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Summary Prospectus    July 1, 2010

JPMorgan Prime Money Market Fund

Class/Ticker:        Premier/VPMXX

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. You can find the Fund’s Prospectus and other information about the Fund, including the Statement of Additional Information, online at www.jpmorganfunds.com/funddocuments. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-766-7722 or by sending an e-mail request to global_liquidity_funds_services_us@jpmorgan.com or by asking any financial intermediary that offers shares of the Fund. The Fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated July 1, 2010, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.

The Fund’s Objective

The Fund aims to provide the highest possible level of current income while still maintaining liquidity and preserving capital.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.
    

ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES

(Expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

        Premier
Management Fees
                 0.08 %  
Other Expenses
                 0.37   
Shareholder Service Fees
                 0. 30  
Remainder of Other Expenses1
                 0. 07  
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
                 0.45   
 
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  “Remainder of Other Expenses” have been calculated based on the actual expenses incurred in the most recent fiscal period and have been adjusted to exclude payments by the Fund to participate in the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Temporary Guarantee Program (the “Program”) during the most recent fiscal period. “Remainder of Other Expenses” of the Premier Shares would have been 0.09% of the value of the Fund’s average net assets, if expenses incurred by the Fund to participate in the Program during the most recent fiscal period had been included.

Example

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Your actual costs may be higher or lower.
    

WHETHER OR NOT YOU SELL YOUR SHARES, YOUR COST WOULD BE:

        1 Year
    3 Years
    5 Years
    10 Years
PREMIER SHARES ($)
                 46              144              252              567    
 

The Fund’s Main Investment Strategy

The Fund invests in high quality, short-term money market instruments which are issued and payable in U.S. dollars. The Fund principally invests in:

  high quality commercial paper and other short-term debt securities, including floating and variable rate demand notes of U.S. and foreign corporations,

  debt securities issued or guaranteed by qualified U.S. and foreign banks, including certificates of deposit, time deposits and other short-term securities,

  securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities,

  asset-backed securities,

  repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements,

  taxable municipal obligations, and

  funding agreements issued by banks and highly rated U.S. insurance companies, such as Guaranteed Investment Contracts (GICs) and Bank Investment Contracts (BICs).

The Fund is a money market fund managed in the following manner:

  The Fund seeks to maintain a net asset value of $1.00 per share.

  The dollar-weighted average maturity of the Fund will be 60 days or less and the dollar-weighted average life to maturity will be 120 days or less.

  The Fund will only buy securities that have remaining maturities of 397 days or less or securities otherwise permitted to be purchased because of maturity shortening provisions under applicable regulation.

  The Fund invests only in U.S. dollar-denominated securities.

  The Fund will only buy securities that present minimal credit risk.

The Fund may invest significantly in securities with floating or variable rates of interest. Their yields will vary as interest rates change.

The Fund will concentrate its investments in the banking industry. Therefore, under normal conditions, the Fund will invest at least 25% of its total assets in securities issued by companies in the banking industry. The Fund may, however, invest less than 25% of its total assets in this industry as a temporary defensive measure.

The Fund’s adviser seeks to develop an appropriate portfolio by considering the differences in yields among securities of different maturities, market sectors and issuers.

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The Fund’s Main Investment Risks

The Fund is subject to management risk and the Fund may not achieve its objective if the adviser’s expectations regarding particular securities or interest rates are not met.

Interest Rate Risk.  Changes in short-term interest rates will cause changes to the Fund’s yield. In addition, a low-interest rate environment may prevent the Fund from providing a positive yield or maintaining a stable net asset value of $1.00 per share.

Credit Risk.  The Fund’s investments are subject to the risk that the issuer or the counterparty will fail to make payments when due or default completely. If an issuer’s financial condition worsens, the credit quality of the issuer may deteriorate making it difficult for the Fund to sell such investments.

Mortgage-Related and Other Asset-Backed Securities Risk. Mortgage-related and asset-backed securities are subject to certain other risks, including prepayment and call risks. During periods of difficult or frozen credit markets, significant changes in interest rates, or deteriorating economic conditions, mortgage-related and asset-backed securities may decline in value, face valuation difficulties, become more volatile and/or become illiquid. When mortgages and other obligations are prepaid and when securities are called, the Fund may have to reinvest in securities with a lower yield or fail to recover additional amounts (i.e., premiums) paid for securities with higher interest rates, resulting in an unexpected capital loss.

Government Securities Risk.  The Fund invests in securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies and instrumentalities (such as securities issued by the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)). Unlike Ginnie Mae securities, securities issued or guaranteed by U.S. government related organizations such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government and no assurance can be given that the U.S. government would provide financial support. U.S. government securities include zero coupon securities, which tend to be subject to greater market risk than interest-paying securities of similar maturities.

When-Issued, Delayed Settlement and Forward Commitment Transactions Risk. The Fund may purchase or sell securities which it is eligible to purchase or sell on a when-issued basis, may purchase and sell such securities for delayed delivery and may make contracts to purchase or sell such securities for a fixed price at a future date beyond normal settlement time (forward commitments). When-issued transactions, delayed delivery purchases and forward commitments involve the risk that the security the Fund buys will lose value prior to its delivery. There also is the risk that the security will not be issued or that the other party to the transaction will not meet its obligation. If this occurs, the Fund loses both the investment opportunity for the assets it set aside to pay for the security and any gain in the security’s price.

Redemption Risk.  The Fund may need to sell its holdings in order to meet shareholder redemption requests. The Fund could experience a loss when selling securities to meet redemption requests if the redemption requests are unusually large or frequent, occur in times of overall market turmoil or declining prices for the securities sold, or when the securities the Fund wishes to or is required to sell are illiquid.

Concentration Risk.  Because the Fund will invest a significant portion of its assets in securities of companies in the banking industry, developments affecting the banking industry will have a disproportionate impact on the Fund. These risks generally include interest rate risk, credit risk and risk associated with regulatory changes in the banking industry. The profitability of banks depends largely on the availability and cost of funds, which can change depending on economic conditions.

Foreign Securities Risk.  U.S. dollar-denominated securities of foreign issuers or U.S. affiliates of foreign issuers may be subject to additional risks not faced by domestic issuers. These risks include political and economic risks, civil conflicts and war, greater volatility, expropriation and nationalization risks, and regulatory issues facing issuers in such foreign countries.

Floating and Variable Rate Securities Risk.  Floating and variable rate securities provide for a periodic adjustment in the interest rate paid on the securities. The rate adjustment intervals may be regular and range from daily up to annually, or may be based on an event, such as a change in the prime rate. Floating and variable rate securities may be subject to greater liquidity risk than other debt securities, meaning that there may be limitations on the Fund’s ability to sell the securities at any given time. Such securities also may lose value.

Net Asset Value Risk.  There is no assurance that the Fund will meet its investment objective of maintaining a net asset value of $1.00 per share on a continuous basis. Furthermore, there can be no assurance that the Fund’s affiliates will purchase distressed assets from the Fund, make capital infusions, enter into capital support agreements or take other actions to ensure that the Fund maintains a net asset value of $1.00 per share. In the event any money market fund fails to maintain a stable net asset value, other money market funds, including the Fund, could face a universal risk of increased redemption pressures, potentially jeopardizing the stability of their net asset values. In general, certain other money market funds have in the past failed to maintain stable net asset values and there can be no assurance that such failures and resulting redemption pressures will not occur in the future.


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Risk Associated with the Fund Holding Cash.  Although the Fund seeks to be fully invested, it may at times hold some of its assets in cash, which may hurt the Fund’s performance.

Risk of Regulation of Money Market Funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently adopted amendments to money market regulation, imposing new liquidity, credit quality, and maturity requirements on all money market funds. These changes may result in reduced yields achieved by certain money market funds. The SEC may adopt additional reforms to money market regulation, which may impact the operation or performance of the Fund.
    

Investments in the Fund are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank and are not insured or guaranteed by the FDIC, the Federal Reserve Board or any other government agency. Although the Fund seeks to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 per share, it is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund.

The Fund’s Past Performance

This section provides some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund. The bar chart shows how the performance of the Fund’s Premier Shares has varied from year to year for the past ten calendar years. The table shows the average annual total returns over the past one year, five years and ten years.

To obtain current yield information call 1-800-766-7722. Past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
    

  YEAR-BY-YEAR RETURNS



    

Best Quarter
           
3rd quarter, 2000
         1.59 %  
Worst Quarter
           
4th quarter, 2009
         0.00 %  
 

The Fund’s year-to-date total return as of 3/31/10 was 0.00%.

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

(For periods ended December 31, 2009)

 

        Past
1 Year
    Past
5 Years
    Past
10 Years
PREMIER SHARES
                 0.28 %            3.08 %            2.86 %  
 

Management

J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

Purchase minimums

For Premier Shares
                       
To establish an account
              $ 1,000,000   
To add to an account
                 No minimum levels    
 

You may purchase or redeem shares on any business day that the Fund is open

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  Through your financial intermediary

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  By writing to J.P. Morgan Institutional Funds Service Center, 500 Stanton Christiana Road, 3-OPS3
Newark, DE 19713

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  After you open an account, by calling J.P. Morgan Institutional Funds Service Center at 1-800-766-7722

Tax Information

The Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, except when your investment is in an IRA, 401(k) plan or other tax-advantaged investment plan.

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the financial intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s web site for more information.


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