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JMKAX

Emerging Markets Debt Fund

Actively managedBondsOpen-end fund
John Hancock Funds II: JMKAX · JMKIX · JMKCX · JHEMX · JHMDX · JEMIXHoldings as of May 31, 2026Filed Jul 27, 2026

Actively managed emerging-markets bond fund

As of its 2026 Q2 report, Emerging Markets Debt Fund held 215 positions with $2.08B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 19.1% of the fund. Over the 12 months to May 2026, JMKAX returned 12.5%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 37 new positions and exited 41.

2026 Q2 holdings and allocationChanges are against the previous quarter, 2026 Q1Headline fees and returns use the JMKAX share class
Expense ratio
—
Yearly cost, as a share of what you have invested
$2.08B
The whole fund, all share classes
215 holdings
19.1%in the top 10
Weight held in the ten largest holdings
Top 25 hold 35.1%
Return, 1 year · JMKAX
+12.5%
With dividends, to May 2026
3 yr total +36.8% · 5 yr total +16.1%
What this fund is

Emerging Markets Debt Fund is actively managed emerging-markets bond fund.

What you own

per cent of the fund
CompanyWeightValue
United States Treasury Note/Bond
3.75% · due 2028-04-30
2.80%
$58.28M
Argentine Republic Government International Bond
4.13% floating · due 2035-07-09
2.15%
$44.81M
BRAZIL NOTAS DO TESOURO NACION NOTES 01/27 10
10.00% · due 2027-01-01
2.03%
$42.25M
Peru Government Bond
6.90% · due 2037-08-12
2.00%
$41.57M
JH COLLATERAL
1.96%
$40.76M
MEXICAN BONOS BONDS 02/36 8
8.00% · due 2036-02-21
1.91%
$39.70M
ECUADOR GOVERNMENT INTERNATION SR UNSECURED REGS 07/35 VAR
6.90% floating · due 2035-07-31
1.64%
$34.20M
Turkey Government International Bond
6.00% · due 2041-01-14
1.62%
$33.77M
Turkey Government International Bond
6.38% · due 2031-05-22
1.53%
$31.73M
Farmer Mac Discount Notes
0.00% · due 2026-06-01
1.48%
$30.78M
Showing 1–10 of 215 · the top 10 are 19.13% of the fund, the top 25 are 35.07%

The 200 largest of 215 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.

What the fund is made of

Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.

98.51%
of net assets
Bonds97.27%
Cash & short-term1.96%
Stocks0.04%
Derivatives-0.77%

The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.

Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.

How it has done

Total return, dividends reinvested · to May 2026

JMKAX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested

1 year
+12.49%
3 years
+36.80%
Cumulative, not per year
5 years
+16.07%
Cumulative, not per year
Largest decline in 3 years
-6.43%
From a previous high to a later low
Cumulative return, last three years· Jun 2023 – May 2026

Volatility over the last 12 months: 5.79%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.

The 6 share classes hold the same portfolio

Share classExpense ratio1 year3 years5 yearsWorst fall
—+12.49%+36.80%+16.07%-6.43%
—+12.70%+37.28%+17.15%-6.48%
—+12.99%+37.98%+17.99%-6.45%
—+11.75%+33.55%+11.64%-6.73%
—————
—+12.86%+37.95%+17.94%-6.46%

Fees & fund details

Emerging Markets Debt Fund is an actively managed emerging-markets bond fund.

Asset class
Bonds
Region
Emerging markets
Management
Actively managed
Fund type
Open-end fund
Credit quality
Mixed credit
Rate sensitivity
Intermediate duration
Features
Non-diversified

This fund files no prospectus profile. Unit investment trusts and closed-end funds register on forms that carry no objective or fee tagging, and some fund families file without it — a gap in what was filed, not a fund without an objective or without fees.

Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.

What changed this quarter

2026 Q2 vs 2026 Q1

Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.

37 new· the largest 8

United States Treasury Note/Bond
Peru Government Bond
MEXICAN BONOS BONDS 02/36 8
Turkey Government International Bond
Farmer Mac Discount Notes
Mexico Government International Bond
International Finance Corporation
ANGOLAN GOVERNMENT INTERNATION SR UNSECURED 144A 03/33 9.375

41 exited· the largest 7

United States Treasury Note/Bond
2 holdings
GreenSaif Pipelines Bidco S.a r.l.
Asian Development Bank
Coca-Cola FEMSA S.A.B. de C.V.
Africa Finance Corporation
Panama
Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.

Debt profile

What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-05-31

Avg coupon
6.48%
Avg maturity
11.31 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

10%
floating
Fixed rate86.8%
Floating rate9.7%
Zero-coupon or unclassified3.5%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

<1y10y+
<1y9.0%
1-3y8.2%
3-5y9.4%
5-10y33.3%
10y+40.2%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: 1.96% · $39.58M · 6 positions
In arrears: none reported
Paid in kind: none reported

These three overlap — one holding can be in arrears and paying in kind at once — so they are shown separately and never summed.

Risk profile

Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2

Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying nearly as much.

6.85 yr
approx. move per 100bp
5.97 yr
approx. move per 100bp
If rates and spreads both rise 100bp

Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.

≈ -13.0%
of value
Interest rates53%
Credit spreads47%

Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.

Credit risk by quality

Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.

+5.97
yrs total
Investment grade+3.49 yr
High yield+2.47 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.

Interest rate6.85 yr total
1 yr30 yr
1 yr0.47 yr7%
5 yr2.03 yr30%
10 yr3.02 yr44%
30 yr1.34 yr19%

3 mo is NEGATIVE (-0.01 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so it is not part of the band above.

Credit spread5.97 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.01 yr0%
1 yr0.33 yr5%
5 yr1.54 yr26%
10 yr2.74 yr46%
30 yr1.35 yr23%

The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.

Show the numbers
TenorRate yrsIG yrsHY yrsIG $/bpHY $/bp
3 mo-0.01+0.01+0.01$1.1k$1.6k
1 yr+0.47+0.12+0.20$25.8k$41.9k
5 yr+2.03+0.75+0.80$155.1k$165.7k
10 yr+3.02+1.70+1.04$352.6k$216.4k
30 yr+1.34+0.92+0.43$192.3k$88.6k

Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.

Rate exposure by currency

Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 6.85 yr.

USD+6.11 yr
EUR+0.22 yr
PEN+0.15 yr
MXN+0.12 yr
DOP+0.08 yr
UYU+0.06 yr
8 others+0.12 yr

This is where the fund's rate exposure sits, not its currency risk — most international bond funds hedge the currency back to dollars, and the size of those hedges is not in the filing. Tenors are also summed across curves, so a 5-year JPY point and a 5-year USD point are added together.

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