Janus Henderson Launches Actively Managed Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF

Janus Henderson Investors (NYSE/ASX:JHG) today announced the launch of the first actively managed mortgage-backed securities (MBS) ETF designed to outperform the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. MBS Index.

The introduction of the Janus Henderson Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (NYSE : JMBS ) follows on the success of the Janus Henderson Short Duration Income ETF (ticker: VNLA), whose assets have climbed to $580.5 million less than two years after launch, as of Sept. 10, 2018.

JMBS is the first U.S. product and first ETF to be introduced since Denver-based Janus Capital Group merged with London-based Henderson Group on May 30, 2017, to create Janus Henderson Investors, a global asset manager with approximately $370.1 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2018.