JPMorgan Diversified Return EMkts Eq ETF’s management team is rated Average, but a solid investment process still helps this strategy retain its Morningstar Medalist Rating of Gold. The portfolio maintains a cost advantage over competitors, priced within the least expensive fee quintile among peers.  

 The strategy's effective investment philosophy supports a High Process Pillar rating. Independent of the rating, analysis of the strategy's portfolio shows it has maintained a significant overweight position in yield exposure and an underweight in volatility exposure compared with category peers. High yield exposure is attributed to holding more stocks with high dividend or buyback yields. And low volatility exposure is rooted in stocks that have a lower standard deviation of returns. The strategy’s management team earns an Average People Pillar rating. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Above Average Parent Pillar rating. People Pillar and Parent Pillar ratings for this strategy are indirectly assigned by a Morningstar analyst rather than algorithmically derived. Please see the notes following each pillar section for more details. The details of assigning methods can be found in each pillar section.

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Morningstar's evaluation of this security's process aims to determine the likelihood that it will outperform its Morningstar Category benchmark on a risk-adjusted basis over the long term. JPMorgan Diversified Return EMkts Eq ETF earns a High Process Pillar rating. 

The most notable contributor to the rating is that this fund tracks an index. Historical data, like Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that passively managed funds have generally outperformed their active counterparts, especially over longer time horizons. Noteworthy risk-adjusted performance also bolsters the rating. This can be seen in the fund's five-year alpha calculated relative to the category index, which suggests that the managers have shown skill in their allocation of risk. The parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 57% strengthens the process. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and outperformed their respective category's median Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return for the period. Their commendable success ratio suggests that this firm does well for investors and that this fund may benefit from that.

 This strategy leans toward smaller, more undervalued companies compared with its average peer in the Diversified Emerging Mkts Morningstar Category. Analyzing additional factors, the managers have consistently overweighted yield-paying companies compared with Morningstar Category peers in recent years, shown by the portfolio's high exposure to stocks paying dividends or buying back shares. Higher-yield stocks can provide steady income, but also have their risks. Dividend payers may cut payouts, for instance, if their earnings fall. In recent months, the strategy was more exposed to the Yield factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. This strategy has also exhibited a tilt toward low-volatility stocks in recent years, meaning companies with a lower historical standard deviation of returns. These low-risk stocks are typically at their best when markets are not. Low volatility exposure contributes to limited loss on the downside at the cost of a lag in bull markets. Similarly, in recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to the Volatility factor than peers. In addition, this strategy has not maintained a defensive tilt, demonstrated by low exposure to the quality factor. This means the fund avoids holding firms that are consistently profitable, growing, and have solid balance sheets. Such positions do not tend to provide much ballast for a portfolio. Nevertheless, the fund's Quality exposure was in line with peers in the latest month. More information on a fund and its respective category's factor exposure can be found in the Factor Profile module within the Portfolio section. 

 The portfolio is overweight in utilities and industrials relative to the category average by 6.0 and 5.8 percentage points, respectively. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are technology and consumer cyclical, underweight the average by 17.1 and 4.6 percentage points of assets, respectively. The strategy owns 559 securities and its assets are more dispersed than peers in the category. In particular, 10.4% of the strategy's assets are concentrated in the top 10 fund holdings, as opposed to the category average's 25.3%. And in closing, in terms of portfolio turnover, looking at year-over-year movements, 33% of the fund's holdings have turned over, whether through increasing, decreasing, or changing a position.

High

Process

JPMorgan’s  team is comparable to peers, resulting in an Average People Pillar rating. There’s a sizable bench of five managers listed on the fund. Together, they manage a total of two strategies, with a Gold asset-weighted average Morningstar Medalist Rating, indicating the potential to deliver positive alpha relative to the category median in aggregate.  

 Note: This People Pillar rating is indirectly assigned by an analyst. Morningstar analysts evaluate the People Pillar for passive products at the brand level and may also differentiate by asset class. There is at least one other passive strategy at the firm that is covered by a Morningstar analyst, so the People Pillar rating of the fund is inherited from the rating that the Morningstar analyst assigned to investment vehicles under the same brand name.

Average

People

A well-resourced, thoughtful, and disciplined steward of client assets, JPMorgan Asset Management maintains an Above Average Parent rating.
As of 2022, this investment stalwart manages more than USD 2.5 trillion in AUM. Composed of various global cohorts and diverse asset classes, the firm has more tightly integrated its capabilities in recent years, notably through the development of proprietary analytical and risk systems. Investment teams are robustly staffed and helmed by seasoned contributors. The firm’s strategies tend to produce reliable portfolios, and several flagship offerings are Morningstar Medalists. Manager incentives align with fundholders'; compensation reflects longer-term performance factors, and portfolio managers invest in the firm’s strategies as part of their compensation plans. 
The firm’s funds tend to be well-priced, but they aren’t as competitive as many highly regarded peers of similar scale. Recent product launches include thematic and single-country strategies, both of which carry the potential for volatile performance and flows, along with misuse by investors. The firm remains intrepid when it comes to developing an environmental, social, and governance-focused framework and continues to move into other areas such as direct indexing through its 55iP acquisition and China through its joint venture, but these complicated initiatives take time to assess any real and lasting effect.

Above Average

Parent

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