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JOHN HANCOCK FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVEThe fund seeks to provide a high level of total return consisting of long-term capital appreciation and current income.
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">The fund’s primary investment objective is to provide a high level of total return consisting of long-term capital appreciation and current income.</div>
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Under normal circumstances, the fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of U.S. and foreign financial services companies of any size. These companies may include, but are not limited to, banks, thrifts, finance and financial technology companies, brokerage and advisory firms, real estate-related firms, insurance companies and financial holding companies. The equity securities in which the fund may invest are common stocks, preferred stocks, warrants, stock purchase rights and securities convertible into other equity securities. Because the fund normally invests more than 25% of its assets in securities of issuers in the banking and thrift industry, the fund is considered to be “concentrated” in this industry. “Net assets” is defined as net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes. The fund will notify shareholders at least 60 days prior to any change in this 80% policy.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">The fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in common and preferred equity securities and other preferred securities of foreign banking, lending and financial services companies, including securities quoted in foreign currencies. The fund will focus on common and preferred equity securities of issuers, in that the Advisor believes are undervalued by the marketplace as indicated by, among other factors: (1) the value and quality of the underlying assets of the financial services companies; and (2) the value of a financial services company relative to its earnings potential and to market valuations of comparable companies.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">The fund may invest in securities of issuers that are small from a national perspective but have a significant share of their local market. The Advisor intends to focus its investment analysis on delinquency trends, reserve levels and investment and loan portfolio compositions, among other things, in assessing asset quality.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Under normal market conditions, the fund may also invest up to 20% of its net assets in the common and preferred equity securities and other preferred securities of non-financial services companies. The fund also may invest in investment grade securities. The fund may also invest in debt securities that are rated, at the time of purchase, below investment grade (junk bonds) (i.e., rated “Ba” or lower by Moody’s or “BB” or lower by S&P), or in unrated securities determined by the fund’s Advisor or Subadvisor to be of comparable quality. The fund will not purchase debt securities rated below C or which are in default at the time of purchase.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">The fund may enter into interest-rate swaps for the purposes of reducing risk, obtaining efficient market exposure, and/or enhancing investment returns. The fund may engage in portfolio trading, may issue preferred shares, borrow or issue short-term debt securities, and enter into reverse repurchase agreements to obtain investment leverage either alone and/or in combination with other forms of investment leverage or for temporary purposes. The fund utilizes a liquidity agreement to increase its assets available for investments, and may also seek to obtain additional income or portfolio leverage by making secured loans of its portfolio securities with a value of up to 33 1/3% of its total assets.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">The manager may also take into consideration environmental, social, and/or governance (ESG) factors, alongside other relevant factors, as part of its investment selection process. The ESG characteristics utilized in the fund’s investment process may change over time and one or more characteristics may not be relevant with respect to all issuers that are eligible fund investments. Because ESG factors are considered alongside other relevant factors, the manager may determine that an investment is appropriate notwithstanding its relative ESG characteristics.</div>
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">As is the case with all exchange-listed closed-end funds, shares of this fund may trade at a discount or a premium to the fund’s net asset value (NAV). An investment in the fund is subject to investment and market risks, including the possible loss of the entire principal invested.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">The fund’s main risks are listed below in alphabetical order, not in order of importance.</div>
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Concentration risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Because the fund focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy, its performance depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely since it is more susceptible to market, economic, political, regulatory, and other conditions and risks affecting that industry or sector than a fund that invests more broadly across industries a</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Credit and counterparty risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract, or a borrower of fund securities may not make timely payments or otherwise honor its obligations. A downgrade or default affecting any of the fund’s securities could affect the fund’s performance.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Economic and market events risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Events in the U.S. and global financial markets, including actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks to stimulate or stabilize economic growth, may at times result in unusually high market volatility, which could negatively impact performance. Reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets could adversely affect issuers worldwide. Financial institutions could suffer losses as interest rates rise or economic conditions deteriorate.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Equity securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The price of equity securities may decline due to changes in a company’s financial condition or overall market conditions. Securities the manager believes are undervalued may never realize their full potential value, and in certain markets value stocks may underperform the market as a whole.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">ESG integration risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The manager considers ESG factors that it deems relevant or additive, along with other material factors and analysis, when managing the fund. The portion of the fund’s investments for which the manager considers these ESG factors may vary, and could increase or decrease over time. In certain situations, the extent to which these ESG factors may be applied according to the manager’s integrated investment process may not include U.S. Treasuries, government securities, or other asset classes. ESG factors may include, but are not limited to, matters regarding board diversity, climate change policies, and supply chain and human rights policies. Integration of ESG factors into the fund’s investment strategy does not preclude the fund from including companies with low ESG scores or excluding companies with high ESG scores in the fund’s investments. Incorporating ESG criteria and making investment decisions based on certain ESG characteristics, as determined by the Advisor, carries the risk that the fund may perform differently, including underperforming funds that do not utilize ESG criteria or funds that utilize different ESG criteria. <div style="display:inline;">Integration </div>of ESG factors into the fund’s investment process may result in a manager making different investments for the fund than for a fund with a similar investment universe and/or investment style that does not incorporate such considerations in its investment</div><div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"></div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">strategy or processes, and the fund’s investment performance may be affected. Because ESG factors are one of many considerations for the fund, the manager may nonetheless include companies with low ESG characteristics or exclude companies with high ESG characteristics in the fund’s investments.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Fixed-income securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity or duration of the bonds held by a fund, the more sensitive it will likely be to interest-rate fluctuations. An issuer may not make all interest payment or repay all or any of the principal borrowed. Changes in a security’s credit quality may adversely affect fund performance. Additionally, the value of inflation-indexed securities is subject to the effects of changes in market interest rates caused by factors other than inflation (“real interest rates”). Generally, when real interest rates rise, <div style="display:inline;">the </div>value of inflation-indexed securities will fall and the fund’s value may decline as a result of this exposure to these securities.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Foreign securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Less information may be publicly available regarding foreign issuers, including foreign government issuers. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes and may be more volatile than U.S. securities. Currency fluctuations and political and economic developments may adversely impact the value of foreign securities.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Hedging, derivatives, and other strategic transactions risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Hedging, derivatives, and other strategic transactions may increase a fund’s volatility and could produce disproportionate losses, potentially more than the fund’s principal investment. Risks of these transactions are different from and possibly greater than risks of investing directly in securities and other traditional instruments. Under certain market conditions, derivatives could become harder to value or sell and may become subject to liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions). Derivatives and other strategic transactions that the fund intends to utilize include: interest rate swaps and reverse repurchase agreements. Swaps generally are subject to counterparty risk. In addition, swaps may be subject to interest-rate and settlement risk, and the risk of default of the underlying reference obligation. An event of default or insolvency of the counterparty to a reverse repurchase agreement could result in delays or restrictions with respect to the fund’s ability to dispose of the underlying securities, in addition, a reverse repurchase agreement may be considered a form of leverage and may, therefore, increase fluctuations in the fund’s net asset value per share (NAV).</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Large company risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Larger companies may grow more slowly than smaller companies or be slower to respond to business developments. Large-capitalization securities may underperform the market as a whole.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Leveraging risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Issuing preferred shares or using derivatives may result in a leveraged portfolio. Leveraging long exposures increases a fund’s losses when the value of its investments declines. Some derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. The fund also utilizes a Liquidity Agreement to increase its assets available for investment. See “Note 7 —Leverage risk” above.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Liquidity risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The extent (if at all) to which a security may be sold or a derivative position closed without negatively impacting its market value may be impaired by reduced market activity or participation, legal restrictions, or other economic and market impediments.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Lower-rated and high-yield fixed-income securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Lower-rated and high-yield fixed-income securities (junk bonds) are subject to greater credit quality risk, risk of default, and price volatility than higher-rated fixed-income securities, may be considered speculative, and can be difficult to resell.</div></div>
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Real estate securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Securities of companies in the real estate industry carry risks associated with owning real estate, including the potential for a decline in value due to economic or market conditions.</div></div>
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">As is the case with all exchange-listed closed-end funds, shares of this fund may trade at a discount or a premium to the fund’s net asset value (NAV). An investment in the fund is subject to investment and market risks, including the possible loss of the entire principal invested.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">The fund’s main risks are listed below in alphabetical order, not in order of importance.</div>
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Banking industry risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Commercial banks (including “money center” regional and community banks), savings and loan associations, and holding companies of the foregoing are especially subject to adverse effects of volatile interest rates, concentrations of loans in particular industries (such as real estate or energy), and significant competition. Profitability of these businesses depends significantly upon the availability and cost of capital funds. Economic conditions in the real estate market may have a particularly strong effect on certain banks and savings associations. Commercial banks and savings associations are subject to extensive federal and state regulation. Neither such extensive regulation nor the federal insurance of deposits ensures the solvency or profitability of companies in this industry, and there is no assurance against losses in securities issued by such companies.</div></div>
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Changing distribution level & return of capital risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> There is no guarantee prior distribution levels will be maintained, and distributions may include a substantial tax return of capital. A return of capital is the return of all or a portion of a shareholder’s investment in the fund.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Concentration risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Because the fund focuses on a single industry or sector of the economy, its performance depends in large part on the performance of that industry or sector. As a result, the value of an investment may fluctuate more widely since it is more susceptible to market, economic, political, regulatory, and other conditions and risks affecting that industry or sector than a fund that invests more broadly across industries a</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Credit and counterparty risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, the counterparty to an over-the-counter derivatives contract, or a borrower of fund securities may not make timely payments or otherwise honor its obligations. A downgrade or default affecting any of the fund’s securities could affect the fund’s performance.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Economic and market events risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Events in the U.S. and global financial markets, including actions taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign central banks to stimulate or stabilize economic growth, may at times result in unusually high market volatility, which could negatively impact performance. Reduced liquidity in credit and fixed-income markets could adversely affect issuers worldwide. Financial institutions could suffer losses as interest rates rise or economic conditions deteriorate.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Equity securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The price of equity securities may decline due to changes in a company’s financial condition or overall market conditions. Securities the manager believes are undervalued may never realize their full potential value, and in certain markets value stocks may underperform the market as a whole.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">ESG integration risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The manager considers ESG factors that it deems relevant or additive, along with other material factors and analysis, when managing the fund. The portion of the fund’s investments for which the manager considers these ESG factors may vary, and could increase or decrease over time. In certain situations, the extent to which these ESG factors may be applied according to the manager’s integrated investment process may not include U.S. Treasuries, government securities, or other asset classes. ESG factors may include, but are not limited to, matters regarding board diversity, climate change policies, and supply chain and human rights policies. Integration of ESG factors into the fund’s investment strategy does not preclude the fund from including companies with low ESG scores or excluding companies with high ESG scores in the fund’s investments. Incorporating ESG criteria and making investment decisions based on certain ESG characteristics, as determined by the Advisor, carries the risk that the fund may perform differently, including underperforming funds that do not utilize ESG criteria or funds that utilize different ESG criteria. <div style="display:inline;">Integration </div>of ESG factors into the fund’s investment process may result in a manager making different investments for the fund than for a fund with a similar investment universe and/or investment style that does not incorporate such considerations in its investment</div><div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"></div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:Normal;line-height:11pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">strategy or processes, and the fund’s investment performance may be affected. Because ESG factors are one of many considerations for the fund, the manager may nonetheless include companies with low ESG characteristics or exclude companies with high ESG characteristics in the fund’s investments.</div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Fixed-income securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> A rise in interest rates typically causes bond prices to fall. The longer the average maturity or duration of the bonds held by a fund, the more sensitive it will likely be to interest-rate fluctuations. An issuer may not make all interest payment or repay all or any of the principal borrowed. Changes in a security’s credit quality may adversely affect fund performance. Additionally, the value of inflation-indexed securities is subject to the effects of changes in market interest rates caused by factors other than inflation (“real interest rates”). Generally, when real interest rates rise, <div style="display:inline;">the </div>value of inflation-indexed securities will fall and the fund’s value may decline as a result of this exposure to these securities.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Foreign securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Less information may be publicly available regarding foreign issuers, including foreign government issuers. Foreign securities may be subject to foreign taxes and may be more volatile than U.S. securities. Currency fluctuations and political and economic developments may adversely impact the value of foreign securities.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Hedging, derivatives, and other strategic transactions risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Hedging, derivatives, and other strategic transactions may increase a fund’s volatility and could produce disproportionate losses, potentially more than the fund’s principal investment. Risks of these transactions are different from and possibly greater than risks of investing directly in securities and other traditional instruments. Under certain market conditions, derivatives could become harder to value or sell and may become subject to liquidity risk (i.e., the inability to enter into closing transactions). Derivatives and other strategic transactions that the fund intends to utilize include: interest rate swaps and reverse repurchase agreements. Swaps generally are subject to counterparty risk. In addition, swaps may be subject to interest-rate and settlement risk, and the risk of default of the underlying reference obligation. An event of default or insolvency of the counterparty to a reverse repurchase agreement could result in delays or restrictions with respect to the fund’s ability to dispose of the underlying securities, in addition, a reverse repurchase agreement may be considered a form of leverage and may, therefore, increase fluctuations in the fund’s net asset value per share (NAV).</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Large company risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Larger companies may grow more slowly than smaller companies or be slower to respond to business developments. Large-capitalization securities may underperform the market as a whole.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Leveraging risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Issuing preferred shares or using derivatives may result in a leveraged portfolio. Leveraging long exposures increases a fund’s losses when the value of its investments declines. Some derivatives have the potential for unlimited loss, regardless of the size of the initial investment. The fund also utilizes a Liquidity Agreement to increase its assets available for investment. See “Note 7 —Leverage risk” above.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Liquidity risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> The extent (if at all) to which a security may be sold or a derivative position closed without negatively impacting its market value may be impaired by reduced market activity or participation, legal restrictions, or other economic and market impediments.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Lower-rated and high-yield fixed-income securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Lower-rated and high-yield fixed-income securities (junk bonds) are subject to greater credit quality risk, risk of default, and price volatility than higher-rated fixed-income securities, may be considered speculative, and can be difficult to resell.</div></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Operational and cybersecurity risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Cybersecurity breaches may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to fund assets, customer data, or proprietary information, or cause a fund or its service providers to suffer data corruption or lose operational functionality. Similar incidents affecting issuers of a fund’s securities may negatively impact performance. Operational risk may arise from human error, error by third parties, communication errors, or technology failures, among other causes.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"></div></div>
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Preferred and convertible securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Preferred stock dividends are payable only if declared by the issuer’s board. Preferred stock may be subject to redemption provisions. The market values of convertible securities tend to fall as interest rates rise and rise as interest rates fall. Convertible preferred stock’s value can depend heavily upon the underlying common stock’s value.</div></div>
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;font-style:Normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:11pt;margin-top:6pt;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none">Real estate securities risk.<div style="font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; top: 0px;display:inline;"> Securities of companies in the real estate industry carry risks associated with owning real estate, including the potential for a decline in value due to economic or market conditions.</div></div>
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