Pictet Asset Management: Awards

Two funds from Pictet Asset Management’s environmental and SRI range were awarded prizes at the 4th annual Climate Change & Ethical Investment Awards held in London on 27 November 2012.

Pictet-Clean Energy was named Best Clean Energy Fund, while Pictet-Emerging Market Sustainable Equities received the award for Best New Entrant.

These distinctions testify to Pictet’s ambition to offer clients a wide choice of high-quality products in the field of sustainable investment, and its long-term commitment to managing its own operations in the most sustainable manner possible.

The awards were organised by Investment Week magazine and wealth manager Holden & Partners.

Pictet won the Sustainable Development Award in the asset management category at the first annual Palmarès Investor Awards ceremony organised by Boursorama and Morningstar.

The Palmarès Investor Awards are given to the listed and asset management firms that have best met the expectations of private and institutional investors.

A ranking based on a poll of 40,000 investors

The awards were made after an online survey was conducted by the polling company OpinionWay in May 2012 among all CAC40 companies and various French and international asset management firms. Private and institutional investors were given the chance to comment on the criteria that influence their investment decisions, and they voted for the companies that had best met their expectations. A total of 40,000 votes were cast.

Pictet Asset management was named SRI/ESG Provider of the Year at the UK Pensions Awards 2012 that took place on 9 May 2012 in London. The other five shortlisted companies for this category were AXA Investment Managers, F&C Management, Mercer, Newton Investment Management and Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management.

Organised by Professional Pensions, the UK Pensions Awards are regarded as the industry's most prestigious accolades. They aim at rewarding providers that not only offer the highest level of innovation, performance and service to occupational pension schemes and their members, but have continued to improve this level of performance and service over the past year.

In the case of the 15th anniversary of the awards, judges assessed these criteria over a longer, five to ten year period.

For this category, judges were particularly impressed by the two forms of sustainable investment that Pictet had simultaneously developed – the SRI core equities and the thematic global equity funds – as well as the range of funds it offered.

They also commented on the three-year performance figures, which they thought were good against benchmark – especially for the Water and Timber funds.

Finally, Pictet was also cited for its work with international and national investor coalitions as well as the caliber of its white papers on SRI/ESG.

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The Financial News Awards for Excellence in European Institutional Asset Management 2011 were held on 12 October 2011 at the Freemasons Hall, London.

For the third year running, Pictet Asset Management was awarded first place in the category "Swiss Asset Management Firm of the Year", ahead of Earth Resources Investment Group, Lombard Odier Asset Managers, Swisscanto and Vontobel.

To decide the awards, Financial News magazine assembled a distinguished panel of more than 70 pension fund consultants, fund management executives and marketers from across Europe who voted on the nominated fund management groups in each category. What set Pictet Asset Management ahead of the other nominees were its diversification into UCITS funds with several new launches to bridge the gap between its institutional and wholesale clients' needs.

These awards aim to provide the definitive and authoritative industry view of the performance and strategy of the main players in the European institutional asset management industry.

Pictet Asset management won for a third unprecedented year Best Fund Management Group at the Investment Week 2011 Climate Change Investment Awards held on the 10th November 2011 in London. The other shortlisted companies for the best fund management group category were Vontobel Asset Management, F&C Asset Management, Henderson and Impax.

The strength and depth of our product range in the SRI space was demonstrated in our getting short-listed for four out seven awards, with three individual funds shortlisted in one single category. The Pictet-Clean Energy and Pictet-Water funds were highly commended in the Best Clean Energy Fund and Best Water, Food, Agriculture & Forestry categories.

Organised by both Pensions Management and Pensions Week magazines, the UK Pension & Investment Provider Awards (PIPA) awards recognise excellence in the provision of products and services to UK occupational pension schemes. The event was held at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel, London, on 18th May.

The key criteria used to adjudicate the awards are performance, innovation, service standards and competitive edge.

F&C Investments was highly commended for its submission, however it was Pictet Asset Management that demonstrated a distinct competitive edge, especially in our sustainable Sector & Theme fund offerings (Pictet-Water, Clean Energy, Agriculture & Timber) as well as our quantitative SRI capabilities.

This award is a testament of Pictet's continued strength in this asset class.