HPF vs NGNE Comparison

John Hancock Preferred Income Fund II is the United States based closed-end, diversified management investment company. Its primary objective is to provide a high level of current income consistent with preservation of capital. The fund's secondary investment objective is to provide growth of capital to the extent consistent with its primary investment objective. The fund's principal investment strategies include to invests a majority of its assets in preferred stocks and other preferred securities, including convertible preferred securities. Its portfolio composition consists of U.S preferred securities, common stocks, foreign preferred securities, corporate bonds, capital preferred securities and short-term investments.

Neurogene Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company committed to overcoming the limitations of neurological diseases into treatable conditions, by harnessing its proprietary transgene regulation technology, EXACTTM (Expression Attenuation via Construct Tuning). It is building a differentiated product portfolio of genetic medicines for rare neurological diseases with high unmet needs. The drug candidates in the company's product pipeline include NGN-401, which is in development for the treatment of Rett syndrome, using its EXACT platform, and NGN-101, a non-EXACT, conventional gene therapy development candidate for the treatment of CLN5 Batten disease, designed to deliver the CLN5 gene and packaged in an AAV9 capsid.