Cardano, LGT, BlackRock Named as Finalists for aiCIO European Innovation Awards

(February 5, 2014)—Traditional long-only, hedge funds, custodians, consultants, and asset servicers—a wide range of players have been singled out as helping institutional investors find innovative solutions to their problems in this year’s aiCIO European Innovation Awards.  

Over the past two months, European investors nominated partners they felt had honestly offered them something new that would fit their investment needs over the long term.

Despite returns and costs being a concern, the ability to create and implement new ideas that worked for the individual investor was the driving force behind the nominations below.

Winners in these categories will be announced tomorrow—February 6—with awards being distributed on May 15 at the aiCIO European Innovation Awards dinner at London’s Savoy.

The winners of the asset owner categories, the shortlists of which are also announced today, will be announced at the dinner on May 15.

For a list of last year’s winners in the asset managers and servicing categories, click here. For a gallery of last year’s event, click here.

A list of all the categories with full details behind the nominations can be found on the bottom part of this page.

Core: Fixed-Income

·         Babson Capital

·         Hermes

·         Payden & Rygel

·         Twenty Four Asset Management

Core: Equities

·         Barings

·         Impax Asset Management

·         Nordea

·         Principal Global Investors

Core: Emerging Markets

·         Ashmore

·         HSBC 

·         Investec Asset Management

·         Lazard

Strategy & Tactics: Multi-Asset & Smart Beta

·         Amundi

·         BlackRock 

·         Momentum Global Investment Management

·         Intech

Strategy & Tactics: Liability-Driven Investing

·         Axa Investment Management

·         F&C Investments

·         Insight Investment

·         Schroders

Strategy & Tactics: Swaps/Buy-in

·         Deutsche Bank

·         Partnership

·         Pension Insurance Corporation

·         Rothesay Life

Strategy & Tactics: Fiduciary Management

·         Cardano

·         MN Services

·         P-Solve

·         Russell Investments

Strategy & Tactics: Investment Consulting

·         AonHewitt 

·         LCP

·         Cambridge Associates

·         Redington

Strategy & Tactics: Manager Selection

·         Albourne Partners

·         bfinance

·         Russell Investments

·         Towers Watson

Alternatives: Overall

·         AQR

·         Cairn Capital

·         LGT

·         Pantheon

Alternatives: Real Estate & Infrastructure

·         Henderson Global Investors

·         La Salle

·         Allianz Global Investors

·         MetLife Investment Management

Alternatives: SRI/ESG

·         First State

·         Hermes

·         Generation Investment Management

·         Bridges Ventures

Servicing: Transition Management

·         BlackRock

·         Citi

·         Russell Investments

·         State Street

Servicing: Securities Lending

·         eSecLending

·         Northern Trust

Servicing: Custody/Asset

·         BNP Paribas

·         JP Morgan

·         Northern Trust

·         State Street