| Janus Small/Mid Cap Growth Alpha ETF (JSMD) seeks investment results that correspond generally, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the Janus Henderson Small/Mid Cap Growth Alpha Index. The Underlying Index, Janus Small/Mid Cap Growth Alpha Index, is composed of common stocks of small- and medium- sized companies that are selected by the index provider, Janus Index & Calculation Services LLC ( Janus Index Services or the Index Provider ), from those companies included in the Solactive Small/Mid Cap Index, a universe of 2,500 small- and medium-sized capitalization stocks. The Underlying Index is designed to select small- and medium-sized capitalization stocks that are poised for smart growth by evaluating each company s performance in three critical areas: growth, profitability, and capital efficiency. The Index Provider scores such stocks based on fundamental measures of their growth, profitability, and capital efficiency, and selects the top 10% of such eligible stocks scoring the highest using a proprietary quantitative methodology. To arrive at the top 10%, for each security in the stated universe, the quantitative methodology assigns a score in each of 10 different fundamental factors, relative to other eligible securities. The fundamental factors include measures that Janus Capital believes are tied to a stock s outperformance relative to other small/mid cap stocks, and indicate a companys performance with respect to growth (such as the revenue growth rate over 2- 5- and 8- year periods), profitability (such as margin expansion, profit margin and earnings per share over time) and capital efficiency (such as returns on invested capital). |