SUPPLEMENT DATED SEPTEMBER 15, 2000
REVOLUTION ACCESS VARIABLE ANNUITY
REVOLUTION EXTRA VARIABLE ANNUITY
REVOLUTION VALUE VARIABLE ANNUITY
This Supplement is intended to be distributed with any prospectus dated May 1,
2000 for any of the variable annuity contracts shown above when issued by John
Hancock Life Insurance Company ("John Hancock") and sold through registered
representatives of broker-dealers and certain financial institutions who have
entered into selling agreements with John Hancock and Signator Investors, Inc.
The material in the Additional Information section of the prospectus that
describes the distribution of contracts is deleted and replaced by the following
material:
Distribution of contracts
John Hancock Funds, Inc. ("JHFI") and Signator Investors,
Inc.("Signator") act as principal distributors of the contracts sold through
this prospectus. JHFI and Signator are each registered as a broker-dealer under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and each is a member of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. JHFI's address is 101 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts 02199. Signator's address is 200 Clarendon Street, John
Hancock Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02117.
You can purchase a contract through registered representatives of
broker-dealers and certain financial institutions who have entered into selling
agreements with John Hancock and JHFI, or with John Hancock and Signator. We pay
broker-dealers compensation for promoting, marketing and selling our variable
insurance and variable annuity products. In turn, the broker-dealers pay a
portion of the compensation to their registered representatives, under their own
arrangments. Signator will also pay its own registered representatives for sales
of the contracts to their customers. We do not expect the compensation we pay to
such broker-dealers (including Signator) and financial institutions to exceed
8.0% of premium payments (on a present value basis) for sales of the contracts
described in this prospectus. For limited periods of time, we may pay additional
compensation to broker-dealers as part of special sales promotions. We offer
these contracts on a continuous basis, but neither John Hancock nor JHFI nor
Signator is obligated to sell any particular amount of contracts. We also
reimburse JHFI and Signator for direct and indirect expenses actually incurred
in connection with the marketing of these contracts. Both JHFI and Signator are
subsidiaries of John Hancock.
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