JPMorgan Diversified Return Emerging Markets Equity ETF
$64.71−0.79 (−1.21%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.44%
- Fund size
- $387M
- 1Y return
- +14.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.25%
- Holdings
- 561
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $65.67
- 52W range
The ETF.net JPEM Grade
Score 65 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 61Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 67Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 73Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 68Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 71Category rank
Our read on JPEM
BA 2015-vintage multifactor read on emerging markets: JPMorgan spreads roughly 600 names across value, quality and momentum rather than letting the biggest companies set the weights.
The fund is designed to provide emerging-markets equity exposure with potentially improved risk-adjusted returns versus a market-cap-weighted index.
Why people hold it
- Blends three factors at once (value, quality, momentum) instead of betting on one, tracking JPMorgan's own Diversified Factor Emerging Markets index.
- The 0.44% expense ratio sits under the typical multifactor EM fund's fee.
- Roughly 600 holdings spread the bet wide, and the fund pays quarterly.
- Rates as one of the stronger builds in a crowded multifactor EM field on our review.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than the giant cap-weighted EM index funds.
- Cheaper factor routes exist: EMGF charges 0.26% and QEMM 0.30%.
- Factor weighting means the portfolio can look nothing like a market-cap EM benchmark, and diverge from it for long stretches.
JPEM Holdings
- Stocks
- 561
- 12%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Financials20.5%
- Materials13.1%
- Industrials12.2%
- Consumer Discr.10.8%
- Utilities8.2%
- Cons. Staples8.2%
- Energy7.9%
- Communication7.6%
- Technology5.7%
- Health Care3.8%
- Real Estate2.0%
Geography
- China18.08%
- Taiwan11.90%
- Brazil11.40%
- South Africa7.45%
- India6.83%
- Turkey6.64%
- Mexico6.57%
- Thailand5.10%
- 26.03%
Developed 2% · Emerging 98%
JPEM Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | JPEM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.3% |
| 1 month | −1.4% |
| 3 months | +1.7% |
| 1 year | +14.1% |
| 3 years | +13.5% |
| 5 years | +6.8% |
| 10 years | +6.8% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | JPEM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.3% | |
| 2025 | +22.9% | |
| 2024 | +4.2% | |
| 2023 | +11.0% | |
| 2022 | −9.0% | |
| 2021 | +8.1% | |
| 2020 | −0.5% |
JPEM in the news
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JPEM Dividends
- 4.25%
- $2.77
- $0.79 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 25, 2026 | $0.79 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $1.03 |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | $0.69 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | $0.86 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Dec 24, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $1.01 |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Sep 26, 2024 | $0.78 |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.77 |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Mar 22, 2024 | $0.09 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.75 |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Sep 22, 2023 | $0.82 |
JPEM Risk
- 10.0%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.94
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −21.6%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.64
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
JPEM Cost
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Multifactor funds
- Median 0.47%
7 of the 20 Emerging Markets Multifactor funds charge less.