0001010521-11-000427.txt : 20111028 0001010521-11-000427.hdr.sgml : 20111028 20111028172153 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001010521-11-000427 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 497 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20111028 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20111028 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20111028 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: JOHN HANCOCK CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000856671 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 497 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-31675 FILM NUMBER: 111166099 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 601 CONGRESS STREET CITY: BOSTON STATE: MA ZIP: 02210 BUSINESS PHONE: 617-663-3000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O JOHN HANCOCK FUNDS STREET 2: 601 CONGRESS STREET CITY: BOSTON STATE: MA ZIP: 02210 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: JOHN HANCOCK CALIFORNIA TAX FREE INCOME FUND DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20110214 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: HANCOCK JOHN CALIFORNIA TAX FREE INCOME FUND DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19941227 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: TRANSAMERICA CALIFORNIA TAX FREE INCOME FUND DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 0000856671 S000000616 HANCOCK JOHN CALIFORNIA TAX FREE INCOME FUND C000001742 Class A TACAX C000001743 Class B TSCAX C000001744 Class C TCCAX 497 1 jhfsaisupplementreportfolioh.htm JOHN HANCOCK CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME jhfsaisupplementreportfolioh.htm - Generated by SEC Publisher for SEC Filing

 

 

Supplement dated 10-28-11 to the current Statement of Additional Information

 

 

The information under the heading "DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS" in the Statement of Additional Information is amended and restated as follows:

 

 

DISCLOSURE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS

 

The Board has adopted a Policy Regarding Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings, to protect the interests of the shareholders of the Fund and to address potential conflicts of interest that could arise between the interests of shareholders and the interests of the Adviser, or the interests of the Fund’s Subadviser, principal underwriter or affiliated persons of the Adviser, Subadviser or principal underwriter. The Trust’s general policy with respect to the release of the Fund’s portfolio holdings to nonaffiliated persons is to do so only in limited circumstances and only to provide nonpublic information regarding portfolio holdings to any person, including affiliated persons, on a “need to know” basis and, when released, to release such information only as consistent with applicable legal requirements and the fiduciary duties owed to shareholders. The Trust applies its policy uniformly to all Fund investors, including individual and institutional investors, intermediaries, affiliated persons of the Fund, and to all third party service providers and rating agencies.

 

Portfolio holdings information for the Fund that is not publicly available will be released only pursuant to the exceptions described in the Policy Regarding Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings. The Fund’s material nonpublic holdings information may be provided to nonaffiliated persons as part of the investment activities of the Fund to: entities that, by explicit agreement, are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information disclosed; rating organizations, such as Moody’s, S&P, Fitch, Morningstar and Lipper, Vestik (Thompson Financial) or other entities for the purpose of compiling reports and preparing data; proxy voting services for the purpose of voting proxies; entities providing computer software; courts (including bankruptcy courts) or regulators with jurisdiction over the Trust and its affiliates; and institutional traders to assist in research and trade execution. Exceptions to the portfolio holdings release policy can be approved only by the Trust’s Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”) or the CCO’s duly authorized delegate after considering: (a) the purpose of providing such information; (b) the procedures that will be used to ensure that such information remains confidential and is not traded upon; and (c) whether such disclosure is in the best interest of the shareholders.

 

As of the date of this SAI, the entities receiving information described in the preceding paragraph are: APL/Checkfree (daily portfolio accounting); Advent Software (third party reconciliation); BBH (third party reconciliation); BNY Mellon (middle office functions); BNP Paribas (holdings/activity, daily); Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (proxy votes, daily); Capital Institutional Services, Inc. (rebalancing strategy); Electra Information Systems (third party reconciliation); Elkins McSherry LLC (BoNY) (commission tracking); EVARE (holdings, daily and month end); FactSet (holdings, daily); RR Donnelley (FundSuite) (portfolio listings); GainsKeeper (wash sale & REIT adjustment monitoring); Goldman Sachs Agency Lending (holdings/pricing, daily); ITG Solutions Network, Inc. (trade execution analysis); Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (proxy voting); Mellon Bank NA (outsourcing back office operations); NASDQ (NAVs, daily); PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (holdings, various audit cycles); Proxy Edge (ADP) (proxy voting); RiskMetrics Group (proxy voting); SEI (OMS platform); State Street Bank and Trust Company (custody, pricing, daily); Thompson Financial (Baseline) (portfolio pricing); and Vestek (holdings, 30 day delay).

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The CCO is required to pre-approve the disclosure of nonpublic information regarding the Fund’s portfolio holdings to any affiliated persons of the Trust. The CCO will use the same three considerations stated above before approving disclosure of the Fund’s nonpublic information to affiliated persons.

 

The CCO shall report to the Board whenever additional disclosures of the Fund’s portfolio holdings are approved. The CCO’s report shall be at the Board meeting following such approval. The CCO shall then provide annually a report to the Board regarding the operation of the policy and any material changes recommended as a result of such review.

 

When the CCO believes that the disclosure of the Fund’s nonpublic information to a nonaffiliated person is a potential conflict of interest between the interest of the shareholders and the interest of affiliated persons of the Trust, the CCO shall refer the conflict to the Board. The Board shall then permit such disclosure of the Fund’s nonpublic information only if in its reasonable business judgment it concludes that such disclosure will be in the best interests of the Trust’s shareholders. 

 

The receipt of compensation by the Fund, the Adviser, the Subadviser or an affiliate as consideration for disclosing the Fund’s nonpublic portfolio holdings information is not deemed a legitimate business purpose and is strictly forbidden.

 

Registered investment companies and separate accounts that are advised or subadvised by the Fund’s Subadviser may have investment objectives and strategies and, therefore, portfolio holdings, that potentially are similar to those of the Fund. Neither such registered investment companies and separate accounts nor the Fund’s Subadviser are subject to the Trust’s Policy Regarding Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings, and may be subject to different portfolio holdings disclosure policies. The Fund’s Subadviser may not, and the Trust’s Board cannot, exercise control over policies applicable to separate subadvised funds and accounts.

In addition, the Adviser or the Fund’s Subadviser may receive compensation for furnishing to separate account clients (including sponsors of wrap accounts) model portfolios, the composition of which may be similar to those of the Fund. Such clients have access to their portfolio holdings and are not subject to the Trust’s Policy Regarding Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings. In general, the provision of portfolio management services and/or model portfolio information to wrap program sponsors is subject to contractual confidentiality provisions that the sponsor will only use such information in connection with the program, although there can be no assurance that this would be the case in an agreement between any particular Fund Subadviser that is not affiliated with the Adviser and a wrap account sponsor. Finally, the Adviser or the Fund’s Subadviser may distribute to investment advisory clients analytical information concerning a model portfolio, which information may correspond substantially to the characteristics of a particular Fund’s portfolio, provided that the applicable Fund is not identified in any manner as being the model portfolio.

The potential provision of information in the various ways discussed in the preceding paragraph is not subject to the Trust’s Policy Regarding Disclosure of Portfolio Holdings, as discussed above, and is not deemed to be the disclosure of the Fund’s nonpublic portfolio holdings information.

 

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As a result of the Fund’s inability to control the disclosure of information as noted above, there can be no guarantee that this information would not be used in a way that adversely impacts the Fund.  Nonetheless, the Fund has oversight processes in place to attempt to minimize this risk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You should read this Supplement in conjunction with the Statement of Additional Information and retain it for future reference.

 

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