JPMorgan U.S. Sustainable Leaders Fd earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating.
The most substantial contributor to the rating is the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 56%. 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. The parent firm's excellent risk-adjusted performance, as shown by its average 10-year Morningstar Rating of 3.3 stars, also bolsters the process. Lastly, the process is limited by being an actively managed strategy. Historical data, such as Morningstar's Active/Passive Barometer, finds that actively managed funds have generally underperformed their passive counterparts, especially over longer time horizons.
This strategy prefers smaller market-cap companies compared with the average fund in its peer group, the Large Blend Morningstar Category. But in terms of style (value/growth) exposure, it is similar. Analyzing additional factors, this fund has constantly tilted toward stocks with higher trading volumes than its Morningstar Category Peers over the past few years. Such stocks may have less potential upside than illiquid holdings, but they are easier to trade during market downturns. In recent months, the strategy was more exposed to the Liquidity factor compared with its Morningstar Category peers as well. This strategy has also exhibited a tilt toward high-volatility stocks over these years, meaning it has invested in companies that have a higher historical standard deviation of returns. Such stocks tend to rise faster and fall harder than the broad market. High-volatility exposure contributes to stronger performance during bull markets, but often at the cost of losing more during downturns. Compared with category peers, the strategy also had more exposure to the Volatility factor in the most recent month. Additionally, the strategy had more exposure to high-quality stocks compared with Morningstar Category peers in recent months. Such holdings could cause it to trail peers during economic booms, but help it better endure busts. More information on a fund and its respective category's factor exposure can be found in the Factor Profile module within the Portfolio section.
The portfolio is overweight in technology by 2.9 percentage points in terms of assets compared with the category average, and its healthcare allocation is similar to the category. The sectors with low exposure compared to category peers are consumer defensive and energy, with consumer defensive underweighting the average portfolio by 2.7 percentage points of assets and energy similar to the average. The portfolio is positioned across 77 holdings and is diversified among those holdings. In its most recent portfolio, 39.9% of the strategy's assets were concentrated in the top 10 fund holdings, compared to the category’s 49.5% average. And in closing, in terms of portfolio turnover, this portfolio trades more frequently than the average peer in its category, which may result in higher trading costs for investors and cause a drag on performance.