JPMorgan fund earns ‘recommended’ rating from Lonsec
Lonsec has upgraded the JPMorgan Global Strategic Bond Fund to a ‘recommended’ rating after the fund’s latest annual review.
The research house praised the fund’s portfolio management team’s skills and their ability to “leverage off pools of experienced sector specialist spread across the globe as a strength of the fund”.
JPMorgan’s international chief investment officer for global fixed income currency and commodities and portfolio manager for the fund, Nicholas Gartside, said: “The JPMorgan Global Strategic Bond Fund is designed to be flexible, helping investors achieve the best possible balance of risk and return in all market conditions.
“With no tied to any bond benchmark, the fund is free to make the most of opportunities across the world’s bond markets as a portfolio manager, we have the ability to adjust exposure to interest rates to protect the portfolio.”
The fund’s team incorporates insights from over 200 sector specialists across 15 locations, eight countries and four continents around the globe, it said.
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