The Fund's Managed Futures Strategy employs the adviser's proprietary models through a systematic investment process to identify and profit from opportunities across a diverse range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities.
This strategy consists of two core components: (1) a trend sub-strategy, which seeks to identify and capitalize on price trends across various asset classes based on a range of proprietary signals, evaluated over a range of time horizons, and (2) a systematic macro alpha sub-strategy, which seeks to identify and capitalize on directional and relative value alpha opportunities based on a range of proprietary signals that may span fundamental, valuation, risk, and technical inputs.
To implement the strategy, the adviser invests globally, utilizing derivatives such as swaps, futures, options, and forward contracts in addition to individual stocks to gain long and short exposures. The strategy may maintain a net long market exposure (where long exposure exceeds short exposure), a neutral aggregate exposure (where long and short exposures are equal), or a net short market exposure (where short exposure exceeds long exposure). Additionally, the strategy may have aggregate long or short exposure to specific sectors, markets, or currencies, based on the adviser's outlook for those segments.
Derivatives, which are instruments that have a value based on another instrument, exchange rate or index, are used as an efficient means of implementing the strategy to gain its targeted exposures to a desired return factor, hedge investments, and manage risk. The strategy will generally invest in futures and forward contracts but may invest in other derivative instruments including, but not limited to, interest rate, total return, credit default and credit default index swaps. The strategy may also invest in derivatives based on foreign currencies. Under normal market conditions, the adviser expects that a significant portion of the Fund's exposure will be achieved through derivatives. As a result, the Fund and its Subsidiary (as defined below) may hold substantial amounts in JPMorgan money market funds, cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments as collateral.
The Managed Futures Strategy will gain exposure to commodity markets indirectly by investing up to 25% of the Fund's assets in the Managed Futures Plus Fund CS Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fund organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the Subsidiary). The Subsidiary is also advised by the adviser. The Subsidiary will invest primarily in commodity-linked derivative instruments, such as commodity futures, forwards and swaps, and other investments and cash and cash equivalent instruments to serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiary's derivative positions. The Subsidiary (unlike the Fund) may invest without limitation in such commodity-linked derivative instruments. The Subsidiary is otherwise subject to the same fundamental, non-fundamental and certain other investment restrictions as the Fund.
The adviser employs proprietary models through a systematic investment process to determine the Managed Futures Strategy's weightings among various investments and to construct sets of transactions and investments. The amount of total assets the adviser invests in any one particular instrument will vary and generally depend on the signals employed by the adviser at that time and the level of risk targeted by said signal(s) over the long term. There are no stated percentage
limitations on the amount that can be invested in any one type of instrument and the adviser may, at times, focus on a smaller number of instruments.
As a result of the Managed Futures Strategy, the Fund may have highly leveraged exposure to one or more asset classes at times.
The Managed Futures Strategy may also utilize global equity securities, including securities which are not included in broad-based equity indexes.
U.S. Equity Strategy:
The Fund's U.S. Equity Strategy is designed to provide strategic exposure to large-capitalization U.S. equities, with the objective of capturing long-term returns that are broadly representative of the U.S. equity market. The Fund may achieve this exposure through a combination of direct investments in common stocks of U.S. issuers that replicate the performance of broad-based U.S. equity indexes, and/or futures contracts on U.S. equity indices. For direct investments, the Fund will primarily invest in large-capitalization companies, defined as those with market capitalizations above $10 billion at the time of purchase. The Fund may also invest in futures contracts that provide efficient and liquid exposure to the U.S. large-cap equity market. The U.S. Equity Strategy is intended to provide broad, strategic exposure to the U.S. equity market and is not designed to capture short-term macro trends.
Each strategy will be managed taking into account the investment approach and returns of the other strategy.
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 instruments or markets are not met. The Fund is exposed to the risks summarized below through both investments in underlying funds and its direct investments.
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.
The Fund is subject to the main risks noted below, any of which may adversely affect the Fund's net asset value (NAV), market price, performance and ability to meet its investment objective.
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. Securities in the Fund's portfolio may underperform in comparison to securities in general financial markets, a particular financial market or other asset classes due to a number of factors, including inflation (or expectations for inflation), deflation (or expectations for deflation), interest rates, global demand for particular products or resources, market instability, financial system instability, debt crises and downgrades, embargoes, tariffs, sanctions and other trade barriers, supply chain disruptions, regulatory events, other