Janus Capital Group Inc. has announced the introduction of global bond fund and emerging markets fund portfolios — the firm's first stand-alone strategies in these categories.
The Janus Global Bond Fund is co-managed by Gibson Smith and Darrell Watters; it uses a fundamentally driven process focused on credit-oriented investments, the Denver company said on Thursday. Its benchmark is the Barclays Capital Global Aggregate Bond Index.
"Our global bond fund extends the same bottom-up research process that we have used for more than two decades here in the U.S. to the European and Asian markets," said Smith, who is co-chief investment officer and head of fixed income at Janus.
"We are looking for companies that are going through a positive fundamental transformation of their capital structure and, thus, present the best risk/reward opportunities," he said.
The emerging markets fund is co-managed by Wahid Chammas and Matt Hochstetler and is benchmarked against the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
