Status under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)

B. No Sustainable Investment Objective

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

C. Environmental or social characteristics of the financial product

The Fund promotes the following environmental and/or social characteristics:

• Support for UNGC principles (which cover matters including human rights, labour, corruption and environmental pollution).
• JHI leverages a proprietary ESG framework, utilising both third party data and proprietary insights, to produce company ratings for corporate credit issuers. To encourage the adoption of better environmental and/or social practices the Fund will only invest in corporate credit issuers falling within the top 5 of the 6 ratings produced.
• JHI leverages a proprietary ESG framework, utilising both third party data and proprietary insights, that incorporates at least 20 metrics across environmental, social, and governance factors to produce country-level ESG ratings ranging from AAA to CCC. To encourage the adoption of better environmental and/or social practices the Fund will only invest in sovereign issuers rated B or higher.
• JHI leverages a proprietary ESG framework, utilising both third party data and proprietary insights, to produce agency mortgage-backed securities issuer ratings. To encourage the adoption of better environmental and/or social practices the Fund will only invest in the top 5 of 6 ratings.
• Avoidance of 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.

D. Investment Strategy

The Fund’s investment objective is to seek to maximise total return consistent with the preservation of capital. The Fund seeks to provide long-term positive returns through various market environments. The Fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing at least 80% of its net asset value in short duration Debt Securities located anywhere in the world (including Developing Markets).

The Sub-Investment Adviser constructs a portfolio around a core of shorter maturity, global investment grade securities seeking to generate yield above cash, and by applying secular and opportunistic views across countries, currencies and sectors to enhance return and mitigate downside risk. The Sub-Investment Adviser will seek to manage the portfolio through the various market environments using a variety of strategies, including, but not limited to, adjusting the overall credit exposure, credit quality, and interest rate duration of the portfolio and the allocation to cash. The Fund seeks the best risk adjusted opportunities across sectors, countries and credit risk.

Investors should read this section in conjunction with the Fund’s investment strategy (as set out in the supplement for the Fund under the heading “Investment Objective and Policies”).

The binding elements of the investment strategy described below, that are implemented as screens are coded into the compliance module of the Sub-Investment Advisers’ order management system utilising third-party data provider(s) on an ongoing basis. The exclusionary screens are implemented on both a pre and post trade basis enabling the Sub-Investment Adviser to block any proposed transactions in an excluded security and identify any changes to the status of holdings when third-party data is periodically updated.

The companies in which investments are made are assessed by the Sub-Investment Adviser to follow good governance practices. The Sub-Investment Adviser has developed a proprietary framework based on internal analysis and data from external vendors to assess securities on specific indicators relating to good governance.

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”).

The Policy sets minimum standards against which investee companies will be assessed and monitored by the Sub-Investment Adviser prior to making an investment and on an ongoing basis. Such standards may include, but are not limited to: sound management structures, employee relations, remuneration of staff and tax compliance.

The Policy can be found at www.janushenderson.com/corporate/who-we-are/brighter-future-project/responsibility/esg-resources/. In addition, the Sub-Investment Adviser is a signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). As a signatory, the good governance practices of are also assessed by having regard to the PRI principles prior to making an investment and periodically thereafter.

E. Proportion of investments

A minimum of 70% of the investments of the financial product are used to meet the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the financial product.

Other assets, which are not used to meet the environmental or social characteristics, may include cash or cash equivalents, securitised assets other than agency mortgage-backed securities, in addition to instruments held for the purposes of efficient portfolio management e.g. temporary holdings of index derivatives, or short equity positions.

F. Monitoring of environmental or social characteristics

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

• Overall UNGC Principles Compliance Status.
• Ratings of corporate issuers across the portfolio based on the proprietary framework.
• Ratings of sovereign issuers across the portfolio based on the proprietary framework.
• Ratings of agency mortgage-backed securities issuers across the portfolio based on the proprietary framework.
• ESG Exclusionary screens – see Section G below for details on the exclusions.

The Front Office Controls & Governance team provide ongoing assurance where required, that we can evidence investment products being managed in line with documented sustainability commitments where automated controls and/or 3rd party data are not available. Financial Risk review and challenge investment management in light of ESG-related risks, alongside traditional market risk metrics, and embed sustainability risk into the risk profiles. Investment Compliance implement exclusionary screening and monitor this on an ongoing basis in addition to elements of manual oversight where relevant.

G. Methodologies for environmental or social characteristics

The Sub-Investment Adviser will:

• Apply screens so that the Fund does not invest in issuers that are in breach of the UNGC Principles (which cover matters including human rights, labour, corruption, and environmental pollution).
• Leverage a proprietary ESG framework, utilising both third party data and proprietary insights, to produce company ratings for corporate credit issuers. To encourage the adoption of better environmental and/or social practices the Fund will only invest in corporate credit issuers falling within the top 5 of the 6 ratings produced.
• Leverage a proprietary ESG framework, utilising both third party data and proprietary insights, that incorporates at least 20 metrics across environmental, social, and governance factors to produce country-level ESG ratings ranging from AAA to CCC. To encourage the adoption of better environmental and/or social practices the Fund will only invest in sovereign issuers rated B or higher.
• Leverage a proprietary ESG framework, utilising both third party data and proprietary insights, to produce agency mortgage-backed securities issuer ratings. To encourage the adoption of better environmental and/or social practices the Fund will only invest in the top 5 of 6 ratings.
• Apply screens to exclude direct investment in corporate issuers based on their involvement in certain activities. Specifically, issuers are excluded if they derive more than 10% of their revenue from tobacco, adult entertainment, thermal coal, oil sands, arctic oil and gas.

The Fund also applies the Firmwide Exclusions Policy (see “Firmwide Exclusions” in the "JHI Responsible Investment Policy”), which includes controversial weapons.

The Sub-Investment Adviser may include positions in the Fund that, based on third-party data or screens, appear to fail the above criteria, where the Sub-Investment Adviser believes that the third-party data is insufficient or inaccurate.

H. Data sources and processing

The fund has chosen MSCI as its primary data source for ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) research. This helps ensure that in an effort to provide consistent data and methodologies are given an ESG measure per security type and hence enabling them to be compared correctly in the portfolio construction process.

Where coverage gaps are identified, specialist ESG Data vendors or inhouse research may be used to complement the ESG research.

JHI has built a centralised proprietary research alignment process; The central research alignment process aligns data at three different levels: -

• Entity Level,
• Position Level, and
• Fund Level.

The research alignment and mapping capability is critical to JHI's ESG methodology, as we recognise a security could inherit the ESG information from the issuing legal entity, however, some ESG risks will be instrument specific.

JHI applies a series of Data Quality rules to ensure the integrity of the data being ingested into the central research alignment solution. JHI data that is not aligned correctly to the definition as provided by the data vendor is not ingested into the central cloud-based data warehouse and exceptions are raised. Remediation includes challenging the data provider or internal operations supporting internally managed Systems of Records. Where appropriate the Data Owner responsible and accountable for the data is notified through the internal Data Governance process to resolve outstanding exceptions.

JHI receives weekly automated data feeds from external ESG Data vendors, which are ingested into a cloud-based data warehouse.

Some data used to support binding criteria as received from external providers may be estimated data. For positions not covered by the external data provider, proprietary research may be used. This could range from proprietary research alignment against the external data vendor to written confirmation from the issuing entity that it aligns to the binding criteria. The appropriateness of the evidence provided is assessed by an independent body at JHI.

 I. Limitations to methodologies and data

Data coverage is directly driven by the coverage of the underlying ESG Data Provider.  The promotion of the social and environmental characteristics is not wholly dependent on third party data, any methodology limitations thereof and is typically also informed by proprietary research, engagement with investee companies where there might be relevant data gaps.

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

JHI is aware of data gaps in ESG Research for non-traditional asset classes compared to mainstream asset classes such as equities and debt instruments.

J. Due diligence

The JHI Responsible Investment Policy sets out the firmwide approach to ESG Integration, including JHI’s Responsible Investment Principles for long-term investment success, our approaches to Stewardship and Engagement and Firmwide Exclusions applied to investee companies. These exclusions are based on classifications provided by third-party data ESG data providers.

This classification is subject to an investment research override in cases where sufficient evidence exists that the third-party field is not accurate or appropriate.

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 Front Office Controls & Governance team provide ongoing assurance where required, that we can evidence investment products being managed in line with documented sustainability commitments where automated controls and/or 3rd party data are not available. Financial Risk review and challenge investment management in light of ESG-related risks, alongside traditional market risk metrics, and embed sustainability risk into the risk profiles. Investment Compliance ensure that ESG-related activities are managed in line with regulatory requirements and expectations and considered within our compliance framework.

K. Engagement Policies

In addition to the binding elements of the investment strategy described above, stewardship forms an integral and natural part of Janus Henderson’s long-term, active approach to investment management. Details of JHI’s approach to Engagement can be found in the   Responsible investment policy published under the ‘ESG Resource Library’ at https://www.janushenderson.com/corporate/who-we-are/brighter-future-project/responsibility/esg-resources/

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

Janus Henderson has a Proxy Voting Committee, which is responsible for establishing positions on major voting issues and creating guidelines overseeing the voting process. The Committee is comprised of representatives of investments portfolio management, corporate governance, accounting, legal and compliance. Additionally, the Proxy Voting Committee is responsible for monitoring and resolving conflicts of interest with respect to proxy voting.

L. Designated Reference Benchmark

As at the 21 Nov 2025, the Investment Manager considers the following principal adverse impacts on sustainability factors (“PAIs”) for this Fund.

M. Principal adverse impacts (PAI)

Adverse Sustainability Indicator		Metric	How is PAI considered
Greenhouse gas emissions	GHG emissions	Scope 1 GHG emissions	Exclusionary screens
		Scope 2 GHG emissions	Exclusionary screens
	Carbon footprint	Carbon footprint	Exclusionary screens
	GHG Intensity of investee companies	HG intensity of investee companies	Exclusionary screens
	Exposure to companies active in the fossil fuel sector	Share of investments in companies active in the fossil fuel sector	Exclusionary screens
Social and employee matters	Share of investments in investee companies involved in the manufacture or selling of controversial weapons	Exposure to controversial weapons (anti-personnel mines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and biological weapons)	Exclusionary screens
	Violations of UN Global Compact principles and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises	Share of investments in investee companies that have been involved in violations of the UNGC principles or OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises	Exclusionary screens

 

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