JPMorgan Global Growth & Income

Leaning into the recovery and outperforming peers

6 April 2021

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI) seeks to provide superior total returns and outperform its benchmark, the MSCI AC World Index, over the long term by investing in international equities. JGGI’s managers, Helge Skibeli, Raj Tanna and Tim Woodhouse believe the market is under-estimating the extent of pent-up consumer demand generated by a year in lockdown. In their view, this has created many ‘exceptional opportunities’ among economically-sensitive stocks that will benefit from the ensuing economic rebound. The managers have therefore taken some profits on the pandemic’s structural winners and are using the proceeds to ‘lean into’ attractively priced value and cyclical stocks. These decisions are already starting to pay off. The trust has made solid positive returns and outperformed its benchmark and peers over both the short term and longer periods. MORE »

Delivering ‘best of both worlds’ – growth & income

17 September 2020

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI) aims to provide superior total returns and outperform its benchmark over the long term by investing in a portfolio of 50–90 companies from around the world. It has achieved this objective, delivering outright gains and outperforming its benchmark since the inception of its current strategy in 2008. JGGI makes quarterly distributions set at the beginning of the financial year, with the intention of paying at least 4% of NAV at the time of announcement. Dividend payments can be funded from reserves, which means the managers are not constrained by the need to purchase high-yielding stocks but are instead free to invest in non-dividend paying stocks for capital growth. The managers believe this gives investors ‘the best of both worlds’. MORE »

Global ‘best ideas’ portfolio paying c 4% yield

13 March 2020

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI) seeks capital growth from a portfolio of c 50–90 attractively valued stocks drawn from the best ideas of J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s (JPMAM’s) large team of research-driven global equity analysts. The portfolio is managed by the new team of Helge Skibeli, Raj Tanna and Tim Woodhouse (co-manager alongside Jeroen Huysinga, who retired in Q219). While recent returns have inevitably been hit by the global stock market sell-off, JGGI’s NAV total return of +9.5% is ahead of the benchmark MSCI AC World index (+8.8%) over 12 months to 29 February 2020, and broadly in line over one, three and six months. The trust also seeks to reward investors through a high distribution policy, paying out c 4% of the previous year-end NAV in quarterly instalments. MORE »

Sharper focus on quality under new managers

4 July 2019

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI) has enhanced its management team following the retirement of manager Jeroen Huysinga, with co-manager Tim Woodhouse now supported by Helge Skibeli and Raj Tanna, two of the principal architects of the research-driven global focus investment approach that JPGI follows. While the underlying investment philosophy, backed by more than 50 dedicated research analysts, is unchanged and JPGI remains a relatively concentrated ‘best ideas’ portfolio, the new team has a greater focus on quality companies that can compound returns over the long term. The managers say that reducing regional risk should maximise the contribution of individual stock positions to returns versus the MSCI AC World benchmark, and lower volatility. MORE »

Strong long-term capital growth

31 August 2018

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI) is managed by Jeroen Huysinga, using J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s (JPMAM’s) global focus investment process. He aims to generate long-term capital growth from a portfolio of 50-90 equities that is diversified by geography and sector. The manager notes that stock market leadership has been narrow, led by growth and momentum stocks, which has been detrimental to JPGI’s investment performance in recent months (although the trust continues to outperform most of its peers in the AIC Global Equity Income sector). Huysinga is ‘sticking to his knitting’, buying undervalued stocks, as over the long term, cheaper companies have generated superior share price annual returns. The trust’s higher dividend policy, initiated in July 2016, appears to have found favour with investors, as JPGI’s discount has closed and its shares now regularly trade close to NAV. MORE »

Value-focused growth fund with 4% distributions

6 February 2018

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI) has enjoyed a strong period of share price performance since adopting a higher distribution policy in mid-2016. NAV returns have also kept pace with the benchmark MSCI AC World index, in spite of the trust’s focus on long-term valuations in an environment where market returns have been driven more by ‘growth at any price’. JPGI is the only UK retail investment product offering access to J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s (JPMAM’s) global focus investment process, which uses a large team of expert sector analysts to identify undervalued stocks with significant profit potential. Manager Jeroen Huysinga remains positive on the global economic outlook for at least the next 12-18 months, and has been finding particular opportunities in industrial cyclicals and financials, while being significantly underweight in technology stocks. MORE »

Strong outperformance from focused global fund

21 June 2017

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI) is a 50-90 stock portfolio of global equities, chosen by manager Jeroen Huysinga from the output of a rigorous, valuation-based investment process developed by J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM). After a long period where investors were focused on defensive growth stocks, a recovery in the appetite for cyclical companies since mid-2016 has favoured JPGI’s approach. The resulting resurgence in performance has seen the trust’s NAV total return outperform both its MSCI AC World benchmark and all of its peers in the AIC Global Equity Income sector over one, three and five years and since 1 October 2008 (when it adopted its current strategy). Recent share price performance has been even stronger, arguably boosted by greater investor appetite for the trust since announcing a 4% annual distribution policy in July 2016. MORE »

Long-term growth, now with higher distributions

27 September 2016

JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI), previously JPMorgan Overseas IT, uses a disciplined and research-intensive approach to identifying 50-90 ‘best ideas’ from around the world, with the aim of achieving capital appreciation in excess of the MSCI AC World index. It has recently adopted a new distribution policy whereby at the start of each year it will announce a dividend equivalent to at least 4% of NAV, to be paid in quarterly instalments. The board and management see this level of distribution – which may come from capital or income returns – as sustainable, and the predictability of the income stream as well as the higher yield should increase the attraction of the trust from investors who seek income as well as growth, potentially leading to a narrowing in the discount. MORE »