Fund Manager of the Year Awards 2017/18 - winners revealed
Schroders and Evli Fund Management Company came away as Group category winners at the Fund Manager of the Year Awards 2017/18, announced on the afternoon of 30 November in London.
The Awards, part of International Investment’s sister title InvestmentEurope’s events series, which this year took place at The Andaz Hotel in the City, celebrate not only the funds and groups that make up the asset management industry, and which are active in the key European markets served by InvestmentEurope, but also highlight fund selectors recognised by peers.
Hermes and Edmond de Rothschild also stood out as winners and highly commendeds were announced across 18 product categories, as well as the Specialist Group of the Year, Group of the Year, and Personalities of the Year.
The Awards utilise a methodology involving a quants screening (provided by Thomson Reuters Lipper), to reach shortlists for categories of funds, which are then subject to a qualitative assessment (performed using the SharingAlpha platform) to arrive at the winners.
A similar process – combining performance scores of fund selectors via the SharingAlpha platform alongside factors such as peer nominations, length of service in the industry and AUM responsibilities – was used to identify this year’s Personality Awards.
Full details of all the winners will be included in a special supplement attached to the upcoming issue of the InvestmentEurope magazine.
| Equity | |
| Europe | |
| Winner | Comgest Growth Europe Opps |
| Highly Commended | BSF European Opportunities Extension |
| North America | |
| Winner | Edmond de Rothschild US Growth |
| Highly Commended | Morgan Stanley US Growth |
| Global | |
| Winner | Pictet-Digital |
| Highly Commended | Morgan Stanley Global Opportunity |
| Global Emerging Markets | |
| Winner | Hermes Global Emerging Markets |
| Highly Commended | UBS Global Emerging Markets Opportunity. |
| Frontier | |
| Winner | Charlemagne / Fiera Magna New Frontiers fund |
| Highly Commended | Schroder ISF Emerging Europe |
| Single Country | |
| Winner | DWS Aktien Strategie Deutschland |
| Highly Commended | Kotak Funds-India Midcap Fund |
| Asia Pacific | |
| Winner | Fidelity FAST Asia |
| Highly Commended | Fidelity Funds – Asian Special Situations. |
| Japan | |
| Winner | Tokio Marine Japanese Equity Focus |
| Highly Commended | JPM Japan Equity |
| Fixed Income | |
| Corporate Bonds | |
| Winner | Allianz Corps-Corent |
| Highly Commended | Schroder ISF EURO Corporate Bond |
| High Yield | |
| Winner | Nordea 1 – European High Yield Bond Fund II |
| Highly Commended | Schroder ISF EURO High Yield |
| Global Bonds | |
| Winner | Hermes Multi Strategy Credit |
| Highly Commended | Flossbach von Storch – Bond Opportunities |
| Emerging Market Debt | |
| Winner | BGF Emerging Markets Bond |
| Highly Commended | Edmond de Rothschild Fund-Emerging Bonds |
| Convertible Bonds | |
| Winner | UBS (Lux) Institutional Fund – Global Convertible Bonds |
| Highly Commended | M&G Global Convertibles |
| Money Market/Short Term Bonds | |
| Winner | AZ Fund 1 Cash 12 Mesi |
| Multi-Asset | |
| Hedge | |
| Winner | Kempen Orange Investment Partnership |
| Highly Commended | Pictet Alternative Funds-Pleiad Credit Opps |
| Real Estate | |
| Winner | AXA Aedificandi AD |
| Highly Commended | DPAM INVEST B Real Estate Europe |
| Commodity | |
| Winner | Investec GSF Global Gold |
| Highly Commended | BGF World Gold |
| ETF | |
| Winner | Lyxor Nasdaq-100 UCITS ETF |
| Highly Commended | Amundi ETF Nasdaq-100 UCITS ETF |
| Specialist Group of the Year | Evli Fund Management Company |
| Group of the Year | Schroders |
| Personality of the Year | |
| Benelux | Dieter Vandewiele, Deutsche Bank |
| France | Romain Gaugry, ODDO BHF Asset Management |
| Germany | Jörg Schmidt, Union Investment |
| Iberia | Pablo Nortes, Willis Towers Watson |
| Italy | Filippo Valvona, Amundi Asset Management. |
| Nordics | Mia Söderberg, IKC Capital |
| Switzerland | Albulen Kastrati, Julius Baer |
| UK | David Saab, J.P. Morgan |
| Overall Personality of the Year | Filippo Valvona, Amundi Asset Management. |
