Exhibit 99(a)

JPMorgan Trust I                                     JPMorgan Investment Trust
JPMorgan Trust II                                    Undiscovered Managers Funds
J.P. Morgan Fleming Mutual Fund Group, Inc.          UM Investment Trust
J.P. Morgan Mutual Fund Group                        UM Investment Trust II
J.P. Morgan Mutual Fund Investment Trust

                               POWERS OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned
constitutes and appoints George C.W. Gatch, Robert L. Young, Patricia A.
Maleski, Stephanie J. Dorsey, Jessica K. Ditullio, Stephen M. Benham, Nancy E.
Fields, Elizabeth A. Davin, John T. Fitzgerald, Michael C. Raczynski, Alaina V.
Metz, Christopher D. Walsh, Stephen M. Ungerman, Suzanne E. Cioffi and Thomas J.
Smith, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and
agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution for such
attorney-in-fact in such attorney-in-fact's name, place and stead, to sign any
and all registration statements or other filings made with the Securities and
Exchange Commission or any state regulatory agency or authority applicable to
the above named Trusts, and any amendments or supplements thereto, and
withdrawals thereof, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission
or any state regulatory agency or authority, as appropriate, granting unto said
attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and
every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done as fully to all intents
and purposes as he or she might or could do in person in his or her capacity as
a Trustee or officer of the Trusts, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     This Powers of Attorney may be signed in one or more counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute
one and the same document.

/s/ William J. Armstrong                  /s/ William G. Morton, Jr.
William J. Armstrong                      William G. Morton, Jr.


/s/ Roland R. Eppley, Jr.                 /s/ Robert A. Oden, Jr.
Roland R. Eppley, Jr.                     Robert A. Oden, Jr.


/s/ John F. Finn                          /s/ Fergus Reid, III
John F. Finn                              Fergus Reid, III


/s/ Matthew Goldstein                     /s/ Frederick W. Ruebeck
Matthew Goldstein                         Frederick W. Ruebeck


/s/ Robert J. Higgins                     /s/ James J. Schonbachler
Robert J. Higgins                         James J. Schonbachler


/s/ Peter C. Marshall                     /s/ Leonard M. Spalding, Jr.
Peter C. Marshall                         Leonard M. Spalding, Jr.


/s/ Marilyn McCoy
Marilyn McCoy                                          Dated: February 14, 2006.