John Hancock Advisers Releases Portfolio Information for Closed-End Funds

John Hancock Advisers Releases Portfolio Information for
Closed-End Funds 


BOSTON, June 8  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- John Hancock Advisers, LLC announced
today that portfolio information, such as performance, top-ten holdings and
sector weightings, is available for its closed-end funds as of May 31, 2004.
This information is available on John Hancock Funds' web site at
http://www.jhfunds.com/. To order a hard copy of this information, call (800)
225- 6020.  Investors may also call John Hancock's automated closed-end funds
information line, [phone].

   John Hancock Patriot Premium Dividend Fund I (NYSE:PDF)
   John Hancock Patriot Premium Dividend Fund II (NYSE:PDT)
   John Hancock Patriot Select Dividend Trust (NYSE:DIV)
   John Hancock Patriot Global Dividend Fund (NYSE:PGD)
   John Hancock Patriot Preferred Dividend Fund (NYSE:PPF)
   John Hancock Preferred Income Fund (NYSE:HPI)
   John Hancock Preferred Income Fund II (NYSE:HPF)
   John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III (NYSE:HPS)
   John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund (NYSE:HTD)
   John Hancock Investors Trust (NYSE:JHI)
   John Hancock Income Securities Trust (NYSE:JHS)
   John Hancock Financial Trends Fund (NASDAQ:JHFT)
   John Hancock Bank and Thrift Opportunity Fund (NYSE:BTO)



John Hancock Advisers, LLC, a premier investment management company, managed
$30.2 billion in open-end funds, closed-end funds, private accounts and
retirement plans for individual and institutional investors as of March 31,
2004. Additional information about John Hancock Advisers can be found on the
website: http://www.jhfunds.com/.

John Hancock Advisers is a wholly owned subsidiary of John Hancock Financial
Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Manulife Financial Corporation. Founded in
1862, John Hancock Financial Services and its subsidiaries today offer a broad
range of financial products and services, including whole, term, variable, and
universal life insurance, as well as college savings products, mutual funds,
fixed and variable annuities, long-term care insurance and various forms of
business insurance.

Manulife Financial is the fifth largest life insurer in the world, and the
second largest in North America, based on market capitalization as of April 27,
2004. Manulife Financial is a leading Canadian-based financial services group
serving millions of customers in 19 countries and territories worldwide. Pro
forma funds under management by Manulife Financial and its subsidiaries,
including John Hancock, were US$271.6 billion (Cdn$355.9 billion) as of March
31, 2004.

Manulife Financial Corporation trades as 'MFC' on the TSX, NYSE and PSE, and
under '0945' on the SEHK. 

DATASOURCE: John Hancock Advisers, LLC



CONTACT:  Kimberley Dietrich, [phone], or Investor Contact,

[phone], both of John Hancock Advisers, LLC 

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