A wide field of fund managers are spread across the second batch of nominees for the 2018 Professional Planner | Zenith Fund Awards, to be held at the Ivy Ballroom in Sydney on October 5.
The annual awards ceremony celebrates quality across 19 categories in funds management. The finalists for Distributor of the Year – which recognises excellence in marketing, sales and distribution – will be announced next month. Finalists, and the winner, for Fund Manager of the Year will be announced on the day of the awards.
For the full list of the second lot of finalists, see below.
This morning, Professional Planner unveiled the finalists in the first nine categories of the awards:
- Australian Equities – Small Cap
- Australian Equities – Large Cap
- International Equities – Global
- Australian Equities – Alternative Strategies
- Alternative Strategies
- Multi-Asset – Diversified
- Multi-Asset – Real Return
- International Equities – Emerging Markets and Regional
- International Equities – Alternative Strategies
| Category | 2018 finalists (in alphabetical order) |
| A-REIT | Cromwell Funds Management |
| SG Hiscock & Company | |
| Zurich Investments/Renaissance Asset Management | |
| Global REIT | Colonial First State Global Asset Management |
| Principal Global Investors | |
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Resolution Capital |
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| Direct Property | Australian Unity Investments |
| Charter Hall Group | |
| Cromwell Funds Management | |
| Infrastructure | Lazard Asset Management Pacific |
| Magellan Asset Management | |
| AMP Capital | |
| Global & Diversified Fixed Interest | Bentham Asset Management |
| Perpetual Investment Management | |
| PIMCO Australia | |
| Australian Fixed Interest | Legg Mason/Western Asset Management Company |
| PIMCO Australia | |
| UBS Global Asset Management | |
| Exchange-Traded Products | BetaShares Capital |
| BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) | |
| Magellan Asset Management | |
| Listed Investment Companies | Platinum Asset Management |
| PM Capital | |
| Wilson Asset Management |
