Nexus

Deliver your synthetic trading strategy through Nexus.

Allowing you to outsource the operations, execution and synthetic delivery of their strategies and products to J.P. Morgan so you can focus on what you do best – navigate markets and raise assets.

Desktop mockup showing Nexus UI with a performance chart of a strategy.

In an environment of rising operational expenses and fee pressure when new regulations making it more expensive to do business. And the boom in passive investing means that fees for actively managed funds are being squeezed. J.P. Morgan's cross asset trading platform, Nexus, can help by allowing you to outsource your hedging and risk management of trades to J.P. Morgan. The Nexus platform allows you to balance costs whilst gaining in efficiency. As we progress towards the new normal for our industry with our reach and scale at your fingertips through one integrated operating system. You can easily access our cross asset expertize, execution, operation, technology, or risk management capabilities all in one place to hedge your strategy. You can gain access to your strategy synthetically via a fully funded security or unfunded derivatives, such as swap. Growing from a handful of private bank clients in 2011, Nexus now serves asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, securities houses and insurance companies and has continuously innovated and developed as clients needs have evolved. This means we have the experience to implement your strategy efficiently and effectively. Plus being able to customize it to suit your specific needs. Due to our long term experience, Nexus strategies have evolved to provide synthetic access to the broadest spectrum of assets through its comprehensive suite of products. While Prime Nexus offers a more targeted selection but with more hedging capabilities, with the ability to reference intraday orders sent from your very own EMS. Mmultiple times a day with direct market access and with the option to use J.P. Morgan Execution Algos, and Nexus Custom Basket provides quick time to market of launching stock or bond specific strategies, referenced through a Delta One Swap. Nexus enables you to release cash by replacing a fully funded investment in a fund or managed account to an unfunded swap on the same strategy and improve leverage by replacing assets backed borrowing with synthetic exposure. Because Nexus operates as a single instrument, you can achieve better payoff flexibility, and it can also increase the speed and lower the cost of pricing your strategy. You can also get better access to hard to reach markets at competitive rates, expanding your hedging capabilities. On top of this, Nexus offers versatile reporting, including daily positions, and strategy level reports which give you full transparency over your synthetic portfolio. These reports can be highly customized to suit your requirements in various formats, PDF, CSV and Excel and delivered to you via a sFTP API, or email. Ultimately, this means you can gain greater insight into your synthetic strategy at every level. Improved analytics of your synthetic strategies and analysis of historical performance means you're equipped to make better decisions. Publish your strategy daily on Bloomberg and analyze your strategy compositions via BBG Portal for Post-trade, Analytics and Risk Attribution. View Historical Performance with complete audit track of rebalances performance statistics and risk measures. Access Granular Factor Based Analytics providing the ability to visualize the drivers of performance and understand your risk and exposures with the integration of Nexus, with Veda, J.P. Morgan's Cross Asset Analytics Tool. And finally, you're able to rebalance your strategies via your preferred interface. So, if you're looking for a comprehensive platform to deliver your actively managed synthetic strategy, accessed via a variety of different product wrappers, which can reference a wide range of different asset classes with access to top level hedging capabilities, try Nexus from J.P. Morgan. Contact your client representative for more information. jpmorgan.com/Nexus.

Key Nexus Benefits

Single instrument

Nexus handles operational aspects including financing, borrow, cash flows, corporate actions, exchange membership, margining, settlement, clearing, reporting, administration and custody. This can help lower cost for investors and managers and increase speed of execution.

Wrapper flexibility

By creating a single reference instrument, it is possible to offer alternative payoffs linked to the same strategy depending on the type of management required. The platform offers a wide range of investable formats including swaps, notes, warrants, funds and the option component of a 3rd party issued note.

Multi-asset

Nexus offers a broad spectrum of reference assets which can be used as building blocks to help you create your customized strategies. These include single stocks, cash bonds and credit derivatives, indices, ETFs, listed equity futures and options, mutual funds, as well as J.P. Morgan future trackers on equities, FX, rates, credit and commodities. 

Nexus Capabilities

Available on the J.P. Morgan Markets Platform.