Managed Volatility Growth Portfolio
John Hancock Variable Insurance Trust · 3 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
Managed Volatility Growth Portfolio is an actively managed U.S. equity fund.
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Features
- Fund of funds
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q2
To seek long term growth of capital while seeking to both manage the volatility of return and limit the magnitude of portfolio losses.
The fund invests primarily through underlying equity and fixed-income funds, with day-to-day decisions delegated to a subadvisor that normally limits equity exposure to 77% of assets. The subadvisor employs derivatives and asset reallocation to manage volatility, targeting an annualized standard deviation of 11% to 13%, and may shift allocations between equity funds, fixed-income funds, and cash depending on market conditions. Because the fund uses derivatives with leverage, notional derivative positions may exceed 100% of assets, and the risk management strategy could limit gains in strong rising markets or fail to protect against sudden market movements.
| Share class | Gross | Net | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAIZX | 0.91% | 0.77% | 2025 Q2 |
| JELGX | 0.96% | 0.82% | 2025 Q2 |
| JAJAX | 1.16% | 1.02% | 2025 Q2 |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 20.00% · as of 2026 Q2
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 94.78% |
| Bonds | 3.58% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.70% |
| Derivatives | -0.06% |
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.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest new: SandP500 EMINI FUT 0926, NIKKEI 225 OSE 0926, MSCI EMGMKT 0926, SandP MID 400 EMINI 0926, EURO STOXX 50 0926, E-MINI RUSS 2000 0926, EURO FX CURR FUT 0926, JPN YEN CURR FUT 0926
Largest exited: JOHN HANCOCK MULTIFACTOR DEVEL JOHN HANCOCK MF DEV INTL ETF, John Hancock Variable Insurance Trust-Select Bond Trust, John Hancock Variable Insurance Trust-Core Bond Trust, UNITED STATES TREASURY INFLATI 04/27 0.125, SandP500 EMINI FUT 0626, MSCI EMGMKT 0626, EURO STOXX 50 0626, NIKKEI 225 OSE 0626
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +19.60% | +41.88% | +33.08% | 9.77% | -9.42% | |
| +19.54% | +41.58% | +32.71% | 9.81% | -9.44% | |
| +19.33% | +40.79% | +31.38% | 9.74% | -9.42% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 1.71pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.34pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
May 2026 and Jun 2026 have been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so they are not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
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 | 84.4% |
| Zero-coupon or unclassified | 15.6% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| 1-3y | 52.5% |
| 3-5y | 31.8% |
| 10y+ | 15.6% |
Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | JOHN HANCOCK VIT STRATEGIC EQU JHVIT STRAT EQTY ALLOC-NAV | 21.17% | $20.82 | $1.11B | 53.3M |
| — | JOHN HANCOCK CORE BOND ETF JOHN HANCOCK CORE BOND ETF | 8.92% | $25.26 | $467.32M | 18.5M |
| JLCNX | JOHN HANCOCK FUNDAMENTAL LARGE JH FNDMNTL LRG CAP CORE-NAVJLCNX | 6.88% | $71.79 | $360.48M | 5.0M |
| — | JOHN HANCOCK DISCIPLINED VALUE JH DISC VALUE SELECT ETF | 5.58% | $31.64 | $292.64M | 9.2M |
| — | John Hancock Variable Insurance Trust-Blue Chip Growth Trust | 5.55% | $34.99 | $290.93M | 8.3M |
| JOHIDGU | John Hancock Investors TrustJOHIDGU | 4.84% | $20.43 | $253.49M | 12.4M |
| — | JOHN HANCOCK DISCIPLINED VALUE JH DISC. VALUE INT SELECT | 4.45% | $38.57 | $233.06M | 6.0M |
| JNHEEUS | John Hancock Investment TrustJNHEEUS | 4.18% | $14.32 | $218.92M | 15.3M |
| JHBTUSD | JOHN HANCOCK BOND TRUST/MA JOHN HANCOCK BOND TRUST-USDJHBTUSD | 3.73% | $13.53 | $195.51M | 14.5M |
| — | JOHN HANCOCK MULTIFACTOR EMERG JOHN HANCOCK MULTI EM MRK ET | 2.73% | $40.24 | $142.85M | 3.5M |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-06-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 68.01% of net assets, top 25 95.92%, across 38 issuers.
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