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  • USCF Commodity Strategy Fund to liquidate
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1689322/000117120019000065/i19086_mft-497.htm
    497 1 i19086_mft-497.htm
    Filed pursuant to Rule 497(e)
    Securities Act File No. 333-214468
    Investment Company Act File No. 811-23213
    USCF Mutual Funds Trust (the “Trust”)
    USCF Commodity Strategy Fund (the “Fund”)
    Class A Shares (USCFX)
    and
    Class I Shares (USCIX)
    Supplement dated February 21, 2019 to the Prospectus for the Fund dated October 30, 2018. This supplement provides new and additional information beyond that contained in the Prospectus. Please review this supplement carefully.
    After careful consideration, USCF Advisers, LLC, the Fund’s investment adviser, has recommended, and the Board of Trustees of the Trust has approved, the liquidation and termination of the Fund pursuant to a Plan of Liquidation. Shareholder approval of the Plan of Liquidation is not required.
    Pursuant to the Plan of Liquidation, the last day on which orders will be accepted for the sale of Fund shares will be February 22, 2019. Shareholders may continue to redeem shares of the Fund as described in the Prospectus until the Fund has been liquidated.
    The Fund will liquidate on or around March 21, 2019 (the “Liquidation Date”). In connection with the liquidation and termination of the Fund, the Fund’s wholly-owned subsidiary incorporated in the Cayman Islands shall also be liquidated in a manner necessary to effectuate the Fund’s Plan of Liquidation.
    On or about March 14, 2019, the Fund will begin converting its portfolio assets to cash and cash equivalents. This will cause the Fund to increase its cash and cash equivalent holdings and deviate from its investment objective and principal investment strategies stated in the Prospectus.
    On or about the Liquidation Date, the Fund will distribute its holdings pro rata to all remaining shareholders of the Fund. These distributions are taxable events for shareholders investing through taxable accounts. In addition, these payments will include accrued capital gains and dividends, if any. You should consult your personal tax advisor concerning your particular tax situation. As calculated on the Liquidation Date, the Fund's net asset value will reflect the costs of liquidating the Fund. Once the distributions are complete, the Fund will terminate.
    If you would like additional information, please contact Shareholder Services at 1-844-312-2114.
    PLEASE RETAIN THIS SUPPLEMENT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE
  • Morgan Housel: Different Kinds Of Stupid
    Hi Guys,
    The only time that I'm the smartest person in the room is when I'm the only person in that room. Even then, I'm not all that smart by any measure. Being smart is a very subjected judgement and is likely to change over time and circumstances. What's smart to someone might well be stupid to someone else.
    It's a complex, interconnected world. What happens somewhere is quickly known everywhere and potentially impacts some of us in unpredictable ways. Investing is even more complex with unknown interactions. These interactions are very volatile and change over time. That makes accurate and repeatable market forecasting an impossible task.
    That's why I don't invest based on predictions. I only invest on what actually has happened. That surely limits my potential gains, but most importantly, it limits my loses. I'll never be at the top of the investment success ranking, but I'll never be at the bottom. I'm satisfied and content with a more modest outcome that that strategy produces. I'm not being especially smart, but I believe I'm not being stupid either. This less aggressive approach has worked for me.
    Best Wishes
  • It’s Never Too Early To Get Your Kid Saving For Retirement. Here’s How.
    Hi @BrianW: Thanks for making comment.
    There are two school of thoughts on this. Now that we are at (or towards) a market top ... Well, I'm thinking ... In holding a capital appreciation fund there is no dividend or income generation that can be used to buy more shares should the market tank. In the route I went, with three growth & income funds plus one growth fund, there is dividend generation that gives the portfolio some buying power should the market pull back. Needless to say, I'm looking for a pull back in the stock market since I went the second route with some dividend generation with the opening positions.
    In addition, as additional gifts are made to the custodial account this money can be positioned accordingly. By using American Funds A shares they have a nav exchange program where an investor can make nav exchanges between their A share funds commission free. So, just because the portfolio started in this configuration does not mean it will always be this way.
    Also, there are no wrap fees on this account and Morningstar estimates the total expense ratio on this portfolio at 0.69%. In back testing this portfolio it had a three year total return of 12.67% and a ten year total return of 12.2%. While this is back of the returns of a S&P 500 Index fund that I sometime use I am happy with what is projected for this portfolio in its current configuration which offers greater global exposure than the 500 Index fund.
  • The Closing Bell: Asia & Europe: Global Stocks Edge Higher as U.S.-China Trade Talks Progress
    Trade talks will likely be resolved with little to nothing accomplished accept that it will be used as a "great' campaign tool in the next election. What can't happen for the Trump 2020 campaign is for the economy to slip into recession because of a trade war. Be assured, the Chinese know this too. Problem is holding out would be a disaster for the Chinese economy also. Nobody can win, only lose, but that doesn't mean it can't be spun into a winning tweet.
  • S&P 500? More Like The S&P 50
    @shipwreckedandalone: The below link just might be what your looking for about the pros, cons and benefits of an equally weighted index fund along with the performance details you seek. The reason I favor an equally weighted S&P 500 Index fund is because it provides good exposure to both large and mid cap stocks. I do not use VADAX for a complete investment strategy but I use it when I feel equity ballast is warranted on the equity side of my portfolio along with also using it as a special investment position (spiff) from time-to-time.
    https://www.lynalden.com/equal-weighted-index-funds/
    From the link here is a recap of the Pros & Cons of Equal Weighted Indices
    Although equal weighted ones may or may not have truly better performance, especially when you stick to the broad market or the S&P 500, there are definitely some trade-offs.
    Pros:
    Under the largest sample sizes, their long-term performance appears to be superior.
    They’re more diversified, rather than heavily concentrated into just the largest companies of the index.
    They naturally take a value-approach, which some investors prefer.
    Cons:
    They have higher turnover, which leads to higher expense ratios and generally higher capital gains taxes.
    They’re more volatile, and can fall more sharply during recessions.
    They’re only available for certain indices, because they’re not as popular yet.
    There are some interesting anomalies. For example if Apple were to split into two companies, a cap-weighted index would still have the same amount in it because the two parts would have about the same market cap when added together, while an equal-weighted one would double its exposure to it because it’s now two names and would invest in each equally.
    Neutral:
    Changing the way the index is weighted changes the sector balance.
  • CAPE Fear: The Bulls Are Wrong. Shiller's Measure Is the Real Deal
    @FD1000 what is your upper limit of stocks since you are in preservation mode? If MA goes below 50-200 day you toggle from 5 to 2%AA in stocks? 2-5% seems like it may as well be 0%. Of course if those are individual stocks...something with large upside or large capital gains I can see holding on. I am interested in trend following so using MA is interesting to me. Regards,Mike
  • Gundlach: Last year's market selloff was just a 'taste of things to come'
    I like listening to the bond king but Mr G was wrong so many times, it's embarrassing...and he was wrong about bonds too because nobody can predict what markets will do in the next 3-6 months. His biggest dare prediction is for the 10 year treasury to be at 6% by 2020-1(link), I predict he will be way off.
  • Gundlach: Last year's market selloff was just a 'taste of things to come'
    This 10 minute video reviews some of Gundlach's major market calls, his new fund offerings, the recent stock market selloff, parallels between market conditions now and market conditions a decade ago, and why he thinks now is a good time to buy two year treasuries rather than US stocks or corporate bonds.....
    "A bear market has nothing to do with this 20% arbitrary thing," Gundlach, the CEO of $121 billion DoubleLine Capital, told Yahoo Finance in an exclusive interview. "It has to do with something crazy happening first, and then the crazy thing gives it up. And yet more traditional things continue to march on. But one by one they give it up."
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gundlach-last-years-market-selloff-was-just-a-taste-of-things-to-come-133019690.html
  • STATX - what am I missing?
    The advisor, New York Alaska ETF Management, seems to have two employees, offices on the third floor of a nice though anonymous Las Vegas building (5550 Painted Mirage Rd) and about $90 million in assets. The founder's, Ofer Abarbanel, Linked In profile identifies him as "Founder, Prime Brokerage Ltd, Aug 2000 – Present. Contact Prime Brokerage Ltd is Israel's No.1 ranked Non-Bank Secured Credit Brokerage firm which specializes in Securities Lending, Covered Bonds, TRS, CDS and Repo transactions."
    The manager, Nicholas Abbate, "has significant experience in capital markets [through] various roles at Knight Capital Group," but extensively as "a market maker in NASDAQ securities and Over the Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB)/OTC Pink Securities in various sectors." He left KCG in 2010 and, for four years, was an independent real estate investor and developer.
    As I charted STATX against RPHYX, ZEOIX and MINT, I noted a supernatural steadiness to its returns. It has returned 6.5% since inception, over the same period the others have returns something in the 3.5 - 5.5% range.
    No opinion or recommendation, just a bit of additional data.
    David
  • Palm Valley Capital Fund in registration
    Dear friends,
    In an interesting development, Eric Cinnamond (ex of Intrepid Endurance ICMAX and Aston/RiverRoad Independent Value ARIVX) and Jayme Wiggins (ex of Intrepid Endurance ICMAX) are joining forces to launch the Palm Valley Capital Fund. A small cap absolute value fund. 1.25% expenses (undercutting ICMAX on price), $2,500 minimum. ICMAX has a cluttered manager history with both guys on the fund from 2005-08, then Wiggins leaving in 08, Cinnamond leaving in '10, Wiggins returning in '10 and leaving in '18. Mark Travis, the firm's founder, helped manage the fund from 2005-17, left, then returned for about four months after Mr. Wiggins' sort of sudden departure. ICMAX is now managed by three guys who I don't particularly know.
    Messrs Cinnamond and Wiggins are both excellent stock pickers, a fact mostly masked by their absolute value orientation. At base, absolute value investors believe that stocks are sometimes insanely profitable but are always insanely risky. The only rational time to buy is when you can buy them at a 50% discount to what they're worth. In most markets, there are dozens of stocks, especially the stocks of tiny firms, that are massively undervalued. In part of every market cycle, though, such bargains disappear as momentum investors and froth fiends pile in. When that happens, absolute value guys run out of stuff to buy and begin building cash. Later still, their holdings become uncomfortably expensive (that is, risky) and get sold one by one; if there's nothing to replace them, cash builds further. Somewhere in there investors with short memories are seized by FOMO and flee from the absolute value funds to the funds that have made the most profit during the market's frothy phase. Somewhere thereafter, the market collapses, the folks in the riskiest funds get burned the most badly and the absolute value investors make a mint for their remaining investors. Shortly thereafter, panicked people fleeing the high growth funds rush in the door, assets soar and the cycle begins anew.
    Market cycles usually run around seven years, but the intervention that probably saved the economy in 2008 kept market valuations from plumbing their normal bear market lows and a decade of effectively zero interest rates have prolonged the current one. As a result, absolute value guys were holding historic levels of cash for historic periods; in consequence, they became historically unpopular. In 2016, Mr. Cinnamond decided to liquidate ARIVX which was sitting at about 90% cash; his argument was that he didn't see an immediate prospect for a return to normal valuations and he wasn't willing to indefinitely charge his investors equity fund fees for something close to a money market. In 2018, for reasons not made public, Mr. Wiggins left ICMAX which was sitting at about 85% cash.
    The launch of Palm Valley, likely at the end of April, raises interesting questions (what led the managers to decide that this was the time to beginning raising capital which will only be useful after a really substantial correction?) and will offer a really interesting opportunity for small cap investors who are intensely aware of the need to manage the enormous extremes of such stocks.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650149/000089418919000884/spt-palm_485a.htm
    David
  • Consuelo Mack's WealthTrack Preview: Guest: Kathleen Gaffney, Manager, Eaton Vance Bond Fund
    FYI:
    Regards,
    Ted
    February 14, 2019
    Dear WEALTHTRACK Subscriber,
    18th century British nobleman Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild is alleged to have said: “Buy when there is blood in the streets.” He supposedly made a fortune speculating when Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo. We know for a fact that legendary 20th century investor Sir John Templeton followed his: “Buy in periods of maximum pessimism” principle to great success.
    If you were to name places in the world where you wouldn’t consider investing today what comes to mind? How about Venezuela where the economy is in ruins, the president discredited and the opposition mounting? Or a specific company in this country like Pacific Gas and Electric, PG&E for short, the California utility that filed for bankruptcy and bore the physical and legal brunt of the recent devastating California wild fires? Those are fertile ground for contrarian investors, or just traditional value investors who look for opportunities where others fear to tread.
    This week’s guest is just such an investor. Her specialty is fixed income but she has the latitude to invest around the world, anywhere in a company’s capital structure and she revels in the hunt. She is Kathleen Gaffney, Director of Diversified Fixed Income at Eaton Vance where she is also the lead portfolio manager of the Eaton Vance Multisector Income Fund, which she launched as the Eaton Vance Bond Fund when she joined the firm in early 2013.
    The fund is known for its flexibility to seek higher total return opportunities wherever available in the world and the capital structure of the companies chosen. That approach has also meant “significantly more volatility” than its peers in Morningstar’s Multisector Bond category. It carries a 3-star rating but is ranked in the top one percentile for the last 3 years, the middle of the pack for the last 5 and has beaten its benchmark since inception.
    Gaffney is also lead portfolio manager of the somewhat more traditional Eaton Vance Core Plus Bond Fund. It carries a 5-star rating and has ranked in the top performance percentiles for the last 3 and 5 year periods under her leadership.
    The last time I sat down with Gaffney in late 2017 she told us we were at an important inflection point, shifting from a secular decline in interest rates to a gradual rise. She will share her views of where we stand now.
    If you’d like to watch any of our programs ahead of their official broadcast they are available to our PREMIUM viewers on our website about 24 hours before. You’ll also find the EXTRA interview with Kathleen Gaffney about her technique to keep mentally fresh.
    If you would prefer to take WEALTHTRACK with you on your commute or travels, you can now find the WEALTHTRACK podcast on TuneIn, Stitcher, and SoundCloud as well as iTunes and Spotify.
    Thank you for watching. We hope you had a happy Valentine’s Day. Make the week ahead a profitable and a productive one.
    Best regards,
    Consuelo
    Video Clip:

    M* Snapshot EVBAX:
    https://www.morningstar.com/funds/XNAS/EVBAX/quote.html
    Lipper Snapshot EVBAX:
    https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/fund/evbax
    EVBAX Is Unranked In The (MB) Fund Category By U.S. News & World Report:
    https://money.usnews.com/funds/mutual-funds/multisector-bond/eaton-vance-multisector-income-fund/evbax
  • Schwab Pulls Trigger On Commission-Free ETF Price War–And Fidelity Fires Back
    Taken to its extreme, the argument that owning multiple funds in a category is no different than buying an index fund (albeit at higher cost) leads one to say that a fund with multiple managers is like an index fund.
    Okay, that's a little harsh because funds can be run where managers must agree on investments, thus there are not multiple "portfolios" at work in these funds. But in many cases, team managers may run separate portfolios. For example, Capital Group (American Funds) teams "Divid[e] each fund into independently run sleeves ..."
    https://www.americanfunds.com/individual/our-company/capital-system.html
    Other funds are explicitly run by multiple management companies (with their own sleeves) for the purpose of providing different approaches. For example, VWILX is run by two management companies, Schroders with a GARP approach and Balllie Gifford which is more growth oriented.
    Investing in complementary styles doesn't mean buying everything. Different managers have different skills and may add value in different parts of the market (e.g. large cap and small cap). Likewise, multiple managers may add value even within what one might consider the same part of the market, as with VWILX.
    That said, someone who collects lots of funds in one section of the market simply because they are good funds is likely to be getting close to buying that whole section of the market. I agree that looks a lot like buying a high priced index fund. I try to keep the number of funds I use in any part of the market down to a couple. I don't feel that constitutes a "collection".
    I fundamentally disagree with the premise that zero cost index funds are better than low cost index funds. When I buy index funds, I look at how the index is constructed and how well the management company executes. I feel these factors are much more significant than a few basis points.
    To be blunt, IMHO zero cost is more sizzle than steak. The zero cost index funds that are offered for retail purchase are untested and proprietary, making examination of their construction virtually impossible.
    M* shows 22 zero cost index funds: the four Fidelity ZERO funds (FZROX has underperformed FSKAX by 66 basis points over the past three months ending Feb 13); seven Fidelity Flex or Series funds (not available to retail investors); three class W TIAA funds (not available to retail investors except via non-zero ER shares), and a slew of Wells Fargo factor based funds (available only through managed advisory programs).
    So it looks like we're talking about just four funds (or three if we restrict to domestic equities). I prefer to think outside this (extremely small) box.
  • Changes at PRNHX and PRTGX...
    T. Rowe Price Global Technology Fund, Inc.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1116626/000111662619000004/gtfstatsticker-february20193.htm
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    T. ROWE PRICE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY FUND
    Supplement to Prospectus Dated May 1, 2018
    On page 6, the portfolio manager table under “Management” is supplemented as follows:
    Effective March 31, 2019, Alan Tu will replace Joshua K. Spencer as the fund’s portfolio manager and Chairman of the fund’s Investment Advisory Committee. Mr. Tu joined T. Rowe Price in 2014.
    On page 9, the disclosure under “Portfolio Management” is supplemented as follow:
    Effective March 31, 2019, Alan Tu will replace Joshua K. Spencer as Chairman of the fund’s Investment Advisory Committee. Mr. Tu joined the Firm in 2014 and his investment experience dates from 2010. Since joining the Firm, he has served as an equity investment analyst covering the technology sector. Prior to joining the Firm, he was an associate at Huron Consulting and then an investment analyst at Ananda Capital Management (beginning 2010).
    The date of this supplement is February 14, 2019.
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/80248/000008024819000003/nhfstatsticker-february20192.htm
    T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc
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    T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND
    Supplement to Prospectus Dated May 1, 2018
    On page 5, the portfolio manager table under “Management” is supplemented as follows:
    Effective March 31, 2019, Joshua K. Spencer will replace Henry M. Ellenbogen as the fund’s portfolio manager and Chairman of the fund’s Investment Advisory Committee. Mr. Spencer joined T. Rowe Price in 2004.
    On page 8, the disclosure under “Portfolio Management” is supplemented as follow:
    Effective March 31, 2019, Joshua K. Spencer will replace Henry M. Ellenbogen as Chairman of the fund’s Investment Advisory Committee. Mr. Spencer joined the Firm in 2004 and his investment experience dates from 1998. He has served as a portfolio manager with the Firm throughout the past five years.
    The date of this supplement is February 14, 2019.
    F42-042 2/14/19
  • Why Dollar Cost Averaging Beats Buying The Dip: Text & Video Presentation
    This article is actually comparing two forms of lump sum investing: invest now, or invest when the market is next at a low point. (It just does this repeatedly and averages out results.) The low point is defined as the minimum point between two all time highs. Therein lies the problem.
    If the market is on an upswing (much of the time), you're waiting until the next all time high (which by definition is higher than now), and then waiting for it to reach its next minimum (which is likely to be higher than now).
    Tweaking the timing slightly and buying at a redefined "dip" should do better. As in the article, assume omniscience but buy at the lowest point between now and the next all time high. If the market is on a downswing toward that minimum, you'll win by waiting and buying at a lower price than now. If the market is rising toward that next all time high, you'll win by buying now and catching the wave. (That is, unless the market really swoons after that high and winds up lower than it is "now".)
    But that's if you're omniscient. I for one am not. I don't know when the market is at an all time high (when to raise cash) and when it will hit its next low (to buy) before going to its next high.
    At best, I might smooth returns a bit by trying to sell when the market is up (but not at a high, which I can't know psychically), and trying to sell near a bottom (but not at the actual bottom). I'll miss some losses this way but also miss some gains, thus smoothing results (with possible tax consequences), but likely not helping returns.
  • Buying The Dow Stocks With The Highest Dividends Is A Winning Strategy
    Old Skeet provided a good analysis. I too hold DSENX for awhile. The 2018 drawdown is sizable as indicated by Derf. The fund 2018's total return was -4.0% while the 60/40 balanced index lost -2.9%. The international version, DSEUX, performed even worse and yielded -12.9% in 2018. The only saving grace of these tow CAPE-oriented funds is their large bond positions that provide the monthly dividend.
    Interesting products from Gundlach but the risk is significant. Perhaps TRP Capital Appreciation would be a better vehicle with respect to both risk and reward.
  • Mf newsletter monthly read. T. Maddell
    Hi @johnN. I most always enjoy reading Dr. Madell's perspectives. Perhaps in the future he will post some basic model portfolios as guidelines. I'd also like to see what he comes up with for those retired looking for income and how he would go about setting a portfolio up for income generation also allowing for some capital appreciation.
  • HOBEX
    HOBEX - New fund in 2016, so probably not a lot on it yet. Appears they’re trying to generate decent income while hedging against rising rates. That’s a tough act to pull off. The 1.84% ER is high but not unusual for this type of fund. Likely the strategies employed are expensive. The 138% turnover rate doesn’t help matters, but, unfortunately, that’s also typical of many alternative investment strategies. Here’s how Lipper describes the fund:
    “The Fund seeks to provide current income, with a secondary objective of capital preservation in a rising interest rate environment. It will allocate its portfolio in fixed income securities through the purchase of closed end investment companies and exchange-traded funds that invest in income producing securities.” http://www.funds.reuters.wallst.com/US/funds/overview.asp?symbol=HOBEX.O
    I like to look at MaxFunds along with Lipper and M* for insights. MaxFunds is sometimes wrong - but “never in doubt” (willing to go out on a limb with their projections). Their rating for HOBEX is +2 out of 100. http://www.maxfunds.com/funds/data.php?ticker=HOBEX&pg=d
    Not sure how you came by this fund - possibly thru some employer’s plan. My take is that the problem with the fund probably relates as much to the high-wire act they are trying to execute and the high fees and trading costs as with management. Along a similar vein, Price has a new hedged income offering, TMSRX, also with lackluster results, but having a lower 1.37% ER (and somewhat lower turnover rate).
  • True "Value" Funds Hard to Find
    The Hulbert article offers the following list of value stocks for the DIYer who can't find a fund for the job:
    • Bank OZK OZK 3.55% (OZK)
    • Brighthouse Financial BHF -0.83% (BHF)
    Capital One Financial COF 0.63% (COF)
    • Citigroup C 0.61% (C)
    • Goldman Sachs GS 0.60% (GS)
    • Gulfport Energy GPOR -0.12% (GPOR)
    • Mallinckrodt MNK -0.67% PLC (MNK)
    • New York Community Bancorp (NYCB)
    • PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust PMT 1.24% (PMT)
    Financial services figure prominently. OAKBX has a few, but Citigroup is the only one in common.
  • Manager change at Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond Fund
    (Sorry, didn't see Ted's post from earlier this morning)
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277751/000119312519026477/d613622d497.htm
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    Janus Investment Fund
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    Janus Investment Fund
    Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond Fund
    Supplement dated February 4, 2019
    to Currently Effective Prospectuses
    Effective March 1, 2019, William H. Gross, the Portfolio Manager for Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond Fund (the “Fund”) intends to retire. In connection with Mr. Gross’ retirement, effective on or about February 15, 2019, Nick Maroutsos will become the new Portfolio Manager of the Fund, and the Fund will change its name to Janus Henderson Absolute Return Income Opportunities Fund. The Fund’s investment objective and principal investment strategies are not changing, and the name change is intended to align the Fund’s name to other Janus Henderson products managed by Mr. Maroutsos using the absolute return income investment approach.
    The Fund is expected to experience increased shareholder redemptions as a result of the above changes, which may cause the Fund to sell portfolio securities at times when it would not otherwise do so. As a result, the Fund may deviate from its stated investment strategies and policies in order to meet redemption requests. Increased shareholder redemptions and efforts to realign the Fund’s portfolio to reflect Mr. Maroutsos’ investment approach may also accelerate the realization of taxable income to shareholders if such sales of investments result in gains, and will also increase transaction costs. In addition, increased shareholder redemptions would result in the Fund’s current expenses being allocated over a smaller asset base, which would lead to an increase in the Fund’s expense ratio, but will not alter the expense caps currently in place for each share class of the Fund.
    Based on the above changes, effective on or about February 15, 2019, the Fund’s prospectuses are amended as follows:
    1. Under “Management” in the Fund Summary section of the Fund’s prospectuses, the following paragraph replaces the corresponding paragraph in its entirety:
    Portfolio Manager: Nick Maroutsos is Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Fund, which he has managed since February 2019.
    2. Under “Investment Personnel — Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond Fund” in the Management of the Funds section of the Fund’s prospectuses, the following information replaces the corresponding information in its entirety:
    Nick Maroutsos is Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Fund, which he has managed since February 2019. Mr. Maroutsos is also Portfolio Manager of other Janus Henderson accounts. He joined Janus Capital in 2015, and is a member of the Janus Global Macro leadership team. Prior to joining Janus Capital, Mr. Maroutsos was a Founder and Managing Director of Kapstream Capital, now a Janus Henderson subsidiary. Prior to forming Kapstream Capital in 2006, Mr. Maroutsos held positions with Pacific Investment Management Company LLC from 1999 to 2005. Mr. Maroutsos holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California at San Diego and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
    Effective on or about February 15, 2019, all references to William H. Gross are deleted from the Fund’s prospectuses.
    Supplement dated February 4, 2019
    to Currently Effective Prospectuses
    Effective March 1, 2019, William H. Gross, the Portfolio Manager for Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond Fund (the “Fund”) intends to retire. In connection with Mr. Gross’ retirement, effective on or about February 15, 2019, Nick Maroutsos will become the new Portfolio Manager of the Fund, and the Fund will change its name to Janus Henderson Absolute Return Income Opportunities Fund. The Fund’s investment objective and principal investment strategies are not changing, and the name change is intended to align the Fund’s name to other Janus Henderson products managed by Mr. Maroutsos using the absolute return income investment approach.
    The Fund is expected to experience increased shareholder redemptions as a result of the above changes, which may cause the Fund to sell portfolio securities at times when it would not otherwise do so. As a result, the Fund may deviate from its stated investment strategies and policies in order to meet redemption requests. Increased shareholder redemptions and efforts to realign the Fund’s portfolio to reflect Mr. Maroutsos’ investment approach may also accelerate the realization of taxable income to shareholders if such sales of investments result in gains, and will also increase transaction costs. In addition, increased shareholder redemptions would result in the Fund’s current expenses being allocated over a smaller asset base, which would lead to an increase in the Fund’s expense ratio, but will not alter the expense caps currently in place for each share class of the Fund.
    Based on the above changes, effective on or about February 15, 2019, the Fund’s prospectuses are amended as follows:
    1. Under “Management” in the Fund Summary section of the Fund’s prospectuses, the following paragraph replaces the corresponding paragraph in its entirety:
    Portfolio Manager: Nick Maroutsos is Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Fund, which he has managed since February 2019.
    2. Under “Investment Personnel — Janus Henderson Global Unconstrained Bond Fund” in the Management of the Funds section of the Fund’s prospectuses, the following information replaces the corresponding information in its entirety:
    Nick Maroutsos is Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Fund, which he has managed since February 2019. Mr. Maroutsos is also Portfolio Manager of other Janus Henderson accounts. He joined Janus Capital in 2015, and is a member of the Janus Global Macro leadership team. Prior to joining Janus Capital, Mr. Maroutsos was a Founder and Managing Director of Kapstream Capital, now a Janus Henderson subsidiary. Prior to forming Kapstream Capital in 2006, Mr. Maroutsos held positions with Pacific Investment Management Company LLC from 1999 to 2005. Mr. Maroutsos holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California at San Diego and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
    Effective on or about February 15, 2019, all references to William H. Gross are deleted from the Fund’s prospectuses....
  • Time for Muni's
    I'm with @MikeM; intermediate munis are so low-yielding, I wouldn't be interested. If you were playing yield plus capital gain, maybe, but the latter's not something I'd count on from where we are now.
    If you don't want to jump up to long-duration IG munis for the better yield, you might look into relatively higher quality, short-term high yield muni funds. HY in muni-land isn't as risky as comparably rated HY corps.