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Funds Group: J. P. Morgan Funds
Management Company: J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.
Funds Affected: (1) JPMorgan Intrepid Sustainable Equity Fund, JPMorgan Intrepid Advantage Fund, (2) JPMorgan Municipal Income Fund, (3) JPMorgan Corporate Bond Fund and JPMorgan Emerging Markets Equity Fund, (4) JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal ETF, (5) JPMorgan Hedged Equity Fund, (6) JPMorgan Emerging Markets Fund, (7) JPMorgan Floating Rate Income Fund
Principal Sustainable Investment Management Strategy: (1-7 )ESG integration, (2) Impact
Summary:
(1) In managing the funds, J.P. Morgan Investment Management identifies companies that, in the adviser’s opinion, generally approach environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) practices in a thoughtful manner while also having attractive value, quality and momentum characteristics. The funds seek to invest in companies that, on a combined basis, appear attractive when considering all of these financial and sustainability characteristics.

The funds define ESG characteristics as follows:

(2) The fund invests the majority of its assets in securities whose use of proceeds, in the adviser’s opinion, provide positive social or environmental benefits. In order to identify and invest in bonds that provide positive social or environmental benefits, the adviser determines and assesses each bond’s intended use of proceeds. The adviser will generally view bonds that finance affordable housing, healthcare, municipal water & sewer, education, mass transit, not for profits and issuer designated green bonds as promoting positive social or environmental benefits. In addition to the uses of proceeds noted above, the adviser may identify additional uses of bond proceeds that it believes will provide positive social or environmental benefits and may invest in such bonds as part of the fund’s investment strategy. The use of proceeds determination for securities purchased by the fund will be made at the time of purchase. If the use of proceeds of a security changes after the time of purchase so as to no longer provide positive social and/or environmental benefits, the fund may continue to hold the security.

(3) As a part of this analysis, research analysts seek to assess the risks presented by certain environmental, social and governance factors.

(4) As part of its investment process, the adviser considers certain environmental, social and governance factors that it believes could have a material negative or positive impact on the risk profiles of certain securities in which the Fund may invest. These determinations may not be conclusive and securities that may be negatively impacted by such factors may be purchased and retained by the Fund while the Fund may divest or not invest in securities that may be positively impacted by such factors.

(5) As a part of its investment process, the adviser seeks to assess the impact of environmental, social and governance factors (including accounting and tax policies, disclosure and investor communication, shareholder rights and remuneration policies) on the cash flows of many companies in which it may invest to identify issuers that the adviser believes will be negatively impacted by such factors relative to other issuers. These determinations may not be conclusive and securities of such issuers may be purchased and retained by the fund.

(6-7) As a part of this analysis,research analysts seek to assess the risks presented by certain environmental, social and governance factors. While these particular risks are considered securities of issuers presenting such risks may be purchased and retained by the Fund.

Note: On December 5, 2018, the Board of Trustees of J.P. Morgan Exchange-Traded Funds (the “Trust”) approved changes to the name of the Fund.
Effective January 7, 2019 the name of the Fund changed from the “JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal ETF” to the “JPMorgan Ultra-Short Municipal Income ETF”.

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