Investment Strategies
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With more than $25 billion* under management, J.P. Morgan Asset Management affords the scale and resources to deliver unique investment solutions to anywhere in the world. Our competitive advantages are demonstrated by our specialist approach to investing in emerging markets and our well-resourced and experienced teams.
Critical to our success is the ability of our seasoned analysts to develop deep, long-lasting relationships with the management teams of emerging businesses worldwide. The key decision makers respect our research capability as we have a deep understanding of their industries, secular and fiscal trends, the competition and the global implications of business issues and cycles.
Global insight with local presence: Our equity research team supplies comprehensive local coverage, providing unique insight into the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Information advantage: Analysts and portfolio managers engage in collaborative cross-border dialogue between different teams and regions to ensure that the best ideas and insights are leveraged across our entire offering. We support multiple processes and strategies to meet the full complement of our clients' investment needs.
Investment management tradition: We were one of the first investment managers to offer emerging equity strategies to institutional investors in the U.S.
Proven investment process:Our investment process is based on over 30 years of experience in emerging markets. Managers seek to capture alpha by contributing context and judgment to the research done by our country specialists and macro strategists.
Consistent risk discipline: Across each style, our portfolio construction practice is thoroughly vetted against a stable series of risk metrics. Careful adherence to portfolio objectives as expressed through alpha generation, tracking error and correlations, contribute to a disciplined and well-managed program.
Efficiencies in trading and implementation: The depth of our trading knowledge and markets expertise enables us to generate efficiencies for our clients in order flow, liquidity management and marketplace participation. All traders work with clearly defined metrics and objectives.
* As of September 30, 2009. International investing involves a greater degree of risk and increased volatility. Changes in currency exchange rates and differences in accounting and taxation policies outside the U.S. can raise or lower returns. Also, some overseas markets may not be as politically and economically stable as the United States and other nations.