Perkins Global Value Fund Receives 2013 Lipper Fund Award

Perkins Global Value Fund Receives 2013 Lipper Fund Award

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYS: JNS) today announced that Perkins Global Value Fund (Class D shares) received a 2013 Lipper Award as the Best Global Multi-Cap Value Fund for the five years ended December 31, 2012. The Lipper Awards honor fund management firms and individual mutual funds that excel in delivering consistently strong risk-adjusted performance, relative to their peers.

Annual Lipper awards reflect consistency of return over time. They take into account both short- and long-term risk-adjusted performance relative to a fund's classification and look back over a variety of holding periods, ranging from days to years.

Perkins Chief Investment Officer Jeff Kautz says the fund's recognition by Lipper is a result of Perkins' methodical research process and intense focus on downside protection. "We believe that by conducting rigorous downside analysis before determining upside potential, we may identify companies that offer favorable reward-to-risk trade-offs over a full market cycle," Kautz said.

Perkins Global Value Fund invests in companies of all sizes around the globe, with an emphasis on companies exhibiting strong balance sheets and recurring free cash flows. Portfolio manager Gregory Kolb seeks to build a high quality, diversified portfolio of undervalued stocks while mitigating the potential for loss in difficult markets. Key to this effort is the calculation of a risk-reward ratio for each stock, based on a downside price target and a conservative estimate of the potential for price appreciation.

"We take a defensive approach to compounding returns over the long-term," says Kolb. "Over the past five years, this cautious approach delivered positive returns while broad global benchmarks fell. We believe this approach may be distinctly well-suited to today's uncertain market conditions, and that remaining mindful of the significant risks in the investing landscape will prove essential to navigating the next five years and beyond."

About Perkins Investment Management LLC

Founded in 1980, Perkins Investment Management LLC (Perkins) is a respected value equity manager with $17.0 billion in assets as of December 31, 2012. The firm uses a bottom-up approach to build diversified portfolios of what it believes to be high quality, undervalued stocks with favorable reward-to-risk characteristics. Perkins believes that rigorous downside analysis conducted prior to determination of upside potential helps to mitigate losses during difficult markets and compound value over time. Perkins is an indirect subsidiary of Janus Capital Group, which owns the majority of Perkins.

About Janus Capital Group Inc.

Janus Capital Group Inc. ("JCG") is a global investment firm offering strategies from three individual investment boutiques: Janus Capital Management LLC ("Janus"), INTECH Investment Management LLC ("INTECH") and Perkins Investment Management LLC ("Perkins"). Each manager employs a research-intensive approach that is distinct within its respective asset class. This multi-boutique approach enables the firm to provide style-specific expertise across an array of strategies, including growth, value and mathematical equities, fixed income and alternatives through one common distribution platform.

At the end of December 2012, JCG managed $156.8 billion in assets for shareholders, clients and institutions around the globe. Based in Denver, JCG also has offices in Frankfurt, The Hague, Paris, London, Milan, Munich, Zurich, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Melbourne, Dubai and Taipei.

About the Lipper Fund Awards

The Lipper Fund Awards are part of the Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence, a global family of awards that celebrate exceptional performance throughout the professional investment community. The Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence recognize the world's top funds, fund management firms, sell-side firms, research analysts, and investor relations teams. The Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence also include the Extel Survey Awards, the StarMine Analyst Awards, and the StarMine Broker Rankings. For more information, please contact markets.awards@thomsonreuters.com or visit excellence.thomsonreuters.com

Please consider the charges, risks, expenses and investment objectives carefully before investing. For a prospectus or, if available, a summary prospectus containing this and other information, please call Janus at 877.33JANUS (52687) or download the file from janus.com/info. Read it carefully before you invest or send money.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Only eligible investors may purchase Class D Shares. See the prospectus for eligibility requirements and other available share classes.

For Lipper Best Individual Funds, the calculation periods extend over 36, 60 and 120 months. The highest Lipper Leader for Consistent Return (Effective Return) value within each eligible classification determines the fund classification winner over 3, 5 or 10 years as of 12/31/12 and no other time periods. 55 Global Multi-Cap Value Funds were eligible for this award for the 5-year period.

There is no assurance the stated objective(s) will be met.

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