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CONVERTIBLES SUB-FUNDS
■ JPMORGAN INVESTMENT FUNDS – GLOBAL CONVERTIBLES CONSERVATIVE FUND
BOND SUB-FUNDS
■ JPMORGAN INVESTMENT FUNDS – GLOBAL HIGH YIELD BOND FUND
■ JPMORGAN INVESTMENT FUNDS – INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND
This Singapore Prospectus incorporates and is not valid without the attached Luxembourg Prospectus (the “Luxembourg Prospectus”) dated 13 July 2023 for
JPMorgan Investment Funds (the “Fund”). JPMorgan Investment Funds is an open-ended investment company constituted outside Singapore, organised as a
société anonyme under the laws of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and qualifies as a société d’investissement à capital variable.
Sub-Fund Class
■ JPM Global Dividend A (mth) – SGD
Global Dividend Fund ■ JPM Global Dividend A (mth) – SGD (hedged)*
■ JPM Global Dividend A (mth) – USD
■ JPM Global Select Equity A (acc) – SGD
Global Select Equity Fund ■ JPM Global Select Equity A (acc) – SGD (hedged)*
■ JPM Global Select Equity A (acc) – USD
■ JPM US Select Equity A (acc) – SGD^
US Select Equity Fund
■ JPM US Select Equity A (acc) – USD
■ JPM Global Income A (acc) – SGD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income A (acc) – USD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income A (div) – EUR
■ JPM Global Income A (div) – SGD
■ JPM Global Income A (div) – SGD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income A (div) – USD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income A (icdiv) – SGD (hedged)
Global Income Fund ■ JPM Global Income A (icdiv) – USD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income A (irc) – AUD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income A (irc) – SGD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income A (irc) – USD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income A (mth) – EUR
■ JPM Global Income A (mth) – GBP (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income A (mth) – SGD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income A (mth) – USD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income Sustainable A (mth) – SGD (hedged)
■ JPM Global Income Sustainable A (mth) – USD (hedged)
Global Income Sustainable Fund
■ JPM Global Income Sustainable A (irc) – SGD (hedged)*
■ JPM Global Income Sustainable A (irc) – USD (hedged)*
* As at the date of this Singapore Prospectus, the share classes have not been incepted. However, the share classes may be incepted on such date to be
determined by the Management Company in its absolute discretion.
^ The inception date of the share class is on or around 11 August 2023 or on such date to be determined by the Management Company in its absolute
discretion.
Risks See Sub-Fund Descriptions for a list of the risks for each Sub-Fund
including a general note on risk; individual risks are described in Risk Currency Abbreviations
Descriptions in the Singapore and Luxembourg Prospectuses. AUD Australian dollar RMB Chinese renminbi
Environmental, Social and Governance integration and sustainable EUR Euro SGD Singapore dollar
investing See ESG Integration, Sustainable Investing Approaches and GBP British pound sterling USD United States dollar
EU SFDR Article 8 and 9 Pre-Contractual Annexes for details of how
environmental, social and governance information is integrated into the
investment decision making process and how Sub-Funds with sustainable
investing objectives go beyond such integration. Please also refer to
Sustainability risk as described in Risk Descriptions.
Techniques Securities
Hedging Equities
POLICIES
Main investment exposure At least 67% of assets invested in equities of
companies anywhere in the world. Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its use of
the techniques and securities above
At least 51% of assets are invested in companies with positive environmental
Currency Market
and/or social characteristics that follow good governance practices as
measured through the Investment Manager’s proprietary ESG scoring
methodology and/or third party data. Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets excluding Ancillary Liquid Loss Shareholders could Volatility Shares of the Failure to meet the
lose some or all of their Sub-Fund will fluctuate Sub-Fund’s objective.
Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments, money
money. in value.
market funds and derivatives for EPM, in Sustainable Investments, as
defined under SFDR, contributing to environmental or social objectives.
The Investment Manager evaluates and applies values and norms based
screening to implement exclusions. To support this screening, it relies
on third party provider(s) who identify an issuer’s participation in or the
revenue which they derive from activities that are inconsistent with the
values and norms based screens. The list of screens applied that may
result in exclusions can be found on the Management Company’s Website
(www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu).
The Sub-Fund systematically includes ESG analysis in its investment
decisions on at least 90% of securities purchased.
POLICIES
Other associated risks Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is
Main investment exposure At least 67% of assets invested in equities
exposed to from its use of the techniques and securities above
of companies that are domiciled, or carrying out the main part of their
Market
economic activity, in the US.
At least 51% of assets are invested in companies with positive environmental
and/or social characteristics that follow good governance practices as Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
measured through the Investment Manager’s proprietary ESG scoring Loss Shareholders could Volatility Shares of the Failure to meet the
methodology and/or third party data. lose some or all of their Sub-Fund will fluctuate in value. Sub-Fund’s objective.
money.
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets excluding Ancillary Liquid
Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments, money
market funds and derivatives for EPM, in Sustainable Investments, as
defined under SFDR, contributing to environmental or social objectives.
The Investment Manager evaluates and applies values and norms based
screening to implement exclusions. To support this screening, it relies
on third party provider(s) who identify an issuer’s participation in or the
revenue which they derive from activities that are inconsistent with the
values and norms based screens. The list of screens applied that may
result in exclusions can be found on the Management Company’s Website
(www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu).
The Sub-Fund systematically includes ESG analysis in its investment
decisions on at least 90% of securities purchased.
OBJECTIVE The Sub-Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in equity linked notes.
To provide regular income by investing primarily in a portfolio of income Dividends are not guaranteed given that returns to investors will vary from
generating securities with positive E/S characteristics globally and through year to year depending on dividends paid and capital returns, which could
the use of derivatives. be negative.
Securities with positive E/S characteristics from issuers are those The Sub-Fund invests at least 25% of assets excluding Ancillary Liquid
that the Investment Manager believes show effective governance and Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments, money
superior management of environmental and/or social issues (sustainable market funds and derivatives for EPM, in Sustainable Investments, as
characteristics). defined under SFDR, contributing to environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Fund will typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG
INVESTMENT PROCESS score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-Fund’s investable
Investment approach universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash
holdings and currencies. The Sub-Fund’s average asset-weighted MSCI ESG
■ Multi-asset approach, leveraging specialists from around JPMorgan Asset
score will be calculated as the total of each security’s market value by its
Management’s global investment platform, with a focus on risk-adjusted
MSCI ESG score. The average MSCI ESG score of the investable universe
income.
will be calculated using the ESG scores of relevant asset class and region
■ Flexible implementation of the managers’ allocation views at asset class indices, weighted to reflect the asset class and region exposure in the Sub-
and regional level. Fund.
■ Seeks to provide the majority of its returns through securities with The average asset-weighted ESG score will not include those securities
positive E/S characteristics by incorporating ESG factors, exclusions and held by the Sub-Fund that do not have an MSCI ESG score, such as certain
positioning the portfolio positively towards companies and issuers with MBS/ABS securities. For those securities without an MSCI ESG score, the
above average ESG scores. majority will have positive E/S characteristics or demonstrate improving E/S
characteristics as determined by the Investment Manager.
ESG approach Positive Tilt The Investment Manager evaluates and applies values and norms based
Benchmark 40% Bloomberg US High Yield 2% Issuer Cap Index (Total Return screening to implement exclusions. To support this screening, it relies
Gross) Hedged to EUR/35% MSCI World Index (Total Return Net) Hedged on third party provider(s) who identify an issuer’s participation in or the
to EUR/25% Bloomberg Global Credit Index (Total Return Gross) Hedged to revenue which they derive from activities that are inconsistent with the
EUR For currency hedged Share Classes, the benchmark indices are hedged values and norms based screens. The list of screens applied that may
to the Share Class currency. result in exclusions can be found on the Management Company’s Website
(www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu). All issuers must follow good
Benchmark uses and resemblance
governance practices.
■ Performance comparison.
The Sub-Fund systematically includes ESG criteria in investment analysis
■ Basis for relative VaR calculations. and investment decisions on at least 90% of securities purchased (excluding
The Sub-Fund is actively managed. Though the majority of its holdings cash).
(excluding derivatives) are likely to be components of the benchmark, the
Other investment exposures Up to 3% in contingent convertible bonds.
Investment Manager has broad discretion to deviate from its securities,
Catastrophe bonds to a limited extent.
weightings and risk characteristics.
Up to 20% of net assets in Ancillary Liquid Assets and up to 20% of assets
The degree to which the Sub-Fund may resemble the composition and risk in Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments and money
characteristics of the benchmark will vary over time and its performance market funds for managing cash subscriptions and redemptions as well as
may be meaningfully different. current and exceptional payments. Up to 100% of net assets in Ancillary
Liquid Assets for defensive purposes on a temporary basis, if justified by
POLICIES exceptionally unfavourable market conditions.
Main investment exposure Primarily invests in income generating Derivatives Used for: investment purposes; hedging; efficient portfolio
securities with positive E/S characteristics comprised of debt securities management. Types: see Sub-Fund Derivative Usage table under
(including MBS/ABS), equities and real estate investment trusts (REITs) How the Sub-Funds Use Derivatives, Instruments and Techniques in
from issuers anywhere in the world, including emerging markets. The the Luxembourg Prospectus. TRS including CFD: none. Global exposure
Sub-Fund may have significant exposure to below investment grade and calculation method: relative VaR. Expected level of leverage from
unrated securities but will not invest in distressed debt securities (at the derivatives: 150% indicative only. Leverage may significantly exceed this
time of purchase). The Sub-Fund is expected to invest between 0% and 25% level from time to time.
of its assets in MBS/ABS of any credit quality. MBS which may be agency
Currencies Sub-Fund Base Currency: EUR. Currencies of asset
(issued by quasi US government agencies) and non-agency (issued by
denomination: any. Hedging approach: flexible.
private institutions) refers to debt securities that are backed by mortgages,
including residential and commercial mortgages, and ABS refers to those
that are backed by other types of assets such as credit card debt, car loans,
consumer loans and equipment leases. The Sub-Fund may invest in China
Investor Considerations
Investor profile Investors who understand One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
the risks of the Sub-Fund, including the risk of (maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
capital loss, and; Operating and Administrative
■ seek income through a portfolio of income Base Initial Switch Redemption Annual Management and Expenses
generating securities with positive E/S Class Charge Charge Charge Advisory Fee (Max)
characteristics and derivatives; Currently
A 5.00% 1.00% 0% (max 1.25% 0.20%
■ understand the portfolio may have significant 0.50%)
exposure to higher risk assets (such as high
yield, emerging market debt and ABS/MBS) See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information.
and are willing to accept those risks in search
of potential higher returns;
■ seek an investment that embeds ESG
principles;
■ are looking to use it as part of an investment
portfolio and not as a complete investment
plan.
Hedging method for currency hedged Share
Classes NAV hedge.
Dividend rate for (div) and (mth) Share
Classes The Management Company may reduce
the dividend rate for a Share Class in response
to prevailing market conditions impacting that
Share Class.
Dealing Requests received before 17:00 SGT on
any Singapore Dealing Day will be processed
that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 22 Feb 2021
Asset Allocation
The Sub-Fund will typically invest a minimum of 67% of its assets in securities exhibiting positive environmental or social characteristics.
Ancillary Liquid Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments/funds (for managing cash subscriptions and redemptions as well as
current and exceptional payments) and derivatives for EPM are not included in the % of assets set out in the table below. These holdings fluctuate depending
on investment flows and are ancillary to the investment policy with minimal or no impact on investment operations.
Other environmental
#1A Sustainable
25.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
67.00%
#1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
42.00%
#2 Other
33.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted
by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
– The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
– The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
Sustainable Fund Risk The Sub-Fund applies binding criteria when selecting securities which includes investing a defined percentage of portfolio positions
in securities exhibiting positive environmental or social characteristics. The Sub-Fund also excludes certain sectors, companies, issuers, or practices based on
specific values or norms.
Systematically including ESG in investment analysis and as binding on investment decisions may adversely affect the Sub-Fund’s performance compared to
similar funds that do not apply such criteria. The Sub-Fund’s portfolio may also be concentrated in ESG related securities and its value may become more
volatile than that of an investment fund invested in a more diversified portfolio. In addition, the exclusionary policy, if implemented, may result in the Sub-
Fund foregoing compelling investment opportunities or potentially selling securities based on their ESG criteria at disadvantageous times. Evolving laws,
regulations and industry norms may impact on the sustainability of many companies or issuers, particularly in respect of environmental and social factors.
Any changes to such measures could have a negative impact on the relevant companies or issuers which could preclude them as eligible investments for the
Sub-Fund despite being commercially appealing.
There is a lack of standardised taxonomy in ESG evaluation methodologies and the way in which different funds that use ESG criteria will apply such
criteria may vary. ESG assessment on a company or issuer may require subjective judgements, which may include consideration of third party data that is
subjective, incomplete or inaccurate that may affect the Investment Manager’s ability to measure and assess the environment and social impact of a potential
investment and may cause the Sub-Fund to have exposure to companies or issuers which do not meet the relevant criteria. There can be no guarantee that
the Investment Manager will correctly assess the ESG impact on the Sub-Fund’s investments.
ESG approach ESG Integrated The table below explains how these risks relate to each other and the
Outcomes to the Shareholder that could affect an investment in the
Benchmark ICE BofA ESTR Overnight Rate Index Total Return in EUR. For Sub-Fund.
currency hedged Share Classes, the benchmark is hedged to the Share Class
currency. Investors should also read Risk Descriptions for a full description of each
risk.
Benchmark uses and resemblance
Investment Risks Risks from the Sub-Fund’s techniques and securities
■ Performance comparison.
The Sub-Fund is actively managed without reference or constraints relative Techniques Securities
Concentration China – Government debt
to its benchmark. Derivatives Commodities - Unrated debt
Hedging Convertible securities Emerging markets
Short positions Debt securities Equities
POLICIES - Below investment grade debt
Main investment exposure Primarily invests, either directly or through - Investment grade debt
derivatives, in equities, commodity index instruments, convertible securities,
debt securities and currencies. Issuers of these securities may be located in Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its use of
any country, including emerging markets. the techniques and securities above
The Sub-Fund may also invest in below investment grade and unrated debt Credit Interest rate Market
securities. Currency Liquidity
The Sub-Fund may invest up to 10% of its assets in onshore PRC securities
including China A-Shares through the China-Hong Kong Stock Connect Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Programmes and onshore debt securities issued within the PRC through Loss Shareholders could Volatility Shares of the Failure to meet the
China-Hong Kong Bond Connect. lose some or all of their Sub-Fund will fluctuate Sub-Fund’s objective.
money. in value.
Allocations may vary significantly and the Sub-Fund may be concentrated
in, or have net long or net short exposure to, certain markets, sectors or
currencies from time to time.
Up to 100% of assets in Deposits with Credit Institutions and money market
instruments and up to 10% of assets in money market funds for investment
purposes, defensive purposes and for managing cash subscriptions and
redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments.
Other investment exposures Up to 20% of net assets in Ancillary Liquid
Assets for managing cash subscriptions and redemptions as well as
current and exceptional payments. Up to 100% of net assets in Ancillary
Liquid Assets for defensive purposes on a temporary basis, if justified by
exceptionally unfavourable market conditions.
Techniques Securities
POLICIES Hedging Convertible securities
Emerging markets
Main investment exposure At least 67% of assets invested in convertible Equities
securities from issuers anywhere in the world, including emerging markets.
The portfolio will be conservatively constructed to achieve a portfolio delta
of typically 10% to 50%. Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its use of
the techniques and securities above
This will typically result in a higher income yielding portfolio than sub-funds
Credit Interest rate Market
targeting a higher delta. Delta refers to the sensitivity of the price of a Currency Liquidity
convertible bond to the change in price of the underlying equities.
Convertible securities may include any suitable convertible or exchangeable Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
instruments such as convertible bonds, convertible notes or convertible
Loss Shareholders could Volatility Shares of the Failure to meet the
preference shares. lose some or all of their Sub-Fund will fluctuate Sub-Fund’s objective.
money. in value.
At least 51% of assets are invested in issuers with positive environmental
and/or social characteristics that follow good governance practices as
measured through the Investment Manager’s proprietary ESG scoring
methodology and/or third party data.
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets excluding Ancillary Liquid
Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments, money
market funds and derivatives for EPM, in Sustainable Investments, as
defined under SFDR, contributing to environmental or social objectives.
The Investment Manager evaluates and applies values and norms based
screening to implement exclusions. To support this screening, it relies
on third party provider(s) who identify an issuer’s participation in or the
revenue which they derive from activities that are inconsistent with the
values and norms based screens. The list of screens applied that may
result in exclusions can be found on the Management Company’s Website
(www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu).
POLICIES Investment Risks Risks from the Sub-Fund’s techniques and securities
Main investment exposure The majority of assets invested in a broad Techniques Securities
range of government and corporate debt securities from issuers anywhere Derivatives Catastrophe bonds Emerging markets
in the world, including emerging markets. Hedging Contingent convertible bonds Equities
Debt securities MBS/ABS
The Sub-Fund is expected to invest between 10% and 30% of its assets in – Government debt REITs
mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and/or asset-backed securities (ABS) – Investment grade debt UCITS, UCIs & ETFs
– Below investment grade debt
of any credit quality, however, due to the unconstrained investment
– Unrated debt
approach, the actual investment level may vary. MBS which may be agency – Distressed debt
(issued by quasi US government agencies) and non-agency (issued by
private institutions) refers to debt securities that are backed by mortgages,
including residential and commercial mortgages, and ABS refers to those Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its use of
the techniques and securities above
that are backed by other types of assets such as credit card debt, car loans,
consumer loans and equipment leases. Credit Interest rate Market
Currency Liquidity
The Sub-Fund may also invest in other assets such as convertible securities,
equities, ETFs and REITs. To a limited extent, the Sub-Fund may invest in
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
distressed debt securities and securities in default.
Loss Shareholders could Volatility Shares of the Failure to meet the
There are no credit quality restrictions applicable to the investments. lose some or all of their Sub-Fund will fluctuate Sub-Fund’s objective.
money. in value.
Up to 100% of assets in Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market
instruments and money market funds for investment and defensive
purposes.
^As at the date of this Singapore Prospectus, this Share Class was not yet incepted therefore a performance track record is not available.
^As at the date this Singapore Prospectus, this Share Class was not yet incepted therefore a performance track record is not available.
A (acc) – SGD – – – – –
–^
Benchmark – – – – –
^As at the date this Singapore Prospectus, this Share Class was not yet incepted therefore a performance track record is not available.
^As at the date of this Singapore Prospectus, this Share Class was not yet incepted therefore a performance track record is not available.
Note 1: On 24 Aug 2021, the ‘Bloomberg Barclays Indices’ were rebranded to ‘Bloomberg’.
* The Sub-Fund and Share Class was incepted on 23 October 1998. However, on 30 Nov 2012, the internal investment process and team was changed with no impact
on the Sub-Fund’s investment policy and objective. As such, the performance of the Share Class since inception is provided since 30 Nov 2012 instead of the actual
inception date of the Share Class. For completeness, the performance of the Share Class since the actual inception date of the Share Class (23 October 1998) is also
separately included.
Note 1: Prior to 1 July 2021, the benchmark was ICE 1 Month EUR LIBOR. The benchmark was changed as the ICE 1 Month EUR LIBOR was discontinued. Prior to 1 May
2005, the benchmark of the Sub-Fund was 10% MSCI Japan (Total Return Net)/38% MSCI Europe (Total Return Net)/23% MSCI USA (Total Return Net)/4% MSCI
Emerging Markets (Total Return Gross)/25% J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index Global (Total Return Gross) Hedged to EUR. Prior to 1 Jan 1999, the benchmark of the
Sub-Fund was 10% MSCI Japan (Total Return Net)/38% MSCI Europe (Total Return Net)/23% MSCI USA (Total Return Net)/4% MSCI Emerging Markets (Total Return
Gross)/25% J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index Global (Total Return Gross).
Note 1: The methodology of the index was changed on 1 July 2014 to seek to establish an IOSCO compliant governance model for the purposes of enhanced
benchmarking of fund performance.
Note 2: On 24 February 2020, the “Thomson Reuters Convertible Indices” were rebranded to “Refinitiv Convertible Indices”. Prior to 1 September 2005, the benchmark
of the Sub-Fund was Thomson Reuters Global Convertible Bond Index (Total Return Gross) Hedged to USD. The benchmark was changed for the purposes of enhanced
benchmarking of fund performance.
^As at the date of this Singapore Prospectus, this Share Class was not yet incepted therefore a performance track record is not available.
Note 1: On 1 January 2020, “ICE BofAML Indices’” were rebranded to “ICE BofA Indices’. Prior to that, ‘BofAML Indices’ were rebranded to ‘ICE BofAML Indices’ with
effect from 22 October 2017.
Note 2: Prior to 4 January 2010, the benchmark of the Sub-Fund was BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield BB-B Rated Constrained Total Return Gross Index. The
benchmark was changed during the life of the Sub-Fund to better reflect the investible universe of the Sub-Fund.
A (perf) (acc) – SGD (hedged) 17 Dec 2013 -0.7 0.2 0.3 – 0.9
Benchmark 3.1 1.2 1.2 – 0.8
A (perf) (acc) – USD 14 Oct 2008 -0.2 0.3 0.6 1.1 2.5
Benchmark 3.9 1.4 1.6 1.0 0.8
Note 1: Prior to 29 April 2014, the benchmark of the SGD Hedged Share Class was the Singapore Interbank Overnight Rate. The benchmark was changed with effect
from 29 April 2014 as the MAS had announced that it will discontinue the calculation and publication of the Singapore Interbank Overnight Rate.
Note 2: Prior to 31 January 2014, the benchmark of the USD Share Class was known as BBA Overnight USD LIBOR. With effect from 3 January 2022, the benchmark of
the USD Share Class changed to ICE BofA SOFR Overnight Rate Index Total Return in USD as the ICE Overnight USD LIBOR is due to be discontinued.
TURNOVER RATIO
The turnover ratio of the Sub-Fund is based on the Sub-Fund’s audited accounts as at 31 December 2022. It is calculated based on the lesser of purchases or
sales of underlying investments of a scheme expressed as a percentage of daily average NAV.
JPMorgan Investment Funds – Global Dividend Fund 76.15 JPMorgan Investment Funds – Global Income
61.50
Sustainable Fund
A (mth) – SGD 1.80
A (irc) – SGD (hedged) –
A (mth) – SGD (hedged) –
A (irc) – USD (hedged) –
A (mth) – USD 1.80
A (mth) – SGD (hedged) 1.45
JPMorgan Investment Funds – Global Select Equity
82.78
Fund A (mth) – USD (hedged) 1.45
A (acc) – SGD 1.80 JPMorgan Investment Funds – Global Macro
180.77
Opportunities Fund
A (acc) – SGD (hedged) –
A (acc) – AUD (hedged) 1.45
A (acc) – USD 1.80
A (acc) – EUR 1.45
JPMorgan Investment Funds – US Select Equity Fund 66.91
A (acc) – SGD (hedged) 1.45
A (acc) – SGD –
A (acc) – USD (hedged) 1.45
A (acc) – USD 1.80
JPMorgan Investment Funds – Global Convertibles
JPMorgan Investment Funds – Global Income Fund 52.79 31.50
Conservative Fund
A (acc) – SGD (hedged) 1.45
A (acc) – SGD (hedged) 1.40
A (acc) – USD (hedged) 1.45
A (acc) – USD 1.40
A (div) – EUR 1.45
JPMorgan Investment Funds – Global High Yield Bond
A (div) – SGD 1.45 85.11
Fund
A (div) – SGD (hedged) 1.45 A (acc) – USD 1.15
A (div) – USD (hedged) 1.45 A (irc) – AUD (hedged) 1.15
A (icdiv) – SGD (hedged) 1.45 A (mth) – SGD 1.15
A (icdiv) – USD (hedged) 1.45 A (mth) – SGD (hedged) –
A (irc) – AUD (hedged) 1.45 A (mth) – USD 1.15
A (irc) – SGD (hedged) 1.45 JPMorgan Investment Funds – Income Opportunity
6.92
A (irc) – USD (hedged) 1.45 Fund
A (mth) – EUR 1.45 A (perf) (acc) – SGD (hedged) 1.20 (excl. perf. fee)
A (mth) – GBP (hedged) 1.45 A (perf) (acc) – USD 1.20 (excl. perf. fee)
A (mth) – SGD (hedged) 1.45 A (perf) (acc) – SGD (hedged) 1.20 (incl. perf. fee)
A (mth) – USD (hedged) 1.45 A (perf) (acc) – USD 1.20 (incl. perf. fee)
Value at Risk (VaR) VaR seeks to estimate the maximum potential loss a Sub-Fund could experience in a month (20 trading days)
under normal market conditions. The estimate is based on the previous 12 months (at least 250 business days)
of the Sub-Fund’s performance, and is measured at a 99% confidence level. VaR is calculated in accordance
with these parameters using an absolute or relative approach as defined below.
Absolute Value at Risk (Absolute VaR)
The Absolute VaR limits the maximum VaR that a Sub-Fund can have relative to its NAV. The Absolute VaR of a
Sub-Fund cannot exceed 20% of its NAV (20% being the limit as set out in the UCITS Directive).
Relative Value at Risk (Relative VaR)
The relative VaR of the Sub-Fund is expressed as a multiple of a benchmark or reference portfolio and cannot
exceed twice the VaR of the relevant benchmark or reference portfolio. The reference portfolio may be
different from the benchmark as stated in Sub-Fund Descriptions. The Management Company employs a risk
management process in defining the comparable benchmark or reference portfolio.
Commitment The Sub-Fund calculates its global exposure by taking into account either the market value of an equivalent
position in the underlying asset or the derivative’s notional value, as appropriate. This approach allows
the Sub-Fund to reduce its global exposure by taking into account the effects of any hedging or offsetting
positions. Note that with the commitment approach, certain types of risk-free transactions, leverage-free
transactions and non-leveraged swaps can be excluded from the calculation.
Leverage Any Sub-Fund that uses the Absolute or Relative VaR approach must also calculate its expected level of leverage, which is stated in Sub-Fund
Descriptions. A Sub-Fund’s expected level of leverage is an indicative level not a regulatory limit and the actual level may exceed the expected level from
time to time. However, a Sub-Fund’s use of derivatives will remain consistent with its investment objective and policies and risk profile and will comply with
its VaR limit.
Leverage is a measure of total exposure of all derivatives and is calculated as the “sum of the notionals” without any netting of opposing positions. As
the leverage calculation considers neither sensitivity to market movements nor whether it increases or decreases the overall Sub-Fund risk, it may not be
representative of the actual investment risk level within a Sub-Fund.
The Fund will ensure that the risk management and compliance procedures are adequate and have been or will be implemented, and that it has the
necessary expertise to manage the risk relating to the use of derivatives.
Further information about the Fund’s risk management process (including quantitative limits, how those limits are derived and recent levels of risks and
yields for various instruments) is available upon request from the Singapore Representative.
ESG Integration ESG Integration is the systematic inclusion of ESG issues in investment analysis and investment decisions, with the goals of managing risk
and improving long-term returns. ESG Integration for a Sub-Fund requires:
■ sufficient ESG information on the Sub-Funds’ investment universe to be available, and
■ the Investment Manager to consider proprietary research on the financial materiality of ESG issues on the Sub-Fund’s investments,
and
■ the Investment Manager’s research views and methodology to be documented throughout the investment process.
ESG Integration also requires appropriate monitoring of ESG considerations in ongoing risk management and portfolio monitoring.
While the Investment Manager includes financially material ESG factors, alongside other relevant factors, in the portfolio construction
process, ESG determinations may not be conclusive and securities of individual companies/issuers may be purchased, retained and sold
without limit, by the Investment Manager regardless of potential ESG impact. The impact of ESG Integration on a Sub-Fund’s performance
is not specifically measurable as investment decisions are discretionary regardless of ESG considerations.
The Sub-Fund Descriptions indicate that a Sub-Fund is integrated by including “ESG Integrated” in the Investment Process section in
Sub-Fund Descriptions, and unless otherwise described in its Objective or Investment Process, ESG integration does not change its
objective, exclude specific types of companies / issuers or constrain its investable universe. ESG Integrated Sub-Funds are not designed
for investors who are looking for Sub-Funds that meet specific ESG goals or wish to screen out particular types of companies or
investments, other than those required by Luxembourg law such as companies involved in the manufacture, production or supply of
cluster munitions.
The investments underlying the Sub-Funds which fall in this category do not take into account the EU Taxonomy criteria for
environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Sub-Fund Categories
Definition Promotes Environmental An investment style in An investment style that An investment style with
and/or social which the portfolio will be focuses on companies/ a thematic focus on a UN
characteristics. tilted towards companies/ issuers that lead their Sustainable Development
issuers with positive ESG peer groups in respect of Goal or other specific ESG
characteristics. sustainability performance. theme.
Criteria A defined percentage of Has an objective with a Has an objective to invest Has an objective to deliver
the portfolio is invested measurable tilt towards a defined percentage a sustainability related
in positive ESG issuers/ companies/issuers with of portfolio positions in theme with intentional
companies as disclosed positive ESG characteristics “sustainable” companies/ environmental/ social
in the relevant Sub-Fund as disclosed in the relevant issuers as disclosed in outcome.
Descriptions. Sub-Fund Descriptions. the relevant Sub-Fund Ensures portfolio positions
Descriptions. are issued by thematically
selected issuers as
disclosed in the relevant
Sub-Fund Descriptions.
SFDR ESG Promote, Positive Tilt, Best-in-Class and Thematic Sub-Funds promote their environmental and/or social
“sustainable characteristics. Certain of these Sub-Funds invest in “Sustainable Investments” and the committed minimum in
investments” Sustainable Investments is disclosed in the relevant Sub-Fund’s details under “Sub-Fund Descriptions”. Please refer
and EU to “MiFID Sustainability Preferences Approach” on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information on the
Taxonomy qualifying methodology for Sustainable Investments.
criteria for
environmentally Unless otherwise disclosed in the Sub-Fund Description, the investments underlying a Sub-Fund do not take into
sustainable account the criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities including enabling or transitional activities,
economic within the meaning of the Taxonomy Regulation and the Sub-Funds will only hold such investments on an incidental
activities basis.
Exclusions and Excludes certain sectors, companies/issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria. Exclusion
SFDR website standards can be found on https://am.jpmorgan.com/lu/en/asset-management/adv/products/fund-explorer/sicavs
disclosures Additional Information applicable to Article 8 Sub-Funds such as a description of the environmental/social characteristics and
methodologies used to asses such characteristics can be found on https://am.jpmorgan.com/lu/en/asset-management/adv/.
Sub-Funds JPMorgan Investment JPMorgan Investment Funds No Sub-Funds as at the No Sub-Funds as at the
Funds - Global Convertibles – Global Income Sustainable date of this Singapore date of this Singapore
Conservative Fund Fund Prospectus Prospectus.
JPMorgan Investment Funds
– Global Dividend Fund
JPMorgan Investment Funds
– Global Select Equity Fund
JPMorgan Investment Funds
– Global Income Fund
JPMorgan Investment Funds
– US Select Equity Fund
Base Share
Class Eligible investors Initial investment Additional investment Holding amount Additional features
A All investors AUD 1,000 AUD 500 AUD 1,000 None
EUR 1,000 EUR 500 EUR 1,000
GBP 1,000 GBP 500 GBP 1,000
SGD 1,000 SGD 500 SGD 1,000
USD 1,000 USD 500 USD 1,000
1 JPM All Share Classes begin with this prefix. Consult your Singapore distributor to find out whether the dividend
2 Sub-Fund designation All Share Classes include the designation of the policies described here are available to you, and have the same features as
relevant Sub-Fund. For example, a Share Class of the JPMorgan Investment described.
Funds - Global Income Fund will be denoted “JPM Global Income A (acc) Dividends will normally be declared at least annually and the NAV of
- EUR”. the relevant Share Class reduced by the amount distributed. Additional
3 Base Share Class One of the Base Share Classes shown in the table dividends can be declared as determined by the Board. No Share Class will
above. make a dividend payment if the assets of the Fund are below the minimum
capital requirement, or if paying the dividend would cause that situation to
4 (perf) If present, indicates that the Share Class has a performance fee.
occur.
For additional information on the performance fee, see Performance Fee
- Description. In the case of (dist) Share Classes, dividends will automatically be reinvested
in the same Share Class unless you have requested in writing to the
5 Dividend policy
Singapore Representative that dividends be paid to you. When dividends
No dividends paid are reinvested, new Shares will be issued on the payment date at the NAV
(acc) This Share Class does not pay dividends. Earned income is retained in of the relevant Share Class. In the case of (div), (irc) and (mth) Shares, you
the NAV. cannot request reinvestment and dividends will automatically be paid to
Dividends paid you. In any case, all distributions of USD 250 or less, or the equivalent in
another currency, will normally be automatically reinvested in the same
All other types of Share Class can pay dividends. Dividends may vary and
Sub-Fund without notice. Dividends are paid in the Share Class Currency, to
are not guaranteed.
the bank account details on file for your account.
Risk of distribution from capital Where a Share Class distributes more net Certain Sub-Funds may also invest in currency derivatives, with the
income than it has earned, the dividend will be paid out of the excess of aim of generating returns at the portfolio level. This is indicated in
realised and unrealised capital gains over realised and unrealised losses, or the Sub-Fund’s investment policy and only occurs where the Currency
even capital, resulting in erosion of the capital invested. Dividend payments hedged Share Class uses NAV hedge. Accordingly, whilst the hedging
resulting in capital erosion will reduce the potential for long-term capital seeks to minimise the effect of exchange rate fluctuations between the
growth. This may also be tax-inefficient in certain countries. The risk is Base Currency of the Sub-Fund and the Share Class Currency of the
particularly higher for investors in (icdiv) share class(es) given its higher currency hedged Share Class, there may be currency risk in the portfolio.
distribution rate relative to other share classes.
Spill-over risk relating to hedged Share Classes As there is no legal
Risk of currency hedged Share Classes The currency hedging used to segregation of assets and liabilities between different Share Classes in
minimise the effect of exchange rate fluctuations will not be perfect. You may
the same Sub-Fund, there is a risk that, under certain circumstances,
have exposure to currencies other than the Share Class Currency and are
also exposed to the risks associated with the instruments used in the hedging hedging transactions relating to currency hedged Share Classes could
process. have an adverse impact on other Share Classes in the same Sub-Fund.
Over-hedged or under-hedged positions may arise unintentionally due to Although spill-over risk will be mitigated, it cannot be fully eliminated,
factors outside the control of the Management Company, however, over- as there may be circumstances where it is not possible or practical to
hedged positions will not exceed 105% of the NAV of the currency hedged do so. For example, where the Sub-Fund needs to sell securities to fulfil
Share Class and under-hedged positions will not fall below 95% of the financial obligations specifically related to a currency hedged Share
NAV of the currency hedged Share Class. The hedged positions will be kept Classes which may adversely affect the NAV of the other Share Classes in
under review to ensure that under-hedged positions do not fall below the the Sub-Fund. For a list of Share Classes with a potential spill-over risk,
level set out above and are not carried forward from month to month and
that over-hedged positions materially in excess of 100% will not be carried please contact the Singapore Representative.
forward from month to month.
Nominee Information
Shares subscribed through the Singapore Representative or Hong Kong Investment via these nominee arrangements is subject to the following
Affiliate will be registered in the name of the Nominee, currently JPMorgan risk factors:
Investor Services (Asia) Limited, on behalf of the Singapore Shareholders. (a) The legislative framework in some markets is only beginning to
The Nominee is a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the develop the concept of legal/formal ownership and of beneficial
British Virgin Islands. The registered address of the Nominee is PO Box 438, ownership or interest in securities. As such, the courts in such
Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The Nominee has been appointed markets may consider that any nominee or custodian as registered
holder of securities would have full ownership thereof and that a
by the Hong Kong Affiliate in accordance with the terms and conditions of a
beneficial owner may have no rights whatsoever in respect thereof.
nominee agreement entered into between the Nominee and the Hong Kong
(b) If you are investing via a Singapore distributor under nominee
Affiliate to hold Shares in the Nominee’s name and to deal with any dividends
arrangements, you do not have any direct contractual relationship
or other entitlements in respect of those Shares. with the Singapore Representative, Hong Kong Affiliate, the
Singapore Shareholders who wish to hold Shares directly in their own name Management Company or its affiliates. Although you are the
may not currently deal (i.e. subscribe, redeem or switch Shares) through beneficial owner of the Shares, legally the Shares are owned by
the Singapore or Hong Kong Affiliate and should contact the Management the Nominee. In these circumstances, you do not have any direct
contractual relationship with the Singapore or Hong Kong Affiliate,
Company in Luxembourg directly. The procedures for dealing through the and therefore will not have direct recourse on them as you can
Management Company may differ from those described in this Singapore only pursue claims through the Nominee. You should contact your
Prospectus. relevant Singapore distributor to find out details of the applicable
nominee arrangement.
(c) The Nominee may not necessarily be registered with the MAS.
As such, the MAS has limited powers to take action against the
Nominee.
ONE-OFF CHARGES TAKEN BEFORE OR AFTER INVESTING the difference may be charged to the investing Sub-Fund. If the underlying
affiliate undertaking combines management and other fees and charges into
These are deducted from your investment, switch amount or redemption
a single total expense ratio, such as in exchange traded funds, the whole
proceeds and are paid to the Management Company, including any rounding
total expense ratio will be waived. Where a Sub-Fund invests in
adjustments.
undertakings not affiliated with JPMorgan Chase & Co. the fee shown in
A Initial charge Charged on subscriptions for Shares; calculated as a Sub-Fund Descriptions. may be charged regardless of any fees reflected in
percentage of the amount being invested; may be waived in whole or in part the price of the shares or units of the underlying undertaking.
at the discretion of the Management Company.
The Management Company can vary this fee, at any time and for intervals
B Switch charge Charged on switches from one Share Class to another as short as a single day, to any amount between zero and the stated
Share Class; calculated as a percentage of the NAV of the Shares in the new maximum.
Share Class; may be waived in whole or in part at the discretion of the
Payments to Distributors and Intermediaries and Other Investors
Management Company.
The Management Company may, from time to time and at its sole discretion,
C Redemption charge Calculated as a percentage of the NAV of Shares
pay all or part of the fees and charges it receives as a commission,
being redeemed, and deducted from those proceeds prior to payment; may
retrocession, rebate or discount to some or all investors, financial
be waived in whole or in part at the discretion of the Management
intermediaries or Distributors on the basis of (but not limited to) the size,
Company.
nature, timing or commitment of their investment.
FEES AND EXPENSES TAKEN FROM THE SHARE CLASS OVER A Fees paid to asset management affiliates and intermediaries may range
from 30% to 72% of Annual Management and Advisory Fee (trailer fees)
YEAR (ANNUAL FEES)
based on distribution agreements in respect of distribution of the Fund
These fees and expenses are deducted from the Share Class NAV, and are globally, including but not exclusively for Singapore. Correspondingly, the
the same for all Shareholders of a given Share Class. With the exception Management Company will retain 28% to 70% of the Annual Management
of the direct and indirect fund expenses described below, the fees and and Advisory Fee. These ranges may change from time to time without prior
expenses are paid to the Management Company. The amount charged notice. Your distributor is required to disclose to you the amount of trailer
varies depending on the value of the NAV and does not include portfolio fee it receives from the Management Company.
transaction costs. Fees and expenses borne by the Fund may be subject to
E Distribution fee There is no distribution fee applied to Share Classes in
VAT and other applicable taxes.
this Singapore Prospectus. Therefore no distribution fee is displayed in each
Most of the ongoing business expenses of the Fund are covered by these Sub-Fund Description in this Singapore Prospectus.
fees and expenses. Details of the fees and expenses paid can be found in
F Operating and administrative expenses This fee is capped for each
the Shareholder Reports.
Share Class and will not exceed the amount stated in Sub-Fund Descriptions.
These fees and expenses are calculated for each Share Class of each Sub- The Management Company will bear any operating and administrative
Fund, as a percentage of average daily net assets being accrued daily and expenses that exceed the maximum rate specified.
paid monthly in arrears.
Where a Sub-Fund invests primarily in UCITS and other UCIs managed
Each Sub-Fund and each Share Class pays all costs it directly incurs and also any affiliate of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and where specifically stated for a
pays its pro rata share of costs not attributable to a specific Sub-Fund or Sub- Fund in Sub-Fund Descriptions, double-charging of operating and
Share Class based on its total net assets. Transaction costs associated with administrative expenses will be avoided by a rebate to the Sub-Fund of
operating the currency hedged Share Classes will be borne by the relevant the operating and administrative expenses (or equivalent) charged to the
Share Class. underlying UCITS or other UCIs. Where a Sub-Fund invests in undertakings
D Annual Management and advisory fee The annual management and not affiliated with JPMorgan Chase & Co. the fee shown in Sub-Fund
advisory fee (the “AMAF”) remunerates the Management Company for its Descriptions may be charged regardless of any fees reflected in the price of
services relating to the management of the Sub-Funds’ assets. When a the shares or units of the underlying undertaking.
Sub-Fund invests in any UCITS, UCI or closed-end investment undertaking The components of the operating and administrative expenses are:
qualifying as transferable securities within the meaning of UCITS rules
Fund servicing fee Paid to the Management Company for various services it
(including investment trusts) managed by any affiliate of JPMorgan Chase &
provides to the Fund, excluding the management of the Sub-Funds’ assets.
Co., double-charging of management fees will either be avoided or rebated.
The fund servicing fee is reviewed annually by the Board and will not exceed
However, if the underlying investment charges a higher management fee,
0.15% per year.
Buying, Switching, Redeeming and Cut-off times Unless otherwise stated in Sub-Fund Descriptions, buying,
Transferring Shares redeeming or switching requests received before 17:00 SGT on a Singapore
The information in this section is for use by nominees and Singapore Dealing Day will be processed based on the NAV per Share calculated on
Distributors appointed by the Singapore Representative, Hong Kong Affiliate that Singapore Dealing Day. Those received and accepted after that time
, the Management Company or its affiliates. If you are investing through a will be processed based on the NAV per Share calculated on the next
Singapore Distributor, you can use this information as well, but in general it Singapore Dealing Day. No processing date, time or instructions contrary to
is recommended that you place all dealing requests through your Singapore the terms in this Singapore Prospectus will be acted upon. A contract note
Distributor unless there is reason not to. will normally be sent within two Singapore Dealing Days after the relevant
To the extent that the Management Company may delegate to a Singapore Singapore Dealing Day in which the request is processed. You should note
Distributor certain rights and powers related to dealing transactions, that that the date on which you receive the contract note will depend on when
Singapore Distributor may act in the place of the Management Company, your Singapore distributor actually sends the contract note to you.
for example in determining the adequacy and authenticity of investor Pricing Basis The Fund uses a Forward Pricing model; thus the Share
documentation (and requiring additional documentation), handling Personal price at which any deal is processed cannot be known at the time a dealing
Information and determining how and when to apply various provisions of request is placed.
the prospectus. A Singapore Distributor may also apply their own cut- Currencies The Fund normally accepts and makes payments in the Share
off times, fees, currency conversion policies, and other procedures and Class Currency. Payments can also be accepted and made in major freely
requirements. convertible currencies. These will involve currency conversion, which is
arranged through a third-party provider and will include all applicable costs.
INFORMATION THAT APPLIES TO ALL DEALS EXCEPT Currency conversion rates can vary, sometimes significantly, over the course
TRANSFERS of a trading day and over longer periods as well. Different rates may apply
to different deals, depending on market prices and on the size of the deal.
Available Share Classes Share Classes that have been registered for
public offer in Singapore are listed under Available Share Classes. The Currency conversion could delay the receipt of a Shareholder’s redemption
availability of the Share Classes to you in Singapore is dependent on what proceeds. Each Singapore Distributor has their own policy with regards to
may be offered by a Singapore Distributor and may vary between Singapore the payment terms of the Shares and how the Shares are to be paid for with
Distributors. All information in this Singapore Prospectus about Share Class whom you are advised to check.
availability is as at the date of this Singapore Prospectus. Charges and costs You are responsible for all charges associated with their
Placing requests As a Singapore Shareholder you can place requests purchases, switches and redemptions of Shares, as described in Sub-Fund
to buy, switch or redeem Shares at any time by submitting the relevant Descriptions.
completed application form together with all other relevant documents You are also responsible for paying any bank fees, taxes, and any other fees
to any Singapore Distributor, and such Singapore Distributor will in turn or costs incurred by you in connection with dealing requests.
forward your request to the Singapore Representative, Hong Kong Affiliate Settlement Unless indicated otherwise in Sub-Fund Descriptions, the
or the Management Company on your behalf (for purposes of buying contractual settlement date for subscriptions, redemptions and switches will
Shares, no “cooling-off” or cancellation period will be applicable). normally be three Singapore Dealing Days after the deal has been placed
When placing any dealing request, Shareholders must include all necessary (the “Settlement Date”). For deals placed through certain agents approved
identifying information and instructions as to the Sub-Fund, Share Class, by the Management Company, such as the Singapore Representative or
account, size and type of deal (buying, redeeming or switching) and Hong Kong Affiliate, this may be increased to five Singapore Dealing Days.
settlement currency. You can indicate the request either as a Share amount If banks or interbank settlement systems in the country of the settlement
(including fractional Shares up to three decimal places) or a currency currency or the Share Class Currency are closed or not operational on
amount. All requests will be dealt with in the order in which they are the settlement date, settlement will be delayed until they are open and
received. Shares will be issued or redeemed on a Forward Pricing basis at a operating.
price equal to the NAV per Share of the relevant Share Class on a Singapore Any day that is not a Singapore Dealing Day for the relevant Sub-Fund and
Dealing Day. that falls within the settlement period will be excluded when determining
Any requests that are incomplete or unclear will typically be delayed or the settlement date.
rejected. Neither the Fund, the Management Company, the Singapore In all cases, the contractual settlement dates are confirmed on the relevant
Representative or Hong Kong Affiliate nor Singapore Distributor will be contract note.
responsible for any losses or missed opportunities arising from unclear
BUYING SHARES Also see Information That Applies to All Deals Except
requests.
Transfers above
Once you have placed a request, it cannot normally be withdrawn. If written
To make an initial investment, you should submit the relevant completed
request for a withdrawal is received before 17:00 SGT on a Singapore
application form together with all other relevant documents to any
Dealing Day, it will usually be honoured but there is no obligation to do
Singapore Distributor.
so. If the written notice arrives during a time when trading in Shares is
suspended, the request will be withdrawn. If you are subscribing through the Management Company, please refer
to Investing in the Sub-Funds in the Luxembourg Prospectus for more
information.
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS ■ in the case of a suspension of the calculation of the net asset value of
one or several underlying investment funds in which a Sub-Fund has
Voting rights Each Share gets one vote in all matters brought before invested a substantial portion of assets;
a general meeting of Shareholders and of any meeting of its Sub-Fund.
Fractional Shares are issued to one one-thousandth of a Share (three ■ in the case of a merger, if the Board deems this to be justified for the
decimal places). Fractional Shares do not have voting rights. protection of the Shareholders;
■ any other circumstance exists where a failure to do so might result
in the Fund or its Shareholders incurring any liability to taxation or
Fund Rights Related to Shares suffering other pecuniary disadvantages or other detriment that the
The Fund and the Management Company, at their sole discretion, reserve Fund or its Shareholders might not otherwise have suffered.
the right to do any of the following at any time:
A suspension will apply to all types of deals in Shares (except transfers) and
Rights related to Shares and dealing requests will apply at the Sub-Fund or Share Class level as applicable.
■ Accept a request to switch Shares into Share Classes that are In connection with suspensions the Fund will refuse to accept requests to
identical except for having lower fees when a Singapore Shareholder’s buy, switch or redeem Shares during the time the Board has suspended
holding meets the investment minimum for the class with the lower fees. the calculation of NAV. During this time Shareholders may withdraw their
■ Delay or reject any request to buy Shares – in part or in full, for an request. Any requests that are not withdrawn will be dealt on the next
initial or additional investment - for any reason. In particular, this applies Singapore Dealing Day once the suspension is over.
to requests from anyone who is a US Person. Requests to purchase Shareholders will be informed of any suspension or deferral as appropriate.
Shares reserved for Eligible Counterparties, Additional Investors or
Limit how many Shares are redeemed for a Sub-Fund on any Valuation
Institutional Investors may be delayed until the Management Company
Day. On any Valuation Day, the Management Company will not be obliged
are satisfied that the investor qualifies as such. Neither the Fund nor the
to process redemption and switch out requests in their entirety, when the
Management Company will be held liable for any gain or loss associated
total net outflow from a Sub-Fund exceeds 10% of the total net assets of the
with a delayed or rejected request.
relevant Sub-Fund. The Management Company may decide that redemption
■ Offer different cut-off times to certain investors, such as those and switch out requests in excess of 10% shall be deferred to the next
in different time zones, so long as the cut-off time is always before Valuation Day. All redemption and switch out requests whose processing is
the time the applicable NAV is calculated and the underlying client delayed by this, either partially or in full, will be processed in the order of
instruction was received by the Distributor prior to the Sub-Fund cut-off the Valuation Day on which they were accepted for redemption, subject to
time. any suspensions of dealing requests or further imposition of the 10% daily
limit.
Calculation of Share Prices ■ Money market instruments and liquid assets. Generally valued at
nominal value plus accrued interest or amortised cost. Where practice
allows, all other assets can be valued in the same manner.
TIMING AND FORMULA
■ Derivatives that are not listed on any official stock exchange or
The NAV for each Share Class of each Sub-Fund is calculated every day that
are traded over the counter. Valued independently in a reliable and
is a Valuation Day for that Sub-Fund unless specified otherwise in Sub-Fund
verifiable manner on a daily basis, consistent with market practice.
Descriptions. Each NAV is stated in the respective Share Class Currency, and
is calculated to two decimal places. The NAV for each Share Class of each ■ Shares or units of UCITS or UCIs. Valued at the most recent NAV
Sub-Fund is calculated using this formula: reported by the UCITS/UCI.
(assets – liabilities) any swing pricing ■ Assets or liabilities in currencies other than Base Currency. Valued at
+/- = NAV the applicable spot rate (applies to currencies held as assets and when
adjustment
number of outstanding Shares translating values of securities denominated in other currencies into the
Appropriate provisions will be made to account for the costs, charges and Base Currency of the Sub-Fund).
fees attributable to each Sub-Fund and class as well as accrued income on ■ Swaps. Valued at their fair value based on the underlying securities (at
investments. the close of business or intraday) as well as on the characteristics of the
underlying commitments.
SWING PRICING ■ Non-listed securities, listed securities or any other assets for which
To protect the interests of Shareholders, a Sub-Fund’s NAV may be adjusted (i) no price quotation is available or (ii) the price determined
to compensate for dilutions that can arise in connection with large flows of according to the above methods is not representative of fair market
cash into or out of a Sub-Fund. value. Valued in good faith at a prudent estimate of their expected
These adjustments are normally applied on any Valuation Day when the sales price.
total volume of trading in a Sub-Fund’s Shares (meaning both purchases Any asset or liability not attributable to a particular Sub-Fund will be
and redemptions) exceeds a certain threshold. The adjustments will seek allocated pro-rata to the NAV of each Sub-Fund. All liabilities attributable to
to reflect the anticipated prices at which the Sub-Fund will be buying and a particular Sub-Fund are binding solely on that Sub-Fund.
selling assets, as well as estimated transaction costs. The NAV will be
adjusted upward when there are large cash inflows into the Sub-Fund and Fund Rights Related to NAV Calculation and
downward when there are large outflows. In normal market conditions, the Dealing Arrangements
adjustment for any given Valuation Day will not be larger than 2% of what ■ Calculate a NAV more often than once a day, whether temporarily or
the NAV would otherwise be. In exceptional market conditions, however, permanently. Examples of circumstances that might lead to additional
this maximum level may be increased up to 5% to protect the interests of NAV calculations include where the Management Company considers
Shareholders. The price adjustment applicable to a specific Sub-Fund is that there had been a material change to the market value of the
available on request from the Management Company at its registered office. investments in one or more Sub-Funds, or where there is an in-specie
The Management Company makes, and periodically reviews, the operational subscription and the Management Company believes it is in the interests
decisions about swing pricing, including the thresholds that trigger it, the of the Shareholders to value such a subscription separately or where
extent of the adjustment in each case, and which Sub-Funds will and will not an additional NAV calculation (which may be to more than 2 decimals)
be subject to swing pricing at any given time. regarding a Sub-Fund merger will allow for a more precise calculation
of the conversion ratio in the best interest of Shareholders in both
Swing pricing is normally applied to a merging Sub-Fund to minimise the the merging and receiving Sub-Funds. If the Management Company
impact of the incoming asset flows on the receiving Sub-Fund. decides to alter the frequency of the NAV calculation permanently,
Note that the Management Company can decide not to apply swing pricing this Singapore Prospectus will be amended and Shareholders informed
to purchases when it is trying to attract assets so that a Sub-Fund can reach accordingly.
a certain size. In this case, the Management Company will pay the dealing ■ Alter dealing arrangements, whether temporarily or permanently. If
costs and other costs from its own assets in order to prevent dilution the Management Company decides to alter the dealing arrangements
of Shareholder value. Note that in this circumstance, investors placing permanently, this Singapore Prospectus will be amended and
redemption requests will not receive the price for their Shares that they Shareholders informed accordingly.
would have if swing pricing were being applied. For a list of Sub-Funds to
■ Apply alternative valuation methods. When it believes the interests of
which the Management Company has decided not to apply the swing pricing
Shareholders or the Fund justify it, the Management Company can apply
adjustment, please contact the Singapore Representative.
valuation methods other than those described above, such as:
– drawing upon other available pricing sources
Valuation of Assets
In general, the Management Company determines the value of each Sub- – valuing securities at either their bid or offer Prices, given the
Fund’s assets, as of each NAV calculation, as follows: prevailing market conditions and/or the level of subscriptions or
redemptions relative to the size of the relevant Sub-Fund
■ Cash on hand or on deposit, bills and demand notes and accounts
– adjusting the NAV for dealing charges incurred by a Sub-Fund, up
receivable, prepaid expenses, cash dividends and interest declared
to 1% of the total net assets of the Sub-Fund at the time, and only
or accrued but not yet received. Valued at full value, minus any
if there is no swing pricing in effect on the same Share Class at the
appropriate discount the Management Company applies based on its
time
assessments of any circumstances that make full payment unlikely.
– fair value methods.
■ Transferable securities and derivatives that are quoted or dealt in
on any stock exchange or traded in any other regulated market. The Management Company will only use alternative valuation methods when
Generally valued at the most recent quoted price. Where these assets it believes such a step is warranted in light of unusual market volatility or
trade on more than one market, the Management Company can choose other circumstances. Any fair value adjustments will be applied consistently
to use the prices of the primary market. to all Share Classes within a Sub-Fund.
Notices and Publications “Other notices from the Board” include notices of Singapore Prospectus
The following table shows which most recent official materials are typically changes, the merger or liquidation of Sub-Funds or Share Classes,
made available through which channels: suspension of trading in Shares, and all other items for which a notice
Singapore is required. Notices will be sent to Shareholders where required by
Information/document Sent Online Representative Luxembourg law or CSSF regulation or practice, or by Singapore law or MAS
regulation or practice. Singapore investors are advised to consult with their
Singapore Prospectus • • Singapore Distributor about all issues related to suspensions of trading in
Product Highlights Sheet • • Shares.
NAVs (Share prices of selected Statements and contract notes are sent to you by your Singapore
Share(s) of a Sub-Fund) • • Distributor. Other items are sent when issued. An audited annual report is
Shareholder Reports issued within four months of the end of each Financial Year. An unaudited
(also called financial reports) • • semi-annual report is issued within two months of the end of the period it
Shareholder meeting notices • • • covers.
Other notices from the Board • • • The Singapore Representative does not accept any responsibility for any
Notices from the Management late or inaccurate publication of share prices aside from those it directly
Company • • • publishes itself. Share prices are usually available on the following
Articles • Singapore Dealing Day after each relevant Singapore Dealing Day.
Management Company name JPMorgan Asset Management (Europe) S.à r.l. ■ maintain strong governance around remunerations practices
Sherene Ban A JPMorgan Asset Management employee since 2004, in charge of fund
Managing Director, administration oversight, Philippe is a Conducting Officer of the Luxembourg
JPMorgan Asset Management (Singapore) Limited Management company and responsible for the UK and Luxembourg Funds
88 Market Street, 30th Floor, CapitaSpring Control teams.
Singapore, SG, 048948, Singapore He is currently responsible for vendor oversight of all delegated third party
Sherene is the Chief Executive Officer for Singapore and South East Asia administration functions, tax oversight, dividend distribution, and service
for JPMorgan Asset Management (Singapore) Limited. In this role, she is delivery management of the fund vendor panel for both the JPMorgan Asset
responsible for overseeing all aspects of the firm’s asset management Management UK and Luxembourg fund ranges.
business in the region. Previously, she held a number of roles in the firm Philippe began his career with Arthur Andersen in 1997 (subsequently
such as heading the Investment Specialist team for Beta Strategies Group merged into Ernst & Young) where he audited funds and banks until 2004,
and co-heading the Investment Specialist team for the Emerging Markets where he joined JPMorgan Asset Management.
and Asia Pacific Equities Group. Sherene is a trustee director of the Philippe holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance and a
JPMorgan U.K. Retirement Plan and she sits on the Investment Committee. master’s degree in Audit and Control Cost from the Ecole Supérieure de
In addition, Sherene is on the board of JPMorgan Asset Management Gestion in France. He also holds a B.A. in Business Management from the
(Europe) S.à r.l. and is on the Executive Committee of the Investment University of Warwick in the UK.
Management Association of Singapore (IMAS).
Beate Gross
Prior to joining the Firm in 2005, Sherene worked as a portfolio manager
See biographical details above.
for Asia Pacific Equities at the Government of Singapore Investment
Corporation (GIC). She then transferred to London with the GIC to become a
portfolio manager for European Equities.
Domicile United States of America 19th Floor, Chater House, 8 Connaught Road
Central Hong Kong
Years of experience managing collective investment schemes or
discretionary funds 38. The Hong Kong Affiliate serves investors in Hong Kong, and is also an
authorised distributor of the Fund in Asia.
JPMorgan Asset Management (Asia Pacific) Limited (formerly known as
JF Asset Management Limited) SINGAPORE REPRESENTATIVE AND AGENT FOR SERVICE OF PROCESS
19th Floor, Chater House IN SINGAPORE
8 Connaught Road Central Hong Kong JPMorgan Asset Management (Singapore) Limited (the “Singapore
Representative”)
Regulatory authority Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong
(SFC). 30th Floor, CapitaSpring
88 Market Street, Singapore 048948
Domicile Hong Kong
The Singapore Representative provides and maintains certain administrative
Years of experience managing collective investment schemes or
and other facilities relating to the offer of Shares in Singapore. This
discretionary funds 48.
includes, for example, maintaining for inspection in Singapore a subsidiary
The Investment Managers are responsible for day-to-day management register of Shareholders who subscribed for or purchased their Shares in
of the Sub-Funds’ portfolios in accordance with the stated investment Singapore (or any other facility that enables the inspection or extraction of
objectives and policies. The Investment Manager may, from time to time, the equivalent information), which is open for public inspection at the above
sub-delegate part or all of the investment management function to one or address during the Singapore Representative’s usual business hours. The
more affiliates of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Singapore Representative is also an authorised distributor of the Fund in
Insolvency of the Investment Managers Asia.
The Investment Managers are subject to the local insolvency regimes of
their respective jurisdictions which include withdrawal of licenses granted
in case of bankruptcy/liquidation. The agreement entered into between
Sherene Ban
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Contents
Using This Prospectus 3 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Europe Strategic Dividend
Sub-Fund Descriptions 4 Fund 85
Equity Sub-Funds JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Core Equity Fund 92
Europe Select Equity Fund 5 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Dividend Fund 99
Europe Strategic Dividend Fund 7 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Select Equity Fund 106
Global Core Equity Fund 9 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Japan Sustainable Equity Fund 113
Global Dividend Fund 11 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Japan Strategic Value Fund 120
Global Select Equity Fund 13 JPMorgan Investment Funds - US Select Equity Fund 127
Japan Sustainable Equity Fund 15 Balanced and Mixed Asset Sub-Funds
Japan Strategic Value Fund 17 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Balanced Fund 134
US Select Equity Fund 19 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Income Fund 141
Balanced and Mixed Asset Sub-Funds JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Income
Global Balanced Fund 21 Conservative Fund 148
Global Income Fund 23 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Income Sustainable
Global Income Conservative Fund 25 Fund 155
Global Income Sustainable Fund 27 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Macro Sustainable
Global Macro Fund 29 Fund 162
Global Macro Opportunities Fund 31 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Multi-Asset
Global Macro Sustainable Fund 33 Cautious Sustainable Fund 169
Global Multi-Asset Cautious Sustainable Fund 35 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Multi-Asset
Global Multi-Asset Moderate Sustainable Fund 37 Moderate Sustainable Fund 176
Global Multi-Asset Growth Sustainable Fund 39 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Multi-Asset Growth
Sustainable Fund 183
Convertibles Sub-Funds
Global Convertibles Conservative Fund 41 Convertibles Sub-Funds
JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Convertibles
Bond Sub-Funds
Conservative Fund 190
Global Corporate Bond Sustainable Fund 43
Global Short Duration Corporate Bond Sustainable Fund 45 Bond Sub-Funds
Global High Yield Bond Fund 47 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Corporate Bond
Income Opportunity Fund 49 Sustainable Fund 197
Unconstrained Bond Fund 51 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Short Duration
US Bond Fund 53 Corporate Bond Sustainable Fund 204
JPMorgan Investment Funds - Unconstrained Bond Fund 211
Risk Descriptions 55
JPMorgan Investment Funds - US Bond Fund 218
Investment Restrictions and Powers 62
Share Classes and Costs 224
ESG Integration, Sustainable Investing Approaches and
Investing in the Sub-Funds 233
EU SFDR Article 8 Pre-Contractual Annexes 74
Fund Business Operations 246
EU SFDR Article 8 Pre-Contractual Annexes 77
Glossaries 250
Equity Sub-Funds
JPMorgan Investment Funds - Europe Select Equity Fund 78
Q Seeks to identify companies with sustainably high dividends and/or Derivatives Used for: efficient portfolio management; hedging. Types:
sustainable dividend growth potential. see Sub-Fund Derivatives Usage table under How the Sub-Funds Use
Derivatives, Instruments and Techniques. TRS including CFD: none.
ESG approach ESG Promote Global exposure calculation method: commitment.
Benchmark MSCI All Country World Index (Total Return Net). For Techniques and instruments Securities lending: 0% to 20% expected;
currency hedged Share Classes, the benchmark is hedged to the Share 20% maximum.
Class currency.
Currencies Sub-Fund Base Currency: USD. Currencies of asset
Benchmark uses and resemblance denomination: any. Hedging approach: typically managed to the
Q Performance comparison. currency weights of the benchmark.
The Sub-Fund is actively managed. Though the majority of its holdings
(excluding derivatives) are likely to be components of the benchmark, MAIN RISKS
the Investment Manager has broad discretion to deviate from its The Sub-Fund is subject to Investment risks and Other associated
securities, weightings and risk characteristics. risks from the techniques and securities it uses to seek to achieve its
The degree to which the Sub-Fund may resemble the composition and objective.
risk characteristics of the benchmark will vary over time and its The table below explains how these risks relate to each other and the
performance may be meaningfully different. Outcomes to the Shareholder that could affect an investment in the
Sub-Fund.
POLICIES Investors should also read Risk Descriptions for a full description of
each risk.
Main investment exposure At least 67% of assets invested in equities
of companies anywhere in the world, including emerging markets that
generate high and rising income. The Sub-Fund may be concentrated in Investment Risks Risks from the Sub-Fund's techniques and securities
a limited number of companies and, in search of income, may have Techniques Securities
significant positions in specific sectors or countries from time to time. Concentration Emerging markets
At least 51% of assets are invested in companies with positive Hedging Equities
environmental and/or social characteristics that follow good governance
practices as measured through the Investment Manager's proprietary S
ESG scoring methodology and/or third party data. Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets excluding Ancillary Liquid use of the techniques and securities above
Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments, Currency Liquidity Market
money market funds and derivatives for EPM, in Sustainable
Investments, as defined under SFDR, contributing to environmental or S
social objectives.
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
The Investment Manager evaluates and applies values and norms based
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
screening to implement exclusions. To support this screening, it relies
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
on third party provider(s) who identify an issuer’s participation in or the of their money. fluctuate in value.
revenue which they derive from activities that are inconsistent with the
Dealing Requests received before See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 28 Nov 2007.
The Investment Manager evaluates and applies values and norms based S
screening to implement exclusions. To support this screening, it relies
on third party provider(s) who identify an issuer’s participation in or the Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
revenue which they derive from activities that are inconsistent with the Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
values and norms based screens. The list of screens applied that may could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Q Seeks to identify high quality companies with superior and Derivatives Used for: efficient portfolio management. Types: see Sub-
sustainable growth potential. Fund Derivatives Usage table under How the Sub-Funds Use
Derivatives, Instruments and Techniques. TRS including CFD: none.
Q Integrates ESG aspects to identify companies with strong or
Global exposure calculation method: commitment.
improving sustainability characteristics.
Currencies Sub-Fund Base Currency: JPY. Currencies of asset
ESG approach Best-in-Class
denomination: any. Hedging approach: typically unhedged.
Benchmark TOPIX (Total Return Net). For currency hedged Share
Classes, the benchmark is hedged to the Share Class currency. MAIN RISKS
Benchmark uses and resemblance The Sub-Fund is subject to Investment risks and Other associated
risks from the techniques and securities it uses to seek to achieve its
Q Performance comparison. objective.
The Sub-Fund is actively managed. Though the majority of its holdings The table below explains how these risks relate to each other and the
(excluding derivatives) are likely to be components of the benchmark, Outcomes to the Shareholder that could affect an investment in the
the Investment Manager has broad discretion to deviate from its Sub-Fund.
securities, weightings and risk characteristics. The degree to which the
Investors should also read Risk Descriptions for a full description of
Sub-Fund may resemble the composition and risk characteristics of the
each risk.
benchmark will vary over time and its performance may be
meaningfully different.
Investment Risks Risks from the Sub-Fund's techniques and securities
POLICIES Techniques Securities
Main investment exposure At least 67% of assets invested in equities Concentration Equities
of companies with positive E/S characteristics or companies that Hedging Smaller companies
demonstrate improving E/S characteristics and that are domiciled, or
S
carrying out the main part of their economic activity, in Japan. The
remainder of assets may be invested in equities of companies Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
considered less sustainable than those described above. use of the techniques and securities above
Companies with positive E/S characteristics and companies that Currency Market Liquidity
demonstrate improving E/S characteristics are selected through the use
of proprietary research and third party data. Fundamental analysis is S
used to better understand sustainability risks and opportunities that Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
may impact a company. This analysis is also an important driver behind Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
active company engagement when seeking to positively influence could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
business practices to improve sustainability. of their money. fluctuate in value.
The Sub-Fund invests at least 40% of assets excluding Ancillary Liquid
Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments,
Hedging method for currency hedged See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information.
Share Classes NAV hedge.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 12 Nov 1993.
Benchmark TOPIX (Total Return Net). For currency hedged Share Techniques and instruments Securities lending: 0% to 20% expected;
Classes, the benchmark is hedged to the Share Class currency. 20% maximum.
Currencies Sub-Fund Base Currency: JPY. Currencies of asset
Benchmark uses and resemblance
denomination: any. Hedging approach: typically unhedged.
Q Performance comparison.
The Sub-Fund is actively managed. Though the majority of its holdings MAIN RISKS
(excluding derivatives) are likely to be components of the benchmark, The Sub-Fund is subject to Investment risks and Other associated
the Investment Manager has broad discretion to deviate from its risks from the techniques and securities it uses to seek to achieve its
securities, weightings and risk characteristics. objective.
The degree to which the Sub-Fund may resemble the composition and The table below explains how these risks relate to each other and the
risk characteristics of the benchmark will vary over time and its Outcomes to the Shareholder that could affect an investment in the
performance may be meaningfully different. Sub-Fund.
Investors should also read Risk Descriptions for a full description of
POLICIES
each risk.
Main investment exposure At least 67% of assets invested in a value
style biased portfolio of equities of companies that are domiciled, or Investment Risks Risks from the Sub-Fund's techniques and securities
carrying out the main part of their economic activity, in Japan. The Sub- Techniques Securities
Fund may invest in small capitalisation companies.
Concentration Equities
At least 51% of assets are invested in companies with positive Hedging Smaller companies
environmental and/or social characteristics that follow good governance Style bias
practices as measured through the Investment Manager's proprietary
ESG scoring methodology and/or third party data. S
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets excluding Ancillary Liquid Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
Assets, deposits with credit institutions, money market instruments, use of the techniques and securities above
money market funds and derivatives for EPM, in Sustainable
Currency Liquidity Market
Investments, as defined under SFDR, contributing to environmental or
social objectives. S
The Investment Manager evaluates and applies values and norms based
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
screening to implement exclusions. To support this screening, it relies
on third party provider(s) who identify an issuer’s participation in or the Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
revenue which they derive from activities that are inconsistent with the could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
values and norms based screens. The list of screens applied that may of their money. fluctuate in value.
result in exclusions can be found on the Management Company’s
Website (www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu).
Hedging method for currency hedged See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information.
Share Classes NAV hedge.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 30 Nov 2007.
Main investment exposure At least 67% of assets invested, either Investment Risks Risks from the Sub-Fund's techniques and securities
directly or through derivatives, in equities and debt securities issued or
Techniques Securities
guaranteed by governments or agencies, globally, including emerging
markets. The Sub-Fund may invest in below investment grade and Derivatives Debt securities Emerging markets
Hedging – Below investment Equities
unrated debt securities; however, debt securities will typically have an
Short positions grade debt
average credit quality of investment grade as measured by an – Government debt
independent rating agency such as Standard & Poor's. – Investment grade
The Sub-Fund will hold between 30% and 70% of assets in equities, debt
and between 30% and 70% of assets in debt securities. – Unrated debt
The Sub-Fund may use long and short positions across asset classes, S
countries, sectors and currencies.
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
At least 51% of assets are invested in issuers with positive
use of the techniques and securities above
environmental and/or social characteristics that follow good governance
practices as measured through the Investment Manager's proprietary Credit Interest rate Market
ESG scoring methodology and/or third party data. Currency Liquidity
Q Flexible implementation of the managers’ allocation views at asset Other investment exposures Up to 3% in contingent convertible
class and regional level. bonds.
Up to 20% of net assets in Ancillary Liquid Assets and up to 20% of
ESG approach ESG Promote
assets in Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments
Benchmark 40% Bloomberg US High Yield 2% Issuer Cap Index (Total and money market funds for managing cash subscriptions and
Return Gross) Hedged to EUR / 35% MSCI World Index (Total Return redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments. Up to 100%
Net) Hedged to EUR / 25% Bloomberg Global Credit Index (Total Return of net assets in Ancillary Liquid Assets for defensive purposes on a
Gross) Hedged to EUR. For currency hedged Share Classes, the temporary basis, if justified by exceptionally unfavourable market
benchmark indices are hedged to the Share Class currency. conditions.
Benchmark uses and resemblance Derivatives Used for: investment purposes; hedging; efficient portfolio
management. Types: see Sub-Fund Derivatives Usage table under How
Q Performance comparison.
the Sub-Funds Use Derivatives, Instruments and Techniques. TRS
Q Basis for relative VaR calculations. including CFD: none. Global exposure calculation method: relative VaR.
The Sub-Fund is actively managed. Though the majority of its holdings Expected level of leverage from derivatives: 150% indicative only.
(excluding derivatives) are likely to be components of the benchmark, Leverage may significantly exceed this level from time to time.
the Investment Manager has broad discretion to deviate from its
Techniques and instruments Securities lending: 0% to 20% expected;
securities, weightings and risk characteristics.
20% maximum.
The degree to which the Sub-Fund may resemble the composition and
risk characteristics of the benchmark will vary over time and its Currencies Sub-Fund Base Currency: EUR. Currencies of asset
performance may be meaningfully different. denomination: any. Hedging approach: flexible.
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Interest rate Market
Currency Liquidity
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investors who understand Annual Operating and
the risks of the Sub-Fund, including the risk Initial Switch Redemption Management and Distribution Administrative
of capital loss, and; Base Class Charge Charge CDSC* Charge Advisory Fee Fee Expenses (Max)
Q seek income through exposure to a A 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 1.25% – 0.20%
range of asset classes; C – 1.00% – – 0.60% – 0.15%
Q are looking to use it as part of an D 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 1.25% 0.35% 0.20%
investment portfolio and not as a F – 1.00% 3.00% – 1.25% 1.00% 0.20%
complete investment plan. I – 1.00% – – 0.60% – 0.11%
Hedging method for currency hedged I2 – 1.00% – – 0.50% – 0.11%
Share Classes NAV hedge. T – 1.00% 3.00% – 1.25% 0.35% 0.20%
V – 1.00% – – 0.60% – 0.11%
Dividend rate for (div) and (mth) Share
X – 1.00% – – – – 0.10%
Classes The Management Company may
reduce the dividend rate for a Share Class See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
in response to prevailing market conditions
impacting that Share Class.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 11 Dec 2008.
Benchmark 55% Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index (Total Return Other investment exposures Up to 3% in contingent convertible
Gross) Hedged to EUR / 30% Bloomberg US Corporate High Yield 2% bonds.
Issuer Capped Index (Total Return Gross) Hedged to EUR / 15% MSCI Up to 20% of net assets in Ancillary Liquid Assets and up to 20% of
World Index (Total Return Net) Hedged to EUR. For currency hedged assets in Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments
Share Classes, the benchmark indices are hedged to the Share Class and money market funds for managing cash subscriptions and
currency. redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments. Up to 100%
of net assets in Ancillary Liquid Assets for defensive purposes on a
Benchmark uses and resemblance temporary basis, if justified by exceptionally unfavourable market
Q Performance comparison. conditions.
Q Basis for relative VaR calculations. Derivatives Used for: investment purposes; hedging; efficient portfolio
The Sub-Fund is actively managed. Though the majority of its holdings management. Types: see Sub-Fund Derivatives Usage table under How
(excluding derivatives) are likely to be components of the benchmark, the Sub-Funds Use Derivatives, Instruments and Techniques. TRS
the Investment Manager has broad discretion to deviate from its including CFD: none. Global exposure calculation method: relative VaR.
securities, weightings and risk characteristics. Expected level of leverage from derivatives: 150% indicative only.
The degree to which the Sub-Fund may resemble the composition and Leverage may significantly exceed this level from time to time.
risk characteristics of the benchmark will vary over time and its Techniques and Instruments Securities lending: 0% to 20% expected;
performance may be meaningfully different. 20% maximum.
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Interest rate Market
Currency Liquidity
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investors who understand Annual Operating and
the risks of the Sub-Fund, including the risk Initial Switch Redemption Management and Distribution Administrative
of capital loss, and: Base Class Charge Charge CDSC* Charge Advisory Fee Fee Expenses (Max)
Q seek income through exposure to a A 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 1.25% – 0.20%
range of asset classes and volatility over C – 1.00% – – 0.60% – 0.15%
three to five years comparable to that D 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 1.25% 0.35% 0.20%
of the benchmark; I – 1.00% – – 0.60% – 0.11%
Q are looking to use it as part of an I2 – 1.00% – – 0.50% – 0.11%
investment portfolio and not as a S2 – 1.00% – – 0.30% – 0.11%
complete investment plan. T – 1.00% 3.00% – 1.25% 0.35% 0.20%
Hedging method for currency hedged V – 1.00% – – 0.60% – 0.11%
Share Classes NAV hedge. X – 1.00% – – – – 0.10%
Dividend rate for (div) and (mth) Share See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
Classes The Management Company may
reduce the dividend rate for a Share Class
in response to prevailing market conditions
impacting that Share Class.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 12 Oct 2016.
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Interest rate Market
Currency Liquidity
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investors who understand Annual Operating and
the risks of the Sub-Fund, including the risk Initial Switch Redemption Management and Distribution Administrative
of capital loss, and; Base Class Charge Charge CDSC* Charge Advisory Fee Fee Expenses (Max)
Q seek income through a portfolio of A 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 1.25% – 0.20%
income generating securities with C – 1.00% – – 0.60% – 0.15%
positive E/S characteristics, and D 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 1.25% 0.35% 0.20%
derivatives; F – 1.00% 3.00% – 1.25% 1.00% 0.20%
Q understand the portfolio may have I – 1.00% – – 0.60% – 0.11%
significant exposure to higher risk assets I2 – 1.00% – – 0.50% – 0.11%
(such as high yield, emerging market S2 – 1.00% – – 0.30% – 0.11%
debt and ABS/MBS) and are willing to T – 1.00% 3.00% – 1.25% 0.35% 0.20%
accept those risks in search of potential
X – 1.00% – – – – 0.10%
higher returns;
See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
Q seek an investment that embeds ESG
principles;
Q are looking to use it as part of an
investment portfolio and not as a
complete investment plan.
Hedging method for currency hedged
Share Classes NAV hedge.
Dividend rate for (div) and (mth) Share
Classes The Management Company may
reduce the dividend rate for a Share Class
in response to prevailing market conditions
impacting that Share Class.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 22 Feb 2021
Main investment exposure Primarily invests, either directly or through Derivatives China – Unrated debt
derivatives, in debt securities, equities, convertible securities and Concentration Convertible securities Emerging markets
currencies. Issuers of these securities may be located in any country, Hedging Debt securities Equities
Short positions – Below investment
including emerging markets. grade debt
The Sub-Fund may also invest in below investment grade and unrated – Investment grade
debt securities. The Sub-Fund may invest up to 10% of its assets in debt
onshore PRC securities including China A-Shares through the China- – Government debt
Hong Kong Stock Connect Programmes and onshore debt securities
S
issued within the PRC through China-Hong Kong Bond Connect.
Allocations may vary significantly and the Sub-Fund may be Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
concentrated in, or have net long or net short exposure to, certain use of the techniques and securities above
markets, sectors or currencies from time to time. Credit Currency Interest rate
Under exceptional market conditions the Sub-Fund may be unable to Liquidity Market
meet the volatility level stated in the investment objective and the S
realised volatility may be greater than intended.
Up to 100% of assets in Deposits with Credit Institutions and money Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
market instruments and up to 10% of assets in money market funds for Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
investment purposes, defensive purposes and for managing cash could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
subscriptions and redemptions as well as current and exceptional of their money. fluctuate in value.
payments.
Main investment exposure Primarily invests, either directly or through Concentration China – Government debt
derivatives, in equities, commodity index instruments, convertible Derivatives Commodities – Unrated debt
Hedging Convertible securities Emerging markets
securities, debt securities and currencies. Issuers of these securities
Short positions Debt securities Equities
may be located in any country, including emerging markets.
– Below investment
The Sub-Fund may also invest in below investment grade and unrated grade debt
debt securities. – Investment grade
debt
The Sub-Fund may invest up to 10% of its assets in onshore PRC
securities including China A-Shares through the China-Hong Kong Stock S
Connect Programmes and onshore debt securities issued within the PRC
through China-Hong Kong Bond Connect. Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Allocations may vary significantly and the Sub-Fund may be
concentrated in, or have net long or net short exposure to, certain Credit Interest rate Market
markets, sectors or currencies from time to time. Currency Liquidity
Dealing Requests received before See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 23 Oct 1998.
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Interest rate Market
Currency Liquidity
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investors who understand Annual Operating and
the risks of the Sub-Fund, including the risk Initial Switch Redemption Management and Distribution Administrative
of capital loss, and: Base Class Charge Charge CDSC* Charge Advisory Fee Fee Expenses (Max)
Q seek an investment return through A 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 1.25% – 0.20%
exposure to a range of asset classes; C – 1.00% – – 0.60% – 0.15%
Q seek an investment that embeds ESG D 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 1.25% 0.45% 0.20%
principles; I – 1.00% – – 0.60% – 0.11%
Q are looking to use it as part of an T – 1.00% 3.00% – 1.25% 0.45% 0.20%
investment portfolio and not as a X – 1.00% – – – – 0.10%
complete investment plan. See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
Hedging method for currency hedged
Share Classes NAV hedge.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 30 Aug 2019.
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Interest rate Market
Currency Liquidity
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investors who understand Annual Operating and
the risks of the Sub-Fund, including the risk Initial Switch Redemption Management and Distribution Administrative
of capital loss, and; Base Class Charge Charge CDSC* Charge Advisory Fee Fee Expenses (Max)
Q seek capital growth through a diversified D 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 0.75% 1.10% 0.20%
portfolio of securities positively I – 1.00% – – 0.38% – 0.11%
positioned to securities with positive or I2 – 1.00% – – 0.30% – 0.11%
improving environmental and/or social
See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
characteristics that follow good
governance practices;
Q seek an investment that embeds ESG
principles;
Q are looking to use it as part of an
investment portfolio and not as a
complete investment plan.
Hedging method for currency hedged
Share Classes NAV hedge.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 8 Dec 2021
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Interest rate Market
Currency Liquidity
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investors who understand Annual Operating and
the risks of the Sub-Fund, including the risk Initial Switch Redemption Management and Distribution Administrative
of capital loss, and; Base Class Charge Charge CDSC* Charge Advisory Fee Fee Expenses (Max)
Q seek capital growth through a diversified D 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 1.00% 1.10% 0.20%
portfolio of securities positively I – 1.00% – – 0.50% – 0.11%
positioned to securities with positive or I2 – 1.00% – – 0.40% – 0.11%
improving environmental and/or social
See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
characteristics that follow good
governance practices;
Q seek an investment that embeds ESG
principles;
Q are looking to use it as part of an
investment portfolio and not as a
complete investment plan.
Hedging method for currency hedged
Share Classes NAV hedge.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 8 Dec 2021
Benchmark 80% MSCI World Index EUR hedged Net and 20% Other investment exposures Up to 3% in contingent convertible
Bloomberg Global Aggregate Total Return Index EUR hedged . For bonds.
currency hedged Share Classes, the benchmark indices are hedged to Up to 20% of net assets in Ancillary Liquid Assets and up to 20% of
the Share Class currency. assets in Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments
and money market funds for managing cash subscriptions and
Benchmark uses and resemblance redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments. Up to 100%
Q Performance comparison. of net assets in Ancillary Liquid Assets for defensive purposes on a
Q Basis for relative VaR calculations. temporary basis, if justified by exceptionally unfavourable market
conditions.
The Sub-Fund is actively managed. Though the majority of its holdings
(excluding derivatives) are likely to be components of the benchmark, Derivatives Used for: investment purposes; hedging; efficient portfolio
the Investment Manager has broad discretion to deviate from its management. Types: see Sub-Fund Derivatives Usage table under How
securities, weightings and risk characteristics. The degree to which the the Sub-Funds Use Derivatives, Instruments and Techniques. TRS
Sub-Fund may resemble the composition and risk characteristics of the including CFD: 2% expected; 10% maximum. Global exposure calculation
benchmark will vary over time and its performance may be method: relative VaR. Expected level of leverage from derivatives: 200%
meaningfully different. indicative only. Leverage may significantly exceed this level from time
to time.
POLICIES Currencies Sub-Fund Base Currency: EUR. Currencies of asset
Main investment exposure Invested either directly or through denomination: any. Hedging approach: flexible.
derivatives in a growth portfolio of securities, across a combination of
asset classes, positively positioned to securities with positive or MAIN RISKS
improving environmental and/or social characteristics that follow good The Sub-Fund is subject to Investment risks and Other associated
governance practices. The Sub-Fund may invest in equities, debt risks from the techniques and securities it uses to seek to achieve its
securities and REITs from issuers anywhere in the world, including objective.
emerging markets. The Sub-may invest up to 100% in equities and up
The table below explains how these risks relate to each other and the
to 60% in debt securities.
Outcomes to the Shareholder that could affect an investment in the
The Sub-Fund invests at least 25% of assets excluding Ancillary Liquid Sub-Fund.
Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments,
Investors should also read Risk Descriptions for a full description of
money market funds and derivatives for EPM, in Sustainable
each risk.
Investments, as defined under SFDR, contributing to environmental or
social objectives.
The Sub-Fund may invest in China A-Shares via the China-Hong Kong
Connect Programmes. The Sub-Fund may invest up to 10% of its assets
in onshore debt securities issued within the PRC through China-Hong
Kong Bond Connect.
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Currency Interest rate
Liquidity Market
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investors who understand Annual Operating and
the risks of the Sub-Fund, including the risk Initial Switch Redemption Management and Distribution Administrative
of capital loss, and: Base Class Charge Charge CDSC* Charge Advisory Fee Fee Expenses (Max)
Q seek capital growth through a diversified D 5.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 1.25% 1.10% 0.20%
portfolio of securities positively I – 1.00% – – 0.63% – 0.11%
positioned to securities with positive or I2 – 1.00% – – 0.50% – 0.11%
improving environmental and/or social
See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
characteristics that follow good
governance practices;
Q seek an investment that embeds ESG
principles;
Q are looking to use it as part of an
investment portfolio and not as a
complete investment plan.
Hedging method for currency hedged
Share Classes NAV hedge.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date 8 Dec 2021
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Interest rate Currency
Market Liquidity
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investor profile Investors Annual Operating and
who understand the risks of the Sub-Fund, Initial Switch Redemption Management and Distribution Administrative
including the risk of capital loss, and: Base Class Charge Charge CDSC Charge Advisory Fee Fee Expenses (Max)
Q seek investment return through A 3.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 0.80% – 0.20%
exposure to corporate bond markets, C – 1.00% – – 0.40% – 0.15%
globally; D 3.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 0.80% 0.40% 0.20%
Q seek an investment that embeds ESG I – 1.00% – – 0.40% – 0.11%
principles; I2 – 1.00% – – 0.32% – 0.11%
Q are looking to use it as part of an S2 – 1.00% – – 0.20% – 0.11%
investment portfolio and not as a T – 1.00% 3.00% – 0.80% 0.40% 0.20%
complete investment plan. X – 1.00% – – – – 0.10%
Hedging method for currency hedged See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
Share Classes NAV hedge.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date Not launched.
Benchmark Bloomberg Global Aggregate Corporate Index (Total Return Other investment exposures Up to 20% of net assets in Ancillary
Gross) Hedged to USD. For currency hedged Share Classes, the Liquid Assets and up to 20% of assets in Deposits with Credit
benchmark index is hedged to the Share Class currency. Institutions, money market instruments and money market funds for
managing cash subscriptions and redemptions as well as current and
Benchmark uses and resemblance exceptional payments. Up to 100% of net assets in Ancillary Liquid
Q Performance comparison. Assets for defensive purposes on a temporary basis, if justified by
exceptionally unfavourable market conditions.
Q Basis for relative VaR calculations.
The Sub-Fund is actively managed. The majority of issuers in the Sub- Derivatives investment purposes; efficient portfolio management;
Fund are likely to be represented in the benchmark because the hedging. Types: see Sub-Fund Derivatives Usage table under How the
Investment Manager uses it as a basis for portfolio construction, but Sub-Funds Use Derivatives, Instruments and Techniques. TRS including
has some discretion to deviate from its composition and risk CFD: none. Global exposure calculation method: relative VaR. Expected
characteristics within indicative risk parameters and excludes securities level of leverage from derivatives: 75% indicative only. Leverage may
based on ESG criteria. significantly exceed this level from time to time.
The Sub-Fund will resemble the composition and risk characteristics of Currencies Sub-Fund Base Currency: USD. Currencies of asset
its benchmark; however, the Investment Manager’s discretion and denomination: any. Hedging approach: typically hedged to Base Currency.
exclusions based on ESG criteria may result in performance that differs
from the benchmark. MAIN RISKS
The Sub-Funds is subject to Investment risks and Other associated risks
POLICIES from the techniques and securities it uses to seek to achieve its
Main investment exposure Main investment exposure At least 67% of objective.
assets invested, either directly or through derivatives, in short duration The table below explains how these risks relate to each other and the
investment grade corporate debt securities from issuers anywhere in Outcomes to the Shareholder that could affect an investment in the
the world, including emerging markets with positive E/S characteristics Sub-Fund.
or that demonstrate improving E/S characteristics. The Sub-Fund may Investors should also read Risk Descriptions for a full description of
also invest in global debt securities issued by governments, including each risk.
local governments (up to 5%), but excluding supranationals and
agencies.
The weighted average duration of the portfolio will generally not exceed
three years and the remaining duration of each investment will
generally not exceed five years at the time of purchase. The maturity of
securities may be significantly longer than the periods stated above.
The Sub-Fund may invest up to 20% of assets in below investment
grade debt securities. The Sub-Fund may invest in unrated debt
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Interest rate Currency
Market Liquidity
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investor profile Investors Annual Operating and
who understand the risks of the Sub-Fund, Initial Switch Redemption Management and Distribution Administrative
including the risk of capital loss, and: Base Class Charge Charge CDSC Charge Advisory Fee Fee Expenses (Max)
Q seek investment return through A 3.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 0.70% – 0.20%
exposure to corporate bond markets, C – 1.00% – – 0.35% – 0.15%
globally; D 3.00% 1.00% – 0.50% 0.70% 0.40% 0.20%
Q seek an investment that embeds ESG I – 1.00% – – 0.35% – 0.11%
principles; I2 – 1.00% – – 0.28% – 0.11%
Q are looking to use it as part of an S2 – 1.00% – – 0.18% – 0.11%
investment portfolio and not as a T – 1.00% 3.00% – 0.70% 0.40% 0.20%
complete investment plan. X – 1.00% – – – – 0.10%
Hedging method for currency hedged See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information. *Reduces by 1.00% a year and is zero after 3 years.
Share Classes NAV hedge.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date Not launched.
POLICIES S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
Main investment exposure At least 67% of assets invested, either
use of the techniques and securities above
directly or through derivatives, in below investment grade corporate
debt securities from issuers anywhere in the world, including emerging Credit Currency Liquidity
markets. Interest rate Market
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Market Currency
Liquidity Interest rate
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of Failure to meet the
could lose some or all the Sub-Fund will Sub-Fund's objective.
of their money. fluctuate in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investors who understand Annual Operating and
the risks of the Sub-Fund, including the risk Initial Switch Redemption Management and Distribution Administrative Performance
of capital loss, and: Base Class Charge Charge Charge Advisory Fee Fee Expenses (Max) fee
Q seek a positive return over the medium D (perf) 3.00% 1.00% 0.50% 1.00% 1.00% 0.11% 10.00%
term through exposure to debt and W (perf) – 1.00% – 0.40% (max) – 0.11% 10.00%
currency markets, globally;
See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information.
Q understand the portfolio may have
significant exposure to higher risk assets
(such as high yield, emerging market
debt and MBS/ABS) and are willing to
accept those risks in search of potential
higher returns;
Q are looking to use it as part of an
investment portfolio and not as a
complete investment plan.
Performance fee Method: high water
mark. Cap: none. Reference period: whole
life of Fund
Hedging method for currency hedged
Share Classes NAV hedge.
Dealing Requests received before
14:30 CET on any Valuation Day will be
processed that day.
Sub-Fund launch date Not Launched.
S
Other associated risks Further risks the Sub-Fund is exposed to from its
use of the techniques and securities above
Credit Interest rate Market
Currency Liquidity
S
Outcomes to the Shareholder Potential impact of the risks above
Loss Shareholders Volatility Shares of the Failure to meet the
could lose some or Sub-Fund will fluctuate Sub-Fund's objective.
all of their money. in value.
Investor Considerations One-off charges taken before or after investing Fees and expenses taken from
(maximum) the Sub-Fund over a year
Investor profile Investors who understand Annual
the risks of the Sub-Fund, including the risk Management Operating and
of capital loss, and: Redemption and Advisory Administrative
Base Class Initial Charge Switch Charge Charge Fee Distribution Fee Expenses (Max)
Q seek a combination of income and long-
term capital growth through exposure to A 3.00% 1.00% 0.50% 0.90% – 0.20%
US bond markets; C – 1.00% – 0.45% – 0.15%
Q are looking to use it as part of an D 3.00% 1.00% 0.50% 0.90% 0.25% 0.20%
investment portfolio and not as a I – 1.00% – 0.45% – 0.11%
complete investment plan. I2 – 1.00% – 0.36% – 0.11%
X – 1.00% – – – 0.10%
Hedging method for currency hedged
Share Classes NAV hedge. See Share Classes and Costs for more complete information.
1. Transferable securities and money Must be listed or traded on a Regulated Market. Recently issued securities must include in their terms of issue a
market instruments commitment to apply for official listing on a Regulated Market
and such admission must be received within 12 months of issue.
2. Money market instruments that do Must be subject (at the securities or issuer level) to Can also qualify if the issuer belongs to a category approved by
not meet the requirements in row 1 regulation aimed at protecting investors and savings and the CSSF, is subject to investor protections that are equivalent
must meet one of the following: to those described directly at left, and meets one of the
q be issued or guaranteed by a central, regional or local following criteria:
authority, or a central bank of an EU Member State, q is issued by a company with at least EUR 10 million in
the European Central Bank, the European Investment capital and reserves that publishes annual accounts
Bank, the EU, a public international body to which at consistent with fourth Directive 78/660/EEC
least one EU Member State belongs, a sovereign q is issued by an entity dedicated to financing a group of
nation, or a member state of a federation companies at least one of which is publicly listed
q be issued by an undertaking of any securities that q is issued by an entity dedicated to financing securitisation
qualify under row 1 (with exception of recently issued vehicles that benefit from a banking liquidity line
securities)
q be issued or guaranteed by a credit institution which
has its registered office in a country which is an OECD
Member State or a FATF State.
5. Units of UCITS or other UCIs that Must meet all requirements in row 4. The underlying UCITS/UCI cannot charge a Sub-Fund any fees
are linked to the Fund* The Fund’s annual report must state the total annual for buying or redeeming shares.
management and advisory fees charged both to the Sub- Fund policy: there is no net annual management fee charged to
Fund and to the UCITS/other UCIs in which the Sub-Fund a Sub-Fund by any linked UCITS/UCIs.
has invested during the relevant period.
6. Shares of other Sub-Funds of the Must meet all requirements in row 5. The acquiring Sub-Fund surrenders all voting rights in Shares it
Fund The target Sub-Fund cannot invest, in turn, in the acquires.
acquiring Sub-Fund (reciprocal ownership). The Shares do not count as assets of the acquiring Sub-Fund for
purposes of minimum asset thresholds imposed by the 2010
Law.
7. Real estate and commodities, Direct ownership of precious metals and other The Fund may only directly purchase real estate or other
including precious metals commodities, or certificates representing them, is tangible property that is directly necessary to its business.
prohibited. Indirect Investment exposure is allowed
through permitted investments outlined in this table.
8. Deposits with Credit Institutions Must be repayable or withdrawable on demand, and any The credit institutions either must either have a registered office
maturity date must be no more than 12 months. in an EU Member State or, if not, be subject to prudential
supervision rules the CSSF consider to be at least as stringent as
EU rules.
9. Ancillary Liquid Assets Limited to 20% of net assets for managing cash
subscriptions and redemptions as well as current and
exceptional payments.
Up to 100% of net assets on a temporary basis, if justified
by exceptionally unfavourable market conditions to
mitigate risks relative to such exceptional market
conditions in the best interests of shareholders.
10. Derivatives and equivalent cash- Underlying assets must be those described in rows 1, 2, 4, OTC derivatives must meet all of the following criteria:
settled instruments 5, 6 and 8 or must be financial indices, interest rates, q be subject to reliable and verifiable independent daily
foreign exchange rates or currencies consistent with Sub- valuations
Fund investment objectives and policies. All usage must be
q be able to be sold, liquidated or closed by an offsetting
adequately captured by the risk management process
transaction at their fair value at any time at the Fund’s
described in Management and Monitoring of Derivatives
initiative
Risk below.
q be with counterparties that are institutions subject to
prudential supervision and that belong to categories
approved by the CSSF
See also How the Sub-Funds Use Derivatives, Instruments
and Techniques.
11. Securities lending, repurchase Must be used for efficient portfolio management only. For each transaction, the Sub-Fund must receive and hold
transactions and reverse repurchase The volume of transactions must not interfere with a Sub- collateral that is at least equivalent, at all times during the
transactions Fund’s pursuit of its investment policy or its ability to lifetime of the transactions, to the full current value of the
meet redemptions. With loans of securities and with securities lent.
repurchase transactions, the Sub-Fund must ensure that it The Sub-Fund must have the right to terminate any of these
has sufficient assets to settle the transaction. transactions at any time and to recall the securities that have
All counterparties must be subject to EU prudential been lent or are subject to the repurchase agreement.
supervision rules or to rules the CSSF consider to be at See also How the Sub-Funds Use Derivatives, Instruments
least as stringent. and Techniques.
A Sub-Fund may lend securities:
q directly to a counterparty.
q through a lending system organised by a financial
institution that specialises in this type of transaction.
q through a standardised lending system organised by a
recognised clearing institution.
12. Borrowing The Fund is not allowed to borrow in principle except if it The Fund may however acquire foreign currency by means of
is on a temporary basis and represents no more of 10% of back-to-back loans.
a Sub-Fund’s assets.
13. Short sales Direct short sales are prohibited. Short positions may be acquired only through derivatives.
*A UCITS/UCI is considered to be linked to the Fund if both are managed or controlled by the same Management Company or another affiliated entity.
In keeping with Luxembourg law, the Management Company has implemented a policy that seeks to restrict investments in securities issued by
companies that have been identified by third party providers as being involved in the manufacture, production or supply of cluster munitions,
depleted uranium ammunition and armour or anti-personnel mines. More information on the Management Company’s policy on restrictions applying
to cluster munitions is available from the Management Company.
Germany Equities (Kapitalbeteiligungen) as defined in the “Equity Funds” - more than 50% of NAV on a Please see Information for
German Investment Tax Act continuous basis Investors in Certain Countries
“Mixed Funds” - more than 25% of NAV on a - Germany
continuous basis
Singapore Securities which are not in the list of Limited to 5% of net assets. Sub-Funds registered in
permissible investments as set out in the Singapore and included under
Central Provident Fund (CPF) investment the CPF Investment Scheme.
guidelines.
Derivatives For hedging and efficient portfolio management
only.
Taiwan Securities listed in the PRC and securities traded Limited to 20% of net assets (direct and indirect Sub-Funds registered in
on the China Interbank Bond Market exposure through participation notes). Taiwan1
Derivatives Exposure from non-hedging derivatives plus Sub-Funds registered in Taiwan.
exposure from any derivatives used to hedge the
Sub-Fund beyond 100% of its NAV are limited to
the percentage stipulated by the Taiwanese
regulator (currently 40%).
1 Except Sub-Funds sold in the PRC through the qualified domestic institutional investor scheme.
A list of Sub-Funds registered for public distribution in any jurisdiction can be obtained from the Management Company and/or the local agent.
DIVERSIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
To ensure diversification, a Sub-Fund cannot invest more than a certain percentage of its assets in one issuer or single body, as defined below. These
diversification rules do not apply during the first six months of a Sub-Fund’s operation, but the Sub-Fund must observe the principle of risk
spreading.
For purposes of this table, companies that share consolidated accounts in accordance with Directive 2013/341/EU or with recognised international
accounting rules are considered to be a single body.
A. Transferable securities and money market 35% A Sub-Fund may invest up to 100%
instruments issued or guaranteed by a of its assets in as few as six issues
sovereign nation, any EU public local authority, if it is investing in accordance with
or any public international body to which one the principle of risk spreading and
or more EU Member States belongs. meets both of the following criteria:
q it invests no more than 30% in
any one issue
q the securities are issued by an
EU Member State, its local
authorities or agencies, a
member State of the OECD or of
the G20, Singapore, Hong Kong
or by a public international
bodies of which one or more EU
Member State belongs.
The exception described for row C
applies to this row as well.
B. Bonds issued by a credit institution whose 25% 80% in any issuer in whose
registered office is in an EU Member State and bonds a Sub-Fund has invested
which is subject by law to special public more than 5% of assets.
supervision designed to protect bondholders*.
35%
C. Any transferable securities and money 10% 20% in transferable securities For index-tracking Sub-Funds, the 10%
market instruments other than those described and money market instruments increases to 20% in the case of a
in rows A and B above. within the same group. published, sufficiently diversified index
40% in aggregate in all issuers that is adequate as a Benchmark for
in which a Sub-Fund has its market and is recognised by the
invested more than 5% of its CSSF. This 20% increases to 35% (but
assets (does not include for one issuer only) in exceptional
deposits and OTC derivative circumstances, such as when the
contracts with financial security is highly dominant in the
institutions subject to regulated market in which it trades.
* In particular, all sums deriving from their issuance must be invested in accordance with the law in assets that, for the life of the bonds, are capable of covering all claims attaching
to the bonds and in case of issuer bankruptcy would be used, on a priority basis, to reimburse principal and accrued interest.
Securities carrying voting rights Less than would These rules do not apply to:
enable the Fund to q securities described in row A of the table
exercise significant above
influence over the
q shares of a non-EU company that invests
management of an
mainly in its home country and represents the
issuer
only way to invest in that country in
Non-voting securities of any one issuer 10% accordance with the 2010 Law
Debt securities of any one issuer 10% These limits can be disregarded q shares of subsidiaries that provide
at purchase if at that time the management, advice or marketing in their
gross amount of bonds or country, when done as a way of effecting
money market instruments, or repurchase transactions for Shareholders in
the net amount of the accordance with the 2010 Law
instruments in issue, cannot be
calculated.
Money market securities of any one 10%
issuer
Shares of any UCITS or other UCI 25%
A Sub-Fund does not need to comply with the investment limits described above under Diversification Requirements and Limits to Prevent
Concentration of Ownership when exercising subscription rights attaching to transferable securities or money market instruments which form part
of its assets, so long as any violations of the investment restrictions resulting from the exercise of subscription rights are corrected as described
above under General Investment Policies.
Approach Description
Value at Risk (VaR) VaR seeks to estimate the maximum potential loss a Sub-Fund could experience in a month (20
trading days) under normal market conditions. The estimate is based on the previous 36 months of
the Sub-Fund’s performance, and is measured at a 99% confidence level. VaR is calculated in
accordance with these parameters using an absolute or relative approach, as defined below.
Absolute Value at Risk (Absolute VaR)
The Absolute VaR limits the maximum VaR that a Sub-Fund can have relative to its NAV. The
Absolute VaR of a Sub-Fund cannot exceed 20% of its NAV.
Relative Value at Risk (Relative VaR)
The Relative VaR of a Sub-Fund is expressed as a multiple of a benchmark or reference portfolio and
cannot, exceed twice the VaR of the relevant benchmark or reference portfolio. The reference
portfolio may be different from the benchmark as stated in Sub-Fund Descriptions.
Commitment The Sub-Fund calculates its global exposure by taking into account either the market value of an
equivalent position in the underlying asset or the derivative‘s notional value, as appropriate. This
approach allows the Sub-Fund to reduce its global exposure by taking into account the effects of any
hedging or offsetting positions. Note that with the commitment approach, certain types of risk-free
transactions, leverage-free transactions and non-leveraged swaps can be excluded from the
calculation.
Leverage Any Sub-Fund that uses the Absolute or Relative VaR approach must also calculate its expected level of leverage, which is stated in Sub-
Fund Descriptions. A Sub-Fund’s expected level of leverage is an indicative level not a regulatory limit and the actual level may exceed the expected
level from time to time. However, a Sub-Fund’s use of derivatives will remain consistent with its investment objective and policies and risk profile
and will comply with its VaR limit.
Leverage is a measure of total exposure of all derivatives and is calculated as the "sum of the notionals" without any netting of opposing positions.
As the leverage calculation considers neither sensitivity to market movements nor whether it increases or decreases the overall Sub-Fund risk, it may
not be representative of the actual investment risk level within a Sub-Fund.
Level of collateralisation Full collateralisation Full collateralisation plus Full collateralisation plus a Daily cash settlement of gains and
plus a haircut, a haircut, expressed below minimum haircut of 2% losses above the lower of a typical
expressed below as a as a percentage of gross excluding cash and reverse de minimis USD 250,000 and the
percentage of gross counterparty exposure.1 repurchase transactions regulatory OTC counterparty credit
counterparty exposure. with Federal Reserve Bank limit of 10% of NAV3,4.
of New York.2
Collateral types accepted:
Cash 2% 0% 0% 0%
LENDING AGENT, COLLATERAL AGENT AND COLLATERAL behalf of the relevant Sub-Fund in accordance with the Depositary’s
MANAGER safekeeping duties under its Depositary Agreement). With other types of
collateral arrangements, collateral can be held by a third party
For securities lending the current lending agent and collateral agent is
custodian that is subject to prudential supervision and is unrelated to
J.P. Morgan SE – Luxembourg Branch. For reverse repurchase
the collateral provider. With respect to reverse repurchase transactions
transactions, the current collateral managers are Euroclear Bank, The
denominated in USD, the collateral is held by JPMCB, The Bank of New
Bank of New York Mellon, State Street Bank and Trust Company and
York Mellon or by State Street Bank and Trust Company, each in their
JPMCB. JPMCB is an affiliate of the Management Company. For bilateral
capacity as collateral manager and acting as a third-party custodian.
OTC derivatives transactions, the collateral manager is JPMCB.
JPMCB, The Bank of New York Mellon and State Street Bank and Trust
Company are subject to prudential supervision by their respective
REINVESTMENT OF COLLATERAL regulators and are unrelated to the provider of the collateral. With
Cash collateral will either be placed in bank deposits or invested in respect to bilateral OTC derivatives transactions, the collateral is held
high-quality government bonds, reverse repurchase transactions or by The Bank of New York Mellon, acting as a third-party custodian.
Short-Term Money Market Funds that calculate a daily NAV and are
rated AAA or equivalent. To the extent required by the CSSF, Counterparty and collateral risk
reinvestment of cash collateral must be taken into account for the
Collateral is received from counterparties in connection with transactions in
calculation of a Sub-Fund’s global exposure. All investments will meet
securities lending, reverse repurchase transactions and OTC derivatives other
Diversification Requirements disclosed above. than currency forwards. A counterparty may become unable or unwilling to
If a Sub-Fund invests cash collateral from securities lending in reverse meet its obligations to the Sub-Fund, resulting in losses to the Sub-Fund.
repurchase transactions, the limits that apply to securities lending will In the event of default, the counterparty would forfeit its collateral on the
extend to reverse repurchase transactions as disclosed in How the Sub- transaction. However if a transaction is not fully collateralised, the collateral
Funds Use Derivatives, Instruments and Techniques. may not cover the credit exposure to the counterparty. Collateral may be held
either by the Depositary or its subcustodians, or by a third party custodian and
Non-cash collateral will not be sold, reinvested or pledged.
there is a risk of loss if the custodian or sub-custodian are negligent or become
insolvent.
CUSTODY OF COLLATERAL There are risks associated with collateral and investors read the Risk
Collateral the ownership of which is transferred to the Sub-Fund will be Descriptions section for a description of those risks.
held by the Depositary (or sub-custodian on behalf of the Depositary on
Swaps
Expected
All Other Leverage (%)
Investment Swaps & CDX VaR Sub-Funds
Purposes EPM Hedging Forwards Futures Options TRS & CFD / iTraxx Mortgage TBAs only
Equity Sub-Funds
Convertibles Sub-Funds
Bond Sub-Funds
ESG Integra- ESG Integration is the systematic inclusion of ESG issues in investment analysis and investment decisions with the goals of managing risk and
tion improving long-term returns. ESG Integration for a Sub-Fund requires:
q sufficient ESG information on the Sub-Funds’ investment universe to be available, and
q the Investment Manager to consider proprietary research on the financial materiality of ESG issues on the Sub-Fund’s investments, and
q the Investment Manager’s research views and methodology to be documented throughout the investment process.
ESG Integration also requires appropriate monitoring of ESG considerations in ongoing risk management and portfolio monitoring.
While the Investment Manager includes financially material ESG factors, alongside other relevant factors, in the portfolio construction process. ESG
determinations may not be conclusive and securities of individual companies / issuers may be purchased, retained and sold without limit, by the
Investment Manager regardless of potential ESG impact. The impact of ESG Integration on a Sub-Fund’s performance is not specifically measurable as
investment decisions are discretionary regardless of ESG considerations.
The Sub-Fund Descriptions indicate that a Sub-Fund is integrated by including “ESG Integrated” in the Investment Process section in Sub-Fund
Descriptions, and unless otherwise described in its Objective or Investment Process, ESG integration does not change its objective, exclude specific
types of companies / issuers or constrain its investable universe. ESG Integrated Sub-Funds are not designed for investors who are looking for Sub-
Funds that meet specific ESG goals or wish to screen out particular types of companies or investments, other than those required by Luxembourg law
such as companies involved in the manufacture, production or supply of cluster munitions.
The investments underlying the Sub-Funds which fall in this category do not take into account the EU Taxonomy criteria for environmentally
sustainable economic activities.
Principal Management Company Consideration
adverse sus- The Management Company considers PAI in accordance with SFDR. A statement on due diligence policies with respect to those impacts is published on
tainability www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu
impacts of
investment Sub-Fund Consideration
decisions on The ESG Promote, Positive Tilt and Best-in-Class Sub-Funds, as set out below under their respective categories, consider PAI through excluding certain
sustainability sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria, as detailed further below, such as those in severe violation
factors of the UN Global Compact. A subset of the “Adverse Sustainability Indicators” as set out in the SFDR Level 2 Regulatory Technical Standards will be
(“PAI”) used in respect of the screening and to identify a target list of companies / issuers held in portfolios to engage with based on their PAI performance.
If engagement is not successful in improving on PAIs, investments in these companies / issuers by the Positive Tilt and Best in Class Sub-Funds may
be reduced in size or the companies / issuers may be sold and excluded indefinitely.
Please refer to “MiFID Sustainability Preferences Approach” on (www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu) for a mapping of the Adverse Sustainability
Indicators to the relevant Sub-Fund Categories and mapping to the European ESG Template (“EET”).
The Sub-Funds not listed below under ESG Promote, Positive Tilt and Best-in-Class do not consider PAI specifically as part of their
investment policies. These Sub-Funds pursue investment policies or distribution channels that are not appropriate for or require PAI
consideration.
Promoting Sub-Funds in the ESG Promote category have specific binding ESG criteria for company / issuer selection.
ESG and All Sub-Funds that promote ESG characteristics or include sustainable in their name qualify as “ESG Promote” by definition as referred to in the table
Sustainable below. In addition, certain Sub-Funds also qualify as “Positive Tilt”, “Best-in-Class” or “Thematic” as set out in the table below, which defines the Sub-
Investing – Fund categories and applicable investment criteria. These Sub-Funds promote ESG characteristics through a forward looking investment approach,
Going Beyond active engagement with companies, where possible, and seek to positively influence business practices to improve sustainability. This aims to deliver
ESG Integra- long-term sustainable financial returns while also serving as the foundation to align investment decisions with investor values.
tion
The Fund offers a range of Sub-Funds to align with investors’ objectives and values as set out in the Sub-Fund Categories table below.
The relevant category for a Sub-Fund is included in the Investment Process section in Sub-Fund Descriptions.
ESG Promote, Positive Tilt and Best-in-Class are EU SFDR Article 8 Sub-Funds as they promote environmental and/or social characteristics.
Definition Promotes Environmental An investment style in An investment style that An investment style with a thematic focus
and / or social which the portfolio will focuses on companies / issuers on a UN Sustainable Development Goal or
characteristics. be tilted towards that lead their peer groups in other specific ESG theme.
companies / issuers with respect of sustainability
positive ESG performance.
characteristics.
Criteria A defined percentage of Has an objective with a Has an objective to invest a Has an objective to deliver a sustainability
the portfolio is invested measurable tilt towards defined percentage of portfolio related theme with intentional
in positive ESG issuers / companies / issuers with positions in “sustainable” environmental/ social outcome.
companies as disclosed positive ESG companies / issuers as Ensures portfolio positions are issued by
in the relevant Sub-Fund characteristics as disclosed in the relevant Sub- thematically selected issuers as disclosed
Descriptions. disclosed in the relevant Fund Descriptions. in the relevant Sub-Fund Descriptions.
Sub-Fund Descriptions.
SFDR “sustain- ESG Promote, Positive Tilt, Best-in-Class and Thematic Sub-Funds promote their environmental and/or social characteristics.
able invest- Certain of these Sub-Funds invest in “Sustainable Investments” as defined under SFDR and the committed minimum in Sustainable
ments” and EU Investments is disclosed in the relevant Sub-Fund’s details under Sub-Fund Descriptions. Please refer to “MiFID Sustainability
Taxonomy Preferences Approach” on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information on the qualifying methodology for
criteria for Sustainable Investments.
environmentally Unless otherwise disclosed in the Sub-Fund Description, the investments underlying a Sub-Fund do not take into account the
sustainable criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities, including enabling or transitional activities, within the meaning of the
economic activ- Taxonomy Regulation and the Sub-Funds will only hold such investments on an incidental basis.
ities
Exclusions and Excludes certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria. Exclusion standards
SFDR website can be found on https://am.jpmorgan.com/lu/en/asset-management/adv/products/fund-explorer/sicavs
disclosures Additional Information applicable to Article 8 Sub-Funds such as a description of the environmental / social characteristics and
methodologies used to asses such characteristics can be found on https://am.jpmorgan.com/lu/en/asset-management/adv/.
Sub-Funds JPMorgan Investment JPMorgan Investment JPMorgan Investment Funds - No Sub-Funds as at the date of this
Funds - Europe Select Funds – Global Macro Japan Sustainable Equity Fund Prospectus.
Equity Fund Sustainable Fund JPMorgan Investment Funds
JPMorgan Investment JPMorgan Investment -Global Corporate Bond
Funds - Europe Strategic Funds - Global Income Sustainable Fund
Dividend Fund Sustainable Fund JPMorgan Investment Funds
JPMorgan Investment JPMorgan Investment -Global Short Duration
Funds - Global Funds - Global Multi- Corporate Bond Sustainable
Convertibles Conservative Asset Cautious Fund
Fund Sustainable Fund
JPMorgan Investment JPMorgan Investment
Funds - Global Dividend Funds - Global Multi-
Fund Asset Moderate
JPMorgan Investment Sustainable Fund
Funds - Global Select JPMorgan Investment
Equity Fund Funds - Global Multi-
JPMorgan Investment Asset Growth Sustainable
Funds - US Select Equity Fund
Fund
JPMorgan Investment
Funds - Global Income
Conservative Fund
JPMorgan Investment
Funds - US Bond Fund
JPMorgan Investment
Funds - Global Balanced
Fund
JPMorgan Investment
Funds – Unconstrained
Bond Fund
JPMorgan Investment
Funds – Global Income
Fund
JPMorgan Investment
Funds - Japan Strategic
Value Fund
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The methodology is based on a company’s management of relevant environmental or social issues such as its toxic emissions,
waste management, labour relations and safety issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or
social characteristics, a company must score in the top 80% relative to its peers on either its environmental score or social
score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure a company’s participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following: Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social
Objectives (i) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable
communities - increased female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and
culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as a company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; or (ii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to
the relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to peers based on certain
operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to peers on total waste impact contributes to
a transition to a circular economy.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to a company’s social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles
and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with
UN Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude companies that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee companies themselves
and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by companies or
supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or
contain biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
Certain of the indicators are taken into account through the values and norms-based screening to implement exclusions.
These exclusions take into account indicators 10 and 14 in relation to UN Global Compact principles and OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and controversial weapons.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are
promoted by this financial product?” seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these companies.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in companies with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation issuers that are involved in certain activities
such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution percentage
thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions policy for
the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-Fund and
accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out companies that do not score in the top 80% relative to peers based on good governance
indicators.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The methodology is based on a company’s management of relevant environmental or social issues such as its toxic emissions,
waste management, labour relations and safety issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or
social characteristics, a company must score in the top 80% relative to its peers on either its environmental score or social
score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure a company’s participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following: Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social
Objectives (i) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable
communities - increased female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and
culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as a company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; or (ii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to
the relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to peers based on certain
operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to peers on total waste impact contributes to
a transition to a circular economy.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to a company’s social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles
and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with
UN Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude companies that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee companies themselves
and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by companies or
supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or
contain biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
Certain of the indicators are taken into account through the values and norms-based screening to implement exclusions.
These exclusions take into account indicators 10 and 14 in relation to UN Global Compact principles and OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and controversial weapons.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are
promoted by this financial product?” seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these companies.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in companies with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation issuers that are involved in certain activities
such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution percentage
thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions policy for
the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-Fund and
accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out companies that do not score in the top 80% relative to peers based on good governance
indicators.
The Sub-Fund plans to allocate at least 51% of its assets to companies with positive environmental and / or social characteristics and a
Asset allocation
describes the share of minimum of 10% of assets to Sustainable Investments. The Sub-Fund does not commit to investing any proportion of assets specifically
investments in specific in companies exhibiting positive environmental characteristics or specifically in positive social characteristics or both nor is there any
assets. commitment to any specific individual or combination of environmental or social objectives in respect of the Sustainable Investments.
Therefore, there are no specific minimum allocations to environmental or social objectives referred to in the diagram below.
Taxonomy-aligned Ancillary Liquid Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments / funds (for managing cash subscriptions and
activities are expressed redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments) and derivatives for EPM are not included in the % of assets set out in the
as a share of: table below. These holdings fluctuate depending on investment flows and are ancillary to the investment policy with minimal or no
- turnover reflecting the impact on investment operations.
share of revenue from
green activities of
investee companies
- capital expenditure
(CapEx) showing the
green investments made
by investee companies,
e.g. for a transition to a
green economy.
- operational
expenditure (OpEx)
reflecting green
operational activities of
investee companies.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The methodology is based on a company’s management of relevant environmental or social issues such as its toxic emissions,
waste management, labour relations and safety issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or
social characteristics, a company must score in the top 80% relative to its peers on either its environmental score or social
score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure a company’s participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following: Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social
Objectives (i) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable
communities - increased female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and
culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as a company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; or (ii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to
the relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to peers based on certain
operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to peers on total waste impact contributes to
a transition to a circular economy.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to a company’s social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles
and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with
UN Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude companies that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee companies themselves
and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by companies or
supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or
contain biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
Certain of the indicators are taken into account through the values and norms-based screening to implement exclusions.
These exclusions take into account indicators 10 and 14 in relation to UN Global Compact principles and OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and controversial weapons.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are
promoted by this financial product?” seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these companies.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in companies with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation to companies that are involved in certain
activities such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution
percentage thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions
policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-
Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all companies in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out companies that do not score in the top 80% relative to peers based on good governance
indicators.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The methodology is based on a company’s management of relevant environmental or social issues such as its toxic emissions,
waste management, labour relations and safety issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or
social characteristics, a company must score in the top 80% relative to its peers on either its environmental score or social
score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure a company’s participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
inputs that are self-reported by companies or supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions
that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain biased information. Third party data providers are subject to rigorous vendor
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following: Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social
Objectives (i) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable
communities - increased female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and
culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as a company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; or (ii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to
the relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to peers based on certain
operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to peers on total waste impact contributes to
a transition to a circular economy.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to a company’s social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles
and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with
UN Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude companies that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee companies themselves
and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by companies or
supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or
contain biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
Certain of the indicators are taken into account through the values and norms-based screening to implement exclusions.
These exclusions take into account indicators 10 and 14 in relation to UN Global Compact principles and OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and controversial weapons.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are
promoted by this financial product?” seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these companies.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in companies with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation issuers that are involved in certain activities
such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution percentage
thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions policy for
the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-Fund and
accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out companies that do not score in the top 80% relative to peers based on good governance
indicators.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The methodology is based on a company’s management of relevant environmental or social issues such as its toxic emissions,
waste management, labour relations and safety issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or
social characteristics, a company must score in the top 80% relative to its peers on either its environmental score or social
score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure a company’s participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following: Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social
Objectives (i) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable
communities - increased female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and
culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as a company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; or (ii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to
the relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to peers based on certain
operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to peers on total waste impact contributes to
a transition to a circular economy.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to a company’s social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles
and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with
UN Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude companies that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee companies themselves
and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by companies or
supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or
contain biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
Certain of the indicators are taken into account through the values and norms-based screening to implement exclusions.
These exclusions take into account indicators 10 and 14 in relation to UN Global Compact principles and OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and controversial weapons.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are
promoted by this financial product?” seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these companies.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in companies with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation issuers that are involved in certain activities
such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution percentage
thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions policy for
the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-Fund and
accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out companies that do not score in the top 80% relative to peers based on good governance
indicators.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The methodology is based on a company’s management of relevant environmental or social issues such as its toxic emissions,
waste management, labour relations and safety issues. To be included in the 67% of assets promoting environmental and/or
social characteristics, a company must score in the top 80% relative to its peers on either its environmental score or social
score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure a company’s participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following: Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social
Objectives (i) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable
communities - increased female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and
culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as a company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; or (ii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to
the relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to peers based on certain
operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to peers on total waste impact contributes to
a transition to a circular economy.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to a company’s social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles
and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with
UN Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude companies that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee companies themselves
and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by companies or
supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or
contain biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
Certain of the indicators are taken into account through the values and norms-based screening to implement exclusions.
These exclusions take into account indicators 10 and 14 in relation to UN Global Compact principles and OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and controversial weapons.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are
promoted by this financial product?” seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these companies.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 67% of assets in companies with positive or improving E/S
characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation issuers that are involved in certain activities
such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution percentage
thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions policy for
the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-Fund and
accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all companies in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub- Fund also commits to investing at least 40% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund excludes the bottom 20% of securities from its investable universe based on its ESG criteria.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 67% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out companies that do not score in the top 80% relative to peers based on good governance
indicators.
The Sub-Fund plans to allocate at least 67% of its assets to companies with positive environmental and / or social characteristics and a
Asset allocation
describes the share of minimum of 40% of assets to Sustainable Investments. The Sub-Fund does not commit to investing any proportion of assets specifically
investments in specific in companies exhibiting positive environmental characteristics or specifically in positive social characteristics or both nor is there any
assets. commitment to any specific individual or combination of environmental or social objectives in respect of the Sustainable Investments.
Therefore, there are no specific minimum allocations to environmental or social objectives referred to in the diagram below.
Taxonomy-aligned Ancillary Liquid Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments / funds (for managing cash subscriptions and
activities are expressed redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments) and derivatives for EPM are not included in the % of assets set out in the
as a share of: table below. These holdings fluctuate depending on investment flows and are ancillary to the investment policy with minimal or no
- turnover reflecting the impact on investment operations.
share of revenue from
green activities of
investee companies
- capital expenditure
(CapEx) showing the
green investments made
by investee companies,
e.g. for a transition to a
green economy.
- operational
expenditure (OpEx)
reflecting green
operational activities of
investee companies.
#1A Sustainable
40.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
67.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
27.00%
#2 Other
33.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 40% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The methodology is based on a company’s management of relevant environmental or social issues such as its toxic emissions,
waste management, labour relations and safety issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or
social characteristics, a company must score in the top 80% relative to its peers on either its environmental score or social
score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure a company’s participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following: Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social
Objectives (i) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable
communities - increased female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and
culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as a company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; or (ii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to
the relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to peers based on certain
operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to peers on total waste impact contributes to
a transition to a circular economy.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to a company’s social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles
and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with
UN Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude companies that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee companies themselves
and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by companies or
supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or
contain biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
Certain of the indicators are taken into account through the values and norms-based screening to implement exclusions.
These exclusions take into account indicators 10 and 14 in relation to UN Global Compact principles and OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and controversial weapons.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are
promoted by this financial product?” seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these companies.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in companies with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation issuers that are involved in certain activities
such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution percentage
thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions policy for
the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-Fund and
accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out companies that do not score in the top 80% relative to peers based on good governance
indicators.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The methodology is based on a company’s management of relevant environmental or social issues such as its toxic emissions,
waste management, labour relations and safety issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or
social characteristics, a company must score in the top 80% relative to its peers on either its environmental score or social
score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure a company’s participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
inputs that are self-reported by companies or supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions
that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain biased information. Third party data providers are subject to rigorous vendor
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following: Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social
Objectives (i) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable
communities - increased female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and
culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as a company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; or (ii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to
the relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to peers based on certain
operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to peers on total waste impact contributes to
a transition to a circular economy.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to a company’s social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles
and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with
UN Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude companies that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee companies themselves
and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by companies or
supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or
contain biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
Certain of the indicators are taken into account through the values and norms-based screening to implement exclusions.
These exclusions take into account indicators 10 and 14 in relation to UN Global Compact principles and OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and controversial weapons.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are
promoted by this financial product?” seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these companies.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in companies with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation issuers that are involved in certain activities
such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution percentage
thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions policy for
the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-Fund and
accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out companies that do not score in the top 80% relative to peers based on good governance
indicators.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The score is based on an issuers management of key relevant ESG issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting
environmental and/or social characteristics, an issuer must score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark on
either its environmental score or social score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure an issuers participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
inputs that are self-reported by companies or supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions
that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain biased information. Third party data providers are subject to rigorous vendor
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue:
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated
as linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the
relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s benchmark based
on certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark on total waste
impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may consider the
issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social objectives subject to
certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain
biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are promoted by
this financial product?" seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify violators and
prohibit relevant investments in these issuers.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Fund's strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows:
The investment strategy
guides investment Investment approach
decisions based on Q Multi-asset approach, combining asset allocation with bottom-up expertise leveraged from specialists from JPMorgan Asset
factors such as
Management’s global investment platform.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in securities with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation to issuers that are involved in certain
activities such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution
percentage thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions
policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-
Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out issuers that do not score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark based on
good governance indicators.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
More product-specific information can be found on the website: www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu by searching for your particular
Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The score is based on an issuers management of key relevant ESG issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting
environmental and/or social characteristics, an issuer must score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark on
either its environmental score or social score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure an issuers participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
inputs that are self-reported by companies or supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions
that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain biased information. Third party data providers are subject to rigorous vendor
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue: :
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated
as linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the
relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s benchmark based
on certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark on total waste
impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may consider the
issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social objectives subject to
certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain
biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are
promoted by this financial product?” seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these companies.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Fund's strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows:
The investment strategy
guides investment Investment approach
decisions based on Q Multi-asset approach, leveraging specialists from around JPMorgan Asset Management's global investment platform, with a focus
factors such as
on risk-adjusted income.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in companies with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation to companies that are involved in certain
activities such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution
percentage thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions
policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-
Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all companies in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub- Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out issuers that do not score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark based on
good governance indicators.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
More product-specific information can be found on the website: www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu by searching for your particular
Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The score is based on an issuers management of key relevant ESG issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting
environmental and/or social characteristics, an issuer must score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark on
either its environmental score or social score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure an issuers participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
inputs that are self-reported by companies or supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue:
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated
as linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the
relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s benchmark based
on certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark on total waste
impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may consider the
issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social objectives subject to
certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain
biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are promoted by
this financial product?" seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify violators and
prohibit relevant investments in these issuers.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Fund's strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows:
The investment strategy
guides investment Investment approach
decisions based on Q Multi-asset approach, leveraging specialists from around JPMorgan Asset Management's global investment platform, with a focus
factors such as
on risk-adjusted income.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in securities with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation to issuers that are involved in certain
activities such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution
percentage thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions
policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-
Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out issuers that do not score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark based on
good governance indicators.
The Sub-Fund plans to allocate at least 51% of assets to issuers with positive environmental and/or social characteristics and a
Asset allocation
describes the share of minimum of 10% of assets to Sustainable Investments. The Sub-Fund does not commit to investing any proportion of assets specifically
investments in specific in issuers exhibiting positive environmental characteristics or specifically in positive social characteristics nor is there any commitment
assets. to any specific individual or combination of environmental or social objectives in respect of the Sustainable Investments. Therefore,
there are no specific minimum allocations to environmental or social objectives referred to in the diagram below.
Taxonomy-aligned Ancillary Liquid Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments / funds (for managing cash subscriptions and
activities are expressed redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments) and derivatives for EPM are not included in the % of assets set out in the
as a share of: table below. These holdings fluctuate depending on investment flows and are ancillary to the investment policy with minimal or no
- turnover reflecting the impact on investment operations.
share of revenue from
green activities of
investee companies
- capital expenditure
(CapEx) showing the
green investments made
by investee companies,
e.g. for a transition to a
green economy.
- operational
expenditure (OpEx)
reflecting green
operational activities of
investee companies.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
More product-specific information can be found on the website: www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu by searching for your particular
Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The Sub-Fund will typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-
Fund’s investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies. The Sub-
Fund’s average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score will be calculated as the total of each security’s market value multiplied by its
MSCI ESG score. The average MSCI ESG score of the investable universe will be calculated using the ESG scores of relevant
asset class and region indices, weighted to reflect the asset class and region exposure in the Sub-Fund.
The average asset-weighted ESG score will not include those securities held by the Sub-Fund that do not have an MSCI ESG
score, such as certain MBS/ABS securities. For those securities without an MSCI ESG score, the majority will have positive E/S
characteristics or demonstrate improving E/S characteristics as determined by the Investment Manager.
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue:
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated
as linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the
relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s benchmark based
on certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark on total waste
impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may consider the
issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social objectives subject to
certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
anti-corruption and anti- The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
In addition to the norms and values based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social
characteristics are promoted by this financial product?”, additional norms based screening is applied in relation to the
sustainable investments to ensure alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these issuers.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Fund's strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows:
The investment strategy
guides investment Investment approach
decisions based on Q Multi-asset approach, leveraging specialists from around JPMorgan Asset Management's global investment platform, with a focus
factors such as
on risk-adjusted income.
investment objectives and
risk tolerance. Q Flexible implementation of the managers’ allocation views at asset class and regional level.
Q Seeks to provide the majority of its returns through securities with positive E/S characteristics by incorporating ESG factors,
exclusions and positioning the portfolio positively towards companies and issuers with above average ESG scores.
ESG approach: Positive Tilt
Q The Sub-Fund will typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the fixed
income universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s sector allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies
Q Excludes certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria.
Q At least 25% of assets to be invested in Sustainable Investments.
Q All issuers follow good governance practices.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The following are binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the
environmental or social characteristics:
Q To typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-Fund’s
investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies.
Q Excluding certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria. Please refer to
the exclusions policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your
particular Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q All issuers must follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 25% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All issuers (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. The Sub-
management structures,
Fund also incorporates a peer group comparison and screens out issuers that do not score in the top 80% relative to the
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and custom fixed income universe based on good governance indicators.
tax compliance.
#1A Sustainable
25.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
67.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
42.00%
#2 Other
33.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
Sub-Fund invests at least 25% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
More product-specific information can be found on the website: www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu by searching for your particular
Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted MSCI ESG scores are used to measure the positive tilt towards companies / issuers with positive ESG characteristics .The Sub-
by the financial product Fund maintains an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score for individual equity and debt securities above a comparator. The
are attained. comparator is the MSCI median ESG score of the MSCI All Countries World Index for equity and credit, and the median ESG
score of MSCI Country Scores for Developed and Emerging Markets (excluding Frontier Markets) for government bonds. The
Sub-Fund will maintain an average asset-weighted ESG score above the asset weighted combination of these medians.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manger utilises data to measure an issuers participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy as referenced in the answer to the question directly above such as
companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or
supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by companies or supplied by
third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain biased
information. Third party data providers are subject to rigorous vendor selection criteria which may include analysis on data
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue:
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated
as linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the
relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s benchmark based
on certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark on total waste
impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may consider the
issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social objectives subject to
certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
anti-corruption and anti- The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain
biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are promoted by
this financial product?”, seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify violators and
prohibit relevant investments in these issuers.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Fund's strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows:
The investment strategy
guides investment Investment approach
decisions based on Q Uses an investment process based on macroeconomic research to identify global investment themes and opportunities.
factors such as
investment objectives and Q Flexible and focused approach to take advantage of global trends and changes through traditional and non-traditional assets.
risk tolerance. Q Fully integrated, risk management framework provides detailed portfolio analysis.
Q Seeks to provide the majority of its returns through securities with positive E/S characteristics by incorporating ESG factors,
exclusions and positioning the portfolio positively towards companies with above average ESG scores.
ESG approach: Positive Tilt
Q Has an objective with a measurable tilt towards companies / issuers with positive ESG characteristics as disclosed in the relevant
Sub-Fund Descriptions.
Q Excludes certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria.
Q At least 25% of assets to be invested in Sustainable Investments.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The following binding elements of the investment strategy are used to select the investments to attain each of the
environmental or social characteristics are:
Q Maintaining an average asset-weighted ESG score for individual equity and debt securities above the MSCI median of the
relevant comparator.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation to companies that are involved in certain
activities such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution
percentage thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions
policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-
Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all companies in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 25% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and most derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices.
management structures,
Single stock options are also screened for relevant exclusions.
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and
tax compliance.
#1A Sustainable
25.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
70.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
45.00%
#2 Other
30.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund, with the exception of
single stock options that may reflect positive environmental or social characteristics.
The Investment Manager may take both long and short positions in indices which may contain securities that would otherwise
be excluded from the investment universe. The Investment Manager however will not have long exposure in indices where 30%
or more of the index is composed of securities that are on the exclusions list. In addition, the aggregate long exposure via
derivatives to excluded securities will not exceed 5% equity delta, in order to limit exposure to excluded securities. Equity delta
measures the price sensitivity of the derivatives to changes in the price of the underlying securities and is used as a measure of
exposure.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
Sub-Fund invests at least 25% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
More product-specific information can be found on the website: www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu by searching for your particular
Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The Sub-Fund will typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-
Fund’s investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies. The Sub-
Fund’s average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score will be calculated as the total of each security’s market value multiplied by its
MSCI ESG score. The average MSCI ESG score of the investable universe will be calculated using the ESG scores of relevant
asset class and region indices, weighted to reflect the asset class and region exposure in the Sub-Fund.
The average asset-weighted ESG score will not include those securities held by the Sub-Fund that do not have an MSCI ESG
score, such as certain MBS/ABS securities. For those securities without an MSCI ESG score, the majority will have positive E/S
characteristics or demonstrate improving E/S characteristics as determined by the Investment Manager.
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue:
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated
as linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the
relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s benchmark based
on certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark on total waste
impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may consider the
issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social objectives subject to
certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
anti-corruption and anti- The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
In addition to the norms and values based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social
characteristics are promoted by this financial product?”, additional norms based screening is applied in relation to the
sustainable investments to ensure alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these issuers.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Fund's strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows:
The investment strategy
guides investment Investment approach
decisions based on Q Multi-asset approach, leveraging specialists from around JPMorgan Asset Management's global investment platform, with a focus
factors such as
on capital growth and low to moderate price fluctuations.
investment objectives and
risk tolerance. Q Flexible implementation of the managers’ allocation views at asset class and regional level in line with the volatility profile of the
Sub-Fund.
Q Seeks to provide the majority of its returns through securities with positive environmental and/or social characteristics that follow
good governance practices by incorporating ESG factors, exclusions and positioning the portfolio positively towards such securities.
ESG approach: Positive Tilt
Q The Sub-Fund will typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-
Fund’s investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies
Q Excludes certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria.
Q At least 25% of assets to be invested in Sustainable Investments.
Q All issuers follow good governance practices.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The following are binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the
environmental or social characteristics:
Q To typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-Fund’s
investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s sector allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies.
Q Excluding certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria. Please refer to
the exclusions policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your
particular Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q All issuers must follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 25% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All issuers (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. The Sub-
management structures,
Fund also incorporates a peer group comparison and screens out issuers that do not score in the top 80% relative to the
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and investable universe based on good governance indicators.
tax compliance.
The Sub-Fund typically maintains an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-Fund’s
Asset allocation
describes the share of investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies and will allocate a
investments in specific minimum of 25% of assets to Sustainable Investments. The Sub-Fund does not commit to investing any proportion of assets specifically
assets. in issuers exhibiting positive environmental characteristics or specifically in positive social characteristics nor is there any commitment
to any specific individual or combination of environmental or social objectives in respect of the Sustainable Investments. Therefore,
there are no specific minimum allocations to environmental or social objectives referred to in the diagram below.
Taxonomy-aligned
activities are expressed Ancillary Liquid Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments / funds (for managing cash subscriptions and
as a share of: redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments) and derivatives for EPM are not included in the % of assets set out in the
- turnover reflecting the table below. These holdings fluctuate depending on investment flows and are ancillary to the investment policy with minimal or no
share of revenue from impact on investment operations.
green activities of
investee companies
- capital expenditure
(CapEx) showing the
green investments made
by investee companies,
e.g. for a transition to a
#1A Sustainable
25.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
26.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
Sub-Fund invests at least 25% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
More product-specific information can be found on the website: www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu by searching for your particular
Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The Sub-Fund will typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-
Fund’s investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies. The Sub-
Fund’s average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score will be calculated as the total of each security’s market value multiplied by its
MSCI ESG score. The average MSCI ESG score of the investable universe will be calculated using the ESG scores of relevant
asset class and region indices, weighted to reflect the asset class and region exposure in the Sub-Fund.
The average asset-weighted ESG score will not include those securities held by the Sub-Fund that do not have an MSCI ESG
score, such as certain MBS/ABS securities. For those securities without an MSCI ESG score, the majority will have positive E/S
characteristics or demonstrate improving E/S characteristics as determined by the Investment Manager.
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue:
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated
as linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the
relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s benchmark based
on certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark on total waste
impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may consider the
issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social objectives subject to
certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
anti-corruption and anti- The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
In addition to the norms and values based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social
characteristics are promoted by this financial product?”, additional norms based screening is applied in relation to the
sustainable investments to ensure alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these issuers.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Fund's strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows:
The investment strategy
guides investment Investment approach
decisions based on Q Multi-asset approach, leveraging specialists from around JPMorgan Asset Management's global investment platform, with a focus
factors such as
on capital growth and moderate to high price fluctuations.
investment objectives and
risk tolerance. Q Flexible implementation of the managers’ allocation views at asset class and regional level in line with the volatility profile of the
Sub-Fund.
Q Seeks to provide the majority of its returns through securities with positive environmental and/or social characteristics that follow
good governance practices by incorporating ESG factors, exclusions and positioning the portfolio positively towards such securities.
ESG approach: Positive Tilt
Q The Sub-Fund will typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-
Fund’s investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies
Q Excludes certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria.
Q At least 25% of assets to be invested in Sustainable Investments.
Q All issuers follow good governance practices.
Please refer to the relevant Sub-Fund Description for further detail.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The following are binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the
environmental or social characteristics:
Q To typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-Fund’s
investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s sector allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies.
Q Excluding certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria. Please refer to
the exclusions policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your
particular Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q All issuers must follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 25% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All issuers (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. The Sub-
management structures,
Fund also incorporates a peer group comparison and screens out issuers that do not score in the top 80% relative to the
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and investable universe based on good governance indicators.
tax compliance.
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
Sub-Fund invests at least 25% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
More product-specific information can be found on the website: www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu by searching for your particular
Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The Sub-Fund will typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-
Fund’s investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies. The Sub-
Fund’s average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score will be calculated as the total of each security’s market value multiplied by its
MSCI ESG score. The average MSCI ESG score of the investable universe will be calculated using the ESG scores of relevant
asset class and region indices, weighted to reflect the asset class and region exposure in the Sub-Fund.
The average asset-weighted ESG score will not include those securities held by the Sub-Fund that do not have an MSCI ESG
score, such as certain MBS/ABS securities. For those securities without an MSCI ESG score, the majority will have positive E/S
characteristics or demonstrate improving E/S characteristics as determined by the Investment Manager.
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue:
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated
as linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the
relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s benchmark based
on certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark on total waste
impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may consider the
issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social objectives subject to
certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
anti-corruption and anti- The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
In addition to the norms and values based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social
characteristics are promoted by this financial product?”, additional norms based screening is applied in relation to the
sustainable investments to ensure alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these issuers.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Fund's strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows:
The investment strategy
guides investment Investment approach
decisions based on Q Multi-asset approach, leveraging specialists from around JPMorgan Asset Management's global investment platform, with a focus
factors such as
on capital growth and high price fluctuations.
investment objectives and
risk tolerance. Q Flexible implementation of the managers’ allocation views at asset class and regional level in line with the volatility profile of the
Sub-Fund.
Q Seeks to provide the majority of its returns through securities with positive environmental and/or social characteristics that follow
good governance practices by incorporating ESG factors, exclusions and positioning the portfolio positively towards such securities.
ESG approach: Positive Tilt
Q The Sub-Fund will typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-
Fund’s investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies.
Q Excludes certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria.
Q At least 25% of assets to be invested in Sustainable Investments.
Q All issuers follow good governance practices.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The following are binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the
environmental or social characteristics:
Q To typically maintain an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-Fund’s
investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s sector allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies.
Q Excluding certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria. Please refer to
the exclusions policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your
particular Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q All issuers must follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 25% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All issuers (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. The Sub-
management structures,
Fund also incorporates a peer group comparison and screens out issuers that do not score in the top 80% relative to the
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and investable universe based on good governance indicators.
tax compliance.
The Sub-Fund typically maintains an average asset-weighted MSCI ESG score above the average MSCI ESG score of the Sub-Fund’s
Asset allocation
describes the share of investable universe weighted to match the Sub-Fund’s asset allocation, excluding cash holdings and currencies and will allocate a
investments in specific minimum of 25% of assets to Sustainable Investments. The Sub-Fund does not commit to investing any proportion of assets specifically
assets. in issuers exhibiting positive environmental characteristics or specifically in positive social characteristics nor is there any commitment
to any specific individual or combination of environmental or social objectives in respect of the Sustainable Investments. Therefore,
there are no specific minimum allocations to environmental or social objectives referred to in the diagram below.
Taxonomy-aligned
activities are expressed Ancillary Liquid Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments / funds (for managing cash subscriptions and
as a share of: redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments) and derivatives for EPM are not included in the % of assets set out in the
- turnover reflecting the table below. These holdings fluctuate depending on investment flows and are ancillary to the investment policy with minimal or no
share of revenue from impact on investment operations.
green activities of
investee companies
- capital expenditure
(CapEx) showing the
green investments made
by investee companies,
e.g. for a transition to a
#1A Sustainable
25.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
26.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
Sub-Fund invests at least 25% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
More product-specific information can be found on the website: www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu by searching for your particular
Sub-Fund and accessing the ESG Information section
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The methodology is based on a company’s management of relevant environmental or social issues such as its toxic emissions,
waste management, labour relations and safety issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or
social characteristics, a company must score in the top 80% relative to its peers on either its environmental score or social
score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure a company’s participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following: Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social
Objectives (i) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable
communities - increased female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and
culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as a company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; or (ii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to
the relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to peers based on certain
operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to peers on total waste impact contributes to
a transition to a circular economy.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to a company’s social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles
and OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with
UN Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude companies that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee companies themselves
and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by companies or
supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or
contain biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
Certain of the indicators are taken into account through the values and norms-based screening to implement exclusions.
These exclusions take into account indicators 10 and 14 in relation to UN Global Compact principles and OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and controversial weapons.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based portfolio exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are
promoted by this financial product?” seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify
violators and prohibit relevant investments in these companies.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in companies with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation issuers that are involved in certain activities
such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution percentage
thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions policy for
the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-Fund and
accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out companies that do not score in the top 80% relative to peers based on good governance
indicators.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The score is based on an issuers management of key relevant ESG issues. To be included in the 67% of assets promoting
environmental and/or social characteristics, an issuer must score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark on
either its environmental score or social score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure an issuers participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
inputs that are self-reported by companies or supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue:
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the issuer is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated as
linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the relevant
objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s benchmark based on
certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark on total waste
impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may consider the
issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social objectives subject to
certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
impacts of investment Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to
environmental, social and Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
employee matters, Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
respect for human rights,
anti-corruption and anti-
and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
bribery matters. The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager also takes into account PAI 16 in relation to Investee countries subject to social violations. The
Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are promoted by
this financial product?" seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify violators and
prohibit relevant investments in these issuers.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Funds strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows: Investment
The investment strategy
guides investment approach
decisions based on Q Uses a globally integrated research driven investment process that focuses on analysing fundamental, quantitative and technical
factors such as factors across countries, sectors and issuers.
investment objectives and
risk tolerance.
Q Approaches corporate bond Investing by focusing on generating returns primarily through credit sector rotation and security
selection across the global corporate bond universe.
Q Integrates ESG aspects to identify issuers with strong or improving sustainability characteristics.
ESG approach: Best-in-Class
Q Excludes certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria.
Q At least 67% of assets to be invested in issuers with positive or improving environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q At least 40% of assets to be invested in Sustainable Investments.
Q All issuers / companies follow good governance practices.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest 67% of assets to be invested in issuers with positive or improving environmental and/or social
characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation to issuers that are involved in certain
activities such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution
percentage thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions
policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-
Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 40% of assets in Sustainable Investments..
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 67% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out issuers that do not score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark based on
good governance indicators.
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 40% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are commited to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The score is based on an issuers management of key relevant ESG issues. To be included in the 67% of assets promoting
environmental and/or social characteristics, an issuer must score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark on
either its environmental score or social score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure an issuers participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
inputs that are self-reported by companies or supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions
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that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain biased information. Third party data providers are subject to rigorous vendor
selection criteria which may include analysis on data sources, coverage, timeliness, reliability and overall quality of the
information, however, the Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening on that data results in full exclusions on certain potential investments and partial exclusions based on maximum
percentage thresholds on revenue, production or distribution on others. A subset of the “Adverse Sustainability Indicators” as
set out in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards is also incorporated in the screening and the relevant metrics are used
to identify and screen out identified violators.
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue:
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the issuer is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated as
linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the relevant
objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s benchmark based on
certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark on total waste
impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may consider the
issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social objectives subject to
certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
impacts of investment Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to
environmental, social and Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
employee matters, Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
respect for human rights,
anti-corruption and anti-
and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
bribery matters. The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager also takes into account PAI 16 in relation to Investee countries subject to social violations. The
Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
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by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain
biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
Certain of the indicators are taken into account through the values and norms-based screening to implement exclusions.
These exclusions take into account indicators 10, 14 and 16 in relation to UN Global Compact principles and OECD Guidelines
for Multinational Enterprises, controversial weapons and investee countries subject to social violations.
The Investment Manager also applies a purpose built screen. Due to certain technical considerations, such as data coverage
in respect of specific indicators, the Investment Manager either applies the specific indicator per Table 1 or a representative
proxy, as determined by the Investment Manager to screen investee issuers in respect of the relevant environmental or social
& employee matters. For example, greenhouse gas emissions are associated with several indicators and corresponding
metrics in Table 1, such as greenhouse gas emissions, carbon footprint and greenhouse gas intensity (indicators 1-3). The
Investment Manager currently uses greenhouse gas intensity data (indicator 3), data in respect of non-renewable energy
consumption and production (indicator 5) and data on energy consumption intensity (indicator 6) to perform its screening in
respect of greenhouse gas emissions.
In connection with the purpose built screening and in respect of activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas and
the emissions to water (indicators 7 and 8), due to data limitations, the Investment Manager uses a third-party representative
proxy rather than the specific indicators per Table 1. The Investment Manager also takes into account indicator 9 in relation
to hazardous waste in respect of the purpose built screen.
Engagement
In addition to screening out certain issuers as described above, the Investment Manager engages on an ongoing basis with
selected underlying investee issuers. A subset of the indicators will be used, subject to certain technical considerations such
as data coverage, as the basis for engaging with selected underlying investee issuers in accordance with the approach taken
by the Investment Manager on stewardship and engagement. The indicators currently used in respect of such engagement
include indicators 3, 5 and 13 in relation to greenhouse gas intensity, share of non-renewable energy and board gender
diversity from Table 1. It also uses indicators 2 in Table 2 and 3 in Table 3 in relation to emission of air pollutants and
number of days lost to injuries, accidents, fatalities or illness.
Indicators of sustainability
The Investment Manager uses indicators 3 and 13 in relation to GHG Intensity and board gender diversity as indicators of
sustainability to assist in qualifying an investment as a Sustainable Investment. One of the pathways requires an issuer to be
considered as an operational peer group leader to qualify as a Sustainable Investment. This requires scoring against the
indicator in the top 20% relative to the Benchmark.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are promoted by
this financial product?" seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify violators and
prohibit relevant investments in these issuers.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
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U No
The Sub-Funds strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows: Investment
The investment strategy
guides investment approach
decisions based on Q Uses a globally integrated research driven investment process that focuses on analysing fundamental, quantitative and technical
factors such as factors across countries, sectors and issuers.
investment objectives and
risk tolerance.
Q Approaches corporate bond Investing by focusing on generating returns primarily through credit sector rotation and security
selection across the global corporate bond universe.
Q Integrates ESG aspects to identify issuers with strong or improving sustainability characteristics.
ESG approach: Best-in-Class
Q Excludes certain sectors, companies / issuers or practices based on specific values or norms based criteria.
Q At least 67% of assets to be invested in issuers with positive or improving environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q At least 40% of assets to be invested in Sustainable Investments.
Q All issuers / companies follow good governance practices.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest 67% of assets to be invested in issuers with positive or improving environmental and/or social
characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation to issuers that are involved in certain
activities such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution
percentage thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions
policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-
Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 40% of assets in Sustainable Investments..
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 67% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out issuers that do not score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark based on
good governance indicators.
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e.g. for a transition to a
green economy.
- operational
expenditure (OpEx)
reflecting green
operational activities of Other environmental
investee companies.
#1A Sustainable
40.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
67.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
27.00%
#2 Other
33.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
JPMORGAN INVESTMENT FUNDS - GLOBAL SHORT DURATION CORPORATE BOND SUSTAINABLE FUND 208
The two graphs below show in blue the minimum percentage of investments that are aligned with the EU Taxonomy. As there is no
appropriate methodology to determine the Taxonomy-alignment of sovereign bonds*, the first graph shows the Taxonomy-alignment in
relation to all the investments of the financial product including sovereign bonds, while the second graph shows the Taxonomy-alignment
only in relation to the investments of the financial product other than sovereign bonds.
1. Taxonomy-alignment of investments including sovereign 2. Taxonomy-alignment of investments excluding sovereign
bonds* bonds*
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 40% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are commited to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
JPMORGAN INVESTMENT FUNDS - GLOBAL SHORT DURATION CORPORATE BOND SUSTAINABLE FUND 209
What investments are included under “#2 Other”, what is their
purpose and are there any minimum environmental or social
safeguards?
The “other” investments are comprised of companies that did not meet the criteria described in response to above
question entitled, “What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
social characteristics promoted by this financial product?" to qualify as exhibiting positive environmental and/or social
characteristics. They are investments for diversification purposes.
Ancillary Liquid Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments / funds (for managing cash
subscriptions and redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments) and derivatives for EPM are not included in
the % of assets included in the asset allocation diagram above, including under “other”. These holdings fluctuate
depending on investment flows and are ancillary to the investment policy with minimal or no impact on investment
operations.
All investments , including “other” investments are subject to the following ESG Minimum Safeguards/principle:
Q The minimum safeguards as outlined by Article 18 of the EU Taxonomy Regulation (including alignment with the OECD
Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights).
Q Application of good governance practices (these include sound management structures, employee relations,
remuneration of staff and tax compliance).
Q Compliance with the Do No Significant Harm principle as prescribed under the definition of Sustainable Investment in
EU SFDR.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
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Template pre-contractual disclosure for financial products referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 and Article 6, first
paragraph, of Regulation (EU) 2020/852.
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The score is based on an issuers management of key relevant ESG issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting
environmental and/or social characteristics, an issuer must score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s custom universe on
either its environmental score or social score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure an issuers participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
inputs that are self-reported by companies or supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The objectives of the Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make may include any individual or
combination of the following or be linked to an environmental or social objective through the use of proceeds of the issue:
Environmental Objectives (i) climate risk mitigation, (ii) transition to a circular economy; Social Objectives (i) inclusive and
sustainable communities - increased female executive representation, (ii) inclusive and sustainable communities - increased
female representation on boards of directors and (iii) providing a decent working environment and culture.
Contribution to such objectives is determined by either (i) products and services sustainability indicators, which may include the
percentage of revenue derived from providing products and / or services that contribute to the relevant sustainable objective,
such as company producing solar panels or clean energy technology that meets the Investment Manager’s proprietary
thresholds contributing to climate risk mitigation. The current percentage of revenue is set at a minimum of 20% and the entire
holding in the company is considered a Sustainable Investment; (ii) the use of proceeds of the issue, if such use is designated
as linked to a specific environmental or social objective, or (iii) being an operational peer group leader contributing to the
relevant objective. Being a peer group leader is defined as scoring in the top 20% relative to the Sub-Fund’s custom universe
based on certain operational sustainability indicators. For example, scoring in the top 20% relative to the custom universe on
total waste impact contributes to a transition to a circular economy. The test for supranational and sovereign issuers may
consider the issuer’s mission or contributions, as peer group leaders or improvers, to positive environmental and social
objectives subject to certain criteria.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sustainable Investments that the Sub-Fund partially intends to make are subject to a screening process that seeks to
identify and exclude, from qualifying as a Sustainable Investment, those companies which the Investment Manager considers the
worst offending companies, based on a threshold determined by the Investment Manager, in relation to certain environmental
considerations. Such considerations include climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular
economy, pollution and protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. The Investment Manager also applies a screen that seeks to
identify and exclude those companies that the Investment Manager considers to be in violation of the OECD Guidelines for
Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights based on data supplied by third party
service providers
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
The indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors in Table 1 of Annex 1 and certain indicators, as determined by the
significant negative
Investment Manager, in Tables 2 and 3 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards have been taken into
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability account as further described below. The Investment Manager either uses the metrics in the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical
factors relating to Standards, or where this is not possible due to data limitations or other technical issues, it uses a representative proxy. The
environmental, social and Investment Manager consolidates the consideration of certain indicators into a “primary” indicator as set out further below
employee matters, and it may use a broader set of indicators than referenced below.
respect for human rights,
The relevant indicators in Table 1 of Annex 1 of the EU SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards consist of 9 environmental and
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters. 5 social and employee related indicators. The environmental indicators are listed at 1-9 and relate to green-house gas
emissions (1-3), exposure to fossil fuel, share of non-renewable energy consumption and production, energy consumption
intensity, activities negatively affecting biodiversity sensitive areas, emissions to water and hazardous waste (4-9
respectively).
Indicators 10 – 14 relate to an issuers social and employee matters and cover violations of UN Global Compact principles and
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, lack of processes and compliance mechanisms to monitor compliance with UN
Global Compact principles, unadjusted gender pay gap, Board gender diversity and exposure to controversial weapons
(antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons) respectively.
The Investment Manager’s approach includes quantitative and qualitative aspects to take the indicators into account. It uses
particular indicators for screening, seeking to exclude issuers that may cause significant harm. It uses a subset for
engagement seeking to influence best practice and it uses certain of them as indicators of positive sustainability
performance, by applying a minimum threshold in respect of the indicator to qualify as a Sustainable Investment.
The data needed to take the indicators into account, where available, may be obtained from investee issuers themselves and/
or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data inputs that are self-reported by issuers or supplied
by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain
biased information. The Investment Manager cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of such data.
Screening
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
The norms based exclusions as described above under “What environmental and/or social characteristics are promoted by
this financial product?" seek alignment with these guidelines and principles. Third party data is used to identify violators and
prohibit relevant investments in these issuers.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub- Funds strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows:
The investment strategy
guides investment Investment approach
decisions based on Q Uses a globally integrated research driven investment process that focuses on analysing fundamental,
factors such as
quantitative and technical factors across countries, sectors and issuers.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in companies with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation to companies that are involved in certain
activities such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution
percentage thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions
policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-
Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all companies in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
The Sub-Fund also commits to investing at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics or
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and qualifying Sustainable Investments, additional considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer
tax compliance. group comparison and screens out issuers that do not score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s custom universe based
on good governance indicators.
The Sub-Fund plans to allocate at least 51% of assets to issuers with positive environmental and/or social characteristics and a
Asset allocation
describes the share of minimum of 10% of assets to Sustainable Investments. The Sub-Fund does not commit to investing any proportion of assets specifically
investments in specific in issuers exhibiting positive environmental characteristics or specifically in positive social characteristics nor is there any commitment
assets. to any specific individual or combination of environmental or social objectives in respect of the Sustainable Investments. Therefore,
there are no specific minimum allocations to environmental or social objectives referred to in the diagram below.
Taxonomy-aligned Ancillary Liquid Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments / funds (for managing cash subscriptions and
activities are expressed redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments) and derivatives for EPM are not included in the % of assets set out in the
as a share of: table below. These holdings fluctuate depending on investment flows and are ancillary to the investment policy with minimal or no
- turnover reflecting the impact on investment operations.
share of revenue from
green activities of
investee companies
- capital expenditure
(CapEx) showing the
green investments made
by investee companies,
e.g. for a transition to a
green economy.
- operational
expenditure (OpEx)
reflecting green
operational activities of
investee companies.
#1A Sustainable
10.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S
characteristics Social
51.00% #1B Other E/S
Investments characteristics
41.00%
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
The Sub-Fund invests at least 10% of assets in Sustainable Investments, however, 0% of assets are committed to
activities to make a
Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets
substantial contribution to
an environmental are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Sustainability indicators B What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or
measure how the social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
environmental or social
characteristics promoted A combination of the Investment Manager's proprietary ESG scoring methodology and/or third-party data are used as indicators
by the financial product to measure the attainment of the environmental and/ or social characteristics that the Sub-Fund promotes.
are attained. The score is based on an issuers management of key relevant ESG issues. To be included in the 51% of assets promoting
environmental and/or social characteristics, an issuer must score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark on
either its environmental score or social score and follow good governance practices.
To promote certain norms and values, the Investment Manager utilises data to measure an issuers participation in activities
potentially contrary to the Sub-Fund’s exclusion policy such as companies manufacturing controversial weapons. The data may
be obtained from investee companies themselves and/or supplied by third party service providers (including proxy data). Data
inputs that are self-reported by companies or supplied by third-party providers may be based on data sets and assumptions
that may be insufficient, of poor quality or contain biased information. Third party data providers are subject to rigorous vendor
B What are the objectives of the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to
make and how does the sustainable investment contribute to such objectives?
The Sub-Fund does not commit to any Sustainable Investments.
B How do the sustainable investments that the financial product partially intends to make, not cause
significant harm to any environmental or social sustainable investment objective?
The Sub-Fund does not commit to any Sustainable Investments.
Principal adverse B How have the indicators for adverse impacts on sustainability factors been taken into account?
impacts are the most
Not Applicable.
significant negative
impacts of investment
decisions on sustainability
factors relating to
environmental, social and
employee matters,
respect for human rights,
anti-corruption and anti-
bribery matters.
B How are the sustainable investments aligned with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights? Details:
Not Applicable.
The EU Taxonomy sets out a “do not significant harm” principle by which Taxonomy-aligned investments should not significantly harm EU
Taxonomy objectives and is accompanied by specific EU criteria.
The “do not significant harm” principle applies only to those investments underlying the financial product that take into account the EU criteria
for environmentally sustainable economic activities. The investments underlying the remaining portion of this financial product do not take into
account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.
Any other sustainable investments must also not significantly harm any environmental or social objectives.
The Sub-Funds strategy can be considered in respect of its general investment approach and ESG approach as follows:
The investment strategy
guides investment Investment approach
decisions based on Q Uses a globally integrated research driven investment process that focuses on analysing fundamental, quantitative and technical
factors such as
factors across countries, sectors and issuers.
investment objectives and
risk tolerance. Q Combines top down asset allocation and bottom-up security selection targeting diversified sources of portfolio return – including
sector rotation, security selection, currencies and yield curve positioning.
B What are the binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain
each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?
The binding elements of the investment strategy used to select the investments to attain each of the environmental or social
characteristics are:
Q The requirement to invest at least 51% of assets in securities with positive environmental and/or social characteristics.
Q The values and norms based screening to implement full exclusions in relation to issuers that are involved in certain
activities such as manufacturing controversial weapons and applying maximum revenue, production or distribution
percentage thresholds to others such as those that are involved in thermal coal and tobacco. Please refer to the exclusions
policy for the Sub-Fund on www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu for further information by searching for your particular Sub-
Fund and accessing the ESG Information section.
Q The requirement for all issuers in the portfolio to follow good governance practices.
B What is the committed minimum rate to reduce the scope of the investments considered prior to the
application of that investment strategy?
The Sub-Fund does not apply such a committed minimum rate.
Good governance B What is the policy to assess good governance practices of the investee companies?
practices include sound
All investments (excluding cash and derivatives) are screened to exclude known violators of good governance practices. In
management structures,
addition, for those investments included in the 51% of assets promoting environmental and/or social characteristics, additional
employee relations,
remuneration of staff and considerations apply. For these investments, the Sub-Fund incorporates a peer group comparison and screens out issuers that
tax compliance. do not score in the top 80% relative to the Sub-Fund’s Benchmark based on good governance indicators.
The Sub-Fund plans to allocate at least 51% of assets to issuers with positive environmental and/or social characteristics The Sub-Fund
Asset allocation
describes the share of does not commit to investing any proportion of assets specifically in issuers exhibiting positive environmental characteristics or
investments in specific specifically in positive social characteristics.
assets. Ancillary Liquid Assets, Deposits with Credit Institutions, money market instruments / funds (for managing cash subscriptions and
redemptions as well as current and exceptional payments) and derivatives for EPM are not included in the % of assets set out in the
Taxonomy-aligned table below. These holdings fluctuate depending on investment flows and are ancillary to the investment policy with minimal or no
activities are expressed impact on investment operations.
as a share of:
- turnover reflecting the
share of revenue from
green activities of
investee companies
- capital expenditure
(CapEx) showing the
green investments made
by investee companies,
e.g. for a transition to a
green economy.
- operational
expenditure (OpEx)
reflecting green
operational activities of
investee companies.
Investments
#2 Other
49.00%
#1 Aligned with E/S characteristics includes the investments of the financial product used to attain the environmental or social characteristics
promoted by the financial product.
#2 Other includes the remaining investments of the financial product which are neither aligned with the environmental or social characteristics, nor are
qualified as sustainable investments.
The category #1 Aligned with E/S characteristics covers:
- The sub-category #1A Sustainable covers sustainable investments with environmental or social objectives.
- The sub-category #1B Other E/S characteristics covers investments aligned with the environmental or social characteristics that do not qualify as
sustainable investments.
B How does the use of derivatives attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the
financial product?
Derivatives are not used to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Sub-Fund.
To comply with the EU B Does the financial product invest in fossil gas and/or nuclear energy related activities that
Taxonomy, the criteria for comply with the EU Taxonomy 1?
fossil gas include
limitations on emissions U Yes:
and switching to U In fossil gas U In nuclear energy
renewable power or low-
carbon fuels by the end C No
of 2035. For nuclear Not applicable
energy, the criteria
include comprehensive
safety and waste
management rules.
1 Fossil gas and/or nuclear related activities will only comply with the EU Taxonomy where they contribute to limiting climate change (“climate change mitigation”) and do not significantly
harm any EU Taxonomy objective - see explanatory note in the left hand margin. The full criteria for fossil gas and nuclear energy economic activities that comply with the EU Taxonomy are
laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1214.
0.0% 0.0%
100.0% 100.0%
This graph represents 100% of the total investments.
* For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures
Enabling activities B What is the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities?
directly enable other
0% of assets are committed to Sustainable Investments with an environmental objective aligned with the EU
activities to make a
Taxonomy. Accordingly, 0% of assets are committed to transitional and enabling activities.
substantial contribution to
an environmental
objective.
Transitional activities
are activities for which
low-carbon alternatives
are not yet available and
among others have
greenhouse gas emission
levels corresponding to
the best performance.
Reference benchmarks B How is the reference benchmark continuously aligned with each of the environmental or social
are indexes to measure characteristics promoted by the financial product?
whether the financial
product attains the Not applicable
environmental or social
characteristics that they
promote.
B How is the alignment of the investment strategy with the methodology of the index ensured on a
continuous basis?
Not applicable
B How does the designated index differ from a relevant broad market index?
Not applicable
B Where can the methodology used for the calculation of the designated index be found?
Not applicable
Minimum investment and holding amounts. For amounts in currencies other than USD, equivalent
amounts in such currencies are determined on each business day.
Base Share Additional
Class Eligible investors Initial investment investment Holding amount Additional features
T Distributors buying Shares on behalf of USD 5,000 USD 1,000 USD 5,000 Available only to those Sub-Funds for which
their clients, by agreement with the specific distribution arrangements have been
Management Company made with the Management Company.
Automatically switches to D Share Class on
the third anniversary of the subscription. This
may create tax liability.*
V Only available to collective investment USD 10 million USD 1,000 USD 10 million Only offered as (hedged to BRL) Share
schemes established in Brazil and Classes
managed by JPMorgan Chase & Co., by
agreement with the Management
Company.
W Spanish Eligible Counterparties and USD 100 million USD 1,000 USD 100 million Available only to those Sub-Funds for which
Additional Investors and only by specific distribution arrangements have been
agreement with the Management made with the Management Company.
Company based on its requirements.
X, Y EU: Eligible Counterparties and On application On application On application None
Additional Investors
Non EU: Institutional Investors by
agreement with the Management
Company or JPMorgan Chase & Co. with
a separate fee arrangement in respect
of advisory fees
* Automatic switches are processed based on the NAV of both Share Classes on the switch date or on the next Valuation Day if the anniversary is not a Valuation Day. F Share
automatic switches to A Shares, on the third anniversary of the subscription, can only take place on a business day in the relevant distributor's country. Following the switch,
Shareholders are subject to the rights and obligations of the new Share Class. The switch dates for S2 Share Classes can be found at www.jpmorganassetmanagement.com
WAIVERS AND REDUCED MINIMUMS the Management Company that they will reach a sufficient level of
assets in the C2 share class within a specified period of time.
The Management Company can, at its discretion, reduce or waive the
minimums described above (initial investment, additional investment In addition, for active C2 share classes, where the Intermediary holds
and holding amounts), with respect to any Sub-Fund, Share Class or the Minimum Amount of Assets Under Management and holds at least
Shareholder. In particular, waivers are often applied or minimums do USD 100 million in aggregate in other Share Classes of the same Sub-
not apply to specific Share Classes as set out below. Fund, neither the minimums nor the requirement to reach a sufficient
level of assets in the C2 Share Class within a specific period of time
C, I and V Share Class Minimums are waived for investments made
apply to the underlying clients of the Intermediary.
by clients of the Management Company who meet minimum
requirements set by the Management Company. I2 Share Class Minimums do not apply at the discretion of the
Management Company if the investor holds a Minimum Amount of
A and D Share Class Minimums do not apply at the discretion of the
Assets under Management.
Management Company for investments made by affiliates of JPMorgan
Chase & Co. or third party managers or Distributors who are subscribing W Share Class Minimums do not apply at the discretion of the
on behalf of their clients as nominee. Management Company if the investor holds a Minimum Amount of
Assets under Management.
C Share Class Minimums do not apply at the discretion of the
Management Company to the underlying clients of financial If investors are unsure which Share Class they are eligible to invest in
intermediaries or distributors (“Intermediary”) who receive advice from they should contact their financial adviser or Distributor. For a
the Intermediary and directly pay for this advice under a separate fee definition of Institutional Investor, see Glossary 1.
arrangement where the Intermediary has represented this to the The Fund and the Management Company, at their discretion, reserve
Management Company. In addition the Intermediary does not receive the right to redeem all Shares upon receipt of a redemption request
and retain any other forms of ongoing remuneration from the that would leave a holding that is lower than the minimum holding
Management Company in relation to this service. amount. Shareholders will be given one month prior notice to increase
C2 Share Class Minimums do not apply at the discretion of the their holding above the minimum. Any fall below the minimum holding
Management Company to the underlying clients of financial amount owing to Sub-Fund performance will not cause the closing of an
intermediaries or distributors (“Intermediary”) who have represented to account. See Investing in the Sub-Funds.
Costs
This section describes the various fees and charges that a Shareholder pays and how they work. The Management Company may, at its sole
discretion, pay some or all of the amounts received for certain charges and fees as commission, retrocession, rebate or discount to some or all
investors, financial intermediaries or Distributors, on the basis of factors such as the size, nature, timing or commitment of their investment, among
others.
As different Share Classes of a given Sub-Fund will usually have pricing or other adjustments intended to mitigate the effects of
different NAVs (and may in addition have different measurement transaction volumes or costs are not counted in performance fee
periods), the actual performance fee charged often varies by Share calculations.
Class. For distributing Shares, any distributions paid out are counted as To find out if a Share Class has a performance fee, which model is used
part of performance for purposes of performance fee calculation. Swing and the performance fee rate, see Sub-Fund Descriptions.
Year 1 Share Class outperforms benchmark. Performance fee payable; a Year 1 Share Class outperforms the high water mark (has positive
new measurement period begins. absolute performance) but not the Benchmark. No performance fee
payable; measurement period extended for another Financial Year.
Year 2 Share Class performance is negative, but still outperforms
benchmark. Performance fee payable; a new measurement period Year 2 Share Class goes from underperforming Benchmark to
begins. outperforming it; also remains above high water mark. Performance fee
payable; a new measurement period begins.
Year 3 Share Class underperforms benchmark. No performance fee
payable; measurement period extended for another Financial Year. Year 3 Share Class outperforms high water mark and benchmark for
first half of year, but falls below both by year-end. No performance fee
Year 4 Share Class goes from underperforming benchmark to payable; measurement period extended for another Financial Year.
outperforming it. Performance fee payable; a new measurement period
begins.
COMPARISON WITH A SHARE CLASS THAT DOES NOT HAVE A PERFORMANCE FEE
Some Sub-Funds offer Share Classes with performance fees and without performance fees. Share Classes with no performance fee will have a higher
annual management and advisory fee. Which Share Class provides the greater net return to Shareholders will vary and is dependent on whether
there is outperformance or underperformance. The tables below show examples of the net return of Share Classes with and without a performance
fee under different scenarios.
Share Class return 1.50% 1.50% * Only the portion necessary to bring the result to zero is subtracted.
CDSC A contingent deferred sales charge, a charge that is deducted EU Member State A member state of the European Union.
from redemption proceeds and is calculated, at the time of redemption, Financial Year The Fund’s fiscal year.
on the purchase price of the Shares for the T Shares and NAV per
Share on redemption for F Shares.
agency mortgage-backed security A mortgage-backed security contingent convertible security A type of security that typically
issued by a U.S. government-sponsored agency such as the Student functions as a bond so long as certain pre-determined conditions are
Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), the Federal National Mortgage not triggered. These triggers may include measures of the issuer’s
Association (Fannie Mae) or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage financial health remain above a certain level or the share price falling
Corporation (Freddie Mac). below a specified level.
contracts for difference (CFD) An arrangement made in a futures
contract whereby differences in settlement are made through cash