Janus Henderson Group plc (NYSE:JHG) Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call February 1, 2024 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Ali Dibadj – Chief Executive Officer

Roger Thompson – Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Dan Fannon – Jefferies

Craig Siegenthaler – Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Ken Worthington – JPMorgan

Patrick Davitt – Autonomous Research

Michael Cyprys – Morgan Stanley

Adam Beatty – UBS

Brian Bedell – Deutsche Bank

John Dunn – Evercore ISI

Bill Katz – TD Cowen

Operator

Good morning. My name is Jordan and I'll be your conference facilitator today. Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Janus Henderson Group Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results Briefing. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer period. In the interest of time, questions will be limited to one initial and one follow-up question.

In today's conference call, certain matters discussed may constitute forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including but not limited to those described in the forward-looking statements and risks factors' sections of the company's most recent Form 10-K and other more recent filings made with the SEC. Janus Henderson assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made during the call. Thank you.

Now it's my pleasure to introduce Ali Dibadj, Chief Executive Officer of Janus Henderson. Mr. Dibadj, you may begin your conference.

Ali Dibadj

Welcome everyone and thank you for joining us today on Janus Henderson's fourth quarter and full year 2023 earnings call. I'm Ali Dibadj and I'm joined by our CFO, Roger Thompson. In today's call, I'll start with some comments on the year. Roger will then go through the results and after that I'll provide an update on the strategic progress we made in 2023. After those prepared remarks, we'll take your questions.

Turn to Slide 2. After one of the most challenging market backdrops in 2022, most global markets rebounded and experienced growth in 2023 as concerns about inflation, progressive monetary policy, recession fears, and shocks to the banking system in early 2023 were overshadowed by inflation coming off peak levels, resilient economies, particularly in the U.S., the expectation of the end of rate hikes. Even with positive market returns for the year, headwinds remain as global markets look set to remain conflicted with the consequences of historic rate hikes finally manifesting themselves. Amidst this volatility, we ended the year strongly with fourth quarter results that delivered underlying net flows, revenue, operating expenses, margin and EPS that were all ahead of or in line with external expectations. And on top of that, our teams delivered better than anticipated performance fees and tax rate.