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Two Professional Adviser Awards presented

Jan 30, 2008

JPMorgan Asset Management (JPMAM) picked up 2 awards at Incisive Media’s Professional Adviser Awards 2008 last night. One, for the Investment Trust group of the year award and the other was awarded to the JPM Emerging Markets Fund for its performance over 3 years as featured in the publications ‘Hot 100.’

The performance of the Emerging Markets Fund to date has been outstanding having returned 152% and 321% over 3 and 5 years respectively. The fund has a 4 star rating by Micropal and Austin Forey himself, is A rated by Citywire.

JPMorgan Asset Management also won the Investment Group of the year award. JPMAM is not only the biggest Investment Trust manager with nearly £6.93 billion assets under management it offers a broad and diverse range of Investment Trusts in both developed and developing markets.

David Barron, head of investment trusts at JPMorgan Asset Management commented: “This is a great recognition of the quality of our UK business and our fund management teams. We have a fantastic UK offering, in terms of both OEICs and Investment Trusts, that we can be very proud of. Austin Forey and his team have achieved outstanding results with the emerging markets fund and continue to outperform. We are also one of the UK’s leading investment trust providers and have some outstanding offerings across the board. We are committed at JPMorgan Asset Management, to delivering the very best performance and service to our clients so to be recognised for this in these categories is a great achievement.”