Nexus

J.P. Morgan’s platform for cross-asset synthetic strategies

Deliver your investment strategy through Nexus

Nexus empowers you to:

  • Attract investors with various synthetic delivery formats and payoffs
  • Quickly establish track records for innovative strategies across all asset classes
  • Improve operational efficiency and governance effectiveness

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Find out how our cross-asset trading platform can help by allowing you to outsource your execution and risk management of trades to J.P. Morgan.

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Start Delivering

Find out how our cross-asset trading platform can help by allowing you to outsource your execution and risk management of trades to J.P. Morgan.

Narrator:

 

In an environment of rising operational expenses and fee pressure when new regulations making it more expensive to do business. And the boom in passive investing means that fees for actively managed funds are being squeezed. 

 

J.P. Morgan's cross asset trading platform, Nexus, can help by allowing you to outsource your hedging and risk management of trades to J.P. Morgan. 

The Nexus platform allows you to balance costs whilst gaining in efficiency. As we progress towards the new normal for our industry with our reach and scale at your fingertips through one integrated operating system. 

 

You can easily access our cross asset expertize, execution, operation, technology, or risk management capabilities all in one place to hedge your strategy. You can gain access to your strategy synthetically via a fully funded security or unfunded derivatives, such as swap. 

 

Growing from a handful of private bank clients in 2011, Nexus now serves asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, securities houses and insurance companies and has continuously innovated and developed as clients needs have evolved. 

 

This means we have the experience to implement your strategy efficiently and effectively. Plus being able to customize it to suit your specific needs. 

 

Due to our long term experience, Nexus strategies have evolved to provide synthetic access to the broadest spectrum of assets through its comprehensive suite of products. 

 

While Prime Nexus offers a more targeted selection but with more hedging capabilities, with the ability to reference intraday orders sent from your very own EMS. 

 

Multiple times a day with direct market access and with the option to use J.P. Morgan Execution Algos, and Nexus Custom Basket provides quick time to market of launching stock or bond specific strategies, referenced through a Delta One Swap. 

 

Nexus enables you to release cash by replacing a fully funded investment in a fund or managed account to an unfunded swap on the same strategy and improve leverage by replacing assets backed borrowing with synthetic exposure. 

 

Because Nexus operates as a single instrument, you can achieve better payoff flexibility, and it can also increase the speed and lower the cost of pricing your strategy. 

 

You can also get better access to hard to reach markets at competitive rates, expanding your hedging capabilities. 

 

On top of this, Nexus offers versatile reporting, including daily positions, and strategy level reports which give you full transparency over your synthetic portfolio. 

 

These reports can be highly customized to suit your requirements in various formats, PDF, CSV and Excel and delivered to you via a sFTP API, or email. Ultimately, this means you can gain greater insight into your synthetic strategy at every level. 

 

Improved analytics of your synthetic strategies and analysis of historical performance

 

Publish your strategy daily on Bloomberg and analyze your strategy compositions via BBG Portal for Post-trade, Analytics and Risk Attribution. 

 

View Historical Performance with complete audit track of rebalances performance statistics and risk measures. 

 

Access Granular Factor Based Analytics providing the ability to visualize the drivers of performance and understand your risk and exposures with the integration of Nexus, with Veda, J.P. Morgan's Cross Asset Analytics Tool. 

 

And finally, you're able to rebalance your strategies via your preferred interface. 

 

So, if you're looking for a comprehensive platform to deliver your actively managed synthetic strategy, accessed via a variety of different product wrappers, which can reference a wide range of different asset classes with access to top level hedging capabilities, try Nexus from J.P. Morgan. 

 

 

The Nexus solution

Many funded strategies can be replicated synthetically. By replacing a funded investment with an unfunded swap on the same strategy, investors can release cash for capital intensive investments, financing, liquidity or may invest at better rates available to them.

By creating a single reference instrument, it is possible to offer alternative payoffs linked to the same strategy depending on the type of management required. The platform offers a wide range of investable formats including swaps, certificates, warrants, funds and the option component of 3rd party issued note.

Investing synthetically can be lower cost than borrowing against assets. As J.P. Morgan owns the hedge positions and can potentially net across the bank, credit risk is lower and higher leverage can be offered at lower rates than an equivalent standalone loan.

The platform handles all operational aspects including financing, borrow, cash flows, corporate actions, exchange membership, margining, settlement, clearing, reporting, administration and custody. This can lower cost for investors and managers and increase speed of execution.

The platform offers a broad spectrum of reference assets which can be used as building blocks to create customised strategies. These include single stocks, indices, ETFs, mutual funds, J.P. Morgan investable indices, as well as J.P. Morgan future trackers on equities, FX, rates, credit and commodities.

Nexus strategies benefit from J.P. Morgan’s extensive footprint across global exchanges, including otherwise hard to access markets, at competitive rates. The strategies can be rebalanced intraday (e.g. using VWAP, TWAP and POV orders) which managers submit via the Nexus front-end.

Strategy levels are available daily via Bloomberg and the Nexus website. Position reports are provided with an exhaustive breakdown of exposures. All fees are determined at the inception of the product and are fully transparent. Each strategy is monitored closely under an IOSCO compliant governance.

The J.P. Morgan Nexus Platform is available only to institutional clients of J.P. Morgan. If you believe you qualify and would like to learn more about Nexus, email nexus_platform@jpmorgan.com

Complaints:

If you have a complaint about a J.P. Morgan Nexus strategies you can report it to us in a variety of ways. You can call your usual J.P. Morgan contact, or alternatively you can use email or post.

Email:
nexus_platform@jpmorgan.com

Post:
J.P. Morgan
Nexus Strategies - Complaints
25 Bank Street
London, E14 5JP
United Kingdom

Any complaint regarding the person advising on, or selling, any product referencing J.P. Morgan Nexus strategies, can be submitted directly to that person. Once we have received your complaint, we will acknowledge it, investigate it and respond to you in a fair and timely manner.

Complaints made against a J.P. Morgan UK regulated entity will be handled in accordance with J.P. Morgan’s Complaints Handling Process - UK Regulated Entities.

Regulatory disclosure:

EU and UK benchmarks regulations:

J.P. Morgan Securities plc (JPMS plc) was registered as a benchmark administrator under article 34 of the EU Benchmarks Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/1011) (“EU BMR”). Due to Brexit, JPMS plc is no longer a benchmark administrator under EU BMR and instead is a benchmark administrator under article 34 of the United Kingdom Benchmarks Regulation (“UK BMR”) and can be found listed on the FCA Register. The Nexus Platform Business of JPMS plc creates indices, some of which are considered “benchmarks” under one or both of EU BMR and UK BMR.

IOSCO, EU Benchmarks Regulation and UK Benchmarks Regulation Supplemental Disclosure
JPM plc’s IOSCO, EU Benchmarks Regulation and UK Benchmarks Regulation Supplemental Disclosure can be viewed here.

EU Benchmarks Regulation and UK Benchmarks Regulation Compliance Statement
JPMS plc’s EU Benchmarks Regulation and UK Benchmarks Regulation Compliance Statement can be viewed here.

Benchmark Families
The Nexus Benchmark Statement families can be viewed here.

Changes to Interbank Offered Rates (IBORS) and other benchmark rates:

For additional information about indices which utilise an IBOR rate, either directly or indirectly, please click here.

The information on this website is intended for professional clients and eligible counterparties and is for discussion purposes only. It does not constitute a financial promotion. It is not intended to provide the full details in relation to J.P. Morgan NexusSM and is incomplete without reference to, and should be viewed solely in conjunction with, additional detailed information from JPMorgan Chase & Co. or any of its subsidiaries (J.P. Morgan). It does not constitute an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any product or a commitment by J.P. Morgan to enter into any transaction. This website is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal or accounting advice. You should consult your own tax, legal and accounting advisers before engaging in any transaction. This information is not intended for and should not be relied upon by retail customers or for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction where such distribution or use is prohibited by law or regulation. This information has been prepared by J.P. Morgan Securities plc, authorized by the UK Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Please consult jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for additional disclosures.