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(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. In subsequent periods, the fund's expense ratio may increase due to decreases in fund assets attributable to redemptions and declines in portfolio valuation. 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.

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

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (All Cap Value Trust)
Series I
Series II
NAV
Management fee 0.77% 0.77% 0.77%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees 0.05% 0.25% none
Other Expenses 0.04% 0.04% 0.04%
Total annual fund operating expenses 0.86% 1.06% 0.81%

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:

Expense Example (All Cap Value Trust) (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
Series I
88 274 477 1,061
Series II
108 337 585 1,294
NAV
83 259 450 1,002
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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 primarily purchases equity securities of U.S. and multinational companies in all capitalization ranges that the subadvisor 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 ($315 million to $414.5 billion as of February 28, 2013). 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 subadvisor 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 subadvisor thinks is its full value, or may go down in value, the subadvisor'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 subadvisor 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 subadvisor's valuation target.

The fund may not invest more than 10% of its net assets in foreign securities, including securities in emerging markets countries. The subadvisor 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 subadvisor'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 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.

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.

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:     16.35% (Quarter ended 9/30/2009)

Worst Quarter:   -19.86% (Quarter ended 9/30/2011)

Average Annual Total Returns for period ended 12/31/2012

Average Annual Total Returns (All Cap Value Trust)
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
Inception Date
Series I
10.95% 2.55% 9.01% Apr. 30, 2001
Series II
10.62% 2.33% 8.80% Jan. 28, 2002
NAV
10.92% 2.57% 9.07% Feb. 28, 2005
Russell 3000 Value Index
17.55% 0.83% 7.54% Apr. 30, 2001