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Top Fund Idea: JPMorgan Income Fund

Selective on high yield

14 October 2021

Past performance

JPMorgan Income Fund

Past performance
 
1Y
2.50%
3Y
N.A.
5Y
N.A.

Selective on high yield

  • With taper talks looming in the horizon, we hold an overweight view on emerging market high yield (HY) and recommend an underweight position on investment grade (IG).
  • Investors should continue to hold a discerning approach towards investing in HY for the remainder of 2021.
  • Moreover, the spread volatility and returns between various countries and industries will remain elevated.
  • HY continues to be more attractive than IG for a few reasons.
    1. HY has a more attractive valuation on a relative and historical basis.
    2. The duration for IG is much higher than HY, making IG more sensitive to rising rates environment.
    3. The lower spread on IG leaves less buffer against rising interest rates.
    4. Positive quarterly earnings announcement could spell a trend of positive credit momentum.
  • As emerging market HY are showing better fundamentals and attractive valuations combine with a spread buffer, we believe that it should provide some cushion for investors against tapering and rising rates environment.

Why we like the fund

  • The JPMorgan Income Fund generates attractive and predictable monthly income while tightly controlling risk.
  • The fund does this by employing an unconstrained and dynamic approach to source the best investment ideas spread out across a wide range of fixed income sectors and countries while actively managing duration risks.
  • Doing so allows the fund to diversify risk premiums and deliver a high-yield-like income stream with lower volatility.
  • Such diversification also provides some downside protection during periods of market stress.
  • A key driving factor behind the fund’s ability to deliver such consistent and predictable pay-outs is its proprietary income bank or reserve, which helps smoothen out “lumpy” cash flow distributions and protects against possible fluctuations in interest rates.

About the fund

NAV as at 29 September 2021 (for the SGD-H share class)
S$9.69
Fund Inception Date
2 June 2014
Fund Size
US$1,193.3 mil
Annual Management Fee
1.00% p.a.
Subscription Modes
Cash

Top 5 holdings

 
%
GNMA – 20/03/51
3.10
GNMA – 20/09/51
1.50
JPM GLOBAL HIGH YIELD BOND FUND
0.90
DISH NETWORK
0.40
GNMA – 20/07/51
0.40

NAV movement

NAV chart based on Bloomberg data as at 29 September 2021

Asset allocation

Source: Fund information extracted from the fund’s factsheet provided by JPMorgan Asset Management as at 31 August 2021.

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JPM INCOME FUND A (MTH) SGD-H

Suitable for Growth/ Aggressive

1-year performance

+ 4.50 %