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A, B, C, Select Shares | JPMorgan International Value Fund
JPMorgan International Value Fund

Class/Ticker:
A/JFEAX; B/JFEBX; C/JIUCX; Select/JIESX
What is the goal of the Fund?
The Fund seeks to provide high total return from a portfolio of foreign company equity securities.
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 Funds — 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, B, C, Select Shares JPMorgan International Value Fund
Class A
Class B
Class C
Select Class
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases as % of the Offering Price 5.25%rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice none none none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) as % of Original Cost of the Shares none [1] 5.00%rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther 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, B, C, Select Shares JPMorgan International Value Fund
Class A
Class B
Class C
Select Class
Management Fees 0.60%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.60%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.60%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 0.60%rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets
Distribution (Rule 12b-1) Fees 0.25%rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.75%rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.75%rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none
Other Expenses 0.57%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.63%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.54%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.43%rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets
Shareholder Service Fees 0.25%rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.25%rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.25%rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.25%rr_Component1OtherExpensesOverAssets
Remainder of Other Expenses [1] 0.32%rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.38%rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.29%rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets 0.18%rr_Component2OtherExpensesOverAssets
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 1.42%rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.98%rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.89%rr_ExpensesOverAssets 1.03%rr_ExpensesOverAssets
Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements (0.07%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.13%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets (0.04%)rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets none
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waivers and Expense Reimbursements 1.35%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.85%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.85%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.03%rr_NetExpensesOverAssets
[1] “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.
The Fund’s adviser, administrator and the distributor (the Service Providers) have contractually agreed to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses to the extent that Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses of Class A, Class B, Class C and Select Class Shares (excluding acquired fund fees and expenses, dividend expenses relating 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 1.35%, 1.85%, 1.85% and 1.10%, respectively, of their average daily net assets. 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, B, C, Select Shares JPMorgan International Value Fund (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
CLASS A SHARES
655 944 1,254 2,132
CLASS B SHARES
688 909 1,256 2,151
CLASS C SHARES
288 590 1,018 2,208
SELECT CLASS SHARES
105 328 569 1,259
IF YOU DO NOT SELL YOUR SHARES, YOUR COST
WOULD BE:
Expense Example, No Redemption A, B, C, Select Shares JPMorgan International Value Fund (USD $)
1 Year
3 Years
5 Years
10 Years
CLASS A SHARES
655 944 1,254 2,132
CLASS B SHARES
188 609 1,056 2,151
CLASS C SHARES
188 590 1,018 2,208
SELECT CLASS SHARES
105 328 569 1,259
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 59% of the average value of its portfolio.
What are the Fund’s main investment strategies?
The Fund invests primarily in equity securities from developed countries included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Europe, Australasia and Far East (EAFE) Value Index (net of foreign withholding taxes), which is the Fund’s benchmark. The Fund typically does not invest in U.S. companies.

Equity securities in which the Fund invests are common stocks, preferred stocks, convertible securities, depositary receipts, rights and warrants to buy common stocks and privately placed securities.

The Fund’s sector weightings generally approximate those of the MSCI EAFE Value Index, although the Fund does not seek to mirror the index in its choice of individual securities. In choosing securities, the Fund emphasizes those that are ranked as undervalued according to the proprietary research of the adviser while underweighting or avoiding those that appear overvalued.

The Fund may invest in securities denominated in U.S. dollars, other major reserve currencies, such as the euro, yen and pound sterling, and currencies of other countries in which it can invest.

The Fund may invest in securities across all market capitalizations, although the Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in companies of any one particular market capitalization category.

The Fund may utilize currency forwards to reduce currency deviations, 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: In managing the Fund, the adviser employs a process that combines fundamental research for identifying portfolio securities and currency management decisions.

Various models are used to quantify the adviser’s fundamental stock research, producing a ranking of companies in each industry group according to their relative value. The Fund’s management team then buys and sells securities, using the research and valuation rankings as well as its assessment of other factors, including:
  • value characteristics such as low price-to-book and price-to-earnings ratios;
  • catalysts that could trigger a change in a security’s price;
  • potential reward compared to potential risk; and
  • temporary mispricings caused by market overreactions.
The Fund has access to the adviser’s currency specialists in determining the extent and nature of the Fund’s exposure to various foreign currencies.

The Fund may invest a substantial part of its assets in just one region or country.
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.


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, 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.

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 or delivery 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. These risks are magnified in “emerging markets.” Emerging market countries typically have less-established market economies than developed countries and may face greater social, economic, regulatory and political uncertainties.

Value Investing Risk. A value stock may decrease in price or may not increase in price as anticipated by the adviser if other investors fail to recognize the company’s value or the factors that the adviser believes will cause the stock price to increase do not occur.

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.

Depositary Receipt Risk. The Fund’s investments may take the form of depositary receipts, including unsponsored depositary receipts. Unsponsored depositary receipts may not provide as much information about the underlying issuer and may not carry the same voting privileges as sponsored depositary receipts. Unsponsored depositary receipts are issued by one or more depositaries in response to market demand, but without a formal agreement with the company that issues the underlying securities.

Smaller Cap Company Risk. Investments in securities of smaller companies may be riskier and more volatile and vulnerable to economic, market and industry changes than securities of larger, more established companies. 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, including forward currency contracts and 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), 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 will have a significant impact on the value of any investments denominated in that currency. Currency markets generally are not as regulated as securities markets.

To the extent that the Fund hedges its currency exposure, it may reduce the effects of currency fluctuations. The Fund may also hedge from one foreign currency to another. However, the Fund does not typically use this hedging strategy for its emerging markets currency exposure.

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 over the past ten calendar years. The table shows the average annual total returns over the past one year, five years and ten years. The table compares that performance to the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI), Europe, Australasia and Far East (EAFE) Value Index (net of foreign withholding taxes) and the Lipper International Large-Cap Value Funds Average, an average based on the total returns of all mutual 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 C Shares is based on the performance of Class B Shares prior to the inception of Class C Shares. The actual returns of Class C Shares would have been similar to those shown because they have similar expenses to Class B 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.
YEAR-BY-YEAR RETURNS
Bar Chart
Best Quarter 2nd quarter, 2009     25.00%   
Worst Quarter 3rd quarter, 2011   –22.11%
AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS
(For the period ended December 31, 2014)
Average Annual Total Returns A, B, C, Select Shares JPMorgan International Value Fund
Past 1 Year
Past 5 Years
Past 10 Years
SELECT CLASS SHARES
(10.42%) 3.90% 4.57%
SELECT CLASS SHARES Return After Taxes on Distributions
(10.99%) 3.50% 4.03%
SELECT CLASS SHARES Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
(5.07%) 3.26% 3.76%
CLASS A SHARES
(15.32%) 2.52% 3.74%
CLASS B SHARES
(16.10%) 2.77% 3.88%
CLASS C SHARES
(12.03%) 3.13% 3.79%
MSCI EAFE VALUE INDEX (Net of Foreign Withholding Taxes) (Reflects No Deduction for Fees, Expenses or Taxes, Except Foreign Withholding Taxes)
(5.39%) 4.42% 3.89%
LIPPER INTERNATIONAL LARGE-CAP VALUE FUNDS AVERAGE (Reflects No Deduction for Taxes)
(7.17%) 3.81% 4.39%
After-tax returns are shown only for the Select Class Shares, and after-tax returns for the 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.