«Talents de la Gestion 2011» Awards

The best management companies have been rewarded during a ceremony held Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at the Palais des Congress of Paris under the GI Forum.

Nine management companies have received the "Talents de la Gestion 2011 Boursorama Morningstar" awards. The originality of these awards relies on the ranking achieved using investors votes. Indeed, Boursorama and Morningstar reward management companies that have received the highest number of votes - 9797 in 2001 via boursorama and morningstar websites - of all investors and fund pickers, professional or not, on each of the major asset classes - Equities, Bonds, Diversified, SRI, ETFs -

Amongst the big winners we have Lazard Frères Gestion and Carmignac Gestion. The latter was already well rewarded last year. Below is a summary of the awards.

By asset classes (all profile votes) :

• Equities ? Lazard Frères Gestion
• Bonds ? Rothschild & Cie Gestion
• Diversified ? Carmignac Gestion
• SRI ? BNP Paribas
• ETF ? Lyxor ETF

Best management company :

• Public votes ? Lazard Frères Gestion
• Financial advisors votes ? Carmignac Gestion
• Insitutional votes ? Allianz Global Investors

Management company of the year: (all votes, all strategies)

• Carmignac Gestion