JPMF fund uses active investment strategy

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government bond weightings in emerging markets are decided through economic and political research followed by credit analysis

The main focus of the JPMF Emerging Markets Bond fund has been to invest in government bonds using an active strategy. This approach has proven successful for the portfolio and performance for the past five years has been up 13.59% compared with its benchmark, the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global index, which achieved 11.28%. Since the fund's inception in June 2000, a specialist team based in New York has managed the portfolio. Although the fund has had different managers over this period, the investment strategy has remained the same. Jeffrey Grills and Gunter Heiland have...

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