John Hancock Investments - John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Global Shareholder Yield Fund is a close ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by John Hancock Advisers, LLC. It is co-managed by Analytic Investors, LLC and Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. The fund invests in the public equity markets across the globe. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in dividend paying stocks of companies. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P Broad Market Index-World Equity Index. John Hancock Investments - John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Global Shareholder Yield Fund was formed on September 26, 2007 and is domiciled in the United States.