Janus Capital Group
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| Public company | |
| Traded as | : JNS S&P 400 Component |
| Industry | Financial |
| Founded | 1969 |
| Founder | Thomas Bailey |
| Headquarters | Denver, Colorado, United States |
| Revenue | $1,076 million (2015) |
| Total assets | $190.9 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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1,272 (2016) |
| Website | www.janus.com |
Janus Capital Group, Inc. is an American publicly owned investment firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The company's asset-management disciplines include growth, core, international, value, mathematical, alternative and fixed-income. These products are sold through advisors and financial intermediaries, to institutional investors and directly to retail investors. Janus Capital Group was created as a result of the January 1, 2003, merger of Janus Capital Corporation into its parent company, Stilwell Financial Inc. Janus Capital Group consists of Janus Capital Management LLC (Janus), INTECH Investment Management LLC (INTECH), and Kapstream Capital Pty Limited (Kapstream), in addition to a range of exchange‐traded products. Additionally, Janus Capital Group owns 80% of Perkins Investment Management (formerly Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell and Company).
Outside the U.S., Janus has offices in Sydney, Paris, Zurich, Frankfurt, Dubai, Taipei, London, Milan, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Melbourne, and Singapore. Janus is in the S&P MidCap 400 Index.
Janus was founded in 1969 by Tom Bailey. A controlling interest was purchased by Kansas City Southern Industries in 1984. Bailey stepped down as president and CEO in June 2002.
The firm was formerly known as Stilwell Financial Incorporated. The company was renamed following the January 2003 merger of Janus Capital Corporation into its parent company, Stilwell Financial.
The Janus Fund opened in 1970 with approximately $500,000,000.35 in assets and 30 investors. Its primary business was U.S. large cap growth equity management.
Further funds were launched in 1985, including the Janus Venture Fund, its first small cap equity fund, and the Janus Twenty Fund, its first concentrated equity fund. At the same time, Janus began managing assets for institutional clients.
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