The winners of the first annual Nordic Fund Selection Awards were announced at the Nordic Fund Selection Forum in Stockholm yesterday.
The process to find the winners of the awards was initiated before the summer when Tell Media Group started to collect nominations. In September the nominations was submitted to more than twenty fund groups who was asked to rate each selection team in terms of how professional they find each team to be in their overall selection process, which includes both the pure research but also how professional the selection teams are in communication pre- and post selection. Twelve fund groups submitted their ratings and the winners in each category is outlined below.
Danish Fund Selection Team of the year
Selection team: Nykredit Asset Management
Head of selection team: Esben Ørum Tiedemann & Claus Bilde
Finnish Fund Selection Team of the year
Selection team: Aktia Invest
Head of selection team: Antti Vesa
Norwegian Fund Selection Team of the year
Selection team: Storebrand Kapitalforvaltning
Head of selection team: Georg Skare Lund
Swedish Fund Selection Team of the year
Selection team: Nordea Savings & Asset Management
Head of selection team: Jauri Häkkä