John Hancock Core Bond ETF
Actively managed U.S. bond ETF
As of its 2026 Q2 report, John Hancock Core Bond ETF held 963 positions with $2.32B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 13.0% of the fund. The JHCR share class costs 0.29% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, JHCR returned 5.9%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 93 new positions and exited 46.
To seek a high level of current income consistent with preservation of capital and maintenance of liquidity.
The fund is actively managed and invests at least 80% of assets in investment-grade bonds rated A- or higher on average, using bottom-up research to identify undervalued securities across sectors and issuers; it maintains average maturity and duration substantially similar to the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index but may deviate temporarily for defensive purposes. Because the fund's performance depends on the manager's security selection decisions, results may diverge from the index.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|
United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.75% · due 2056-02-15 | 3.15% | $73.15M | — |
United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.13% · due 2031-06-30 | 1.96% | $45.59M | — |
United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.00% · due 2042-11-15 | 1.22% | $28.32M | — |
United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.38% · due 2050-08-15 | 1.08% | $25.08M | — |
United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.00% · due 2050-02-15 | 1.04% | $24.19M | — |
United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.88% · due 2029-05-15 | 1.04% | $24.15M | — |
JH COLLATERAL | 0.98% | $22.81M | — |
United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.63% · due 2046-02-15 | 0.94% | $21.87M | — |
United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.38% · due 2028-02-29 | 0.81% | $18.91M | — |
United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.63% · due 2050-11-15 | 0.75% | $17.41M | — |
The 200 largest of 963 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%.
| Bonds | 50.15% |
| Securitized | 48.46% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.98% |
By sector
- Securitized
- 48.7%
- Government
- 16.8%
- Other
- 14.4%
- Financials
- 8.0%
- 11 other sectors
- 12.2%
- Securitized
- 48.7%
- Government
- 16.8%
- Other
- 14.4%
- Financials
- 8.0%
- Utilities
- 3.7%
- Communication Services
- 1.4%
- Energy
- 1.3%
- Information Technology
- 1.3%
- Health Care
- 1.2%
- Cash
- 1.0%
- International
- 0.7%
- Real Estate
- 0.6%
- Industrials
- 0.5%
- Consumer Discretionary
- 0.5%
- Consumer Staples
- 0.1%
How it has done
JHCR share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 3.52%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
Jun 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Fees & fund details
John Hancock Core Bond ETF is an actively managed U.S. bond ETF.
- Asset class
- Bonds
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- ETF
- Credit quality
- Investment grade
- Rate sensitivity
- Intermediate duration
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.29%· JHCR 0.29%
- Portfolio turnover
- 67.00% a year · as of 2025 Q3
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.
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
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
93 new· the largest 3
46 exited· the largest 3
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-06-30
Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.
| Fixed rate | 84.8% |
| Floating rate | 15.2% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 0.1% |
| 1-3y | 4.7% |
| 3-5y | 11.2% |
| 5-10y | 21.6% |
| 10y+ | 62.4% |
Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.
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.
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.
| Interest rates | 58% |
| Credit spreads | 42% |
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.
Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.
| Investment grade | +4.21 yr |
| High yield | +0.06 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.
| 3 mo | 0.02 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.51 yr | 9% |
| 5 yr | 1.99 yr | 33% |
| 10 yr | 2.30 yr | 38% |
| 30 yr | 1.17 yr | 20% |
| 3 mo | 0.02 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.46 yr | 11% |
| 5 yr | 1.79 yr | 42% |
| 10 yr | 1.67 yr | 39% |
| 30 yr | 0.33 yr | 8% |
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
| Tenor | Rate yrs | IG yrs | HY yrs | IG $/bp | HY $/bp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | +0.02 | +0.02 | +0.00 | $4.3k | $119 |
| 1 yr | +0.51 | +0.45 | +0.01 | $104.2k | $2.3k |
| 5 yr | +1.99 | +1.75 | +0.04 | $407.5k | $9.1k |
| 10 yr | +2.30 | +1.66 | +0.01 | $385.0k | $3.2k |
| 30 yr | +1.17 | +0.33 | +0.00 | $76.7k | $0 |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
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