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Six Circles Tax Aware Intermediate Duration Fund Investment Strategy - Six Circles Tax Aware Intermediate Duration Fund
Dec. 31, 2025
Prospectus [Line Items]  
Strategy [Heading] <span style="font-family:Arial Narrow;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">What are the Fund’s main investment strategies?</span>
Strategy Narrative [Text Block] The Fund is designed to provide after-tax total return by actively investing mainly in fixed income securities of varying maturities. The Fund’s portfolio consists of a variety of strategies providing, in normal market conditions, exposure across mainly (but not necessarily exclusively) municipal bonds with varying maturity ranges. While the Fund may invest in securities with various maturities, under normal market conditions, the Fund will seek to maintain a weighted average
effective portfolio duration between 3 and 8 years. Under certain market conditions such as in periods of
significant volatility in interest rates and spreads, the Fund’s weighted average effective portfolio duration may be shorter than 3 years or longer than 8 years.WHAT IS DURATION?Duration is a measure of the price sensitivity of a debt security or a portfolio of debt securities to relative changes in interest rates. Generally, the higher a debt security’s duration, the greater its price sensitivity to a change in interest rates. For instance, a duration of three years means that a security’s or portfolio’s price would be expected to decrease by approximately 3% with a 1% increase in interest rates (assuming a parallel shift in yield curve). In contrast to duration, maturity measures only the time until final payment is due. Investors should be aware that effective duration is not an exact measurement and may not predict a particular security’s sensitivity to changes in interest rates.Prior to May 1, 2026, the Fund had a different investment objective and pursued different investment strategies. As such, for a period of time following this date the Fund may not be invested consistent with its investment strategies or investment approach while the Fund realigns its portfolio in a manner consistent with the investment objective and strategies set forth above and elsewhere in this Prospectus. While the portfolio is being repositioned, the Fund also may have a shorter average duration than after the repositioning is complete (including potentially less than 3 years). Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 50% of its total assets in municipal securities, the income from which is exempt from federal income tax. The Fund also may invest in taxable instruments. Municipal securities are securities issued by or on behalf of states, territories and possessions of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and their respective authorities, political subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities and other groups with the authority to act for the municipalities, the interest on which, if any, is exempt from federal income tax but may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax for individuals. Municipal securities may have fixed, variable or floating interest rates and may include, but are not limited to, variable rate demand obligations, short-term municipal notes, municipal bonds (including revenue bonds), municipal whole loans, tax exempt commercial paper, zero-coupon securities, private activity and industrial development bonds, municipal lease obligations, tax anticipation notes, participations in
pools of municipal securities, municipal mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities (including collateralized mortgage obligations), auction rate securities, callable bonds, securitized products, and restricted securities. The Fund may also invest in money market instruments. The portion of the Fund not invested in municipal securities may include investments in bonds, debt securities and other similar instruments issued by various U.S. and non-U.S. public-or private-sector entities, including emerging market securities, and investments in investment companies, including open-end, closed-end and exchange-traded funds. Municipal securities may also include instruments evidencing direct ownership of interest payments or principal payments, or both, on municipal securities, such as tender option bonds and participation interests in all or part of specific holdings of municipal obligations, provided that the applicable issuer receives assurances from legal counsel that the interest payable on the securities is exempt from federal income tax. Additionally, municipal securities include all other instruments that directly or indirectly provide economic exposure to income which is derived from municipalities. While the Fund intends to generate tax-exempt income through its municipal securities investments, it may generate taxable income and gains through investments in non-tax exempt securities and through sales of both tax-exempt and non-tax exempt securities. Also, although interest on municipal securities is exempt from federal income tax, interest on certain bonds may be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax for individuals. The Fund also may invest in taxable securities, including but not limited to corporate bonds, asset-backed and mortgage-related securities, privately-issued (Rule 144A) securities, loan assignments and participations, U.S. government and agency securities and similar instruments issued by various public- or private-sector entities in the United States and its territories and possessions, including U.S. Treasuries, securities issued by investment companies, including open-end, closed-end and exchange-traded funds, and other pooled investment vehicles, which may include private funds. Most of the Fund’s investments will be investment grade at the time of investment, although up to 20% of the Fund’s total assets may be invested in below investment grade securities as described below. The Fund’s investment grade investments will at the time of investment: (i) carry a short-term rating of P-2, A-2 or F2 or higher by any of Moody’s Investors Service Inc. (“Moody’s”), Standard & Poor’s Corporation (“S&P”) and Fitch Ratings (“Fitch”), respectively, or the equivalent by another nationally recognized statistical rating organization (“NRSRO”); (ii) carry a long-term rating of Baa3, BBB– or BBB– or higher by any of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch, respectively, or the equivalent by another NRSRO; or (iii) if such investments are unrated, deemed by a Sub-Adviser (as defined below) to be of comparable quality at the time of purchase. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its total assets in securities that are rated below investment grade (commonly known as “high yield securities” or “junk bonds”), or are unrated securities that a Sub-Adviser determines are of comparable quality. Below investment grade securities generally offer a higher yield than investment grade securities, but involve a high degree of risk. A security’s quality is determined at the time of purchase and securities that are rated investment grade or the unrated equivalent may be downgraded or decline in credit quality such that subsequently they would be deemed to be below investment grade. The Fund has flexibility to invest in derivatives and may use such instruments to manage duration, sector and yield curve exposure, credit quality, credit and spread volatility and/or as substitutes for securities and other instruments in which the Fund can invest. Derivatives are instruments which have a value based on another instrument, exchange rate or index. The Fund may use futures, options, swaps, and forward contracts, as well as repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase
agreements, in connection with its principal strategies in certain market conditions in order to hedge various investments, for risk management purposes and/or to increase income or gain to the Fund. The Fund will likely engage in active and frequent trading. The frequency with which the Fund buys and sells securities will vary from year to year, depending on market conditions. J.P. Morgan Private Investments Inc., the Fund’s investment adviser (“JPMPI” or the “Adviser”), constructs the Fund’s portfolio by allocating the Fund’s assets among investment strategies managed by one or more sub-advisers retained by the Adviser (each, a “Sub-Adviser”). The Adviser will periodically review and determine the allocations among investment strategies and may make changes to these allocations when it believes it is beneficial to the Fund. As such, the Adviser may, in its discretion, add to, delete from or modify the categories of investment strategies employed by the Fund at any time. In making allocations among investment strategies and/or in changing the categories of investment strategies employed by the Fund, the Adviser expects to take into account the investment goals of the broader investment programs administered by the Adviser or its affiliates, for whose use the Fund is exclusively designed. As such, the Fund may perform differently from a similar fund that is managed without regard to such broader investment programs. Each Sub-Adviser may use both its own proprietary and external research and securities selection process to manage its allocated portion of the Fund’s assets. The Adviser is responsible for determining the amount of Fund assets allocated to each Sub-Adviser. The Adviser is not required to allocate a minimum amount of Fund assets to any specific Sub-Adviser and may allocate, or re-allocate, zero Fund assets to a specific Sub-Adviser at any time. The Adviser engages the following Sub-Advisers: Insight North America LLC (“Insight”) and Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (“PIMCO”). The Adviser may adjust allocations to the Sub-Advisers at any time or make recommendations to the Board of Trustees of the Six Circles Trust (the “Board”) with respect to the hiring, termination or replacement of a Sub-Adviser. As such, the identity of the Fund’s Sub-Advisers, the investment strategies they pursue and the portion of the Fund allocated to them, may change over time. For example, due to market conditions, the Adviser may choose not to allocate Fund assets to a Sub-Adviser or may reduce the portion of the Fund allocated to a Sub-Adviser to zero. Each Sub-Adviser is responsible for deciding which securities to purchase and sell for its respective portion of the Fund and for placing orders for the Fund’s transactions. However, the Adviser reserves the right to instruct Sub-Advisers as needed on certain Fund transactions and manage a portion of the Fund’s portfolio directly, including without limitation, for portfolio hedging, to temporarily adjust the Fund’s overall market exposure or to temporarily manage assets as a result of a Sub-Adviser’s resignation or removal. The Fund expects that, when making allocation and investment decisions for the Fund, the Adviser and Sub-Advisers may take into account tax treatment as one of a number of factors relevant to the decision. In making such a decision, the Adviser and Sub-Advisers may determine that other factors are more important than tax treatment and thus cause the Fund to invest in investments that are not tax exempt. Below is a summary of each current Sub-Adviser’s investment approach. Insight With respect to its allocated portion of the Fund, Insight normally invests substantially all of the net assets allocated to it in municipal bonds that provide income exempt from federal personal income tax. Insight may temporarily invest in taxable bonds. Insight focuses on using fundamental credit analysis to identify undervalued sectors and securities as well as opportunities in the municipal bond market arising from pricing inefficiencies in changing economic environments. Insight also seeks to identify relative value across various bond sectors, such as pre-refunded bonds, general obligation bonds, and revenue bonds. Insight takes a pragmatic, long term approach to investing to seek to identify bonds that are attractive, while taking into account risk. Insight uses four key inputs – relative value, credit quality, bond structure, and market opportunities – to identify target exposures and specific investments for the Fund. PIMCO With respect to its allocated portion of the Fund, PIMCO’s municipal bond portfolio will seek to generate tax-efficient income and maximize after-tax risk-adjusted total returns. In employing investment strategies to maximize risk-adjusted total returns, PIMCO practices strategy diversification. Through relying on multiple sources of value, PIMCO seeks to generate
strong risk-adjusted total return record with a high degree of consistency relative to the benchmark (though there can be no assurances that PIMCO will achieve these objectives). PIMCO also seeks to add value through “top down” strategies, such as interest rate exposure, yield curve positioning, sector rotation and yield volatility.