Asset Management Awards for Excellence 2025 Categories

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Equity Categories

Global Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed global equity strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only and must use a broad global equity index as a benchmark, but can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap).

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

US Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed US equity strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap).

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2014/15

Asia Pacific Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed Asia Pacific ex Japan equity strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap). In terms of geography, the fund(s) can invest in a combination of any countries in the Asia Pacific region but cannot exclusively cover the following equity markets (for which there are stand-alone categories):
Greater China (including but not limited to H-shares, A-shares and Taiwan)
Japan
India

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2014/15

2013

Greater China Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed Greater China equity strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap). In terms of geography, the fund(s) can cover Greater China (Onshore China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau) as a whole, or the single markets of Hong Kong, Taiwan or Macau, but cannot exclusively cover the China A-shares market (for which there is a stand-alone category).

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2014/15

2013

China A-Shares Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed China A-shares equity strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap).

Winners

2025

2023

2022

2019

2018

2017

Japan Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed Japan equity strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap). In terms of geography, the fund(s) must predominantly invest in equities issued by companies with exposure to the Japanese economy.

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2019

2018

2017

2016

Emerging Market Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed emerging market equity strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap). In terms of geography, the fund(s) can cover global emerging markets, a selection of emerging market countries, or a single emerging market country but it cannot exclusively cover the following equity markets (for which there are stand-alone categories):
China
India

For the purposes of these awards, Asian Private Banker uses the MSCI definition of emerging markets.

Winners

2025

2024

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2014/15

2013

India Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed India equity strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap). In terms of geography, the fund(s) must predominantly invest in equities issued by companies with exposure to the Indian economy.

Winners

2025

2019

2018

2017

2016

Equity ETF

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one equity ETF of any type/investment focus.

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2014/15

2013

New Fund – Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any equity fund that has been launched since 1 July 2022. The fund(s) submitted for consideration will be judged in terms of performance and assets gathered from private banking and wealth management clients since launch, as well as other relevant distribution, marketing and content-related activities.

Winners

2025

2024

2023

Technology Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed thematic strategy focused on technology. Relevant technological themes include but are not limited to the internet, software, digitalisation, ecommerce, artificial intelligence, robotics, digital currencies, and/or semiconductors. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap), and must invest predominantly in equities issued by companies within the technology sector. The fund(s) submitted for consideration can cover any market. The submitted fund(s) cannot exclusively focus on the ESG/Sustainable theme, for which there is a separate category.

Winner

2025

2024

ESG/Sustainable Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed ESG/sustainable equity strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can cover any market in which the companies invested adhere to best practices across environmental, social and governance themes. Relevant ESG themes include but are not limited to climate change, clean energy, pollution and natural resource conservation; diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, gender and racial equality; corporate structure and disclosure, treatment of shareholders, business ethics and anti-corruption efforts.

Winners

2025

2024

2023

Income Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed equity strategy with a bias towards investing in companies that pay significant and/or growing dividends. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can be any geography or target company size (i.e. small cap or large cap).

Winners

2025

2024

2023

Value Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed equity strategy with a bias towards the value style. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can be any geography or target company size (i.e. small cap or large cap).

Winners

2025

2024

2023

Bond Categories

Global Bond – Short Term

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed global bond strategy that primarily invests in fixed income securities with a maturity of up to five years. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be actively managed and use a broad global bond index as a benchmark, but can use any income strategy and invest across both hard and local currency instruments. However, the fund cannot exclusively cover the High Yield market (for which there is a stand-alone category).

2025

Global Bond – Intermediate to Long Term

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed global bond strategy that primarily invests in fixed income securities with a maturity of more than five years. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be actively managed and use a broad global bond index as a benchmark, but can use any income strategy and invest across both hard and local currency instruments. However, the fund cannot exclusively cover the High Yield market (for which there is a stand-alone category).

2025

US Bond

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed US bond strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can use any income strategy (e.g. high yield, investment grade, subordinated debt, unconstrained).

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2019

2018

2017

2014/15

2013

Asia Pacific Bond

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed Asia Pacific bond strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active, long-only, and use an Asia Pacific index as a benchmark, but can use any income strategy (e.g. high yield, investment grade, subordinated debt, unconstrained), but cannot be exclusively high yield (for which there is a separate category). In terms of geography, the fund(s) can cover Asia Pacific as a region, a selection of countries in Asia Pacific, or a single country in Asia Pacific.

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2022

2019

2018

2017

2016

2014/15

2013

High Yield Bond – Global

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed high yield bond strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active, long-only, and use a global index as a benchmark In terms of geography, the fund(s) can cover multiple markets but cannot exclusively cover Asia (for which there is a separate category).

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

High Yield Bond – Asia Pacific

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed high yield bond strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, and can cover Asia Pacific as a region, a selection of countries in Asia Pacific, or a single country in Asia Pacific. The fund must use a relevant high yield bond index as its benchmark, and/or invest predominantly in high yield bond instruments.

2025

Investment Grade Bond – Global

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed global investment grade bond strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active, long-only and use a global index as a benchmark, and/or invest predominantly in investment grade bond instruments but cannot exclusively cover Asia (for which there is a separate category).

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2021

2020

2019

2018

2014/15

Investment Grade Bond – Asia Pacific

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed global investment grade bond strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active, long-only, use an Asia Pacific index as a benchmark, and/or invest predominantly in investment grade bond instruments and can cover Asia Pacific as a region, a selection of countries in Asia Pacific, or a single country in Asia Pacific.

2025

Emerging Market Bond

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed emerging markets bond strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can use any income strategy (e.g. high yield, investment grade, local currency, hard currency, blend). In terms of geography, the fund(s) can cover global emerging markets, a selection of emerging market countries, or a single emerging market country. For the purposes of these awards, Asian Private Banker uses the MSCI definition of emerging markets.

Winners

2025

2024

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2014/15

2013

New Fund – Bond

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any bond fund that has been launched since 1 July 2022. The fund(s) submitted for consideration will be judged in terms of risk-adjusted performance and assets gathered from private banking and wealth management clients since launch, as well as relevant distribution, marketing and content-related activities.

Winners

2025

2024

2023

Money Market

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed money market strategy (short-term debt instruments, cash, and cash equivalents with a maturity of less than 12 months). The fund(s) submitted for consideration can cover any market/s.

Winner

2025

2024

ESG/Sustainable Bond

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed ESG/sustainable bond strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only, but can cover any market in which the companies invested adhere to best practices across environmental, social and governance themes. Relevant ESG themes include but are not limited to climate change, clean energy, pollution and natural resource conservation; diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, gender and racial equality; corporate structure and disclosure, treatment of shareholders, business ethics and anti-corruption efforts.

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2022

Bond ETF

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one bond ETF of any type/investment focus.

Winner

2025

2024

Alternatives and Other Categories

Private Equity

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed private equity strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration can cover any market/s and the category is open to fund(s) across the liquidity spectrum (i.e. closed-ended, open-ended, semi-liquid, “evergreen”).

Winner

2025

2024

Private Credit

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed private credit strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration can cover any market and the category is open to fund(s) across the liquidity spectrum (i.e. closed-ended, open-ended, semi-liquid, “evergreen”).

Winner

2025

2024

Private Markets – Open Ended

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed private equity or private credit strategy whose liquidity profile could broadly be described as open-ended, “evergreen”, or semi-liquid and/or similar terms. The submitted fund should have no fixed end date and provide investors with liquidity/redemption opportunities not typically available in closed-ended funds. The fund(s) submitted for consideration can cover any market/s and investment style.

2025

Infrastructure

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed infrastructure strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration can cover any market and can invest across the spectrum of infrastructure-linked securities (i.e. public equities, private equities, REITs, direct investments).

2025

Real Estate

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed real estate strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration can cover any market and can invest across the spectrum of real estate-linked securities (i.e. public equities, private equities, REITs, direct investments).

2025

Hedge Funds

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed hedge fund or fund-of-hedge funds strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration can cover any market, but should aim to provide an absolute return regardless of underlying market conditions. The category is open to any style of absolute return investing (e.g. long/short, global macro, event-driven) and/or liquidity characteristics.

2025

New Fund – Alternatives

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any alternatives fund that has been launched since 1 July 2022. The fund(s) submitted for consideration will be judged in terms of performance and assets gathered from private banking and wealth management clients since launch. The Judging Panel defines alternatives fund as any fund(s) that invests across private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and/or other non-traditional assets.

Winner

2025

2024

Commodities

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least one actively managed commodities strategy. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must invest in instruments linked to raw materials (i.e. gold, crude oil, natural gas, and/or other industrial/precious metals) or primary agricultural products. It may also invest in the equities and/or fixed income securities of the companies that produce these commodities.

Winners

2025

2023

Thematic Provider

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least two actively managed thematic strategies. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active, long-only, and can be based on a particular theme or trend, although the Judging Panel will look favourably upon those applications that demonstrate a broad array of capabilities across the thematic investing space. The fund(s) can use any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap). The fund(s) submitted for consideration can cover any market. Examples of investment themes or trends can include but are not limited to: transport; nutrition; life sciences; healthcare; circular economy; consumption; clean energy and sustainability.

Winners

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2014/15

Multi-Asset Provider

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that manages at least two actively managed multi-asset strategies. The fund(s) submitted for consideration must be active and long-only. The fund(s) should use at least two different asset classes (i.e. fixed income, equities, derivatives) but with any investment style (e.g. growth, value, blend, small cap, large cap, all cap).

Winner

2025

2024

New Fund – ESG/Sustainability

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any ESG/sustainability fund that has been launched since 1 July 2022. The fund(s) submitted for consideration will be judged in terms of performance and assets gathered from private banking and wealth management clients since launch, as well as relevant distribution, marketing and content-related activities. Relevant ESG themes include but are not limited to climate change, clean energy, pollution and natural resource conservation; diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, gender and racial equality; corporate structure and disclosure, treatment of shareholders, business ethics and anti-corruption efforts.

Winner

2025

2024

Premium Categories

House of the Year – ESG

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that can demonstrate to be a strong leader both in (a) the provision of ESG strategies for the private banking and wealth management industry in the Asia Pacific region for the year under consideration, and (b) in its efforts in promoting, implementing, and embedding ESG within the company culture. To be eligible, a firm does not need to offer a full spectrum of ESG strategies across all asset classes but must demonstrate best-in-class qualities across those relevant asset classes, together with evidence of how it is embracing the principles of ESG throughout its organisational culture.

Winners

2024

2023

2022

House of the Year – Overall

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any fund house that can demonstrate to be a strong fund provider across a range of strategies for the private banking and wealth management industry in the Asia Pacific region for the year under consideration. To be eligible, a firm does not need to offer a full spectrum of strategies across all asset classes, but must demonstrate best-in class qualities across those relevant asset classes.

Winners

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

Portfolio Manager of the Year

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any individual portfolio manager or portfolio management team that has demonstrated consistent investment skills and the ability to generate long-term, market-beating returns across a strategy or range of strategies for the private banking and wealth management industry in the Asia Pacific region. To be eligible, a firm does not need to offer a full spectrum of strategies across all asset classes, but must demonstrate best-in class qualities across those relevant asset classes.

Winners

James Donald
Lazard Asset Management
2024

Henry Wong
DWS
2023

Distribution Partner of the Year

Award Summary

This award category is applicable to any individual regional private banking (intermediaries) distribution executive working in a leadership role at a third-party asset manager that has demonstrated the ability to secure consistent, long-term business relationships with a wide-range of private banks and/or wealth management distribution partners in Asia Pacific. The winning participant must be able to demonstrate how they have successfully developed a third-party asset manager’s private wealth distribution channel in the region (via onboarding of products to private banking partners and/or strong net flows into these products), as well as adding value for these partners in the form of content, PM access, exclusive agreements, or other means.


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