9 May 2014 08:16
Press Release 9 May 2014
Triple Lipper Award Win for Charlemagne Capital
Charlemagne Capital ("Charlemagne"), the emerging markets equities specialist is pleased to announce that it has been awarded "Best Fund Group over Three Years" in the "Equity - Small" category of the Lipper Fund Awards for each of Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. The awards recognise Charlemagne Capital's consistently strong risk-adjusted performance earning it the highest Lipper Leader rating for consistent return.
The Lipper Fund Awards programme honours funds that have excelled in delivering consistently strong risk-adjusted performance, relative to their peers. In addition, the Awards programme recognises fund families with high average scores for all funds within a particular asset class or overall. The Lipper Fund Awards take place in 23 countries in Asia, Europe, MENA, and the Americas.
Charlemagne Capital's Magna Mutual Funds range has consistently delivered strong relative performance with its key investment strategies and this has translated into good inflows into the range. Assets under management in the Magna range grew 53.4% to $560m in the year to 1 January 2014 and a further 8% in the three months to 31 March 2014 to $605m.
Jayne Sutcliffe, Chief Executive of Charlemagne Capital commented, "For Charlemagne to be recognised by Lipper in this way is testament to the hard work and dedication of the whole team. A clear, disciplined, bottom up stock picking process, consistently implemented, has enabled us to find quality growth opportunities across emerging markets and to deliver consistently strong relative risk-adjusted performance to our investors."
Enquiries:
Charlemagne Capital
Varda Lotan Tel. 020 7518 2100
Smithfield Consultants Tel. 020 7360 4900
John Kiely
Ged Brumby
Singer Capital Markets (Nominated Adviser) Tel. 020 3205 7500
Jonny Franklin-Adams
Nick Donovan
Notes to editors:
Charlemagne Capital is a specialist emerging markets asset manager, entirely independent of any other group, with a team of dedicated investment professionals at its heart.
The Company's sole focus is the management of emerging market assets, with a variety of products designed to meet the needs of its clients. Charlemagne has a heavy bias towards equities, though it also has some exposure to property and bonds.
Charlemagne Capital was established in 2000; with its shares traded on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in London since 2006. Charlemagne personnel own approximately 35% of the issued share capital of the company.