Thomson Reuters Announces Europe Lipper Fund Aw...

The winners of the Europe Lipper Fund Awards 2010 were announced by Thomson
Reuters at a ceremony in Luxembourg last night.

BlackRock won the Best Fund Group Overall - Large award in addition to Best
Mixed Assets Group - Large.The full list of Group trophy winners include:



  Winner                      Group Award

  BlackRock                   Best Fund Group Overall - Large

  LGT Capital Management      Best Fund Group Overall - Small

  Morgan Stanley              Best Bond Fund Group - Large

  Janus                       Best Bond Fund Group - Small

  Deutsche Bank               Best Equity Fund Group - Large

  Financière de l'Echiquier   Best Equity Fund Group - Small

  BlackRock                   Best Mixed Assets Group - Large

  C-Quadrat                   Best Mixed Assets Group - Small



Fidelity  International won  13 individual awards  while BlackRock,  UBS and LGT
Capital Management each won eight and DWS Investments won seven.

Otto  Christian Kober, host of the event and Lipper's global head of methodology
at  Thomson  Reuters  said:  "Identifying  outperforming fund products among the
growing  variety  of  options  is  a  challenging exercise for the investor. The
Lipper  Fund  Awards  provide  a  means  of ascertaining those fund managers and
groups  who  have  demonstrated  consistent,  cutting-edge investment expertise.
Congratulations  to all  the Europe  Lipper Fund  Awards winners  for delivering
consistently strong risk-adjusted performance relative to their peers."


Europe is one of the 23 regions and countries covered by Lipper's program of
2010 fund awards and are part of the Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence, a
global family of awards that celebrate exceptional performance throughout the
professional investment community.

About the Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence:
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Notes to Editors



 1. In calculating the awards, Lipper considered all those funds registered for
    sale in Europe, classifying both offshore and domestic funds together.
    Awards were given to funds with a 3, 5 and 10 year history as at the end of
    the evaluation year in equity, bond and mixed-asset Lipper Global
    Classifications with at least ten distinct portfolios. Both group and fund
    awards were calculated using Lipper's Consistent Return score. A more
    detailed Fund Awards Methodology can be found at
    excellence.thomsonreuters.com/lipper
    <

http://excellence.thomsonreuters.com/lipper>.

 2. Fund management companies are considered "Large" or "Small" groups
    depending on whether they have assets under management across Europe of
    more or less than US$11 billion respectively.

 3. Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company, provides independent insight on global
    collective investments including mutual funds, retirement funds, hedge
    funds, fund fees and expenses to the asset management and media
    communities. Lipper is the world's leading fund research and analysis
    organization, covering over 204,523 share classes and over 113,260 funds in
    60 registered for sale (RFS) universes. It provides the free Lipper Leader
    ratings for mutual funds registered for sale in over 30 countries.
    Additional information is available at www.lipperweb.com
    <

http://www.lipperweb.com/>.

 4. Lipper Fund Awards designations do not constitute and are not intended to
    constitute investment advice or an offer to sell or the solicitation of an
    offer to buy any security of any entity in any jurisdiction. As a result,
    investors should not make an investment decision on the basis of this
    information. Lipper Fund Awards designations are for informational purposes
    only. Lipper is not responsible for the accuracy, reliability or
    completeness of the information obtained from Lipper. In addition, Lipper
    will not be liable for any loss or damage resulting from information
    obtained from Lipper or any of its affiliates. Past performance is not
    necessarily a guide to future performance and investors should remember
    that past performance is not a guarantee of future results.





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