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Is Your JP Morgan Automated Investing Portfolio Underperforming?
JP Morgan Automated Investing builds automated portfolios, where the convenience of the wrapper comes with a fee on top of the underlying fund expenses.
Pure Benchmarks ranks real JP Morgan Automated Investing portfolios against thousands of other verified investor portfolios across nine standardized risk categories, from 100% equity to 90% fixed income. Every portfolio is recategorized daily from actual end-of-day holdings, and Community Nests shows exactly where your JP Morgan Automated Investing portfolio ranks against other real JP Morgan Automated Investing clients in the same risk category — built entirely from verified portfolio data, with no firm that manages money able to see any data point on the platform.
Why your JP Morgan Automated Investing portfolio can lag a pure index baseline
The stacked-fee wrapper. Automated allocation is convenient, but it adds an advisory wrap fee on top of the expense ratios of the underlying funds. Holding the index directly avoids the extra layer, so the wrapper creates a structural drag against the baseline.
What to review on a JP Morgan Automated Investing portfolio
- Check whether the advisory wrap fee is worth it against holding the same index ETFs directly.
- Look at how the automated allocation has tracked a plain index baseline over time.
Illustrative 10-year comparison — a standard managed portfolio versus a pure index baseline. Figures are illustrative only.
| Year | Standard managed portfolio | Pure index baseline | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $105,200 | $107,000 | -$1,800 |
| Year 3 | $116,400 | $122,500 | -$6,100 |
| Year 5 | $128,700 | $140,300 | -$11,600 |
| Year 7 | $142,300 | $160,600 | -$18,300 |
| Year 10 | $165,100 | $196,700 | -$31,600 |
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This page is an information baseline for comparison only. It is not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy, sell, replace, or transfer any specific asset, account, or firm. Past performance does not guarantee future results. All figures shown are illustrative.