Generali Investments, the Group’s key Asset Management Team, attracts a raft of awards for the stellar fund performance.
At the 2016 UCITS Hedge Awards held in April, Generali Investments swept the boards as a double winner with its GIS Absolute Return Convertible Bond fund. The fund, managed by Brice Perin, was awarded as the Best Performing Fund in 2015 and Best Performer over a three-year period, in the “Fixed Income – Convertible Bonds” category.
One month earlier, at the Thomson Reuters Lipper Funds Awards last March, Generali Investments won three accolades: Euro Bonds 1/3 Years in Germany, and Generali Séquence 25 and 50 in France. The Generali IS Euro Bonds 1/3 Years fund was awarded an “A” in the “Bond EMU Government Short Term” class for its performance over three years. Managed by Mauro Valle, it once again achieved the highest score for consistent return against 10 funds in its peer group.
The Lipper Funds Awards France awarded two funds managed by Alexandre Lepère: the Generali Séquence 25 and Generali Séquence 50 as Best Fund over three years in their categories.
These latest five awards follow a rapid succession of trophies, all won by Generali Investments in the first quarter of this year. Among others, these include the European Funds Trophy in France, the €uro Fund Award, for the Generali Komfort Dynamik Europa Fund of Funds in Germany, and the Diaman Awards for Generali Europe Mid-Caps as the best performing “Fund of Funds Equity” 2015.Please find a quick overview of all these 2016 awards at Generali Investments.