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Beaumont Financial Partners LLC (Beaumont) is an investment management firm headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1999 and their predecessor firm, Beaumont Trust Associates, became a registered investment adviser in 1981. They were acquired by Focus Financial Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: FOCS) in 2022. Beaumont offers a comprehensive range of wealth management and family office services to affluent individuals and families, small businesses, and select institutions.

Virtus Total Return Fund operates as a mutual fund closed-end investment. Its portfolio includes infrastructure in the communications, utility, energy, and transportation industries. Its objective is total return of capital appreciation and current income. The fund was founded on December 3, 2004 and is headquartered in Greenfield, MA.

John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund is a closed-end diversified management investment fund. Its objective is to provide a high level of total return consisting of long-term capital appreciation and current income. The company was founded on August 23, 1994 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

John Hancock Income Securities Trust operates as a closed-end investment fund. Its investment objective is to generate a high level of current income consistent with prudent investment risk. The company was founded on February 14, 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Virtus Global Multi-Sector Income Fund is a diversified, closed-end management investment fund. Its objective is to maximize current income while preserving capital and seeks to generate current income and total return by applying credit research and a time-tested approach to capitalize on opportunities across undervalued sectors of the global bond markets. The company was founded on August 23, 2011 and is headquartered in Greenfield, MA.

John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Global Shareholder Yield Fund operates as a closed-end investment fund. It intends to provide total return consisting of current income and gains and long term capital appreciation. The company was founded on April 23, 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

John Hancock Preferred Income Fund operates as a closed-end investment fund/investment trust. It seeks to provide a high level of current income consistent with preservation of capital by investing its assets in preferred stocks or other preferred securities, including convertible preferred securities. The company was founded on August 27, 2002 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

John Hancock Preferred Income Fund II is a closed-end investment fund, which engages in reverse repurchase agreements and invests in derivatives to establish investment leverage or for temporary purposes. The company was founded on November 29, 2002 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Investors Financial Services Corp. operated as a holding company. It provided asset administration services for the financial services industry through its wholly-owned subsidiaries. Investors Financial Services was founded in 1995 and was headquartered in Boston, MA.

John Hancock Investors Trust is a closed-end investment fund, which engages in investment activity. Its objective is to generate income for distribution to its shareholders. It also seeks capital appreciation. It invests in a diversified portfolio of corporate and government bonds. The company was founded on October 26, 1970 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

John Hancock Municipal Securities Trust is an open-end management investment company, which control as a Massachusetts business trust. Its objective is to generate interest income exempt from federal income tax with preservation of capital. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

John Hancock Hedged Equity & Income Fund is a closed-end fund management investment company. The fund seeks to provide total return with a focus on current income and gains and also consisting of long-term capital appreciation The company was founded on May 26, 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund operates as a closed-end investment fund/trust. The company was founded on December 21, 1989 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Hudson Castle Group, Inc. provided capital management solutions. The company was founded in 1996 and headquartered in New York, NY.

John Hancock Tax Advantaged Dividend Fund operates as a closed-end investment fund/investment trust. It seeks to provide a high level of after-tax total return from dividend income and capital appreciation by investing its assets in dividend-paying common and preferred securities. The firm investment management services are provided through John Hancock Advisers, Inc. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Virtus Total Return Fund, Inc. operates as closed-end investment trust. Its investment objective is capital appreciation, with income as a secondary objective. The company invests its assets primarily in equity securities, consistent with the preservation of capital and reduction of risk. Virtus Total Return Fund, Inc. was founded on June 18, 1986 and is headquartered in Greenfield, MA.

Virtus Total Return Fund, Inc. is a closed-end diversified investment fund, which invests in equity securities and fixed income. Its seeks to generate total return, consisting of capital appreciation and income. The company was founded on July 21, 1988 and is headquartered in Greenfield, MA.

Duff & Phelps Select MLP & Midstream Energy Fund, Inc. is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek a level of total return resulting from a combination of current tax-deferred distributions and capital appreciation. It is managed by Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. The company was founded on March 28, 2014 and is headquartered in Hartford, CT.

Virtus Alternative Solutions Trust is an open-end, diversified management investment company. It is formed to invest primarily in securities to carry on such other business as the trustees may from time to time determine pursuant to their authority under the declaration of trust. The company was founded on October 21, 2013 and is headquartered in Greenfield, MA.

New Hampshire Trust Co. (NHTrust) is an investment manager headquartered in Keene, New Hampshire. The firm is a subsidiary of New Hampshire Mutual Bancorp. NHTrust provides customized financial strategies to individuals and families who seek long-term financial security and growth.

Part of Manulife Financial Corp., John Hancock Funds, Inc. provides investment services. The private company is based in Lansdowne, PA. Andrew Grant Arnott has been the CEO of the company since 2012.

John Hancock Collateral Trust is a fund that engages in the investment in money market instruments. The company was founded on on December 4, 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.