Janus Henderson Investors
China’s Bazooka Stimulus: A Turning Point for Economic Growth and Investor Confidence?
In the report, Head of Greater China & Portfolio Manager Victoria Mio, explains why China’s decisive pivot from debt control to growth support could be the catalyst needed to restore confidence and unlock value in China’s markets.
Do AAA CLOs Still Make Sense in a Declining Rate Environment?
On the back of recent cooling in economic growth, an uptick in unemployment, and moderating inflation, the Federal Reserve (Fed) looks set to begin its rate-cutting cycle at its September meeting.
The Winds of Change Are Blowing: Why MBS Now?
With recent cooling in economic growth, an uptick in unemployment, inflation moderating back to the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) 2% target, and expectations for rate cuts, we believe the winds are shifting in the U.S. fixed income market.
Janus Henderson Announces Acquisition of Global Private Credit Manager Victory Park Capital
The acquisition further expands Janus Henderson’s private credit capabilities and complements Janus Henderson’s existing highly successful securitized credit franchise and expertise in public asset-backed securitized markets, and further expands our capabilities into the private markets.
Quick View: Navigating Market Volatility
With investors reacting to the worst global stock market sell-off since the early days of the COVID pandemic in 2020, Portfolio Manager Oliver Blackbourn and Global Head of Multi-Asset Adam Hetts consider the all-important question – what next?
Outpacing Money Markets: The Historical Yield Advantage of Short-Dated Bonds
Portfolio Manager Daniel Siluk believes subsiding inflation and declining interest rates underpin a compelling argument for investors to reallocate funds away from money market strategies toward shorter-dated bonds.
U.S. Election Year: Prioritize Trends Over Politics
Marc Pinto, Head of Americas Equities, and Chris Benway, Director of Research, consider how the U.S. election may influence markets leading up to November, discuss policies worth monitoring as the election draws near, and remind investors to prioritize quality in times of uncertainty.
Equity Outlook: A Broadening of Opportunities
In their mid-year outlook for global stocks, Head of Americas Equities Marc Pinto and Head of EMEA and Asia Pacific Equities Lucas Klein argue that while risks of an economic slowdown remain, the potential for unlocking new shareholder value is also strong.
Fixed Income Outlook: Paid to Wait for Rate Cuts
In his mid-year outlook, Jim Cielinski, Global Head of Fixed Income, recognizes markets were impatient in wanting rate cuts, but the offset is fresh opportunities for investors to capture attractive yields.
Listed Real Estate: Weaker Shelter Inflation the Additional Signal Needed for Fed Rate Cuts?
Portfolio Managers Guy Barnard and Greg Kuhl highlight how the shelter component of CPI is exerting downward pressure on inflation, paving the way for rate cuts – a tailwind for listed real estate.
You Missed the Market Rally. Now What?
Portfolio Manager John Lloyd discusses two important considerations for investors who feel like they may have missed the market rally.
Identifying AI Opportunities in Healthcare
Andy Acker and Research Analyst Tim McCarty discuss how artificial intelligence has enormous potential to improve healthcare delivery across the globe and point to some practical applications that could benefit patients – and investors – in the near term.
There’s No Place Like Home: The Residential Reits Opportunity
Global Property Equities portfolio managers Greg Kuhl, Guy Barnard and Tim Gibson discuss the current attractive relative valuation opportunity and merits of residential REITs.
Investing Together: Client Conversations
Ali Dibadj, CEO, shares the industry topics he’s hearing most in conversations with asset allocators, family offices, end-clients, colleagues, investors, and others he meets around the world.
Sitting in Cash? What’s Your Next Move?
Global Head of Client Portfolio Management Seth Meyer discusses the hidden risks and potential strategic pitfalls of sitting in cash.
Does Your Balanced Fund Have These Three Essentials?
Janus Henderson Investors Portfolio Managers Greg Wilensky and Jeremiah Buckley discuss what they consider the three essential elements of an effective balanced strategy in the current environment.
What to Watch for in a Potentially Slowing Economy
With the lagging effect of elevated interest rates potentially cooling the appetite of the economic growth engine that is the U.S. consumer, Global Head of Multi-Asset Adam Hetts at Janus Henderson Investors explains why he believes investors should take a defensive stance by prioritizing quality companies and cross-asset diversification.
Healthcare Stocks: Positioned for a Smoother Ride in 2024?
In the wake of recent underperformance, healthcare is entering the new year with compressed valuations just as innovation picks up and a post-COVID reset winds down. That should make for a positive outlook, says Janus Henderson Portfolio Managers Andy Acker and Dan Lyons.
Peeling Back the Onion: A Concentric Approach to Investment Decision Making
The past year has been punctuated by attention-grabbing headlines: The ongoing war in Ukraine, the U.K. pensions crisis, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, debt ceiling negotiations, the rise of ChatGPT … and the list goes on.
The Three Habits of Successful Bond Investors
It is human nature to be captivated by unbelievable stories, great victories, and thrilling endings. One could argue that we have a penchant for the dramatic.
Two Sides of Healthcare, One Strong Investment Case
Portfolio Manager Andy Acker explains why the healthcare sector could offer an attractive combination of defense and growth in today’s market.
In Defense of Defensive Fixed Income: The Case for Adding Duration
Three reasons why investors should consider adding intermediate-duration bonds back to their fixed income portfolios.
Storing Cash
For investors wondering where to store cash, comparing the maturity profiles on Treasuries with their “risk of loss” history can help reveal where value might lie within shorter maturities.
Ukraine Investment Considerations: Time in the Market Beats Timing the Market
While the Russia-Ukraine conflict will likely remain uncertain for some time, we believe situations like this require cool heads from an investment perspective.
Is Tapering Tightening?
Jim Cielinski, Global Head of Fixed Income at Janus Henderson Investors, discusses concepts surrounding the current bond market environment, including the US Federal Reserve and their lessons learned from past tapering discussions.
How the Fourth Industrial Revolution Will Accelerate Decarbonization
Digitalization, electrification and decarbonization (the “DED nexus”) are powerful agents of positive change for societal and environmental sustainability goals.
US Inflation Figures
Andrew Milliner, Global Bonds Portfolio Manager at Janus Henderson Investors, has put together the below comments in reaction to current U.S. inflation figures and what it means for the economy and markets moving forward. Please let me know if you have any questions or wish to further discuss with Andrew.
Optimism for a Renewed Focus on Fundamentals in Small- and Mid-Cap Growth
Portfolio Manager Jonathan Coleman discusses why a return to normalcy following the COVID-19 crisis could support small- and mid-cap equities and lead to a broadening of the market.
The Case for Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs)
In an environment where interest rates are low and the risk of higher Treasury yields has risen, Portfolio Managers from Janus Henderson Investors discuss how allocations to AAA rated CLOs may help investors diversify a traditional fixed income portfolio, offering lower volatility, higher credit-quality and less sensitivity to any rise in interest rates.
Killing Each Other
Bill Gross' March 2018 Investment Outlook: A monthly outlook on the global financial markets.
Bill Gross Investment Outlook: Bonds, Men, It’s About Time
Women have gotten the short stick or metaphorically the short rib ever since Eve, and I’m with Oprah for president and much, much more but hey, guys have got a few positive qualities that need to be mentioned.
Bill Gross July 2017 Investment Outlook: Curveball
“Kill the Umpire”, the fan cried to open the 1996 baseball season in Cincinnati, and 7 pitches later, the man behind the plate, John McSherry, was dead, all 320 pounds of him screaming for more oxygen to feed his struggling heart. He’d been killed by his poor health, by a billion molecules of sink-clogging cholesterol that fed on his coronary artery and sucked up his life’s blood like a vampire at midnight.
Investment Outlook: How to Make Money
Because of the secular headwinds facing global economies, currently labeled as the “New Normal” or “Secular Stagnation”, investors have resorted to “making money with money” as opposed to old-fashioned capitalism when money and profits were made with capital investment in the real economy.
Brainteasers
A recent Internet blog posed the predicament of many medium/long-term relationships: At some point couples run out of historical stories or even topical things to say. After all, there are only so many Trump tweets you can talk about, and you've long since agreed to disagree about the meaning of life.
March 2017 Investment Outlook: "Show Me the Money"
"School days" inexorably continue at the Gross household, not just because of grandchildren, but because of the necessity to teach my own kids the complexities and pitfalls of investing.
February 2017 Investment Outlook: "Happiness Runs"
I think a lot about happiness - what makes a person happy, whether or not happiness should even be a life's priority - things like that. A good high school friend stunned me at the early age of 17 by suggesting we should not necessarily try to be happy. Sacrifice, service, devotion to a cause were higher orders, he felt, although presumably, since those were choices, their pursuit could secondarily lead to happiness.
Investment Outlook: Echoes from Africa
I traveled once to Africa, as you might have guessed by now, and it's been a part of me ever since. Being perhaps the cradle of civilization, if not life itself, Africa casts an eerie glow over the entire history and, indeed, meaning of existence.
Increasingly Addled
It's a Xanax World
Breaking News!
It’s the Zero Bound Yield Curve, Stupid!
Saved by Zero?
Say A Little Prayer
It Never Rains in California
Mr. Bleu
Are We Headed for a Hangover?
A Sense of an Ending
March Madness
Going to the Dogs
Shut off the Noise, Hear the Risks
Janus Fixed Income CIO Gibson Smith believes volatility in the fixed income market may represent a greater risk than a sustained increase in rates.