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2012 Growth Management Excellence Award

Australian Challenger Limited is the winner of the SimCorp StrategyLab Growth Management Excellence Award 2012. The award was presented at one of the largest investment management industry events, the SimCorp Dimension International User Community Meeting, in Geneva. Challenger received the award due to its impressive success story of a focused growth strategy in asset management in the Australian market.

Challenger was named the winner after a thorough evaluation by an international panel consisting of President of SimCorp StrategyLab Professor Ingo Walter of Stern School of Business (NYU), Professor Stephen Brown of NYU, Professor Paul Verdin of Leuven University and SimCorp CEO Klaus Holse.

2011 Growth Management Excellence Award

Dealis Fund Operations is the winner of the SimCorp StrategyLab Growth Management Excellence Award 2011. The award was presented at one of the largest investment management industry events, the SimCorp Dimension International User Community Meeting, in Stockholm.

Dealis Fund Operations was named the winner after a thorough evaluation by an international jury consisting of professor and director of SimCorp StrategyLab, Ingo Walter, professor Steven Brown of New York University, professor Paul Verdin of the University of Leuven and SimCorp’s CEO Peter L. Ravn.

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2010 Growth Management Excellence Award

The growth award was given to Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management for their ability to not only weather the challenging conditions during the worst financial crisis, but also for putting a growth strategy in place that secured the organisation considerable increase in the number of clients, in revenue and in earnings. In particular, the selection committee noted that Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management had been able to grow total asset under management by more the 52% of which more than half is contributed to the organisation’s focus on growth and improvement on performance.

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2010 Cost Management Excellence Award

The cost award went to Nordea Savings & Asset Management because the company has worked strategically with cost management for a number of years, and saw the benefits of doing so even before the financial crisis forced the industry in general to take a more structured approach to managing costs. The jury was especially impressed with the fact that since 2006 Nordea S&AM has compared its operational costs against other asset management companies in an annual benchmark study and has been able to effectively learn from other companies’ best practices. Despite higher volumes and increased complexity in business demands Nordea S&AM has been able to reduce its operational cost base all together.

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2009 Risk Management Excellence Award

MEAG, Munich Re's global asset manager, was named the winner after thorough evaluation of entries by an international jury consisting of distinguished specialists and academics within finance, governance and risk management. The jury included Professor Caspar Rose of Copenhagen Business School, Professor Renée Adams of University of Queensland, Professor and Director of SimCorp StrategyLab Ingo Walter of Stern School of Business (NYU), and SimCorp's CEO, Peter L. Ravn. The assessment was based on MEAG's achievements and developments in the field of risk management in the period from 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2009.

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