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by Evangelia Gkeka

We received a notification from J.P. Morgan that Lisa Coleman, head of global investment-grade corporate credit and portfolio manager of JPM Global Corporate Bond, will retire from the industry in March 2026. Since joining in 2008, Coleman has built the investment-grade franchise at J.P. Morgan. Andreas Michalitsianos will take over Coleman's role as head of global investment-grade corporate credit effective Oct. 1, 2025. Michalitsianos has 23 years of credit portfolio management experience and has worked closely with Coleman for the past 16 years. To support Michalitsianos in his expanded role, Vikas Pathani and Usman Naeem, senior portfolio managers within the investment-grade credit team, will lead the US and European credit teams, respectively, both reporting into Michalitsianos. In terms of the manager lineup for JPM Global Corporate Bond, both Michalitsianos and Naeem remain in place and will continue to cover the European side. Michalitsianos will take over Coleman's role as portfolio manager with ultimate decision-making authority on Oct. 1. Coleman will remain portfolio manager until her retirement. Lorenzo Napolitano also remains in place, covering the US side. Pathani was added as comanager on April 1, 2025, with a focus on US investment-grade. Pathani has over 20 years of experience with J.P. Morgan on the investment banking, private bank, and asset-management side. We appreciate the advanced notification on Coleman's retirement and the team changes. Throughout the years, Coleman has built a team of experienced investment-grade portfolio managers who have worked with her for a long time and over different stages of the cycle. The credit analyst team provides depth and expertise and supports security selection efforts as part of the team-based approach. We are confident that the team will be able to navigate the above changes with minimal disruption. We therefore maintain both our People and Process Pillar ratings unchanged at Above Average. |
JPMorgan Global Corporate Bond benefits from a well-resourced team and is led by an experienced bench of four portfolio managers. Lisa Coleman, J.P. Morgan's head of global credit, has been at the helm since the strategy's inception in March 2009. Coleman boasts more than four decades of experience and joined J.P. Morgan in 2008 after an eight-year stint at Schroders, most recently as head of global credit strategies. She is based in the US alongside Lorenzo Napolitano, who has been involved in the strategy since 2012. The duo is mainly responsible for the US credit portion, while the two London-based comanagers, Andreas Michalitsianos (since 2013) and Usman Naeem (who joined the team in 2015), look after the European credit exposure. The disciplined investment process exploits the full extent of resources available to the team. The macro credit strategy, formulated by the wider fixed-income group (including Coleman), shapes the portfolio's credit-risk stance and market tilt (US dollar, euro, and sterling). The managers then determine relative sector positioning and rely on a team of 21 dedicated investment-grade credit research analysts for the implementation of their top-down views. Given the pure-play approach here, duration is kept close to that of its Bloomberg Global Aggregate Corporate Index benchmark. Exposure to non-investment-grade credit (including subordinated financials) was historically limited to 10%, a moderate level compared with peers, but since 2021, the limit here has increased to 20% (although it is unlikely that level will be fully used here). The strategy's conservative style has seen it lag the market when high yield has rallied; still, the long-term track record of its clean share class C was comfortably ahead of peers and also outperformed its Morningstar Category index from its inception in 2011 to the end of December 2024. The strategy declined by 14.5% in 2022, underperforming peers by 55 basis points. Security selection marginally detracted, particularly exposure to the banking sector. Duration contributed slightly to performance, with mainly small underweight exposure for most of the first half of the year. In 2023, it returned 8.9% and outperformed peers by 42 basis points. Security selection helped, with the biggest contributors in banking, USD energy, and utilities. In 2024, it delivered 4.5% and outperformed peers by 1%. Security selection contributed, predominantly in banks, but also several other sectors such as energy, consumer noncyclical, utilities, consumer cyclical, and technology. Off-benchmark exposure in high yield and corporate hybrids also helped, as did active duration management throughout the year. Overall, Coleman's leadership and significant experience in credit markets, combined with the disciplined team-based investment process and the depth of resources available, are among the positives here. |
Morningstar Pillars | |
People | Above Average |
Parent | Above Average |
Process | Above Average |
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