John Hancock Greater China Opportunities Fund | Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares

JOHN HANCOCK
GREATER CHINA OPPORTUNITIES FUND

Investment objective

To seek long-term capital appreciation.

Fees and expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts on Class A shares if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the John Hancock family of funds. More information about these and other discounts is available on pages 12 to 14 of the prospectus under “Sales charge reductions and waivers” or pages 41 to 45 of the fund’s statement of additional information under “Initial Sales Charge on Class A Shares.”

Shareholder fees (%) (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees John Hancock Greater China Opportunities Fund Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares	Class A		Class B	Class C
Maximum front-end sales charge (load) on purchases as a % of purchase price	5.00%		none	none
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) as a % of purchase or sale price, whichever is less	1.00%	[1]	5.00%	1.00%

Annual fund operating expenses (%)
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses John Hancock Greater China Opportunities Fund Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares	Class A	Class B	Class C
Management fee	1.00%	1.00%	1.00%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees	0.30%	1.00%	1.00%
Other expenses	0.50%	0.61%	0.61%
Total annual fund operating expenses	1.80%	2.61%	2.61%

Expense example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. Please see below a hypothetical example showing the expenses of a $10,000 investment in the fund for the time periods indicated (Kept column) and then assuming a redemption of all of your shares at the end of those periods (Sold column). The example assumes a 5% average annual return. The example assumes fund expenses will not change over the periods. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

Expenses ($)

Sold

Expense Example John Hancock Greater China Opportunities Fund Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares (USD $)	Class A	Class B	Class C
1 Year	674	764	364
3 Years	1,038	1,111	811
5 Years	1,426	1,585	1,385
10 Years	2,510	2,747	2,944

Kept

Expense Example, No Redemption John Hancock Greater China Opportunities Fund Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares (USD $)	Class A	Class B	Class C
1 Year	674	264	264
3 Years	1,038	811	811
5 Years	1,426	1,385	1,385
10 Years	2,510	2,747	2,944

Portfolio turnover

The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. During its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 132% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal investment strategies

Under normal market conditions, the fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings for investment purposes) in equity securities of companies located in China, Hong Kong or Taiwan (Greater China). These companies (1) have securities that are traded principally on stock exchanges in Greater China countries, (2) are organized under the laws of and conduct business in a Greater China country or (3) derive more than half of their revenues from Greater China operations. Equity securities include common and preferred stocks and their equivalents.

The fund is non-diversified and may invest more than 5% of its assets in securities of individual companies.

The subadviser uses an active investment approach involving a blend of both quantitative and qualitative analysis to determine the best prospects for capital appreciation. Top-down macro economic analysis and quantitative analysis are conducted. Quantitative screening involves evaluations of financial data and factors including, but not limited to, valuation metrics, earnings surprises and earnings growth and price momentum. Qualitative analysis may include company visits and management interviews, assessment of market share, assessments of the competitive landscape and assessment of industry position and trends.

The fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in securities of companies located outside of Greater China, with an emphasis on companies that are positioned to benefit from economic growth in Greater China.

The fund may participate as a purchaser in initial public offerings (IPOs) of securities. An IPO is a company's first offering of stock to the public.

Principal risks

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

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

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

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

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

Equity securities risk The value of a company's equity securities is subject to changes in the company's financial condition, and overall market and economic conditions.

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.

Greater China risk Investments in the Greater China region are subject to special risks, such as less developed or less efficient trading markets, restrictions on monetary repatriation and possible seizure, nationalization or expropriation of assets. In particular, investment in Taiwan could be adversely affected by its relationship with China, and Hong Kong and Chinese markets could be hurt significantly by adverse government actions. A small number of companies and industries represent a relatively large portion of the Greater China market as a whole.

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

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.

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.

Sector risk Because the fund may from time to time focus on one or more sectors of the economy, at such times its performance will depend in large part on the performance of those sectors. A fund that invests in particular sectors is particularly susceptible to the impact of market, economic, regulatory and other factors affecting those sectors. As a result, at such times, the value of your investment may fluctuate more widely than it would in a fund that is invested across sectors.

Past performance

The following performance information in the bar chart and table below illustrates the variability of the fund’s returns and provides some indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in the fund’s performance from year to year. However, past performance (before and after taxes) does not indicate future results. All figures assume dividend reinvestment. Performance for the fund is updated daily, monthly and quarterly and may be obtained at our Web site: www.jhfunds.com/FundPerformance, or by calling Signature Services at 1-800-225-5291, Monday–Thursday between 8:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. and on Fridays between 8:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M., Eastern Time.

Calendar year total returns These do not include sales charges and would have been lower if they did. Calendar year total returns are shown only for Class A shares and would be different for other share classes.

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

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

Calendar year total returns — Class A (%)

Year-to-date total return The fund’s total return for the year ended December 31, 2012 was 23.28%.

Best quarter: Q3 ’07, 28.88%

Worst quarter: Q3 ’11, -26.57%

Average annual total returns (%)
as of 12-31-12

Average Annual Total Returns John Hancock Greater China Opportunities Fund Prospectus Class A, B and C Shares	1 Year	5 Year	Inception	Inception Date
Class A before tax	17.12%	(5.55%)	10.33%	Jun. 09, 2005
Class A After tax on distributions	16.99%	(5.51%)	9.89%	Jun. 09, 2005
Class A After tax on distributions, with sale	11.13%	(4.54%)	8.96%	Jun. 09, 2005
Class B before tax	17.16%	(5.70%)	10.26%	Jun. 09, 2005
Class C before tax	21.25%	(5.31%)	10.25%	Jun. 09, 2005
MSCI Golden Dragon Index (gross of foreign withholding taxes on dividends)	22.65%	(0.76%)	9.69%	Jun. 09, 2005

[1] (on certain purchases, including those of $1 million or more)