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A, C, Select Shares | JPMorgan International Unconstrained Equity Fund
JPMorgan International Unconstrained Equity Fund

Class/Ticker: A/IUAEX; C/IUCEX; Select/IUESX
What is the goal of the Fund?
The Fund seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation.
Fees and Expenses of the Fund
The following tables describe the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts on purchases of Class A Shares if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the J.P. Morgan Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial intermediary and in “How to Do Business with the Fund — SALES CHARGES” on page 85 of the prospectus and in “PURCHASES, REDEMPTIONS AND EXCHANGES” in Appendix A to Part II of the Statement of Additional Information.
SHAREHOLDER FEES (Fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees A, C, Select Shares JPMorgan International Unconstrained Equity Fund
Class A
Class C
Select Class
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases as % of the Offering Price 5.25%rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice none none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) as % of Original Cost of the Shares none [1] 1.00%rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
[1] (under $1 million)
ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES
(Expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value
of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses A, C, Select Shares JPMorgan International Unconstrained Equity Fund
Class A
Class C
Select Class
Management Fees [1] 0.70%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.70%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.70%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets
Distribution (Rule 12b-1) Fees 0.25%rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.75%rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none
Other Expenses 4.06%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 4.63%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 4.73%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets
Shareholder Service Fees 0.25%rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.25%rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.25%rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets
Remainder of Other Expenses [2] 3.81%rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets 4.38%rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets 4.48%rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 5.01%rr_ExpensesOverAssets 6.08%rr_ExpensesOverAssets 5.43%rr_ExpensesOverAssets
Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements [3] (3.76%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (4.33%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (4.53%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements [1][3] 1.25%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.75%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 0.90%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets
[1] As of December 1, 2014, the Fund's advisory fee was reduced; therefore, the Management Fees and Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses have been restated to reflect the current fees.
[2] "Remainder of Other Expenses" have been calculated based on the actual other expenses incurred in the most recent fiscal year, except that these expenses have been adjusted to reflect a reallocation of sub-transfer agency expenses among the classes as if they had been in effect during the most recent fiscal year.
[3] The Fund's adviser, administrator and the distributor (the Service Providers) have contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses to the extent Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses (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 1.25%, 1.75% and 0.90%, respectively, of their average daily net assets of Class A, Class C and Select Class Shares, respectively. This contract cannot be terminated prior to 3/1/16, 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 table through 2/29/16 and total annual fund operating expenses thereafter. Your actual costs may be higher or lower.
IF YOU SELL YOUR SHARES, YOUR COST WOULD BE:
Expense Example A, C, Select Shares JPMorgan International Unconstrained Equity Fund (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
CLASS A SHARES
646 1,631 2,615 5,076
CLASS C SHARES
278 1,420 2,635 5,560
SELECT CLASS SHARES
92 1,218 2,334 5,082
IF YOU DO NOT SELL YOUR SHARES, YOUR COST
WOULD BE:
Expense Example, No Redemption A, C, Select Shares JPMorgan International Unconstrained Equity Fund (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
CLASS A SHARES
646 1,631 2,615 5,076
CLASS C SHARES
178 1,420 2,635 5,560
SELECT CLASS SHARES
92 1,218 2,334 5,082
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 63% of the average value of its portfolio.
What are the Fund’s main investment strategies?
The Fund primarily invests in the equity securities of foreign companies, including those in emerging markets, and is generally unconstrained by any particular capitalization, style or sector and may invest in any foreign country. While the Fund is generally unconstrained within its equity universe, it currently intends to focus on investing in mid to large capitalization companies in a diversified group of sectors and foreign countries. The Fund may deviate from its current intention, including by focusing on particular capitalization sizes, styles, sectors and/or foreign countries.

Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its Assets in equity securities. “Assets” means net assets plus borrowings for investment purposes. The equity securities in which the Fund may invest include, but are not limited to, common stocks, preferred stocks and depositary receipts, including American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), European Depositary Receipts (EDRs) and Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs).

The adviser will generally seek to diversify the Fund’s portfolio by investing in issuers located in at least three foreign countries. However, the Fund may invest a substantial portion of its assets in just one foreign country. An issuer of a security will be deemed to be located in a particular country if: (i) the principal trading market for the security is in such country, (ii) the issuer is organized under the laws of such country or (iii) the issuer derives at least 50% of its revenues or profits from such country or has at least 50% of its total assets situated in such country.

The Fund may invest in securities denominated in any currency and will invest substantially in securities denominated in foreign currencies. The Fund may from time to time hedge a portion of its foreign currency exposure using derivatives as noted directly below.

The Fund may utilize currency forwards to reduce currency deviations relative to its primary benchmark, where practical, for the purpose of risk management. The Fund may also use exchange-traded futures for the efficient management of cash flows.

Investment Process: The adviser, utilizing the insights of its global sector specialists, seeks to identify companies that it believes are attractively valued relative to the long-term growth they can achieve. The adviser identifies these companies through internal research and by subjecting them to a disciplined set of growth, valuation and quality criteria. Companies that display attractive growth and valuation characteristics and for which the growth is believed to be sustainable will be considered candidates for purchase. Conversely, companies become candidates for sale if the expected growth is believed to be at risk or when valuations are no longer attractive.
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. The adviser has great flexibility in selecting investments because the Fund is unconstrained by capitalization, sector and style. This increased flexibility may present greater investment risk than a fund with more rigid investment restrictions because the success of the adviser’s portfolio selections is dependent upon a greater number of variables.

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 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.


Equity Market Risk. The price of equity securities may rise or fall because of changes in the broad market or changes in a company’s financial condition, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. These price movements may result from factors affecting individual companies, sectors or industries selected for the Fund’s portfolio or the securities market as a whole, such as changes in economic or political conditions. When the value of the Fund’s securities goes down, the value of your investment in the Fund decreases in value.

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.

Geographic Focus Risk. The Fund may focus its investments in a region or small group of countries. As a result, the Fund’s performance may be subject to greater volatility than a more geographically diversified fund.

Foreign Securities and Emerging Market Risk. Investments in foreign issuers and foreign securities (including depositary receipts) are subject to additional risks, including political and economic risks, civil conflicts and war, greater volatility, expropriation and nationalization risks, sanctions or other measures by the United States or other governments, currency fluctuations, higher transaction costs, delayed settlement, possible foreign controls on investment, and less stringent investor protection and disclosure standards of foreign markets. In certain markets where securities and other instruments are not traded “delivery versus payment,” the Fund may not receive timely payment for securities or other instruments it has delivered or receive delivery of securities paid for and may be subject to increased risk that the counterparty will fail to make payments when due or default completely. Events and evolving conditions in certain economies or markets may alter the risks associated with investments tied to countries or regions that historically were perceived as comparatively stable becoming riskier and more volatile. The Fund may invest a substantial portion of its assets in emerging market countries. These risks are magnified in countries in “emerging markets”. Emerging market countries typically have less-established economies than developed countries and may face greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties. In addition, emerging markets typically present greater illiquidity and price volatility concerns due to smaller or limited local capital markets and greater difficulty in determining market valuations of securities due to limited public information on issuers.

Smaller Cap Company Risk. Because the Fund may invest in equity investments of companies across all market capitalizations, the Fund’s risks increase as it invests more heavily in smaller companies (mid capitalization and small capitalization companies). Smaller companies may be more volatile and more vulnerable to economic, market and industry changes. As a result, share price changes may be more sudden or erratic than the prices of other equity securities, especially over the short-term.

Derivatives Risk. Derivatives 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), including 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.

Currency Risk. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates will affect the value of the Fund’s securities and the price of the Fund’s shares. Generally, when the value of the U.S. dollar rises in value relative to a foreign currency, an investment in that country loses value because that currency is worth fewer U.S. dollars. Devaluation of a currency by a country’s government or banking authority also may have a significant impact on the value of any investments denominated in that currency. Currency markets generally are not as regulated as securities markets.

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 or occur in times of overall market turmoil or declining prices.

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 the performance of the Fund’s Select Class Shares for the past three calendar years. The table shows the average annual total returns over the past one year and the life of the Fund. It compares that performance to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) All Country World Index, Ex-U.S. (net of foreign withholding taxes) and the Lipper International Large Cap Growth Funds Index, an index based on the total returns of certain mutual funds within the Fund’s designated category as determined by Lipper. Unlike the other index, the Lipper index includes the expenses of the mutual funds included in the index. 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.
YEAR-BY-YEAR RETURNS
Bar Chart
Best Quarter 1st quarter, 2012     14.32%   
Worst Quarter 3rd quarter, 2014   –6.29%
AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS
(For periods ended December 31, 2014)
Average Annual Total Returns A, C, Select Shares JPMorgan International Unconstrained Equity Fund
Past 1 Year
Life of Fund
Inception Date
SELECT CLASS SHARES
(5.15%) 10.56% Nov. 30, 2011
SELECT CLASS SHARES Return After Taxes on Distributions
(7.10%) 8.82% Nov. 30, 2011
SELECT CLASS SHARES Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
(1.51%) 8.06% Nov. 30, 2011
CLASS A SHARES
(10.35%) 8.37% Nov. 30, 2011
CLASS C SHARES
(6.90%) 9.72% Nov. 30, 2011
MSCI ALL COUNTRY WORLD INDEX, EX-U.S. (Net of Foreign Withholding Taxes) (Reflects No Deduction for Fees, Expenses or Taxes Except Foreign Withholding Taxes)
6.05% 13.65%  
LIPPER INTERNATIONAL LARGE CAP GROWTH FUNDS INDEX (Reflects No Deduction for Taxes)
(3.80%) 9.76%  
After-tax returns are shown for only the Select Class Shares, and after-tax returns for these other classes will vary. 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.