Welcome to our dedicated page for JH Premium Dividend Fund SEC filings (Ticker: PDT), a comprehensive resource for investors and traders seeking official regulatory documents including 10-K annual reports, 10-Q quarterly earnings, 8-K material events, and insider trading forms.
The John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (NYSE: PDT) SEC filings page on Stock Titan provides access to the fund’s key regulatory documents as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As a closed-end management investment company, PDT files materials that describe its governance, advisory relationships, and shareholder matters, alongside reports that support transparency around its operations and distributions.
Among the notable filings is a Definitive Proxy Statement (DEF 14A), which outlines the agenda for the fund’s annual shareholder meeting. This document describes the proposal to elect Trustees who oversee John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund and several related funds, explains the structure of the Board (including staggered terms), and details how shareholders can vote by mail, phone, or internet. It also identifies John Hancock Investment Management LLC as the advisor and administrator, Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC as subadvisor, and John Hancock Investment Management Distributors LLC as distributor for certain shelf offering activities.
On this page, investors can review how many shares of the fund are outstanding as of the record date, see information about significant shareholders disclosed in the proxy, and understand the governance framework that applies to PDT. Over time, additional filings such as other proxy materials, periodic reports, and related documents provide a regulatory record of the fund’s activities, oversight, and shareholder communications.
Stock Titan enhances these filings with AI-powered summaries that highlight the most important points, helping readers quickly grasp the purpose and implications of each document. Real-time updates from the SEC’s EDGAR system ensure that new filings appear promptly, while organized access to proxy statements and other materials allows investors to follow trustee elections, advisory arrangements, and other formal decisions affecting John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund.
John Hancock Dividend Fund director Kenneth J. Phelan reported purchasing common shares of the fund. On January 26, 2026, he bought approximately 774.071 common shares of beneficial interest in the fund in an open-market transaction coded "P" at an approximate price of $12.92 per share.
After this transaction, he beneficially owned 774.071 common shares directly. The filing notes these figures are approximate because the fund’s net asset value, per-share price, and resulting share count cannot be precisely determined at the time of the filing.
An investment fund filed its annual Form N-CEN, providing operational data on activities such as securities lending and trading. The filing shows a monthly average value of portfolio securities on loan of 121,242,424.216667000000, while net income from securities lending activities was 0.000000000000, indicating no profit from this program over the period.
The fund reports aggregate brokerage commissions paid during the period of 74,832.900000000000 across multiple brokers. It also discloses principal trading activity with several dealers, including total purchases and sales with one dealer of 421,793,596.320000000000. Overall, the report is largely administrative, outlining key service providers and transaction volumes rather than performance metrics.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund reported results for the year ended October 31, 2025, highlighting its focus on high current income with modest capital growth. The closed-end fund uses significant leverage through a liquidity agreement, with borrowings of $373.7 million and net assets of $688.3 million, resulting in a net asset value of $13.99 per share. One-year total return at net asset value was 11.01%, outpacing its Primary Blended Benchmark at 8.49%, while market-price return was 9.60%. The fund paid total distributions of $48.7 million, all classified as ordinary income and long-term capital gains, under its managed distribution plan that currently pays $0.0825 per share monthly and may at times include return of capital. The portfolio is heavily tilted to utilities and financial preferreds, and the fund employs interest rate swaps and a securities-lending based liquidity facility, which increase both income potential and risk.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund and related John Hancock closed-end funds are asking shareholders to elect six trustees at their joint annual meeting. The meeting is scheduled for February 17, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern at 200 Berkeley Street in Boston. Shareholders of record as of November 25, 2025 can vote.
The slate includes James R. Boyle, Kristie M. Feinberg, Grace K. Fey, Christine L. Hurtsellers, Hassell H. McClellan, and Kenneth J. Phelan, all of whom already serve as trustees across the John Hancock fund complex. Five are independent of management, while Feinberg is a management-affiliated trustee and fund president. Trustees are elected to a staggered board structure, and these nominees would serve until the 2029 annual meeting.
The proxy describes the Board’s committees, risk-oversight process, audit arrangements with PwC, trustee share ownership, and compensation. Shareholders are encouraged to vote by internet, phone, or mail to avoid additional solicitation costs.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (PDT)director of the fund and that the event requiring the statement occurred on 11/12/2025. In the ownership sections for both non-derivative and derivative securities, the form specifies in the explanation of responses that no securities are beneficially owned by the reporting person. This means the individual is disclosing their status as a director but reports no share or derivative holdings in PDT as of the event date.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (PDT) filed a Form 3 reporting that a director currently holds no beneficial ownership of the fund’s securities. The event date triggering this initial ownership statement is listed as 11/12/2025, and the filing confirms that no non-derivative or derivative securities are beneficially owned.
First Trust Portfolios L.P., First Trust Advisors L.P. and The Charger Corporation jointly filed Amendment No. 1 to Schedule 13G on 08/07/2025 disclosing a 10.63 % beneficial stake (5,229,475 common shares) in John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (PDT) as of 07/31/2025.
The reporting group holds no sole voting or dispositive power. Shared voting authority covers only 19,968 shares, while shared dispositive power extends to the full 5.23 million shares. The position is primarily held in unit investment trusts and other vehicles sponsored or advised by the First Trust entities; the trustee, not First Trust, votes those units. All three filers disclaim beneficial ownership beyond the technical reporting requirements.
The filing was made under Rule 13d-1(b) (institutional investor filing) and includes the customary certification that the securities were acquired in the ordinary course of business, not to influence control of the issuer.
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