Janus Henderson Glb Tech&Inno H2 USD

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|23/08/2024

by Stephen Welch
Janus Henderson Global Technology and Innovation benefits from a well-defined but flexible approach.

The team remains adequately resourced with sufficient expertise. Since lead manager Denny Fish’s early 2016 start on this strategy, three comanagers, five analysts, and one associate analyst have departed, with four leaving in 2023. While turnover isn’t ideal, Fish hired four experienced analysts and one associate analyst to fill out the team during that span. In March 2022, he promoted assistant manager Jon Cofsky to a comanager to help with risk management.

The strategy still benefits from Fish’s expertise and a well-defined, consistent approach. The team utilizes a fundamental, bottom-up process to construct a portfolio whose growth prospects are in line with their risks. Specifically, it looks for firms in two groups: those that are resilient with mature platforms and network effects, such as longtime semiconductor holding ASML, and those that have more potential growth opportunities but also more risk. Fish keeps position sizes in the latter smaller to account for the higher risk.

Fish got off to a solid start, but performance took a hit during the market correction in 2022. Yet, as growth stocks rebounded starting in 2023 through July 2024, the strategy recovered and landed in the top quartile of technology Morningstar Category peers. The team picked up hard-hit names such as media firm Meta Platforms and avoided more challenged semiconductor firms such as Intel. From Fish’s January 2016 start through July 2024, the US-based D shares’ 22.0% annualized return outpaced the technology category norm by 5.7 percentage points but slightly lagged the MSCI ACWI/Information Technology Index’s 22.1%.

Investors should look beyond recent woes, as the strategy’s balanced approach should help it maintain an edge for the right price.
 
Morningstar Medalist Rating™ A reasonable approach underpins this tech strategy.
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ProcessAbove Average
 
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