Janus Capital Group: Mutual Funds
The Janus Capital Group is one of the biggest names in the world of mutual funds. Janus has a reputation for looking after its clients’ financial interests well and this has paid off time and time again.
One of the ways whereby a mutual fund group can do this is by offering a sizable family of managed accounts that would suit most investors’ requirements.
Janus has a assortment of 36 different funds spread more than ten managed account types. These funds specialize in global real estate funds and growth and income funds, amongst others.
One interesting option is the Janus contrarian fund. All of these Janus funds have their own particular portfolio managers.
In fact Janus Capital Group has won awards for the last three years running, in spite of the fact that it has been more difficult to create capital income than for a long, long time.
If you want to check the latest league tables of mutual funds, there are a number of companies that maintain lists; one of them is Lipper, which presents annual awards to mutual funds.
With so much variety, most individuals who would like to start investing will have to take advice from a specialist financial adviser. There are three ways of going about procuring this advice:
1] contact a broker, who will appear to give you free advice, but who will in fact be getting paid by your mutual fund firm from the funds that you give them to invest on your behalf
2] contact an independent financial adviser, who will not receive commission from anyone, so who will expect you to pay a fee for this independent advice
3] contact Janus (or any other mutual fund group head office) and talk to their fund managers, but do not expect independent advice
The third course of action above will supply you with the least objective advice – you will only hear about the company’s own financial products.
The first procedure above will render more objective advice, but these brokers will not tell you about mutual funds that will not give them a kick-back such as index mutual funds.
The second method above will supply you with completely independent advice or it ought to and you are able to sue, if you discover later that they have not done that.
They will waive charges from firms that pay commission, but they will charge you by the hour for their advice. Expect to pay roughly the same as you would for a solicitor. It is usually the cheapest and the best route in the long run.
No matter which path you take, you should do some research before you go to see an adviser (or talk to one on line) because it is simple to be overwhelmed as you are being bombarded with loads of new details in the form of names, numbers and percentages.
You can avoid confusion when thinking about Janus funds or any other firm, by reading as much as you can take in before you begin talking. Make notes on your favourite ideas for likely funds as well and definitely jot down questions on points that you do not comprehend.
By tackling your investments in products like Janus’ in this fashion, you can also cut down the amount of time that you will have to spend with an independent financial adviser, although paying a few hundred dollars for advice that will set you on the right track for 10-20 years is almost certainly the least of your financial problems.
Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a variety of topics, but is now involved with Janus Mutual Funds. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at Mutual Funds


November 5, 2011 | Posted by Owen Jones
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