Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) was honoured with four awards in both the equity and fixed income asset classes at this year’s prestigious Lipper Fund Awards in London, UK.
In addition to 3 awards for funds available only in the UK, SWIP received an award for:
SWIP Japanese Smaller Companies fund (over a 10 year period)
Award classification: Equity
Lipper recognises fund performance in most individual classifications for three, five, and ten year periods.
Simon Wombwell, director of Sales & Marketing at SWIP, comments:
“It is a fantastic achievement to be recognised for our performance in both equities and fixed income. The Lipper Fund Awards are well recognised internationally, highlighting SWIP’s investment returns to a global audience. In today’s uncertain environment awards such as this become especially important, helping SWIP demonstrate expertise to our clients and to the rest of the industry.”
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Notes to Editors
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership
1. SWIP’s ultimate parent is Lloyds Banking Group, one of the largest financial services groups in the UK.
2. SWIP has a geographically diverse client base with alliances, joint ventures and clients in the UK, across Europe, USA, Japan and Saudi Arabia.
3. SWIP is one of the UK and Europe’s largest fund managers with £142bn funds under management (Source: Internal, as at 31 December 2009).
4. SWIP has a broad client base, managing assets for Pension Funds, Charities, Local Authorities, Life Funds, Unit Trusts, OEICs, Off-Shore Funds and Specialist Funds across all asset classes.
5. SWIP is authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Services Authority and is entered on their register under number 193707 (www.fsa.gov.uk).
6. Investment markets and conditions can change rapidly and as such the views expressed should not be taken as statements of fact nor should reliance be placed on these views when making investment decisions. Past performance is not a guide to the future.