John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund is a global equity mutual fund that invests in the financial services sector across all market caps and is benchmarked against the S&P Composite 1500 Banks Index. John Hancock Investment Management LLC and John Hancock Asset Management co-manage the fund, which was previously known as John Hancock Bank and Thrift Opportunity Fund and has been in operation since August 23, 1994, and is based in the United States.