# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001885778
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-220430
**Filing Date:** 2025-9
**Character Count:** 2905
**Document Hash:** 266a75a7fa6701eacab3a543276d747c
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-220430.hdr.sgml**: 20250926

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-220430

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: DEFA14A

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250926

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250926

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** John Hancock Marathon Asset-Based Lending Fund
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001885778

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MA
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1031

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** DEFA14A
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 811-23748
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251350362

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 200 BERKELEY STREET
- **CITY:** BOSTON
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02116
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 617-663-2261

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 200 BERKELEY STREET
- **CITY:** BOSTON
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02116

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** John Hancock Asset-Based Lending Fund
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20210930

**SCHEDULE 14A** 

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**SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION** 

**Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the** 

**Securities Exchange Act of 1934** 

**(Amendment No. ______)** 

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**JOHN HANCOCK MARATHON ASSET-BASED LENDING FUND** 

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**John Hancock Marathon Asset-Based Lending Fund (the "Fund") Provides Update on Proposal to Convert the Fund to an Interval Fund** 

Reference is made to the definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 18, 2025 (the "Proxy Statement"). The shareholder meeting referenced in the Proxy Statement related to the approval of the conversion of the Fund to an interval fund as well as certain related matters scheduled for October 9, 2025 will not be held on that date, and, accordingly, the Fund will not convert to an interval fund on or around November 18, 2025. As a result, the Fund will continue to operate as a tender offer fund until further notice. A shareholder meeting relating to the interval fund conversion is expected to be rescheduled on a date sometime in the first quarter of 2026, with implementation of the conversion expected to take place as soon thereafter as practicable following shareholder approval.