M&G named Global Group of the Year at 2010 IW Awards

M&G scooped three gongs at the 15th annual Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year awards last night, including the prestigious Global Group of the Year title.

In addition to the Group award, M&G's Tom Dobell won the UK Growth category for the M&G Recovery fund, while Graham French won the Active Managed category.

The night's outstanding achievement awards went to Mark Lyttleton for his work in helping investors understand absolute return funds, while his colleagues Nick McLeod-Clarke and Adam Avigdori won the UK Income sector for BlackRock UK Income.

Other multiple winners on the night were Aberdeen, Henderson's Bill McQuaker and First State Investments - which was named Specialist Group of the Year along with individual category winners.

The full list of winners is available at www.fmya.com and will appear in Monday's Investment Week.

Technology

Winner: Polar Capital Global Technology

Resources

Winner: First State Global Resources

Financials

Winner: Sanlam Global Financial

Healthcare

Winner: UBS L Equity Biotech

Property

Winner: IdB Real Estate Equity

Money Market

Winner: Aberdeen Cash

Balanced Managed

Winner: Sarah Arkle and Alex Lyle for Threadneedle Equity and Bond

Emerging Markets

Winner: Aberdeen Emerging Markets (on and offshore)

Single country

Winner: First State Greater China Growth

Global Equity

Winner: Robin Hepworth for Ecclesiastical Amity International

International Bond

Winner: Franklin Templeton bond team for their management of Templeton Global Bond and Global Total Return

Sterling Bond

Winner: Mike Amey for Allianz Pimco Gilt Yield

Highly commended: Ian Williams for CF Strategic Gilt

Asia

Winner: Allan Liu for Fidelity South East Asia and Fidelity Funds South East Asia (offshore)

Europe

Winner: Alex Darwall for Jupiter European and Jupiter European Growth

Japan

Winner: Paul Chesson for Invesco Perpetual Japan and Invesco Japanese Equity Core

North America

Winner: The Findlay Park team for the Findlay Park American Smaller Companies

Highly commended: Jenny Jones for Schroder US Mid Cap

UK Smaller Companies

Philip Rodrigs for Investec UK Smaller Companies

Global Group

Highly Commended: Schroders