Janus Henderson Sees Investors Pull Out $8.4 Billion in Quarter

(Bloomberg) -- Janus Henderson, the money manager that parted ways with Bill Gross after a bout of underperformance from the bond legend, has seen investor withdrawals accelerate across most strategies.

The firm saw outflows almost double in the fourth quarter to $8.4 billion, with many of the withdrawals coming from its equity funds. Investors pulled $4.1 billion from Janus Henderson’s equity funds compared with redemptions of $1.3 billion from its bond funds.

Key insights

Digging Deeper

• In the past year, only 36 percent of fixed-income assets outperformed their benchmark, compared with 88 percent in the previous three years, according to the statement. Just 35 percent of alternative investors beat their benchmarks in 2018, down from 94 percent over a three year time frame.
• “We faced the same global market challenges and headwinds as the wider industry, combined with an aggregate $18 billion outflow, which was disappointing,” Dick Weil, chief executive officer of Janus Henderson Group, said in the statement.

Market Reaction

• The asset manager’s share price has fallen more than 40 percent in the past 12 months.

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