Janus Henderson Balanced Inst

Objective And Strategy

Objective
Long-term capital growth, consistent with preservation of capital and balanced by current income.

Strategy
The Portfolio pursues its investment objective by normally investing 35-65% of its assets in equity securities and the remaining assets in fixed-income securities and cash equivalents. The Portfolio normally invests at least 25% of its assets in fixed-income senior securities. The Portfolio may also invest in foreign equity and debt securities, which may include investments in emerging markets.

Principal Risks

* This portfolio is subject to the risks of investing in low-grade corporate bonds that have a higher default risk, less liquidity and greater sensitivity to changes in the economy than investment-grade bonds. High-yield bonds are rated lower because there is a greater risk associated with the issuer's ability to pay principal and interest.

* This portfolio invests in securities of foreign issuers which involves risks not typically associated with domestic issuers, including currency fluctuations and the possibility of political and economic instability. Emerging markets involve risks in addition to those generally associated with foreign securities, because political and economic structures in many emerging markets may be undergoing significant evolution and rapid development.

* This fund has a risk of prepayment and extension. A mortgage backed bond, unlike other bonds can be hurt when interest rates fall because homeowners refinance and prepay principal. Receiving increasing prepayments in a falling interest rate environment cause the average maturity of the portfolio to shorten, reducing its potential for price gains. It requires the fund to reinvest at lower interest rates, which reduced the portfolio's total return and yield, and may cause certain bond prices to fall below the level the fund paid for them, resulting in a capital loss.

* Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk because the prices of fixed income securities tend to move in the opposite direction of interest rates. When interest rates rise, fixed income security prices fall. When interest rates fall, fixed income security prices rise.

* Credit risk is the risk that the issuer of a security may be unable to make interest payments and/or repay principal when due. A downgrade to an issuer's credit rating or a perceived change in an issuer's financial strength may affect a security's value, and thus, impact the VA Short-Term Fixed Portfolio's performance.

* Value stocks may perform differently from the market as a whole and following a value-oriented investment strategy may cause the Portfolio to at times underperform equity funds that use other investment strategies.

* Under certain market conditions, growth investments have performed better during the later stages of economic expansion and value investments have performed best during periods of economic recovery. Therefore, these investing styles may over time go in and out of favor. At times when the investing style used by the Fund is out of favor, the Fund may underperform other equity funds that use different investing styles.

* There may be little trading in the secondary market for particular bonds or other debt securities, which may make them more difficult to value, acquire or sell.