Thomas Hagan Bailey, founder of Janus Capital and an ardent land conservationist, died peacefully at his home on the Iron Rose Ranch in Carbondale on Aug. 31, according to an obituary provided by his family. He was 88.

Bailey, who grew up in Michigan and Ontario, Canada, established a reputation as a growth-style money manager, demonstrating a knack for using bottom-up research to uncover rapidly growing companies that would outperform. He moved to Denver in 1969, seeking the freedom to invest more independently and aggressively than he could on Wall Street.

He named his firm the Janus Capital Corp. after the Roman god of doors, gateways and beginnings, and launched the Janus Fund. Like the companies he sought out for investment, he favored an entrepreneurial style of management, giving

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