INTECH's Ioannis Karatzas Honored At Columbia University

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INTECH's Ioannis Karatzas Honored At

Columbia University

PR Newswire

NEW YORK and WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, June 7, 2012

NEW YORK

and

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida

,

June 7, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

INTECH Investment Management LLC (INTECH), a global investment

management firm, today announced that Ioannis Karatzas, Ph.D., Distinguished

Researcher, is being recognized by his peers at a weeklong conference held at

Columbia University in his honor. The conference, "Probability, Control and

Finance," from June 4–8, 2012, brings together leading researchers from across

the globe to discuss topics at the intersection of mathematics and finance.

"Throughout his distinguished career Ioannis has made countless contributions

as it relates to the field of stochastic calculus, in particular in the area of

Stochastic Portfolio Theory. Ioannis has contributed significantly to furthering

the academic and practitioner understanding of the theoretical aspects of

Stochastic Portfolio Theory. His work is highly regarded and respected by his

peers in the mathematical finance community," said Adrian Banner, Ph.D.,

Chief Investment Officer of INTECH. "In the field of mathematics, academics of

the highest caliber are sometimes honored with conferences to commemorate

their 60th birthday. On behalf of INTECH, we are delighted that leading

mathematicians from academia and the private sector from around the world

have come together in

New York

to join Ioannis in celebrating this special

milestone."

Prior to joining INTECH in 2009, Dr. Karatzas was an exclusive consultant to the

firm since 2001. His research focuses on Probability Theory, Stochastic Control,

Mathematical Finance, and Mathematical Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. in

Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University where he is now the Eugene

Higgins Professor of Applied Probability in the Department of Mathematics. Dr.

Karatzas co-authored the book "Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus" and

the monograph "Methods of Mathematical Finance," both published by Springer

Verlag.

Dr. Karatzas speaks extensively around the globe, and is a Fellow of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics, also holding a doctoral degree honoris

causa from

Athens

University.

He has delivered the Andre Aisenstadt Lectures at the University of Montreal

(published by the American Mathematical Society), an IMS Bernoulli Society

Lecture, the Kuwait Lecture at Cambridge University, the Lukacs Lectures at

Bowling Green

University, the Wolfe Lecture at Rice University, as well as the

Ziwet Lectures and the Inaugural Woodroofe Lecture at the University of

Michigan. He has been Plenary Speaker at numerous Conferences, including

the World Congress of the Bachelier Society, the HEC/Montreal Optimization

Days, the American Control Conference, four Risk Magazine Conferences, the

Abel Symposium, and the International Symposium on "Stochastic Analysis and

Related Topics" in honor of Prof. Kiyoshi Ito's 90th birthday.

About INTECH

For 25 years, global institutional investment manager INTECH has been

generating alpha by utilizing stock-price volatility as a source of reward while

attempting to limit risk and trading costs. INTECH manages equity portfolios

using a purely mathematical approach for clients including some of the world's

largest corporate pension funds, public pension funds, foundations and

endowments, sovereign wealth funds, Taft-Hartley and other institutional

investors. The company's global headquarters is located in

West Palm Beach,

Florida

, with its research office in

Princeton, New Jersey

, and international

division in

London, England

. As of

March 31, 2012

, INTECH had approximately

$42.7 billion

under management and 79 employees worldwide. INTECH is an

independently managed subsidiary of Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS),

based in

Denver

.

About Janus Capital Group Inc.

Janus Capital Group Inc. (JCG) is a global investment firm offering strategies

from three individual investment boutiques: Janus Capital Management LLC

(Janus), INTECH Investment Management LLC (INTECH) and Perkins Investment

Management LLC (

Perkins

). Each manager employs a research-intensive

approach that is distinct within its respective asset class. This multi-boutique

approach enables the firm to provide style-specific expertise across an array of

strategies, including growth, value and risk-managed equities, fixed income and

alternatives through one common distribution platform. As of

March 31, 2012

,

JCG managed

$164.0 billion

in assets for shareholders, clients and institutions

around the globe. Based in

Denver

, JCG also has offices in

London

,

Milan

,

Munich

,

Singapore

,

Hong Kong

,

Tokyo

and

Melbourne

.

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