1 category · Named, not rankedJohn Hancock
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401(k) providers | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 73 of 78 | 44% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Human Interest at 20% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated John Hancock across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Strong advisor support and insurance-style plan structure | John Hancock” Perplexity Sonar · 401(k) providers · direct prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Multiple financial advisors specifically recommend avoiding John Hancock for 401(k) plans due to service and fee issues.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · hard negative
“frequently mentioned as among the worst offenders due to their high administrative costs” Mistral Small · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · hard negative
“Sued for "self-dealing" by packing its own 401(k) plan with proprietary products” Kimi K2 · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · hard negative
“Common Examples: *Transamerica, Principal, John Hancock, Voya, Equitable, and Lincoln Financial*.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as John Hancock, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and John Hancock was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 19 of the 19 answers that named John Hancock and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-seven of the seventy-seven domain citations in answers naming John Hancock came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
johnhancock.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, John Hancock takes 0% of first choices and Human Interest takes 20%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 246,000 a month (“john hancock”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 6,779 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 297,884 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 22,781 · 1,288 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,090
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 22 clicks and $173 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 19 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 19 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 387 | 12 | 2026-10-01 | ||
| Blog | 94 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 20 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 6 | 0 | 2025-01-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-10-01John hancock closed end funds declare monthly distributions news or press
- 2026-09-01John hancock closed end funds declare quarterly distributions news or press
- 2026-09-01John hancock closed end funds declare monthly distributions news or press
- 2026-09-01John hancock closed end funds announce annual shareholder meeting and record dates news or press
- 2026-09-01John hancock financial opportunities fund notice to shareholders sources of distribution under section 19 a news or press
- 2026-09-01John hancock diversified income fund notice to shareholders sources of distribution under section 19 a news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page johnhancock.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.
Follow John Hancock
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
John Hancock is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- At John Hancock, we provide life insurance that helps our customers to live longer, healthier, better lives.
- For
- customers
- Customers named
- KelleySandyBrian & Carla
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What John Hancock's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: johnhancock.com, johnhancock.com/about-us/customer-stories. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when John Hancock's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as John Hancock, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for John Hancock by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where John Hancock is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name John Hancock, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.