John Hancock Financial Opportunity Fund: Curve Inversion Fears

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  • When we last wrote about John Hancock Financial Opportunity Fund, we decided not to pull the trigger.
  • We look at how that decision played out.
  • We also go over the current fundamentals, yield curve inversion fears, and go over our favorite area among financials.
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Discipline in the market means that you have to say "no", far more often than you have to say "yes". Often good is not good enough. We felt exactly like that when we covered John Hancock Financial Opportunity Fund (

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