Advisory Business
A. Description of Advisory Firm
This Brochure relates to the investment advisory services offered by J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. ("JPMIM" or the
"Adviser"). JPMIM is registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") as an investment adviser
pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the “Advisers Act”). JPMIM, together with 55I, LLC, Bear
Stearns Asset Management Inc., Campbell Global, LLC, Highbridge Capital Management, LLC, J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset
Management, Inc., JPMorgan Asset Management (Asia Pacific) Limited, JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited,
JPMorgan Funds Limited, Security Capital Research & Management Incorporated, each an SEC registered investment
adviser, various affiliated foreign investment advisers and the asset management division of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
("JPMCB") comprise the Asset Management ("AM") business of J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management ("JPMAWM"). J.P.
Morgan Asset Management ("JPMAM") is the marketing name for the AM businesses of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its
affiliates worldwide ("JPMC"). JPMC is a publicly traded global financial services firm.
JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings Inc., which is a subsidiary of JPMC, owns all the common stock of JPMIM. JPMIM
was incorporated in Delaware on February 7, 1984.
B. Description of Advisory Services
This Brochure describes the investment advisory services that JPMIM provides for the J.P. Morgan Automated Investing
Program (the "Program"). JPMIM also provides a broad range of investment strategies and advisory services on both a
discretionary and non-discretionary basis through through a variety of investment vehicles and arrangements, depending on
the strategy, which are described in a separate brochure. For additional information about these services that JPMIM provides
to its other clients, please see JPMIM's Firm Brochure, which is available at the SEC's website at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov or
upon request from JPMIM.
Program Overview
The Program, sponsored and offered by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC ("JPMS"), an affiliate of JPMIM, is a digital investment
advisory wrap fee program designed to provide clients with access to discretionary advisory services. The Program provides
clients with a target asset allocation and discretionary investment advisory services based on information about the client's risk
profile and investment goals that the client provides to JPMS.
Although JPMIM has investment discretion over the construction of the model portfolios (including fund selection and
replacements), JPMS retains trading authority to implement the model portfolios and places orders consistent with each
client’s Selected Portfolio (as defined in Key Terms). The Program relies on a third-party vendor to administer certain
technological, administrative and operational aspects of the Program. An Affiliate of JPMC holds an ownership interest in the
Program’s vendor. For further information about this third-party relationship, see Item 10.C.
Investors in the Program will have access only to exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) sponsored or managed by JPMIM
(“JPMorgan ETFs”) selected by JPMIM for the Program which may be more limited than the investment options available
under other JPMIM managed portfolios. Each client participates in the Program through one of two types of model portfolios:
“Portfolios” and “Glide Path Portfolios”.
• Portfolios: The asset allocations of Portfolios are based on the firm’s long-term capital market assumptions, as well as
the correlation between asset classes. While the asset allocations for Portfolios may change (for example based on
JPMIM’s long-term market assumptions), they are not designed to change based on the client’s age and target
retirement date. The Program currently offers four types of Portfolios: Conservative, Moderate, Growth and
Aggressive.
• Glide Path Portfolios: The target allocations of a Glide Path Portfolio are designed to change over time. As clients
progress towards their designated retirement date, a Glide Path Portfolio begins to seek more current income and
less capital appreciation. The strategic target allocations of the Glide Path Portfolios generally become more
conservative as the client’s designated retirement date approaches (i.e., more emphasis on fixed income and less on
equity). There are three types of Glide Path Portfolios: Moderate, Growth and Aggressive.
The model portfolios that are available in the Program will be comprised exclusively of JPMorgan ETFs and an allocation of
the portfolios will be in cash. Clients should not invest in the Program if they are not comfortable holding an investment
portfolio that is comprised of 100% JPMorgan ETFs. Please see JPMS' Wrap Fee Program Brochure, available at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov for more information.
Based on Program objectives established and provided by JPMS, JPMIM is responsible for benchmark selection, establishing
portfolio and drift rebalancing guidelines, model portfolio construction, and selecting and monitoring the JPMorgan ETFs used
for Portfolios and Glide Path Portfolios, in the Program as further discussed below. JPMS is responsible for defining investor
suitability and for overseeing the Program and the performance of JPMIM as sub-adviser to the Program. See Item 8.A. for
additional information.
For more information on JPMorgan ETFs and related conflicts of interest, see Item 11.B. below. For important information
about each ETF, including investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses, clients should read each ETF’s prospectus
carefully and consider all the information in it before investing. To obtain a prospectus, please visit the fund company’s website
at www.jpmorganfunds.com/funddocuments.
To participate in the Program, clients enter into an investment advisory agreement with JPMS as investment adviser. JPMS
has appointed JPMIM, an affiliate of JPMS, to serve as sub-adviser for the Program to provide certain services as described in
this Brochure. For information regarding opening an account, including the investment proposal questionnaire and selecting a
model portfolio, please see JPMS' Wrap Fee Program Brochure, available
at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov. JPMS is responsible for
determining which Program model portfolio is appropriate for a particular client.
Portfolios offers four model portfolios that correspond to four different "Risk Profiles" (as defined in Key Terms). The model
portfolios are: Conservative, Moderate, Growth and Aggressive, each of which is described below. JPMIM manages similarly
named model portfolios for other advisory programs; however, the style and the securities within the model portfolios for
Portfolios are different, and are expected to perform differently. JPMIM's investment decisions with respect to Portfolios will
seek to align each Portfolio with its respective investment objective as set out in the Investment Policy Statement established
by JPMS.
Portfolios
Below is a description of each of the Portfolios. For the related risks of each model portfolio, please see Item 8 below. In
addition, in connection with investments in an ETF, the descriptions of the model portfolios below are qualified in their entirety
by the information included in the applicable ETFs prospectus or statement of additional information. To obtain a prospectus,
please visit the fund company’
s website at www.jpmorganfunds.com/funddocuments.
• Conservative. The Conservative model portfolio primarily seeks
to preserve initial capital investments and generate
income with a secondary goal to achieve moderate levels of capital growth. The model portfolio also aims to maintain
below-moderate exposure to risk of capital loss in pursuit of this return objective. Consistent with these objectives, it
is expected that a majority of the model portfolio will be invested in ETFs that seek to track the performance of assets
that have a history of lower capital returns and volatility, such as fixed income securities. In seeking returns that
include capital growth, it is expected that the model portfolio will invest more assets in ETFs that target the
performance of assets that are historically more volatile, such as equities, than would a portfolio focused solely on
capital preservation alone; the secondary objective of the model portfolio provides more exposure to more volatile
securities than a fixed-income asset alone.
• Moderate. The Moderate model portfolio primarily seeks to achieve growth of initial capital investments and income
generation with a secondary goal of principal preservation. The model portfolio aims to maintain moderate exposure
to risk of capital loss in pursuit of returns. Consistent with these objectives, it is expected that the model portfolio will
be invested in ETFs that seek to track the performance of assets that tend to have a history of lower capital returns
and volatility, such as fixed income securities, and those with a more volatile history and upside return potential, such
as equities securities.
• Growth. The Growth model portfolio primarily seeks to achieve growth of initial capital investments. The model
portfolio also aims to maintain above-moderate exposure to risk of capital loss in pursuit of this return objective.
Consistent with these objectives, it is expected that the model portfolio will be invested predominantly in ETFs that
seek to track the performance of assets that tend to have a history of higher return potential and volatility, such as
equities, with a lower percentage invested in ETFs that seek to track the performance of assets that have been
historically less volatile, such as fixed income securities.
• Aggressive. The Aggressive model portfolio seeks to achieve growth of initial capital investments. The model portfolio
will generally maintain high exposure to risk of capital loss in pursuit of this return objective. Consistent with this
objective, it is expected that the model portfolio will be invested predominantly in ETFs that seek to track the
performance of assets that tend to have a history of high upside return potential and volatility, such as equity
securities.
Glide Path Portfolios
Each Glide Path Portfolio is designed by JPMIM to have a similar expected risk and return objective over a forty (40) year time
horizon as its respective comparable Portfolio (Moderate, Growth, Aggressive). JPMIM will review the construction of the Glide
Path Portfolios at least annually and will adjust the annual asset allocation targets as appropriate consistent with the overall
risk and return characteristics of the comparable Portfolio. Clients should note that Glide Path Portfolios will generally have
higher portfolio turnover than Portfolios because the asset allocations for Glide Path Portfolios are adjusted over time. ETF
transaction costs are included in the Advisory Fee (as defined in Key Terms), so higher turnover will not increase transaction
costs; however, higher portfolio turnover may result in higher taxes for taxable accounts.
The Glide Path Portfolios are “to” glidepaths rather than “through” glidepaths. A “through” glidepath has a longer glidepath that
goes beyond a designated retirement year. “Through” glidepath portfolios are designed for investors with longer investment
horizons that go 10 to 20 years past their retirement age. Such glidepaths tend to be more aggressive in that their strategic
target allocations to equities at retirement are higher than “to” portfolios, and become more conservative over a longer period
of time after retirement. A “to” glidepath generally treats the target date as the end point of the glidepath. Such portfolios
generally reach their most conservative strategic target allocations at or close to the designated retirement date. The
Program’s Glide Path Portfolios are “to” portfolios. In other words, they reach their most conservative strategic target
allocations within the client’s target retirement date range.
For more information about Portfolio and Glide Path Portfolios in the Program, clients and prospective clients should carefully
review the JPMS Wrap Fee Program Brochure - J.P. Morgan Automated Investing Program, which is available on the SEC's
website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov or upon request from JPMS.
C. Availability of Reasonable Restrictions
Clients will not be allowed to make trades in their accounts, however, they can request from JPMS reasonable restrictions on
the management of their accounts, subject to JPMS’ acceptance and the Program parameters. JPMIM indicates to JPMS
which securities can be restricted by Clients. For more information regarding reasonable restrictions, please see JPMS' Wrap
Fee Program Brochure, available at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov.
D. Wrap Fee Programs
JPMIM’s investment advisory and portfolio management services are available to clients through the Program, a “wrap fee”
program sponsored by JPMS. For the Program, a client pays a single (or “wrap”, “advisory” or “bundled”) fee to JPMS for
investment advisory, portfolio management, brokerage, execution, custody and reporting services. JPMS, in its discretion, can
waive or reduce the Advisory Fee.
JPMIM acts as a sub-adviser to the Program under an investment advisory agreement between JPMIM and JPMS. In this
capacity, JPMIM has discretionary authority, within investment constraints established by JPMS, over the asset allocation, fund
selection and portfolio construction of the model portfolios available in the Program. JPMIM is further responsible for
monitoring the performance of the ETF selections and evaluating the model portfolios on a periodic basis. See Items 10 and 11
below for more information on material conflicts of interest relating to JPMIM's advisory (including sub-advisory) services.
JPMIM does not generally communicate directly with Program clients (including communications with respect to changes in a
Program client’s investment objectives or restrictions). All such communications generally must be directed through JPMS.
Also, JPMIM does not provide overall investment supervisory services to Program clients and is generally not in a position to
determine, and is not responsible for determining, the suitability of the Program or any model portfolio for Program clients.
JPMIM’s investment advisory services are also available through other wrap fee programs sponsored by certain broker-
dealers or investment advisers, including Affiliates of JPMIM ("Sponsors"). Please reference JPMIM's Firm Brochure, available
at
www.adviserinfo.sec.gov, for more information about these other wrap fee programs. Please refer to Section 5.I.(2) of
Schedule D in Part 1A of JPMIM’s Form ADV for a full list of the wrap fee programs in which JPMIM participates.
For additional information regarding Fees and Compensation, Brokerage Practices and Custody, please see Item 5.A-E, Item
12, and Item 15, respectively.
E. Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, JPMIM had assets under management in the amounts set forth below:
Assets Under Management U.S. Dollar Amount
Assets Managed on a Discretionary Basis $2,526,284,387,805
Assets Managed on a Non-Discretionary Basis $22,808,394,708
Total Regulatory Assets Under Management $2,549,092,782,514
Other Advisory Assets not included in Regulatory Assets Under Management $119,345,775,135
Total Assets Under Management $2,668,438,557,649