JPM America Equity I (dist) USD

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|31/03/2025

by Morningstar Manager Research
As expected, Jonathan Simon will retire from his role as a portfolio manager of this strategy, effective March 4, 2025. The firm prepared for this eventuality by naming Jack Caffrey as comanager in March 2024. He will assume responsibility for this bifurcated portfolio's value sleeve. Dan Percella was initially named comanager in 2022 and figured to be a potential successor, but he was removed in 2024 in favor of Caffrey. Caffrey will now be joined by Graham Spence, comanager of JPMorgan Value Advantage and longtime partner of Simon. Spence’s addition is meant to bolster the resources and ideas available to the strategy, while providing some support at the manager position. Spence will work alongside Caffrey as comanager, though Caffrey retains final say.

Overall, the strategy’s management team of Caffrey, Spence, Felise Agranoff, and Eric Ghernati has a mix of experienced managers and relative newcomers with more to prove. Accordingly, its People rating of Average and Morningstar Medalist Ratings are unchanged based on the news.

 

JPM America Equity I (dist) USD's Average People Pillar and Process Pillar ratings result in a Morningstar Medalist Rating of Neutral. The strategy charges fees in line with its similarly distributed peers, priced within the middle quintile.



The strategy’s management team earns an Average People Pillar rating. The strategy merits an Average Process Pillar rating. The strategy's parent organization earns the firm an Above Average Parent Pillar rating. People, Process and Parent Pillar ratings for this strategy are indirectly assigned by a Morningstar analyst rather than algorithmically derived. Please see the notes following each pillar section for more details. The details of assigning methods can be found in each pillar section.

 
Morningstar Medalist Rating™
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Morningstar Pillars
PeopleAverage
ParentAbove Average
ProcessAverage
 
Morningstar Medalist RatingMorningstar assigns the Medalist Rating to funds that are qualitatively and quantitatively assessed through manager research and algorithmic processes. The assessment turns on three key “pillars” – People, Process, and Parent – that yield an estimate of how well a fund will perform before fees but after adjusting for risk.
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