Janus Henderson Hrzn Euroland A2 EUR |
by Ronald van Genderen
This strategy benefits from a skilled and highly experienced lead manager who has self-developed a time-tested and methodical approach. His successful and consistent execution of this valuation-aware approach earns the strategy an Above Average Process Pillar rating. Reservations regarding workload and key-person risk keep the People Pillar rating at Average. Lead manager Nick Sheridan has nearly four decades of relevant experience, giving him a wealth of knowledge about eurozone stocks. He is part of Janus Henderson's well-regarded and experienced 12-member pan-European equity team. Other portfolio managers generally follow the recommendations of the analysts embedded in the team, but Sheridan tends to use them more as a sounding board. His stock selection is more driven by his own research. This raises concerns about his workload, especially since he also has some involvement in the Global Smaller Companies strategy. Key-person risk is an additional consideration as he is the sole manager of the strategy. Sheridan employs an approach that he developed himself and already implemented at his previous employers, first in 1990. At its heart lies a proprietary quantitative analytical model that he strictly adheres to, making the process methodical and repeatable. While we think the model has proved its effectiveness, the approach’s real edge lies in Sheridan’s disciplined usage of it and consistent execution of the process. The fairly concentrated 40- to 50-stock portfolio is a mix of cheaply valued stocks with strong business franchises and quality growth names that Sheridan believes are undervalued relative to their fundamentals. Sheridan favors well-established companies, which he finds across the market-cap spectrum, but historically the portfolio has had a bias toward mid-caps at the expense of the giant-cap allocation. Sector allocations largely follow bottom-up stock selection, with Sheridan limited to a 15% deviation from his MSCI EMU Index strategy benchmark, but allocations typically don't differ that much. The strategy has a commendable long-term track record, significantly outperforming the eurozone large-cap equity category average and the Morningstar DM Eurozone Index category benchmark. Sharpe ratios show an above-average risk-adjusted performance profile, despite higher standard deviations due to the portfolio’s concentration and size and style characteristics. The latter two features have caused headwinds over Sheridan’s tenure, but he successfully overcame these with positive stock-selection results. |
Morningstar Pillars | |
People | Average |
Parent | Average |
Process | Above Average |
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