News Flash- Janus Assets Now at $128B

Janus Capital revealed that its assets under management dropped 0.9% in August to $127.8 billion from $129 billion at the end of July. The Denver-based shop has been bleeding assets at an alarming rate after its tech-heavy growth funds collapsed with the bear market and the firm was slapped with a hefty lawsuit over trading abuses.

Top executives have since left Janus and the company agreed to a $226 million settlement with state and federal regulators for its involvement in a market-timing scheme that proved harmful to long-term shareholders of its funds.

Janus said that the company's redemptions, excluding money market funds, "continue to improve" and are at their lowest level since November 1998. Total net outflows in August were $1.4 billion. The firmwide average assets under management during August fell 3.7% to roughly $126.5 billion from $131.4 billion the previous month.

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