JPMorgan Emerging Markets Debt Fund earns an Average Process Pillar rating.
The main contributor to the rating is its parent firm's superior long-term risk-adjusted performance, as shown by the firm's average 10-year Morningstar Rating of 3.3 stars. The parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 57% also supports the process. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and outperformed their respective category's median Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return for the period. Their noteworthy success ratio suggests that the firm does well for investors and that this fund may benefit from that. Lastly, the process is limited by the fund's unimpressive long-term risk-adjusted performance. This can be seen in its five-year alpha calculated relative to the category average, which suggests that the process has struggled over that period.
Compared with other funds in the Emerging Markets Bond Morningstar Category, this fund has been consistently sensitive to interest-rate changes over the past few years. Opening the analysis to additional factors, the portfolio has displayed biases over time, whether towards or away from certain fixed-income instruments. Compared with the average strategy in the category, the managers have been significantly underweight A rated bonds in recent years. Different from its historical appetite, however, the portfolio's credit quality was in line with the Morningstar Category peers in recent months. Additionally, there's been a notable overweight position in debt with 20- to 30-year maturities over the past few years. In the most recent month, however, the fund's exposure to debt with 20- to 30-year maturities was in line with the Morningstar Category average. Finally, during the past few years, the fund leaned away from corporate bonds. In recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to corporate bonds compared to its peers.
This strategy's 12-month yield is 5.4%, lower than its average peers' 5.9%. Plus, its 30-day SEC yield (a measure similar to yield-to-maturity) sits at 5.7%. Typically, a lower yield comes with the benefit of less credit risk. But that isn't always the case. Over the past 12 months, the average yield of the fund has been lower than the average yield of its Morningstar Category peers. The portfolio's average surveyed credit quality is on par with peers, with both the fund and the average being rated BB.