John Hancock Tax Advantaged Dividend Income Fund is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched by John Hancock Funds, LLC. It is co-managed by John Hancock Advisers, LLC, John Hancock Asset Management, and Analytic Investors, Inc. The fund invests in public equity markets of the United States. It seeks to invest in the stocks of companies operating across the diversified sectors. The fund also invests in the preferred stocks. It employs options strategy to make it's portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Merrill Lynch Preferred Stock DRD Eligible Index. John Hancock Tax Advantaged Dividend Income Fund was formed on February 27, 2004 and is domiciled in the United States.