Janus Henderson

The company traces its lineage back to 1934, when the Henderson Administration was founded to administer the estate of Sir Alexander Henderson, a London financier, after his death. Henderson had been known for pioneering investments in railways, shipping, and emerging technologies; the firm later became Henderson Global Investors, a global asset manager based in London.⁠[1][2][2][2]

In 1969, Tom Bailey, believing that the asset management industry could benefit from a firm “west of Wall Street,” founded Janus Capital in Denver, Colorado, as a fundamental, bottom-up equity investment manager; Janus began managing fixed income assets in 1987.⁠[2][2][2]

Henderson began trading on the London Stock Exchange in 1983, was acquired by Australia’s AMP in 1998, and was demerged from AMP in 2003; it then acquired New Star Asset Management Group (2009) and Gartmore Group (2011) in the UK and Perennial Fixed Interest (2015) in Australia. Janus acquired VS Holdings, parent company of ETF specialist VelocityShares, in 2014, and Australia-based Kapstream Capital in 2015.⁠[2][2][2][2][2][2][2]

On May 30, 2017, Henderson Group plc and Janus Capital Group Inc. completed a merger of equals in which Janus Capital Group and its subsidiaries became subsidiaries of Henderson, which was renamed Janus Henderson Group plc, with shares trading on the New York and Australian stock exchanges. The combined company was incorporated in Jersey and, as of the end of 2017, had more than 2,300 employees and $370.8 billion in assets under management, led by two Co-Chief Executive Officers.⁠[3][3][2][3][3][3]

Trian Fund Management, led by Nelson Peltz, became a shareholder of the company in 2020 and has had Board representation since 2022.⁠[4][5]

In 2023, the company launched a joint venture with Privacore Capital; in 2024 it acquired Tabula Investment Management, NBK Capital Partners, and private credit manager Victory Park Capital; and in 2025 it partnered with Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.⁠[2][2][2]

On September 13, 2024, the company announced a strategic partnership with Anemoy Limited and Centrifuge under which it would serve, through its wholly owned subsidiary Tabula, as sub-advisor to the Anemoy Liquid Treasury Fund, managing the fund’s day-to-day operations and portfolio. The fund is a fully on-chain tokenized fund issued on Centrifuge’s public blockchain that gives investors direct access to short-term U.S. Treasury bills. Nick Cherney, the company’s Head of Innovation, said the collaboration represented a significant step forward in bridging traditional and decentralized finance.⁠[6][6][6][6]

On December 22, 2025, the company announced a definitive agreement (dated December 21) under which it would be acquired by Trian and General Catalyst in an all-cash transaction at an equity value of approximately $7.4 billion; shareholders other than Trian would receive $49 per share, an 18% premium to the unaffected closing price on October 24, 2025, the last trading day before the acquisition proposal was made public. Trian then owned 20.6% of the company’s outstanding shares; the investor group also included strategic investors such as the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited. The transaction was unanimously recommended by a special committee of independent directors not affiliated with Trian or General Catalyst and unanimously approved by the Board.⁠[4][7][4][4][4][4][4]

On March 24, 2026, the parties signed Amendment No. 1 to the merger agreement, raising the cash consideration from $49 to $52 per share. At the extraordinary general meeting on April 16, the merger proposal was approved with 127,304,509 votes for and 400,566 against, along with the company’s change to a private company after completion and its renaming from Janus Henderson Group plc to Janus Henderson Group Ltd.⁠[8][8][7][7][7][7]

On June 30, 2026, Janus Henderson Group Ltd., Trian, General Catalyst, and QIA announced the completion of the take-private transaction: shares not held by Trian were converted into the right to receive $52 per share in cash, and the company’s ordinary shares were delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction was funded in part by investment vehicles managed by Trian and General Catalyst, supported by financing commitments from investors including MassMutual, QIA, Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited, and Lunate Capital, along with a roll-over of shares held by Trian and related parties. After going private, the company continues to be led by Chief Executive Officer Ali Dibadj and maintains its main presence in London and Denver.⁠[5][5][5][5][5][5]

The same year, the company also acquired Richard Bernstein Advisors.⁠[2]

On September 16, 2026, Brooklyn-based fintech company Tare announced a $13.25 million seed round in which Janus Henderson participated. The round closed in March 2026 and was led by Blockchain Capital, with Strobe VenturesStrobe VenturesStrobe Ventures is a crypto-native venture capital firm headquartered in New York. Formerly BlockTower VC, it was renamed Strobe by the same team in March 2025; it invests in DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer crypto projects, and in 2026 it participated in fintech company Tare’s $13.25 million seed round.Open the full entry, the Venture Dept, Neoclassic Capital, and the Avalanche FoundationAvalanche FoundationThe Avalanche Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the ecosystem of the Avalanche public blockchain, promoting the network’s development and adoption through grants, seed investments, liquidity incentives, and AVAX token transactions; it is a separate entity from the development company Ava Labs.Open the full entry also participating. Tare plans to build private credit software on the Avalanche blockchain that creates digital records of loans and automates the administrative work of managing them.⁠[9][9][9][9][9]

The company manages four categories of products for institutional and retail investors: equities, fixed income, multi-asset, and alternatives. As of December 31, 2025, it had more than 2,300 employees and $493.2 billion in assets under management, with operations in North America, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia; it had 29 offices across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, with corporate headquarters in London and significant operations in Denver.⁠[1][1][1][1][1]

Janus Henderson Investors: Official website: https://www.janushenderson.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[6]

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