John Hancock Advisers, LLC announced a change to the portfolio management team of the John Hancock Investors Trust and John Hancock Income Securities Trust. JHI and JHS are both managed by a team of portfolio managers from John Hancock Asset Management, a division of Manulife Asset Management (US) LLC. Effective immediately, the portfolio management team at John Hancock Asset Management has changed as follows: Barry Evans no longer serves on the portfolio management team responsible for managing JHI.

Jeffrey Given and John Iles will continue to serve as portfolio managers of JHI. In addition, effective immediately, Barry Evans no longer serves on the portfolio management team at John Hancock Asset Management responsible for managing JHS. Jeffrey Given and Howard Greene will continue to serve as portfolio managers of JHS.