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John Hancock Trust
Supplement dated 1-07-09 to the current
Prospectus dated May 1, 2008

Global Allocation Trust

The section “Average Annual Total Returns for the Period Ended 12/31/07” is amended to add the following new index:

		One Year		Since Inception
Combined Index 2 ^(E)		11.04%		14.33%

^(E)	Combined Index 2(E) is an unmanaged index complied by UBS Global Asset Management and is constructed as follows:

	65% MSCI All-Country World Index (“ACWI”) and 35% Barclay Capital Global Aggregate Bond Index.