Jpmorgan Investment Funds Annual Report
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Audited Annual Report JPMorgan Investment Funds Société d’Investissement à Capital Variable, Luxembourg 31 December 2020 Report for the attention of Swiss Investors JPMorgan Investment Funds Audited Annual Report As at 31 December 2020 Contents Board of Directors 1 Management and Administration 2 Board of Directors’ Report 3 Investment Managers’ Report 7 Audit Report 10 Financial Statements and Statistical Information Combined Statement of Net Assets 13 Combined Statement of Operations and Changes in Net Assets 19 Statement of Changes in the Number of Shares 23 Statistical Information 31 Notes to the Financial Statements 39 Schedule of Investments Equity Sub-Funds JPMorgan Investment Funds - Europe Select Equity Fund 48 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Europe Strategic Dividend Fund 50 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Dividend Fund 55 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Select Equity Fund 58 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Japan Sustainable Equity Fund 61 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Japan Strategic Value Fund 63 JPMorgan Investment Funds - US Select Equity Fund 65 Balanced and Mixed Asset Sub-Funds JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Balanced Fund 67 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Income Fund 73 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Income Conservative Fund 118 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Macro Fund 154 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Macro Opportunities Fund 158 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Macro Sustainable Fund 164 Convertibles Sub-Funds JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Convertibles Conservative Fund 168 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global Opportunistic Convertibles Income Fund 171 Bond Sub-Funds JPMorgan Investment Funds - Global High Yield Bond Fund 174 JPMorgan Investment Funds - Income Opportunity Fund 186 JPMorgan Investment Funds - US Bond Fund 197 Appendix - Unaudited Additional Disclosures 1. Total Expense Ratios 206 2. Summary of Investment Objectives of the Sub-Funds 217 3. Performance and Volatility 219 4. Interest Rate Received/(Charged) on Bank Accounts 228 5. Sub-Fund Share Classes Subject to Taxe d’Abonnement Rate 228 6. Portfolio Turnover Ratio 229 7. Calculation Method of the Risk Exposure 230 8. Collateral Received 231 9. Securities Financing Transactions 232 10. Exposure arising from financial derivative instruments 236 11. UCITS Remuneration Disclosures 237 For additional information, please consult www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu. No subscriptions can be received solely on the basis of this report. Subscriptions are only valid if made on the basis of the current Prospectus, the current Key Investor Information Documents, supplemented by the latest audited annual report and, if published thereafter, the latest unaudited semi-annual report. The current Prospectus, the current Key Investor Information Documents, the unaudited semi-annual report as well as the audited annual report can be obtained free of charge from the registered office of the SICAV and from local paying agents. Details of the Investment Manager(s) for the individual Sub-Funds are available within the Prospectus and from the Management Company at its registered office, or from http://www.jpmorganassetmanagement.lu. JPMorgan Investment Funds Board of Directors Chairman Iain O.S. Saunders Duine, Ardfern Argyll PA31 8QN United Kingdom Directors Jacques Elvinger Peter Thomas Schwicht Elvinger Hoss Prussen, Société anonyme Humboldtstraße 17 2, place Winston Churchill D-60318 Frankfurt am Main B.P. 425, L-2014 Luxembourg Germany Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Massimo Greco Susanne van Dootingh JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited Nekkedelle 6 60 Victoria Embankment B-3090 Overijse London EC4Y 0JP Belgium United Kingdom John Li How Cheong Daniel Watkins The Directors’ Office JPMorgan Asset Management (Asia Pacific) Limited 19, rue de Bitbourg 21st Floor, Chater House L-1273 Luxembourg 8 Connaught Road Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Central Hong Kong Martin Porter Thornhill, Hammerwood Road Ashurst Wood, Sussex RH19 3SL United Kingdom Registered Office European Bank & Business Centre 6, route de Trèves L-2633 Senningerberg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 1 JPMorgan Investment Funds Management and Administration Management Company, Registrar and Transfer Agent, Global Distributor and Domiciliary Agent JPMorgan Asset Management (Europe) S.à r.l. European Bank & Business Centre 6, route de Trèves L-2633 Senningerberg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Investment Managers JPMorgan Asset Management (Asia Pacific) Limited 21st Floor, Chater House 8 Connaught Road Central Hong Kong J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. 383 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10179 United States of America JPMorgan Asset Management (Japan) Limited Tokyo Building 7-3, Marunouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-6432 Japan JPMorgan Asset Management (Singapore) Limited 17th Floor, Capital Tower 168 Robinson Road Singapore 068912 JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Limited 60 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0JP United Kingdom Depositary, Corporate, Administrative and Listing Agent J.P. Morgan Bank Luxembourg S.A. European Bank & Business Centre 6, route de Trèves L-2633 Senningerberg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers, Société coopérative 2, rue Gerhard Mercator B.P. 1443, L-1014 Luxembourg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Luxembourg Legal Adviser Elvinger Hoss Prussen, Société anonyme 2, place Winston Churchill B.P. 425, L-2014 Luxembourg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 2 JPMorgan Investment Funds Board of Directors’ Report Chairman Iain O.S. Saunders Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director. A member of the Board since November 1996. Mr Saunders graduated in Economics from Bristol University and joined Robert Fleming in 1970. He held several senior positions with the group in Hong Kong, Japan and the US, before returning to the UK in 1988. He was appointed Deputy Chairman of Fleming Asset Management and retired in 2001 following the merger of the Robert Fleming group with JPMorgan. Mr Saunders is currently Chairman of several JPMorgan managed Luxembourg-domiciled investment funds and MB Asia Select Fund. Directors Jacques Elvinger Non-Executive Director. A member of the Board since January 2009. Mr Elvinger became a member of the Luxembourg Bar in 1984 and has been a partner of the Luxembourg law firm Elvinger Hoss Prussen since 1987. Mr Elvinger practices general corporate and banking law and specialises in the field of investment and pension funds. He is a member of the High Committee for the Development of the Financial Sector instituted by the Luxembourg Government. He is also a member of the Advisory Committees to the Luxembourg Commission for the Supervision of the Financial Sector in the area of investment funds. Mr Elvinger currently holds a number of board mandates with Luxembourg investment funds including several JPMorgan managed Luxembourg-domiciled investment funds. Massimo Greco Executive Director. A member of the Board since November 2015. Mr Greco, Managing Director, is responsible for JPMorgan Asset Management’s Global Funds business in Europe, based in London. He took on his current responsibilities in 2012. Mr Greco has been a JPMorgan employee since 1992, initially with the Investment Banking unit, moving to Asset Management in 1998. Mr Greco holds a degree in Economics from the University of Turin and an MBA (Major in Finance) from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Mr Greco is a Member of the Board of JPMorgan Asset Management (Europe) S.à r.l. as well as other Luxembourg domiciled SICAVs. John Li How Cheong Independent Non-Executive Director. A member of the Board since June 2012. Mr Li is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. Mr Li moved to Luxembourg in 1987 and has since been working in the financial sector. Mr Li was a Partner at KPMG Luxembourg for more than 20 years during which he was Managing Partner for 8 years before taking on the role of Chairman of the Supervisory Board for 3 years. Mr Li was also a member of the Global Investment Management Practice of KPMG. During these years Mr Li’s experience included auditing and advising clients such as banks, investment funds, insurance companies from Europe, US, Japan and Asia offering Mr Lian extensive experience in dealing with international companies. Mr Li is a board member of the Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs. Mr Li currently holds a number of board mandates with financial institutions including several JPMorgan managed Luxembourg-domiciled investment funds. Martin Porter Independent Non-Executive Director. A member of the Board since April 2019. Mr Porter joined Robert Fleming Asset Management in 1984, and ran equity portfolios in both London and Japan. During his tenure in Japan, he became a holding board director of Jardine Fleming, responsible for the Japanese business. Returning to the UK in 2000, he took up the role of Chief Investment Officer, Equity and Balanced of Fleming Asset Management, before becoming Global Head of Equities of JP Morgan Asset Management, a position he held from 2003 to 2016 when he retired. Mr Porter is currently a Director of several JPMorgan managed Luxembourg-domiciled investment funds. Peter Thomas Schwicht Independent Non-Executive Director. A member of the Board since June 2012. Mr Schwicht obtained a Business Economics degree from the University of Mannheim in Germany after having studied business, tax and accounting in Hamburg, Norway and the USA and was an employee of JPMorgan Asset Management from 1987 until October 2014. Prior to his retirement Mr Schwicht was the Chief Executive of Investment