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Summary Prospectus    February 28, 2013    LOGO

Highbridge Dynamic Commodities Strategy Fund

Class/Ticker:     R5/HDCRX

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 1-800-480-4111 or by sending an e-mail request to Funds.Website.Support@jpmorganfunds.com or by asking any financial intermediary that offers shares of the Fund. The Fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated February 28, 2013, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus.

 

What is the goal of the Fund?

The Fund seeks long-term total return.

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 EXPENSES1

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

 
     Class R5  
Management Fees     1.00
Distribution (Rule 12b-1) Fees     NONE   
Other Expenses     0.46   

Shareholder Service Fees

    0.05   

Remainder of Other Expenses2

    0.41   
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses     0.01   
   

 

 

 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses     1.47   
Fee Waivers and Expense    
Reimbursements3,4     (0.26
   

 

 

 
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses
After Fee Waivers and Expense
Reimbursements
3,4
    1.21   

 

1 Includes the operating expenses of HCM Commodities Strategy Fund, Ltd., the Fund’s wholly-owned subsidiary.

 

2 Includes the advisory fee paid by the subsidiary to its adviser and other expenses of the subsidiary (excluding Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses).

 

3 The Fund’s adviser has agreed to waive the advisory fee that it receives from the Fund in an amount equal to the advisory fee paid by the subsidiary to its adviser. This waiver will continue in effect so long as the Fund invests in the subsidiary and may not be terminated without approval by the Fund’s Board.

 

4 The Fund’s adviser, administrator and distributor (the Service Providers) have contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses to the extent the total annual fund operating expenses of the Fund, inclusive of the
  subsidiary, (excluding Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses, dividend expenses related to short sales, interest, taxes, expenses related to litigation and potential litigation, extraordinary expenses and expenses related to the Board of Trustees’ deferred compensation plan) exceed 1.20% of the average daily net assets of Class R5 Shares, respectively. This contract cannot be terminated prior to 3/1/14 at which time the Service Providers will determine whether or not to renew or revise it.

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. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses are equal to the total annual fund operating expenses after fee waivers and expense reimbursements shown in the fee table through 2/28/14 and total annual fund operating expenses thereafter. 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  
CLASS R5 SHARES ($)     123        439        778        1,735   

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses, or in the Example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the Fund’s most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 45% of the average value of its portfolio.

 

 

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What are the Fund’s main investment strategies?

The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing in a diversified portfolio of commodity-linked derivatives. The Fund will also invest in fixed income securities.

Commodity Investments

The Fund’s sub-adviser, Highbridge Capital Management, LLC (HCM or the Sub-Adviser), utilizes a systematic and fundamental approach to commodities investing with a strong emphasis on risk management. The strategy employs factors based on economic principles, including the impact of historical prices, the perceived relationships between and among the various commodities and other macroeconomic factors. This strategy also focuses on downside risk management and liquidity by using a drawdown management process described below in “Investment Process,” which may result in limited exposure to commodities during certain economic periods.

The Fund invests in commodity-linked derivative instruments, such as commodity-linked notes, swap agreements, commodity options, futures and options on futures that provide exposure to the investment returns of the commodities markets without investing directly in physical commodities. Commodities are assets that have tangible properties, such as oil, metals, and agricultural products. Derivatives are instruments that have a value based on another instrument, exchange rate or index and will generally be used as substitutes for commodities. It is expected that certain of the Fund’s investments will produce leveraged exposure to the commodities markets.

The Fund will gain exposure to commodity markets primarily by investing up to 25% of its total assets in the HCM Commodities Strategy Fund Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fund organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the Subsidiary). The Subsidiary is advised by J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. (JPMIM or Adviser) and sub-advised by HCM and has the same investment objective as the Fund. The Subsidiary (unlike the Fund) may invest without limitation in commodity-linked swap agreements and other commodity-linked derivative instruments, including derivative instruments linked to the value of a particular commodity or commodity futures contract, or a subset of commodities or commodity futures contracts. However, the Subsidiary is otherwise subject to the same fundamental, non-fundamental and certain other investment restrictions as the Fund.

The Subsidiary may use derivatives to obtain significant amounts of long or short exposure in an attempt to increase the Subsidiary’s income or gain, to hedge various investments and for risk management. The long and short positions held by the Subsidiary will vary in size as market opportunities change. The Fund’s commodity-related long positions and their equiv-

alents will range between 0% and 200% of the value of the Fund’s net assets. The Fund’s commodity-related short positions and their equivalents will range between 0% and 100% of the value of the Fund’s net assets. In rising markets, the Fund expects that the value of the long positions will appreciate more rapidly than the short positions, and in declining markets, that the value of the short positions will appreciate more rapidly than the long positions.

The Fund’s or the Subsidiary’s investments in commodity-linked derivative instruments may deviate from the returns of any particular commodity index. The Fund or the Subsidiary may also overweight or underweight its exposure to a subset of commodities, such that the Fund has greater or lesser exposure to a subset of commodities than is represented by a particular commodity index.

The Fund and Subsidiary may invest in currency-linked derivative instruments, primarily derivatives linked to “commodity currencies”. The term “commodity currency” generally is used to describe the currency of a country whose economic success is commonly identified with the production and export of commodities (such as precious metals, oil, agricultural products or other raw materials) and whose value is closely linked to the value of such commodities. As the demand for, or price of, such commodities increases, money tends to flow into the country. This generally lifts the country’s economic prospects and supports the value of its currency. Conversely, declines in the demand for, or value of, such commodities historically have contributed to declines in the relative value of these countries’ currencies. The Subsidiary will also invest in other instruments, including fixed income securities, either as investments or to serve as margin or collateral for its derivative positions.

Fixed Income Investments

Assets not invested in commodity-linked derivatives, currency-linked derivatives or the Subsidiary will be invested in fixed income securities. The fixed income portion of the Fund is intended to provide liquidity and preserve capital. The Fund’s fixed income securities may include: obligations of the U.S. Treasury, including Treasury bills, bonds and notes and other obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury; Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS); securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, its agencies or instrumentalities; 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., foreign, and supranational banks, including certificates of deposit, time deposits and other short-term securities; repurchase agreements fully collateralized by U.S. Treasury and U.S. government securities;

 

 

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and corporate debt obligations. The Fund generally will only buy securities that have remaining maturities of 397 days or less. The dollar-weighted average maturity of the Fund’s fixed income investments will generally be 90 days or less.

Investment Process: In managing the Fund, JPMIM is primarily responsible for the fixed-income investments and HCM is responsible for the commodity strategy investments.

Commodity Investments Process

HCM has developed a quantitative economics-based model which targets a fixed, long-term volatility goal. HCM’s model applies a systematic and fundamental investment approach to commodities trading with an emphasis on risk management and is designed to provide insight into forecasting securities returns, managing portfolio risk and executing trades efficiently. The success of the Sub-Adviser’s strategy depends on the interaction of four primary components: the Forecasting System, the Risk Model, the Optimizer and the Execution Process.

The Forecasting System. The Forecasting System encapsulates the Sub-Adviser’s view of predictable sources of return variation for the commodities markets. These views are based on the Sub-Adviser’s research program, which employs factors based on economic principles and durable relationships in the commodities markets.

The Risk Model. The Risk Model forecasts volatility and co-movements among portfolio assets, while incorporating drawdown management. The drawdown management process dynamically decreases (or increases) the Fund’s conditional target risk as the portfolio underperforms (or outperforms). This process adjusts risk levels in an attempt to manage overall drawdowns by adjusting exposures to the entire portfolio of assets instead of reducing exposure on an asset-by-asset basis. Total portfolio exposure may vary as a function of the forecasted risk and correlations of the underlying assets as well as the Fund’s dynamic risk target. HCM may choose to reduce risk/exposure in accordance with the Fund’s targeted volatility level.

The Optimizer. The Optimizer uses the results of the Forecasting System and the Risk Model to determine a portfolio believed to have the greatest risk-adjusted expected return. In practice, this means choosing positions with the greatest expected profits according to the forecasts, while limiting exposure to the risks in the Risk Model.

Execution Process. The Execution Process relies on HCM’s trading desk which executes through a network of broker-dealers in an effort to execute trades efficiently.

Fixed Income Investments Process

JPMIM seeks to develop an appropriate fixed income portfolio by considering the differences in yields among securities of different maturities, market sectors and issuers.

The frequency with which the Fund buys and sells securities will vary from year to year, depending on market conditions.

The Fund’s Main Investment Risks

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

 

An investment in this Fund or any other fund may not provide a complete investment program. The suitability of an investment in the Fund should be considered based on the investment objective, strategies and risks described in this prospectus, considered in light of all of the other investments in your portfolio, as well as your risk tolerance, financial goals and time horizons. You may want to consult with a financial advisor to determine if this Fund is suitable for you.

Short Selling Risk. The Fund will incur a loss as a result of a short sale if the price of the security sold short increases in value between the date of the short sale and the date on which the Fund purchases the security to replace the borrowed security. In addition, a lender may request, or market conditions may dictate, that securities sold short be returned to the lender on short notice, and the Fund may have to buy the securities sold short at an unfavorable price. If this occurs, any anticipated gain to the Fund may be reduced or eliminated or the short sale may result in a loss. The Fund’s losses are potentially unlimited in a short sale transaction. Short sales are speculative transactions and involve special risks, including greater reliance on the Sub-Adviser’s ability to accurately anticipate the future value of a security. Furthermore, taking short positions in securities results in a form of leverage which may cause the Fund to be more volatile. The Fund’s loss on a short sale is potentially unlimited because there is no upward limit on the price a borrowed security could attain.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and financial industry regulatory authorities in other countries may impose prohibitions, restrictions or other regulatory requirements on short sales, which could inhibit the ability of the adviser to sell securities short on behalf of the Fund.

General Market Risk. Economies and financial markets throughout the world are becoming increasingly interconnected, which increases the likelihood that events or conditions in one country or region will adversely impact markets or issuers in other countries or regions.

 

 

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Commodity Risk. Because the Fund will have a significant portion of its assets concentrated in commodity-linked securities, developments affecting commodities will have a disproportionate impact on the Fund. The Fund’s investment in commodity-linked derivative instruments may subject the Fund to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities, particularly if the instruments involve leverage. The value of commodity-linked derivative instruments may be affected by changes in overall market movements, commodity index volatility, changes in interest rates, or factors affecting a particular industry or commodity, such as drought, floods, weather, livestock disease, embargoes, tariffs and international economic, political and regulatory developments. Use of leveraged commodity-linked derivatives creates an opportunity for increased return but, at the same time, creates the possibility for greater loss (including the likelihood of greater volatility of the Fund’s net asset value), and there can be no assurance that the Fund’s use of leverage will be successful.

Derivatives Risk. Derivatives, including commodity-linked notes, swap agreements, commodity options, futures and options on futures, may be riskier than other types of investments because they may be more sensitive to changes in economic or market conditions than other types of investments and could result in losses that significantly exceed the Fund’s original investment. Many derivatives create leverage thereby causing the Fund to be more volatile than it would be if it had not used derivatives. Derivatives also expose the Fund to counterparty risk (the risk that the derivative counterparty will not fulfill its contractual obligations) and to the credit risk of the derivative counterparty. Certain derivatives are synthetic instruments that attempt to replicate the performance of certain reference assets. With regard to such derivatives, the Fund does not have a claim on the reference assets and is subject to enhanced counterparty risk.

Counterparty Risk. Commodity-linked derivatives, repurchase agreements, swap agreements and other forms of financial instruments that involve counterparties subject the Fund to the risk that the counterparty could default on its obligations under the agreement, either through the counterparty’s bankruptcy or failure to perform its obligations. In the event of default, the Fund could experience lengthy delays in recovering some or all of its assets or no recovery at all.

Interest Rate Risk. The Fund’s investments in bonds and other debt securities will change in value based on changes in interest rates. If rates increase, the value of the Fund’s invest-

ments generally declines. On the other hand, if rates fall, the value of the investments generally increases. Your investment will decline in value if the value of the investments decreases. Securities with greater interest rate sensitivity and longer maturities tend to produce higher yields, but are subject to greater fluctuations in value. Usually, the changes in the value of fixed income securities will not affect cash income generated, but may affect the value of your investment.

Government Securities Risk. The Fund invests in securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government or its agencies and instrumentalities (such as the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) securities). 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. Therefore, U.S. government related organizations such as Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac may not have the funds to meet their payment obligations in the future.

Subsidiary Risk. By investing in the Subsidiary, the Fund is indirectly exposed to the risks associated with the Subsidiary’s investments. The derivatives and other investments held by the Subsidiary are generally similar to those that are permitted to be held by the Fund and are subject to the same risks that apply to similar investments if held directly by the Fund. These risks are described elsewhere in this prospectus. There can be no assurance that the investment objective of the Subsidiary will be achieved. The Subsidiary is not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940 Act), and, unless otherwise noted in this prospectus, is not subject to all the investor protections of the 1940 Act. Changes in the laws of the United States and/or the Cayman Islands could result in the inability of the Fund and/or the Subsidiary to operate as described in this prospectus and could adversely affect the Fund.

Redemption Risk. The Fund could experience a loss when selling securities to meet redemption requests by shareholders. The risk of loss increases 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.

 

 

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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.

You could lose money 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 Class R5 Shares has varied over the past two calendar years. The table shows the average annual total returns over the past one year and the life of the Fund. The table compares that performance to the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Total Return and the Lipper Commodities General Funds Average, an average based on the total returns of all funds within the Fund’s designated category as determined by Lipper. Unlike the other index, the Lipper average includes the expenses of the mutual funds included in the average. The performance of Class R5 Shares is based on the performance of Select Class Shares prior to the inception of the Class R5 Shares. Past performance (before and after taxes) is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available by visiting www.jpmorganfunds.com or by calling 1-800-480-4111.

 

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Best Quarter    1st quarter, 2011      5.78%   
Worst Quarter    4th quarter, 2012      -13.94%   

AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

(For periods ended December 31, 2012)

 
     Past
1 Year
    Life of
Fund
(since
1/13/10)
 
CLASS R5 SHARES      
Return Before Taxes     (18.26 )%      0.20
Return After Taxes on Distributions     (18.26     (0.55
Return After Taxes on Distributions
and Sale of Fund Shares
    (11.87     (0.15
DOW JONES-UBS COMMODITY INDEX TOTAL RETURN      
(Reflects No Deduction for Fees, Expenses or Taxes)     (1.06     (0.13
LIPPER COMMODITIES GENERAL
FUNDS AVERAGE
     
(Reflects No Deduction for Taxes)     (3.41     0.88   

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on the investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown, and the after-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.

Management

Investment Adviser

J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.

Investment Sub-adviser

Highbridge Capital Management, LLC

 

Portfolio Manager   Managed
Fund  Since
   Primary Title with
Investment Adviser/
Sub-Adviser

Sassan Alizadeh

  2010    Managing Director/Sub-Adviser
Mark Nodelman   2010    Managing Director/Sub-Adviser
Christopher Tufts   2010    Managing Director/
Investment Adviser

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

There are no minimum or maximum purchase requirements with respect to Class R5 Shares.

If you are investing through a retirement plan, please follow instructions provided by your plan to invest.

 

 

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In general, you may redeem shares on any business day

 

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Through your Financial Intermediary

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By writing to J.P. Morgan Funds Services, P.O. Box 8528, Boston, MA 02266-8528

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After you open an account, by calling J.P. Morgan Funds Services at 1-800-480-4111

Tax Information

The Fund intends to make distributions that may be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains, except when your investment is in a 401(k) plan or other tax-advantaged investment plan, in which case you may be subject to federal income tax upon withdrawal from the 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 website for more information.

 

 

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