JPMorgan Emerging Markets Debt Fund earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating.
The leading factor in the rating is its parent firm's excellent 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 55% also supports the process. The measure indicates the percentage of a firm's funds that survived and beat their respective category's median Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return for the period. Their impressive success ratio suggests that the firm does well for investors and that this fund may benefit from that.
Compared with other funds in the Emerging Markets Bond Morningstar Category, this fund, historically, hews closely to peers' credit and interest-rate sensitivity 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. Relative to the average strategy in the category, the managers have been substantially underweight A rated bonds in recent years. In the latest month, the strategy has also relatively underweighted A rated bonds compared with Morningstar Category peers. Additionally, there's been a notable overallocation to debt with 20- to 30-year maturities over the past few years. Compared with category peers, the strategy had more exposure to debt with 20- to 30-year maturities in the most recent month. Finally, during the past few years, the fund leaned away from corporate debt. In recent months, the strategy also had less exposure to corporate debt compared to its peers.
This strategy's 12-month yield is 5.9%, lower than its average peers' 6.1%. In addition, it has a 6.5% 30-day SEC yield (a standardized, point-in-time estimate of the fund’s future income return). 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 has a lower average surveyed credit quality of B, compared with the category average's BB and its non-investment-grade stake is 64% of assets, compared to its peers' 50%. Lower quality bonds have higher yields but come with more risk.