believes will increase in value over time, using a proprietary investment strategy. When determining the size of a company, the subadviser will consider, among other factors, the capitalization of the company and the amount of revenues as well as other information obtained about the company.

In implementing this strategy, the subadviser uses a bottom-up approach to stock selection. This means that the subadviser makes investment decisions based primarily on its analysis of individual companies, rather than on broad economic forecasts. The subadviser manages the fund based on the belief that, over the long-term, stock price movements follow growth in earnings and revenue. The subadviser’s principal analytical technique involves the identification of companies with earnings and revenues that are not only growing but growing at an accelerating pace. This includes companies whose growth rates, although still negative, are less negative than prior periods, and companies whose growth rates are expected to accelerate. In addition to accelerating growth, the fund also considers companies demonstrating price strength relative to their peers. These techniques help the subadviser buy or hold the stocks of companies it believes have favorable growth prospects and sell the stocks of companies whose characteristics no longer meet its criteria.

Although the subadviser intends to invest the fund’s assets primarily in U.S. stocks, the fund may invest in securities of foreign companies, including companies located in emerging markets. The fund may also invest in IPOs.

When the subadviser believes it is prudent, the fund may invest a portion of its assets in debt securities, preferred stock, and equity-equivalent securities, such as convertible securities. The fund generally limits its purchase of debt securities to investment grade obligations.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

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

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 18.40% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -25.98% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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High Income Trust

HIGH INCOME TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high current income;

capital appreciation is a secondary goal.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 18% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in U.S. and foreign fixed-income securities that, at the time of investment, are rated BB/Ba or lower or are unrated equivalents (“junk bonds”) as rated by S&P/Moody’s or if unrated, deemed like quality by the subadviser. These may include, but are not limited to, U.S. and foreign corporate bonds, debentures and notes, convertible securities, preferred stocks, and U.S. and foreign government obligations.

No more than 10% of the fund’s total assets (measured at the time of investment) may be invested in securities that are rated in default by S&P’s or by Moody’s or if unrated, deemed like quality by the subadviser. There is no limit on the fund’s average maturity. The foreign securities in which the fund may invest include both developed and emerging market securities.

In managing the fund’s portfolio, the subadviser concentrates on industry allocation and securities selection deciding which types of industries to emphasize at a given time, and then which individual securities to buy. The subadviser uses top-down analysis to determine which industries may benefit from current and future changes in the economy.

In choosing individual securities, the subadviser uses bottom-up research to find securities that appear comparatively under-valued. The subadviser looks at the financial condition of the issuers as well as the collateralization and other features of the securities themselves. The fund typically invests in a broad range of industries.

The fund may invest in both investment-grade and non-investment-grade asset-backed securities, including asset-backed securities rated BB/Ba by S&P/Moody’s or lower and their unrated equivalents.

The fund may use certain higher-risk investments, including derivatives (such as futures, exchange-traded options, over-the-counter options, interest rate, foreign currency and credit default swaps, and foreign forward currency contracts) to protect against possible adverse changes, to manage cash flows and risks, to gain investment exposure and/or to access potential investment opportunities, and restricted or illiquid securities. In addition, the fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in U.S. and foreign common stocks of companies of any size.

The fund may trade securities actively, which could increase its transaction costs (thus lowering performance).

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high- yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 29.15% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -27.53% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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High Yield Trust

HIGH YIELD TRUST

Investment Objective

To realize an above-average total return over a market cycle of three to five years, consistent with reasonable risk.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 58% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) at the time of investment in high yield securities. The fund’s investments may include corporate bonds, preferred stocks, U.S. government and foreign securities, mortgage-backed securities, loan assignments or participations and convertible securities which have the following ratings (or, if unrated, are considered by the subadviser to be of equivalent quality):

Corporate Bonds, Preferred Stocks and Convertible Securities

Moody's ............... Ba through C

Standard & Poor's ............. BB through D

Non-investment-grade securities are commonly referred to as “junk bonds.” The fund may also invest in investment-grade securities.

The fund may invest in foreign bonds and other fixed-income securities denominated in foreign currencies, where, in the opinion of the subadviser, the combination of current yield and currency value offer attractive expected returns. Foreign securities in which the fund may invest include emerging market securities. The fund may invest up to 100% of its assets in foreign securities.

The fund may also enter into various derivative transactions for both hedging and non-hedging purposes, including for purposes of enhancing returns. These derivative transactions include, but are not limited to, futures, options, swaps and forwards. In particular, the fund may use interest rate swaps, credit default swaps (on individual securities and/or baskets of securities), futures contracts and/or mortgage-backed securities to a significant extent, although the amounts invested in these instruments may change from time to time.

The fund may invest in fixed- and floating-rate loans, generally in the form of loan participations and assignments of such loans.

The fund normally maintains an average portfolio duration of between 3 and 7 years. However, the fund may invest in individual securities of any duration. Duration is an approximate measure of the sensitivity of the market value of a security to changes in interest rates.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 24.28% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -20.68% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Income Trust

INCOME TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to maximize income while maintaining prospects for capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 37% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests in a diversified portfolio of debt securities, such as bonds, notes and debentures, and equity securities, such as common stocks, preferred stocks and convertible securities. The fund may shift its investments from one asset class to another based on the subadviser’s analysis of the best opportunities for the fund’s portfolio in a given market.

The fund seeks income by selecting investments such as corporate and foreign debt securities and U.S. Treasury bonds, as well as stocks with attractive dividend yields. In its search for growth opportunities, the fund maintains the flexibility to invest in common stocks of companies from a variety of industries such as utilities, financials, energy, health care and telecommunication services.

The fund may invest up to 100% of total assets in debt securities that are rated below investment grade (sometimes referred to as “junk bonds”). Securities rated in the top four rating categories by independent rating organizations such as Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) or Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) are considered investment grade. Below-investment-grade securities, such as those rated BB or lower by S&P, or Ba or lower by Moody’s, or unrated, but deemed by the subadviser to be of comparable quality, generally pay higher yields but involve greater risks than investment-grade securities. The fund may invest in convertible securities without regard to the ratings assigned by rating services.

The subadviser searches for undervalued or out-of-favor securities it believes offer opportunities for current income and significant future growth. It generally performs independent analysis of the debt securities being considered for the fund’s portfolio, rather than relying principally on the ratings assigned by the rating agencies. In its analysis, the subadviser considers a variety of factors, including:

• the experience and managerial strength of the company;

• responsiveness to changes in interest rates and business conditions;

• debt maturity schedules and borrowing requirements;

• the company’s changing financial condition and market recognition of the change; and

• a security’s relative value based on such factors as anticipated cash flow, interest and dividend coverage, asset coverage and earnings prospects.

The fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in foreign securities, foreign securities that are traded in the U.S. or American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”).

The fund may invest in equity-linked notes, the value of which is tied to a single stock or a basket of stocks.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Equity-linked notes are subject to risks similar to those related to investing in the underlying securities. An equity-linked note is dependent on the individual credit of the note’s issuer. Equity-linked notes often are privately placed and may not be rated. The secondary market for equity-linked notes may be limited.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 50% of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and 50% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 16.59% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -14.27% (Quarter ended 9/30/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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International Core Trust

INTERNATIONAL CORE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high total return.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 43% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The subadviser seeks to achieve the fund’s investment objective by investing in equity investments or groups of equity investment that the subadviser believes will provide higher returns than the MSCI EAFE Index.

The subadviser employs an active investment management method, which means that securities are bought and sold according to the subadviser’s evaluations of companies’ published financial information, securities prices, equity and bond markets and the overall economy.

In selecting investments for the fund, the subadviser may use a combination of investment methods to identify which stocks present positive relative return potential. Some of these methods evaluate individual stocks or a group of stocks based on the ratio of its price relative to historical financial information, including book value, cash flow and earnings, and to forecast financial information provided by industry analysts. These ratios can then be compared to industry or market averages, to assess the relative attractiveness of the stock. Other methods focus on evaluating patterns of price movement or volatility of a stock or group of stocks relative to the investment universe. The subadviser selects which methods to use, and in what combination, based on the subadviser’s assessment of what combination is best positioned to meet the fund’s objective. The subadviser may also adjust the portfolio for other factors such as position size, industry and sector weights, and market capitalization.

In implementing an investment view, the subadviser may use both direct equity investment and indirect investment through exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives, including futures, options and swap contracts. In addition to a substitute for direct investment, derivatives may be used (i) in an attempt to reduce investment exposure (which may result in a reduction below zero); (ii) to effect transactions intended as substitutes for securities lending; and/or (iii) in an attempt to adjust elements of its investment exposure.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

• Swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, settlement risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation, and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving swaps.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 20.53% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -22.22% (Quarter ended 9/30/2002)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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International Equity Index Trust A

INTERNATIONAL EQUITY INDEX TRUST A

Investment Objective

To seek to track the performance of a broad-based equity index of foreign companies primarily in developed countries and, to a lesser extent, in emerging markets.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain JohnHancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund's most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 12% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in securities listed in the Morgan Stanley Capital International* (“MSCI”) All Country World Excluding U.S. Index or American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) or Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) representing such securities. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalization range of the Index was $466 million to $275.1 billion.

*“MSCI” is a trademark of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated (“Morgan Stanley”). The fund is not sponsored, endorsed, managed, advised, sold or promoted by Morgan Stanley, and Morgan Stanley does not make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in the fund.

The fund is an index fund and differs from an actively-managed fund. Actively-managed funds seek to outperform their benchmark indices through research and analysis. Over time, their performance may differ significantly from their benchmark indices. Index funds are passively managed funds that seek to mirror the risk and return profile of market indices, minimizing performance differences over time. An index is an unmanaged group of securities whose overall performance is used as an investment benchmark. Indices may track broad investment markets, such as the global equity market, or more narrow investment markets, such as the U.S. small cap equity market. However, an index fund has operating expenses and transaction costs, while a market index does not. Therefore, the fund, while it attempts to track its target index closely, typically will be unable to match the performance of the index exactly.

The fund uses “sampling” methodology to track the total return performance of the MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (“MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index”). This means that the fund does not intend to purchase all of the securities in the MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index, but rather intends to hold a representative sample of the securities in the Index in an effort to achieve the fund’s investment objective. The quantity of holdings in the fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the fund. Although the subadviser generally expects the fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index, it reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the fund’s investment objective.

The fund is normally fully invested. The subadviser invests in stock index futures to maintain market exposure and manage cash flow. Although it may employ foreign currency hedging techniques, it normally maintains the currency exposure of the underlying equity investments.

The fund may purchase other types of securities that are not primary investment vehicles, for example, ADRs, GDRs, European Depositary Receipts (EDRs), certain exchange traded funds (ETFs), cash equivalents, and certain derivatives (investments whose value is based on indices or other securities). As an example of how derivatives may be used, the fund may invest in stock index futures to manage cash flow. In addition, the fund may invest in securities that are not included in the index, including futures, options, swap contracts and other derivatives, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the adviser or sub-adviser).

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

• Swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, settlement risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation, and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving swaps.

Index management risk Certain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. For periods prior to the inception of the fund, performance shown for Series I and Series II shares is that of the respective, corresponding share classes of the fund’s predecessor fund. Pre-inception performance shown for Series NAV shares is the performance of Series I shares. This pre-inception performance has not been adjusted to reflect the Rule 12b-1 fees of the Series I shares and would be higher if it did. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 27.33% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -22.37% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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International Equity Index Trust B

INTERNATIONAL EQUITY INDEX TRUST B

Investment Objective

To seek to track the performance of a broad-based equity index of foreign companies primarily in developed countries and, to a lesser extent, in emerging markets.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 5% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in securities listed in the Morgan Stanley Capital International* (“MSCI”) All Country World Excluding U.S. Index or American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) or Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) representing such securities. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalization range of the Index was $466 million to $275.1 billion.

*“MSCI” is a trademark of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated (“Morgan Stanley”). The fund is not sponsored, endorsed, managed, advised, sold or promoted by Morgan Stanley, and Morgan Stanley does not make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in the fund.

The fund is an index fund and differs from an actively-managed fund. Actively-managed funds seek to outperform their benchmark indices through research and analysis. Over time, their performance may differ significantly from their benchmark indices. Index funds are passively managed funds that seek to mirror the risk and return profile of market indices, minimizing performance differences over time. An index is an unmanaged group of securities whose overall performance is used as an investment benchmark. Indices may track broad investment markets, such as the global equity market, or more narrow investment markets, such as the U.S. small cap equity market. However, an index fund has operating expenses and transaction costs, while a market index does not. Therefore, the fund, while it attempts to track their target index closely, typically will be unable to match the performance of the index exactly.

The fund uses “sampling” methodology to track the total return performance of the MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (“MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index”). This means that the fund does not intend to purchase all of the securities in the MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index, but rather intends to hold a representative sample of the securities in the Index in an effort to achieve the fund’s investment objective. The quantity of holdings in the fund will be based on a number of factors, including asset size of the fund. Although the subadviser generally expects the fund to hold less than the total number of securities in the MSCI ACWI ex-USA Index, it reserves the right to hold as many securities as it believes necessary to achieve the fund’s investment objective.

The fund is normally fully invested. The subadviser invests in stock index futures to maintain market exposure and manage cash flow. Although it may employ foreign currency hedging techniques, it normally maintains the currency exposure of the underlying equity investments.

The fund may purchase other types of securities that are not primary investment vehicles, for example, ADRs, GDRs, European Depositary Receipts (EDRs), certain exchange traded funds (ETFs), cash equivalents, and certain derivatives (investments whose value is based on indices or other securities). As an example of how derivatives may be used, the fund may invest in stock index futures to manage cash flow. In addition, the fund may invest in securities that are not included in the index, including futures, options, swap contracts and other derivatives, cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds (including money market funds advised by the adviser or sub-adviser).

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

• Swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, settlement risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation, and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving swaps.

Index management risk Certain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. For periods prior to the inception date of the fund, performance shown is the actual performance of the sole share class of the fund’s predecessor fund. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 27.40% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -22.28% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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International Growth Stock Trust

INTERNATIONAL GROWTH STOCK TRUST

Investment Objective

The fund seeks to achieve long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 8% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of international securities whose issuers are considered by the fund’s subadviser to have strong earnings growth. The fund will, under normal circumstances, invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in stocks of any market capitalization.

The fund invests significantly in foreign issuers. The fund focuses its investments in equity securities of foreign issuers that are listed on a recognized foreign or U.S. securities exchange or traded in a foreign or U.S. over-the-counter market. The fund invests,under normal circumstances, in issuers located in at least three countries outside of the U.S., emphasizing investment in issuers in the developed countries of Western Europe and the Pacific Basin. The fund may also invest up to 20% of its total assets in issuers located in developing countries.

The subadviser employs a disciplined investment strategy that emphasizes fundamental research, supported by quantitative analysis, portfolio construction and risk management techniques. The strategy primarily focuses on identifying issuers that have experienced, or exhibit the potential for, accelerating or above average earnings growth but whose prices do not fully reflect these attributes. Investments for the portfolio are selected bottom-up on a security-by-security basis. The focus is on the strengths of individual issuers, rather than sector or country trends.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use various hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions, including, but not limited to, U.S. Treasury futures and options, index derivatives, credit default swaps and currency forwards, described under “Additional Information about the Funds’ Principal Risks – Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk."

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because this class of the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

International Index Trust

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to track the performance of a broad-based equity index of foreign companies primarily in developed countries and, to a lesser extent, in emerging markets.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 21% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in one or more of the following: (a) securities listed in the MSCI EAFE Index (the “Index”), a large capitalization international stock index that is independently maintained and published by Morgan Stanley Capital International;* (b) securities (which may or may not be included in the Index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the Index; and (c) future contracts based on the Index (“stock index futures) to maintain exposure to the Index. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalization range of the Index was $1.1 billion to $220.1 billion.

*“MSCI^®” is a trademark of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated (“Morgan Stanley”). The fund is not sponsored, endorsed, managed, advised, sold or promoted by Morgan Stanley, and Morgan Stanley does not make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in the fund.

The fund differs from an actively managed fund. Actively managed funds seek to outperform their respective indices through research and analysis. Over time, their performance may differ significantly from their respective indices. Index funds are passively managed funds that seek to mirror the performance of their target indices, minimizing performance differences over time.

An index is an unmanaged group of securities whose overall performance is used as an investment benchmark. Indices may track broad investment markets, such as the global equity market, or more narrow investment markets, such as the U.S. small cap equity market.

The fund attempts to match the performance of the Index by: (a) holding all, or a representative sample, of the securities that comprise that Index; (b) by holding securities (which may or may not be included in the Index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the Index and/or; (c) holding stock index futures to maintain exposure to the Index. However, the fund has operating expenses and transaction costs, while a market index does not. Therefore, the fund, while it attempts to track its Index closely, typically will be unable to match the performance of the Index exactly. The composition of the Index changes from time to time. The subadviser will reflect those changes in the compositions of the fund’s portfolios as soon as practicable.

The fund is normally fully invested. The subadviser may invest in stock index futures to manage cash flow. Although the fund may employ foreign currency hedging techniques, it normally maintains the currency exposure of the underlying equity investments.

The fund may purchase other types of securities that are not primary investment vehicles, for example, American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), European Depositary Receipts (EDRs), certain exchange traded funds (ETFs), cash equivalents, and certain derivatives (investments whose value is based on indices or other securities). As an example of how derivatives may be used, the fund may invest in stock index futures to manage cash flow and foreign currency forward contracts to manage currency risk.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

Index management risk Certain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 17.62% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -14.79% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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International Opportunities Trust

INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 123% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 65% of its total assets in common stocks of foreign companies that are selected for their long-term growth potential. The fund may invest in an unlimited number of companies of any size throughout the world. The fund invests in issuers from at least three different countries not including the U.S. The fund may invest in common stocks of companies economically tied to emerging markets. Some issuers or securities in the fund’s portfolio may be based in or economically tied to the U.S.

The fund may also invest in securities of foreign issuers that are represented by American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”). ADRs and other securities representing underlying securities of foreign issuers are treated as foreign securities.

In selecting investments for the fund, the subadviser uses an approach that combines “top-down” macro-economic analysis with “bottom-up” stock selection.

The “top-down” approach may take into consideration macro-economic factors such as, without limitation, interest rates, inflation, demographics, the regulatory environment, and the global competitive landscape. In addition, the subadviser may also examine other factors that may include, without limitation, the most attractive global investment opportunities, industry consolidation, and the sustainability of financial trends observed. As a result of the “top-down” analysis, the subadviser seeks to identify sectors, industries and companies that may benefit from the overall trends the subadviser has observed.

The subadviser then looks for individual companies or securities with earnings growth potential that may not be recognized by the market at large. In determining whether a particular company or security may be a suitable investment, the subadviser may focus on any of a number of different attributes that may include, without limitation, the company’s specific market expertise or dominance; its franchise durability and pricing power; solid fundamentals (e.g., a strong balance sheet, improving returns on equity, the ability to generate free cash flow, apparent use of conservative accounting standards, and transparent financial disclosure); strong and ethical management; commitment to shareholder interests; reasonable valuations in the context of projected growth rates; and other indications that a company or security may be an attractive investment prospect. This process is called “bottom-up” stock selection.

As part of this fundamental, “bottom-up” research, the subadviser may visit with various levels of a company’s management, as well as with its customers and (as relevant) suppliers, distributors, and competitors. The subadviser also may prepare detailed earnings and cash flow models of companies. These models may assist the subadviser in projecting potential earnings growth and other important company financial characteristics under different scenarios. Each model is typically customized to follow a particular company and is generally intended to replicate and describe a company’s past, present and potential future performance. The models may include quantitative information and detailed narratives that reflect updated interpretations of corporate data and company and industry developments.

The subadviser may reduce or sell the fund’s investments in portfolio companies if, in the opinion of the subadviser, a company’s fundamentals change substantially, its stock price appreciates excessively in relation to fundamental prospects, the company appears not to realize its growth potential, or there are more attractive investment opportunities elsewhere or for other reasons.

The core investments of the fund generally may include established companies and securities that offer long-term growth potential. However, the portfolio also may typically include securities of less mature companies, companies or securities with more aggressive growth characteristics, and companies undergoing significant changes such as the introduction of a new product line, the appointment of a new management team, or an acquisition.

Primarily for hedging purposes, the fund may use options (including options on securities and securities indices), futures, and foreign currency forward contracts.

Under normal market conditions, the fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in all types of fixed income securities and up to an additional 5% of its total assets in high-yield bonds (“junk bonds”) and mortgage- and asset backed securities. The fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies to a limited extent.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

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

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 26.17% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -27.88% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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International Small Company Trust

INTERNATIONAL SMALL COMPANY TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 13% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in securities of small cap companies in the particular markets in which the fund invests. As of December 31, 2010, the maximum market capitalization range of eligible companies for purchase was approximately $1,438 million to $4,264 million, depending on the country. The fund will primarily invest in a broad and diverse group of equity securities of foreign small companies of developed markets, but may also hold equity securities of companies located in emerging markets.

The fund invests its assets in securities listed on bona fide securities exchanges or traded on the over-the-counter markets, including securities listed or traded in the form of International Depositary Receipts (IDRs), American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), European Depositary Receipts (EDRs), Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), Non-Voting Depositary Receipts (NVDRs) and other similar securities, including dual- listed securities. Each of these securities may be traded within or outside the issuer’s domicile country.

The subadviser measures company size on a country or region specific basis and based primarily on market capitalization. In the countries or regions authorized for investment, the subadviser first ranks eligible companies listed on selected exchanges based on the companies’ market capitalizations. The subadviser then determines the universe of eligible stocks by defining the maximum market capitalization of a small company that may be purchased by the fund with respect to each country or region. This threshold will vary by country or region, and dollar amounts will change due to market conditions.

The fund intends to purchase securities in each applicable country using a market capitalization weighted approach. The subadviser, using this approach and its judgment, will seek to set country weights based on the relative market capitalizations of eligible small companies within each country. See "Market Capitalization Weighted Approach" below. As a result, the weightings of certain countries in the fund may vary from their weightings in international indices, such as those published by FTSE International, Morgan Stanley Capital International or Citigroup.

The fund also may use derivatives such as futures contracts and options on futures contracts, to gain market exposure on the fund's uninvested cash pending investment in securities or to maintain liquidity to pay redemptions. The fund may enter into futures contracts and options on futures contracts for foreign or U.S. equity securities and indices. The fund may also enter into forward currency contracts to facilitate the settlement of equity purchases of foreign securities, repatriation of foreign currency balances or exchange of one foreign currency for another currency. In addition to money market instruments and other short-term investments, the fund may invest in affiliated and unaffiliated unregistered money market funds to manage the fund’s cash pending investment in other securities or to maintain liquidity for the payment of redemptions or other purposes. Investments in money market funds may involve a duplication of certain fees and expenses.

The fund does not seek current income as an investment objective and investments will not be based upon an issuer’s dividend payment policy or record. However, many of the companies whose securities will be included in the fund do pay dividends. It is anticipated, therefore, that the fund will receive dividend income.

The subadviser will determine in its discretion when and whether to invest in countries that have been authorized for investment by its Investment Committee, depending on a number of factors such as asset growth in the fund and characteristics of each country’s market. The subadviser’s Investment Committee may authorize other countries for investment in the future and the fund may continue to hold investments in countries not currently authorized for investment but that had previously been authorized for investment.

Market Capitalization Weighted Approach

The fund structure involves market capitalization weighting in determining individual security weights and, where applicable, country or region weights. Market capitalization weighting means each security is generally purchased based on the issuer's relative market capitalization. Market capitalization weighting will be adjusted by the subadviser for a variety of factors. The subadviser may consider such factors as free float, momentum, trading strategies, liquidity management and other factors determined to be appropriate by the subadviser given market conditions. The subadviser may deviate from market capitalization weighting to limit or fix the exposure of the fund to a particular country or issuer to a maximum proportion of the assets of the fund. The subadviser may exclude the stock of a company that meets applicable market capitalization criteria if the subadviser determines, in its judgment, that the purchase of such security is inappropriate in light of other conditions. These adjustments will result in a deviation from traditional market capitalization weighting.

Country weights may be based on the total market capitalization of companies within each country. The calculation of country market capitalization may take into consideration the free float of companies within a country or whether these companies are eligible to be purchased for the particular strategy. In addition, to maintain a satisfactory level of diversification, the Investment Committee may limit or adjust the exposure to a particular country or region to a maximum proportion of the assets of that vehicle. Country weights may also deviate from target weights due to general day-to-day trading patterns and price movements. As a result, the weighting of certain countries will likely vary from their weighting in published international indices. Also, deviation from target weights may result from holding securities from countries that are no longer authorized for future investments.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 31.13% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -22.53% (Quarter ended 9/30/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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International Value Trust

INTERNATIONAL VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 20% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests primarily in equity securities of companies located outside the U.S., including in emerging markets. The fund invests at least 85% of its net assets in foreign equity securities.

Equity securities generally entitle the holder to participate in a company’s general operating results. These include common stocks and preferred stocks. The fund also invests in American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), European Depositary Receipts (EDRs) and Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs), which are certificates typically issued by a bank or trust company that give their holders the right to receive securities issued by a foreign or domestic company.

The subadviser’s investment philosophy is “bottom-up,” value-oriented, and long-term. In choosing equity investments, the subadviser will focus on the market price of a company’s securities relative to its evaluation of the company’s long-term earnings, asset value and cash flow potential. A company’s historical value measure, including price/earnings ratio, profit margins and liquidation value, will also be considered.

The fund may enter into foreign currency forward contracts. The fund may invest in equity-linked notes, the value of which is tied to a single stock or a basket of stocks.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under "Additional Information About the Funds' Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk" including, without limitation, investing in foreign currency forward contracts.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Equity-linked notes are subject to risks similar to those related to investing in the underlying securities. An equity-linked note is dependent on the individual credit of the note’s issuer. Equity-linked notes often are privately placed and may not be rated. The secondary market for equity-linked notes may be limited.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 24.18% (Quarter ended 6/30/2003) Worst Quarter: -23.56% (Quarter ended 9/30/2002)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Investment Quality Bond Trust

INVESTMENT QUALITY BOND TRUST

Investment Objective

To provide a high level of current income consistent with the maintenance of principal and liquidity.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 30% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in bonds rated investment grade at the time of investment. The fund will tend to focus on corporate bonds and U.S. government bonds with intermediate- to longer-term maturities.

The subadviser’s investment decisions derive from a three-pronged analysis, including:

• sector analysis,

• credit research, and

• call protection.

Sector analysis focuses on the differences in yields among security types, issuers, and industry sectors. Credit research focuses on both quantitative and qualitative criteria established by the subadviser, such as call protection (payment guarantees), an issuer’s industry, operating and financial profiles, business strategy, management quality, and projected financial and business conditions. Individual purchase and sale decisions are made on the basis of relative value and the contribution of a security to the desired characteristics of the overall fund. Factors considered include:

• relative valuation of available alternatives,

• impact on portfolio yield, quality and liquidity, and

• impact on portfolio maturity and sector weights.

The subadviser attempts to maintain a high, steady and possibly growing income stream.

At least 80% of the fund’s net assets are invested in bonds and debentures, including:

• marketable debt securities of U.S. and foreign issuers (payable in U.S. dollars), rated as investment grade by Moody’s or S&P at the time of purchase, including privately placed debt securities, corporate bonds, asset-backed securities, mortgage-backed securities and commercial mortgage-backed securities;

• securities issued or guaranteed as to principal or interest by the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities, including mortgage-backed securities; and

• cash and cash equivalent securities which are authorized for purchase by the Money Market Trust.

The balance (no more than 20%) of the fund’s net assets may be invested in below-investment-grade bonds and other securities including privately placed debt securities:

• U.S. and foreign debt securities,

• preferred stocks,

• convertible securities (including those issued in the Euromarket),

• securities carrying warrants to purchase equity securities,

• foreign exchange contracts for purposes of hedging portfolio exposures to foreign currencies or for purposes of obtaining exposure to foreign currencies, and

• non-investment-grade and investment-grade foreign currency fixed-income securities, including up to 5% emerging market fixed income securities.

In pursuing its investment objective, the fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in U.S. and foreign high yield (high risk) corporate and government debt securities (commonly known as "junk bonds"). These instruments are rated "Ba" or below by Moody's or "BB" or below by S&P (or, if unrated, are deemed of comparable quality as determined by the subadviser). No minimum rating standard is required for a purchase of high yield securities by the fund. While the fund may only invest up to 20% of its net assets in securities rated in these rating categories at the time of investment, it is not required to dispose of bonds that may be downgraded after purchase, even though such downgrade may cause the fund to exceed this 20% maximum.

The fund normally maintains an average portfolio duration of between three and seven years. However, the fund may invest in individual securities of any duration. Duration is an approximate measure of the sensitivity of the market value of a security to changes in interest rates.

The fund may invest in derivatives such as interest rate futures, interest rate swaps, currency forwards and credit default swaps to manage duration and yield curve positioning, implement foreign interest rate and currency positions, hedge against risk and/or as a substitute for investing directly in a security.

The fund may make short sales of a security including short sales "against the box."

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as "junk bonds") are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 50% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Government Bond Index and 50% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Credit Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 6.55% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -3.39% (Quarter ended 9/30/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Large Cap Trust

LARGE CAP TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to maximize total return, consisting of capital appreciation and current income.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 61% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of U.S. large capitalization companies. The fund defines large capitalization companies as those with a market capitalization range, at the time of investment, equal to that of the fund's benchmark, the Russell 1000 Index. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalization range of the Russell 1000 Index was $221 million to $425.9 billion.

In general, the fund emphasizes large capitalization stocks, but it may also invest up to 20% of its net assets in equity securities of small and medium capitalization companies and/or the securities of foreign companies in developed countries. Investments in equity securities may include dividend-paying securities, common stock and preferred stock, initial public offerings (IPOs), exchanged-traded funds (ETFs), shares of investment companies, convertible securities, warrants and rights. For purposes of the fund, ETFs are considered securities with a market capitalization equal to the weighted average market capitalization of the basket of securities comprising the ETF. The fund typically uses an ETF to equitize daily cash flows, however, for large redemption programs, futures, specifically the S&P 500 Index future or E-mini S&P 500 CME future, may be used to equitize cash in the portfolio prior to withdrawal.

In selecting securities, the subadviser focuses on, among other things, identifying discrepancies between a security's fundamental value and its market price. In this context, the fundamental value of a given security is the subadviser's assessment of what a security is worth. The subadviser will select a security whose estimated fundamental value is greater than its market value at any given time. For each stock under analysis, the subadviser bases its estimates of value upon economic, industry and company analysis, as well as upon a company’s management team, competitive advantage and core competencies. The subadviser then compares its assessment of a security’s value against the prevailing market prices, with the aim of constructing a portfolio of stocks with attractive relative price/value characteristics.

The fund may invest a portion of its assets in securities outside its capitalization range as described above.

The subadviser actively manages the fund which may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under "Additional Information About the Funds' Principal Risks – Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk" including, but not limited to, futures contracts.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 19.80% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -25.61% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Large Cap Value Trust

LARGE CAP VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 164% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of large cap companies selected from those that are, at the time of purchase, included in the Russell 1000 Value Index. The fund will seek to outperform the Russell 1000 Value Index by investing in equity securities that the subadviser believes are selling at below normal valuations.

The Russell 1000 Value Index, a subset of the Russell 1000 Index, consists of those Russell 1000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.

The fund employs a "value" approach and invests in stocks and other securities that appear to be temporarily undervalued by various measures and may be temporarily out of favor but have good prospects for capital appreciation and dividend growth. Value investors seek to buy a stock (or other security) when its price is low in relation to what they believe to be its real worth or future prospects. By identifying companies whose stocks are currently out of favor, value investors hope to realize significant appreciation as other investors recognize a stock’s intrinsic value. Finding undervalued stocks requires considerable research to identify the particular stocks, to analyze each company’s underlying financial condition and prospects, and to assess the likelihood that a stock’s underlying value will be recognized by the market and reflected in its price.

The fund will generally consider companies with the following characteristics:

• Established operating histories;

• Above-average dividend yields relative to the S&P 500 Index

• Low price/earnings ratios relative to the S&P 500 Index;

• Sound balance sheets and other financial characteristics; and

• Low stock prices relative to a company’s underlying value, as measured by assets, cash flow or business franchises.

The fund may also purchase other types of securities in keeping with its objective, including:

• U.S. dollar and foreign currency denominated securities including American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) (up to 25% of total assets);

• Preferred stocks;

• Convertible stocks, bonds, and warrants;

• Futures and options; and

• Bank debt, loan participations and assignments.

The fund may invest in debt instruments without regard to quality or ratings, including up to 10% in non-investment grade fixed income securities ("junk bonds") and loans.

The fund holds a certain portion of its assets in money market reserves which can consist of shares of the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund (or any other internal T. Rowe Price money market fund) as well as U.S. dollar- and foreign currency-denominated money market securities, including repurchase agreements, in the two highest rating categories, maturing in one year or less.

The fund may sell securities for a variety of reasons such as to secure gains, limit losses or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in hybrid instruments. Hybrid instruments are a type of high-risk derivatives which can combine the characteristics of securities, futures and options. Such securities may bear interest or pay dividends at below market (or even relatively nominal) rates.

In pursuing the fund’s investment objective, the subadviser has the discretion to purchase some securities that do not meet its normal investment criteria, as described above, when it perceives an unusual opportunity for gain. These special situations might arise when the subadviser believes a security could increase in value for a variety of reasons including a change in management, an extraordinary corporate event, or a temporary imbalance in the supply of or demand for the securities.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the- counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

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

Hybrid instrument risk Hybrid instruments are potentially more volatile and carry greater market risk than traditional debt instruments. Hybrid instruments may bear interest or pay preferred dividends at below market rates and may be illiquid.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as "junk bonds") are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 13.77% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -19.71% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Lifecycle 2010 Trust

LIFECYCLE 2010 TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high total return until the fund’s target retirement date.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. Because the fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover to report.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests substantially all of its assets in underlying funds using an asset allocation strategy designed for investors expected to retire around the year 2010. Overtime, the asset allocation strategy will change according to a predetermined glide patch as set forth below.

After December 31st of the designated retirement year of the fund, the fund will, under normal market conditions, continue to invest its assets in accordance with the predetermined “glide path” set forth below although the subadviser may at times determine in light of prevailing market or economic conditions that the fund’s asset allocations should vary from those indicated by the “glide path” in order to preserve the fund’s assets or to help it achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The allocations reflected in the glide path are also referred to as “neutral” allocations because they do not reflect active decisions made by the subadviser to produce an overweight or an underweight position in a particular asset class based on the subadviser’s market outlook. The fund has a target allocation for the broad asset classes of equities and fixed income but may invest outside these target allocations to protect the fund or help it achieve its objective.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to underlying funds and investments and the investment decisions made by the underlying funds’ subadvisers.

In addition to investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), the fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity-type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities, science and technology stocks. Each of the underlying funds has its own investment strategy that, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed income securities, which may include investment grade and below-investment-grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage-backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Years To Retirement	40		39		38		37		36		35		34
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	33		32		31		30		29		28		27
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	26		25		24		23		22		21		20
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	94	%	93	%	92	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	6	%	7	%	8	%
Years To Retirement	19		18		17		16		15		14		13
Equity	91	%	89.4	%	87.8	%	86.2	%	84.6	%	83	%	80.8	%
Fixed income	9	%	10.6	%	12.2	%	13.8	%	15.4	%	17	%	19.2	%
Years To Retirement	12		11		10		9		8		7		6
Equity	78.6	%	76.4	%	74.2	%	72	%	69.6	%	67.2	%	64.8	%
Fixed income	21.4	%	23.6	%	25.8	%	28	%	30.4	%	32.8	%	35.2	%
Years To Retirement	5		4		3		2		1
Equity	62.4	%	60	%	58	%	56	%	54	%
Fixed income	37.6	%	40	%	42	%	44	%	46	%
Retirement	0
Equity	52	%
Fixed income	48	%
Years After Retirement	-1		-2		-3		-4		-5		-6		-7
Equity	50	%	47.5	%	46.3	%	45	%	43.8	%	42.5	%	41.3	%
Fixed income	50	%	52.5	%	53.7	%	55	%	56.2	%	57.5	%	58.7	%
Years After Retirement	-8		-9		-10		-11		-12		-13		-14
Equity	40	%	38.8	%	37.5	%	36.3	%	35	%	33.8	%	32.5	%
Fixed income	60	%	61.2	%	62.5	%	63.7	%	65	%	66.2	%	67.5	%
Years After Retirement	-15		-16		-17		-18		-19		-20		-21
Equity	31.3	%	30	%	28.8	%	27.5	%	26.3	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	68.7	%	70	%	71.2	%	72.5	%	73.7	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-22		-23	%	-24		-25		-26		-27		-28
Equity	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-29		-30
Equity	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%

Fund Combination after Designated Retirement Date

The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, determine to combine the fund with another fund if the target allocation of the fund matches the target allocation of the other fund. In such event, the fund’s shareholders will become shareholders of the other fund. To the extent permitted by applicable regulatory requirements, such a combination would be implemented without seeking the approval of shareholders. There is no assurance that the Board of Trustees at any point will determine to implement such a combination.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Lifecycle risk There is no guarantee that the subadviser will correctly predict the market or economic conditions and, as with other mutual fund investments, you could lose money even if the fund is at or close to its designated retirement year or in its post-retirement stage.

Target allocation risk From time to time, one or more of the underlying funds may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to reallocations or rebalancings of the assets of a portfolio, which could affect the performance of the underlying funds and, therefore, the performance of the fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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 growth companies are subject to greater price fluctuations than other types of stocks because their market prices tend to place greater emphasis on future earnings expectations. 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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this Prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Lifecycle 2015 Trust

LIFECYCLE 2015 TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high total return until the fund’s target retirement date.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. Because the fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover to report.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests substantially all of its assets in underlying funds using an asset allocation strategy designed for investors expected to retire around the year 2015. Overtime, the asset allocation strategy will change according to a predetermined glide patch as set forth below.

After December 31st of the designated retirement year of the fund, the fund will, under normal market conditions, continue to invest its assets in accordance with the predetermined “glide path” set forth below although the subadviser may at times determine in light of prevailing market or economic conditions that the fund’s asset allocations should vary from those indicated by the “glide path” in order to preserve the fund’s assets or to help it achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The allocations reflected in the glide path are also referred to as “neutral” allocations because they do not reflect active decisions made by the subadviser to produce an overweight or an underweight position in a particular asset class based on the subadviser’s market outlook. The fund has a target allocation for the broad asset classes of equities and fixed income but may invest outside these target allocations to protect the fund or help it achieve its objective.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to underlying funds and investments and the investment decisions made by the underlying funds’ subadvisers.

In addition to investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), the fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities, science and technology stocks. Each of the underlying funds has its own investment strategy that, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks— Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Years To Retirement	40		39		38		37		36		35		34
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	33		32		31		30		29		28		27
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	26		25		24		23		22		21		20
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	94	%	93	%	92	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	6	%	7	%	8	%
Years To Retirement	19		18		17		16		15		14		13
Equity	91	%	89.4	%	87.8	%	86.2	%	84.6	%	83	%	80.8	%
Fixed income	9	%	10.6	%	12.2	%	13.8	%	15.4	%	17	%	19.2	%
Years To Retirement	12		11		10		9		8		7		6
Equity	78.6	%	76.4	%	74.2	%	72	%	69.6	%	67.2	%	64.8	%
Fixed income	21.4	%	23.6	%	25.8	%	28	%	30.4	%	32.8	%	35.2	%
Years To Retirement	5		4		3		2		1
Equity	62.4	%	60	%	58	%	56	%	54	%
Fixed income	37.6	%	40	%	42	%	44	%	46	%
Retirement	0
Equity	52	%
Fixed income	48	%
Years After Retirement	-1		-2		-3		-4		-5		-6		-7
Equity	50	%	47.5	%	46.3	%	45	%	43.8	%	42.5	%	41.3	%
Fixed income	50	%	52.5	%	53.7	%	55	%	56.2	%	57.5	%	58.7	%
Years After Retirement	-8		-9		-10		-11		-12		-13		-14
Equity	40	%	38.8	%	37.5	%	36.3	%	35	%	33.8	%	32.5	%
Fixed income	60	%	61.2	%	62.5	%	63.7	%	65	%	66.2	%	67.5	%
Years After Retirement	-15		-16		-17		-18		-19		-20		-21
Equity	31.3	%	30	%	28.8	%	27.5	%	26.3	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	68.7	%	70	%	71.2	%	72.5	%	73.7	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-22		-23	%	-24		-25		-26		-27		-28
Equity	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-29		-30
Equity	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%

Fund Combination after Designated Retirement Date

The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, determine to combine the fund with another fund if the target allocation of the fund matches the target allocation of the other fund. In such event, the fund’s shareholders will become shareholders of the other fund. To the extent permitted by applicable regulatory requirements, such a combination would be implemented without seeking the approval of shareholders. There is no assurance that the Board of Trustees at any point will determine to implement such a combination.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Lifecycle risk There is no guarantee that the subadviser will correctly predict the market or economic conditions and, as with other mutual fund investments, you could lose money even if the fund is at or close to its designated retirement year or in its post-retirement stage.

Target allocation risk From time to time, one or more of the underlying funds may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to reallocations or rebalancings of the assets of a portfolio, which could affect the performance of the underlying funds and, therefore, the performance of the fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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 growth companies are subject to greater price fluctuations than other types of stocks because their market prices tend to place greater emphasis on future earnings expectations. 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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this Prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Lifecycle 2020 Trust

LIFECYCLE 2020 TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high total return until the fund’s target retirement date.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. Because the fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover to report.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests substantially all of its assets in underlying funds using an asset allocation strategy designed for investors expected to retire around the year 2020. Overtime, the asset allocation strategy will change according to a predetermined glide patch as set forth below.

After December 31st of the designated retirement year of the fund, the fund will, under normal market conditions, continue to invest its assets in accordance with the predetermined “glide path” set forth below although the subadviser may at times determine in light of prevailing market or economic conditions that the fund’s asset allocations should vary from those indicated by the “glide path” in order to preserve the fund’s assets or to help it achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The allocations reflected in the glide path are also referred to as “neutral” allocations because they do not reflect active decisions made by the subadviser to produce an overweight or an underweight position in a particular asset class based on the subadviser’s market outlook. The fund has a target allocation for the broad asset classes of equities and fixed income but may invest outside these target allocations to protect the fund or help it achieve its objective.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to underlying funds and investments and the investment decisions made by the underlying funds’ subadvisers.

In addition to investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), the fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities, science and technology stocks. Each of the underlying funds has its own investment strategy that, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks— Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Years To Retirement	40		39		38		37		36		35		34
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	33		32		31		30		29		28		27
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	26		25		24		23		22		21		20
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	94	%	93	%	92	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	6	%	7	%	8	%
Years To Retirement	19		18		17		16		15		14		13
Equity	91	%	89.4	%	87.8	%	86.2	%	84.6	%	83	%	80.8	%
Fixed income	9	%	10.6	%	12.2	%	13.8	%	15.4	%	17	%	19.2	%
Years To Retirement	12		11		10		9		8		7		6
Equity	78.6	%	76.4	%	74.2	%	72	%	69.6	%	67.2	%	64.8	%
Fixed income	21.4	%	23.6	%	25.8	%	28	%	30.4	%	32.8	%	35.2	%
Years To Retirement	5		4		3		2		1
Equity	62.4	%	60	%	58	%	56	%	54	%
Fixed income	37.6	%	40	%	42	%	44	%	46	%
Retirement	0
Equity	52	%
Fixed income	48	%
Years After Retirement	-1		-2		-3		-4		-5		-6		-7
Equity	50	%	47.5	%	46.3	%	45	%	43.8	%	42.5	%	41.3	%
Fixed income	50	%	52.5	%	53.7	%	55	%	56.2	%	57.5	%	58.7	%
Years After Retirement	-8		-9		-10		-11		-12		-13		-14
Equity	40	%	38.8	%	37.5	%	36.3	%	35	%	33.8	%	32.5	%
Fixed income	60	%	61.2	%	62.5	%	63.7	%	65	%	66.2	%	67.5	%
Years After Retirement	-15		-16		-17		-18		-19		-20		-21
Equity	31.3	%	30	%	28.8	%	27.5	%	26.3	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	68.7	%	70	%	71.2	%	72.5	%	73.7	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-22		-23	%	-24		-25		-26		-27		-28
Equity	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-29		-30
Equity	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%

Fund Combination after Designated Retirement Date

The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, determine to combine the fund with another fund if the target allocation of the fund matches the target allocation of the other fund. In such event, the fund’s shareholders will become shareholders of the other fund. To the extent permitted by applicable regulatory requirements, such a combination would be implemented without seeking the approval of shareholders. There is no assurance that the Board of Trustees at any point will determine to implement such a combination.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Lifecycle risk There is no guarantee that the subadviser will correctly predict the market or economic conditions and, as with other mutual fund investments, you could lose money even if the fund is at or close to its designated retirement year or in its post-retirement stage.

Target allocation risk From time to time, one or more of the underlying funds may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to reallocations or rebalancings of the assets of a portfolio, which could affect the performance of the underlying funds and, therefore, the performance of the fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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 growth companies are subject to greater price fluctuations than other types of stocks because their market prices tend to place greater emphasis on future earnings expectations. 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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this Prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Lifecycle 2025 Trust

LIFECYCLE 2025 TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high total return until the fund’s target retirement date.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. Because the fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover to report.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests substantially all of its assets in underlying funds using an asset allocation strategy designed for investors expected to retire around the year 2025. Overtime, the asset allocation strategy will change according to a predetermined glide patch as set forth below.

After December 31st of the designated retirement year of the fund, the fund will, under normal market conditions, continue to invest its assets in accordance with the predetermined “glide path” set forth below although the subadviser may at times determine in light of prevailing market or economic conditions that the fund’s asset allocations should vary from those indicated by the “glide path” in order to preserve the fund’s assets or to help it achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The allocations reflected in the glide path are also referred to as “neutral” allocations because they do not reflect active decisions made by the subadviser to produce an overweight or an underweight position in a particular asset class based on the subadviser’s market outlook. The fund has a target allocation for the broad asset classes of equities and fixed income but may invest outside these target allocations to protect the fund or help it achieve its objective.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to underlying funds and investments and the investment decisions made by the underlying funds’ subadvisers.

In addition to investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), the fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities, science and technology stocks. Each of the underlying funds has its own investment strategy that, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks— Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Years To Retirement	40		39		38		37		36		35		34
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	33		32		31		30		29		28		27
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	26		25		24		23		22		21		20
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	94	%	93	%	92	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	6	%	7	%	8	%
Years To Retirement	19		18		17		16		15		14		13
Equity	91	%	89.4	%	87.8	%	86.2	%	84.6	%	83	%	80.8	%
Fixed income	9	%	10.6	%	12.2	%	13.8	%	15.4	%	17	%	19.2	%
Years To Retirement	12		11		10		9		8		7		6
Equity	78.6	%	76.4	%	74.2	%	72	%	69.6	%	67.2	%	64.8	%
Fixed income	21.4	%	23.6	%	25.8	%	28	%	30.4	%	32.8	%	35.2	%
Years To Retirement	5		4		3		2		1
Equity	62.4	%	60	%	58	%	56	%	54	%
Fixed income	37.6	%	40	%	42	%	44	%	46	%
Retirement	0
Equity	52	%
Fixed income	48	%
Years After Retirement	-1		-2		-3		-4		-5		-6		-7
Equity	50	%	47.5	%	46.3	%	45	%	43.8	%	42.5	%	41.3	%
Fixed income	50	%	52.5	%	53.7	%	55	%	56.2	%	57.5	%	58.7	%
Years After Retirement	-8		-9		-10		-11		-12		-13		-14
Equity	40	%	38.8	%	37.5	%	36.3	%	35	%	33.8	%	32.5	%
Fixed income	60	%	61.2	%	62.5	%	63.7	%	65	%	66.2	%	67.5	%
Years After Retirement	-15		-16		-17		-18		-19		-20		-21
Equity	31.3	%	30	%	28.8	%	27.5	%	26.3	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	68.7	%	70	%	71.2	%	72.5	%	73.7	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-22		-23	%	-24		-25		-26		-27		-28
Equity	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-29		-30
Equity	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%

Fund Combination after Designated Retirement Date

The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, determine to combine the fund with another fund if the target allocation of the fund matches the target allocation of the other fund. In such event, the fund’s shareholders will become shareholders of the other fund. To the extent permitted by applicable regulatory requirements, such a combination would be implemented without seeking the approval of shareholders. There is no assurance that the Board of Trustees at any point will determine to implement such a combination.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Lifecycle risk There is no guarantee that the subadviser will correctly predict the market or economic conditions and, as with other mutual fund investments, you could lose money even if the fund is at or close to its designated retirement year or in its post-retirement stage.

Target allocation risk From time to time, one or more of the underlying funds may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to reallocations or rebalancings of the assets of a portfolio, which could affect the performance of the underlying funds and, therefore, the performance of the fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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 growth companies are subject to greater price fluctuations than other types of stocks because their market prices tend to place greater emphasis on future earnings expectations. 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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this Prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Lifecycle 2030 Trust

LIFECYCLE 2030 TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high total return until the fund’s target retirement date.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. Because the fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover to report.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests substantially all of its assets in underlying funds using an asset allocation strategy designed for investors expected to retire around the year 2030. Overtime, the asset allocation strategy will change according to a predetermined glide patch as set forth below.

After December 31st of the designated retirement year of the fund, the fund will, under normal market conditions, continue to invest its assets in accordance with the predetermined “glide path” set forth below although the subadviser may at times determine in light of prevailing market or economic conditions that the fund’s asset allocations should vary from those indicated by the “glide path” in order to preserve the fund’s assets or to help it achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The allocations reflected in the glide path are also referred to as “neutral” allocations because they do not reflect active decisions made by the subadviser to produce an overweight or an underweight position in a particular asset class based on the subadviser’s market outlook. The fund has a target allocation for the broad asset classes of equities and fixed income but may invest outside these target allocations to protect the fund or help it achieve its objective.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to underlying funds and investments and the investment decisions made by the underlying funds’ subadvisers.

In addition to investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), the fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities, science and technology stocks. Each of the underlying funds has its own investment strategy that, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks— Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Years To Retirement	40		39		38		37		36		35		34
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	33		32		31		30		29		28		27
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	26		25		24		23		22		21		20
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	94	%	93	%	92	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	6	%	7	%	8	%
Years To Retirement	19		18		17		16		15		14		13
Equity	91	%	89.4	%	87.8	%	86.2	%	84.6	%	83	%	80.8	%
Fixed income	9	%	10.6	%	12.2	%	13.8	%	15.4	%	17	%	19.2	%
Years To Retirement	12		11		10		9		8		7		6
Equity	78.6	%	76.4	%	74.2	%	72	%	69.6	%	67.2	%	64.8	%
Fixed income	21.4	%	23.6	%	25.8	%	28	%	30.4	%	32.8	%	35.2	%
Years To Retirement	5		4		3		2		1
Equity	62.4	%	60	%	58	%	56	%	54	%
Fixed income	37.6	%	40	%	42	%	44	%	46	%
Retirement	0
Equity	52	%
Fixed income	48	%
Years After Retirement	-1		-2		-3		-4		-5		-6		-7
Equity	50	%	47.5	%	46.3	%	45	%	43.8	%	42.5	%	41.3	%
Fixed income	50	%	52.5	%	53.7	%	55	%	56.2	%	57.5	%	58.7	%
Years After Retirement	-8		-9		-10		-11		-12		-13		-14
Equity	40	%	38.8	%	37.5	%	36.3	%	35	%	33.8	%	32.5	%
Fixed income	60	%	61.2	%	62.5	%	63.7	%	65	%	66.2	%	67.5	%
Years After Retirement	-15		-16		-17		-18		-19		-20		-21
Equity	31.3	%	30	%	28.8	%	27.5	%	26.3	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	68.7	%	70	%	71.2	%	72.5	%	73.7	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-22		-23	%	-24		-25		-26		-27		-28
Equity	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-29		-30
Equity	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%

Fund Combination after Designated Retirement Date

The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, determine to combine the fund with another fund if the target allocation of the fund matches the target allocation of the other fund. In such event, the fund’s shareholders will become shareholders of the other fund. To the extent permitted by applicable regulatory requirements, such a combination would be implemented without seeking the approval of shareholders. There is no assurance that the Board of Trustees at any point will determine to implement such a combination.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Lifecycle risk There is no guarantee that the subadviser will correctly predict the market or economic conditions and, as with other mutual fund investments, you could lose money even if the fund is at or close to its designated retirement year or in its post-retirement stage.

Target allocation risk From time to time, one or more of the underlying funds may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to reallocations or rebalancings of the assets of a portfolio, which could affect the performance of the underlying funds and, therefore, the performance of the fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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 growth companies are subject to greater price fluctuations than other types of stocks because their market prices tend to place greater emphasis on future earnings expectations. 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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this Prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Lifecycle 2035 Trust

LIFECYCLE 2035 TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high total return until the fund’s target retirement date.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. Because the fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover to report.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests substantially all of its assets in underlying funds using an asset allocation strategy designed for investors expected to retire around the year 2035. Overtime, the asset allocation strategy will change according to a predetermined glide patch as set forth below.

After December 31st of the designated retirement year of the fund, the fund will, under normal market conditions, continue to invest its assets in accordance with the predetermined “glide path” set forth below although the subadviser may at times determine in light of prevailing market or economic conditions that the fund’s asset allocations should vary from those indicated by the “glide path” in order to preserve the fund’s assets or to help it achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The allocations reflected in the glide path are also referred to as “neutral” allocations because they do not reflect active decisions made by the subadviser to produce an overweight or an underweight position in a particular asset class based on the subadviser’s market outlook. The fund has a target allocation for the broad asset classes of equities and fixed income but may invest outside these target allocations to protect the fund or help it achieve its objective.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to underlying funds and investments and the investment decisions made by the underlying funds’ subadvisers.

In addition to investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), the fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities, science and technology stocks. Each of the underlying funds has its own investment strategy that, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks— Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Years To Retirement	40		39		38		37		36		35		34
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	33		32		31		30		29		28		27
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	26		25		24		23		22		21		20
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	94	%	93	%	92	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	6	%	7	%	8	%
Years To Retirement	19		18		17		16		15		14		13
Equity	91	%	89.4	%	87.8	%	86.2	%	84.6	%	83	%	80.8	%
Fixed income	9	%	10.6	%	12.2	%	13.8	%	15.4	%	17	%	19.2	%
Years To Retirement	12		11		10		9		8		7		6
Equity	78.6	%	76.4	%	74.2	%	72	%	69.6	%	67.2	%	64.8	%
Fixed income	21.4	%	23.6	%	25.8	%	28	%	30.4	%	32.8	%	35.2	%
Years To Retirement	5		4		3		2		1
Equity	62.4	%	60	%	58	%	56	%	54	%
Fixed income	37.6	%	40	%	42	%	44	%	46	%
Retirement	0
Equity	52	%
Fixed income	48	%
Years After Retirement	-1		-2		-3		-4		-5		-6		-7
Equity	50	%	47.5	%	46.3	%	45	%	43.8	%	42.5	%	41.3	%
Fixed income	50	%	52.5	%	53.7	%	55	%	56.2	%	57.5	%	58.7	%
Years After Retirement	-8		-9		-10		-11		-12		-13		-14
Equity	40	%	38.8	%	37.5	%	36.3	%	35	%	33.8	%	32.5	%
Fixed income	60	%	61.2	%	62.5	%	63.7	%	65	%	66.2	%	67.5	%
Years After Retirement	-15		-16		-17		-18		-19		-20		-21
Equity	31.3	%	30	%	28.8	%	27.5	%	26.3	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	68.7	%	70	%	71.2	%	72.5	%	73.7	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-22		-23	%	-24		-25		-26		-27		-28
Equity	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-29		-30
Equity	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%

Fund Combination after Designated Retirement Date

The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, determine to combine the fund with another fund if the target allocation of the fund matches the target allocation of the other fund. In such event, the fund’s shareholders will become shareholders of the other fund. To the extent permitted by applicable regulatory requirements, such a combination would be implemented without seeking the approval of shareholders. There is no assurance that the Board of Trustees at any point will determine to implement such a combination.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Lifecycle risk There is no guarantee that the subadviser will correctly predict the market or economic conditions and, as with other mutual fund investments, you could lose money even if the fund is at or close to its designated retirement year or in its post-retirement stage.

Target allocation risk From time to time, one or more of the underlying funds may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to reallocations or rebalancings of the assets of a portfolio, which could affect the performance of the underlying funds and, therefore, the performance of the fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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 growth companies are subject to greater price fluctuations than other types of stocks because their market prices tend to place greater emphasis on future earnings expectations. 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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this Prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Lifecycle 2040 Trust

LIFECYCLE 2040 TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high total return until the fund’s target retirement date.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. Because the fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover to report.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests substantially all of its assets in underlying funds using an asset allocation strategy designed for investors expected to retire around the year 2040. Overtime, the asset allocation strategy will change according to a predetermined glide patch as set forth below.

After December 31st of the designated retirement year of the fund, the fund will, under normal market conditions, continue to invest its assets in accordance with the predetermined “glide path” set forth below although the subadviser may at times determine in light of prevailing market or economic conditions that the fund’s asset allocations should vary from those indicated by the “glide path” in order to preserve the fund’s assets or to help it achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The allocations reflected in the glide path are also referred to as “neutral” allocations because they do not reflect active decisions made by the subadviser to produce an overweight or an underweight position in a particular asset class based on the subadviser’s market outlook. The fund has a target allocation for the broad asset classes of equities and fixed income but may invest outside these target allocations to protect the fund or help it achieve its objective.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to underlying funds and investments and the investment decisions made by the underlying funds’ subadvisers.

In addition to investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), the fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities, science and technology stocks. Each of the underlying funds has its own investment strategy that, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Years To Retirement	40		39		38		37		36		35		34
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	33		32		31		30		29		28		27
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	26		25		24		23		22		21		20
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	94	%	93	%	92	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	6	%	7	%	8	%
Years To Retirement	19		18		17		16		15		14		13
Equity	91	%	89.4	%	87.8	%	86.2	%	84.6	%	83	%	80.8	%
Fixed income	9	%	10.6	%	12.2	%	13.8	%	15.4	%	17	%	19.2	%
Years To Retirement	12		11		10		9		8		7		6
Equity	78.6	%	76.4	%	74.2	%	72	%	69.6	%	67.2	%	64.8	%
Fixed income	21.4	%	23.6	%	25.8	%	28	%	30.4	%	32.8	%	35.2	%
Years To Retirement	5		4		3		2		1
Equity	62.4	%	60	%	58	%	56	%	54	%
Fixed income	37.6	%	40	%	42	%	44	%	46	%
Retirement	0
Equity	52	%
Fixed income	48	%
Years After Retirement	-1		-2		-3		-4		-5		-6		-7
Equity	50	%	47.5	%	46.3	%	45	%	43.8	%	42.5	%	41.3	%
Fixed income	50	%	52.5	%	53.7	%	55	%	56.2	%	57.5	%	58.7	%
Years After Retirement	-8		-9		-10		-11		-12		-13		-14
Equity	40	%	38.8	%	37.5	%	36.3	%	35	%	33.8	%	32.5	%
Fixed income	60	%	61.2	%	62.5	%	63.7	%	65	%	66.2	%	67.5	%
Years After Retirement	-15		-16		-17		-18		-19		-20		-21
Equity	31.3	%	30	%	28.8	%	27.5	%	26.3	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	68.7	%	70	%	71.2	%	72.5	%	73.7	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-22		-23	%	-24		-25		-26		-27		-28
Equity	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-29		-30
Equity	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%

Fund Combination after Designated Retirement Date

The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, determine to combine the fund with another fund if the target allocation of the fund matches the target allocation of the other fund. In such event, the fund’s shareholders will become shareholders of the other fund. To the extent permitted by applicable regulatory requirements, such a combination would be implemented without seeking the approval of shareholders. There is no assurance that the Board of Trustees at any point will determine to implement such a combination.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Lifecycle risk There is no guarantee that the subadviser will correctly predict the market or economic conditions and, as with other mutual fund investments, you could lose money even if the fund is at or close to its designated retirement year or in its post-retirement stage.

Target allocation risk From time to time, one or more of the underlying funds may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to reallocations or rebalancings of the assets of a portfolio, which could affect the performance of the underlying funds and, therefore, the performance of the fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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 growth companies are subject to greater price fluctuations than other types of stocks because their market prices tend to place greater emphasis on future earnings expectations. 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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of dispropor-tionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

This section normally shows how the fund's total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this Prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Lifecycle 2045 Trust

LIFECYCLE 2045 TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high total return until the fund’s target retirement date.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. Because the fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover to report.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests substantially all of its assets in underlying funds using an asset allocation strategy designed for investors expected to retire around the year 2045. Overtime, the asset allocation strategy will change according to a predetermined glide patch as set forth below.

After December 31st of the designated retirement year of the fund, the fund will, under normal market conditions, continue to invest its assets in accordance with the predetermined “glide path” set forth below although the subadviser may at times determine in light of prevailing market or economic conditions that the fund’s asset allocations should vary from those indicated by the “glide path” in order to preserve the fund’s assets or to help it achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The allocations reflected in the glide path are also referred to as “neutral” allocations because they do not reflect active decisions made by the subadviser to produce an overweight or an underweight position in a particular asset class based on the subadviser’s market outlook. The fund has a target allocation for the broad asset classes of equities and fixed-income but may invest outside these target allocations to protect the fund or help it achieve its objective.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to underlying funds and investments and the investment decisions made by the underlying funds’ subadvisers.

In addition to investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), the fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities, science and technology stocks. Each of the underlying funds has its own investment strategy that, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Years To Retirement	40		39		38		37		36		35		34
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	33		32		31		30		29		28		27
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	26		25		24		23		22		21		20
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	94	%	93	%	92	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	6	%	7	%	8	%
Years To Retirement	19		18		17		16		15		14		13
Equity	91	%	89.4	%	87.8	%	86.2	%	84.6	%	83	%	80.8	%
Fixed income	9	%	10.6	%	12.2	%	13.8	%	15.4	%	17	%	19.2	%
Years To Retirement	12		11		10		9		8		7		6
Equity	78.6	%	76.4	%	74.2	%	72	%	69.6	%	67.2	%	64.8	%
Fixed income	21.4	%	23.6	%	25.8	%	28	%	30.4	%	32.8	%	35.2	%
Years To Retirement	5		4		3		2		1
Equity	62.4	%	60	%	58	%	56	%	54	%
Fixed income	37.6	%	40	%	42	%	44	%	46	%
Retirement	0
Equity	52	%
Fixed income	48	%
Years After Retirement	-1		-2		-3		-4		-5		-6		-7
Equity	50	%	47.5	%	46.3	%	45	%	43.8	%	42.5	%	41.3	%
Fixed income	50	%	52.5	%	53.7	%	55	%	56.2	%	57.5	%	58.7	%
Years After Retirement	-8		-9		-10		-11		-12		-13		-14
Equity	40	%	38.8	%	37.5	%	36.3	%	35	%	33.8	%	32.5	%
Fixed income	60	%	61.2	%	62.5	%	63.7	%	65	%	66.2	%	67.5	%
Years After Retirement	-15		-16		-17		-18		-19		-20		-21
Equity	31.3	%	30	%	28.8	%	27.5	%	26.3	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	68.7	%	70	%	71.2	%	72.5	%	73.7	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-22		-23	%	-24		-25		-26		-27		-28
Equity	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-29		-30
Equity	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%

Fund Combination after Designated Retirement Date

The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, determine to combine the fund with another fund if the target allocation of the fund matches the target allocation of the other fund. In such event, the fund’s shareholders will become shareholders of the other fund. To the extent permitted by applicable regulatory requirements, such a combination would be implemented without seeking the approval of shareholders. There is no assurance that the Board of Trustees at any point will determine to implement such a combination.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Lifecycle risk There is no guarantee that the subadviser will correctly predict the market or economic conditions and, as with other mutual fund investments, you could lose money even if the fund is at or close to its designated retirement year or in its post-retirement stage.

Target allocation risk From time to time, one or more of the underlying funds may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to reallocations or rebalancings of the assets of a portfolio, which could affect the performance of the underlying funds and, therefore, the performance of the fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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 growth companies are subject to greater price fluctuations than other types of stocks because their market prices tend to place greater emphasis on future earnings expectations. 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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this Prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Lifecycle 2050 Trust

LIFECYCLE 2050 TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek high total return until the fund’s target retirement date.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. Because the fund had not commenced operations as of the date of this prospectus, there is no portfolio turnover to report.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests substantially all of its assets in underlying funds using an asset allocation strategy designed for investors expected to retire around the year 2050. Overtime, the asset allocation strategy will change according to a predetermined glide patch as set forth below.

After December 31st of the designated retirement year of the fund, the fund will, under normal market conditions, continue to invest its assets in accordance with the predetermined “glide path” set forth below although the subadviser may at times determine in light of prevailing market or economic conditions that the fund’s asset allocations should vary from those indicated by the “glide path” in order to preserve the fund’s assets or to help it achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The allocations reflected in the glide path are also referred to as “neutral” allocations because they do not reflect active decisions made by the subadviser to produce an overweight or an underweight position in a particular asset class based on the subadviser’s market outlook. The fund has a target allocation for the broad asset classes of equities and fixed income but may invest outside these target allocations to protect the fund or help it achieve its objective.

The investment performance of the fund will reflect both its subadviser’s allocation decisions with respect to underlying funds and investments and the investment decisions made by the underlying funds’ subadvisers.

In addition to investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), the fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies and may make direct investments in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their portfolios. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities, science and technology stocks. Each of the underlying funds has its own investment strategy that, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Years To Retirement	40		39		38		37		36		35		34
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	33		32		31		30		29		28		27
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%
Years To Retirement	26		25		24		23		22		21		20
Equity	95	%	95	%	95	%	95	%	94	%	93	%	92	%
Fixed income	5	%	5	%	5	%	5	%	6	%	7	%	8	%
Years To Retirement	19		18		17		16		15		14		13
Equity	91	%	89.4	%	87.8	%	86.2	%	84.6	%	83	%	80.8	%
Fixed income	9	%	10.6	%	12.2	%	13.8	%	15.4	%	17	%	19.2	%
Years To Retirement	12		11		10		9		8		7		6
Equity	78.6	%	76.4	%	74.2	%	72	%	69.6	%	67.2	%	64.8	%
Fixed income	21.4	%	23.6	%	25.8	%	28	%	30.4	%	32.8	%	35.2	%
Years To Retirement	5		4		3		2		1
Equity	62.4	%	60	%	58	%	56	%	54	%
Fixed income	37.6	%	40	%	42	%	44	%	46	%
Retirement	0
Equity	52	%
Fixed income	48	%
Years After Retirement	-1		-2		-3		-4		-5		-6		-7
Equity	50	%	47.5	%	46.3	%	45	%	43.8	%	42.5	%	41.3	%
Fixed income	50	%	52.5	%	53.7	%	55	%	56.2	%	57.5	%	58.7	%
Years After Retirement	-8		-9		-10		-11		-12		-13		-14
Equity	40	%	38.8	%	37.5	%	36.3	%	35	%	33.8	%	32.5	%
Fixed income	60	%	61.2	%	62.5	%	63.7	%	65	%	66.2	%	67.5	%
Years After Retirement	-15		-16		-17		-18		-19		-20		-21
Equity	31.3	%	30	%	28.8	%	27.5	%	26.3	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	68.7	%	70	%	71.2	%	72.5	%	73.7	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-22		-23	%	-24		-25		-26		-27		-28
Equity	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%	75	%
Years After Retirement	-29		-30
Equity	25	%	25	%
Fixed income	75	%	75	%

Fund Combination after Designated Retirement Date

The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, determine to combine the fund with another fund if the target allocation of the fund matches the target allocation of the other fund. In such event, the fund’s shareholders will become shareholders of the other fund. To the extent permitted by applicable regulatory requirements, such a combination would be implemented without seeking the approval of shareholders. There is no assurance that the Board of Trustees at any point will determine to implement such a combination.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Lifecycle risk There is no guarantee that the subadviser will correctly predict the market or economic conditions and, as with other mutual fund investments, you could lose money even if the fund is at or close to its designated retirement year or in its post-retirement stage.

Target allocation risk From time to time, one or more of the underlying funds may experience relatively large redemptions or investments due to reallocations or rebalancings of the assets of a portfolio, which could affect the performance of the underlying funds and, therefore, the performance of the fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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 growth companies are subject to greater price fluctuations than other types of stocks because their market prices tend to place greater emphasis on future earnings expectations. 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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of dispropor-tionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this Prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Lifestyle Aggressive Trust

LIFESTYLE AGGRESSIVE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital. Current income is not a consideration.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 23% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund, except as otherwise described below, normally invests approximately 100% of its assets in underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities.

Variations in the target percentage allocation between underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities and underlying funds that invest primarily in fixed-income securities are permitted up to 10%. Thus, based on its target percentage allocation of approximately 100% of assets in equity underlying funds, the fund may have an equity/fixed-income underlying fund allocation of 90%/10%. Although variations beyond the 10% range are generally not permitted, the subadviser may determine in light of market or economic conditions that the normal percentage limitations should be exceeded to protect the fund or to achieve its goal.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their funds. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of the underlying funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of the underlying funds in which the fund invests focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies including exchange traded funds (ETFs) and may invest directly in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector risk Because the fund may focus on one or more industry or sector of the economy, its performance depends in large part on the performance of those sectors or industries. As a result, the value of your investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries and sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 20.25% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -24.12% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Lifestyle Balanced Trust

LIFESTYLE BALANCED TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek a balance between a high level of current income and growth of capital, with a greater emphasis on growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 30% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund, except as otherwise described below, normally invests approximately 50% of its assets in underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities and approximately 50% of its assets in underlying funds that invest primarily in fixed-income securities.

Variations in the target percentage allocation between underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities and underlying funds that invest primarily in fixed-income securities are permitted up to 10% in either direction. Thus, based on its target percentage allocation of approximately 50% of its assets in equity underlying funds and 50% of its assets in fixed-income underlying funds, the fund may have an equity/fixed-income underlying funds allocation ranging between 60%/40% and 40%/60%. Although variations beyond the 10% range are generally not permitted, the subadviser may determine in light of market or economic conditions that the normal percentage limitations should be exceeded to protect the fund or achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their funds. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of these underlying funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of these underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies including exchange traded funds (ETFs) and may invest directly in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swap Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector risk Because the fund may focus on one or more industry or sector of the economy, its performance depends in large part on the performance of those sectors or industries. As a result, the value of your investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries and sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 50% of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and 50% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 15.83% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -17.72% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Lifestyle Conservative Trust

LIFESTYLE CONSERVATIVE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek a high level of current income with some consideration given to growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 34% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund, except as otherwise described below, normally invests approximately 80% of its assets in underlying funds that invest primarily in fixed-income securities and approximately 20% in underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities.

Variations in the target percentage allocation between underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities and underlying funds that invest primarily in fixed-income securities are permitted up to 10% in either direction. Thus, based on its target percentage allocation of approximately 20% of assets in equity underlying funds and 80% in fixed-income underlying funds, the fund may have an equity/fixed income underlying fund allocation ranging between 10%/90% and 30%/70%. Although variations beyond the 10% range are generally not permitted, the subadviser may determine in light of market or economic conditions that the normal percentage limitations should be exceeded to protect the fund or to achieve its goal.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their funds. These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities)and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of these underlying funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of these underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies including exchange traded funds (ETFs) and may invest directly in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts, interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest- rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange- traded options.

Industry or sector risk Because the fund may focus on one or more industry or sector of the economy, its performance depends in large part on the performance of those sectors or industries. As a result, the value of your investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries and sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 20% of the Standard &Poor’s 500 Index and 80% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 10.58% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -8.32% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Lifestyle Growth Trust

LIFESTYLE GROWTH TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital. Current income is also a consideration.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 23% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund, except as otherwise described below, normally invests approximately 70% of its assets in underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities and approximately 30% of its assets in underlying funds that invest primarily in fixed-income securities.

Variations in the target percentage allocation between underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities and underlying funds that invest primarily in fixed-income securities are permitted up to 10% in either direction. Thus, based on its target percentage allocation of approximately 70% of its assets in equity underlying funds and 30% of its assets in fixed-income underlying funds, the fund may have an equity/fixed-income underlying funds allocation ranging between 80%/20% and 60%/40%. Although variations beyond the 10% range are generally not permitted, the subadviser may determine in light of market or economic conditions that the normal percentage limitations should be exceeded to protect the fund or achieve its objective.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change the allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their funds.These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of these underlying funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of these underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies including exchange traded funds (ETFs) and may invest directly in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts,interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and,conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector risk Because the fund may focus on one or more industry or sector of the economy, its performance depends in large part on the performance of those sectors or industries. As a result, the value of your investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries and sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 70% of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and 30% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 17.89% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -20.75% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Lifestyle Moderate Trust

LIFESTYLE MODERATE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek a balance between a high level of current income and growth of capital, with a greater emphasis on income.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Portfolio Turnover

The fund, which operates as a fund of funds and invests in underlying funds, does not pay transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells shares of underlying funds (or “turns over” its portfolio). An underlying fund does pay transaction costs when it turns over its portfolio, and a higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the performance of the underlying funds and of the fund. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 29% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund, except as otherwise described below, normally invests approximately 60% of its assets in underlying funds that invest primarily in fixed-income securities and approximately 40% in underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities.

Variations in the target percentage allocation between underlying funds that invest primarily in equity securities and underlying funds that invest primarily in fixed-income securities are permitted up to 10% in either direction. Thus, based on its target percentage allocation of approximately 40% of assets in equity underlying funds and 60% in fixed-income underlying funds,the fund may have an equity/fixed income underlying fund allocation ranging between 50%/50% and 30%/70%. Although variations beyond the 10% range are generally not permitted, the subadviser may determine in light of market or economic conditions that the normal percentage limitations should be exceeded to protect the fund or to achieve its goal.

Within the prescribed percentage allocation, the subadviser selects the percentage level to be maintained in specific underlying funds. The subadviser may from time to time change this allocation in specific underlying funds or rebalance the underlying funds. To maintain target allocation in the underlying funds, daily cash flows for the fund will be directed to its underlying funds that most deviate from target.

The fund may invest in various underlying funds that as a group hold a wide range of equity type securities in their funds.These include small-, mid- and large-capitalization stocks, domestic and foreign securities (including emerging market securities) and sector holdings such as utilities and science and technology stocks. Each of these underlying funds has its own investment strategy which, for example, may focus on growth stocks or value stocks or may employ a strategy combining growth and income stocks and/or may invest in derivatives such as options on securities and futures contracts. Certain of these underlying funds focus their investment strategy on fixed-income securities, which may include investment grade and below investment grade debt securities with maturities that range from short to longer term. The fixed-income underlying funds collectively hold various types of debt instruments such as corporate bonds and mortgage backed, government issued, domestic and international securities.

The fund may also invest in the securities of other investment companies including exchange traded funds (ETFs) and may invest directly in other types of investments, such as equity and fixed-income securities including U.S. government securities, closed-end funds and partnerships. See “Other Permitted Investments by the Funds of Funds.” The fund may also engage in short selling.

The fund bears its own expenses and, in addition, indirectly bears its proportionate share of the expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in credit default swaps, foreign currency forward contracts, futures contracts,interest rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The Fund of Funds is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the Fund of Funds include:

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

Commodity risk Commodity investments involve the risk of volatile market price fluctuations of commodities resulting from fluctuating demand, supply disruption, speculation and other factors.

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

Fund of funds risk The fund is subject to the performance of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Underlying Funds

The principal risks of investing in the Underlying Funds include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector risk Because the fund may focus on one or more industry or sector of the economy, its performance depends in large part on the performance of those sectors or industries. As a result, the value of your investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries and sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index represents 40% of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and 60% of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 13.89% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -13.28% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Mid Cap Index Trust

MID CAP INDEX TRUST

Investment Objective

Seeks to approximate the aggregate total return of a mid cap U.S. domestic equity market index.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 12% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) at the time of investment in (a) the common stocks that are included in the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index and (b) securities (which may or may not be included in the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalizations of companies included in the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index ranged from $703 million to $9.9 billion.

An index is an unmanaged group of securities whose overall performance is used as an investment benchmark. Indexes may track broad investment markets, such as the global equity market, or more narrow investment markets, such as the U.S. small cap equity market. In contrast to actively managed funds, which seek to outperform their respective benchmark indexes through research and analysis, index funds are passively managed funds that seek to mirror the performance of their target indexes, minimizing performance differences over time. The fund attempts to match the performance of the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index by: (a) holding all, or a representative sample, of the securities that comprise that index; and/or (b) by holding securities (which may or may not be included in the index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. However, the fund has operating expenses and transaction costs, while a market index does not. Therefore, the fund, while it attempts to track its target index closely, typically will be unable to match the performance of the target index exactly. The composition of an index changes from time to time, and the subadviser will reflect those changes in the composition of the fund’s portfolio as soon as practicable.

The fund may invest in index futures for the purposes of replicating an index and Depositary Receipts.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund of Funds

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

Index management risk Certain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 19.86% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -25.65% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Mid Cap Stock Trust

MID CAP STOCK TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 115% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of medium-sized companies with significant capital appreciation potential. For the fund, “medium-sized companies” are those with market capitalizations within the collective market capitalization range of companies represented in either the Russell Midcap Index ($221 million to $22.3 billion as of February 28, 2011) or the S&P Midcap 400 Index ($703 million to $9.9 billion as of February 28, 2011).

The subadviser’s investment approach is based primarily on proprietary fundamental analysis. Fundamental analysis involves the assessment of a company through such factors as its business environment, management, balance sheet, income statement, anticipated earnings, revenues and other related measures of value. In analyzing companies for investment, the subadviser looks for, among other things, a strong balance sheet, strong earnings growth, attractive industry dynamics, strong competitive advantages (e.g., great management teams), and attractive relative value within the context of a security’s primary trading market. Securities are sold when the investment has achieved its intended purpose, or because it is no longer considered attractive. The fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in foreign securities, including emerging market securities.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

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

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 20.74% (Quarter ended 12/31/2001) Worst Quarter: -25.36% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Mid Cap Value Equity Trust

MID CAP VALUE EQUITY TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 60% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (including any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of medium-sized companies. Medium-sized companies are those whose market capitalizations, at the time of investment, fall within the range of the Russell MidCap Value Index. The market capitalization range of the Index is subject to change.

Up to 20% of the fund may be invested in stocks of small or large companies, preferreds, convertibles, or other debt securities. The fund may invest up to 25% of its net assets in foreign investments. The fund can invest in any economic sector, and at times, it may emphasize one or more particular sectors.

In pursuit of the fund’s objective, the subadviser chooses equity investments by:

• Selecting companies that are undervalued based on a variety of measures, including, but not limited to price-to-earnings ratios, price to-book ratios, price-to-free cash flow, current and projected dividends, sum-of-the parts or breakup value and historic relative price valuations.

• Identifying companies with growth potential based on:

• effective management, as demonstrated by overall performance,

• financial strength, and

• underappreciated potential for improvement in industry and thematic trends.

In evaluating whether to sell a security, the subadviser considers, among other factors, whether:

• The security is overvalued relative to alternative investments.

• The security has reached the subadviser’s price objective.

• The company has met the subadviser’s earnings and/or growth expectations.

• The security exhibits unacceptable correlation characteristics with other portfolio holdings.

• The company or the security continues to meet the other standards described above.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

.Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 21.67% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -27.70% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Mid Value Trust

MID VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 43% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in companies with market capitalizations that are within the S&P Midcap 400 Index ($703 million to $9.9 billion as of February 28, 2011) or the Russell Midcap Value Index ($310 million to $19.0 billion as of February 28, 2011). The fund invests in a diversified mix of common stocks of mid-size U.S. companies that are believed to be undervalued by various measures and offer good prospects for capital appreciation.

The subadviser employs a value approach in selecting investments. The subadviser’s in-house research team seeks to identify companies whose stock prices do not appear to reflect their underlying values. The subadviser generally looks for companies with one or more of the following characteristics:

• Low stock prices relative to net assets, earnings, cash flow, sales, book value, or private market value;

• Demonstrated or potentially attractive operating margins, profits and/or cash flow;

• Sound balance sheets and other positive financial characteristics;

• Significant stock ownership by management/employees; and

• Experienced and capable management.

The fund’s sector exposure is broadly diversified as a result of stock selection and therefore may vary significantly from its benchmark, the Russell Midcap Value Index. The market capitalization of companies held by the fund and included in the indices changes over time. The fund will not automatically sell or cease to purchase stock of a company it already owns just because the company’s market capitalization grows or falls outside these ranges.

The fund may sell securities for a variety of reasons, such as to secure gains, limit losses, or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities.

In pursuing the fund’s investment objective, the subadviser has the discretion to purchase some securities that do not meet its normal investment criteria, as described above, when it perceives an unusual opportunity for gain. These special situations might arise when the subadviser believes a security could increase in value for a variety of reasons, including a change in management, an extraordinary corporate event, a new product introduction or a favorable competitive development.

The fund may invest in IPOs. While most assets will be invested in U.S. common stocks, the fund may purchase other types of securities, for example: convertible securities and warrants, foreign securities (up to 20% of total assets), certain exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and certain derivatives (investments whose value is based on indices or other securities). For purposes of the fund, ETFs are considered securities with a market capitalization equal to the weighted average market capitalization of the basket of securities comprising the ETF.

The fund holds a certain portion of its assets in money market reserves which can consist of shares of the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund (or any other internal T. Rowe Price money market fund) as well as money market securities, including repurchase agreements, in the two highest rating categories, maturing in one year or less.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in hybrid instruments. Hybrid instruments are a type of high-risk derivative which can combine the characteristics of securities, futures and options. Such securities may bear interest or pay dividends at below (or even relatively nominal) rates.

Except when engaged in temporary defensive investing, the fund normally has less than 10% of its assets in cash and cash equivalents.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange traded options.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. For periods prior to the inception of the fund, performance shown for each share class is the actual performance of the sole share class of the fund’s predecessor fund. This pre-inception performance for each of the Series I and Series II share classes has not been adjusted to reflect the Rule 12b 1 fees of that class and would be lower if it did. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 23.12% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -23.60% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Money Market Trust B

MONEY MARKET TRUST B

Investment Objective

To obtain maximum current income consistent with preservation of principal and liquidity.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests in high quality, U.S. dollar-denominated money market instruments.

The subadviser may invest the fund’s assets in high quality, U.S. dollar-denominated money market instruments of the following types:

• obligations issued or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. Government, or any agency or authority controlled or supervised by and acting as an instrumentality of the U.S. Government pursuant to authority granted by Congress (“U.S. Government Securities”), or obligations of foreign governments including those issued or guaranteed as to principal or interest by the Government of Canada, the government of any province of Canada, or any Canadian or provincial Crown agency (any foreign obligation acquired by the fund must be payable in U.S. dollars);

• certificates of deposit, bank notes, time deposits, Eurodollars, Yankee obligations and bankers’ acceptances of U.S. banks, foreign branches of U.S. banks, foreign banks and U.S. savings and loan associations which at the date of investment have capital, surplus and undivided profits as of the date of their most recent published financial statements in excess of $100 million (or less than $100 million if the principal amount of such bank obligations is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Saving Association Insurance Fund);

• commercial paper which at the date of investment is rated (or guaranteed by a company whose commercial paper is rated) within the two highest rating categories by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO) (such as “P-1”or “P-2” by Moody’s or “A-1” or “A-2” by Standard &Poor’s) or, if not rated, is issued by a company which the subadviser acting pursuant to guidelines established by the fund’s Board of Trustees, has determined to be of minimal credit risk and comparable quality. Securities in the highest rating category and their unrated equivalents are referred to as “First Tier” securities. Securities in the second-highest rating category and their equivalents are referred to as “Second Tier” securities;

• corporate obligations maturing in 397 days or less which at the date of investment are rated in the highest rating category by any NRSRO (such as “Aaa” by Moody’s or “AAA” by Standard& Poor’s)

• corporate obligations maturing in 45 days or less which at the date of investment are rated in the second highest rating category by any NRSRO (such as “Aa” by Moody’s or “AA” by Standard&Poor’s);

• short-term obligations issued by state and local governmental issuers;

• securities that have been structured to be eligible money market instruments such as participation interests in special purpose trusts that meet the quality and maturity requirements in whole or in part due to features for credit enhancement or for shortening effective maturity; and

• repurchase agreements with respect to any of the foregoing obligations.

Commercial paper may include variable amount master demand notes, which are obligations that permit investment of fluctuating amounts at varying rates of interest. Such notes are direct lending arrangements between the fund and the note issuer.The sub adviser monitors the creditworthiness of the note issuer and its earning power and cash flow. The subadviser will also consider situations in which all holders of such notes would redeem at the same time. Variable amount master demand notes are redeemable on demand.

All of the fund’s investments in First Tier securities will mature in 397 days or less and the fund’s investments in Second Tier securities will mature in 45 days or less. The fund maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity of 60 days or less, and a dollar- weighted average life of 120 days or less. Unlike the fund’s weighted average maturity, the fund’s weighted average life is calculated without reference to the re-set dates of variable rate debt obligations held by the fund. By limiting the maturity of its investments, the fund seeks to lessen the changes in the value of its assets caused by fluctuations in short-term interest rates. In addition, the fund invests only in securities which the fund’s Board of Trustees determines to present minimal credit risks and which at the time of purchase are “eligible securities” as defined by Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act.

The fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in any of the U.S. dollar-denominated foreign securities described above. The fund will not acquire any security if, after doing so, more than 5% of its total assets would be invested in illiquid securities. An“illiquid security” is a security that cannot be sold or disposed of in the ordinary course of business within seven calendar days at approximately the value ascribed to it by the fund. The fund may not invest more than 3% of its total assets in Second Tier securities or more than 0.50% in Second Tier securities of a single issuer. The fund is not authorized to enter into mortgage dollar rolls or warrants.

The fund seeks to maintain a stable net asset value (“NAV”) per share of $1.00.

The fund generally expects to declare and pay dividends from net investment income on a daily basis on each share class as long as the income attributable to a class exceeds the expenses attributable to that class on each day. If class expenses exceed class income on any day, the fund will not pay a dividend on the class on that day and will resume paying dividends only when, on a future date, the accumulated net investment income of the class is positive. The fund has adopted this policy because, in the current investment environment of low interest rates, it may find that on any given day or on a number of consecutive days, its investment returns may be less than the expenses attributable to a class. For a more complete description of this policy, which can result in the fund not paying dividends on one or more classes for one or more periods that may be as short as a day or quite lengthy, see “General Information — Dividends” below. For a description of the allocation of expenses among fund share classes, see “Multiclass Pricing; Rule 12b-1 Plans” in the prospectus.

An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Although the fund seeks to preserve the value of a shareholder’s investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in the fund. For example, the fund could lose money if a security purchased by the fund is downgraded and the fund must sell the security at less than the cost of the security. There is no assurance that the fund will be able to maintain a constant per share NAV of $1.00.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. For periods prior to the inception date of the fund, performance shown is the actual performance of the sole share class of the fund’s predecessor fund. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 1.42% (Quarter ended 3/31/2001) Worst Quarter: 0.00% (Quarter ended 12/31/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Money Market Trust

MONEY MARKET TRUST

Investment Objective

To obtain maximum current income consistent with preservation of principal and liquidity.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests in high quality, U.S. dollar-denominated money market instruments.

The sub adviser may invest the fund’s assets in high quality, U.S. dollar-denominated money market instruments of the following types:

• obligations issued or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. Government, or any agency or authority controlled or supervised by and acting as an instrumentality of the U.S. Government pursuant to authority granted by Congress (“U.S. Government Securities”), or obligations of foreign governments including those issued or guaranteed as to principal or interest by the Government of Canada, the government of any province of Canada, or any Canadian or provincial Crown agency (any foreign obligation acquired by the fund must be payable in U.S. dollars);

• certificates of deposit, bank notes, time deposits, Eurodollars, Yankee obligations and bankers’ acceptances of U.S. banks, foreign branches of U.S. banks, foreign banks and U.S. savings and loan associations which at the date of investment have capital, surplus and undivided profits as of the date of their most recent published financial statements in excess of $100 million (or less than $100 million if the principal amount of such bank obligations is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Saving Association Insurance Fund);

• commercial paper which at the date of investment is rated (or guaranteed by a company whose commercial paper is rated) within the two highest rating categories by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO) (such as “P-1”or “P-2” by Moody’s or “A-1” or “A-2” by S&P) or, if not rated, is issued by a company which the subadviser acting pursuant to guidelines established by the fund’s Board of Trustees, has determined to be of minimal credit risk and comparable quality.Securities in the highest rating category and their unrated equivalents are referred to as “First Tier” securities. Securities in the second-highest rating category and their equivalents are referred to as “Second Tier” securities;

• corporate obligations maturing in 397 days or less which at the date of investment are rated in the highest rating category by any NRSRO (such as “Aaa” by Moody’s or “AAA” by S&P);

• corporate obligations maturing in 45 days or less which at the date of investment are rated in the second highest rating category by any NRSRO (such as “Aa” by Moody’s or “AA” by Standard & Poor’s);

• short-term obligations issued by state and local governmental issuers;

• securities that have been structured to be eligible money market instruments such as participation interests in special purpose trusts that meet the quality and maturity requirements in whole or in part due to features for credit enhancement or for shortening effective maturity; and

• repurchase agreements with respect to any of the foregoing obligations.

Commercial paper may include variable amount master demand notes, which are obligations that permit investment of fluctuating amounts at varying rates of interest. Such notes are direct lending arrangements between the fund and the note issuer.The sub adviser monitors the creditworthiness of the note issuer and its earning power and cash flow. The subadviser will also consider situations in which all holders of such notes would redeem at the same time. Variable amount master demand notes are redeemable on demand.

All of the fund’s investments in First Tier securities will mature in 397 days or less and the fund’s investments in Second Tier securities will mature in 45 days or less. The fund maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity of 60 days or less, and a dollar-weighted average life of 120 days or less. Unlike the fund’s weighted average maturity, the fund’s weighted average life is calculated without reference to the re-set dates of variable rate debt obligations held by the fund. By limiting the maturity of its investments, the fund seeks to lessen the changes in the value of its assets caused by fluctuations in short-term interest rates. In addition, the fund invests only in securities which the fund’s Board of Trustees determines to present minimal credit risks and which at the time of purchase are “eligible securities” as defined by Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act.

The fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in any of the U.S. dollar-denominated foreign securities described above. The fund will not acquire any security if, after doing so, more than 5% of its total assets would be invested in illiquid securities. An“illiquid security” is a security that cannot be sold or disposed of in the ordinary course of business within seven calendar days at approximately the value ascribed to it by the fund. The fund may not invest more than 3% of its total assets in Second Tier securities or more than 0.50% in Second Tier securities of a single issuer. The fund is not authorized to enter into mortgage dollar rolls or warrants.

The fund seeks to maintain a stable net asset value (“NAV”) per share of $1.00.

The fund generally expects to declare and pay dividends from net investment income on a daily basis on each share class as long as the income attributable to a class exceeds the expenses attributable to that class on each day. If class expenses exceed class income on any day, the fund will not pay a dividend on the class on that day and will resume paying dividends only when, on a future date, the accumulated net investment income of the class is positive. The fund has adopted this policy because, in the current investment environment of low interest rates, it may find that on any given day or on a number of consecutive days, its investment returns may be less than the expenses attributable to a class. For a more complete description of this policy, which can result in the fund not paying dividends on one or more classes for one or more periods that may be as short as a day or quite lengthy, see “General Information — Dividends” below. For a description of the allocation of expenses among fund share classes, see“Multiclass Pricing; Rule 12b-1 Plans” in the prospectus.

An investment in the fund is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Although the fund seeks to preserve the value of a shareholder’s investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in the fund. For example, the fund could lose money if a security purchased by the fund is downgraded and the fund must sell the security at less than the cost of the security. There is no assurance that the fund will be able to maintain a constant per share NAV of $1.00.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 1.25% (Quarter ended 3/31/2001) Worst Quarter: 0.00% (Quarter ended 12/31/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Mutual Shares Trust

MUTUAL SHARES TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek capital appreciation, which may occasionally be short-term.

Income is a secondary objective.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 30% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests primarily in equity securities (including convertible securities or securities the subadviser expects to be exchanged for common or preferred stock) of companies of any nation that the subadviser believes are available at market prices less than their value based on certain recognized or objective criteria (intrinsic value).

Following this value-oriented strategy, the fund invests primarily in:

• Undervalued Securities. Securities the subadviser believes are trading at a discount to intrinsic value.

And, to a lesser extent, the fund also invests in:

• Risk Arbitrage Securities. Securities of companies involved in restructurings (such as mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, liquidations, spinoffs, or tender or exchange offers) or that the subadviser believes are inexpensive relative to an economically equivalent security of the same or another company.

• Distressed Companies. Securities of companies that are, or are about to be, involved in reorganizations, financial realigning or bankruptcy.

In pursuit of its value-oriented strategy, the fund is not limited to pre-set maximums or minimums governing the size of the companies in which it may invest. However, as a general rule, the fund invests the equity portion of its portfolio primarily to predominantly in companies with market capitalizations (share price multiplied by the number of shares of common stock outstanding) greater than $5 billion, with a portion to significant amount in smaller companies. The fund may invest up to 35% of its assets in foreign securities including sovereign debt and participations in foreign government debt.

The fund’s investments in distressed companies typically involve the purchase of bank debt, lower-rated or defaulted debt securities, comparable unrated debt securities or other indebtedness (or participations in the indebtedness) of such companies. Such other indebtedness generally represents a specific commercial loan or portion of a loan made to a company by a financial institution such as a bank. Loan participations represent fractional interests in a company’s indebtedness and are generally made available by banks or other institutional investors. By purchasing all or a part of a company’s direct indebtedness, the fund, in effect, steps into the shoes of the lender. If the loan is secured, the fund will have a priority claim to the assets of the company ahead of unsecured creditors and stockholders. The fund generally makes such investments to achieve capital appreciation rather than to seek income. When engaging in an arbitrage strategy, the fund typically buys one security while at the same time selling short another security. The fund generally buys the security that the subadviser believes is either inexpensive relative to the price of the other security or otherwise undervalued, and sells short the security that the subadviser believes is either expensive relative to the price of the other security or otherwise overvalued. In doing so, the fund attempts to profit from a perceived relationship between the values of the two securities. The fund generally engages in an arbitrage strategy in connection with an announced corporate restructuring or other corporate action or event.

The subadviser employs a research driven, fundamental value strategy for the fund. In choosing equity investments, the subadviser focuses on the market price of a company’s securities relative to the subadviser’s own evaluation of the company’s asset value, including an analysis of book value, cash flow potential, long-term earnings and multiples of earnings. Similarly, debt securities and other indebtedness, including loan participations, are generally selected based on the subadviser’s own analysis of the security’s intrinsic value rather than the coupon rate or rating of the security. The subadviser examines each investment separately and there are no set criteria as to specific value parameters, asset size, earnings or industry type.

The fund may also engage from time to time in an “arbitrage” strategy. When engaging in an arbitrage strategy, a fund typically buys one security while at the same time selling short another security. Such fund generally buys the security that the manager believes is either cheap relative to the price of the other security or otherwise undervalued, and sell short the security that the manager believes is either expensive relative to the price of the other security or otherwise overvalued. In doing so, a fund attempts to profit from a perceived relationship between the values of the two securities. The fund generally engages in an arbitrage strategy in connection with an announced corporate restructuring, such as a merger, acquisition or tender offer, or other corporate action or event.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks —Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk.”

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Arbitrage securities and distressed companies risk A merger or other restructuring, or a tender or exchange offer, proposed or pending at the time a fund invests in risk arbitrage securities may not be completed on the terms contemplated, resulting in losses to the fund.

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Distressed investments risk Many distressed investments, including loans, loan participations, bonds, notes and nonperforming and sub-performing mortgage loans, are not publicly traded and may involve a substantial degree of risk.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 17.31% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -21.42% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Natural Resources Trust

NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term total return.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 82% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity and equity-related securities of natural resource-related companies worldwide, including emerging markets. Natural resources-related companies include companies that own or develop energy, metals, forest products and other natural resources, or supply goods and services to such companies.

The fund seeks to invest in companies that are expected to benefit from rising demand for natural resources and natural resource-based products and services. The fund invests in four major sectors: (1) energy, (2) metals and mining, (3) forest products and (4) other natural resource-based companies, which are described below.

Energy. The energy sector includes companies engaged in exploration, extraction, servicing, processing, distribution and transportation of oil, natural gas and other energy sources.

Metals and Mining. The metals and mining sector includes companies engaged in the exploration, mining, processing, fabrication, marketing or distribution of precious and non-precious metals and minerals.

Forest Products. The forest products sector includes timber, pulp and paper product companies.

Other Natural Resources-Based Companies. Other natural resources sectors consist of companies engaged in producing, processing and distributing agricultural products, fertilizer and miscellaneous raw materials.

The fund’s “normal” allocation across the natural resources sectors is approximately:

• 60% —Energy and energy related

• 30% —Metals and mining

• 10% —Forest products, miscellaneous commodities companies and non-ferrous metals

The “normal” sector allocation reflects the subadviser’s view on availability and relative attractiveness of investment opportunities within the natural resources area. The fund’s sector allocation might differ significantly from this “normal” allocation at any specific point in time.

The subadviser uses a value-based approach to invest in a broad range of natural resources sectors. The subadviser utilizes a moderate rotation among sectors in conjunction with bottom-up stock selection. Under normal market conditions, the fund is fully invested.

Natural resources companies often operate in countries that are different from the country in which their securities trade. Country allocation is primarily a result of the sector and security selection; however, a key element of the subadviser’s analysis is understanding the economic and political dynamics of each of these countries. The fund may invest without limitation in foreign securities, including emerging markets.

The subadviser utilizes fundamental research to identify companies with the best growth prospects and relative values. Alarge number of companies worldwide in the relevant sub-sectors are monitored and stocks are added or deleted from the fund on thebasis of relative attractiveness. The subadviser uses a variety of tools such as income statement and balance sheet analysis, cash flow projections and asset value calculations to analyze companies. Particularly in the oil and gas industry, specific accounting issues play an important role.

When the subadviser deems it advisable to do so, the fund utilizes currency hedging to protect the value of the fund’s assets. The fund may enter into derivative currency transactions, including currency forwards, cross currency forwards and options on currencies. The fund’s derivative transactions will typically be fully collateralized on a net basis. The fund’s investments in derivative currency transactions may result in net short exposure to a particular currency that is not offset by a long position in another currency. The fund utilizes currency hedging to protect the value of the fund’s assets when the subadviser deems it advisable to do so.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Foreign currency swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector risk Because the fund may focus on one or more industry or sector of the economy, its performance depends in large part on the performance of those sectors or industries. As a result, the value of your investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries and sectors.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Natural resources risk The natural resources industry can be significantly affected by events relating to international political and economic developments, energy conservation, the success of exploration projects, commodity prices, and taxes and other governmental regulations.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The Combined Index is comprised of 60% MSCI World Energy Index, 30% MSCI World Metals & Mining Index and 10% MSCI World Paper & Forest Products Index.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 26.69% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -36.61% (Quarter ended 9/30/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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The return for the Index under “Since Inception” may be calculated from the month end closest to the inception date of the fund.

New Income Trust

NEW INCOME TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek a high level of current income consistent with the preservation of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 87% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in income-producing securities, which may include U.S. government and agency obligations, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, corporate bonds, foreign securities (up to 10% of total assets) including emerging markets, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), Treasury inflation protected securities, and other securities, including, on occasion, equities.

Eighty percent (80%) of the debt securities purchased by the fund will be rated investment grade (AAA, AA, A, BBB, or equivalent) by each of the major credit rating agencies (Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch) that have assigned a rating to the security or if the security is unrated, be deemed to be of investment-grade quality by T. Rowe Price. Up to 15% of the fund’s total assets may be invested in “split-rated securities,” or those rated investment grade by at least one rating agency but below investment grade by others.

In addition, the fund may invest up to 5% of its total assets in below investment grade securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”). The fund has considerable flexibility in seeking high yield securities. There are no maturity restrictions, so the fund can purchase longer-term bonds, which tend to have higher yields than shorter-term issues. However, the portfolio’s weighted average maturity is expected to be between four and fifteen years. In addition, when there is a large yield difference between the various quality levels, the fund may move down the credit scale and purchase lower-rated bonds with higher yields. When the difference is small or the outlook warrants, the fund may concentrate investments in higher-rated issues.

In keeping with the fund’s objective, it may also invest in other securities, and use futures, options, swaps and foreign currency forward contracts.

The fund may sell holdings for a variety of reasons, such as to adjust the portfolio’s average maturity, duration, or credit quality or to shift assets into and out of higher yielding or lower yielding securities or different sectors.

Active management of the portfolio can result in bonds being sold at gains or losses. However, over the long term, the fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing primarily in income-producing securities that possess what the subadviser believes are favorable total return (income plus changes in principal) characteristics.

In pursuing its investment strategy, the subadviser has the discretion to purchase some securities that do not meet the fund’s normal investment criteria, as described above, when it perceives an unusual opportunity for gain. These special situations might arise when the subadviser believes a security could increase in value for a variety of reasons, including a change in management, a debt restructuring or other extraordinary corporate event, or a temporary imbalance in the supply of or demand for the securities.

The fund may also hold a certain portion of its assets in money market reserves which can consist of shares of the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund (or any other internal T. Rowe Price money market fund) as well as U.S. dollar- and foreign currency-denominated money market securities, including repurchase agreements, rated in the two highest rating categories or equivalent ratings as determined by the subadviser, maturing in one year or less. The fund may invest cash reserves in U.S. dollars and foreign currencies.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in hybrid instruments. Hybrid instruments are a type of high-risk derivative which can combine the characteristics of securities, futures and options. Such securities may bear interest or pay dividends at below (or even relatively nominal) rates.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks— Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in foreign currency forward contracts, foreign currency swaps, futures contracts and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Foreign currency swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency swaps.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange traded options.

Hybrid instrument risk Hybrid instruments are potentially more volatile and carry greater market risk than traditional debt instruments. Hybrid instruments may bear interest or pay preferred dividends at below market rates and may be illiquid.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future. Effective May 3, 2010, the fund changed its investment polices to reduce exposure to equities, high yield and foreign bonds.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 9.13% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -5.13% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Optimized All Cap Trust

OPTIMIZED ALL CAP TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 120% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 65% of its total assets in equity securities of U.S. companies. The fund will focus on equity securities of U.S. companies across the three market capitalization ranges of large, mid and small. The equity securities in which the fund may invest include common and preferred stocks and securities convertible into common or preferred stocks, including convertible bonds and debentures.

The management team will use fundamental analysis to identify large, mid and small cap companies with strong industry positions, leading market shares, proven management or strong financials.

The fund may invest in foreign securities, including emerging markets and in American Depository Receipts (ADRs), American Depository Shares (ADSs), European Depository Receipts (EDRs), Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) and other securities with equity characteristics. It may also invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

The fund may invest in or use equity index futures, warrants and rights for hedging purposes in a manner consistent with the investment objectives of the fund and as permitted by applicable securities legislation. Such use would include the hedging of significant cash flows into or out of the fund.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk.”

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

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

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 18.02% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -24.37% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Optimized Value Trust

OPTIMIZED VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 154% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 65% of its total assets in equity securities of U.S. companies with the potential for long-term growth of capital, with a market capitalization range, at the time of investment, equal to that of the fund’s benchmark, the Russell 1000 Value Index. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalization range of the Russell 1000 Value Index was $221 million to $425.9 billion.

The equity securities in which the fund may invest include common and preferred stocks and securities convertible into common or preferred stocks, including convertible bonds and debentures. The subadviser uses fundamental analysis to select securities for inclusion in the fund, emphasizing securities that may have been undervalued by the market.

The subadviser will seek to identify large companies with strong industry positions, leading market shares, proven management or strong fundamentals.

The fund may also invest in foreign securities and in American Depository Receipts (ADRs), American Depository Shares (ADSs), European Depository Receipts (EDRs), Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) and other securities with equity characteristics. It may also invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

The fund may invest in or use equity index futures, warrants and rights for hedging purposes in a manner consistent with the investment objectives of the fund and as permitted by applicable securities legislation. Such use would include the hedging of significant cash flows into or out of the fund.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

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

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 18.95% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -24.04% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Real Estate Securities Trust

REAL ESTATE SECURITIES TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek to achieve a combination of long-term capital appreciation and current income.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 99% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) and real estate companies. Equity securities include common stock, preferred stock and securities convertible into common stock.

A company is considered to be a real estate company if, in the opinion of the subadviser, at least 50% of its revenues or 50% of the market value of its assets at the time its securities are purchased by the fund are attributed to the ownership, construction, management or sale of real estate.

The subadviser looks for real estate securities it believes will provide superior returns to the fund, and attempts to focus on companies with the potential for stock price appreciation and a record of paying dividends.

To find these issuers, the subadviser tracks economic conditions and real estate market performance in major metropolitan areas and analyzes performance of various property types within those regions. To perform this analysis, it uses information from a nationwide network of real estate professionals to evaluate the holdings of real estate companies and REITs in which the fund may invest. Its analysis also includes the companies’ management structure, financial structure and business strategy. The goal of these analyses is to determine which of the issuers the subadviser believes will be the most profitable to the fund. The subadviser also considers the effect of the real estate securities markets in general when making investment decisions. The subadviser does not attempt to time the market.

A REIT invests primarily in income-producing real estate or makes loans to persons involved in the real estate industry.

Some REITs, called equity REITs, buy real estate and pay investors income from the rents received from the real estate owned by the REIT and from any profits on the sale of its properties. Other REITs, called mortgage REITs, lend money to building developers and other real estate companies and pay investors income from the interest paid on those loans. There are also hybrid REITs which engage in both owning real estate and making loans.

If a REIT meets certain requirements, it is not taxed on the income it distributes to its investors.

The fund may realize some short-term gains or losses if the subadviser chooses to sell a security because it believes that one or more of the following is true:

• A security is not fulfilling its investment purpose;

• A security has reached its optimum valuation; or

• A particular company or general economic conditions have changed.

Based on its recent practices, the subadviser expects that the fund’s assets will be invested primarily in equity REITs. In changing market conditions, the fund may invest in other types of REITs.

When the subadviser believes that it is prudent, the fund may invest a portion of its assets in other types of securities. These securities may include convertible securities, short-term securities, bonds, notes, securities of companies not principally engaged in the real estate industry, non-leveraged stock index futures contracts and other similar securities. (Stock index futures contracts, can help the fund’s cash assets remain liquid while performing more like stocks.)

The fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in securities of foreign real estate companies.

The fund is non-diversified, which means that it may invest its assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Non-diversified risk Overall risk can be reduced by investing in securities from a diversified pool of issuers and is increased by investing in securities of a small number of issuers. Investments in a non-diversified fund may magnify the fund’s losses from adverse events affecting a particular issuer.

Real estate securities risk Investing in securities of companies in the real estate industry subjects a fund to the risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 32.43% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -39.92% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Real Return Bond Trust

REAL RETURN BOND TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek maximum real return, consistent with preservation of real capital and prudent investment management.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 614% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowings for investment purposes) in inflation-indexed bonds of varying maturities issued by the U.S. and foreign governments, their agencies or instrumentalities and corporations, which may be represented by forwards or derivatives such as options, futures contracts, or swap agreements.

Inflation-indexed bonds are fixed-income securities that are structured to provide protection against inflation. The value of the bond’s principal or the interest income paid on the bond is adjusted to track changes in an official inflation measure. The U.S. Treasury uses the Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers as the inflation measure. Inflation-indexed bonds issued by a foreign government are generally adjusted to reflect a comparable inflation index, calculated by that government. “Real return” equals total return less the estimated cost of inflation, which is typically measured by the change in an official inflation measure.

The types of fixed-income securities in which the fund may invest include the following securities which, unless otherwise noted, may be issued by domestic or foreign issuers and may be denominated in U.S. dollars or foreign currencies:

• securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or government-sponsored enterprises;

• corporate debt securities of U.S. and foreign issuers, including convertible securities and corporate commercial paper;

• mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities;

• inflation-indexed bonds issued by both governments and corporations;

• structured notes, including hybrid or “indexed” securities and event-linked bonds;

• loan participations and assignments;

• delayed funding loans and revolving credit facilities;

• bank certificates of deposit, fixed time deposits and bankers’ acceptances;

• debt securities issued by states or local governments and their agencies, authorities and other government-sponsored enterprises;

• repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements;

• obligations of foreign governments or their subdivisions, agencies and government-sponsored enterprises; and

• obligations of international agencies or supranational entities.

Fixed-income securities may have fixed, variable, or floating rates of interest, including rates of interest that vary inversely at a multiple of a designated or floating rate, or that vary according to change in relative values of currencies.

The fund invests primarily in investment-grade securities, but may invest up to 10% of its net assets in high yield securities (“junk bonds”) rated B or higher by Moody’s or equivalently rated by S&P or Fitch, or, if unrated, determined by the subadviser to be of comparable quality. The fund may also invest up to 30% of its net assets in securities denominated in foreign currencies, and may invest beyond this limit in U.S. dollar-denominated securities of foreign issuers. The fund may invest in baskets of foreign currencies (such as the Euro) and direct currency. The fund will normally limit its foreign currency exposure (from foreign dollar denominated securities or foreign currencies) to 20% of its net assets. The fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in securities and instruments that are economically tied to emerging market countries. The effective duration of this fund normally varies within three years (plus or minus) of the duration of the benchmark index.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in preferred stocks.

The fund may also lend its portfolio securities to brokers, dealers and other financial institutions to earn income. The fund may, without limitation, seek to obtain market exposure to the securities in which it primarily invests by entering into a series of purchase and sale contracts or by using other investment techniques (such as buy backs or dollar rolls).

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

The fund may make short sales of a security including short sales “against the box.”

The fund may:

• purchase and sell options on domestic and foreign securities, securities indexes and currencies,

• purchase and sell futures and options on futures,

• purchase and sell currency or securities on a forward basis, and

• enter into interest rate, index, equity, total return, currency, and credit default swap agreements.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interestrate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Foreign currency swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency swaps.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Inverse floating rate securities Liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, issuer risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving inverse floating rate securities.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchangetraded options.

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

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and highyield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 6.26% (Quarter ended 3/31/2009) Worst Quarter: -8.12% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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The return for the Index under “Since Inception” may be calculated from the month end closest to the inception date of the fund.

Science & Technology Trust

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital. Current income is incidental to the fund’s objective.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 117% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in the common stocks of companies expected to benefit from the development, advancement, and/or use of science and technology. For purposes of satisfying this requirement, common stock may include equity-linked notes and derivatives relating to common stocks, such as options on equity-linked notes.

The fund employs a multi-manager approach with two subadvisers, each of which employs its own investment approach and independently manages its portion of the fund. The fund will be rebalanced periodically so that the subadvisers manage the following portions of the fund:

50%* T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (“T. Rowe Price”)

50%* RCM Capital Management LLC (“RCM”)

*Percentages are approximate. Since the fund is only rebalanced periodically, the actual portion of the fund managed by each subadviser will vary.

This allocation methodology may change in the future.

Some industries likely to be represented in the fund include:

• information technology including hardware, software, semiconductors and technology equipment

• telecommunications equipment and services

• media including advertising, broadcasting, cable and satellite, movies, entertainment, publishing and information services

• environmental services

• internet commerce

• life sciences and health care, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotechnology

• chemicals and synthetic materials

• defense and aerospace

While most of the fund’s assets are invested in U.S. common stocks, the fund may also purchase other types of securities, including U.S. dollar- and foreign currency-denominated foreign securities, convertible stocks and bonds, and warrants, and use futures and options, in keeping with the fund’s investment objectives.

Stock selection for the fund generally reflects a growth approach based on an assessment of a company’s fundamental prospects for above-average earnings, rather than on a company’s size. As a result, fund holdings can range from securities of small companies developing new technologies to securities of blue chip firms with established track records. The fund may also invest in companies that are expected to benefit from technological advances even if they are not directly involved in research and development. The fund may invest in suitable technology companies through IPOs.

The fund holds a certain portion of its assets in money market reserves, which can consist of shares of the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund (or any other internal T. Rowe Price money market fund) as well as U.S. dollar- and foreign currencydenominated money market securities, including repurchase agreements, in the two highest rating categories, maturing in one year or less. The fund may invest reserves in U.S. dollars and foreign currencies.

The fund may sell securities for a variety of reasons such as to secure gains, limit losses or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in hybrid instruments. Hybrid instruments are a type of high-risk derivative which can combine the characteristics of securities, futures and options. Such securities may bear interest or pay dividends at below market (or even relatively nominal) rates.

In managing its portion of the fund, RCM may enter into short sales including short sales against the box.

In pursuing the fund’s investment objective, each subadviser has the discretion to purchase some securities that do not meet its normal investment criteria, as described above, when they perceive an unusual opportunity for gain. These special situations might arise when a subadviser believes a security could increase in value for a variety of reasons including a change in management, an extraordinary corporate event, a new product introduction or a favorable competitive development.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher-than-average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchangetraded options.

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

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk.The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 35.19% (Quarter ended 12/31/2001) Worst Quarter: -40.43% (Quarter ended 9/30/2001)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Short Term Government Income Trust

SHORT TERM GOVERNMENT INCOME TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek a high level of current income consistent with preservation of capital.

Maintaining a stable share price is a secondary goal.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 130% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing under normal circumstances at least 80% of its net assets in obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government and its agencies, authorities or instrumentalities (U.S. government securities). Under normal circumstances, the fund’s effective duration is no more than 3 years.

U.S. government securities may be supported by:

• The full faith and credit of the United States government, such as Treasury bills, notes and bonds, and Government National Mortgage Association Certificates.

• The right of the issuer to borrow from the U.S. Treasury, such as obligations of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

• The credit of the instrumentality, such as obligations of the Federal National Mortgage Association.

• The fund may invest in higher-risk securities, including U.S. dollar-denominated foreign government securities and asset-backed securities. It may also invest up to 10% of its net assets in foreign governmental high yield securities (junk bonds) rated as low as B and their unrated equivalents.

In managing the portfolio of the fund, the subadviser considers interest rate trends to determine which types of bonds to emphasize at a given time. The fund typically favors mortgage-related securities when it anticipates that interest rates will be relatively stable, and favors U.S. Treasuries at other times. Because high yield bonds often respond to market movements differently from U.S. government bonds, the fund may use them to manage volatility.

The fund may invest in mortgage-related securities and Treasury futures to protect against adverse changes and manage risks.

The fund may invest in other investment companies, including exchange traded funds (“ETFs”), and engage in short sales.

Under normal circumstances, the fund’s effective duration is no more than 3 years which means that the fund may purchase securities with a duration of greater than 3 years as long as the fund’s average duration does not exceed 3 years.

The fund may trade securities actively which could increase transaction costs (thus lowering performance).

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks – Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk.”

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

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

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 1.87% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -0.58% (Quarter ended 12/31/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Small Cap Growth Trust

SMALL CAP GROWTH TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 139% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in small-cap companies. For the purposes of the fund, “small cap companies” are those with market capitalizations, at the time of investment, not exceeding the maximum market capitalization of any company represented in either the Russell 2000 Index ($6.2 billion as of February 28, 2011) or the S&P Small Cap 600 Index ($3.7 billion as of February 28, 2011).

The fund invests in small-cap companies that are believed to offer above-average potential for growth in revenues and earnings. Market capitalizations of companies in the indices change over time; however, the fund will not sell a security just because a company has grown to a market capitalization outside the maximum range of the indices.

The subadviser selects stocks using a combination of quantitative screens and bottom-up, fundamental security research. Quantitative screening seeks to narrow the list of small capitalization companies and to identify a group of companies with strong revenue growth and accelerating earnings. Fundamental equity research seeks to identify individual companies from that group with a higher potential for earnings growth and capital appreciation.

The subadviser looks for companies based on a combination of criteria including one or more of the following:

• Improving market shares and positive financial trends;

• Superior management with significant equity ownership; and

• Attractive valuations relative to earnings growth outlook.

The fund is likely to experience periods of higher turnover in portfolio securities because the subadviser frequently adjusts the selection of companies and/or their position size based on these criteria. The fund’s sector exposures are broadly diversified, but are primarily a result of stock selection and therefore may vary significantly from its benchmark. The fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in foreign securities, including emerging market securities.

Except as otherwise stated under “Additional Information About the Funds— Temporary Defensive Investing,” the fund normally has 10% or less (usually lower) of its total assets in cash and cash equivalents.

The fund may invest in Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). The fund may also purchase each of the following types of securities, but not as a principal investment strategy: U.S. dollar-denominated foreign securities and certain exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

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

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

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

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. For periods prior to the inception of the fund, performance shown for each share class is the actual performance of the sole share class of the fund’s predecessor fund. This pre-inception performance for each of the Series I and Series II share classes has not been adjusted to reflect the Rule 12b- 1 fees of that class and would be lower if it did. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 26.90% (Quarter ended 12/31/2001) Worst Quarter: -27.11% (Quarter ended 9/30/2001)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Small Cap Index Trust

SMALL CAP INDEX TRUST

Investment Objective

Seeks to approximate the aggregate total return of a small cap U.S. domestic equity market index.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 15% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) at the time of investment in (a) the common stocks that are included in the Russell 2000 Index and (b) securities (which may or may not be included in the Russell 2000 Index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalizations of companies included in the Russell 2000 Index ranged from $5 million to $6.2 billion.

An index is an unmanaged group of securities whose overall performance is used as an investment benchmark. Indexes may track broad investment markets, such as the global equity market, or more narrow investment markets, such as the U.S. small cap equity market. In contrast to actively managed funds, which seek to outperform their respective benchmark indexes through research and analysis, index funds are passively managed funds that seek to mirror the performance of their target indexes, minimizing performance differences over time. The fund attempts to match the performance of the Russell 2000 Index by: (a) holding all, or a representative sample, of the securities that comprise that index; and/or (b) by holding securities (which may or may not be included in the index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. However, the fund has operating expenses and transaction costs, while a market index does not. Therefore, the fund, while it attempts to track its target index closely, typically will be unable to match the performance of the target index exactly. The composition of an index changes from time to time, and the subadviser will reflect those changes in the composition of the fund’s portfolio as soon as practicable.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks – Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including futures contracts.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

Index management risk Certain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 22.77% (Quarter ended 6/30/2003) Worst Quarter: -26.09% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Small Cap Opportunities Trust

SMALL CAP OPPORTUNITIES TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 37% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of small-capitalization companies. The fund has two subadvisers: Invesco Advisers, Inc. (“Invesco”) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (“Dimensional” or “DFA”). Each subadviser’s investment strategy is described below.

The fund will be rebalanced periodically so that the subadvisers manage the following portions of the fund:

50% Invesco

50% Dimensional

*Percentages are approximate. Since the fund is only rebalanced periodically, the actual portion of the fund managed by each subadviser will vary.

Invesco

Invesco will manage its portion of the fund’s assets (the “Invesco Subadvised Assets”) as follows:

Under normal market conditions, Invesco invests at least 80% of the Invesco Subadvised Assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities, including convertible securities, of small-capitalization companies. Invesco considers-small capitalization companies to be those companies with market capitalizations, at the time of investment, no larger than the largest capitalized company included in the Russell 2000 Index during the most recent 11-month period (based on month-end data) plus the most recent data during the current month. As of February 28, 2011, the capitalization of companies in the Russell 2000 Index range from $5 million to $6.2 billion.

Invesco considers selling a security if a change in industry or company fundamentals indicates a problem, the price target set at purchase (i.e., the projected price level as stated by an investment analyst) is exceeded or a change in technical outlook indicates poor relative strength.

The Invesco Subadvised Assets may include synthetic instruments. Synthetic instruments are investments that have economic characteristics similar to the fund’s direct investments, and may include warrants, futures, options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and American Depositary Receipts. Any percentage limitations with respect to assets of the fund are applied at the time of purchase. Options and index futures may be used to equitize cash and for other liquidity purposes in special situations.

Invesco attempts to provide potentially higher returns than a fund that invests primarily in larger, more established companies. Since small companies are generally not as well known to investors or have less of an investor following than larger companies, they may provide higher returns due to inefficiencies in the marketplace. Under normal conditions, the top 10 holdings may comprise up to 25% of the Invesco Subadvised Assets.

In selecting investments, Invesco utilizes a disciplined portfolio construction process that aligns the fund with the S&P SmallCap 600 Index, which Invesco believes represents the small cap core asset class. The security selection process is based on a three-step process that includes fundamental, valuation and timeliness analysis:

• Arrow Pointing Right Fundamental analysis involves building a series of financial models (tools to analyze stock), as well as conducting indepth interviews with company management. The goal is to find high quality, fundamentally sound companies operating in an attractive industry.

• Arrow Pointing Right Valuation analysis focuses on identifying attractively valued securities given their growth potential over a one- to two year horizon.

• Arrow Pointing Right Timeliness analysis is used to help identify the “timeliness” of a purchase. In this step, relative price strength (the price of stock in comparison to the rest of the market), trading volume characteristics, and trend analysis (using past data to predict future movement of stock) are reviewed for signs of deterioration. If a stock shows signs of deterioration, it will not be considered as a candidate for the portfolio.

Invesco may invest up to 25% of the Invesco Subadvised Assets in foreign securities. The fund’s investments in foreign securities may include direct investments in foreign currency-denominated securities traded outside of the U.S.

Invesco may invest up to 15% of the Invesco Subadvised Assets in real estate investment trusts (“REITs”).

Dimensional

DFA will manage its portion of the fund’s assets (the “DFA Subadvised Assets”) as follows:

DFA generally will invest the DFA Subadvised Assets in a broad and diverse group of common stocks of small and mid cap companies traded on a U.S. national securities exchange or on the over-the counter market that DFA determines to be value stocks at the time of purchase. Securities are considered value stocks primarily because a company’s shares have a high book value in relation to their market value (a “book-to-market ratio”). In assessing value, DFA may consider additional factors, such as price to cash flow or price-to-earnings ratios, as well as economic conditions and developments in the issuer’s industry. The criteria DFA uses for assessing value are subject to change from time to time. As of the date of this Prospectus, DFA considers for investment companies whose market capitalizations are generally smaller than the 500th largest U.S. company. DFA uses a market capitalization weighted approach in weighing portfolio securities. See “Market Capitalization Weighted Approach” below. DFA does not intend to purchase or sell securities based on the prospects for the economy, the securities markets or the individual issuers whose shares are eligible for purchase.

DFA may sell portfolio securities when the issuer’s market capitalization increases to a level that exceeds that of the issuer with the largest market capitalization that is then eligible for investment by the DFA Subadvised Assets. In addition, DFA may sell portfolio securities when their book-to-market ratios fall below those of the security with the lowest such ratio that is then eligible for purchase by the DFA Subadvised Assets. However, DFA may retain securities of issuers with relatively smaller market capitalizations for longer periods, despite a decrease in the issuers’ book-to-market ratios.

The total market capitalization ranges, and the value criteria used by DFA for the DFA Subadvised Assets, as described above, generally apply at the time of purchase. DFA will not be required to dispose of a security if the security’s issuer is no longer within the total market capitalization range or does not meet current value criteria. Similarly, DFA is not required to sell a security even if the decline in the market capitalization reflects a serious financial difficulty or potential or actual insolvency of the company. Securities that do meet the market capitalization and/or value criteria nevertheless may be sold at any time when, in DFA’s judgment, circumstances warrant their sale.

DFA may use derivatives such as futures contracts and options on futures contracts, to gain market exposure on uninvested cash pending investment in securities or to maintain liquidity to pay redemptions. DFA may enter into futures contracts and options on futures contracts for U.S. equity securities and indices. DFA may also invest in ETFs and similarly structured pooled investments for the purpose of gaining exposure to the U.S. equity markets while maintaining liquidity.

Market Capitalization Weighted Approach

The strategy used by DFA in managing the DFA Subadvised Assets involves market capitalization weighting in determining individual security weights. Market capitalization weighting means each security is generally purchased based on the issuer’s relative market capitalization. Market capitalization weighting will be adjusted by DFA for a variety of factors. DFA may consider such factors as free float, momentum, liquidity management and other factors determined to be appropriate by DFA given market conditions. DFA may deviate from market capitalization weighting to limit or fix the exposure of the DFA Subadvised Assets to a particular issuer to a maximum proportion of the assets of the DFA Subadvised Assets. DFA may exclude the stock of a company that meets applicable market capitalization criteria if DFA determines that the purchase of such security is inappropriate in light of other conditions. These adjustments will result in a deviation from traditional market capitalization weighting.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover rate and increased trading expense.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. U.S. government securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk depending upon the nature of their support. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange traded options.

Investment company securities risk The fund bears its own expenses and indirectly bears its proportionate share of expenses of the underlying funds in which it invests.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Real estate securities risk Investing in securities of companies in the real estate industry subjects a fund to the risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b- 1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 26.43% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -26.09% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Small Cap Value Trust

SMALL CAP VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 23% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in small-cap companies that are believed to be undervalued by various measures and offer good prospects for capital appreciation. For the purposes of the fund, “small cap companies” are those with market capitalizations, at the time of investment, not exceeding the maximum market capitalization of any company represented in either the Russell 2000 Index ($6.2 billion as of February 28, 2011) or the S&P SmallCap 600 Index ($3.7 billion as of February 28, 2011).

The fund invests primarily in a diversified mix of common stocks of U.S. small-cap companies. The subadviser employs a value-oriented investment approach in selecting stocks, using proprietary fundamental research to identify stocks the subadviser believes have distinct value characteristics based on industry-specific valuation criteria. The subadviser focuses on high quality companies with a proven record of above-average rates of profitability that sell at a discount relative to the overall small-cap market.

Fundamental research is then used to identify those companies demonstrating one or more of the following characteristics:

• Sustainable competitive advantages within a market niche;

• Strong profitability and free cash flows;

• Strong market share positions and trends;

• Quality of and share ownership by management; and

• Financial structures that are more conservative than the relevant industry average.

The fund’s sector exposures are broadly diversified, but are primarily a result of stock selection and may, therefore, vary significantly from its benchmark. The fund may invest up to 15% of its total assets in foreign securities (with no more than 5% in emerging market securities).

Except as otherwise stated under "Additional Information about the Funds — Temporary Defensive Investing," the fund normally has 10% or less (usually lower) of its total assets invested in cash and cash equivalents.

The fund may invest in IPOs. The fund may also purchase each of the following types of securities: REITs or other real estate- related equity securities, U.S. dollar-denominated foreign securities and certain ETFs, closed-end fund and business development companies. For purposes of the fund, ETFs are considered securities with a market capitalization equal to the weighted average market capitalization of the basket of securities comprising the ETF.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Real estate securities risk Investing in securities of companies in the real estate industry subjects a fund to the risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. For periods prior to the inception of the fund, performance shown for each share class is the actual performance of the sole share class of the fund’s predecessor fund. This pre-inception performance for each of the Series I and Series II share classes has not been adjusted to reflect the Rule 12b- 1 fees of that class and would be lower if it did. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 20.57% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009)

Worst Quarter: -23.31% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Small Company Growth Trust

SMALL COMPANY GROWTH TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 34% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in securities of small-capitalization companies. The fund considers a company to be a small-capitalization company if it has a market capitalization, at the time of investment, no larger than the largest capitalized company included in the Russell 2000 Index during the most recent 11-month period (based on month-end data) plus the most recent data during the current month. As of February 28, 2011, the capitalizations of companies included in the Russell 2000 Index ranged from $5 million to $6.2 billion.

The fund will invest primarily in marketable equity securities, including convertible securities, but its investments may include other securities, such as synthetic and derivative instruments, including futures and options. Options and index futures may be used to equitize cash and for other liquidity purposes in special situations. Synthetic instruments are investments that have economic characteristics similar to the fund’s direct investments and may include warrants, ETFs and American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). Synthetic and derivative instruments may have the effect of leveraging the fund’s portfolio. The fund may also invest up to 20% of its net assets in equity securities of issuers that have market capitalizations, at the time of purchase, in other market capitalization ranges, and in investment-grade non-convertible debt securities, U.S. government securities and high-quality money market instruments. The fund may invest up to 25% of its total assets in foreign securities. Any percentage limitations with respect to assets of the fund are applied at the time of purchase.

In selecting investments, the subadviser utilizes a disciplined portfolio construction process that constrains the fund’s industry group weightings within a specific range versus the industry group weightings of the Russell 2000 Growth Index which the subadviser believes represents the small cap growth asset class. The security selection process is based on a three-step process that includes fundamental, valuation and timeliness analysis.

Ø Fundamental analysis involves building a series of financial models, as well as conducting in-depth interviews with company management. The goal is to find high quality, fundamentally sound companies operating in an attractive industry.

Ø Valuation analysis focuses on identifying attractively valued securities given their growth potential over a one- to two-year horizon.

Ø Timeliness analysis is used to help identify the “timeliness” of a purchase. In this step, relative price strength, trading volume characteristics, and trend analysis are reviewed for signs of deterioration. If a stock shows signs of deterioration, it will not be considered as a candidate for the portfolio.

The subadviser may consider selling a security if a change in industry or company fundamentals indicates a problem, the price target set at purchase is exceeded or a change in technical outlook indicates poor relative strength.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 19.00% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009)

Worst Quarter: -26.67% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Small Company Value Trust

SMALL COMPANY VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term growth of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 9% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in companies with market capitalizations, at the time of investment, that do not exceed the maximum market capitalization of any security in the Russell 2000 Index ($5 million to $6.2 billion as of February 28, 2011). The fund invests in small companies whose common stocks are believed to be undervalued. The market capitalization of the companies in the fund’s portfolio and the Russell 2000 Index changes over time, and the fund will not sell a stock just because the company has grown to a market capitalization outside the range. The fund may, on occasion, purchase companies with a market capitalization above the range.

Reflecting a value approach to investing, the fund will seek the stocks of companies whose current stock prices do not appear to adequately reflect their underlying value as measured by assets, earnings, cash flow, or business franchises. The subadviser’s in- house research team seeks to identify companies that appear to be undervalued by various measures, and may be temporarily out of favor, but have good prospects for capital appreciation. In selecting investments, they generally look for some of the following factors:

• Low price/earnings, price/book value or price/cash flow ratios relative to the S&P 500, the company’s peers or its own historic norm;

• Low stock price relative to a company’s underlying asset values;

• Above-average dividend yield relative to a company’s peers or its own historic norm;

• A plan to improve the business through restructuring; and/or

• A sound balance sheet and other positive financial characteristics.

While most assets will be invested in U.S. common stocks, the fund may purchase other securities, including foreign securities (up to 20% of its total net assets), futures, and options. The fund may invest in fixed-income and convertible securities without regard to quality or rating, including up to 10% of total assets in non-investment-grade fixed-income securities (“junk bonds”). The fund’s fixed-income investments may include privately negotiated notes or loans, including loan participations and assignments (“bank loans”). These investments in bank loans will be made only in companies, municipalities or entities that meet the fund’s investment criteria. Direct investments in bank loans may be illiquid and holding a loan could expose the fund to the risks of being a direct lender. Since the fund invests primarily in equity securities, the risks associated with fixed-income securities will not affect the fund as much as they would a fund that invests more of its assets in fixed-income securities.

The fund holds a certain portion of its assets in money market reserves which can consist of shares of the T. Rowe Price Reserve Investment Fund (or any other internal T. Rowe Price money market fund) as well as U.S. and foreign currency- denominated money market securities, including repurchase agreements, in the two highest rating categories, maturing in one year or less. The fund may invest reserves in U.S. dollars and foreign currencies.

The fund may sell securities for a variety of reasons, such as to secure gains, limit losses or redeploy assets into more promising opportunities.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its total assets in hybrid instruments. Hybrid instruments are a type of high-risk derivatives which can combine the characteristics of securities, futures and options. Such securities may bear interest or pay dividends at below (or even relatively nominal) rates. The fund may also invest in options and enter into futures contracts.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” including, without limitation, investing in futures contracts and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high- yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 20.80% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009)

Worst Quarter: -25.40% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Smaller Company Growth Trust

SMALLER COMPANY GROWTH TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 79% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund employs a multi-manager approach with three subadvisers, each of which employs its own investment approach and independently manages its portion of the fund. The Adviser may change the allocation of fund assets among the subadvisers at any time.

Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in small cap equity securities.

The fund currently defines small cap equity securities as equity securities of companies with market capitalizations not exceeding $5.5 billion at the time of purchase. (The fund is not required to sell a security that has appreciated or depreciated outside this stated market capitalization range.) While the fund’s investments will generally consist of U.S.-traded securities, including American Depositary Receipts (“ADRs”), the fund may also invest in foreign securities and have exposure to foreign securities. The fund may also invest in IPOs.

The fund may buy or sell derivatives (such as index futures, options and swaps) to use as a substitute for a purchase or sale of a position in the underlying asset and/or as part of a strategy designed to reduce exposure to other risks, such as market risk. The fund may invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

The portion of the fund managed by John Hancock Asset Management a division of Manulife Asset Management (North America) Limited (“John Hancock Asset Management (North America)”) will generally be invested in (a) common stocks included in the MSCI U.S. Small Cap Growth Index; and (b) securities which may or may not be included in the MSCI U.S. Small Cap Growth Index that John Hancock Asset Management (North America) believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalizations of companies included in the MSCI U.S. Small Cap Growth Index range from approximately $62 million to $7.1 billion.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher-than-average portfolio turnover rate, which increases trading expenses and could lower performance.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

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

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

• Swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, settlement risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation, and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving swaps.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 19.96% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009)

Worst Quarter: -10.76% (Quarter ended 6/30/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Strategic Income Opportunities Trust

STRATEGIC INCOME OPPORTUNITIES TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek a high level of current income.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 68% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests primarily in the following types of securities: foreign government and corporate debt securities from developed and emerging markets, U.S. government and agency securities, and domestic high-yield bonds.

The fund may also invest in preferred stock and other types of debt securities.

Although the fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in securities rated at the time of purchase as low as D (in default) by Standard & Poor’s Corporation (“S&P”) or Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) (or their unrated equivalents), it seeks to keep its average credit quality in the investment-grade range (AAA to BBB). There is no limit on the fund’s average maturity.

In managing the fund, the subadviser allocates assets among the three major types of securities based on analysis of economic factors, such as projected international interest rate movements, industry cycles and political trends. However, the subadviser may invest up to 100% of the fund’s total assets in any one sector. Within each type of security, the subadviser looks for investments that are appropriate for the overall fund in terms of yield, credit quality, structure and industry distribution. In selecting securities, relative yields and risk/reward ratios are the primary considerations.

The fund may use certain higher-risk investments, including restricted or illiquid securities and derivatives, which include futures contracts on securities, indices and foreign currency; options on futures contracts, securities, indices and foreign currency; interest rate, foreign currency and credit default swaps; and foreign currency forward contracts, in each case, for the purposes of reducing risk, obtaining efficient market exposure and/or enhancing investment returns. In addition, the fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in domestic or foreign stocks.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. U.S. government securities are subject to varying degrees of credit risk depending upon the nature of their support. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

• Swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest rate risk, settlement risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation, and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving swaps.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 9.61% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009)

Worst Quarter: -6.39% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Total Bond Market Trust A

TOTAL BOND MARKET TRUST A

Investment Objective

To seek to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the “Barclays Index”) (which represents the U.S. investment grade bond market).

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 9% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowing for investment purposes) in securities listed in the Barclays Index.

The fund is an index fund, which differs from actively managed funds. Actively managed funds seek to outperform their respective indices through research and analysis. Over time, their performance may differ significantly from their respective indices. The fund is a passively managed fund that seeks to mirror the performance of its target index, minimizing performance differences over time.

An index is an unmanaged group of securities whose overall performance is used as an investment benchmark. Indices may track broad investment markets, such as the global equity market, or more narrow investment markets, such as the U.S. small cap equity market. The fund attempts to match the performance of the Barclays Index by holding a representative sample of the securities that comprise the Barclays Index. However, an index fund has operating expenses and transaction costs, while a market index does not. Therefore, the fund, while it attempts to track its target index closely, typically will be unable to match the performance of the target index exactly.

The fund is an intermediate term bond fund of high and medium credit quality that seeks to track the performance of the Barclays Index, which broadly represents the U.S. investment grade bond market.

The subadviser employs a passive management strategy using quantitative techniques to select individual securities that provide a representative sample of the securities in the Barclays Index.

The Barclays Index consists of dollar-denominated, fixed rate, investment grade debt securities with maturities generally greater than one year and outstanding par values of at least $200 million, including:

• U.S. Treasury and agency securities;

• Asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities, including mortgage pass-through securities and commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) and collateralized mortgage offerings (“CMOs”);

• Corporate bonds, both U.S. and foreign (if dollar-denominated); and

• Foreign government and agency securities (if dollar-denominated).

The subadviser selects securities to match, as closely as practicable, the Barclays Index’s duration, cash flow, sector, credit quality, callability and other key performance characteristics.

The Barclays Index’s composition may change from time to time. The subadviser will reflect those changes as soon as practicable.

The fund may purchase other types of securities that are not primary investment vehicles. These would include, for example, certain derivatives (investments whose value is based on indexes or other securities) such as futures contracts, interest-rate swaps and options.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” such as futures contracts, interest-rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Index management risk Certain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

• TBA mortgage contracts TBA mortgage contracts involve a risk of loss if the value of the underlying security to be purchased declines prior to delivery date. The yield obtained for such securities may be higher or lower than yields available in the market on delivery date.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 4.75% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Worst Quarter: -1.54% (Quarter ended 12/31/2010)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Total Bond Market Trust B

TOTAL BOND MARKET TRUST B

Investment Objective

To seek to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the “Barclays Index”) (which represents the U.S. investment grade bond market).

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 26% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowing for investment purposes) in securities listed in the Barclays Index.

The fund is an index fund, which differs from actively managed funds. Actively managed funds seek to outperform their respective indices through research and analysis. Over time, their performance may differ significantly from their respective indices. The fund is a passively managed fund that seeks to mirror the performance of its target index, minimizing performance differences over time.

An index is an unmanaged group of securities whose overall performance is used as an investment benchmark. Indices may track broad investment markets, such as the global equity market, or more narrow investment markets, such as the U.S. small cap equity market. The fund attempts to match the performance of the Barclays Index by holding a representative sample of the securities that comprise the Barclays Index. However, an index fund has operating expenses and transaction costs, while a market index does not. Therefore, the fund, while it attempts to track its target index closely, typically will be unable to match the performance of the target index exactly.

The fund is an intermediate term bond fund of high and medium credit quality that seek to track the performance of the Barclays Index, which broadly represents the U.S. investment grade bond market.

The subadviser employs a passive management strategy using quantitative techniques to select individual securities that provide a representative sample of the securities in the Barclays Index.

The Barclays Index consists of dollar-denominated, fixed rate, investment grade debt securities with maturities generally greater than one year and outstanding par values of at least $200 million, including:

• U.S. Treasury and agency securities;

• Asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities, including mortgage pass-through securities and commercial mortgage- backed securities (“CMBS”) and collateralized mortgage offerings (“CMOs”);

• Corporate bonds, both U.S. and foreign (if dollar-denominated); and

• Foreign government and agency securities (if dollar-denominated).

The subadviser selects securities to match, as closely as practicable, the Barclays Index’s duration, cash flow, sector, credit quality, callability and other key performance characteristics.

The Barclays Index composition may change from time to time. The subadviser will reflect those changes as soon as practicable.

The fund may purchase other types of securities that are not primary investment vehicles. These would include, for example, certain derivatives (investments whose value is based on indexes or other securities) such as futures contracts, interest-rate swaps and options.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk” such as futures contracts, interest-rate swaps and options.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Interest-rate swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving interest-rate swaps.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of dispropor-tionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Index management riskCertain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

TBA mortgage contracts TBA mortgage contracts involve a risk of loss if the value of the underlying security to be purchased declines prior to delivery date. The yield obtained for such securities may be higher or lower than yields available in the market on delivery date.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. For periods prior to the inception date of the fund, performance shown is the actual performance of the sole share class of the fund’s predecessor fund. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 4.81% (Quarter ended 9/30/2002)

Worst Quarter: -2.52% (Quarter ended 6/30/2004)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Total Return Trust

TOTAL RETURN TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek maximum total return, consistent with preservation of capital and prudent investment management.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 545% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 65% of its net assets in a diversified portfolio of fixed-income instruments of varying maturities, which may be represented by forwards or derivatives, such as options, futures contracts, or swap agreements.

In selecting securities for the fund, the subadviser utilizes economic forecasting, interest rate anticipation, credit and call risk analysis, foreign currency exchange rate forecasting, and other security selection techniques. The proportion of the fund’s assets committed to investment in securities with particular characteristics (such as maturity, type and coupon rate) will vary based on the subadviser’s outlook for the U.S. and foreign economies, the financial markets, and other factors.

The types of fixed-income securities in which the fund may invest include the following securities which, unless otherwise noted, may be issued by domestic or foreign issuers and may be denominated in U.S. dollars or foreign currencies:

• securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or government-sponsored enterprises;

• corporate debt securities of U.S. and foreign issuers, including convertible securities and corporate commercial paper;

• mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities;

• inflation-indexed bonds issued by both governments and corporations;

• structured notes, including hybrid or “indexed” securities and event-linked bonds;

• loan participations and assignments;

• delayed funding loans and revolving credit facilities;

• bank certificates of deposit, fixed time deposits and bankers’ acceptances;

• debt securities issued by states or local governments and their agencies, authorities and other government-sponsored enterprises;

• repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements;

• obligations of foreign governments or their subdivisions, agencies and government-sponsored enterprises; and

• obligations of international agencies or supranational entities.

Fixed-income securities may have fixed, variable, or floating rates of interest, including rates of interest that vary inversely at a multiple of a designated or floating rate, or that vary according to change in relative values of currencies.

The fund invests primarily in investment-grade securities, but may invest up to 10% of its net assets in high yield securities (“junk bonds”) rated B or higher by Moody’s or equivalently rated by S&P or Fitch, or, if unrated, determined by the subadviser to be of comparable quality. The fund may also invest up to 30% of its net assets in securities denominated in foreign currencies, and may invest beyond this limit in U.S. dollar-denominated securities of foreign issuers. The fund may invest in baskets of foreign currencies (such as the euro) and direct currency. The fund will normally limit its foreign currency exposure (from foreign-currency denominated securities or currencies) to 20% of its net assets. The fund may invest up to 15% of its net assets in securities and instruments that are economically tied to emerging market countries.

The fund may invest up to 10% of its net assets in preferred stocks.

The average portfolio duration of the fund normally varies within two years (plus or minus) of the duration of the benchmark index.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

The fund may make short sales of a security, including short sales “against the box.”

The fund may:

• purchase and sell options on domestic and foreign securities, securities indexes and currencies,

• purchase and sell futures and options on futures,

• purchase and sell currency or securities on a forward basis, and

• enter into interest rate, index, equity, total return, currency, and credit default swap agreements.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Changing distribution levels risk The amount of the distributions paid by the fund generally depends on the amount of income and/or dividends received by the fund on the securities it holds.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Credit default swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, risk of default of the underlying reference obligation and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving credit default swaps.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Foreign currency swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency swaps.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Inverse floating rate securities Liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), interest-rate risk, issuer risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving inverse floating rate securities.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options

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

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Short sales risk Short sales involve costs and risk. The fund must pay the lender interest on the security it borrows, and the fund will lose money if the price of the security increases between the time of the short sale and the date when the fund replaces the borrowed security.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 6.43% (Quarter ended 9/30/2001) Worst Quarter: -3.56% (Quarter ended 9/30/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Total Stock Market Index Trust

TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX TRUST

Investment Objective

Seeks to approximate the aggregate total return of a broad U.S. domestic equity market index.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 5% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) at the time of investment in (a) the common stocks that are included in the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index and (b) securities (which may or may not be included in the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. As of February 28, 2011, the market capitalizations of companies included in the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index ranged from less than $1 million to $431 billion.

An index is an unmanaged group of securities whose overall performance is used as an investment benchmark. Indexes may track broad investment markets, such as the global equity market, or more narrow investment markets, such as the U.S. small cap equity market. In contrast to actively managed funds, which seek to outperform their respective benchmark indexes through research and analysis, index funds are passively managed funds that seek to mirror the performance of their target indexes, minimizing performance differences over time. The fund attempts to match the performance of the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index by: (a) holding all, or a representative sample, of the securities that comprise that index and/or (b) by holding securities (which may or may not be included in the index) that the subadviser believes as a group will behave in a manner similar to the index. However, the fund has operating expenses and transaction costs, while a market index does not. Therefore, the fund, while it attempts to track its target index closely, typically will be unable to match the performance of the index exactly. The composition of an index changes from time to time, and the subadviser will reflect those changes in the composition of the fund’s portfolio as soon as practicable.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk.”

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Index management risk Certain factors may cause a fund that is an index fund to track its target index less closely. For example, a subadviser may select securities that are not fully representative of the index, and the fund’s transaction expenses, and the size and timing of its cash flows, may result in the fund’s performance being different than that of its index. Moreover, the fund will generally reflect the performance of its target index even when the index does not perform well.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 16.64% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -22.82% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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U.S. Multi Sector Trust

U.S. MULTI-SECTOR TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 66% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

The subadviser seeks to achieve the fund’s investment objective by investing in equity investments or groups of equity investment that the subadviser believes will provide higher returns than the Russell 3000 Index.

The subadviser employs an active investment management method, which means that securities are bought and sold according to the subadviser’s evaluations of companies’ published financial information, securities prices, equity and bond markets and the overall economy.

In selecting investments for the fund, the subadviser may use a combination of investment methods to identify which stocks present positive relative return potential. Some of these methods evaluate individual stocks or a group of stocks based on the ratio of its price relative to historical financial information, including book value, cash flow and earnings, and to forecast financial information provided by industry analysts. These ratios can then be compared to industry or market averages, to assess the relative attractiveness of the stock. Other methods focus on evaluating patterns of price movement or volatility of a stock or group of stocks relative to the investment universe. The subadviser selects which methods to use, and in what combination, based on the subadviser’s assessment of what combination is best positioned to meet the fund’s objective. The subadviser may also adjust the portfolio for other factors such as position size, industry and sector weights, and market capitalization.

In implementing an investment view, the subadviser may use both direct equity investment and indirect investment through exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives, including futures, options and swap contracts. In addition to a substitute for direct investment, derivatives may be used (i) in an attempt to reduce investment exposure (which may result in a reduction below zero); (ii) to effect transactions intended as substitutes for securities lending; and/or (iii) in an attempt to adjust elements of its investment exposure.

The fund is non-diversified which means that it may invest in assets in a smaller number of issuers than a diversified fund.

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in investments that are tied economically to the U.S.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Non-diversified risk Overall risk can be reduced by investing in securities from a diversified pool of issuers and is increased by investing in securities of a small number of issuers. Investments in a non-diversified fund may magnify the fund’s losses from adverse events affecting a particular issuer.

Real estate securities risk Investing in securities of companies in the real estate industry subjects a fund to the risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 12.54% (Quarter ended 9/30/2010) Worst Quarter: -14.03% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Ultra Short Term Bond Trust

ULTRA SHORT TERM BOND TRUST

Investment Objective

The fund seeks a high level of current income consistent with the maintenance of liquidity and the preservation of capital.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 56% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in a diversified portfolio of domestic, investment grade, debt securities. Debt securities may be issued by governments, companies or special purpose entities and may include notes, discount notes, bonds, debentures, commercial paper, repurchase agreements, mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities and assignments, participations and other interests in bank loans. The fund may also invest in cash and cash equivalents.

Investment grade securities include securities that are rated in one of the four highest rating categories as determined by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization, such as Standard & Poor’s Corporation (“S&P”), Fitch Investors Service, Inc.(“Fitch”) or Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”), or are unrated securities determined by the subadviser to be of comparable quality. Investment grade securities are rated (from highest to lowest quality) as AAA, AA, A or BBB by S&P and Fitch or as Aaa, Aa, A or Baa by Moody’s.

The fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in securities that are rated BBB by S&P or Fitch or Baa by Moody’s or unrated securities determined by the subadviser to be of comparable quality. The fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in foreign debt securities including up to 5% of its nets assets in foreign debt securities that are denominated in a foreign currency.

Under normal circumstances, the fund’s dollar weighted average maturity will be two years or less and its duration will be one year or less. Up to 15% of the fund’s net assets may be invested in securities with maturities greater than three years.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use various hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions described under “Additional Information about the Funds’ Principal Risks – Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk.”

The fund may invest in derivatives, including futures, currency forwards, options, swap contracts and other derivative instruments. The fund may invest in derivatives for both hedging and non-hedging purposes, including, for example, to seek to enhance returns or as a substitute for a position in an underlying asset.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is not a money market fund. The fund’s value will fluctuate and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. The use of derivative instruments could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Loan participations risk Participations and assignments involve special types of risks, including credit risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk and the risks of being a lender.

Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities risk Different types of mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities are subject to different combinations of prepayment, extension, interest-rate and/or other market risks.

Past performance

This section normally shows how the fund’s total return has varied from year to year, along with a broad-based securities market index for reference. Because the fund has less than one calendar year of performance as of the date of this prospectus, there is no past performance to report.

Utilities Trust

UTILITIES TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek capital growth and current income (income above that available from the fund invested entirely in equity securities).

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 56% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowing for investment purposes) in securities of companies in the utilities industry. The subadviser considers a company to be in the utilities industry if, at the time of investment, the subadviser determines that a substantial portion (i.e., at least 50%) of the company’s assets or revenues are derived from one or more utilities.

Companies in the utilities industry include: (i) companies engaged in the manufacture, production, generation, transmission, sale or distribution of electric, gas or other types of energy, water or other sanitary services; and (ii) companies engaged in telecommunications, including telephone, cellular telephone, telegraph, satellite, microwave, cable television and other communications media (but not engaged in public broadcasting).

The fund primarily invests in equity securities, including common stocks and related securities, such as preferred stocks, convertible securities and depositary receipts, but may also invest in corporate bonds and other debt instruments. The subadviser primarily invests the fund’s investments in debt instruments in investment grade debt instruments, but may invest up to 20% of the fund’s net assets in lower rated debt instruments (commonly known as “junk bonds”). The fund may invest in companies of any size.

The subadviser uses a bottom-up investment approach to buying and selling investments for the fund. Investments are selected primarily based on fundamental analysis of individual issuers and/or instruments in light of issuers’ current financial conditions and market, economic, political, and regulatory conditions. Factors considered for equity securities may include analysis of an issuer’s earnings, cash flows, competitive position, and management ability. Factors considered for debt instruments may include the instrument’s credit quality, collateral characteristics and indenture provisions and the issuer’s management ability, capital structure, leverage, and ability to meet its current obligations. Quantitative models that systematically evaluate the valuation, price and earnings momentum, earnings quality, and other factors of the issuer of an equity security or the structure of a debt instrument may also be considered.

The subadviser may invest the fund’s assets in U.S. and foreign securities. The fund may invest up to 40% of its net assets in foreign securities (including emerging markets securities, Brady bonds and depositary receipts).

The fund may have exposure to foreign currencies through its investments in foreign securities, its direct holdings of foreign currencies, or through its use of foreign currency exchange contracts for the purchase or sale of a fixed quantity of a foreign currency at a future date.

While the fund may use derivatives for any investment purpose, to the extent the subadviser uses derivatives, the subadviser expects to use derivatives primarily to increase or decrease currency exposure.

The fund’s investment process may, at times, result in a higher than average portfolio turnover ratio and increased trading expenses.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Currency risk Fluctuations in exchange rates may adversely affect the U.S. dollar value of a fund’s investments. Currency risk includes both the risk that currencies in which a fund’s investments are traded, or currencies in which a fund has taken an active position, will decline in value relative to the U.S. dollar.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Fixed-income securities risk Fixed-income securities are affected by changes in interest rates and credit quality. A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity of the bonds held by the fund, the more sensitive the fund is likely to be to interest rate changes. There is the possibility that the issuer of the security will not repay all or a portion of the principal borrowed and will not make all interest payments.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Industry or sector investing risk The performance of a fund that focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is diversified across industries or sectors.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Lower-rated fixed-income securities risk and high-yield securities risk Lower-rated fixed-income securities and high-yield fixed-income securities (commonly known as “junk bonds”) are subject to greater credit-quality risk and risk of default than higher-rated fixed-income securities. These securities may be considered speculative and the value of these securities can be more volatile due to increased sensitivity to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market or economic developments and can be difficult to resell.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Utilities risk The fund’s performance will be closely tied to the performance of utilities issuers and, as a result, can be more volatile than the performance of more broadly-diversified funds. The price of stocks in the utilities sector can be very volatile due to supply and/or demand for services or fuel, financing costs, conservation efforts, the negative impact of regulation, and other factors.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 21.12% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -24.50% (Quarter ended 9/30/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Value Trust

VALUE TRUST

Investment Objective

To realize an above-average total return over a market cycle of three to five years, consistent with reasonable risk.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 43% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests in equity securities of companies with capitalizations, at the time of investment, similar to the market capitalization of companies in the Russell Midcap Index ($221 million to $22.3 billion as of February 28, 2011).

The fund invests at least 65% of its total assets in equity securities. These primarily include common stocks but may also include preferred stocks, convertible securities, rights, warrants and ADRs. The fund may invest without limit in ADRs and may invest up to 20% of its total assets in foreign equities (investments in ADRs are not foreign securities for the purposes of this limit and the fund may invest without limitation in ADRs). The fund may invest up to 15% of its net assets in REITs.

The subadviser’s approach is to select equity securities which are believed to be undervalued relative to the stock market in general as measured by the Russell Midcap Value Index. Generally, medium market capitalization companies will consist primarily of those that the subadviser believes are selling below their intrinsic value and offer the opportunity for growth of capital. The fund emphasizes a “value” style of investing focusing on those companies with strong fundamentals, consistent track records, growth prospects, and attractive valuations. The subadviser may favor securities of companies that are in undervalued industries. The subadviser may purchase stocks that do not pay dividends. The subadviser may also invest the fund’s assets in companies with smaller or larger market capitalizations.

Use of Hedging and Other Strategic Transactions. The fund is authorized to use all of the various investment strategies referred to under “Additional Information About the Funds’ Principal Risks — Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk.”

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Convertible securities risk The market values of convertible securities tend to decline as interest rates increase and, conversely, to increase as interest rates decline. In addition, as the market price of the underlying common stock declines below the conversion price, the price of the convertible security tends to be increasingly influenced more by the yield of the convertible security.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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.

Real estate securities risk Investing in securities of companies in the real estate industry subjects a fund to the risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate.

Past Performance

The following information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series I:

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Best Quarter: 23.67% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009) Worst Quarter: - 27.95% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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Value & Restructuring Trust

VALUE & RESTRUCTURING TRUST

Investment Objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if shares of the fund are held by separate accounts of certain John Hancock insurance companies that fund variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts. They are based on expenses incurred during the fund’s most recent fiscal year expressed as a percentage of the fund’s average net assets during the year. The fees and expenses do not reflect fees and expenses of any separate account that may use the fund as its underlying investment medium and would be higher if they did.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

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Examples.

The examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The examples assume that $10,000 is invested in the fund for the periods indicated and then all shares are redeemed at the end of those periods. The examples also assume that the investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

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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. 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 26% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund invests at least 65% of its total assets in common stocks of U.S. and foreign companies that the subadviser believes will benefit from various types of restructuring efforts or industry consolidation. The fund may invest in companies that have market capitalizations of any size.

The fund may invest in foreign securities, including securities of companies in emerging market companies. The fund may invest directly in foreign securities or indirectly through depositary receipts. Depositary receipts are receipts issued by a bank or trust company that evidence ownership of underlying securities issued by foreign companies.

The fund may invest in derivatives such as futures, forwards, options and swap contracts for both hedging and non-hedging purposes, including, for example, to seek to enhance returns or as a substitute for a position in an underlying asset.

The fund may invest in special situations such as initial public offerings, in companies involved in management changes, tender offers, mergers and other corporate restructurings in companies developing new technologies.

The subadviser combines fundamental and quantitative analysis with risk management in identifying value opportunities and constructing the fund’s portfolio. The subadviser considers, among other factors:

• the potential impact of restructuring activities such as consolidations, outsourcing, corporate reorganizations, changes in management or business model changes on a company’s potential for long-term growth.

• businesses that are believed to be fundamentally sound and undervalued due to investor indifference, investor misperception of company prospects, or other factors.

• various measures of valuation, including price-to-cash flow, price-to-earnings, price-to-sales, price-to-book value and discounted cash flow. The subadviser believes that companies with lower valuations are generally more likely to provide opportunities for capital appreciation.

• a company’s current operating margins relative to its historic range and future potential.

• potential indicators of stock price appreciation, such as anticipated earnings growth, new product opportunities, or anticipated improvements in macroeconomic factors.

The subadviser may sell a security when the security’s price reaches a target set by the subadviser, if the subadviser believes that there is deterioration in the issuer’s financial circumstances or fundamental prospects, or that other investments are more attractive or for other reasons.

The fund’s strategy of investing in companies that the subadviser believes will benefit from restructuring or redeployment of assets carries the risk that an anticipated restructuring or business combination may fail to occur or may occur and fail to produce reasonably anticipated benefits. The prices of securities issued by such companies may suffer a decline in response. These factors contribute to price volatility.

Principal Risks of Investing in the Fund

The fund is subject to risks, and you could lose money by investing in the fund. The principal risks of investing in the fund include:

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

Credit and counterparty risk The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract or a borrower of a fund’s securities may be unable or unwilling to make timely principal, interest or settlement payments, or otherwise to honor its obligations. Funds that invest in fixed-income securities are subject to varying degrees of risk that the issuers of the securities will have their credit rating downgraded or will default, potentially reducing a fund’s share price and income level.

Economic and market events risk Events in the financial markets have resulted, and may continue to result, in an unusually high degree of volatility in the financial markets, both domestic and foreign. In addition, reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets may adversely affect issuers worldwide. Banks and financial services companies could suffer losses when interest rates fall or economic conditions deteriorate.

Emerging markets risk The risks of investing in foreign securities are greater for investments in emerging markets. Emerging market countries may experience higher inflation, interest rates and unemployment as well as greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties than more developed countries.

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.

Foreign securities risk As compared to U.S. companies, there may be less publicly available information relating to foreign companies. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes. The value of foreign securities is subject to currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments. Investments in emerging-market countries are subject to greater levels of foreign investment risk.

Hedging, derivatives and other strategic transactions risk Hedging and other strategic transactions may increase the volatility of a fund and, if the transaction is not successful, could result in a significant loss to a fund. In addition, the use of derivative instruments (such as options, futures and swaps) could produce disproportionate gains or losses, more than the principal amount invested. Investing in derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments and, in a down market, could become harder to value or sell at a fair price.

• Foreign currency forward contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency forward contracts.

• Foreign currency swaps Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions), foreign currency risk and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving foreign currency swaps.

• Futures contracts Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving futures contracts.

• Options Counterparty risk, liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions) and risk of disproportionate loss are the principal risks of engaging in transactions involving options. Counterparty risk does not apply to exchange-traded options.

Initial public offerings risk IPO shares may have a magnified impact on fund performance and are frequently volatile in price. They can be held for a short period of time causing an increase in portfolio turnover.

Issuer risk An issuer of a security may perform poorly and, therefore, the value of its stocks and bonds may decline. An issuer of securities held by the fund could default or have its credit rating downgraded.

Large company risk Large-capitalization stocks as a group could fall out of favor with the market, causing the fund to underperform investments that focus on small- or medium-capitalization stocks. Larger, more established companies may be slow to respond to challenges and may grow more slowly than smaller 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.

Liquidity risk Exposure exists when trading volume, lack of a market maker or legal restrictions impair the ability to sell particular securities or close derivative positions at an advantageous price.

Medium and smaller company risk The prices of medium and smaller company stocks can change more frequently and dramatically than those of large company stocks. 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 information provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in performance from year to year and by showing how average annual returns for specified periods compare with those of a broad measure of market performance. Unless all share classes shown in the table have the same inception date, performance shown for periods prior to the inception date of a class is the performance of the fund’s oldest share class. This pre-inception performance, with respect to any other share class of the fund, has not been adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of that class. As a result, the pre-inception performance shown for a share class other than the oldest share class may be higher or lower than it would be if adjusted to reflect the 12b-1 fees of the class. The performance information below does not reflect fees and expenses of any variable insurance contract which may use JHVIT as its underlying investment medium. If such fees and expenses had been reflected, performance would be lower. The past performance of the fund is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

Calendar Year Total Returns for Series NAV:

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Best Quarter: 24.22% (Quarter ended 6/30/2009) Worst Quarter: -30.49% (Quarter ended 12/31/2008)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2010

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