Dan Janis

Chief Investment Officer
Agile Investment Management LLC

Dan Janis

Dan is co-founder of Agile Investment Management and is the key decision-maker for the company’s investment strategies.

Dan has held senior investment positions for much of his 35-year career. Prior to Agile Investment Management, he worked at John Hancock/Manulife Asset Management (1999–2023), where he was the Head of Global Multi-Sector Fixed Income, Senior Portfolio Manager and Lead Portfolio Manager for the company’s global multi-sector fixed-income strategies. In this capacity, he created and built the portfolio strategies and platform over a 24-year period. During this time, he was responsible for all aspects of the business, building the portfolio management team that contributed inputs to his portfolio construction, asset allocation and risk decisions. Additionally, his expertise in foreign exchange was consistently beneficial to both generating alpha potential and managing risk in the portfolios. He was also instrumental in developing the client business in unison with Manulife’s sales teams and has worked closely with public institutions and private institutional clients spanning pension funds, mutual fund platforms, asset allocation platforms and broker-dealers throughout the U.S., Canada and Asia.

Prior to Manulife, Dan was Vice-President and Proprietary Risk Manager at BankBoston, and from 1991 to 1997 he managed the currency forwards desk at Morgan Stanley.

Dan holds an AB in Economics (1983) from Harvard University.

"Our goal is to capture opportunities for robust income streams while maintaining a laser-like focus on risk management."

Dan’s philosophy 

Dan and the Agile team employ a unique investment style that combines top-down sector analysis with bottom-up security selection. Their risk-conscious, diversified approach incorporates a proprietary macroeconomic view, active currency management and nimble interest rate strategies with the goal of helping investors achieve attractive outcomes across the entire credit cycle.