Status under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) – Emerging Markets Debt Hard Currency Fund

Janus Henderson Horizon Fund – Emerging Markets Debt Hard Currency Fund

The Fund is categorised as one which meets the provisions set out in Article 8 of SFDR as a product which promotes environmental and/or social characteristics.

A. Summary

This financial product promotes environmental or social characteristics but does not have as its objective sustainable investment.

The Fund promotes climate change mitigation and support of anti-corruption initiatives for sovereign issuers. The Fund also seeks to avoid investments in certain activities with the potential to cause harm to human health and wellbeing by applying binding exclusions. The Fund does not use a reference benchmark to attain its environmental or social characteristics.

The binding elements of the investment strategy described below are implemented as exclusionary screens within the Investment Manager’s order management system utilising third-party data provider(s) on an ongoing basis.

The good governance practices of investee companies are assessed prior to making an investment and periodically thereafter in accordance with the Sustainability Risk Policy (“Policy”).

In addition, the Investment Manager is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

A minimum of 80% of the investments of the financial product are used to meet the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the financial product.

The sustainability indicators used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product are:

• Carbon - Carbon Intensity Scope 1&2
• Number of companies in bottom 5% of the Corruption Perception Index
• ESG Exclusionary screens - see “G. Methodologies for environmental or social characteristics?” below for details on the exclusions.

The Investment Manager applies screens to exclude direct investment in corporate issuers based on their involvement in certain activities.

The Investment Manager applies screens to avoid direct investment in issuers within the bottom 5% of countries in the Corruption Perception Index.

The Fund also applies the Firmwide Exclusions Policy, which includes controversial weapons, as detailed under paragraph 10.15 of the section entitled “Investment Restrictions” to the Prospectus.

The fund has chosen Verisk Maplecroft as its primary data source for ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) research.

Where coverage gaps are identified, specialist ESG Data vendors or inhouse research may be used to complement the ESG research. This ensures consistent data and methodologies are used given an ESG measure per security type and hence can be compared correctly in the portfolio construction process.

Data coverage is directly driven by the coverage of the underlying ESG Data Provider.

JHI’s internal data structure provides sufficient flexibility to incorporate proprietary evidence or adapt evaluations to future requirements.

The JHI Sustainability Risk Policy sets out the firmwide ESG Integration Principles, Sustainable Investment Principles and Baseline Exclusions applied to investee companies.

Each Investment desk completes their own due diligence processes ahead of making any investment decisions within their Article 8 funds, using internal and external tools and research.

The Firm supports a number of stewardship codes and broader initiatives around the world and is a signatory to the UK stewardship code.