JPMorgan Event Driven ETF
JPED
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in mil. unless spec.- Sector
- Financial Services
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- Asset Management - Global
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- IPO Date
- Nov 29, 2017
- CIK
- 0001485894
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- JPMorgan Event Driven ETF (JPED) is an actively managed exchange-traded fund that seeks long-term total return by providing access to return sources historically associated with event-driven hedge fund strategies, including pricing inefficiencies around corporate events such as mergers, spinoffs, earnings announcements, and bankruptcies. The fund employs a rules-based, bottom-up security selection process to invest in a portfolio of developed-market public equities and equity derivatives impacted by current or anticipated events, aiming for positive returns with low correlation to traditional equity markets; it offers targeted exposure to event-driven alternative beta strategies as a complement to core allocations, lower beta to global equities, or liquid alternatives diversification. JPED was launched on December 1, 2017, under the management of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. headquartered in New York, with operations serving institutional, retail, and high-net-worth investors globally. The fund's core offerings focus on systematic capture of event-driven opportunities through direct equity holdings and derivatives, managed by an experienced quantitative beta strategies team led by Dr. Yazann Romahi, without replicating a specified index; it targets inefficiencies in global public equity markets, particularly in developed regions, and historically delivered a dividend yield around 2.06% with an expense ratio aligned to alternative beta ETFs. In a major strategic change, JPED was liquidated by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with the last day of trading on June 19, 2020, and final liquidation distributions to shareholders on June 26, 2020, as part of a broader portfolio rationalization that shuttered six underperforming ETFs mimicking hedge fund styles. Prior to closure, the fund managed assets with exposure varying by market opportunities in event factors, but post-liquidation, no ongoing operations or shares remain available, reflecting J.P. Morgan's shift toward higher-conviction active ETF strategies like its Equity Premium Income suite.